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  • Apple spent $64.8 million on paid search ads in 2020, ranking 12th overall

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    applguy said:
    What search ads is Alphabet buying?
    This (the report, not your question) is wacky.  It's almost as if they are confusing cases where Alphabet is the nominal buyer of space from a site (through its ad exchange) but the real buyer is the person who contracted through Alphabet.
    applguy

  • Is it safe to leave your Mac plugged in and always on?

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    maestro64 said:
    Yep we never shut down our Mac desk top, it only goes to sleep at the end of the day, it can be months before a restart happens. I do from time to time run maintenance utilities to clean up logs files and such and make sure everything is working fine. I have done this for years with no ill effects. We run a 2012 Imac 27" to give you and idea and only had to replace the HDD because it start to die, replaced it with a 2TB SSD and now the computer is like new. Thinking about replacing it with the new OSX 12 coming out which will render the compute obsolete from a software upgrade stand point. 


    I can tell you PC can not deal with being left on, my work PC has to be shut down all the time otherwise it get laggy or just begins to misbehave
    maestro - we are finally updating to the new 24" from our 2011 (we did two SSD upgrades) and only because software support is really vanishing.  But with 10 years from a desktop that is still going strong (speedy, reliable, etc.) and has pretty much powered on for the entire 10+ years, I can't complain about finally being pushed to buy a new machine.  I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who has been able to hold onto an iMac for so long.  And it's easier for us than you - we have a 21" so the screen will be bigger, not smaller.
    watto_cobra

  • Cellebrite removes iPhone data extraction from most capable product

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    DAalseth said:
    Cellebrite is a company that builds forensic devices used by law enforcement, governments, and others that can get their hands on one by legal and illegal means.
    Fixed that for you. Don’t for a second think that only the “good guys” have these things. 
    Especially as one fell out of a truck in front of Signal!  Not saying whether Signal are bad or good guys, just noting that if someone with no special governmental access was able to get one, there are plenty out in the wild.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple reveals further details about AirTag's anti-stalking feature

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    MustSeeUHDTV said:
    Hum.....so if someone stole like a bicycle with an AirTag and they had an iPhone, would they “receive a notification that an unknown AirTag has been following them”?
    Yes - that is a fundamental element of AirTags - they are less an anti-theft measure than they are a "find-my-item" measure.  This is distinct from find my phone which is designed to lean a little more into anti-theft as the phone itself is the potential target of theft (for example, not the case of the phone or the bag in which the phone might be).
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  • Return of the Mac: How Apple Silicon will herald a new era at WWDC 2021

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    xyzzy-xxx said:
    I hope that some of the limits of Apole Silicon will be lifted:

    1. no target disk mode

    2. more / expandable ram

    3. 3rd party graphics hardware 
    Agree with this list and the priority order.  Target disk mode was a nice Apple-only function.  And the RAM situation just looks like greed (at least for desktops where space is at a lower premium).
    watto_cobra