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That is factually incorrect.

Apple is hoovering up your location metadata if you've enabled Location Services, but it's doing so largely through a database of known cell towers and wifi hotspots.

Remember when information density was a thing? On my glorious 30", 1600px-high display at work, this page takes THREE screenfuls. https://about.mattermost.com/

Select all, copy, paste, word count: 298 words.

As for file size, the page itself -- no includes -- is 650k. When I save as an archive with scripts and images, it's 4.5 MB.

FOR ONE FUCKING PAGE. With 298 words. Unreal.

And this page, from Apple: https://www.apple.com/iphone/c... -- long rant at http://pixelcity.com/index.php...

TL;DR: 1,049 vertical pixels are used for SIX lines of text.

I bet there's a lot of people who wouldn't take that step (if they could) until much too late.

I can only feel so bad for people who don't take the very basic measures required to wipe a stolen phone. As long as you enable the (FREE!) "Find My iPhone" feature you can login to iCloud and remotely lock and wipe your phone. I consider the PIN, TouchID and FaceID only sufficient to keep someone out of the device long enough to wipe it and report it stolen.

If it's no better than a fingerprint, then why is it needed?

One out of 50,000 people have similar enough fingerprints to you to unlock your phone, only one out of 1 million people have similar enough faces to unlock your phone. Also FaceID works if you're wearing gloves. So, it's better in at least some ways.

And it is worse than a fingerprint: twins can't fingerprint-unlock each others' phones. Hell, even non-twin adult siblings can face-unlock the same phone. And you can only put one face in the phone, so no, they didn't do it by putting both faces in the phone.

In your link they trained it on both faces. You can only calibrate one original face, but every time it fails to recognize a new face and then you input your passcode then it will add the new face data to the training set. And that's probably exactly what the Vietnam group did with the 3D mask, kept inputting the passcode until it would recognize the mask as the person.

Got a citation for this? There's a mode that requires "attention" (e.g. open eyes), but it is not the default.

That's bullshit, you're completely wrong, stop getting all your info from Breitbart.

https://support.apple.com/en-u...

Seriously, does the fact that Apple exists bother you so much that you feel the need to manufacture lies on the internet, and then desperately hope that noone will call you on your bullshit?

If it's no better than a fingerprint, then why is it needed?

One out of 50,000 people have similar enough fingerprints to you to unlock your phone, only one out of 1 million people have similar enough faces to unlock your phone. Also FaceID works if you're wearing gloves. So, it's better in at least some ways.

And it is worse than a fingerprint: twins can't fingerprint-unlock each others' phones. Hell, even non-twin adult siblings can face-unlock the same phone. And you can only put one face in the phone, so no, they didn't do it by putting both faces in the phone.

In your link they trained it on both faces. You can only calibrate one original face, but every time it fails to recognize a new face and then you input your passcode then it will add the new face data to the training set. And that's probably exactly what the Vietnam group did with the 3D mask, kept inputting the passcode until it would recognize the mask as the person.

Got a citation for this? There's a mode that requires "attention" (e.g. open eyes), but it is not the default.

That's bullshit, you're completely wrong, stop getting all your info from Breitbart.

https://support.apple.com/en-u...

Seriously, does the fact that Apple exists bother you so much that you feel the need to manufacture lies on the internet, and then desperately hope that noone will call you on your bullshit?

1) I agree. The other companies are often worse at communicating.

It is difficult to understand the underlying issues because it is difficult to get basic information. For example, the book Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is often useless. I found little evidence in the book that Isaacson knows about technology, or has an interest in knowing.

Steve Jobs was often excellent at communicating. I don't see evidence of that understanding of the need to communicate clearly in the Apple of today.

2) The success of Apple is partly due to an amazingly self- and other-destructive failure by Google. Cell phone companies could use Google Android, but prevent updates! The cell phone company message: Want to avoid newly discovered vulnerabilities? Buy a new phone and throw the original phone away; we want easy money.

Apple didn't do that: Update the iOS on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

Another reason for Apple's success is due to social issues. In many countries, if you don't have the latest iPhone, you are considered a poor person, or socially inferior.

Underlying that is the fact that having a cell phone gives many advantages. Part of what has made Apple so rich is that having a cell phone is worth a considerable amount of money because it makes life more efficient.

3) I agree. All the cell phone companies have arranged product confusion for themselves.

FaceID constructs a 3D model of your face which is then updated over time so that gradual changes (facial hair, etc) can be integrated into the model. These updates take place after FaceID successfully recognises your face -- and after unsuccessful face-id challenges followed by the use of the passcode/password.

https://support.apple.com/en-u...

