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So clearly in 2016 Samsung is the winner because they had a terrible year in 2015, while Apple is TEH L00zer because they had an incredible 2015.

"What is fraudulent is calming [sic] that the government really deserves 39% of a companies earnings."

In contrast to a company which has a gross margin of 39%? Funny how those numbers match exactly, isn't it? People buy Apple products at a premium. It costs a premium to live in and operate a company in the US. You deserve what you sign up for.

Apple has been selling basically the same form factor -- the iPhone 5 for over four years.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Apple's website does not list the iphone 5 as being for sale.

Apple hasn't sold DRM'd music since 2008.

Pretty sure it was 2009, and the only reason Apple dropped fariplay was because it made financial sense due to their dominant market position and the public's rising awareness of how shitty DRM is (especially Apple's implementation of it).

I.e. I think two of your points are moot/wrong and wonder what else in your argument is convoluted.

You're not very good at strategy.

Apple makes more profit outside of the US than inside.

http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf...

If you force their hand, they might choose differently than you think.

Doesn't offer the variety? You are aware that right now you can by 5 different iPhones each of which have 2-3 options for the amount of internal storage. How is that dissimilar from the 27 phones from Samsung? Note that the 27 "different" phones are really just different storage and carrier.

If we compared ALL Galaxy phones (S series 1-7 and so on) to ALL iPhones (1-6, c, se, plus, and so on) as this count is saying. I would think that Samsung would be in the lead. Hell, just look at global marketshare lead to see Samsung phones have just shy of double the global market share of iPhones. Even at 55% of Samsungs phones being Galaxy phones, they'd still win.

All I really need is a damn spell checker in WordPad...

No, what you really need is a System-Wide Spell-and-Grammar-Checker, Dictionary and Thesaurus Service, like macOS has had since OS X 10.0.0 .

Until tokens gain the ubiquity of phones (which seems unlikely)

Since tokens can be generated by software on phones, even obscure and obsolete phones, tokens are already more[1] ubiquitous than phones.

[1] hardware tokens can be taken into secure areas where mobile phones are banned.

From the Apple support pages themselves!

This is quite good.

However, while there is a lot of information about interference from Microwave ovens and WiFi, I could not find anything specifically about shipping or radar. Perusing information about the UHF band shows that two-way radio could be a source of interference, however most shipping uses VHF for ship-shore and ship-ship communication. The ISM band is the most likely cause of interference, however, again, I can't easily identify anything that would be used by regular commercial shipping.

Sorry, it's a useless post, can anyone else illuminate us?

You can buy it on physical media.

Then upgrade to the latest version.

For years iTunes is plagued by well-known bugs affecting its core function of playing music (ie it skips in the middle of a track to the next song (bug report) (demonstration)). I'm surprised they took care of this one "so quickly".

Computing is going cloud, and they're barely interested in ramping up their iCloud capabilities.

You've obviously never seen a recent WWDC Keynote, or owned an Apple product made in the past few years.

Not that it would matter, unless Apple found a way to access all that data being collected by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. . Then they would have to spend lots of money to hire actual geniuses to process and research that data in a way that would allow them to leapfrog current applications of computing.

You think there is only one reason for Cloud Computing. And you're wrong. Apple doesn't need to/want to Datamine their Customer Base to make money. They have awesome products (that happen to include some pretty innovative, secure and frankly quite-handy "Cloud" integration).

hey're not going to maintain their computing environment when no one wants to buy their products to type in queries

Again, you obviously haven't been keeping-up. You need to get your Apple news from places other than Slashdot.

when it becomes "unprofitable" to compete with smartphones linked with cloud computing features.

Man, you are so out-of-touch with the direction that Apple is going, it's actually a waste of time typing this "rebuttal".

Microsoft has more of a future in the computing industry than Apple.

That is not what their falling marketshare numbers in both Desktop and Mobile would lead a rational person to believe.

- Great Bolshy Yarblockos -

Now it was MY turn to laugh!

Ah - I tried that one on you and you passed with flying colors.

[macs4all: Takes a grateful bow]

I've remained on iPhoto instead of Photo because Photo seems to really want me to store my photos in the cloud.

I am the same way on my MacBook Pro. I am holding on to iPhoto like it was the last, great hope for Planet Earth. However, on my iPhone (and iPad), even though I actually have iPhoto on them, I have just given up and use Photos on those devices.

HOWEVER, I still don't use any "Photo Stream" stuff with Photos. All local storage on all Apple products. Actually, I believe there is an easy way to keep iOS and OS X/macOS from doing the Cloud-Sync stuff with Photos. Ah, here you go...

