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"If Apple were serious about battery life, they'd market battery replacements," Gay Gordon-Byrne, executive director of Repair.org, told me in an email.

They do.

I've been using iTunes Match for the past few years and have been satisfied. It does what you want it to do. I'm running Apple hardware (iMac, MacBook, iPhone) so I don't know how well it works on other platforms.

The iPhone 6s fix was in 10.2.1, not 11. And if you still don't believe me that the problem is unique to the 6-series iPhone maybe you'll believe Apple instead:

https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/

Since you're convinced it happens on other phones as well perhaps you can point me to the Apple's repair advisories for those as well, like the one I posted above for the 6s.

You should really include a link and indicate that there’s more in the paragraph.

https://www.apple.com/ca/legal/privacy/en-ww/

Disclosure to Third Parties

At times Apple may make certain personal information available to strategic partners that work with Apple to provide products and services, or that help Apple market to customers. For example, when you purchase and activate your iPhone, you authorize Apple and your carrier to exchange the information you provide during the activation process to carry out service. If you are approved for service, your account will be governed by Apple and your carrier’s respective privacy policies. Personal information will only be shared by Apple to provide or improve our products, services and advertising; it will not be shared with third parties for their marketing purposes.

Irrevevant,

I quoted the statement. What you added was an example that Apple choosed to make the statement look more acceptable.

Roughly the equivalent of :
"By signing this, Apple can undess you and fuck you in the ass whenever they please. For instance, if you're into getting your ass fucked, Apple could invite you on a date, get to know you, buy you a pony and ask you, very politely, if you're into sodomy and then engage in completely consensual buttsex".

FYI, Cocoa Touch is the iOS version of Cocoa. Apparently you've missed Apple's Metal 2 UI, which is basically Apple's recommendation for macOS 10.11 onwards. Metal 2 is the same API for macOS, iOS and tvOS, https://developer.apple.com/me...

On macOS they've basically stopped supporting OpenGL at 4.0, Carbon (mostly deprecated in OS X 10.5, 10.7 and finally 10.9) and Cocoa (nothing new since OS X 10.3).

And they'll fix that for free: https://www.apple.com/support/...

Apple's latest update for Garageband for iOS has all kinds of substantial features that the desktop version didn't get.

https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2017/11/garageband-brings-new-sound-library-and-classic-beat-sequencer/

You should really include a link and indicate that there’s more in the paragraph. https://www.apple.com/ca/legal/privacy/en-ww/

Disclosure to Third Parties
At times Apple may make certain personal information available to strategic partners that work with Apple to provide products and services, or that help Apple market to customers. For example, when you purchase and activate your iPhone, you authorize Apple and your carrier to exchange the information you provide during the activation process to carry out service. If you are approved for service, your account will be governed by Apple and your carrier’s respective privacy policies. Personal information will only be shared by Apple to provide or improve our products, services and advertising; it will not be shared with third parties for their marketing purposes.

This would NEVER happen on iOS. Apps MUST ask (and get) Permission to access data outside of the App's directory. ...And NOT just at Installation-Time; but when they actually want to DO it!

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

I'm not even an Apple user, and even I know about these issues: https://discussions.apple.com/...

Oh the horror, a toggle to turn off wireless discoverability. What will we do now?

I'm not even an Apple user, and even I know about these issues: https://discussions.apple.com/...

Called it!!

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

also $800 to go from 1TB to 2TB SSD

I don't know why you think that VM host software cannot be hosted on the App Store.

If VMWare doesn't distribute it that way, it's probably because most of their revenue/license is corporate rather than individual and app stores tend to be a poor fir for those arrangements.

But you also get expandability, and of particular interest in your specific case Resolve leverages multiple GPUs so if things start to slow down you can simply add another GPU to the HP system and you're good to go, to improve the performance on the iMac you have to scrap the entire system, including the display, and buy a new one.

That is not true -- macOS High Sierra supports external Thunderbolt 3 connected GPUs.

Yaz

https://www.apple.com/imac-pro...

Memory
32GB of 2666MHz DDR4 ECC memory
Configurable to 64GB or 128GB

The UK HE site has given 3 years as standard for about 15 years. I think that it's standard for other corporate customers too, and can be purchased by anyone ('AppleCare'). The Consumer Rights Act (and before that, the Sale of Goods Act) require that the product last for a reasonable length of time, defined in part by manufacturers claims and can be returned for a full refund if not repaired at any point within 6 years of purchase if deemed not suitable for the purpose for which sold. Apple quotes 1,000 full discharge cycles for the batteries in their new machines and will replace them even out of warranty if they do not meet this.

Discussion with the Citizens' Advice Bureau confirmed my interpretation of the Consumer Rights Act, by the way: unless the manufacturer explicitly states up front that batteries are consumables (Dell doesn't, and has a consumables section on their online store, but puts batteries in the components section) and gives an expected lifetime for them, then they are covered. Their legal advisor confirmed that Dell was breaking the law by refusing to replace the battery (even if it's not under warranty if it fails earlier than a reasonable consumer would expect).