The claimed hack gives absolutely no information on whether "the hack" was performed using a 3D printed model that had never been shown to the iPhone or whether they trained the iPhone to recognise the 3D model by showing it to the iPhone and repeatedly typing the password after every failure.

If you already have the passcode/password which _always works_, FaceID is already bypassed.

Until more details come out and others reproduce it, I'd take the claim that FaceID has been hacked with a _large_ grain of salt.

Not touching iOS 11 until they address the BlueTooth/WiFi settings where you toggle it OFF in control center and all it does is DISCONNECT you for the rest of the day.

https://discussions.apple.com/...

They DID address it.

The toggle in Control Panel is a Disconnect; but peer-peer services such as AirDrop still work. This AVOIDS confusion on the part of users.

All one has to do to actually turn WiFi OFF, is to toggle it OFF in the Settings App.

Not touching iOS 11 until they address the BlueTooth/WiFi settings where you toggle it OFF in control center and all it does is DISCONNECT you for the rest of the day.

https://discussions.apple.com/...

With all the discussion of taxes lately, I looked up Apple's US income taxes, see http://investor.apple.com/fina...

Bottom line: on income of about $64 billion, Apple paid about $16 billion in taxes. So even a company as rich as Apple is not paying the 35% rate that keeps being quoted by Congress, yet we need to lower the rate to 20%.

Thank you. Someone finally gets it. That the richer one is the less taxes one effectively pays (while at the same time having purchasing power over how laws are enacted), that shit is truly a "taxation without representation" for the rest of us, people or companies, that make $500K a year or less.

With all the discussion of taxes lately, I looked up Apple's US income taxes, see http://investor.apple.com/fina...

Bottom line: on income of about $64 billion, Apple paid about $16 billion in taxes. So even a company as rich as Apple is not paying the 35% rate that keeps being quoted by Congress, yet we need to lower the rate to 20%.

It depends what you mean by failure. For gaming, yeah. But then gamers are always going to have a discrete GPU.

For people who don't game and want long battery life onboard graphics are better because they're lower power.

I suspect Intel know if they keep the non gamers happy with a good CPU with 'good enough' graphics they'll sell a lot of chips. And for non gaming 'good enough' graphics isn't that hard to do. Gamers will more than likely buy an Intel CPU and pair it with discrete graphics provided Intel's CPU performance is competitive.

I.e. Intel are aiming at the chunk of the market where people care about CPU performance and power efficiency but don't care about onboard GPU performance.

Of course this chip means you could pair an Intel CPU and a discrete GPU on the same package. Which would be ideal for something like a Macbook Pro 15 inch, which currently uses an Intel CPU and an AMD Radeon 560.

https://support.apple.com/kb/S...

Will gamers buy it? Probably not.

They said it for ages and were correct for ages. Then the iPod happened. It's been stupid growth for far too long, but it's slowing.

Slowing meaning you are ignoring the latest quarterly financial reports from Apple? I'm pretty sure someday maybe you'll be right.

Their market share continues to decline and they can only grow profits by increasing prices (the whole reason the iPhone X exists).

And the fact that the iPhone X has hardware that no other phone contains has nothing to do with it? Are you ignoring the part where the iPhone X has basically a miniaturized and upgraded Kinect module?

At some point the userbase will shrink to the point of margins and increased app-spend not making up the gap vs. Android OEMs.

You just above said that Apple has to rely on increasing prices. That would counter the shrinking user base you've alleged so you've proven yourself wrong. By the way the latest quarterly earnings say otherwise with 5M more sales than last year.

The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus didn't exactly set the world on fire.

And you know this how? It was released only late September and the holiday season hasn't happened yet. You've make quite a conclusion based on what? Apple hasn't released any numbers other that total sales of iPhones.

Is it because people are waiting for the iPhone X? We'll know when Q1 2018 market share data comes out.

Yes and until then everything you said is mere speculation.

Apple needs another "hook" to keep people in their ecosystem.

As goes every company selling consumer devices.

Maybe they finally make a meaningful play with a TV box or magically offer some subscription service that doesn't involve a blood tribute to every cable network exec in the world?

Unless Apple buys out all the cable networks, how would they do that? You realize that cable networks are independent of Apple, right?

Maybe they make a meaningful update to their desktops and fully unify the OS across platforms? Maybe they outright buy a supplier or two so they're not paying their enemies for parts and increase margins without increasing price?