And even if you have accidently let iCloud get hold of your Photos/Videos, you can "get them back" (see the last "tip" (regarding local "backups") on this page). I would suggest doing that BEFORE you Disable iCloud Photos! ;-)

Hope this helps!

- Great Bolshy Yarblockos -

Now it was MY turn to laugh!

Ah - I tried that one on you and you passed with flying colors.

[macs4all: Takes a grateful bow]

I've remained on iPhoto instead of Photo because Photo seems to really want me to store my photos in the cloud.

I am the same way on my MacBook Pro. I am holding on to iPhoto like it was the last, great hope for Planet Earth. However, on my iPhone (and iPad), even though I actually have iPhoto on them, I have just given up and use Photos on those devices.

HOWEVER, I still don't use any "Photo Stream" stuff with Photos. All local storage on all Apple products. Actually, I believe there is an easy way to keep iOS and OS X/macOS from doing the Cloud-Sync stuff with Photos. Ah, here you go...

And even if you have accidently let iCloud get hold of your Photos/Videos, you can "get them back" (see the last "tip" (regarding local "backups") on this page). I would suggest doing that BEFORE you Disable iCloud Photos! ;-)

Hope this helps!

... show that I missed last night...because I have to work when they choose to air their show!

If that's the case, why not just use the app or even website to watch it?

Agreed that Apple's web site can be opaque, but 3d-party Apple sites like Macrumors, 9to5mac, ifixit and others will give you the specifics. and Apple seems to be rather agnostic between ATI/AMD and nVidia... their focus on thinner and lighter tends to favor lower power consumption, whereas their use of higher DPI screens requires them to grab as much performance as possible per watt. What you'll get in the Mac Pro or the iMac 5K is plenty of power to do video editing work and rendering, with video drivers tailored and tested to run well on that model in MacOS. If they're not using nVidia, my guess is there's some reason they didn't make the cut, like too much heat, doesn't play well with dynamic switching with the Intel GPU, AMD cut a better deal for chips in volume, something like that. and Gaming? It's clear that gaming is not Apple's priority. Microsoft invested a huge amount in developing and advancing DirectX. Apple has barely dipped it's toe in recently with Metal, relying historically on OpenGL, which in spite of its promise has been hit and miss at best.

Apple is what it is, nothing more, nothing less. They do what they do well, but for other things you're better of with a PC. They're great for travelers and your parents, because they're reliable e-mail and web-browsing machines that don't break, look good, and they can take them to the store if they break instead of bothering you to come over. I travel with my Macbook, because when I bought it PC laptops, even the Thinkpad, thanks to Lenovo, were creaky plastic overheating consumer-grade crapturds (they've gotten a LOT better recently). But at home I work and game on a PC I build from scratch from time to time. My only problem is what to do with my old rig when I feel the itch to upgrade.

For example you could install cop watch video recorder on your iPhone, it's just what came up first when I searched. There are similar apps for Android.

Part of earning my living is done using the gEDA tools to reverse engineer old CNC controls. Linux is no toy for me. I'm sure there's a few network admins and others who are also glad there's a legit alternative to the Microsoft universe for doing real work.

I believe there is.

Oh no, when will this nightmare end ?

RIght now, if you want it to.

I was mocking his whiny tone and trying to be funny. Linux may be "better" than Apple in this regard, but it is still a matter of degree. Old hardware won't be supported forever, no matter what your platform is. Apple is better than most vendors at supporting older devices - I'm still getting software updates for my late 2008 MacBook Pro. I mean, damn. But hardware-wise, they won't even sell me a new battery since it falls outside of their 5-year support policy. Eventually they won't bother compiling OSX for my laptop and I'll have to live with the latest version that runs, which they generally keep updating for 3 versions. So at this stage I may very well have software updates for an 11-year-old laptop before they finally pull the plug... that's just silly.

Many countries offer design registration that confers exclusive rights in a typeface for a term between 14 years (United States) and 25 years (Great Britain). But you're correct that after this expires, it becomes legal to launder the typeface a font with the print-scan-trace method, so long as you A. don't refer to the original font's control points in your trace and B. don't use a similar name for your font. Instead derive the control points from the rules set forth in the "Digitizing" chapter of Apple's TrueType Reference Manual : one on-curve point on every corner, vertical or horizontal tangent, point of inflection, or large change in curvature, and at least one intermediate point every 45 degrees. Then the off-curve point between each pair of on-curve points goes at the intersection of the lines tangent to those points.

