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One-year Apple TV+ trial offer getting cut down to three months
Beats said:A good idea would be providing 3 months of Apple One with purchase of iPhone/iPad/Apple TV/Mac/Watch. Then the user could try all services and would be likely to subscribe to one or all of them. -
How Apple iCloud Private Relay works
DAalseth said:rob53 said:We want our constitutional rights to privacy, whether some people think we have them or not.
Yes Virginia, there IS a deliberate and coordinated war on the right to privacy.
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Microsoft detailing 'next generation of Windows' on June 24
hydrogen said:Microsoft is the perfect illustration of the fact that if you enjoy a monopoly, you do not care about your customers, and can just pretend to innovate, keeping eternally your product basically unchanged.
But hey, don't let facts stop you from posting nonsense.
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Microsoft detailing 'next generation of Windows' on June 24
MplsP said:I think the only thing readers here would care about is when MS will finally get around to making a functional ARM version of Windows. Given their history I’m betting it will be at least 5 years...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewARM64 -
Report finds AirTag enables 'inexpensive, effective stalking'
EsquireCats said:You know Apple must be onto a winner product when the FUD articles come out. It was the same b/s when the Apple Watch was being written up as a target for thieves because the sports band is easy to remove.
The report is b/s for a variety of reasons:- The majority of stalking crime involves persons who are known to each other. However to stalk with a tracking device requires a stalker to get close enough to personally install it on the victim which isn't feasible. If the stalker knows the victim's location then tracking with an electronic device isn't the problem. In the hypothetical situation where the victim doesn't know the stalker, the same issues apply: getting close enough, and having already known the victim location. (Whereby the stalker can just follow the victim anyway.)
- The device works best when placed in the open. This is why the accessories are all designed to leave the tracker exposed. One can't install the device to something like the underside of a car and expect it to work, the device is still limited by EM physics.
- The tracker itself is linked to the owner. Stalking with this is like leaving your ID at a crime scene.
- It's a highly publicised tracking device and alerts the victim, while being trivial to disable. Anyone that finds it will know what it is, especially when it's beeping at them.
- If the software is smart enough to notify the user about being followed, it's smart enough to not publish that location.
Side note: It would only be "inexpensive" if it didn't require a $600 iPhone just to get started.
Despite your unhinged string of assumptions about the high degree of intelligence, technical savvy, motivation, and characteristics of the average stalker, stalking is, in fact, "an issue with this device" because it can provide a person's location without their knowledge.