Haven't they done that already by designing their own CPUs?

You get paid to shit spam that out, eh?

The latest news is that third parties can nab face scan data on the new Iphone x. Customers are 'protected' by giving consent a fine print click-thu on their game (everybody they know is playing it).

It doesn't matter what brand phone you use. If your privacy matters you radically limit the info you put on it.

What Apps can access, as explained by Craig Federighi, is a LOW-RESOLUTION "motion mask"-view of the Face as tracked in real-time, and as demonstrated by Federighi during the iPhone X demo. Neither 3rd Parties, NOR APPLE, have access to the high-resolution FaceID information. It lives SOLELY in the Secure Enclave chip, ON-DEVICE.

And guess what? Even THAT is a "cooked-down" (essentially a "hashed") version of the raw camera data.

See:

https://images.apple.com/busin...

And how would you design it to have a proper factory reset on the phone and still enable secure removable storage? If you do a factory reset on an iPhone all your data is lost as well and even if it didn't delete it it would be rendered inaccessible anyway since the encryption keys have been reset.

In an iPhone situation, you can do a Backup of your Phone, do a Reset to Factory Settings, then Restore From Backup. The key thing being that you musn't forget your passphrase before the Restore, or THEN you're borked...

You can even create a Non-Encrypted Backup if you don't care about Health and "Activity" Data (or iBooks PDFs!!! Grrrr!!!). But here is how you Backup, Restore to Factory Settings, then Restore (Apps & Data) for an iPhone.

Backup: https://support.apple.com/en-u...

Reset to Factory Settings: https://support.apple.com/en-u...

Then, Restore your Backup: https://support.apple.com/en-u...

There: Is THAT clear enough for ya?

Of course, if you DIDN'T make an iTunes Backup (or enable iCloud Backup) before doing an OS Upgrade that borked your iPhone, as usual, you deserve EXACTLY what you get.

And how would you design it to have a proper factory reset on the phone and still enable secure removable storage? If you do a factory reset on an iPhone all your data is lost as well and even if it didn't delete it it would be rendered inaccessible anyway since the encryption keys have been reset.

In an iPhone situation, you can do a Backup of your Phone, do a Reset to Factory Settings, then Restore From Backup. The key thing being that you musn't forget your passphrase before the Restore, or THEN you're borked...

You can even create a Non-Encrypted Backup if you don't care about Health and "Activity" Data (or iBooks PDFs!!! Grrrr!!!). But here is how you Backup, Restore to Factory Settings, then Restore (Apps & Data) for an iPhone.

Backup: https://support.apple.com/en-u...

Reset to Factory Settings: https://support.apple.com/en-u...

Then, Restore your Backup: https://support.apple.com/en-u...

There: Is THAT clear enough for ya?

Of course, if you DIDN'T make an iTunes Backup (or enable iCloud Backup) before doing an OS Upgrade that borked your iPhone, as usual, you deserve EXACTLY what you get.

And how would you design it to have a proper factory reset on the phone and still enable secure removable storage? If you do a factory reset on an iPhone all your data is lost as well and even if it didn't delete it it would be rendered inaccessible anyway since the encryption keys have been reset.

In an iPhone situation, you can do a Backup of your Phone, do a Reset to Factory Settings, then Restore From Backup. The key thing being that you musn't forget your passphrase before the Restore, or THEN you're borked...

You can even create a Non-Encrypted Backup if you don't care about Health and "Activity" Data (or iBooks PDFs!!! Grrrr!!!). But here is how you Backup, Restore to Factory Settings, then Restore (Apps & Data) for an iPhone.

Backup: https://support.apple.com/en-u...

Reset to Factory Settings: https://support.apple.com/en-u...

Then, Restore your Backup: https://support.apple.com/en-u...

There: Is THAT clear enough for ya?

Of course, if you DIDN'T make an iTunes Backup (or enable iCloud Backup) before doing an OS Upgrade that borked your iPhone, as usual, you deserve EXACTLY what you get.

iCloud security overview

The article points to Apple's support site that states clearly "When you search your photos, all of the face recognition and scene and object detection are done completely on your device."

It is great that the AI is finally moving off the cloud and onto the device. This is where it belongs. We should be highly praising any software that implements personal assistance features like this locally. They have the potential of eventually supporting personal clouds made up of nothing but my devices with cradle to grave encryption.