Indeed. I've been using WhatTheFont for identifying fonts from pictures since it was launched in 2011. And being able to pull a color from an image is nothing new either. Everything from the built in Digital Color Meter app on every Mac to the Sherwin Williams paint app on my tablet can pull colors from images.

right but when you can fill a gig up in a matter of minutes now adays, removable would be nice even for the non professional

Get the Lightning to SD Card Reader adapter. Not all solutions need to be built into a phone.

http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJYT2AM/A/lightning-to-sd-card-camera-reader

You can probably achieve that with 802.1X. Set up a Raspberry Pi as a RADIUS server, and configure your real devices (laptops) to authenticate over 802.1X. Make it so that non-authenticated devices can send out mDNS advertisements (and be sure to route the mDNS advertisements to the authenticated netblock), but cannot talk to the Internet as a whole unless you explicitly tweak the policy to allow access to some specific server or port for some specific reason (e.g. unblocking NTP).

Or, for that matter, since IoT devices aren't likely to try to send out traffic with random VLAN tags, you could probably just enable VLAN tagging (802.1Q) for your real machines, and do the same sort of network configuration that way.

Note that if any of your devices are running OS X, unless Apple has fixed the bug recently, you'll have to create the VLAN manually in Terminal, because System Preferences only allows you to set up VLAN tagging on a hardwired Ethernet connection. It also may not be possible to manually configure a VLAN on mobile devices, which means RADIUS is probably a better choice if you have anything running iOS or Android.

There's also the whole screenshot problem, where iOS presents an old screenshot of an application on launch to hide the true application start time; this means that there could be a MR in the screenshot cache even though policy dictates there shouldn't be any medical records stored locally.

iOS devices are all encrypted with AES256 and we require them to have passcodes. As soon as the device is lost we remotely wipe it via MDM.

https://www.apple.com/business...

Every iOS device has a dedicated AES 256 crypto engine built into the DMA path between the flash storage and main system memory, making file encryption highly efficient.

There's not a nice way to say this: you have no idea what you're talking about and clearly do not work in healthcare or know anything about the management of iOS devices, especially in the enterprise.

Spotify is trying to remove the ability to subscribe using the App Store billing process altogether. For that Apple is threatening to remove Spotify, which is unlike other apps that have subscription services that Apple does not compete with. How is asking for the same treatment as Netflix asking for preferential treatment?

No, Spotify wants to allow people to sign up FROM THE APP without using the App Store billing process. From the App Store guidelines:

Apps may not include buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms other than IAP.

If you want to let people sign up outside the app, that's fine; But you cannot provide a link or other mechanism for signing up inside the app distributed on iOS. You can run the biggest marketing campaign the world has ever seen to direct people to go to "spotify.com" to sign up for service, which can then be used to log in and use the service on iOS. But you CANNOT put a screen in the App on iOS that says "Go to spotify.com to sign up!" or put a button that connects users to the signup process outside the app.

That is all. And really, it's a pretty low bar.

The batteries don't die

With a pen they won't, but with a pencil, I wouldn't be so sure...

In other news, apple doesn't put a top row of special keys on the keyboard (like Dell does) and instead uses the function keys. To actually get a function key you have to use the Function modifier key. I find this annoying and it makes it easy to change display brightness when trying to contort for some god-awful keyboard shortcut (there's one I use frequently that is a horrible mashup of *four* modifier keys plus the key being modified -- and there is no menu equivalent, it is the keyboard or nothing).

You do realize you can reverse the "Fn" behavior, right?

OS X/macOS will let you do it globally, or you can use the F/OSS (Donationware) "Function Flip" to do it individually for each Function key.

You're welcome.

OSX doesn't even know how to backspace vs delete. Can't get used to that...

Sure it does. There are multiple ways to do that; and as the list I linked-to clearly shows, much, much more. In fact, OS X/macOS has a QUITE comprehensive list of Keyboard shortcuts, and with the ability to define your own, it is actually one of the Mac's most under-advertised features (because it just isn't sexy outside of the Neckbeard community). And it has only been part of OS X since version 10.0.0 came out FIFTEEN years ago, so I guess it's understandable why Hatebois like you have never heard of this...

BTW, for those too lazy to spend .00005 nanoseconds on Google looking it up (or .05 seconds following the above link), the keyboard shortcut(s) for "Forward-Delete", in case you are using a keyboard that doesn't have a Forward-Delete key (which IS supported in macOS/OS X) is either "Fn + Delete (Backspace)", or "Control + D". All three solutions work equally well.

