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White House calls Apple and Google 'harmful' in bid to cut app store fees
Hedware said:Somehow everybody gets asked except for consumers. As a owner of Apple products, I do not want my privacy and security compromised because some lazy developers want to have open skies. They should attempt to build some decent apps.
I hear the argument that "well, there are apps that will move to their own stores instead of Apple's, and then we can't trust the app maker to not do nefarious things." Fine, then don't install the app. If you can't trust their product because it's not in Apple's Store, then frankly, you can't trust the app at all and should not use it. Note that numerous scam apps are in the Apple Store already (see this AI article from just this morning), and popular apps like Tik Tok and Facebook actively track you in spite of the tracking transparency options. So again, if you think you wouldn't be able to trust them outside of the Apple store, those apps being in the Apple store is really no different. It's a completely false sense of security.
So nobody's security is unwillingly compromised here. We are adults, and we can make informed decisions about what apps to install, even when it runs counter to Apple's opinion. This harms no one except those who choose to go down that road and make bad choices. -
iMessage may be coming to Android with Sunbird
KTR said:This is like building a Mac clone. Apple legal shut them down. But we seegenovelle said:Considering the keys to Apple’s iMessage encryption lives on the device in the Secure Enclave I’m curious how this would work. Unless it intercepts text messages that have too much data and makes them more accessible and iMessage like.
Most (if not all modern) Android devices include a secure enclave as well. When the user signs in to iMessage for the first time on the device by authenticating with their iCloud credentials, that is when the client generates the encryption keys, stores the private key in the secure enclave, and registers the public key with the iMessage server. So long as they have fully rerverse-enginered the API protocol from sign-in to sending/receiving messages, then it is pretty straightforward and largely identical to the iPhone workflow for the same operations. -
Musk taps over 50 Tesla employees to make Twitter changes
bloggerblog said:That’s could become a controversial move since Tesla is a public traded company and Twitter is his private company. So borrowing employees from a public company can get weird. -
iPhone 14 camera cutout may not be the shape that's expected
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Apple takes down online Apple Store for 'updates' [u]
Alrescha said:Roderikus said:If you can’t maintain a virtual store while upgrading, you shouldn’t be in the online business.“It’s a common failing, and it’s been with the race as long as it has had social organization. A little business man thinks his tiny business is as complex and difficult as the whole government. By inversion, he conceives himself as competent to plan the government as the chief executive. Going further back in history, I’ve no doubt that many a peasant thought the job of the king was a simple one and that he could do it better if he only had a chance. What it boils down to is lack of imagination and overwhelming conceit” --Robert A. Heinlein. “Beyond This Horizon.” (1948)