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  • Amazon launches $290 Kindle Oasis, its thinnest e-reader ever

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    bdkennedy said:
    "At its thinnest point" makes how thin it is redundant. The same when Steve Shiller introduced the current baby bump iMac.  Look at how thin the edges are!
    Steve Shiller... Phil Schiller's evil twin  :)
    stompyJanNL

  • Apple grows to 7.4% of worldwide PC market as Windows continues to cede share to the Mac

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    aaronj said:

    And I'm not sure that I would call 7.1% global market share a "niche" market.  Granted, I'm far from being a business man.  But I would think that most companies in most industries would be happy to have that sort of global share.  Or am I wrong?
    It's always been difficult to compare Apple to any other company (or an entire industry).  Apple simply does things differently than everyone else.

    Case in point... Apple's laptops start at $900.

    But everyone else has laptops that start at $250.  

    It doesn't take a genius to understand why the other guys sell more units and therefore captures more quarterly market share than Apple.

    To your point... I don't think it bothers Apple that they have "only" 7.1% of the computer market. They're selling exactly what THEY want to sell.  Apple is the only company selling Macintosh computers... while everyone else is selling Windows computers.  That goes back to Apple doing things differently.

    If you think about it... Apple has 100% of the Macintosh market...  a market that no one else is allowed in    :) 

    But there's more than just the market share percentage.  

    Would you rather be Dell with 14% quarterly market share selling low-margin $300 laptops?

    Or would you rather be Apple with 7% quarterly market share selling high-margin $1,000 laptops?

    The average selling price for a Windows laptop is $450... the average selling price for an Apple laptop is $1,200.  I think Apple is playing the game they want to play.
    metrixaaronjargonautpmzpatchythepiratenolamacguynostrathomas

  • Apple & Google have faced 63 All Writs Act-related orders to access devices, ACLU says

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    I looked up the Israeli company, Cellebrite, that people seem to think the FBI contracted to help them.

    I found the following video that explains how they unlock an iPhone:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUgmnYChT48

    This video was posted on Jul 7, 2015… and Cellebrite has been doing this for years. So this is nothing new. And it isn’t hidden either… I found it by simply searching Google.

    The video demonstrates the unlocking of an unknown iPhone with iOS 7 that has no permanent lock warning and no wipe warning.

    So… do we think they were able to unlock Farook’s iPhone 5C with iOS 9 and wipe and permanent lock enabled?

    And… can Cellebrite unlock later iPhones? 5S, 6, 6S, etc?

    anantksundaram

  • Apple again rumored to goose iCloud security amid iPhone encryption flap

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    It isn't hard to do this. Just set it to be encrypted based off a passphrase you invent.

    Problem is....

    People choose bad passphrases, which can be easily brute forced offline since apple will still give them the data. People forget them. And if they forget, you lose - everything.

    Of course, one could forget the password but still have their iphone. Remake the password and resync. If you lose your device though, you are screwed if you forgot your "key."

    Might blow some peoples minds here but Google already does this with Chrome Sync and Mozilla with their sync. They can't read your browser history you sync with them if you pick a passphrase/password. Even if that password is the same as your main account, using it still doesn't grant them access.
    Yep... it all comes down to the people using this stuff.

    LastPass says in big letters "Choose a long master password. Do not lose your password. We do not know your password. We cannot give it to you if you forget it..."

    I'm sure Apple could do something similar.

    But yeah... the burden is still on the users to be responsible... and that doesn't always happen.
    ration al

  • Man pleads guilty in celebrity iCloud hacking case, admits to phishing scheme

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    apple ][ said:

    And that's what is so scary about this stuff.  The users themselves are a big flaw. I know plenty of people who wouldn't question an email from Google if it asked them to type in their password.  Or an email from Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc.  People are gullible.

     I agree. That was the point that I was attempting to get across. The weak link is the users themselves, in many cases.
    Exactly.  And I don't know any way to fix that.

    If there is a problem with your bank... they'll call you and say "hang up... and call the number printed on your credit card" to prove that it is really the bank calling. That seems to work.

    But, sadly, people will just happily type in their internet passwords into a webpage without batting an eye.  :(
    jbdragon