Bottom line: Ya gotta learn to Troll better than that, you whiny little Hateboi(tm)...

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

Hope this helps.

Nope.

Follow these steps if you don't want to associate a payment method with your account.

A credit card is required to set up accounts for children.

If you've already created your Apple ID, you'll need to add a payment method when you first use it to sign in to the iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store. But you can optionally remove the payment method after you sign in to the store.

WTF, Really? That's NOT creating an ID without a CC. At all. They're still collecting your CC information. And keeping it, I'm sure, after you "remove" it. It's like those porn sites that "Hey, we just need a credit card for access to prove you're 18. We won't charge it. Promise". Also "Just the tip."

Why can’t I select None when I edit my Apple ID payment information? You might not be able to see or select the None payment option for one of these reasons. If you don't want to use a credit card, you can use another form of payment, such as a gift card.

• If you have an unpaid balance or payment due
• If you have a subscription that automatically renews
• If you're using the iTunes Store or App Store for the first time
• If you changed your country or region
• If you're a part of Family Sharing

TL;DR: Apple WILL get your credit card, or you won't get in.

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

Hope this helps.

Use iOS.

Great plan. Because as we all know, iOS is 100% secure and never has to receive security patches.

At least iOS GETS Security Patches, right? Now where's the same page for your non-Nexus Android phone? Thought so.

I happen to have a Nexus 5X and I don't recommend anything other than the Nexus phones, thanks. While it's true that iPhones have a longer support life than most Android phones, what you're failing to mention is that Apple quickly dumps support for the major iOS versions, so to get security updates, you have to bump up a major version. Since each newer version uses more resources than the older ones, the older iPhones slow to a crawl and become generally unusable.

That's why Apple sometimes releases sub-versions ("point" releases) that have changes specifically designed to address performance issues in older hardware. The most recent that comes to mind was, IIRC, the iOS 9.3.1 Update (later replaced with the more-stable (and slightly faster overall) iOS 9.3.2, both of which were specifically designed to improve performance on the iPad 2 and (IIRC) the iPhone 4s. Speaking of which, this site conducted an informal performance comparison between iOS 9.3.1 and 9.3.2 on iPhones from the iPhone 6 back to the 4s. If you think that the performance on the iPhone 4s for either 9.3.1 or 9.3.2 could be described as "slow[ed] to a crawl", then you are simply a liar.

I assume what mostly happens on those revisions is the re-nice-ing of interrupt priorities; but I am certainly not privvy to iOS internal development details.

Use iOS.

Great plan. Because as we all know, iOS is 100% secure and never has to receive security patches.

At least iOS GETS Security Patches, right? Now where's the same page for your non-Nexus Android phone? Thought so.

I happen to have a Nexus 5X and I don't recommend anything other than the Nexus phones, thanks.

While it's true that iPhones have a longer support life than most Android phones, what you're failing to mention is that Apple quickly dumps support for the major iOS versions, so to get security updates, you have to bump up a major version. Since each newer version uses more resources than the older ones, the older iPhones slow to a crawl and become generally unusable.

Use iOS.

Great plan. Because as we all know, iOS is 100% secure and never has to receive security patches.

At least iOS GETS Security Patches, right? Now where's the same page for your non-Nexus Android phone?

Thought so.

Use iOS.

Great plan. Because as we all know, iOS is 100% secure and never has to receive security patches.

Why ban wolf 3D just as they app store does not like the content?

That depends on whether they banned Id's parent company Zenimax from posting it or whether they banned third parties from posting it.

Why ban NES EMU's just because big N said to?

Different repositories have different excuses.

Which would be nice if only Apple would offer authorization for third parties, but no longer offer that certification. So if you didn't have a third party authorization before a few years back, tough luck.

As a former repair-tech (non-Apple) myself, I would opine that managing a network of third-party repair centers when you already have a Retail presence in all, or nearly all, states in the U.S. that includes repair services, makes absolutely zero sense, economically.

Unfortunately, so many "warranty" decisions are discretionary, and there are lenient techs (and tech-managers!) and dickish ones. Apple's U.S. hardware warranty for MacBook Pros implicitly ALLOWS for things like a swapped-hard drive WITHOUT voiding the warranty, if the "repair" did not cause any damage .