> three-year warranty,

No, it's one year, but they give you absolute hell if it's >90 days. They simply do not want to warranty their batteries. From:

https://www.apple.com/batteries/service-and-recycling/

Which shows it is only one year, instead of the three that you claimed.

Maybe Apple will even let you upgrade this system...!

We've heard that one of our customers bought some bad Ram or SSD or something and had a bad experience and also they like thin machines. So we've decided to solder it all down.

Still for a hefty premium you can order the machine with extra Ram.

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

How does $400 for an extra 8GB Ram and 128GB of SSD sound like?

Now you'll say "That sounds expensive. I could buy the RAM for $91.76

https://www.newegg.com/Product...

And a 128GB SSD for about $133

https://www.newegg.com/Product...

Presumably Apple buy stuff cheaper than I do. E.g. look at the spot prices for NAND and SSDs here

http://www.dramexchange.com/

So why is it it $400? Other than that you've got me over a barrel.

And, more to the point if the system were upgradeable I could buy the unupgraded version now and buy more Ram and a larger SSD later when/if I need them. At which point they'll will be cheaper.

Like I did with my Macbook Pro 2012. That was about $1200. Now for a future proof machine I need to pony up $1699.

Suddenly Windows 10 doesn't seem so bad. I bet I could even get XCode running in a VM on an Asus laptop if I had to.

Yeah, but will it be simply the coolest computer ever like the G4 cube?

There are this link in the article that M'Smash should have linked to instead of the article.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1417#c3

And that link contains this one

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208334

Maybe this is a "hearing aid" for Siri on HomePod?

here's a iTunes link to that app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...

https://slashdot.org/~carbs77 inquired:

The real question is, how did it fare with hotdog vs. not hotdog?

(FTFY)

But, seriously, somebody with points needs to mod parent +1 Funny, because Silicon Valley's "Not Hotdog" is a real thing - and it's now available for Android, too ...

Apple is the only phone company I know of to even both to produce something like environmental reports.

This includes things like the mildly nauseating fact that Apple makes their own artificial sweat to test watches.

And what do they get for it? Protestors flooding stores. Where are the protests at the local stores selling other phones, which engage in the same tax practices and far worse environmental hijinks? Crickets.

I'm sure it's because they can get more attention if they flood an Apple store instead of the local T-Mobile phone hut. But even so, it's just sad to see such a brazen display of showmanship over real care for the environment or taxes. Maybe Apple should just stop paying attention to any of that stuff and make phones the way the rest of the market does without all of the expense of trying to do so in a responsible way.

Apple is the only phone company I know of to even both to produce something like environmental reports.

This includes things like the mildly nauseating fact that Apple makes their own artificial sweat to test watches.

And what do they get for it? Protestors flooding stores. Where are the protests at the local stores selling other phones, which engage in the same tax practices and far worse environmental hijinks? Crickets.

I'm sure it's because they can get more attention if they flood an Apple store instead of the local T-Mobile phone hut. But even so, it's just sad to see such a brazen display of showmanship over real care for the environment or taxes. Maybe Apple should just stop paying attention to any of that stuff and make phones the way the rest of the market does without all of the expense of trying to do so in a responsible way.

The drive and the Time Machine backup disk can be encrypted.
When selected the existing backups are erased and a new encrypted backup is ready.
"macOS Sierra: Keep your Time Machine backup disk secure"
https://support.apple.com/kb/P...

Can you encrypt the hard disk with a Mac? Physical access to my Ubuntu laptop isn't gonna get you anything if you don't have the passphrase for decrypting my hard disk.

Yes. Apple has what they call FileVault that does whole-disk encryption (minus a boot volume, I think.)

If FileVault is used, Single User Mode as mentioned above requires login credentials.

And here is the link to the actual support forum: https://forums.developer.apple...

I don't get why /. needs to link to someone's personal blog for this.

All of the back ways in CAN be disabled, but nobody does. Apple even provides a howto.With the modern full-disk encryption they are less useful as long as that is enabled.

You mean the mystically well-documented single-user boot feature?
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201573

Also the Darwin kernel, i.e. BSD on Mach, is already open source. Even though BSD is BSD not GPL licensed and they'd be legally allowed to keep their very extensive changes secret, Apple still release their changes

https://opensource.apple.com/s...

The don't release all the kernel mode code though - e.g. they don't release the source code to "Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext"

http://www.osxbook.com/book/bo...

They also don't release the source code for the user mode stuff, but then they don't have to.

And it seems like they already get the benefit of any 'many eyes make all bugs shallow' effect from opening up the kernel.

'Many eyes make all bugs shallow' is bogus anyway. It's not like many people are going to sit, read the source to something and find a vulnerability. And even if they did there's nothing to stop them selling it to someone other than the vendor - e.g. Russian/Chinese mafia, NSA, GCHQ etc probably all pay better.

This was posted as recently as November 13, as a "solution" to an issue of not having an administrative account: https://forums.developer.apple...

Details here.

-jcr

The fix was just posted.