Apple's provision of end-to-end encryption of user data stored in their cloud forces this architecture. They don't have the ability to decrypt your photos stored in iCloud and analyze them on a cloud server. So they have to do it on the device. Kudos to Apple for taking the high road instead of the easy road.

We should have no concerns whatsoever about what it is capable of recognizing. Ultimately, I want it to be capable of accurately recognizing anything in the pictures. Why not? Both the analysis and the photos are stored with the same security. If an attacker can get the analysis, then they can just skip that and get the photos instead.

The important thing is secure storage of both the picture and any analysis of it and that neither ever leaves my device pool at any point in time without explicit intentional action on my part such as "sharing" a photo. Apple is almost all of the way there. I'd like to have the further option of pulling the encrypted cloud storage out of the picture and just have my devices automatically synchronize to each other.

Proof : https://support.apple.com/en-u... "Apple uses end-to-end encryption. This means that only you can access your information, and only on devices where you’re signed in to iCloud. No one else, not even Apple, can access end-to-end encrypted information."

The Talos Principal is also available on iOS

Other good puzzle games include:

* Pythagorea, iOS, Android
* Pythagorea 60 iOS, Android
* The Witness
* The Talos Principle
 

Other good puzzle games include:

* Pythagorea, iOS, Android
* Pythagorea 60 iOS, Android
* The Witness
* The Talos Principle
 

This is actually pretty impressive from Microsoft.

But I find it absolutely amazing that some people who advocate privacy and fight facebook/microsoft/apple in regards to data retention, completely forget about the biggest of all thefts and criminals: Google!

And more amazingly, the very same people go about using Chrome, Android, Google Mail, Search, etc!
It's well known from Snowden's revelations that Google is the back office arm of NSA, to various degrees and extent.

Google has no problem in handing over any private/personal data, as long as there's money involved. Thus we never hear Google fighting for privacy, unlike Apple!

MS' solution is not version control, because that uses up disk space and has other UI implications, like selecting the version of a file, and that is not user friendly.

This is about not trusting all apps to access a given sensitive folder and is a step in the right direction.

Seems to be pretty easy to use and understand in macOS:

https://support.apple.com/kb/P...

https://developer.apple.com/op...

you do realize the NVMe drives are "standard", they're just soldered in, IIRC

I've had my rMBP open, the m.2 drive is replaceable, actually, held in with a single screw. The soldered RAM is really annoying, though; my PC with RAM sockets is thinner than my rMBP and "thinness" is the excuse I always hear, so there's really no excuse for it.

Yeah, they started soldering them in the touch bar MBPs in 2016, and the 2015 MBs. Another reason to only buy non-touch bar MBPs.

Who said anything about much slower write speeds? I'm seeing sequential writes in excess of 3GB/s, which also exceeds the performance level specified by Samsung for the drive in question.

For sequential, that seems too fast and is 50% over the max.

Thunderbolt 3 uses the USB-C port. Check the specs on the newest laptops to which you refer:

Yes, I know. Hence the statement elsewhere that USB-C sources that have TB capability should be fully USB-C compliant. I'm not too worried about accessories. Those could be USB3, 3.1 or TB whatever, and be perfectly fine. You're not going to connect your monitor to your drive array or printer after all.

and a bigger battery (to enable that extended load and long-term use). We might even consider 4mm and a full pound if it means workstation-class graphics, or at least a current-gen gaming GPU.

7-10 hours seems pretty significant to me already, and by far outpaces all but the most recently available non Apple products. As for thickness, 2-4mm doesn't bother me. Weight, however, does (yes, more thickness generally equates to more weight, pretend it's hypothetically "free") I don't even like carting around the power brick if I don't need to.

I actually had someone tell me, here on Slashdot, today, that Apple (and only Apple) cares about the consumer. My 3 line response to that took longer to type than the rant you see above, because I couldn't stop laughing for long enough to type it.

I don't know.... they might care more than others, but I'd say the primary care they have of late is revenue, image, growth, ensuring products stay ahead of others in usability (one place they care about consumers because this leads to more revenue) app store growth, music store growth (again - both consumer oriented because consumers make this growth happen)

But yes, I'd say a lot of their recent decisions killing products like Aperture, Final Cut Express/Pro, etc without adequate better replacements ready to go, along with the mini/pro changes and the disabling of hardware fixes/upgrades are all anti-consumer. We'll see what their redesigned mac pro brings, that will either herald a new approach or nail the coffin shut.

It's not just about the hardware. I want to be able to buy a reasonably priced phone that doesn't phone back my private life to Google and yet has apps like Uber/Lyft so that I can travel without getting ripped off by cabs. Too much to ask?

