mr. h

Could you check if Apple have replaced the triple-click home button shortcut with anything? How do you launch the magnifier (that uses the camera as a magnifying glass)? 

MplsP said:

Just out of curiosity, was the number of failures for the Galaxy Note 8 'statistically significant?'

Presumably you mean the Note 7? That being the one infamous for exploding batteries. From the end of the article:

AppleInsider said:

The reported failure rate on the Galaxy Note 7 exceeded 1 in 20,000

pixelwash said:

The earpods Apple ships with current phones are Lightning, and analog

No they are not analog. There is a digital to analog converter and headphone amplifier inside their lightning plug:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/09/20/teardown-finds-dac-chips-in-apples-lightning-earpods-lightning-to-35mm-adapter-for-iphone-7/amp/

maestro64 said:

okay, this is the feature Apple put because the Police were complaining that iphone got stolen more time than any other phone and the Authorities what a way that could local a phone to make it worthless to the person who stole it. So know the thieve are using it against the people the police thought they were protecting. With the new phone with touch ID, you do not need this, is some steals your phone it is worthless if you have touch ID.

See what happen when the Police and Authorities come up with a solution to their so called problem, they make it less safe for the rust of us.

This doesn't have anything to do with Touch ID. It's related to Find My iPhone, which can be activated/deactivated independently of Touch ID. If you turn on Find My iPhone, then it should be impossible to wipe/restore etc. that iPhone without the iCloud account details entered when Find My iPhone was originally activated. The page that Apple have taken down was a tool that allowed you to check if Find My iPhone was turned on for a particular device.

What I've been really surprised and disappointed by in the last couple of days is the discovery that Apple stores some devices' serial numbers in plain text form in a re-writable location on the devices' SSDs! This means people have been able to remove the SSD chip, use the iCloud lock status page to find a serial number that isn't locked, then write that serial number to the SSD, and replace the SSD in the device. If the serial number was stored in encrypted format using a private key none of this would have happened! This is entirely Apple's fault for poorly implementing this feature.

Seems to me the headline to this article is at best misleading, at worst just flat-out wrong. Credit card credentials are not lifted with this method; it’s a tokenised representation of the card (as also used by Apple Pay) that is single-use only.