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Apple's record $83.4B Q4 misses Wall Street expectations
All excellent news!1. I am looking for a good entry point to buy AAPL shares after unloading them prior to the report. Sell, sell, sell so in a week or so we can get back in!
2. The new MBP points to a direction where Apple is listening more to customer needs and where they can, implementing them. I still have an iPhone 11 and an AW3 because there is nothing really compelling to upgrade so what I have has to die or they introduce something that is revolutionary, not evolutionary, that I can’t not upgrade. The new MBP’s are revolutionary and I’ll get one for the sheer power they bring both on the CPU and GPU. I am not a pretend film maker or pro photographer who wants to use an iPhone 13 to make the next big hit or capture another sunset. I am not old and prone to falling so don’t need a new watch. While chip constraints may play into this I am not hearing that there are a lot of people who want an iPad or iPhone 13 and can’t get it. People want Apple to innovate and no doubt they will but outside of the MBP it has been kinda a big yawn.
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New 16-inch MacBook Pro review: More power & more convenience for more money
The whole what SJ would do is a worn out trope. Ive would have made it even thinner and less functional with even less ports and probably introduced some new connection, just because. Love that Apple is listening to customers here. This seems like an amazing start for the MBP line.timmillea said:I think we are witnessing the first product manifestation of the the departure of Sir Jony Ive. Steve Jobs would turn in his grave to see the reintroduction of 'legacy' ports and the greater heft. The new MBP seems like the product of focus groups rather than a clear design lead. I regard it as great engineering overall but the first clearly noticeable failure in design from Apple for two decades. It does not bode well for future products or indeed for Apple. Giving buyers what they want has never been Apple's way. They have historically been years ahead of that.
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Senate lawmakers introduce bill targeting Apple App Store, Google Play
About time! Look forward to installing any app from any source I want and not only those Cook decides. Look forward to iDos, Epic, streaming game apps from Microsoft, FB etc and buying directly from the Amazon app etc without having to jump through hoops to make the world’s most profitable
company more money.
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What you need to know: Apple's iCloud Photos and Messages child safety initiatives
It is not scanning for photos of a mother taking a picture of her child. It is scanning for know photos of child pornography and abuse.macplusplus said:
This is why preventive Orwellian surveillance is not a solution. How will you distinguish a mother's baby shower photo from a child abuse photo? Not AI, I mean human interpretation. You need a context to qualify it as child abuse. The scheme as described will not provide that context. "Images of child abuse are definitely crimes that have already occurred", agreed, but if and only if they are explicit enough to provide an abuse context. What about innocent looking non-explicit photos collected as a result of long abusive practices?crowley said:
No idea what you're even talking about.macplusplus said:
Flagging such cases doesn't mean preventive Orwellian surveillance. Such a law cannot pass. Even if it did, it cannot be interpreted in such an Orwellian sense. Citizens will fight, courts will interpret.crowley said:
I'mma just leave this here:macplusplus said:
And this is exactly what criminals actually do: they are not stupid enough to use iCloud, they have the dark web, they have browsers and file transfer tools tailored to the special protocols developed for the dark web. Apple has long explained very well that iCloud backups are not encrypted. Law enforcement has (or should have) no issue with iCloud, because they can get any person’s unencrypted iCloud data anytime by presenting a court order. And I assure you, this is almost always much faster than Apple’s surveillance, based on the accumulation of some nasty tokens and the following human review.StrangeDays said:
Then I assume you don’t use Dropbox, Gmail, Twitter, Tumblr, etc etc… They all use the CSAM database for the same purpose.…
The main take-away - commercial cloud hosting uses their servers. Should they not take measures to address child pornography on them? Not using their commercial service, there’s no issue. Is that not reasonable? One needn’t use commercial hosting services, especially if using it for illegal purposes.
So, that child protection pretext stinks. Since law enforcement can access iCloud data anytime, Apple’s attempt to adopt self-declared law enforcement role to “prevent crimes before they occur” is Orwellian !
From: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/technology/apple-iphones-privacy.htmlU.S. law requires tech companies to flag cases of child sexual abuse to the authorities. Apple has historically flagged fewer cases than other companies. Last year, for instance, Apple reported 265 cases to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, while Facebook reported 20.3 million, according to the center’s statistics. That enormous gap is due in part to Apple’s decision not to scan for such material, citing the privacy of its users.
You said criminals are "not stupid enough to use iCloud", which is obviously untrue, since they're stupid enough to use Facebook.
You said Apple are attempting to "prevent crimes before they occur", which doesn't seem to be true or even relevant. Images of child abuse are definitely crimes that have already occurred.
Stop using Orwellian like a trump word. It isn't.
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What you need to know: Apple's iCloud Photos and Messages child safety initiatives
Ever watched the TV show dumbest criminals? Beside, a pretext to what? What do you have that is so private that the government should not see it? Your affair? Your own dick pic? Nobody cares and if the NSA looked at them so what? If you are a terrorist, 1/6 insurrectiionist, child pornographer, teen slashing tires in a neighborhood etc. I want you to be caught. If anything, the pretext to me seems to be that privacy is being used as an excuse to exploit children.macplusplus said:
And this is exactly what criminals actually do: they are not stupid enough to use iCloud, they have the dark web, they have browsers and file transfer tools tailored to the special protocols developed for the dark web. Apple has long explained very well that iCloud backups are not encrypted. Law enforcement has (or should have) no issue with iCloud, because they can get any person’s unencrypted iCloud data anytime by presenting a court order. And I assure you, this is almost always much faster than Apple’s surveillance, based on the accumulation of some nasty tokens and the following human review.StrangeDays said:
Then I assume you don’t use Dropbox, Gmail, Twitter, Tumblr, etc etc… They all use the CSAM database for the same purpose.…
The main take-away - commercial cloud hosting uses their servers. Should they not take measures to address child pornography on them? Not using their commercial service, there’s no issue. Is that not reasonable? One needn’t use commercial hosting services, especially if using it for illegal purposes.
So, that child protection pretext stinks. Since law enforcement can access iCloud data anytime, Apple’s attempt to adopt self-declared law enforcement role to “prevent crimes before they occur” is Orwellian !
