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  • Western Australia Police can now use CarPlay to respond to emergencies

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    Security of information tends to be a drag on such systems. Commercial comms, like iPhones, are often unacceptable because their security, though likely very good, cannot be validated by the appropriate regulators. Given privacy laws and respect for individuals' data, this is understandable.

    If you want an example of how use of commercial comms can go wrong, look at the Russian army in Ukraine.
    doozydozenFileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • Lewis Hamilton hopes Apple TV+ documentary has a 'positive impact'

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    Lewis Hamilton uses his fame and the resulting media platform to try to further causes that he supports. He got where he is through hard work and raw talent and now tries to give something back.

    I think he deserves respect for that.
    lotonesFileMakerFellerdewmejony0

  • 'Apple Car' team dissolved & 2025 launch may be in doubt says Ming-Chi Kuo

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    An iPhone wasn't actually all that different from a Blackberry at launch. At least in functional hardware terms. 

    They both had screens, keyboards, batteries, antenna etc. Everything necessary to get the work of a phone (and more) done.

    The secret was in software and apps that added new functionality which actually turned it into less of a phone and more of a CE computer.

    How can that transfer to a autonomous car setting where most of the computing work is not really going to be client facing? It's going to be mainly back end stuff (mobile data centre, 'sensing' capabilities, AI, communicating with road infrastructure etc) and where there will be a host of competitors moving fast and already deploying solutions. 
    You didn't have the same Blackberry as I did then! The BB had a physical keyboard taking half of its size. The iPhone was all display with a (usable, adaptive) keyboard appearing when it was needed. That was a game changer: the display was 2x the size of the BB's when it needed to be.

    How many phones have physical keyboards now, I wonder.
    watto_cobrabyronl

  • MacBook Pro Touch Bar could be revived as a strip that supports Apple Pencil

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    I never liked the Touch Bar but this seems to throw away its better bit (you could see what it was supposed to do as it changed). Now, we swap the extra tap to wake it up before it will do anything for extracting an Apple Pencil from that awkward corner between keyboard and display. Then we tap/draw in an unlabelled space?

    I'm not convinced. Part of the Touch Bar's downfall was that it didn't do anything that standard macOS features ('cos not everyone has a Touch Bar) didn't do at least as well: I can't see this being any different.
    watto_cobrawilliamlondon

  • Apple's smart fabric research points to wearable tech beyond Apple Watch & AirPods

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    This is one of those absurdly wide ranging patents that claims the originator has invented a whole category of 'stuff'. The first claim is for:
    "A fabric-based item comprising: a housing; a fabric layer covering a majority of the housing; a force sensor that is overlapped by the fabric layer; wireless communications circuitry; and control circuitry configured to transmit wireless signals with the wireless communications circuitry."

    A lot of us are likely to feel that this is a rather obvious idea and/or that it is unreasonable for Apple to wait until someone else comes up with a cloth-covered     Bluetooth product and then claim "I thought of that".

    Apple is hugely innovative company and I enjoy using a variety of its products but I really hope it is not allowed this patent.
    FileMakerFellerwilliamlondon