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I think this is a very reasonable thing to do.

Reasonable to you maybe. Not very reasonable to Apple. See below for why.

Now that we have the government looking hard at all this data collection

Which government are you talking about because it sure as hell isn't the US government. Maybe they are in Europe somewhere.

now is the time for Apple to step up and do something like this to help out the end user.

A nice sentiment but I strongly doubt Apple will actually do anything useful in this regard. Google derives the vast majority of their revenue from advertising so if Apple really wanted to stick it to Google, hurting their advertising revenue would be the way to do it. Thing is though that Apple and Google are sort of partners and Google pays Apple a reported $9 billion to be the default search engine so it's unlikely Apple cut off that revenue stream except as some sort of nuclear option.

Nice try Netflix, this is not about viewing quality, this is about DRM, controlling content, and controlling users streams.

What if someone streams to a Mac or PC running Air Parrot and then records the stream, oh the horrors.
( https://www.airsquirrels.com/a... )

It looks like Apple won't enforce your DRM because you won't pay them for using their platform.
( https://9to5mac.com/2019/03/18... )

It is so sad when the big boys can't share their toys. :(

You should have wrote a big article reading, "Apple is taking Airplay away from iPhone customers" however it would be untrue, but might get Apple to make the changes you need for your DRM.

The Apple TV 4k and iPhone Airplay streaming are as good as it gets, it is too bad Netflix customers won't get to fully enjoy all the benefits of their purchases.

Netflix is offering more details on its decision to remove AirPlay functionality from its iOS app. The change was announced in an update to a support document on Netflix’s website last week, with the company attributing it to unnamed “technical limitations.”... Full Story: https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/07...

While the story of BBEdit is an interesting one, you seem to be unaware that Apple announced from the stage at WWDC last year that BBEdit would be returning to the Mac App Store.

Also worth pointing out: BBEdit was pulled from the Mac App Store, not the (iOS) App Store, whereas Kaspersky is complaining about (iOS) App Store stuff. The difference matters. With the Mac App Store, the vast majority of apps are available outside that storefront and macOS’ default behavior allows apps outside the store to run without problem. Not so in iOS, where users have no realistic choice for circumventing any seemingly capricious or onerous requirements Apple enacts that might hamstring developers.

...LG and Samsung?

If you ask nicely, Apply may let you in on the secrets of folding screens...

Sorry to rain on your parade but Apple is buying these bendy-screens from either Samsung, LG or both: https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/14...

Pretty sure that was the joke.

...LG and Samsung?

If you ask nicely, Apply may let you in on the secrets of folding screens...

Sorry to rain on your parade but Apple is buying these bendy-screens from either Samsung, LG or both: https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/14...

More than that, they're secretly hoping that the FTC drops the hammer on Qualcomm in the current antitrust case where Qualcomm is trying to point to Apple's use of Intel modems as evidence that they aren't a monopoly.

This is why Qualcomm is a shitbag corporation:
1. Violate F/RAND licensing by trying to charge Apple more than other phone makers
2. Sue Apple when they tell you to fuck yourself and switch to a competitor's product and violating license indemnity from that competitor having valid license to the patents in question
3. Try to use Apple's switching (which you are attempting to block with a FTC import embargo due to your questionable lawsuit from #2) as evidence of not being an anticompetitive monopolist, which they are.

They might make good mobile radios, but they are giant fuckbuckets and deserve to discover the length, width, and breadth of the shaft.

Apple actually launched the original iphone without apps and expected people to use web apps originally. Obviously this made it a dumb phone with a web browser and people wouldn't have it. https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21...

RCS is meant to be the thing. Be interested to see its progress.

You're right, it's an obscure phrase that people only used briefly on obscure websites years ago.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/...
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07...
https://mashable.com/article/f...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...
https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/...
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/sc...
https://gizmodo.com/dark-patte...
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-...
https://www.extremetech.com/in...
https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...
https://sdtimes.com/addiction/...
https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/15...

The weakened demand came primarily from China, although Cook notes that "in some developed markets, iPhone upgrades also were not as strong as we thought they would be."

The writing was on the wall when, for the 1st time, Apple increased iPhone trade-in credit in late November by up to $100 to get lure people in to buy the iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max, and then extending the offer to other countries like China, Japan, and Australia, and throughout Europe a month later.

Too late.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphone-explosion-las-vegas/
https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/14...
https://www.thestate.com/news/...

I could keep going down the google search results, but I'm sure you get the point.

