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  • Indian government snaps up Cellebrite tech to help crack iPhones & other devices

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    So the Indian govt is betting that Apple hasn't plugged any security holes since iOS 7?
    good luck with that. 
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  • Two of four Thunderbolt 3 ports in new 13" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar have reduced speeds

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    1983 said:
    Why? Here we go again Apple crippling the 13" Pro's spec in comparison to the ridiculously more expensive 15" version. Even though they're both very expensive laptops to begin with. They give you something good with one hand, slap you in the face with the other. The 15" already has a lot of power user advantages over the 13", they could of at least given the 13" 4 'proper' TB3 ports.
    Yes, because of course, we all know that 'everyone' who buys the 13" will fully saturate all four ports simultaneously playing Tetris on their twin 5k monitors and saving their Facebook output to raid 3 arrays.
    Bad Apple
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  • Apple's Touch Bar guidelines steer devs away from non-interactive content, towards backwards compat

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    AppleInsider said:
    Apple is urging developers to skip any non-interactive content, as well as avoid cutting off owners of other Macs.




    The Touch Bar shouldn't show "alerts, messages, scrolling content, static content, or anything else that commands the user's attention or distracts from their work on the main screen," according to the document. Developers are expected to treat it as an input device, rather than a second screen, and in fact the guidelines encourage matching buttons to the look of the physical keyboard, whenever possible.

    Apple is also nudging developers away from duplicating "well-known" keyboard shortcuts -- like copy, cut, paste, save, or quit -- or key-based navigation, such as Page Up or Page Down. 
    Well there's not much they can do to stop it outside of the App Store. 
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  • Qualcomm to buy iPhone Apple Pay chip manufacturer NXP for $47 billion

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    sog35 said:
    Apple needs to start making major acquisitions.

    its embarassing that companies like Qualcomm and AT&T and Charter that have a fraction of Apple's cash and cash flow is making huge strategic acquistions and Apple is standing pat holding its cash like an old grandma in her mattress.

    friken Cooks sucks.

    He sucks at innovation.
    He sucks at excitement
    He sucks at vision
    He sucks at LARGE acquistions


    Does he suck at rational comments too?
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  • Microsoft reveals VR & AR-focused Windows 10 'Creator's Update,' expected in early 2017

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    SpamSandwich said:
    Wish I could agree with you about the Pencil, but the palm rejection is still inadequate, especially in the better iPad illustration and paint apps.

    Name them. Pixelmator and Procreate are right at the top and the palm rejection is perfect.
    Procreate and Sketch Club, both terrific apps. I've drawn ever since I was a child, have illustrated professionally and there is no way for me to use either app using the Pencil in a natural way (resting one hand holding the Pencil on the drawing surface) without making stray marks or causing the canvas to skip or move while sketching or rendering. I don't use Pixelmator because I find it a completely half-assed version of Photoshop and when I need Photoshop functionality, I use a Mac.
    I've drawn professionally for many years and always use 'masking' pieces to protect large canvases from unwanted marks; I use ProCreate and the iPad Pro but rarely suffer serious palm rejection problems(maybe some occasional image jittering) but a friend does and he uses a cotton glove with all but the little finger and a thumb strap cut away, so he can still hold the Pencil with good feel and no other skin contact with the screen.
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