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  • Editorial: Samsung hasn't copied Apple TV+ yet, but it's only a matter of time

    Fatman said:
    Fact: These pockets belong to ‘wealthier’ people with higher educations that are willing to spend more money than Android users.
    fact: more television is watched by people with lower educations and less money.

    sounds like both google and samsung are missing a huge opportunity
    agilealtitudeSoliwatto_cobra
  • Samsung admits a screen protector defeats Galaxy S10 fingerprint sensor

    hexclock said:
    Soli said:
    BxBorn said:
    Wow, if iPhones did this, it would be the end of the world. But Samsung can even have a phone that blows up and it's just business as usual...
    Really? because iOS 13 was found to have a lockscreen bypass issue that went pretty well under the radar as well as the Apple issue whereby when updating the credit card used for iTunes payments users had someone else's billing details exposed to them but sure, the world would end on an Apple security issue…
    I missed that. Can you link to an article that shows that iOS 13 will give you bypass the security to give you full access to someone's iPhone?
    Here’s one link. It happened in beta, so maybe it’s been corrected. 

    http://www.iphonehacks.com/2019/09/ios-13-exploit-bypass-lockscreen.html

    so the issue never put anyone at risk because it was detected and solved during product development - yeah i can see how this isn’t like the samsung situation at all, where the product has been on sale for more than half its life cycle and sold to 10s of millions of people.
    watto_cobra
  • Editorial: Does Apple have the mettle to fight for Mac success in the Pro market?

    @hmurchison ;

    surely a bit over reacting there, don’t you think?

    the abandoned products you are mentioning were hardly that great and not much more than distractions.

    XServe came at the end of an era that was wiped out by blades, dedicated nas builders and epic scale cloud farms that go so far now to design and build their own modules.

    Aperture and ibook creator were both clearly place holder solutions to promote the use of their platforms, not the applications themselves. same goes with reality composer in 2019. final cut is a platform thankfully.
    StrangeDaysp-dogwatto_cobrajony0
  • Adobe refutes reports that Photoshop for iPad is 'rudimentary'

    I seriously hope that unlike the article states it is not based on the same code as the desktop Photoshop. That thing is a giant bloated mass of slowness and ancient times, not as bad s some of their other apps to be sure.

    i use it, a lot, and have done since 1993. so i love it and am not being rude, but it could do with a full rebuild with actual mac support.

    lightroom and photoshop do not even run properly on 10.15, with limited functions still being 32bit. no metal support, no egpu support. do any of their apps properly support amd gpus yet? last i checked it was nope.

    going catalina i decided to format and start a new story. i then after close to 30yrs decided not to install PS or AI or INdesign or Lightroom. i was on the verge of replacing my 2015 loaded MBP15” because of how slow it ran with adobe and... on a whim bought Affinity Publisher, looked pretty solid and OMG i am moving whole books around with full page images and text like 60fps silk, a month ago it was clunking so bad it was depressing.

    Make that iPad PS amaze us Adobe and Apple, time to enter the present again.

    (note: i obs only mean 30yrs of PS. Indesign was 2001-2ish for me i think. lightroom was 07-08ish perhaps)
    dysamoria
  • Apple Pay under scrutiny by EU for possible anti-competitive payment practices

    banks: we can’t rip off our customers, punish them for tapping on another bank’s terminal, and make their lives complicated

    apple:

    gov: thank you for the lovely lunch, it is just terrible how apple is making it harder for you to give me and my friends invites to lunch as often.
    kuraibeowulfschmidtchiawatto_cobra