This issue came up when the first Mac minis came out, and people wondered whether they could upgrade the RAM in them without voiding the warranty, because there was no obvious way to open the case (Paint-Scrapers, FTW!). Apple was more or less "forced" to actually release a statement that said, in effect "As long as you don't mess anything up while you're doing it, you won't void your warranty."

So, if you got a Warranty Claim denied just because a User-Replaceable HD was replaced, and you did so using Apple's Instructions (like the ones provided on page 37 of this MacBook Pro manual), and the replacement part and procedure didn't cause any ancillary damage, then you needed to escalate that warranty claim up the food-chain. Because that does NOT appear to be actual "Policy".

But people are people, and some people are just dicks...

Which would be nice if only Apple would offer authorization for third parties, but no longer offer that certification. So if you didn't have a third party authorization before a few years back, tough luck.

As a former repair-tech (non-Apple) myself, I would opine that managing a network of third-party repair centers when you already have a Retail presence in all, or nearly all, states in the U.S. that includes repair services, makes absolutely zero sense, economically.

Unfortunately, so many "warranty" decisions are discretionary, and there are lenient techs (and tech-managers!) and dickish ones. Apple's U.S. hardware warranty for MacBook Pros implicitly ALLOWS for things like a swapped-hard drive WITHOUT voiding the warranty, if the "repair" did not cause any damage .

This issue came up when the first Mac minis came out, and people wondered whether they could upgrade the RAM in them without voiding the warranty, because there was no obvious way to open the case (Paint-Scrapers, FTW!). Apple was more or less "forced" to actually release a statement that said, in effect "As long as you don't mess anything up while you're doing it, you won't void your warranty."

So, if you got a Warranty Claim denied just because a User-Replaceable HD was replaced, and you did so using Apple's Instructions (like the ones provided on page 37 of this MacBook Pro manual), and the replacement part and procedure didn't cause any ancillary damage, then you needed to escalate that warranty claim up the food-chain. Because that does NOT appear to be actual "Policy".

But people are people, and some people are just dicks...

Anyone have any advice on the best way to rollout OS X to 1,500 Dell OptiPlex computers?

Quite simple, actually.

1. Fill out Purchase Requisition for 1,500 Mac mini computers. You should be able to use the bottom of the line version, but I would suggest the BTO RAM upgrade option to 8 GB, just because. Other than that, if these are being used for typical front-office applications, you should be absolutely fine. Contact Apple for a Governmental and Large-Purchase Discount.

2. Fill out Purchase Requisition for a volume license for Microsoft Office for Mac. Again, Microsoft is likely to give you a large-purchase Discount. And you will likely be able to install Office from a single Server-based copy.

3. When the hardware and software comes in, take the Dell computers' Hard Drives out and recycle the now-useless carcasses of the Optiplex computers. But don't forget to retain the Monitors, Mice (ewww! Dell mice!) and Keyboards (ewww! Dell keyboards!) for use with the newly-purchased Mac Minis.

4. Unbox and setup the Mac minis, using the existing Monitors, mice and keyboards; setup to join your Domain, then install MS Office. ProTip: If your setups are similar, you can even set your Macs up to NetBoot from a single image. But most non-educational users find that approach a little too restrictive for individual users.

With 1500 machines, I would DEFINITELY put in a Requisition for a copy of the most-excellent Apple Remote Desktop's Admin Console (the "server" side is built into OS X/macOS). It is QUITE nice for managing a googolplex of Macs (and it reportedly can do limited Windows and Linux admin. tasks, too).

5. You're done.

Anyone have any advice on the best way to rollout OS X to 1,500 Dell OptiPlex computers?

Quite simple, actually.

1. Fill out Purchase Requisition for 1,500 Mac mini computers. You should be able to use the bottom of the line version, but I would suggest the BTO RAM upgrade option to 8 GB, just because. Other than that, if these are being used for typical front-office applications, you should be absolutely fine. Contact Apple for a Governmental and Large-Purchase Discount.

2. Fill out Purchase Requisition for a volume license for Microsoft Office for Mac. Again, Microsoft is likely to give you a large-purchase Discount. And you will likely be able to install Office from a single Server-based copy.

3. When the hardware and software comes in, take the Dell computers' Hard Drives out and recycle the now-useless carcasses of the Optiplex computers. But don't forget to retain the Monitors, Mice (ewww! Dell mice!) and Keyboards (ewww! Dell keyboards!) for use with the newly-purchased Mac Minis.

4. Unbox and setup the Mac minis, using the existing Monitors, mice and keyboards; setup to join your Domain, then install MS Office. ProTip: If your setups are similar, you can even set your Macs up to NetBoot from a single image. But most non-educational users find that approach a little too restrictive for individual users.

