tzeshan

gatorguy said:

StrangeDays said:

gatorguy said:

racerhomie3 said:

I am sure this key would ‘leak’ on the black market just like how CIA’s or NSA’s malware is being to damage American cities.

In fact I'm wondering if this is already in play in a couple of other countries.  It would explain how Apple iMessage has escaped the same fate of the other encrypted messaging services who have refused to cow-tow in China and Russia. 

Are you honestly suggesting Apple has given Russia access to everyone's encrypted iMessages, and not told anyone? Is that honestly what you're suggesting?

Man, who pays you to drop such copious amounts of FUD pellets on everything Apple? What do you get out suggesting such nonsense?

If Apple still runs the Russia service once the changeover is in full effect then no I don't think Apple would turn over any messages that were not already existing in the users Cloud account.

BUT If they do as they did in China and turn it all over to a Russian agency, no longer even branded as an Apple service, then of course it would not be Apple making the choices. Clean hands 

tmay said:

sirozha said:

Huawei is China and China is Huawei. Read the story of Huawei. 

The IP theft by all Chinese companies is well documented. Moreover, the Chinese government requires surrender of the IP to the Chinese “partners” by Western companies who want to do business in China. Add to that currency manipulation, Chinese government subsidies, etc. Finally, have you heard about the Chinese government requiring all of their graduate students to engage in the IP theft from Western universities where they participate in research as part of their graduate studies? It’s not even an option; it’s a requirement. The Chinese government withdraws its tuition payments of the graduate student comes home for summer without the “goodies, i.e. files of stolen IP. The Chinese government also requires that its nationals employed in the West engage in industrial espionage by applying pressure on the relatives who still live in China if a particular Chinese individual doesn’t send home stolen IP. 

All of your statements are supported by factual information.

Kudos

Links to that effect are very easy to find. 

jbdragon said:

bsimpsen said:

Should the next round of tariffs cover the iPhone, I wonder if the big winner will be Samsung. They have substantial manufacturing capacity in Vietnam and may be able to avoid tariffs for their iPhone competitors. That would hand Korean based Samsung (which like Chinese manufacturers has aped Apple's for years) a significant advantage in Apple's home market. As switching ecosystems becomes less commonplace, short term shifts in competitive advantage can become long term shifts in customer base.

Beware the law of unintended consequences.

Samsung has a lot of phones made in China also. In fact most Android phones sold are made in China. Overall this is not going to have that much of a effect. It's going to hurt China far more than the U.S. We've been getting screwed over for YEARS and YEARS and no one was wiling to do anything and our jobs all fled to China along with everything else while they have tariffs on U.S. made products and letting them get away with this completely unfair trade.

So we end up with some higher prices. Those cases, what is a it, a few cents to the normal price? I know what I do already when taxes get jacked up higher, I live in California where we have high taxes. I just cut my spending down. I buy a new iPhone every 4 years. I have the XS now and so I won't be getting a new iPhone until 2022. If other other countries had some guts. I guess they want to continue getting screwed by China. China will blink first. They ship and sell far, far more goods to the U.S. than the other way around. A lot of that is the tariffs the Chinese people pay for U.S. Imports. All that has to happen is things be far ore FAIR and equal, and the Tariffs will disappear.

By the way, Before American's were getting their money stolen in the form of TAXES. The U.S. Government used to run and pay for it's self from Tariffs.

chasm said:

tzeshan said:

I cannot sync document folder between a MacBook Pro and an iMac through iCloud. What I may have done wrong? 

It’s not really anything to do with the topic, but the most likely reason is that we’re talking about two different document folders; one on each machine. The correct approach (if you wanna do this through iCloud) is to have one document folder: the one on iCloud. You then make aliases of that folder on your two machines. If it helps, you can rename the aliases to “iCloud document folder“ or something like that so that it is distinguishable from the mandatory Documents folder that you have in your user folder on both machines. Just put all the documents you want to be synced into the “iCloud documents folder“ on either machine, and it will always be in sync.

Another way to do this without using any cloud service is through programs such as Sync Two Folders (limited but free) and ChronoSync (powerful and an excellent value, but not free).