lostkiwi

I'm looking forward to the new anti-fingerprinting tech for Safari on desktop as well as mobile.  

If they implement it well, it will be a huge boon for privacy, as up until now avoiding fingerprinting has been very difficult.  
Anything that makes it more difficult for the Goog/FB/data brokers to track people will make me very happy.

The new Like/Share button blockers are cool, but if you use a good Content Blocker this is already taken care of.
Content Blockers are one of my favourite things about Apple products.  It is a shame so few people really use them. 

Yeah I have some weird behavior from my AirPods as well, not finding the iPhone or only playing one channel.

it is quite noticeable as they are usually rock solid. I guess it sticks out more when the performance has almost always been outstanding before this. 

Glad to hear it, Jimmy. 
I love AppleMusic, sure it’s not perfect but I prefer it to Spotify. 

EFTPOS and ApplePay are indeed different systems as my compatriot LW noted earlier. However almost every retailer uses one of approximately 2 EFTPOS terminals (ICT250 and VX820) and so for the average consumer the distinction between the two systems is meaningless. 

This is because as of May this year all terminals have to be compliant with the latest PCI standards and that meant that essentially all payment terminals have the capability to accept contactless payments like ApplePay and PayWave. 
However because of lecherous Visa/MC fees many retailers turn that capability off because they have razor thin margins as it is. 
Only chain stores with more than $10 mil annually in transactions qualify for the lower rate which is why your local dairy probably won’t take contactless payments (even though they charge something like $7 for a bottle of milk 😒).

One of the major reasons I left BNZ was because they didn’t have ApplePay. They have however had AndroidPay since December 2016. That being said they were a pretty good bank to deal with (as far as banks go anyway). 

I’m pretty stoked that a second major bank in NZ now run ApplePay. If we can get the CC fees down somehow (regulation???) then we can get some serious market penetration for ApplePay here. 

gatorguy said:

dewme said:

I wonder what impact this may have on the security and privacy of iMessage? Letting Google inside the iMessage platform seems like a risky venture.

If it were risky I'd be pretty surprised for Apple to allow it. Wouldn't you be?

Nobody and nothing is infallible, GG. Apple have made mistakes in the past and will do in the future. 

Many on the AI boards do not share your rose tinted opinions of the folk at Mountain View.  I had exactly the same thoughts as dewme.