Really? did you read those articles? The first one looks like a 3rd party fixit shop who may or may not have installed a new battery incorrectly. Here are some of the shinier nuggets from the other two:

In all the weird ways people destroy their phones, O’Neal said, he’s yet to come across someone whose battery blew up in their pocket.

“We’ve definitely seen phones that have been shot with BB guns, phones ran over and ones severely bent,” O’Neal says. “Even in all those cases, the battery did not explode or ignite.”

While phone-battery explosions are rare, they do occur. In January, an Apple store in Zurich, Switzerland, had to be evacuated after a worker at the store attempted to extract a battery from an iPhone, according to a CNN story.

I positively love this one, a classic case of 'replace user':

Also in January, an iPhone battery blew up in a man’s face when he bit into it in an electronics store in China. Newsweek reported on the incident.

Thanks for those links, I laughed my ass off while reading the last one.

Too late.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphone-explosion-las-vegas/ https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/14... https://www.thestate.com/news/...

I could keep going down the google search results, but I'm sure you get the point.

FAKE NEWS!!!!

LOL. Somebody drank the coolaid.

Mac products are made in Foxconn factories using cheap foreign labor.

Environmental friendly? LOLOLOL citation needed.

Of course, the Apple shill will chime in and say "well said" because you praised Apple. All the while providing no citations. Stay classy Apple fanboys.

Here's Apple's Environmental Report for 2018:

https://www.apple.com/environm...

They are hard to look up (one of the big "awards" is called the "Green Apple" award, so it pollutes the search results) But, here's just a few Environmental Awards I can find that Apple has recently received:

https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/14...

https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/10...

LOL. Somebody drank the coolaid.

Mac products are made in Foxconn factories using cheap foreign labor.

Environmental friendly? LOLOLOL citation needed.

Of course, the Apple shill will chime in and say "well said" because you praised Apple. All the while providing no citations. Stay classy Apple fanboys.

Here's Apple's Environmental Report for 2018:

https://www.apple.com/environm...

They are hard to look up (one of the big "awards" is called the "Green Apple" award, so it pollutes the search results) But, here's just a few Environmental Awards I can find that Apple has recently received:

https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/14...

https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/10...

Citation required

Easily done!

https://www.cultofmac.com/5711...

https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/05...

https://appleinsider.com/artic...

https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

https://www.imore.com/how-ios-...

ET FUCKING CETERA...

Any questions?

for making the world a more boring place again

https://9to5mac.com/2018/12/03/tumblr-adult-content/

It depends on the political environment. Anti-trust enforcement is heavily tied to prosecutors and judges selected and influenced by the political process.

I used to think Democrats were more likely to be for regulating monopolies and near-monopolies to encourage competition, but now it depends on more complex factors, such as whether the CEO favors the party in power, and how much the company gives in campaign donations. Apple has cranked up their lobbying.

Google and Apple should disable auto-update on apps that change owners. If you want an update after the app has changed owners, you should at least be aware of the change, which would cut way down on this type of scam.

I don't know about Google, but on iOS, I personally have NEVER seen an App just "AutoUpdate". They ALL just gang-up WAITING to be MANUALLY Updated. I realize you CAN tell iOS to Auto-Update Apps (and who would?!?); but the default is WISELY "OFF", and you have to dig around in Settings to Enable it.

https://9to5mac.com/2013/09/20...

Perhaps on Android, either there IS no Setting, or the Default is IDIOTICALLY set to "Enabled"...

Ah, I see: Good ol' Google: Always looking-out for the User... NOT:

https://www.howtogeek.com/2022...

Maybe that's why this article DOESN'T include iOS Apps...

One more reason that Google, and by association, Android, is EVIL.

I think it's some weird blend of 2 and 3. Note:
https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/09...

One of the sources gave a view of what it was like to be a source for the story. The writers came with some vague 'maybes' that probably had accumulated over several previous hypotheticals and then published as absolute fact, rather than 'this is how this could go down', then doubling down on the story when it's controversial.

I don't know if they had any maliciousness or were just caught up in thinking they were unwinding people being evasive about some secret and overplayed what their sources were giving them, but that seems to be the answer that makes the most sense, since this magical no-more-than-six-pin chip is hard to imagine how it could do what is claimed.

The follow up about an instrumented network port at least sounds credible as the technology to pull that off is a bit more plain, but there we have a single source, no evidence, and non-trivial chances that he didn't understand some legitimate part of the equipment or is trying to take advantage of the situation to get himself into the press.

