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  • Video: Everything you need to know about the new AirPods before you buy

    Great little video that, good work. 
    So i’ve bought myself a pair this afternoon. Am I the only one so mesmerised by the wireless case who’s just realised they don’t yet have a wireless charger? Come onnnnn AirPower.
    Apple marketing and allure has cost me again. This won’t be the last time im sure. 
    GeorgeBMac
  • DriveSavers launches passcode-beating iPhone cracking service for the public

    georgie01 said:
    I am really pleased to see these companies producing products like this. We need genuinely secure encryption but we also need people trying (and succeeding) to break that encryption. These products also prove that law enforcement isn’t helpless in the face of encryption and therefore need backdoors, and so they rather should be investing in techniques to legally break the encryption.
    So which law enforcement agency do you work for? 
    In an ideal world, sure, I get it. Regrettably, state actors have consistently and determinedly ignored our collective right to privacy. Any ability to break encryption will be disseminated faster than the Salt Bae meme. Due process and legal oversight will be dispersed just as frivolously. 
    racoleman29mac_dogviclauyycwatto_cobra
  • Poor news curation at Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters creating misleading iPhone supply chain pan...

    This article had me laughing my leg off. It takes some considered thought and interpretation, to reach beyond the headlines, to make sense of the sensationalist “Apple analyst” bs. When that’s done right, as this article nailed, those guys are now DED in the water. 

    Here on this website I guess we all support a free press. We can appreciate the dark side of this though. These analysts reporting fabricated nonsense are materially hurting investors with little or no regard to the repercussions. I wouldn’t be surprised too see an individual or organisations litigate against this in future. Who knows, maybe even Apple themselves?!
    sacto joemagman1979watto_cobra
  • Apple stock hammered on lower forecasts from iPhone part suppliers Lumentum & Japan Displa...

    Hey can someone correct me as to whether or not I’m recalling this correctly. I remember a rather funny DED article about the 5C. Apple was decried as a failure because they sold far more of the premium top of the line device at the time, instead of the 5C being the best seller. 
    The “analysts” had a field day. If I’m not right, the deja vu I’m experiencing right now might suggest another Apple supply chain check migraine coming on. 
    magman1979
  • iPhone X's Face ID reviewed, six months later

    As amazing as the technology is, I really am not a huge fan of Face ID. I find it to be infuriatingly temperamental. In my experience, I have to keep it a fairly consistent distance with a neutral expression. Slight angles won’t work, nor will having food in my mouth. This might not sound like much, but given the amount of times I unlock my phone daily, the frustration really builds. Sometimes it just plain doesn’t work. Out of necessity and speed I enter passcode more times that I care for. I’m not sure I would go back to Touch ID, but I think there are considerable improvements necessary to the everyday functionality of Face ID. 
    supadav03[Deleted User]superkloton