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Cellebrite executive insists iPhone unlocking has a 'public safety imperative'
So what? If you got skills, and doing it legally I have zero problem with it. Apple has some of the strongest phone security around, but these guys apparently can pinch through it. Good for them. It’ll just mean Apple will be even more determined to increase security.rob53 said:They’re hackers, plain and simple. Talk about double standards. If they were hacking government systems they’d be arrested but since they’re hacking private citizen’s phones, governments won’t touch them. Time for hackers to hack Cellibrite.
Ever notice that Android is never brought up in these kind of discussions? Android users should be extremely concerned.
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Watch: Apple's iMac Pro vs 2013 Mac Pro (Part 1) - benchmarks and specs
When I bought my 2017 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar back in October, there was a huge, HUGE problem with iTunes, Safari Videos, and Quicktime Videos disabling the F4 function key, requiring a logoff and/or reboot. For developers, the F4 key was crucial for development work as many tools utilize the function key. It was a problem that plagued the original Touchbar MacBook Pros, so almost two years.tnw2933 said:I received my 10 core iMac Pro on December 26th 2017. I noticed immediately that 95% of the time when I woke my iMac Pro from sleep all the external USB drives were ejected. This occurred for various external USB3 hard drives from different manufacturers as well as with a Sandisk Extreme 64 GB USB3 flash drive and a 16 GB USB2 Kingston flash drive. I also discovered that I could not boot into Windows 10 if any external hard drives were connected and that I could not use the Option key> Storage Manager to boot into Windows 10 regardless of whether USB drives were connected or not. I filed a formal case with Apple Support on January 2, 2018 and I have since been in touch with a total of five Apple Support contacts regarding these two issues -- three of whom are Senior Advisors. To date, the problem still exists, and I still have an open case with Apple. I have been using the iMac Pro with Thunderbolt 3 and Thunderbolt 2 external hard drives without any problems as long as I do not attach USB drives to the iMac Pro and put it to sleep.
I have also done extensive editing in FCP 10.4 (latest version) with my iMac Pro. While some things are indeed faster than my fully maxed out Late 2013 Mac Pro cylinder, I have found that for many common tasks the CPU's and presumably the graphics card are not being used to full efficiency by the iMac Pro in FCP 10.4. Overall, I have been disappointed with my purchase of this nearly $9,000 computer and especially with the fact that after more than two weeks of working with Apple Senior Advisors (who in turn are passing along information to an engineering team) I am no more able to effectively utilize USB external hard drives with my iMac Pro than I was the day I received it form Apple.
TomI was regretting the purchase. First time ever for an Apple product. Support was not helping. So I kept the problem alive by complaining in social media, and their Apple support forums about the problem. The only work-around I had was to run iTunes in my Windows Virtual Machine and all video viewing there, so I really stuck it to Apple Support that I had to use Windows on my Mac in order for iTunes to not cripple MacOS.They fixed the problem a month later.
So, if Apple is falling asleep at the wheel, complain loudly on their forums and make the problem know. They certainly don't like bad press. Considering the size that Apple is and the cash hoard they have, they should have an army of engineers working on problems like these instead of the small(er) group they have.I'd love to have the iMac Pro. I just can't justify the price since I honestly don't have a "need" for it. It's all want. Perhaps some day, but I bought a new iMac in late 2015 and by the time that machine fails years down the road, maybe that next iMac will be as fast (if not faster) than the current iMac Pro?
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Apple running low on iPhone 6 Plus batteries, postponing some swaps until March
I'd normally be in your camp, but yesterday my business partner was complaining about the speed drop on this iP6S after upgrading to IOS11.lkrupp said:Well, who would have expected that? Duh. Blind hysteria causing the lemmings to flock at the prospect of a near freebee. Already seeing cliams that the battery swap didn’t speed the phone back up. Evil, degenerate Apple!
So check this out. He has an iP6S, I have the iP6+ (year older). We installed DasherCPUX in order to check the CPU speed. His phone is approx 1.5yrs old, mine is 3+ years. Original battery.His phone was running at half the rated speed while the battery showed 89%. My iP6 with a 3-year-old battery was running at 100% CPU speed with 24% on the battery. We were speechless.