Basically, if Supermicro is in the clear, they need to pursue a defamation suit and then perhaps we can stop having to engage in hypothetical debate over hypothetical things and actually evaluate the available evidence.

They're "available" because Apple tries to cripple older devices through software "updates" designed to do nothing but make them unusably slow. That's all that is. iOS only really works on two generations of phones: the new one they release with it, and the previous generation. Every earlier phone is intentionally slowed down even though they're "supported."

Hey, FUCKING ILLITERATE HATER!

You APPARENTLY Can't READ!

https://arstechnica.com/gadget...

https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/05...

No kindly FUCK OFF, Hater!

all of my Apple devices just keep working.

Yeah, almost unbearably slow, but working. There's nothing quite like Apple's planed obsolescence. Good brand choice indeed.

Hey, COWARD:

I am SURE you didn't watch this year's WWDC Keynote; but one of the first topics (if not THE first) was how they had SPECIFICALLY focused on PERFORMANCE of iOS 12 ON OLDER DEVICES.

In fact, they used an iPhone 6 (which I happen to have), and the performance gains were QUITE impressive.

And I guess that real-world tests with the Beta releases of iOS 12 seem to bear out these claims:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/...

https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/05...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06...

https://www.fastcompany.com/40...

Speaking of which, I just recently Upgraded my iPhone 6 (actually a 6 Plus) from iOS 10.3.3 to iOS 11.4.1. I'm here to tell you that it is NOTICABLY FASTER.

So, kindly Stick It In Your Ass, COWARD!

What about Apple? Apple’s marketshare in India continues to fall as it hits 1% in Q2

Whoops, that's not good, in the soon-to-be world's most populous nation.

So name the half decent device that isn't loaded with crapware they should have bought instead?

Too often voting with your wallet is like voting in the old Soviet Union, you can choose any member of the Communist party you want.

Easy.

iPhone.

And unlike Android, which only lets you HIDE certain Apps (which you can also do with iOS), you can actually DELETE (as in G-O-N-E GONE!) nearly All preloaded Apps (which will also NOT be any "Carrier" Apps; since Apple doesn't allow that horeshit!) :

https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/17...

The company revealed an adjusted outstanding share count of 4,829,926,000Wednesday alongside the company’s third-quarter results. That factors in hefty stock buybacks and nudged the trillion-dollar per share price to $207.05.

[Apple users] are less than 10% of your potential user base

Though Android has a larger user base than iOS, iOS has much higher revenue per user-year than Android: an estimated 9 times as much. In some markets, this more than makes up for its smaller user base. (Sources include "iOS App Store brings in 2x more revenue than Play Store despite seeing half the downloads" by Edoardo Maggio and "Apple is pulling further ahead of Google in this one key area" by Kif Leswing.) To what extent does this association between higher-value customers and Apple products also extend to macOS vs. Windows and X11/Linux?

This has happened before, of course: https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/01...

and the case law is unclear: http://www.leadingedgelaw.com/...

They are producing some in India now.

I'd be happy with an eGPU if it supported nVidia GPUs properly.

Ok, I see (referencing my post below); but the people to yell at seem to be NVidia, not Apple.

https://appleinsider.com/artic...

Plus, it does seem like some measure of NVidia support DOES exist in High Sierra:

https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/05...

But it looks like now, at least, NVidia hasn't released a "Web Driver" for Mojave (but I feel very confident they will).

If you think the NVidia reps weren't hanging around the Apple labs at the same time, you're mistaken. And if you think that Apple isn't smart enough to pick the best GPU, ALL things considered, you are sadly mistaken.

They certainly picked the slowest by a WIDE margin.

Apple chose the AMD GPUs because they weren't building a gaming machine

They weren't building anything that requires significant GPU compute capability at all, if they were they wouldn't have picked such a poor performing part relative to the rest of the market.

the AMD GPUs provided more multiple display capability than the NVidia ones did. That's not speculation, that's according to Apple.

I run dual 4k display displays off an nvidia GPU with no problem, you can do more than that too. So I'm not sure what you're talking about but ultimately the performance of the GPU Apple chose is a LONG way from "state of the art".

Yeah, anyone can drive 2 4K displays. You can do that with the right video adapter hanging off a USB-C port.

But Apple wanted to drive TWO 5K displays, PLUS the internal laptop display. NVidia couldn't do it. AMD could.

Don't take my word for it. Here's one of several articles about Apple's decision.

