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  • Apple may have a solution for fraying Lightning cables

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    Sorry, this is nonsense.

    The issue with these cables is, that Apple in its drive to be environmentally sound uses a plastic insulation that’s not resistant to sweat/oils from the fingers.

    Where you touch the cable, is first discolors, and then the insulation gets soft, gooey, and crumbles. 
    Where you don’t touch the cable, it remains perfectly intact.

    I treat all my gear very carefully. And I have all sorts of cables, incl. varying quality third party USB and lightening cables, and the problem is unique to Apple, because they are trying to use environmentally friendly plastic, which of course backfires, because if you stick to Apple’s cables, you’ll have to buy several over a product’s life span, rather than one.

    Still got perfectly fine “hockey puck” power supplies and cables, old Apple USB cables, etc.; they’re all fine because they’re made from PVC or something similar, while the new *-free cables just crumble over the course of some months on their own after being touched by bare fingers with sweat and finger grease on them.

    You can tell the process is starting when parts of the insulation gets sticky and you could carve it with a finger nail, while elsewhere on the cable, where there’s no regular skin contact, the insulation is neither sticky, nor does it give in to a finger nail.

    By classifying these cases as wear and tear and not replacing them under warranty, Apple has in essence prevented that their materials engineers got the proper feedback on one of the main the causes of these issues: It’s chemistry, not physics!
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  • macOS Sudo vulnerability could give root privileges to any local user

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    DAalseth said:
    I’m very surprised that Macs would be impacted. OS-X/macOS forked off from BSD a very long time ago. This exploit must really go back into the dark ages.
    No, not necessarily, because the utilities are not intrinsic to the kernel, and Apple largely follows FreeBSD, except where they need Apple-specific things.
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  • Kuo: 'Apple Car' to use Hyundai's E-GMP platform, GM and PSA partnerships possible

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    mrr said:
    I don’t know. It doesn’t sound like Apple to slap a body and some tech on top of someone else’s platform. 
    In the Auto industry, platform is like the CPU is in the computer industry. Apple built for many years successfully computers with another company’s CPU; they can build cars, with another company’s platform.

    Parts sharing is a major thing in the auto industry: anything from wheels to suspension components, transmissions, ECUs, etc. are made by companies that don’t make their own cars for a variety of companies that do.

    Even the parts that are made by the car company itself, are shared amongst many models or even brands.

    Similarly, platforms are very versatile: same platform was used for Golf, R32, Jetta, Audi A3, Audi TT, some Volkswagen delivery vans, and some mini SUV.

    So the choice of a platform says relatively little about the car to be expected.
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  • Kuo: 'Apple Car' to use Hyundai's E-GMP platform, GM and PSA partnerships possible

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    pulseimages said:
    Kia and GM doesn’t inspire quality. 
    It’s not that these companies don’t know how to make things, but they have target markets and target price points in mind, the the resulting quality is a consequence thereof.

    Apple will have different segments and price points in mind, and correspondingly can make other design choices. The core platforms of major car companies are all decent quality these days.

    Times change, China is also no longer the country’s famous for cheap plastic crap.

    Should Apple have a breakthrough in autonomouss driving, other things matter anyway. While a driver’s car must handle, corner, drift; an autonomous vehicle must allow passengers to enjoy tea and champagne without being slung around the seat benches.

    Apple’s first cars likely won’t be fully autonomous, unless they can surprise the world with a killer system that others don’t have, but given where this journey is heading, a BMW M3 won’t be the inspiration for Apple, more likely a luxurious Minivan with amenities: sound system, entertainment, etc.

    it’s going to be fun to see how Apple thinks it can be “10 times better” (if they stick to Jobs’ credo for entering a new market) than everyone else competing in that field…
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  • MacBook Pro with SD card slot, no Touch Bar coming in 2021

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    TouchBar forever!

    As long as there’s a physical ESC key...

    Pro Cameras have WiFi built in, and even if not, transferring pictures is done rarely, easily done with a tumbdrive-style adapter. Why waste space on a dedicated slot?
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