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  • Facebook sponsored research paper lambasts Apple's iOS 14.5 privacy

    rcfarcfa
    Indeed. And smoking is healthy, too. 🤦🏻‍♂️
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple dips below Samsung in annual smartphone customer satisfaction index

    rcfarcfa
    If ease of text messaging is the top criterion I’m not surprised. Apple needs to educate people about iMessage, and possibly make it cross-platform.

    It happens more and more often that people answer, when I tell them I prefer iMessage over WhatsApp for privacy reasons, that “they/nobody use(s) SMS anymore”. I then have to explain to them, that although iMessage and SMS use the same app, it’s not the same thing, just for convenience using the same app, and that one can see at the input fields and the bubble color, what system is being used.

    As convenient and nicely integrated iMessage is, it’s reach limited to Apple devices starts to backfire, as too few people use it, and thus familiarity with the difference between iMessage and SMS/MMS goes out the window.

    The idea that iMessage would tie people to the Apple platform won’t work, if fewer and fewer people using iPhones don’t use the system because they don’t understand it, and use WhatsApp, or (at least better) Telegram, or if they are paranoid Signal instead. 

    The way to stem that is by increasing its use across other platforms, and use it as a way to demonstrate that Apple cares about all people’s privacy, and so get people interested in other Apple services.
    elijahg

  • Apple sued over iPhone warranty issues and water resistance claims

    rcfarcfa
    Water isn’t salt water, nor a random other watery in appearance or partially water liquid.
    Otherwise submersion in hydrochloric acid would be covered, too 🤦🏻‍♂️
    cognomen42watto_cobra

  • 'Severe' AirDrop exploit could expose email and phone number in highly specific circumstan...

    rcfarcfa
    If this can’t be used as a springboard for privilege escalation, who cares?

    If you have to linger around people for so long that they start airdropping stuff to each other, and manage to hit the short second the sharing dialogue is open, without first being reported as a stalker, you probably know these people well enough to already know their name and phone number…

    …and names and phone numbers used to be in public phone books without significant ill effect.

    So, yeah, nice you found something, but no, it’s nothing to worry about, unless there’s significant more to it than is being reported.

    “Severe” is a massive overstatement. “Severe” are the leaks that Facebook keeps having…
    jas99spock1234watto_cobra

  • Updated lock screen and new notifications among iOS 15 improvements

    rcfarcfa
    Ugh! Messages more in line with WhatsApp?

    unless that means opening up iMessage to non-Apple platforms, that’s the LAST thing I want to see.
    If I wanted to use WhatsApp, I’d already be doing that, the last reasonable messaging platform going down that route is the last thing we need.
    watto_cobra