Note that the article also talks about the possibility that NVidia may come back, when DisplayPort 1.3 is available:

https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/16...

Except Apple is not 100% renewable. Purchasing renewable credits is not the same thing as being 100% renewable.

Actually, Apple doesn’t purchase renewable energy credits (REC). They specifically addressed that topic, in fact, when they announced that they had hit 100%. Good thinking, since Google and others are using that trick to claim 100%, but Apple isn’t one of them.

I don't buy anything made in China unless I have to. And I'm willing to pay more (and have paid more) for things that were not made there.

It's good that some tech companies push protection of the environment. But I'd be a lot more impressed with the ethics of those companies if they didn't build manufacturing centers, or technology research centers, in China. (See this article: "Apple investing half a billion dollars in Chinese R&D centers as it announces two more".)

Exactly this. Someone finally gets it.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/04/20/apple-7th-place-laptop-review/

apple puts profits ahead of innovation

My guess is that management attention is largely on the iPhone and iOS and the Mac gets the sloppy seconds.

That and the new HQ. Apple's chief designer Johnathan Ive has been working on designing the new HQ for the last several years which has taken his primary attention. He handed off his managerial duties to two deputies in the interim and only recently returned to the role. While Ive's work is on overall design and not necessarily the technical details, his design choices have influenced Apple's look and engineering. My guess is that his lieutenants did not have his managerial skills to take over adequately as they are no longer listed with the company.

Apple stopped selling displays a while ago. Currently on their accessories page the only display listed is the 5K (resolution, not price) LG

Android does not usually allow updates. So, to get the latest version, it is necessary to buy a new cell phone. In my opinion, that's extremely abusive.

Another abuse: Cell phones with batteries that cannot be easily replaced.

Another abuse: Apple has been preventing 3rd party repairs. Stories:

A HREF= "http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35502030" TARGET="_blank" >iPhones 'disabled' if Apple detects third-party repairs (Feb 5, 2016)

Apple Shouldn't [be allowed] to Brick Your iPhone Because You Fixed It Yourself. (Feb 18, 2016)

Apple fighting new âright to repairâ(TM) legislation after successfully lobbying against it in the past. (Feb 15, 2017)

Latest iOS Update Shows Apple Can Use Software to Break Phones Repaired by Independent Shops (Oct 13, 2017)

'Right to repair' legislation gaining steam amid Apple's iPhone battery replacement program (Jan 18, 2018)

Android does not usually allow updates. So, to get the latest version, it is necessary to buy a new cell phone. In my opinion, that's extremely abusive.

Another abuse: Cell phones with batteries that cannot be easily replaced.

Another abuse: Apple has been preventing 3rd party repairs. Stories:

A HREF= "http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35502030" TARGET="_blank" >iPhones 'disabled' if Apple detects third-party repairs (Feb 5, 2016)

Apple Shouldn't [be allowed] to Brick Your iPhone Because You Fixed It Yourself. (Feb 18, 2016)

Apple fighting new âright to repairâ(TM) legislation after successfully lobbying against it in the past. (Feb 15, 2017)

Latest iOS Update Shows Apple Can Use Software to Break Phones Repaired by Independent Shops (Oct 13, 2017)

'Right to repair' legislation gaining steam amid Apple's iPhone battery replacement program (Jan 18, 2018)

" only 10% of the iPhones"

You're figuring getting what? 1 billion downloads? You think you have a chance of hitting that?

And if you do, 0.0005% of their mining power is equivalent to 5,000 devices. You think 5000 devices ranging from new macbook pros to 8 year old ipads and iphone 4's is going to net you a million bucks a week? You'll pick up maybe $10- 20,000 per month. Still pretty impressive but a long way from your millions per day. (An iphone X mining 24x7 will net you around $13/mo.* And the majority of your devices will be a lot less than that.

(And again, if you've got any property with 1 billion plus downloads, you've already hit the jackpot beyond all but the most popular apps/preinstalled apps wildest dreams. And can probably monetize it other ways for far far FAR more revenue.)

* https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/21...

(and this article was written during the cryptocurrency spike over christmas; it's come down quite a bit since then.)

Yes the iphonex was the best selling smartphone in december but it fell way short of their expectations which is why they are significantly cutting production.
https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/29...

Does that make apple bad? no. Does that make the iphonex bad? no. Does it mean it performed poorly? well that depends on your metric, if you expected 40 million units and only sold 20 million then yes. If, for some reason, you tie yourself to the notion that the iphonex has to be the most popular then no, it achieved that, good for you...i guess.