We also installed another app (battery life) that checks the battery health. My phone was at 89% useful life, and his was at 91%. My phone battery can barely last 12 hours before it hits 1% life. So I'm not sure what the heck is going on, but honestly Apple has some more explaining to do, or they need to really assess the algorithms being used to throttle phones.
I originally gave Apple some slack because I do now that batteries are a finicky thing and understand why Apple is doing it. On the flip side, with nothing else to explain it, by friend's phone is being throttled down to 1/2 its speed and there is no way to force it back to 100%.
So I told him to take it into an Apple store to check it out, and now articles like these about Apple having a battery supply problem is not helping. So what to do?
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Teardown of Apple's iMac Pro shows RAM upgrades possible - with extreme difficulty
I'm in awe of how clean and modular the internals of the iMac Pro are. I've opened up and upgraded iMacs in the past and I'll tell you this, if that video is even remotely complete, it is far easier to upgrade the iMac Pro, than the earlier models. What made the earlier ones a pain to work on was the LCD display and the rats-nest of microscopic cables and easily-damaged ribbon cables. This one looks almost pleasant to work on. The older models would only allow for a 1/2" lift of the LCD panel before the cables would begin to strain. Looks like Apple finally got a clue and allowed for plenty of elbow-room to lift the panel and safely disconnect the cables.
In my experience, the main issues with an iMac after years of use are the fans failing and dust/dirt clogging up the fins over time. This looks easy. With eh system having much larger vents in the back, it might be unnecessary to open the Mac to clean and just a good blast of compressed air would be enough to flush the dirt contaminate back out. Would be nice to see more closeup of how the vents are to determine this.So I don't understand the headline. This iMac looks like a breeze to upgrade the RAM and SSD compared to older models. I could definitely see myself cracking one of these babies open with no worries.
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Teardown of Apple's iMac Pro shows RAM upgrades possible - with extreme difficulty
Oh please. Give us a break. You represent .001% of the users that feel Apple should design the iMac to your engineering specs. How many times does you need to beat a dead horse? Most will NEVER upgrade their computer after the initial purchase. FACT. Get over it. Move on.Maxter said:Is not just that the SSD inside iMac Pro is a RAID 0. Even worse, it is paired to the main board, which means you cannot use it elsewhere. And if such board, the controller or any disk fail, all data are lost.
Besides, Apple should use standard parts and allow users to easily upgrade or replace them. In this case, Apple should have used better SSD like Samsung 960 Pro with sequential 3,500 MB/s read and 2,100 MB/s write, besides random 440,000 read and 360,000 write IOPS. RAID 0 is a deal breaker for our University, but imagine the iMac Pro in RAID 0 with such Samsung SSD. It would be much faster.
If Apple want to protect the environment, they should develop more headless Macs, including low, medium and high pro models because they last much longer since you just replace the Mac and kep the display, which lasts much, much, much longer than the Mac which has a maximum life of seven, years to upgrade its macOS. In such respect, the iMac a a anti-ecological.
But Apple can do whatever they want. Because people buy Macs because macOS. And thus, they are a monopoly in such respect. If you want macOS, you must buy whatever Apple does. There is no real choice and competition. And that is not good. In this case of iMac Pro they even fill all four RAM slots, so if you want to upgrade it, you must throw away DIMM, which again is anti-ecological. Not to mention that Apple RAM is two to three times more expensive that exactly the very same RAM from the same manufacturer.
But it is amazing how some people approve anything that Apple does, whatever it is. Obviously, they have vested interests. They may work for Apple, sell Apple products or get profit from it from advertisements or have Apple shares. Yet, such behavior is immoral and nonethical. Besides that, companies improve because there is competition and criticism from consumers. Positive criticism is good for all, including consumers and companies.
I was surprised to see that they had two 512GB SSD drives in a RAID0 configuration. However, as before... it doesn't matter. Your failure logic still doesn't hold. True, if one of the drives fail, you lose all your data. But guess what?? If you only have ONE 1TB SSD drive and it fails, you also lose ALL your data! Case closed. Besides, if someone truly wanted to upgrade the SSD drive, it's certainly cheaper to just install two smaller drives than one giant drive. So in the end, it's a non-issue.
I buy my Mac's, not just because of MacOS, but also because they are the best engineered systems around. They are built-like-a-tank reliable, and are the best in class.If you want to go back to the 1990''s beige PC box with everyone expandable, go right ahead and let everyone else move on with technology.
