kellie

gadgetcanadav2 said:

We’ll see if Apple goes forward with their announced $500B investment to build data centres. Big corps are shutting their investment wallets due to all the volatility caused by the orange orangutang. 

Apple has to build AI data centers.  That’s not a maybe, it’s an absolute.  They probably need to build them around the world as well.  I can’t say if they are investing more now in the US than they would have before tariffs, so they can look good.  Perhaps some manufacturing could be done in the US.  Certainly not iPhones.  Perhaps Mac Minis or iMacs? 

apple4thewin said:

ajeffrey said:

This is just blatant extortion by the Indonesian Govt. Why should Apple invest $1 billion in a country just so they can sell their products there. If I were Apple I would tell them where they can put there request and sell older iPhones, it's only the Indonesian public that will suffer.

The real question is if Apple make $1 billion in sales in Indonesia 

Apple needs to make a billion dollars in profits, not sales, in Indonesia, to justify the expenditure. I’m not sure if they manufacture anything there. 

mfryd said:

22july2013 said:

DAalseth said:

I fully expect 47 to push through a law requiring Apple to build in a back door. With that, there will go our security. 

How would you feel if the back door only was installed for non-American iPhones. Would you be comfortable with that? When you say "our security" are you talking about Americans, or citizens of the world, including Hamas?

Trump doesn't have the constitutional authority to create any law. Maybe you know that, but the way you worded it sounded like he has some degree of law-making authority.

It would be a challenge to install a backdoor for only non-American phones.

The iPhone gets a lot of security from the fact that the hardware/software architecture is designed to not allow backdoors.  If you change the underlying architecture to allow backdoors, then American phones will essentially have backdoors, we will just have to live with the promise that they won't be opened.

We know from experience, that US law allows the government to obtain search warrants without the subject knowing he is being surveilled.  We also know that Apple is a US based company and subject to US law.  Should Apple be presented with such a warrant they would be obligated to open the backdoor.

Thus, in practice, you can't have backdoors that apply only to non-US phones.

Now whether or not you think that Apple's level of privacy is a good or bad thing, is a different topic.

Apple gets warrants all the time to provide access to iCloud data.  Your phone may be a secure sanctum from the government because of the security built into the phone and software.  But unless you take the extra step of doing a single key encryption of your iCloud data, all of that iCloud data is shareable with the government when Apple is presented with a valid warrant.  

There’s also data in motion that the government has a better ability to hack not.  So I wouldn’t be too worried about backdoors on phones. The government has other ways a getting your data. 

paisleydisco said:

" but the case isn't going to end today, it is going to run for years."

when drumpf's department takes over there will be a shake down for $

it's all he knows. 

Could you leave politics and your hatred for Trump out of this?  This suit was initiated during the Biden administration, so it’s really got nothing to do with Trump.  The government is designed for shake downs.  Be it a parking ticket, taxes or something more serious.  It’s got nothing to do with who’s president. 

This article doesn’t give Xerox enough credit.  Xerox invented the GUI which was copied by Apple and Microsoft.  Xerox also invented Ethernet which was initially deployed over a very expensive coaxial cable called Thicknet, which was so named due to the thickness of its coax cable.  And later evolved into ThinNet which was a much thinner and less expensive coaxial cable.  Xerox developed the STAR workstation which ran the GUI software and a STAR server for centralized file storage and sharing.  They also invented the network attached laser printer to print the online developed documents, as there was no way to share documents external to an organization.  The article implies Xerox didn’t productize the GUI software to avoid killing its copier business.  This isn’t accurate as they actually had commercial products for sale using the GUI software.  They failed at marketing and developing a business strategy for this new technology.  Certainly having years of running their cash cow and very profitable copier business made developing a proper business strategy a challenge.  But be clear, the GUI was invented by Xerox and productized.