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  • Samsung is now ripping off Apple design in a painfully awkward ad

    kmareikmarei
    "If you want to argue that the iPhone 16 range is little different to last year's iPhone 15 releases, you have a point"

    iPhone 12 onwards, there is nothing radically different in design
    unless you call moving the buttons just enough that you need to buy a new case, a design change :)
    muthuk_vanalingammacgui

  • EU advocacy group sues Apple because other streaming music services hiked prices

    kmareikmarei
    "It should be noted that companies aren't required to increase fees in order to operate on the App Store. As pointed out above, these companies are simply forcing consumers to cover the cost."

    i mean that is what 99% of companies do.
    any extra costs/fees/tarifs/taxes are passed on the consumer

    if given a choice between raising prices to account for extra costs
    vs extra profit
    they will always choose extra profit, that's what they are paid handsomely to do
    killroyForumPostllamawatto_cobra

  • Microsoft blames European Commission for global CrowdStrike catastrophe

    kmareikmarei

    Nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with the EU giving unscrupulous developers unfettered access. 

    There should be a class action suit against the EU from all counties and corporations as well as all individuals affected. 

    While cloud strike deserves criticism, it’s not really their fault entirely. Any developer will have mistakes. But the big lawmakers, who are trying to steer the world where they want - bear responsibility for throwing the toddlers into the deep end of the pool and then doing nothing when they can’t swim. 

    Reverse these stupid policies. 






    my issue is, this was not a mistake
    if they had tested this on 1 pc, they would have isolated the issue
    this was not a case of if you this update MAY cause issues
    it would CERTIANLY cause issues since it references  an area of memory that is NOT valid
    on ANY windows pc running windows 10 or 11

    fi this was an issue with users who had Crowdstrike and a specific version of winzip for example
    then it would be a mistake, because they can't account for all software ever released

    but this would have caused a freshly formatted windows 10/11 pc to crash, even if it had ZERO added software


    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Microsoft blames European Commission for global CrowdStrike catastrophe

    kmareikmarei
    Pema said:
    avon b7 said:
    Did the EU make Microsoft do this worldwide?

    The problem last week had nothing to do with the EU. It was sloppy coding, sloppy testing and with little to no resilience built into the whole process. 
    Absolutely spot on. 
    This is vintage Microsoft sloppiness going over 50 years now. Releasing substandard code, causing chaos first on the desktops, then when office networks became the norm and then the enterprise and now global. 
    Why we are still saddled with the worst o/s ever written I will never understand?

    Windows is basically a graphic interface bolted on to DOS. Anyone who has ever followed the path from DOS to Windows 2000, Windows XP and now the latest incarnation Windows 11 knows that it has never been a stable O/S. The only reason that it is still pervasive is because Gates licensed it for a small fee to any PC maker. The hardware was never a concern for Microsoft. You could install DOS/Windows on your toaster if you like. So long as you pay the $25 fee per box. You are good to go. 

    Apple, ever the company to maintain quality control, would not split the two. Well, ok, there was a brief period when the Pepsi Cola moron ran Apple that the company licensed the OS to a guy in Texas I believe who agreed to a very stringent hardware contract. But that arrangement fell apart after a year. And since then Apple, after Jobs came back from Next, has grown into a $3 Trillion company, always maintaining the highest standards. 

    We have the equivalent of DOS/Windows in the phone space. It's called Android. You build any junky phone and slap Android on it and you are good to go. 

    This particular outage had to do with Windows but also with the way Windows is managed from the cloud. A single component of CrowdStrike called Falcon was not thoroughly tested and it cascaded down to every Windows install out there. 

    And it will happen again. Get rid of Windows and you solve half the problem. 
    you started with your conclusion (MS s bad)
    then you made the facts fit this narrative

    only problem is, you didn't actually read the article :)
    Microsoft was not involved in this issue, it was Crowdstrike alone.
    which is why the solution came from Crowdstrike

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  • Phone encryption debate will reignite over attempted Trump assassination

    kmareikmarei
    msuberly said:
    The FBI has in its possession the dead body of the shooter, including the severed head and his fingers.  Isn't that enough to unlock any iPhone with FaceID or TouchID enabled (or the Android equivalents)?
    I thought faceid only works if your eyes are open and you are looking at the camera ?.

    No idea  if that would work for a dead person 
    watto_cobra