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  • How to add and transfer eSIMs to iPhone

    mfrydmfryd
    Physical SIMs pose a security risk.  If someone steals your iPhone, they likely can't unlock it to get to your personal data, but they can easily remove a physical SIM, and place it in an unlocked phone.  Once the physical SIM is in their unlocked phone, they get all of your SMS messages.   Including SMS messages used to verify identity when they want to reset a password, or otherwise break into your online financial accounts, social media accounts, etc.
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  • Apple high-yield Savings account one step closer to launch

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    FYI - Goldman Sachs online savings accounts currently are paying 3.75% interest (https://www.marcus.com/ ).   
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  • A new Mac Pro is coming, confirms Apple exec

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    tenthousandthings said:
    “We have a clear goal to transition fully to Apple Silicon. ... and that's something we intend to do.”

    Maybe it’s best to take this at face value. Most of the takes here (including my own) and elsewhere, positive and negative, are reacting to things not said.

    But what if “and that’s something we intend to do” means exactly that: they haven’t succeeded, but they are working on it. Anand Shimpi also alluded to something like this, when he said, “If we’re not able to deliver something compelling, we won’t engage, right? ... We won’t build the chip.”

    Both of these statements are about as close as we’re going to get to Apple saying the M1 Extreme wasn’t built because it wasn’t able to do what the Mac Pro needed it to do. The jury is still out on whether the same can be said for the M2 Extreme, but we’ll know that soon enough. Taken together, these two interviews seem to suggest the rumor may be true, and the Mac Pro will have to wait for the M3.

    Neither suggests, however, that Apple has given up on building Apple Silicon for the Mac Pro. Both explicitly say the opposite. 
    We need to remember that this is Apple.  They will likely continue the "Mac Pro" product name, but that doesn't mean it will be anything like any previous Mac Pro.  Nor does it tell us anything about the features that the product might have.   I think it is likely that any new Mac Pro will have a lot of computing horsepower.  Other than that, everything is speculative.

    Remember, the trash can Mac Pro?   It was a powerful machine, but other than that, it wasn't quite what people expected a Mac Pro to be.
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  • A new Mac Pro is coming, confirms Apple exec

    mfrydmfryd
    I think the author of this article is reading too much into Bob Borchers' statement. While Apple may very well be working on an Apple Silicon based Mac Pro.  I don't think Bob Borchers' statement speaks to that issue.

    "Taking the entire product line to Apple Silicon" might mean that any Mac model with an Intel processor will be discontinued.  This doesn't seem to be a statement that every Mac model will survive the transition.

    Consider that taking the iMac to Apple Silicon involved dropping the 27" model.   


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  • Apple will buy US-made chips from TSMC, confirms Tim Cook

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    waveparticle said:
    mfryd said:
    Taiwan doesn't want factories outside of Taiwan to succeed.  

    Right now, a major factor in why the US protects Taiwan, is that much of our electronics infrastructure depends on chips made in Taiwan.  If mainland China takes over Taiwan, China gains the ability to easily disrupt the US economy.  Furthermore, China gains the ability to build backdoors into various chips, bypassing security.

    If the US gains the ability to meet our own chip demand, a threat to Taiwan is no longer a threat to our economy.  Therefore we have less incentive to protect Taiwan.

    China gains the ability to build backdoors into various chips, bypassing security.
    Very stupid statement.

    Why does US has to depend a Taiwanese company for chips manufacturing? That is also stupid. Chips manufacturing is not highly complicated technology. Apple originally contracted TSMC to fabricate chips primarily because it is cheap. 
    It takes time and money to build a chip fabrication plant.   If Taiwan made chips become unavailable today, it would take years to replace that capacity with US based plants.

    TSMC also has unique expertise.  They are able to reliably make chips using smaller geometry than their competitors.    


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