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  • Apple to begin removing abandoned and problematic apps from App Store next week

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    There are still a lot of people with old iOS versions. I hope that Apple doesn’t through out apps that people can still use on those devices
    cali

  • EU-imposed Apple Irish tax bill could exceed $21.2B if appeal process fails

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    Apple could never owe that much money to other European countries because no one would ever be able to demonstrate that Apple’s creation of value, that comes from intellectual property, is created or is resident solely in those countries, they would only be able to tax the profits generated from distribution and part of the services.
    Ireland is the only european country where Apple could be taxed that much money, but it seems they don’t agree with that because of their laws.
    mwhitehlee1169latifbp

  • Samsung Galaxy Note 7 glass screen more easily damaged than any iPhone

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    rogifan_new said:
    So is Apple not using Gorilla Glass 5 for the iPhone 7?
    Even if it does it doesn’t mean it will have same behaviour. Corning only sells the glass, it is Samsung that manufactures the finished glass screen from the glass it bought.
    lolliver

  • Samsung Galaxy Note 7 glass screen more easily damaged than any iPhone

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    netrox said:
    sog35 said:
    Samsung. Maker of crap products.

    All SIZZLE and no STEAK.

    IMO, only uneducated, poor, or ignorant people buy the flagship Samsung phones.
    It has nothing to do with Samsung. It's the Corning that makes the glass which Apple also uses for its screens.
    You are making a bad assumption. It is Corning that makes the Gorilla glass but it is Samsung that makes the finished glass screen after buying glass from Corning. That opens the possibility that Samsung applied some kind of treatment to the surface of the glass that made it more scratch prone
    latifbpcalilolliver

  • Reported Samsung Pay flaw lets thieves remotely collect credit card credentials

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    gatorguy said:
    igorsky said:

    So less secure than Apple Pay just like I wrote, right?  And it's kind of silly to now make excuses for the Loop technology because that's a selling point that Samsung loves to use...available everywhere!  Well it's now less secure everywhere!  But feel free to keep defending it.

    Also not sure what you mean by "more successful". Is Samsung Pay more successful because it uses an insecure technology that Apple doesn't use?  They can have that "success".
    For those transactions that can be completed with either Samsung Pay or Apple Pay they are equally as secure. Both use random tokens in place of card numbers and NFC chips with "secure-elements" provided by NPX.

    Don't conflate the additional features of Samsung Pay that enable it to be used where Apple Pay cannot with just-as-secure-as-ApplePay NFC payments. LoopPay tech doesn't get involved in the transaction unless you are at a terminal where you couldn't otherwise use either Apple Pay or Samsung Pay, and in those cases it is still more secure than your old credit card and thus beneficial if you worry about those kinds of things. 

    So no Samsung Pay is not less secure than Apple Pay for contactless NFC payments.  
    To be clear I don't even like Samsung. I don't like their business methods, I don't like their "copyist" tendencies, I don't like their throw everything at the wall and see what doesn't stink attitude. But that's no reason to add FUD. There's already plenty of reasons not to like them. Samsung Pay isn't one of them IMHO. 
    Not really as secure as Apple Pay!
    From what I understand with Samsung Pay a person doesn’t select on the device wether it uses NFC or MST for payment, the device does that automatically based on some conditions if it doesn’t detect a NFC signal. That means theoretically it could be forced to use MST by jamming NFC signals, though it would be a bit more complicated to make work. So in the end it might not matter how secure the NFC Samsung Pay is.
    roundaboutnow