-jcr

I'm charging my S8+ ~1.5 a day. 500 charges means that after just 1 year the battery is at 78% of capacity, What happens after 1.5 years?

Even for those who charge only once a day, 500 charges is ~1.5 years, which is less than the common 2-year lifespan of the phone.

Increasing the battery density probably won't help either, as manufacturers will again make thinner phones instead of increasing capacity.

After a year your battery power remains around 80%. At this rate after 1 year your battery will last for 7.8 hrs if it lasted 10 hrs initially(not bad considering you supercharge it everytime). Next year it will be 6.2 hrs and next year it will be 5 hrs. So after 3 years it will be at 50% of capacity. Not bad for me. Considering it will increasing capacity by 45% at initial stage. So theoretically it will be 75% of capacity after 3 years. And one more thing- charge cycle of li-ion is different than charging every time. https://www.apple.com/uk/batte... My one hope is - this should not go in vain just like other battery techs which remain only in research papers.

By default, there's no root account.

Are you sure of that?

The root user is disabled by default. If you can log in to your Mac with an administrator account, you can enable the root user, then log in as the root user to complete your task.

Yep.

You can lock down those features, but pretty much nobody does.

Of course, you also cannot reset your account password and regain access if you have turned on FileVault.

Apple says you're wrong. Their Magic keyboard with numeric keypad has a return and enter key.

Meh, first link should have been https://discussions.apple.com/...

Older Macbook Pro have this "feature", too, with their 85W power supply. Happened to me on my 2012 15" Macbook Pro, and it seems I was not the only one. For example, just a simple Google search shows discussions like https://discussions.apple.com/... or https://apple.stackexchange.co...

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Logic fail. You cannot "KNOW", there's no difference between it being processed in the cloud with " hey siri" and "hey Satan" if the server only responds to "hey siri".

It's not a valid assumption.

Fair enough; but This validates my assumption quite nicely, don'tcha think?

BTW, that took .05 secs of Googling. Perhaps, next time you might try that BEFORE you resort to easily-disproven sarcastic bullshit.

Yes we know - it is hard coded. Actually, a variety of equivalent phrases in different languages supported by Siri are hard-coded. Apple's Machine Learning Journal has an article about the "Hey Siri"-detecting deep learning network: https://machinelearning.apple....

Cool citation, thanks!

Yes we know - it is hard coded. Actually, a variety of equivalent phrases in different languages supported by Siri are hard-coded. Apple's Machine Learning Journal has an article about the "Hey Siri"-detecting deep learning network: https://machinelearning.apple....

Apple's Machine Learning Journal has an article about the "Hey Siri"-detecting deep learning network they trained and encoded to be run on the low-power always-on coprocessor https://machinelearning.apple.... The audio never leaves the device.

The new Apple wireless keyboard *with numerical pad* is actually quite good. I think it has a butterfly mechanism but the keys travel much more than the thin one with no numkeys.

Following the links a bit, it looks as if El Capitan is still getting security updates and supports Mid-2007 15" and 17" MacBook Pros (MacBooks Pro?), and all 13" ones. It's not the latest OS, but High Sierra is such a QA clusterfuck that there's little incentive to upgrade (scaled resolution on an external display pegs CPU at 100%, so good luck having a battery last for an entire presentation, and it's crashing on a lot of hardware that was stable with Sierra) and Sierra didn't include much by way of useful additional features.

Are you sure you're on the latest release? Neither Sierra nor High Sierra list support for any Macbook Pro before mid-2010.
https://support.apple.com/en-u...

I believe they can decrypt things which are not bound to the device, all except what is marked "non-migratory" in their doc p.13, but it's hard to tell. They are often wrapping keys multiple times, effectively creating an 'OR' ACL, so I don't know how to answer this basic government discovery question from their wordy white paper.

My favourite bug, which was introduced in 11.0 (and has not been fixed even as of 11.1.2), is below. I only have one iOS-based device in my home -- an Apple iPad Mini 2 (Wi-Fi) -- so I can't confirm if this applies to all devices or not.

Since 11.0, the dock bar no longer has a translucency effect applied to it. Instead, it just looks completely "flat grey", with icons on it.

The workaround: go to Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Increase Contrast. There, toggle Reduce Transparency from Off to On, then again from On to Off. Now your dock will have translucency applied to it (looking similar to pre-11.0). This will last until the device is rebooted.

I've run into other bugs recently with 11.1, such as scrolling/panning pages causing some kind of electrical interference or "squealing" noise to come out of my iPad's speakers. This happened randomly one day after using an app that had sound; once I'd left the app, the noise started. Oddly enough, it only happened when I had the charging cable plugged in -- the instant I disconnected the charging cable, the problem went away. Reattaching the charging cable did not restore the problematic behaviour.

And I shouldn't need to talk about this one, which has since been fixed (as of 11.1.1), but the fact nobody anywhere caught that before release is astounding.

Overall iOS 11.x to me has been insanely quirky. I've never seen such a hodge-podge of oddities (minor to major) that seem to have very bizarre conditions that trigger them, and often without workarounds. 10.x felt a lot more refined.