Depends on what you call "Reasonably Priced"; but you can get a CURRENT MODEL iPhone SE, with a 4.7" screen, 12 MP camera capable of shooting 4k video, 64-bit A9 Dual Core ARM, WiFi, Bluetooth, Fingerprint Reader, etc. etc. (and a headphone jack!) for only $349 for 32 GB or $449 for 128 GB, Brand New. UNLOCKED (Carrier-Free) directly from Apple! Or you can get Carrier-Subsidized models for around $15 per month.

https://www.apple.com/iphone-s...

Personally, I call that pretty Reasonably Priced. ...And it will run the latest iOS (iOS 11), and will continue to get Updates (and it will REALLY get them!) for a long, long time!

And no, Apple doesn't make YOU the customer, like Google does.

Period.

There are Thunderbolt 3 Cables that do in fact fall back to USB3 when used with a USB only device. It has to as it's part of the specification to support both USB 3, USB 2, power delivery, and DisplayPort. Those that do not fall back to USB 3 are violating the Thunderbolt specifications. Don't buy cables that don't meet specifications.

I searched for "thunderbolt 3 cable" on Google and here's some of the results. Check the specifications yourself.

These meet the specification.
https://www.amazon.com/StarTec...
https://www.apple.com/shop/pro...

These don't.
http://www.caldigit.com/Thunde...

It sucks that we have to watch out for not compliant cables but that was a problem for a very long time. Don't buy cheap shit.

It's not specifically listed as "2015 macbook pro". It's the lowest cost MBP option. At least it is on the canadian site.

Basically look for the MBP without the touchbar and other stuff.

Hopefully this link works:
https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/...

But for me it's listed as a 15", silver 2.2ghz i7 MBP with 16GB ram.

But I am pretty sure car makers do not want your eyes to have any competition from the crappy entertainment consoles they build in, so they provide no good way to view phones which 99% of people would prefer to use for directions and the like.

Android Auto
iOS CarPlay

It's here.

It sucks.

I've used Apple's CarPlay more recently and can say that the voice prompts are overly verbose and voice recognition is too poor to make using it while driving safe. Attempting to find locations while driving is annoying and attempting to listen to music through CarPlay is a disaster. While CarPlay does technically support third party audio apps, Apple intentionally limits them in an attempt to force people to use Apple Music. Apple doesn't allow you to preload local maps, so if you suddenly realize you don't know where you are, attempting to open the map will frequently get you stuck waiting for it to load, especially if your iPhone saw a weak known wifi connection recently. It gets worse, because CarPlay doesn't have a "Now" screen like Android Auto does, meaning that opening Maps will make it "guess" a location, and instead of showing you where you are, it will show you a route to some place random it thinks you're going to. The problem is that, generally, if it's a place I frequently go to, I know how to get there. If I need Maps, it's because I'm going some place unfamiliar.

Android Auto is miles ahead of iOS CarPlay, but it still relies on little touch screen buttons that are overly annoying to hit while driving.

Overall, it really doesn't matter: even the generic infotainment systems are distracting to use. There is no good way to use these things while driving, period. It shouldn't be surprising accident rates are going up: modern car interfaces are just distracting and annoying to use. (Ever tried to turn up the AC using a touch screen? Who the hell thought that was a good idea?!)

Apple's innovation is impossible to beat. Witness the specifications of the new low-end 2017 MacBook Air:
- 5th-generation Intel Broadwell processor, your choice of dual-core or dual-core processor
- Your choice of 8GB of 1600MHz LPDDR3 or 8GB of 1600MHz LPDDR3
- Impossibly-large-to-fill 128GB SSD storage
- Low-resolution twisted nematic (TN) display (patented in the 1970's)
- "only" USD$999

I have to agree with Apple on this one, it takes courage to still ask that much money for ancient technology.

They confirmed earlier this year their intent to reboot (pun not intended) the Mac Pro line by releasing a new design for the Mac Pro in 2018 that focuses on modularity. In the meantime, they did a minor spec bump and price drop, while also announcing an iMac Pro model due for release later this year that actually has decent specs for lots of pro work, though it’s obviously lacking in expandability.

Well good news, Google came DOWN to Apple's price then: https://www.apple.com/shop/pro...

But Apple is still the bad guy, right? Yes, you can say that they are still overpriced, but you are an edge case, and you are paying for the convenience of buying the latest phone and not carrying a 3 inch piece of wire with you with all the other stuff you're likely carrying.

