anonymouse

Scot1 said:

I’m not a lawyer, of course, but what’s the difference between getting a court ordered warrant to enter someone’s home or workplace if they are under investigation for bad acts against the population or the government and doing the same thing to investigate same on someone’s phone?  

How do you find a balance between keeping people safe and respecting the rights of the individual?

I thought that’s what the courts were supposed to do and so having a back channel to go into someone’s phone under the authority of the courts isn’t such a bad idea is it? I mean the whole premises if you’re not doing something wrong…

Well, for one thing it's not (typically) done in secret accompanied by gag orders. Also, this would essentially be the equivalent of a court issuing a blanket warrant to search anyone, anywhere for anything, including areas outside its jurisdiction, which is not the way a democracy/free society is supposed to function.

Yes, it's a bad idea because its incompatible with secure E2EE. A backdoor is also a guarantee that a foreign power or criminals will compromise the back door.

You find the balance by respecting privacy and not trampling the rights of 99.9999% of the people to catch the other 0.0001% who are doing something wrong.

I'll leave you with John Gruber's take, which I agree with completely, for you to ponder [emphasis mine]:

The bottom line is that the UK government is proceeding like a tyrannical authoritarian state. That’s not hyperbole. And the breathtaking scope of their order — being able to secretly snoop, without notice that they even have the capability, not only on their own citizens but every Apple user in the entire world — suggests a delusional belief that the British Empire still stands. It’s simultaneously infuriatingly offensive, mathematically ignorant (regarding the nature of end-to-end encryption), dangerous (as proven by the recent Salt Typhoon attack China successfully waged to eavesdrop on non-E2EE communications in the United States), and laughably naive regarding the UK’s actual power and standing in the world.

Well, they only sold like 5 of them, so not many people are affected.

Maybe they'll fix the camera too.

If there is a camera bar, it would likely have to do with fitting more components in the space. However, Apple already has the tetraprism lens in place for the 5x Telephoto lens, and it's unlikely to shift to a different technology.

I like it, and, besides more space for components, it could, depending on the exact configuration, actually lead to less wobble since it wouldn't just be the corner that is raised but effectively the entire top edge. 

tht said:

anonymouse said:

tht said:

Does Nike have a watchOS fitness app? I would thing being able to display the Watch heart rate measurements and the PBP2 measurements as an interesting thing to look at. 

I had a PBP1, and yup, the case was too big for your pocket. It’s basically can only be carried in a bag. It’s was too round and big. I got the Beats Fit Pros, and the case was smaller, but pretty flimsy. Fit Pros did not feel premium. 

How pocketable is PBP2 case?

It's 33% smaller than the PBP1 case

Yes. The article says that, but my question is how well does it fit in men’s front pants pockets? 

Is the 33% reduction enough? The images of it along with other models seem to say no. 

I suppose, in part at least, it depends on the pants.