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We've handed 100% of our children's k-12 performance data over to google, and 100% of our children's web surfing habits to various surveillance companies.

The real rub being that in an effort to appease the think of the children crowd Google has promised not to advertise to the students 'on this device'. The between the lines on this being that the student's profile follows him to any other computer system he signs in on.

Everything about the arrangement of chromebooks (or i-books, or whatever the local flavor may be) in the classroom is a life-long privacy nightmare for an entire generation of Americans, and nobody even seems to care.

One of the biggest most powerful data brokers the world has ever known will now know exactly how well an entire generation scored on every academic test/project/assignment they ever took. This is the tradeoff our public school system has made in our names, in a bid for convenience on the teachers part.

Last year, I tried as hard as I could to gain an exemption for my student against use the school issued chromebooks, we are happy to use our own device, and the entire student facing suite of tools is a web-portal that can be accessed by any device. Nobody had even considered a parent would not want their student to use them, and eventually I was told I can revoke my permission to use the device, which will doom my child to not being able to use IT systems in class at all. It was clear to me in the 3 months I worked this that none of the school officials had even read the user agreement or privacy policy that comes along with these devices.

This year I already knew how unorganized and uninformed my local school was regarding this technology, so I just told my student to tell them he had an exemption on the first day. It stuck. He still carries and charges the chromebook for specific test and such, but he is now in charge of his own device, and is learning the value of his personal data, how to be responsible and safe online, and how to take steps to limit the baked-in surveillance of the modern web. He knows this is a privilege, and he knows any abuse of this arrangement will end it. We got lucky, but my point is that it's still possible to take back control.

At a minimum, these devices should come with mandatory privacy training, and it needs to be clear to the student what data is being archived by what companies.

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The situation is all the way bananas, and nobody seems to care.

Couldn't have looked that hard.

Virginia Tech in 2004 upgraded their PowerMac G5s to Xserve G5s .
https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles...

Feb 01, 2005 - University of Illinois preps 640-node Apple Xserve G5 cluster
https://appleinsider.com/artic...

Just as we tech people say. Lets hire a convinced black hat hacker, as your IT security expert, because they would know how it is done. Lets hire a lawyer convicted in insider trading

You've got your facts wrong; he's never been convicted. The CNBC article and Slashdot summary are rather ambiguous in their phrasing, hence your understandable confusion, but if you check other reporting on the story, you'll see that what's actually going on is that he's just now being accused of crimes committed in 2011 and 2012, as well as 2015 and 2016. Apple didn't hire a convicted inside trader and he's never been charged with insider trading prior to now.

In fact, so far as Apple's response to his activities go, they put him on a leave of absence last summer when they were first notified that he was being investigated, then fired him themselves a few weeks later when their internal investigation turned up evidence of wrongdoing. The SEC is now following up with formal charges of their own, again, for the first time.

This just in, Apple has handed over iCloud data over to law enforcement. Same Apple that said they never would, that refused to help the FBI get data from a mass shooter's phone in California. They now turned over data with a simple single request.

The Gateway Pundit article is misleading. Apple refused to unlock the phone of the shooters, but did turn over their iCloud information after being served a warrant. Same as they did with Stone. AppleInsider's story is more informative:

The information provided on Stone is the same type of information that Apple provided from the San Bernardino shooter's device from 2016 after a warrant was served. Unlike the San Bernardino iPhone 5C, a device unlock has not been requested for Stone's devices, nor has one been performed.

Apple patented a camera that was embedded in the screen. I never heard anything about it since. I wonder if they started using them but never told anyone.

But they can't.

Exactly
https://appleinsider.com/articles/08/12/03/apple_argues_only_a_fool_would_believe_its_iphone_3g_ads

If you keep chugging the apple Koolaid you forget about apple stupidity like this.

You can look at history and see the REAL truth: Adjusting for inflation, Macs are now LESS EXPENSIVE than at any time in their 30 year history.

Get the FACTS:

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

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?

Huh? I don't get it. ALL app submissions and updates have to be reviewed and approved by Apple.

Wrong. This is about out of App Store updates. See also: Apple begins strictly enforcing rule that prohibits iOS app updates outside of App Store

Stop being dense.

Or do I believe an investigative journalist who found multiple sources confirming the hack happened?

The one named source in the original story came forward and said his interaction should *not* have been interpreted as confirmation, and that his conversation was misrepresented. He was asked 'what's a signal coupler?' and answered with a link to a part catalog showing what a signal coupler is. Additionally he provided hypothetical explanation of how a hardware hack might work. This became 'Joe Fitzpatrick confirms this is a hacked chip found in the hardware!'

The way his response was misinterpreted caused him to understandably be skeptical of the whole article.

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

There are plenty of reasons to be concerned about supply chain security. However this specific article is in all likelihood a completely bogus take on a much more mundane reality more widely reported about SuperMicro not being generally secure enough at the time to continue to be a supplier to certain datacenters.

