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  • Instagram outage affected users globally [u]

    williamhwilliamh
    I’m sure someone will sue.  No doubt the grief counselors were out consoling the youths who experienced this trauma while quiet quitting their jobs. 
    watto_cobra

  • Apple releases tvOS 16.3.3 to fix Siri Remote issue

    williamhwilliamh
    My remote stopped working altogether last week so I might have had the issue . Resetting the remote and re-pairing fixed it.  Thank God the iPhone has remote functionality as the fix would have been hard without it.  
    entropyswatto_cobra

  • Wired CarPlay vs. wireless - the pros and cons

    williamhwilliamh
    If you have an older car, get either one of these!  It is a huge upgrade for pretty small money!

    I installed a cheap Sony head unit in my 2007 Honda Pilot for wired CarPlay.  The Sony also supported a rearview camera that was about $20 on Amazon. This has vastly improved my enjoyment of the car.   
    lolliverwatto_cobra

  • Apple surrenders one hour of profit to Russia for antitrust violations

    williamhwilliamh
    chadbag said:
    rob53 said:
    Trying to think like Apple--there are a lot of consumers in Russia who are not like Putin and who shouldn't be considered as such. It's a difficult decision for Apple to shut down all sales to Russia (or any other country) just because of the person in charge. My hope is real Russians will stay with Apple once Putin goes away. $12M is not that much money to keep a foot in this country IF its citizens find a way to remove Putin.
    I think the shutdown of business is more related to sanctions compliance.   And like the comment above, I wondered how paying the fine doesn’t violate sanctions itself.   Maybe a Russian bank account for Apple was found to pay out of.  
    My guess is that the fine was levied against a Russian Apple subsidiary that has a Russian bank account.   Your line of reasoning makes complete sense and that is one of the reasons the Russian ransomware "services" are taking in considerably less money.  For example: https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/ofac_ransomware_advisory.pdf 
    watto_cobra

  • Suppliers are backing away from Apple AR, says Kuo

    williamhwilliamh
    I don’t understand the role of these companies.  I thought Apple designed the stuff and these other companies assembled them.  It sounds like the Pegatrons and Luxshares are designing or helping to design?
    watto_cobrabyronl