Or, don't buy the phone if it doesn't meet your needs. Plenty of other phones out there.

Here : https://developer.apple.com/do...
I see a button for Chinese, Japanese, Korean. The rest is in English. There is nothing in French.
So how am I supposed to know what your system does if I can't read English Mr. Cook? Maybe I should learn Chinese?

Languages other than English are always second class in computing. You can't code effectively without at least some basic English skills. Though if the point is to teach code as a support for logical reasoning, then why not, but in that case, it is much closer to maths than it is to any natural language.

An Intel inside iPhone would be an interesting development.

Asus made Atom based phones for a while and they were really cheap, mainly because Intel had a complicated deal where Intel paid various expenses to offset the cost of the chips. So the net cost of an Atom chip to Asus was low and may even have been negative (I've heard -$40 per device).

Asus didn't sell many phones and switched over to Qualcomm. And still don't sell many phones.

Atom has come on quite a bit since then - out of order execution for example. And Intel have lower power chips. And of course an Arm licence.

I could see Intel doing some extensive efforts to get Apple to use their devices - a custom core perhaps and very extensive co-branding and co-marketing.

It's basically the opposite version of the rumour that Apple would do an Arm based laptop. Actually they didn't, but the iPad Pro is Arm based and you can buy an external keyboard for it.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy...

I reckon Apple are doing well enough with their A10X that they wouldn't want to use a third party application CPU, though they'll use third party modems.

I could see them releasing a low end laptop with a low power Intel chip though. Something thinner and less power hungry than the Macbook Air.

But a phone based on an Intel x64 or ARM chip? I'm sceptical. I think they'd be more likely to do an AMD CPU and GPU laptop. Or an Intel/NVidia one.

You can get a brand new iPad for $329.

To the idiot moderator who thinks I'm a troll, go to apple.com and look at all the Macs:
- MacBook: Intel HD Graphics 615
- MacBook Air: Intel HD Graphics 6000*
- MacBook Pro 13": Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 or 650
- MacBook Pro 15": Radeon Pro 555 or 560
- Mac mini: Intel HD Graphics 5000* or Intel Iris Graphics
- iMac 21.5": Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 for the low-end model, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 or 650 for the others
- iMac 27": Radeon Pro 570, 575 or 580 (We're talking USD$1300 or more to get an under-clocked GPU)
- Mac Pro: Yes it has powerful GPUs, but nobody in their right mind would buy a USD$3000 Mac for gaming

* those are really old GPUs since Apple can't be bothered to really update these models.

Apple does not give their sales numbers (MacBook Air vs iMac 27", etc) but given the prices of their MacBook Pro, iMacs and Mac Pro, you can almost assume most Mac users will either have a Mac mini, MacBook, low-end 21.5" iMac, MacBook Air or a 13" MacBook Pro at best.

So to target "Mac gamers", your baseline is the Intel HD Graphics 5000 / Intel HD Graphics 6000 depending on how much potential gamers you want to leave behind. Even if you drop both the Mac mini and MacBook Air, you'd still need to support the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 to get the low-end iMac users.

To the idiot moderator who thinks I'm a troll, go to apple.com and look at all the Macs:
- MacBook: Intel HD Graphics 615
- MacBook Air: Intel HD Graphics 6000*
- MacBook Pro 13": Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 or 650
- MacBook Pro 15": Radeon Pro 555 or 560
- Mac mini: Intel HD Graphics 5000* or Intel Iris Graphics
- iMac 21.5": Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 for the low-end model, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 or 650 for the others
- iMac 27": Radeon Pro 570, 575 or 580 (We're talking USD$1300 or more to get an under-clocked GPU)
- Mac Pro: Yes it has powerful GPUs, but nobody in their right mind would buy a USD$3000 Mac for gaming

* those are really old GPUs since Apple can't be bothered to really update these models.

Apple does not give their sales numbers (MacBook Air vs iMac 27", etc) but given the prices of their MacBook Pro, iMacs and Mac Pro, you can almost assume most Mac users will either have a Mac mini, MacBook, low-end 21.5" iMac, MacBook Air or a 13" MacBook Pro at best.

So to target "Mac gamers", your baseline is the Intel HD Graphics 5000 / Intel HD Graphics 6000 depending on how much potential gamers you want to leave behind. Even if you drop both the Mac mini and MacBook Air, you'd still need to support the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 to get the low-end iMac users.

