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  • Apple devices in EU getting repair scores & battery life labels

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    I guarantee consumers won’t save any money.

    All that will happen is the power companies will raise their prices due to consumers using less power.

    It happens here in New Zealand where power companies increase prices in winter to rort the consumer claiming we’re using more power than they can generate. Except New Zealand can produce more power than it actually needs.

    Welcome to the wonderful world of markets. Don’t even get me started on how we pay international market rates for New Zealand beef and lamb internally.
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  • New study reveals where the Apple Watch gets fitness data right -- and wrong

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    Tracking calories burned is nomenclature at best.

    You don’t burn calories at all. What happens is you convert fat or sugar into Carbon Dioxide and water via a chemical reaction. This chemical reaction generates energy which is used by our muscles.

    The rate of this chemical reaction is dependant on how much exercise we do, how much oxygen intake, and how much fat we actually have.

    Fat is not burned off and become nothing. We literally breathe out 84% of it as carbon dioxide and the rest is water we either sweat out, absorb into our cells, pee out, or poo out. That’s it. Nothing more nothing else.

    As it varies from person to person the idea that a tracker can be accurate to the nth degree is in itself wildly inaccurate. But 28% means the Apple Watch is still accurate 73% of the time. That’s freaking good really.
    thtwilliamlondonhaluksgregoriusmneutrino23Alex1NCrossPlatformFroggerpscooter63

  • Prepare for a scam gold rush with the App Store changes

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    neoncat said:
    Good read, but this line stands out as the real takeaway:

    And instead of just downloading an app when we need it, we will have to vigilant — and finally read those terms and conditions.

    Anything that teaches, by hook or by crook, by reward or by cudgel, the "general populace" (waving hands around) to take their security into their own hands and balance petty wants against risk will only benefit them in the long term. Because guess what? Apple itself is only motivated by its desire to make money, as much of it as possible. 

    Given how the App Store is packed full of scam apps, gatcha games, quickly-approved apps that are little more than rip offs of existing IP, and apps with privacy reports cards that don't actually match the data that the apps collect (not to mention Apple's strong-arming developers into adopting subscriptions again in order to feed its rapacious desire for recurring revenue), the blind trust placed in Apple to assume guardianship of our security, privacy, and the overall experience of acquiring applications is misplaced, as it is always misplaced when we abdicate our personal responsibility. 

    Whether one central app store or dozens, assume none of them are looking out for your best interest. Because they're not.
    None of this will happen. No one is going to read the terms and conditions because no one reads terms and conditions.  There’s no evidence people read terms and conditions on Android.

    However, for Apple they can simply state that it wasn’t their AppStore and get out of a court case as a result. Apple can prove 100% they had nothing to do with the sale and so walk away.

    Apple can then simply state that it was the courts that forced this hell hole and so it’s up to the courts to deal with the ramifications, leave Apple out of it.
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  • Meta, Spotify lobby to pass the buck on age verification to Apple and Google

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    But then Apple would have a monopoly on age verification and Facebook and Spotify would not be able to collect that data. /sarcasmsortof
    danoxbeowulfschmidtwatto_cobra

  • Big tech upset at Meta's poorly executed court document redactions

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    It seems to me that Facebook is being disingenuous about what is social media. Facebook, Threads, and Instagram are definitely social media. But iMessage and Facebook Messenger aren’t really considered social media.

    Messages is really just a text messenger no different to ICQ. It doesn’t really have to social reach like Facebook, Threads, Instagram, X, Mastodon, BlueSky etc have. It’s largely just to friends.

    I suppose you could argue that sending messages to friends is social but when people think of social media how many of the average punter thinks Messages?

    Therefore, by saying Messages is being used more than Facebook Messenger is technically correct but not really relevant to this case of social media. But then look at the top four platforms for social media - Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads. How many of those are owned by Meta? And they’re trying to say they don’t have a monopoly on social media?
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