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cgWerks said:

apple_badger said:
Alex Stamos is very well regarded in the ITSec community. He left Facebook because he couldn't get them to take security seriously enough; his association with Zoom (or it's dissolution) is a good indicator about whether or not they're doing the right things as far as privacy and security.  

One can hope, I suppose. But, Zoom's track record seems more in line with Facebook than a company that actually wants to do things the right way. They've got a lot of proving to do before they should be trusted.

I am, indeed, hoping. We've opted to use Zoom in a limited way: the risk, benefit, consequence calculation falls in favour of Zoom at the moment. 

apple_badger said:
Western, or at least North American society generally does not reward honesty and straightforwardness about mistakes. Pivoting in the face of new evidence is often characterized as pejoratively flip flopping and something as simple as a genuine apology is seen as an opening to litigation. 

I get the litigation aspect, but the rest of the world values these things more? What societies are you thinking of?

As a resident of North America (Canada, but we're amazingly similar to the US in a lot of ways and I'm comfortable lumping us together for this), I'm speaking about my views about my own society. My exclusion of other places is not intended to imply that they're better, only that I don't have enough experience to make any comment about them with respect to this topic   

lkrupp said:

Funny how corporations react when they get caught at something, including Apple. It’s always explained as trying to do right by their customers. When my youngest son was working on his MBA at the Washington University Olin School of Business in St. Louis he told me about a class he was taking on just how to respond when you get caught with your pants down around your ankles. The professor set up various situations and asked the students to respond. My son said the majority of the class always seemed to prefer the cover-up route, obfuscation, and denial. Many of these students were already in positions of management at their respective companies. My son said the professor was aghast at some of the solutions. Honesty and straightforwardness was what he wanted to hear but didn’t. 

Western, or at least North American society generally does not reward honesty and straightforwardness about mistakes. Pivoting in the face of new evidence is often characterized as pejoratively flip flopping and something as simple as a genuine apology is seen as an opening to litigation. 

Andy.Hardwake said:

Security advisory council headed by a Facebook security officer... Bwahahahahaha  long way to go guys!

Alex Stamos is very well regarded in the ITSec community. He left Facebook because he couldn't get them to take security seriously enough; his association with Zoom (or it's dissolution) is a good indicator about whether or not they're doing the right things as far as privacy and security.  

melgross said:

Because it’s not really true. That is, neither DED’s, or Apple badger. When I go to conferences, I see a mix of Apple laptops, iPads, Windows laptops, and some Surface Pro models. Depending on the conference, the ratios change. But normally, Apple’s products are at least 50%.

Since I'm talking about my own observations, which I reality admit(ted) are anecdotal evidence by definition, I'm not sure how you can say that what I'm saying isn't really true. My observation, when talking about tablet-like things, has been that I see a lot of Surface Pros around where it used to be a sea of only iPads. Depending on the people in the group, mine may be the only iPad in the room, but that's rare. Manager sorts seem to prefer the Surface Pro, while technical folks and students tend to go for the iPad. Again, this is what I have noticed; you can have a completely different experience and we can still both be right  

Overall, when you include notebooks, the number of Apple devices that I see seems to be more than half, but I'm not sure if that's just down to Apple stuff being more noticeable. As the glowing Apple logo fades into history, that bias will become less relevant. 

If we want to venture out of the anecdotal space, I can tell you that over time the number of Apple devices, as a percentage of the total number of devices) on my workplace WiFi network (I work at a small Canadian university) has declined, though absolute numbers have increased. In 2010-ish, the number of Apple devices was well over 2/3s on any given day and these days it tends to be around 40%. I know this because I was challenged by a former CIO on my assertion that Apple devices made up the majority of devices on our WiFi network, so I wrote a script that tracks that  

That decline is not, in my opinion, any indicator of trouble for Apple; it's just a sign that in the mobile space the competition has gotten better. Apple isn't in trouble; the iPad is doing very, very well, but this fixation on pushing the narrative that the Surface Pro is failing seems weird to me. 

tyler82 said:

Are you saying that it's not really an extended display- that the Mac's mouse doesn't travel over to the iPads display?

If you want it to be, it's exactly like using a second monitor. The mouse travels over just fine. It can do more than just be a second display, but if that's what you want it to be (as I do), that what it'll be for you. 

It's astounding how lag-free it is! (2017 MBP, 2018 11" iPad Pro) This is going to make some work when I'm travelling so, so much easier!