To the idiot moderator who thinks I'm a troll, go to apple.com and look at all the Macs:
- MacBook: Intel HD Graphics 615
- MacBook Air: Intel HD Graphics 6000*
- MacBook Pro 13": Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 or 650
- MacBook Pro 15": Radeon Pro 555 or 560
- Mac mini: Intel HD Graphics 5000* or Intel Iris Graphics
- iMac 21.5": Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 for the low-end model, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 or 650 for the others
- iMac 27": Radeon Pro 570, 575 or 580 (We're talking USD$1300 or more to get an under-clocked GPU)
- Mac Pro: Yes it has powerful GPUs, but nobody in their right mind would buy a USD$3000 Mac for gaming

* those are really old GPUs since Apple can't be bothered to really update these models.

Apple does not give their sales numbers (MacBook Air vs iMac 27", etc) but given the prices of their MacBook Pro, iMacs and Mac Pro, you can almost assume most Mac users will either have a Mac mini, MacBook, low-end 21.5" iMac, MacBook Air or a 13" MacBook Pro at best.

So to target "Mac gamers", your baseline is the Intel HD Graphics 5000 / Intel HD Graphics 6000 depending on how much potential gamers you want to leave behind. Even if you drop both the Mac mini and MacBook Air, you'd still need to support the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 to get the low-end iMac users.

To the idiot moderator who thinks I'm a troll, go to apple.com and look at all the Macs:
- MacBook: Intel HD Graphics 615
- MacBook Air: Intel HD Graphics 6000*
- MacBook Pro 13": Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 or 650
- MacBook Pro 15": Radeon Pro 555 or 560
- Mac mini: Intel HD Graphics 5000* or Intel Iris Graphics
- iMac 21.5": Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 for the low-end model, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 or 650 for the others
- iMac 27": Radeon Pro 570, 575 or 580 (We're talking USD$1300 or more to get an under-clocked GPU)
- Mac Pro: Yes it has powerful GPUs, but nobody in their right mind would buy a USD$3000 Mac for gaming

* those are really old GPUs since Apple can't be bothered to really update these models.

Apple does not give their sales numbers (MacBook Air vs iMac 27", etc) but given the prices of their MacBook Pro, iMacs and Mac Pro, you can almost assume most Mac users will either have a Mac mini, MacBook, low-end 21.5" iMac, MacBook Air or a 13" MacBook Pro at best.

So to target "Mac gamers", your baseline is the Intel HD Graphics 5000 / Intel HD Graphics 6000 depending on how much potential gamers you want to leave behind. Even if you drop both the Mac mini and MacBook Air, you'd still need to support the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 to get the low-end iMac users.

To the idiot moderator who thinks I'm a troll, go to apple.com and look at all the Macs:
- MacBook: Intel HD Graphics 615
- MacBook Air: Intel HD Graphics 6000*
- MacBook Pro 13": Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 or 650
- MacBook Pro 15": Radeon Pro 555 or 560
- Mac mini: Intel HD Graphics 5000* or Intel Iris Graphics
- iMac 21.5": Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 for the low-end model, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 or 650 for the others
- iMac 27": Radeon Pro 570, 575 or 580 (We're talking USD$1300 or more to get an under-clocked GPU)
- Mac Pro: Yes it has powerful GPUs, but nobody in their right mind would buy a USD$3000 Mac for gaming

* those are really old GPUs since Apple can't be bothered to really update these models.

Apple does not give their sales numbers (MacBook Air vs iMac 27", etc) but given the prices of their MacBook Pro, iMacs and Mac Pro, you can almost assume most Mac users will either have a Mac mini, MacBook, low-end 21.5" iMac, MacBook Air or a 13" MacBook Pro at best.

So to target "Mac gamers", your baseline is the Intel HD Graphics 5000 / Intel HD Graphics 6000 depending on how much potential gamers you want to leave behind. Even if you drop both the Mac mini and MacBook Air, you'd still need to support the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 to get the low-end iMac users.

To the idiot moderator who thinks I'm a troll, go to apple.com and look at all the Macs:
- MacBook: Intel HD Graphics 615
- MacBook Air: Intel HD Graphics 6000*
- MacBook Pro 13": Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 or 650
- MacBook Pro 15": Radeon Pro 555 or 560
- Mac mini: Intel HD Graphics 5000* or Intel Iris Graphics
- iMac 21.5": Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 for the low-end model, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 or 650 for the others
- iMac 27": Radeon Pro 570, 575 or 580 (We're talking USD$1300 or more to get an under-clocked GPU)
- Mac Pro: Yes it has powerful GPUs, but nobody in their right mind would buy a USD$3000 Mac for gaming

* those are really old GPUs since Apple can't be bothered to really update these models.

