sflocal

MacPro said:

I wonder how that success rate compares with the Google Play Store for Android users.  

What has me wondering is what will be the rates in the EU when users are able to side load apps.  Just waiting for a sideloaded app to steal an user's info.

Tonight I may be re-installing macOS Monterey on my 2020 10-core i9 iMac.   Upgrading from Monterey to Sonoma has been the most disaster-prone, bug-ridden MacOS I've ever used.  It's like Apple decided that Intel-based Macs no longer deserve any attention.  Every point-release update of MacOS Sonoma has resulted in random crashes, shutdowns and system instabilities.  It's at a point where I can't trust my very expensive 2020 iMac from a reliability standpoint.  I get that Intel Macs will not get all of the new fancy functions that only M(x)-based Macs have, but for chrissakes at least put out a stable product for a supported Mac, or don't bother.  MacOS Monterey is the last reliable/stable MacOS for Intel Macs.  Apple really went downhill with QC.

avon b7 said:

tmay said:

BYD replaces Foxconn, and Huawei replaces Apple, which is wonderful for indigenous phone sales, but not so much for exports. It's hard to imagine that BYD and Huawei will be better for the workers and local economies than Foxconn and Apple, but that's what the PRC will end up with.

I appreciate that Apple is interested in adding more countries, like Indonesia, to its supply chain, while vacating a portion of its supply chain in China.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/foxconn-reportedly-paying-huawei-workers-more-than-iphone-builders

From the article:"Xu told the SCMP that FIH employees are often paid higher but that the group that makes iPhones "typically offers better welfare programmes for workers than others," suggesting better benefits."

The article says the thief was a neighbor, and that they also planned on going back to the victim's house and steal the wife's car too.

What is going to happen is when a nefarious user successfully steals money from a side loaded app, or even NFC (if completely open), then all the news-sites, trolls, and Apple-haters will jump in and point all the fingers on Apple for having such "blatant security holes".