chelgrian

Yes it will be a security disaster of the EUs own making. You will get exactly the malware situation that exists on non-iOS platforms. Apparently the EU commission neither understand nor care.

It's not just EU citizens who will lose someone will workout how to make the hooks to install stuff work on phones outside the EU and we'll have a wave of malware based on that.

Apple should have pulled out of the EU entirely rather than cave to a law essentially written specifically to destroy Apple's business model.

The people who consider the Mac Pro a massive fumble are not the target market and do not understand why the machine exists at all. Apple was never going to make a direct replacement for the x86 Mac Pro.

The current Mac Pro exists only to host Avid HDX cards for ProTools and to host 8K video acquisition cards from AJA or Blackmagic Design.

The instant that neither of those applications need an internal PCI-E slot then the Mac Pro goes away for good.

darkvader said:

It's already been shown that USB C will work in the older iPhones. 

Apple should get their act together.

The cost of retooling an old design for any variation is so great that it is not economically viable. Apple would just discontinue all lightning models when the mandate came in to force and only sell the iPhone 15. It would remain that way for a few years until a USB-C based shell gets in to a lower cost iPhone. The most likely thing being a retool of an existing design for a iPhone SE 4

appleinsideruser said:

Not contradicting your post 22, but passkeys make me uneasy. Give me a password that is strong that I store in keychain and I’m in charge of my own destiny (and access to the resource). 

Loose a device or an invisible crypto passkey and you’re buggered. #luddite  🤷‍♂️ 

Stored the way Apple, Google and MS have implemented it I agree you essentially never have direct access to the private key. I can see why they designed it like this essentially to stop people handing over their credentials to all and sundry like they do with passwords.

In the Apple world at least you don't have to use iCloud Keychain you can store the passkey in anything which implements the correct bits of the autofill API. Right now I know that Strongbox can do this and store the passkey in a Keepass kdbx file. That at least you can access directly and store and more importantly backup wherever you like.

At that point the usage of the passkey is similar to a sequence of the same entropy stored in keepass except with the advantage that because the passkey relies on a cryptographic transaction it's secure against a bunch of attacks the password isn't.

Of course due to UK idiocy and Online Safety Bill and updates to RIPA Apple will have to pull iMessage out of the UK, Signal and WhatsApp will also have to pull out.

The UK politicians behind all of this are arrogant and stupid and refuse to listen to experts in the field.