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  • Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 review: Heart Beats

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    After doing a bit of research elsewhere, it seems to be the case that you cannot use the Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 as an external HRM device with Apple Watch (as you can with various chest strap HRMs). I'll reiterate that this is a big miss by Apple/Beats not to have gotten this to work as it should. It's just dumb that a health and fitness device (which is effectively what these are) from Apple (which is essentially who these are from, despite the Beats branding) isn't fully integrated with Apple Watch. Apple, count me as one (potential for this product) customer who is not delighted.
    Totally agree with this sentiment, this seems like an Apple of yesteryear (circa Mona Lisa) miss of the mark tragic enough to raise my eyebrows on corporate execution. 

    There’s an H2 chip in here, and It seems like it would be a no-brainer to minimally provide Bluetooth HRM support and optionally to include something like ANT+ and blow the chest strap market out of the water.  Split the data feed (a good reason for ANT+) and you suddenly have really great HR data in two platforms (in my case, the waterrower and Strava). I have a $150 polar chest strap hanging on a hook that I use all the time because the Apple Watch falls short of this. That capability would’ve sold me a pair immediately, but as it stands, not much there other than another set of sports buds that meets the usual Apple AirPod Pro expectations. Might buy these when due for an upgrade, but certainly not before. Sure Apple prefers to work within their ecosystem, but it seems to me like there was some product manager with their head in a box on this one and just doesn’t understand the fitness market.

    But maybe they’ll surprise me and this is all there and just a firmware upgrade in the future. 


    Apple doesn't need to include ANT+ to blow the chest strap out of the market, ANT+ is already dead in the water.  The European Union's Radio Equipment Direction (EU RED). EU RED requires authentication and encryption of wireless devices and while the ANT+ spec supports those things the profiles for HRMs and power meters do not. So, Garmin has already announced that it has ended development of the ANT+ spec and have announced that they will discontinue certification of devices later this year in July.  So yeah, ANT+ is just a dead end with Bluetooth being the successor.  So it would seem Apple actually does understand the fitness market. 
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  • DeepSeek's iOS app sends unencrypted data to Chinese servers

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    rob53 said:
    So why did the Apple App Store allow unencrypted data to be sent? They should have been able to discover this during testing. 
    There is no App Store requirement that apps encrypt data they just need to inform users what data they are collecting. 
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  • DeepSeek's iOS app sends unencrypted data to Chinese servers

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    Wait so we could’ve prevented this if we kept the ban in place?! Also not surprised about Android.
    No. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act calls out ByteDance by name and then extends to all social media apps where the company is controlled by a foreign adversary. Deepseek is not owned by ByteDance nor is it a social media app. So the ban doesn't apply here. 
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  • UK secretly orders Apple to let it spy on iPhone users worldwide

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    Xed said:
    Apple could also just pull out of the UK entirely, fire all their UK employees, and stop buying UK goods and services.  I know they won't, but feck all fascist governments.
    By that logic, they need to pull out of the USA immediately. 
    Because Apple is in the US that means they should prop up fascism and a police state?
    Not directed at you personally, but people need to learn what fascism is. Fascism is a type of authoritarianism but not authoritarianism is fascism. 

    Fascism is a far-right system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

    The U.K. is capitalist, and we can certainly argue that this would be a stringent movement control the rest of the definition doesn't fit at all. There U.K. isn't governed by the far-right, it isn't a dictatorship, there isn't violent suppression of opposition and the list goes on. So, yeah, not fascism at all 
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  • Trump's chip tariff threat takes aim at Apple's TSMC partnership

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    9secondkox2 said:
    JinTech said:
    It all comes down to labor. Are American companies willing to bring mass manufacturing back to America? A typical Chinese Foxconn factory employs 100,000 to 200,000 workers and pays them roughly $2-3 an hour depending on overtime. While the base shift at Foxconn is usually 8 hours, overtime of 2-4 hours is common.

    The average minimum wage in America is $7.50. Now with all these deportations happening, what American is willing to work at a factory, for 8-12 hours a day, making minimum wage to manufacture iPhones?
    There are so many unemployed American adults. I think there are plenty who’d see these jobs as answered prayers. 
    Unemployment is at historic lows and has been for sometime and the United States doesn't have the labor for to manufacture iPhones at the scale Apple makes them. Production lines like that required skilled workers (engineers) at a level that we don't have.
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