With 1500 machines, I would DEFINITELY put in a Requisition for a copy of the most-excellent Apple Remote Desktop's Admin Console (the "server" side is built into OS X/macOS). It is QUITE nice for managing a googolplex of Macs (and it reportedly can do limited Windows and Linux admin. tasks, too).

5. You're done.

Been using Apple products since 1976. NEVER seen a "Warranty Void" sticker on ANY Apple Product.

And just looking at the MacBook Pro Warranty for the U.S.A., I see NOTHING about "No third-party repairs" or "Void if opened" bullshit.

Of course, NO ONE will honor a Warranty Claim from a non-Authorized Repair facility. That's like "Warranty Repair 101" logic. Otherwise, why have Authorized Repair Centers (which, BTW, ARE generally "Third Party").

of course, because they are trying to promote their products. but im talking about a curriculum for CS intended for adoption by schools (not some competition or optional courseware for their own technology like this), which was broadly dismissed here as being a microsoft plot to further adoption of their technologies by people who hadnt even looked at the course to realize it was nothing of the sort. same thing goes for these code bloks, immediate response is to dismiss them as being unnecessary.

though to be honest this community is packed full of people who are completely disconnected from reality: ipod being "lame", ipad being pointless, year of the linux desktop, death of microsoft, etc, etc.

Apps for learning to program that allow sharing your work with other users (execute code rule)

Not sure if all of these qualify; but at least some of them do. And this list is somewhat old. And a Search of the iOS App Store came up with an impressive list of Programming utilities and IDEs for a wide variety of languages. So, I'm not sure what the problem is.

Launcher replacements for persons with disabilities

I guess Cromulent Labs' "Launcher" must be misnamed, then.

WLAN utilities, such as utilities for troubleshooting your wireless network or for contributing to a collaborative map of wireless networks (Apple deems AP enumeration in iOS to be private)

Really, I have a few on my iPhone and iPad. My favorite is "Fing".

Web browsers that implement HTML features that Apple has left out of Safari (WebKit rule)

Not sure what the big deal is: Mobile Safari seems to "Check the Boxes" as well as almost any other browser. And it looks like a couple of things that Mobile Safari has left out would have run afoul of some other iOS rule.

As for the rest of it, meh.

I admit that Trials would be nice; but most iOS Apps are cheap enough that it hardly matters.

They already did that. The Thunderbolt displays only work with Macs because they require a special OS X-specific driver that turns them on. They have no power switch otherwise and are completely controlled by the Mac you hook them up to.

Actually, they do have a Windows control-panel bundled with some Windows-side driver stuff in Bootcamp 5 that can do that and control the brightness as well on a non-Mac Windows machine.

Not as convenient as it could be; but Slashdotters shouldn't have a problem with doing it.

And you don't need a Mac or Windows 10 to download or install it.

Satire of an identifiable person or organization (real entity rule)

Unless that person is Donald Trump, apparently.

An iPhone may be right for those people who are not interested and will not become interested in any of the following types of applications, which Apple expressly prohibits in the App Store:

• Video games with realistic violence
• Military simulations depicting the U.S. Civil War (Confederate insignia falls subject to the hate symbol rule and real entity rule)
• Satire of an identifiable person or organization (real entity rule)
• Video games published by companies now out of business (execute code rule)
• Apps for learning to program that allow sharing your work with other users (execute code rule)
• Launcher replacements for persons with disabilities
• WLAN utilities, such as utilities for troubleshooting your wireless network or for contributing to a collaborative map of wireless networks (Apple deems AP enumeration in iOS to be private)
• Web browsers that implement HTML features that Apple has left out of Safari (WebKit rule)
• Professional-grade applications that the user needs to evaluate first (trial rule)

(Reasoning)

The real fix is to get these devices updated so that they are no longer vulnerable to root kits.

The great news is that you don't have to wait for Android to be "updated"; because YOUR Android phone NEVER WILL.

OMG Apple does too!

Nice argumentum per viam modum. Here's a reference (thanks to cryptizard for providing that) in case you need it. No, AES is not used; AES does not have a public and private key (as you stated, it's symmetric) and Apple specifically states the existence of a public key, which implies a separate private key.

Whoops forgot to put the URL https://www.apple.com/business...

I think they should open source the kernel too. If they do they travel back in time to 1996 and put it here so everyone thinks they have always had a transparent security process in regards to the XNU kernel long since before OS X or iOS existed.