Yes you can spin a negative into a positive and, as a shareholder i'm glad that works on the unthinking masses, but i'd prefer it that they didn't set their expectations so ridiculously high and miss them by such a large margin.

According to Google's Platform Versions page, Android 8.0 Oreo mobile operating system finally has 1.1 percent adoption. Like Android Nougat before it, Android Oreo took five months to pass the 1 percent adoption mark.

Linked as it appears in TFS.

As opposed to iOS, where iOS 11 adoption is ALREADY at 65 percent:

https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/19...

And no, Apple does NOT FORCE UPGRADES. My iPhone 6 Plus is still running 10.3.3. Apple doesn't even nag me anymore about it.

...outside the typical no-so-much-a-conspiracy-theory-anymore side of things, it's quite possible Apple got a HUGE influx of bad batteries that went out into millions of their phone models. I do remember a small window last year about specific models of iPhone 6/6s having recalls for batteries, which caused hardware instability (e.g. unexpected shutdowns, phone reboots, etc.).

If there is anything honest and plausible I'll put my intuition on, it would be that those batteries were FAR reaching outside that. Apple tried a small recall to make it 'look good' but in essence, it was fucking everything on the mobile side. So they tried to cover it up with throttling hacks to preserve the batteries in future iOS releases and got caught by some tech savvy folk on reddit.

The iPhone was monstrously better than anything that existed prior, and was the first device to make smartphones mass-market items. For the majority of the world, the iPhone was the first smartphone that mattered.

I agree about the mass-market appeal and the smart "take whatever technologies are available, make them work seamlessly together and wrap them in a good looking package" approach, but let's not forget that the very first iPhone:

1) Didn't have 3G (which was already deployed across the rest of the world) but was using GPRS and EDGE for data transfer, and the "real web" at 64 kbit/s was not fun;

2) Didn't have GPS (at least assisted GPS was quite common);

3) Didn't have video recording;

4) Didn't have copy&paste (again, a common feature);

5) Didn't have MMS (likely because AT&T/Cingular didn't support the technology);

And most notably: remember that Steve Jobs’ original vision for the iPhone was no third-party native apps. -- the App Store came later and apparently as a reaction to jailbreakers and developer backlash.

RT.

It's like 1996 all over again! Let's ask Michael Dell what he would do with Apple?

They're seriously in danger of losing their position as the most profitable company in the world. https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/20/apple-global-fortune-500/

If they lost that, would they be the second most profitable company in the world? Heavens to mergatroid!

It's like 1996 all over again! Let's ask Michael Dell what he would do with Apple?

They're seriously in danger of losing their position as the most profitable company in the world. https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/20/apple-global-fortune-500/

So I read the linked article, and I couldn't help but notice that the only thing joining the tax law and Apple's bonuses was temporal proximity. The author conspicuously chooses to use words like "after" and "following the introduction of," assiduously avoiding the more concrete "because of." The author also doesn't attribute anything the company actually stated to the tax law, citing instead some phoney-baloney hogwash about "confidence in Apple’s future."

In fact, if you read the text of the email sent by Tim Cook to Apple employees, you don't see mention of tax policy anywhere--which is weird, seeing as Bloomberg puts "New Tax Law" right in the headline.

It's almost as if Bloomberg.com were blowing smoke up our collective asses and calling it an invigorating Goop.com vapor colonic.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/11/health-app-data-iphone-6s-crack/

iPhones sold because of the app store? There were NO third-party apps at launch. That was something Apple hastily retrofitted in later, because people were demanding it.

The iPhone was successful because it had a well-designed full touchscreen, and it didn't look like it was designed by and for geeks.

I'll not hold my breath waiting for Apple. They're getting worse and worse lately.

Don't let the fact that they've already addressed the issue interfere with your anti Apple bias.

Cute you think that the servers responsible for this information will still be up in 5-10 years for any smartwatch, let alone Captain Planned obsolescence inc.

You can still sync first gen iPods with iTunes, which were made more than 10 years ago. WYP again, aside from hatorade?

Apple is paying somewhere between $65 and $71 per display depending on where you get your numbers. The variance in the cost per display in different reports is likely due to market variance caused by the supply pinch.

The $110 number comes from an analysis of the total that Apple is paying for all Samsung components that they use in the phone and is still the gross amount, not the profit.

The full production cost of the iPhone X is said to be around $357. There isn't exactly room in that for Samsung to make $110 profit on a display.