Apple does not give their sales numbers (MacBook Air vs iMac 27", etc) but given the prices of their MacBook Pro, iMacs and Mac Pro, you can almost assume most Mac users will either have a Mac mini, MacBook, low-end 21.5" iMac, MacBook Air or a 13" MacBook Pro at best.

So to target "Mac gamers", your baseline is the Intel HD Graphics 5000 / Intel HD Graphics 6000 depending on how much potential gamers you want to leave behind. Even if you drop both the Mac mini and MacBook Air, you'd still need to support the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 to get the low-end iMac users.

To the idiot moderator who thinks I'm a troll, go to apple.com and look at all the Macs:
- MacBook: Intel HD Graphics 615
- MacBook Air: Intel HD Graphics 6000*
- MacBook Pro 13": Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 or 650
- MacBook Pro 15": Radeon Pro 555 or 560
- Mac mini: Intel HD Graphics 5000* or Intel Iris Graphics
- iMac 21.5": Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 for the low-end model, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 or 650 for the others
- iMac 27": Radeon Pro 570, 575 or 580 (We're talking USD$1300 or more to get an under-clocked GPU)
- Mac Pro: Yes it has powerful GPUs, but nobody in their right mind would buy a USD$3000 Mac for gaming

* those are really old GPUs since Apple can't be bothered to really update these models.

Apple does not give their sales numbers (MacBook Air vs iMac 27", etc) but given the prices of their MacBook Pro, iMacs and Mac Pro, you can almost assume most Mac users will either have a Mac mini, MacBook, low-end 21.5" iMac, MacBook Air or a 13" MacBook Pro at best.

So to target "Mac gamers", your baseline is the Intel HD Graphics 5000 / Intel HD Graphics 6000 depending on how much potential gamers you want to leave behind. Even if you drop both the Mac mini and MacBook Air, you'd still need to support the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 to get the low-end iMac users.

Apple won't do that. They charge $2,399.00 to $2,799.00 for a 15" Macbook Pro with Radeon Pro 555 with 2GB memory or a 560 with 4GB respectively.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy...

Logically if they wanted to sell a machine with a beefier GPU they need to sell it for more than that. Also it's debatable how many people really want a macOS machine for gaming when they can buy a Windows one for so much less.

But with different levels of privacy, transparency and different motivations.

Apple and Google are actually both very transparent in their privacy policy documents, though I tend to trust the former more simply because the nature of their business is hardware rather than the data economy.

Worth a read of the Apple one here, they keep what they can to the device and use rotating random IDs to anonymise the queries they do need to send. https://www.apple.com/uk/priva...

> MacOS is by no means a descendant of FreeBSD. They grafted some stuff from FreeBSD onto NeXT Step.

According to Apple, much of the kernel is descended from FreeBSD.

* https://developer.apple.com/li...

I worked extensively with both MacOS and NeXT at an earlier point of my career, integrating various tools into several multi-platform environments for groups that hadn't been able to standardize on operating systems or base hardwrae. There are some philosophical and design structure similarities, but the amount of core kernel and OS underpinnings that came from NeXT seemed much smaller than that which came from FreeBSD.

Belkin now has an adapter for recent iPhones that has a 3.5 mm audio port and port for a charger input to the phone that allows charging and using audio simultaneously. This thing is a kluge. The cable is 4 - 6 inches long (I couldn't find the size details) and the female end is about the size of an old RS232 plug. $35. That's what it's coming to. see: https://www.apple.com/shop/pro...

based on the fact that the iPhone 5S was released in 2013 and doesn't support iOS 11, the current version

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222

iPhone 5s and later...

Slightly off topic - doesn't everyone turn off the phone wifi & bluetooth when not in use?

We do, but Apple just turns it on again when we travel to a new location or in any case at 5am.

(unless we go out of our way to disable it in the system settings rather than through the more convenient control center which tricks us into thinking it's the same thing)

From the link you gave us, I am not sure you really understand what it said. Look at the bold text below.

While Wi-Fi is disabled, auto-join for any nearby Wi-Fi networks will also be disabled until:

* You turn on Wi-Fi in Control Center.

* You connect to a Wi-Fi network in Settings > Wi-Fi.

* You walk or drive to a new location.

* It's 5 AM local time.

* You restart your device.

In other words, it is talking about "auto-join" feature, not the whole Wifi feature.