lowededwookie

Oh, great. That means I won’t be able to play Rocksmith 2014.

Rocksmith+ sucks because there’s no Mac version and I can’t seem to use the Rocksmith cable with iOS.

kellie said:

First you have to assume CO2 is a pollutant.  In which case you should stop breathing because you’re externalizing the costs of your existence upon me.  There is still much debate over the impact of CO2 on climate change.  I know the plant world is very happy to see more CO2 in the atmosphere.  

Second, China CO2 output is skyrocketing.  Any CO2 reductions Apple implements in China are meaningless and have virtually no impact on global CO2 levels.  

The costs to reduce CO2 are added to the cost of goods sold.  Apple wants to maintain or increase profitability so these new costs are passed along to the consumer.  Pollution control either increases costs or reduces profits.  Of course governments love the idea of a carbon tax to supposedly address the costs to society of CO2 emissions but it’s just a money grab. 

Overall it’s politically correct virtue signaling.  If Apple really wanted to address environmental impacts of their products they would make Macs that had user upgradeable SSD’s or RAM.  Their current designs decrease the useful life of their products and create massive profit opportunities.  iPhones should have upgradeable storage as well.  

Actually China’s pollution output is steadily dropping. In 2018 China had reduced its emissions by 75% and was on track in 2019 to reduce them even more If that decline continues China could very well get on top of most of its pollution problems within the next 5 to 10 years.

The Chinese government is handing out massive fines to industries that are producing too much pollution so it’s in the companies’ best interests to reduce pollution. Apple will be adding to that incentive.

That leaves the real problem being European and American productions.

appleinsideruser said:

chasm said:

appleinsideruser said:

So is this saying that iCloud is flawed and 3rd parties can secretly add a snooping iMessage device to the account? If so, why not fix this flaw, rather than reporting when it’s happened?

No, they’re not saying that. Sorry you didn’t understand the article.

The article had lots of clear, understandable, specific details. However, it seemed to not address the bigger picture of why this complexity is needed.

An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.

In other words, the reason for this complexity is to prevent scumbags stealing our data. Does Apple really need to have more of a reason to implement better security?

This is very reminiscent of the old Microsoft Exchange issue. If you had Outlook or Apple Mail connected to a Microsoft Exchange account your battery would disappear super quick after an update.

I had this issue and when I disconnected the Exchange account my battery was fine.

onehunglow said:

lowededwookie said:

coolfactor said:

Due to the relative novelty of Apple's service, the air rescue company advised its customers instead to rely on Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs), dedicated devices which use satellite Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates.

That sounds more like an anti-Apple stance, or an unwillingness to adapt to changing technology. Before the PLB's did they recommend flares?  And before flares was it "yelling really loudly"?

That pretty much sums up how New Zealand reacts to new tech but it’s not an anti-Apple stance or anything like that. New Zealand has a “wait and see” mentality which is annoying but also the safer option.

New Zealand’s terrain is extremely difficult terrain and with it brings issues that even the incumbent tech such as PLBs and EPERBs can’t get around. So a new tech like this isn’t proven yet.

My real question is though, why weren’t these trampers heading out with an EPERB? That’s potential suicide even on designated walkways like Arthur’s Pass.

I’m a kiwi too, and “wait and see” isn’t how I’d describe our approach to new tech. In this case, there was more to the comment on the iPhone 14, in particular battery life. An EPERB has a standby battery life measured in years and a transmit life of many days - depending on model. They’re also waterproof & float. Keeping a beacon in your backpack provides better guarantees than an iPhone.
when I left NZ to travel abroad, many years ago, I was amazed at how advanced some tech was in our country compared to Aus/US/Uk - adoption of ATMs, Chip & Pin cards, interbank funds transfers (fast, quick, free), GSM roaming, broadband speed and adoption, etc. we aren’t laggards at all.

I never said we were laggards but I worked in IT for 18 years here and for the most part New Zealand does indeed take a wait and see approach.

I used to work for the only gas supplier in New Zealand and I was there when a critical system was being upgraded. They were upgrading with serial ports instead of USB/Bluetooth because it wasn’t in the budget to do so. I mentioned that in 10 years time they’d be forced to as serial ports would be removed and that project will cost them $20,000,000. Ten years later I was right.

The banking system here is still far behind in many respects. Take for example TSB. They hand over EFTPOS cards by default as opposed to debit cards.

There’s a lack of support in New Zealand for ApplePay with only a small handful of the major banks supporting it. While we do have interbank transfers, we’ve only just got it to the point where it’s within the same day and it’s certainly not instant like direct transfers are with PayPal or other systems used in America, unless you’re transferring within the same bank.

New Zealand leads the way in a number of tech but there is still a wariness for many. Look how long it took New Zealand to get 3G, 4G, etc and 5G is still only in small pockets.

Rural internet is lagging behind many countries and that’s our biggest industry. Don’t even get me started on the lack of technological interest the majority of farmers have, even though it will make them more money in the grand scheme of things.

I'm not saying the whole of New Zealand is like this but corporate New Zealand certainly is. Hell, I was involved in a Ministry of Justice project in 2005 that saw them upgrading their PCs to Windows 2000… in 2005… with Win2k already unsupported by M$.

I was a Systems Engineer in Parliament in 2010 and the rigmarole even the PM had just to get his emails on his iPad because the iPad was only just released in New Zealand at the time was ridiculous. If that’s at the highest level of the country you can see how it filters down.