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  • Apple, Inc set to open new $25 million tech center in Hyderabad, India by June

    cnocbui said:
    Apple following in Samsung's footsteps.  Samsung's largest overseas research and development center is located in Bangalore, which they started in 1995 and which has 4,500 employees.  They have a further two research centres in India and overall they employ 10,000 people.  Samsung's Bada OS was developed in Bangalore and I suspect Tizen probably was too.  Nokia used to employ a lot of engineers there too.
    It weakens your argument to surface facts about Bada and Tizen, both of which have been major disappointing flops.
    What was my argument?  I don't recall proposing one.

    The success, or otherwise, of Bada and Tizen in the marketplace doesn't take away from, or diminish, the skill and software engineering prowess that went into making them, which itself is a testament to the talent available in India, a fact Apple's move would appear to be acknowledging. 

    How about sticking to one user account, DED.
    singularityasdasd
  • First Apple Music TV series to star Dr. Dre, will feature 'no shortage of violence and sex'

    Google buys Youtube for $1.65 B

    Apple buys Beats for $3 B and gets to add these two dudes to the payroll

    Silly Google

    mr o
  • 'iPhone 7' might replace 3.5mm headphone jack with second speaker, analysts say

    If I want stereo separation from a phone I plug it into one of my HiFis or pjug in a good set of headphones - oh wait!
    jbdragonmichael scripcornchipargonaut
  • TSMC reportedly sole supplier of next-gen 'iPhone 7' A-series chip

    jbdragon said:
    cnocbui said:

    Android have 85% of world market share - so that's 'what'.  What you, I or anyone else thinks is irrelevant.  All Samsung have to do is make those processors and sell them for a profit.  It doesn't matter if Qualcom dump them in the sea so long as they abide by their contract and Pay Samsung for making them.
    WOW, now it's 85%? Who's saying that? Is that a new fandroid number? Market share isn't everything. It's great for Google I guess, but no one is really making any money from Android other then Google. Samesung profits have been dropping, and most everyone is is breaking even or losing money currently. Which is why APPLE is making around 94% of the Smartphone profits!!! Who would you rather be. The Company's (Android) selling a Zillion phones and breaking even, or Apple selling 1 iPhone and making a $50 profit? Because that's basically what's happening when it comes right down to it. Who's really winning? Ever hear the saying, "Work Smarter, Not Harder!"? Sure Apple could sell a zillion lower end iphone iPhones for $200 a pop and make no money on them. What would be the point of that, Market Share? You're now devaluing your brand doing that. Which in turn slows sales of the higher end phones that actually make money. Apple is #1 is the $1000+ PC market. Goes to show how many CHEAP Window PC's are sold at razer thin profits!!! Apple has been doing just fine in that market. There is zero need to be #1 at the cost of making no money.
    Why are you trying to steer the conversation away from the topic, which is a rumour about which manufacturer will be making the A10, not about who makes what profits from completed phones.  As far as Samsungs components division is concerned, it doesn't matter to them what the profitability or other metrics are concerning phones, all that matters is that the fabs are running at or near capacity and that the customers are paying for the chips.

    Interestingly, even with Samsung's mobile division suffering a considerable downturn lately, they still make more profit than the components division.


    "Share of Android OS of global smartphone shipments from 1st quarter 2011 to 3rd quarter 2015"


    http://www.statista.com/statistics/236027/global-smartphone-os-market-share-of-android/



    jackansicanukstorm
  • FBI complains it can't break encryption on phone used by San Bernardino terrorists

    Rayz2016 said:
    cnocbui said:
    The iphone fingerprint sensor can be defeated by modelling a print off the device itself.  

    Unfortunately, the modelling process needs a perfect fingerprint (not the smudged, distorted kind you find on a mobile phone), several days and several attempts, a skilled technician, and a lot of luck. This is probably why the process seems to only have been tried once or twice successfully under perfect lab conditions. Certainly nothing you can do in a hurry if you're trying to prevent a criminal act.

    The process also destroys the original fingerprint, so you can't reuse it if the process fails. And of course, if you make too many attempts (which you may do because you don't know which fingers were used to lock the phone) then you will probably cause the phone to lock completely before you get anywhere. 

    If you have the phone and not the owner, then he will simply wipe the phone remotely before you've even managed to complete your first cast (though sensibly you'd probably try to cast as many as you can in one go).

    I thought changing the fingerprint reader might be a way in, but apparently the phone makes a component check and bricks itself, so we recently discovered.


    No, it doesn't take days.  A university researcher demonstrated doing it using a fingerprint lifted from the actual phone and it took a a few hours.  The capabilities available to security services for 'national security' cases go way beyond that, besides they had the corpse and didn't need to lift a print of anywhere.  It might destroy the print on the phone but the process gives you a physical model of the print so you still have that.

    If needed the authorities can take a HD that has been broken into pieces and stick them in a magnetic force microscope and read the bits back off, even if it was 'erased' several times before being broken up.

    If they 'really' wanted the data they could just unsolder the flash chips and read out their contents directly.  If he actually had encrypted the whole thing it might take an extra hour or so for the NSA.  THE NSA says basically that you can't really wipe Flash at all and the only way to safely dispose of flash memory is to grind the chips into dust.

    I think this FBI person needs to talk to the right people.
    dysamoria