normang

Apple should assist them in finding a better job by closing these locations...  

rumpels said:

Here we go again with the sharp edges, and now a pill. Apple, you can do better than this! You have known for years that we all want round edges and no notch, no pill, NOTHING but screen. And you CAN build it. You did it many years ago with the MacBook Pro front camera. You can do it with the iPhone now. Stop playing with camera sensors and other crap, and making customers buy worthless devices for years before you complete what we all really want.

Again… ROUND EDGES & TOTAL SCREEN. No holes, no pill, no notches!!!!!! When you build that iPhone, THEN I’ll upgrade my weak SE. Well be waiting. 

Your going to probably have a long wait, if Apple could technically eliminate that, they probably would have by now...

tedz98 said:

Just remember that there is just one pathway to get an app installed on an iPhone and that’s through Apple. Apple has complete and total control over the App Store marketplace. Certainly there are security benefits to this level of control. But one could easily argue that if an app passes security standards and doesn’t violate some severe level of indecency why shouldn’t all apps be allowed in the App Store and let the competition of the market pick winners and losers? I for one don’t need some Apple curation process to “protect” me from undesirable apps. I’m an adult. I can handle that. I’m not a lawyer but there is certainly some level of “monopolistic” behavior happening on the part of Apple when they have absolute control over which apps are allowed in the App Store.

The problem is you maybe an adult, but there are millions of users who are not.  Many children have access to iPhones and iPads of their own without perhaps needed parental restrictions.   

I prefer a curated approach, and while it's not perfect. Sometimes devs have tried to pull fast one's to get things by Apple and they have, only to be busted later. Then Whine about it when they do.

There are way too many politicians who are extremely technologically ignorant and don't want to learn either, they just want everything to be 'fair" or "equal". which really isn't possible in the real world.  

This is right in line with the right to repair stuff, lets overlook the potential damage they may cause, because they just want to fix Apple Stuff...

As noted, this exploit requires a set of conditions that would be hard to find. maybe impossible.  Actually being in range of someone with a open share sheet, how would the hacker know it was open, how long is the setup time, how long does the share sheet need to be open to he hacked and the most they might get is a sole contact name or email address..   give me break, this doesn't even rate IMHO as a problem because virtually impossible to catch someone in those conditions.

Even the ARS article goes off the deep tech end you really think some self respecting hacker is going sit around and monitor for the this to happen top get a name and email address maybe?  Plus Airdrop needs to be on and they already need in some cases to know who the hacker is  (ie a valid contact on their device) for it work.  Eventually Apple might fix this if someone actually gets hacked this way in reality and knew about it to care.

Mike Wuerthele said:

normang said:

Find me an unbiased "expert" to guide politicians that don't know tech..   I suspect there aren't any..   you're merely going to wind up with un-elected supposed technical "experts" doing what happens a lot, merely becoming a lobbyist for their position.  

That's a strange argument, if you're trying to say that the OTA isn't necessary.

Maybe once upon a time, that was a good thing.... however government now is so divided, creating yet another un-elected pile of people to advise lawmakers for things they should go out and learn themselves I don't think accomplishes anything..

 Sure you can say that they cannot figure it out themselves, or they are going to talk to people that tell them what they want to hear, either way you wind up back in the same place, an uninformed lawmaker deciding how things should work....  

However there is also a random possibility that they may actually figure something out if they actually went out and try to figure it out themselves by perhaps actually trying to listen to both sides.. which is probably rare.