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  • Apple's wireless Tile-like tracking technology exposed in iOS 13 build

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    Apple limited “Find iPhone’s” real-time tracking functionality some time ago. The “refresh” icon when a device has been located seems to do nothing now. Several minutes can pass before position is updated (if at all). The only way I’ve been able to prompt a current-location fetch is by force quitting “Find iPhone” and restarting it. Anyone else notice this?
    mobird

  • Why that 40% performance hit for full 'ZombieLoad' mitigations probably won't affect you

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    lkrupp said:
    So now we start to hear demands to move to A series on the Mac. Screw Intel! Well, A-based Macs will almost certainly kill Boot Camp. How much work and expense will be required by developers to recompile their code to work on Arm architecture? Will Apple be able to come up with a Rosetta style solution so all those Intel based, 64 bit apps will run on an ARM Mac? So many unanswered questions that need answers before dumping Intel.
    The real progress here will be for Microsoft to release Windows 10 on ARM together with Apple switching from Intel to ARM. Short circuit Intel’s strangle hold on progress and both Microsoft and Apple will romp off into the distance. BootCamp etc. No problem!
    chasmwatto_cobra

  • After three years of delays, Intel plans 10nm chip shipments in June, 7nm in 2021

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    frantisek said:
    Yeah. Apple will finally have processors they designed cases for. So Mac fans will probably get what they were craving for...
    It's the fan in the Macs that will get what they craved for :-)
    jkichline

  • Poor news curation at Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters creating misleading iPhone supply chain pan...

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    "Bloomberg drawing the wrong collusion from the facts at hand" A Freudian slip?
    Dan_Dilgerradarthekatjony0

  • How to quickly force restart the iPhone X in case of a crash

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    sidrictheviking said:
    And the iPhone 7 has its own unique method of force restarting: side button + volume down. Strange that Apple changed from that to the current method for iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X after just one year. 
    I'm not surprised. It's too easy to simultaneously press side buttons (way too many unintended emergency calls as it stands). Putting "restart" into a sequence should help. I had to disable automatic 911 calls on my X. Every other run (or so), with the iPhone in a waist-bag (with no discernible side pressure) my wife gets called (emergency call) without me figuring how it's triggering. Perhaps my stride is too jarring. I wrapped my iPhone in a cloth handkerchief, that decreased the triggering but did not eliminate them.
    dysamoriawatto_cobra