1. Sure they can. One phone call to Customs is all it takes. You seriously think that major corporations don't have any pull with the government? With the US government being the poster child for corporate-influenced system?

Here's one man's story of how Apple caused his Mac-compatible batteries seized at the border. It's not a joke or an exaggeration, this is really happening. For the entire story, see the sequel which goes into depth.

How can I argue against a bald assertion like "One phone call to Customs is all it takes." It's a self-certifying statement. And with that, I am placed in the situation of attempting to prove a negative. IOW, you have employed an illegal debate tactic. Therefore, your argument is a non-sequitur.

Plus, why is it that the person CLAIMING that "Apple Stole my Batteries" JUST HAPPENS to be Louis Rossman , the "Repair Technician" who is well-known as having some kind of hard-on against Apple. His fraudulent claims are well documented in another bit of yellow journalism he was involved in, in the form of an "Expose" aired on CBC TV:

https://www.macobserver.com/li...

Here's what AppleInsider had to say about Rossman's fraud. Note: Be sure to read the many Comments, some of them written by posters obviously experienced in the field of computer repair:

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

So, since you are "backing up" your claims with the words of a know fraudster and notorious Apple-Hater, your argument is completely invalidated.

As the article in MacObserver stated:

"It sounds like Mr. Rossman got the batteries from China. He doesn’t outright say they aren’t counterfeits, he just implies it. But if they are counterfeits, then U.S. Customs is just upholding the law. If the batteries are genuine, he should explicitly state that."

So, here's the problem from Apple's point-of-view: When bogus parts are sold as "Genuine Apple", and then they either don't perform as well, or, worse, do wonderful stuff like swell up or start smoking, NOBODY looks deeper to find that the batteries are COUNTERFEIT. So, Apple's reputation suffers as a result of negative press. So, Apple CERTAINLY has an interest in keeping bootleg parts being sold as "Genuine Apple" OUT OF THE MARKETPLACE.

If you can't see the logic in that, you're simply simple.

Apples watch whose sole purpose is telling time managed to brick for 24-hours recently when Australia changed time.

These are the two cellphone construction techniques that make generate e-waste.

Good thing Apple has a Plan for that:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/... ...and Witness the Result:

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

So, tell me: What are the OTHER Computer/Cellphone OEMs doing in this regard?

Feb 2017
https://appleinsider.com/artic...
https://www.macrumors.com/2017...
https://arstechnica.com/civis/...

Their claims that they knew nothing of this security issue from Supermicro has all the appererances of a PR cover up

They're not comparable, no. But Intel had healthy 14nm production in 2014, now they're saying late 2019 at the earliest for 10nm so five years with nothing more than enhancements. And TSMC is shipping 7nm in the iPhone Xs right now and has just announced they expect 20% of their 2019 revenue to be from their 7nm process, which is fairly equivalent to Intel's 10nm. Samsung says their 7nm is ready for production too. Basically they've lost their entire lead and is already trailing a bit, they'll be fully competitive if they can launch their 10nm but they no longer get the holy trifecta of a better manufacturing process: Lower cost, better performance and higher power efficiency.

I think the greatest danger to Intel is that Apple finds it's able to produce comparable light desktop/laptop performance on ARM, if Intel can't provide superior chips there's very little reason for Apple to stay. They've done arch changes before from Motorola -> PowerPC -> x86, they know what it's like and with the iPhone/iPad CPU/GPU design in-house you know they'll be lusting for the Mac business. If they do I expect a full volley with new MacBook, MacBook Air, iMac and Mac mini ARM models but to leave MacBook Pro / iMac Pro / Mac Pro on x86 initially. If the rumors are true there'll be a new iPad Pro out soon with a A12X processor, that'll be a good clue as to how far it's off.

I hope manufacturers will start putting front-facing cameras behind the screen, roughly in the center of the phone or 2/3 of the way up. That way when (1) in video calls we'll be able to look at the people we're speaking with and they'll see our eyes actually looking at them, and (2) when we take selfie photos and are checking out how we look, our eyes will be looking at the camera.

I read about an Apple patent for this back in 2009 but it doesn't look like there's been any development since then. https://appleinsider.com/artic...

Not anymore you're not

Appleinsider: "Turn off iOS 11 Smart Punctuation to avoid data entry problems"
https://appleinsider.com/artic...

Apple Developer Forums: "apostrophe encoding breaks login"
https://forums.developer.apple...

It's a lot slower than a wire. but the fundamental reason it really sucks is, THERE IS STILL A WIRE that goes to whatever wireless charging plate you have. I would way rather just have a small cable with me that I can plug into any USB slot, which are in quite a few places now, since I have to have a wire anyway.[/quote]

I would not mind it to save wear and tear on the physical charging connection.

The apple product in particular also did not seem very useful to me in that what I set stuff down by the bed at night I don't necessarily want everything flat. I have a stand I can leave the watch on to charge so it's at a nice angle to read, and even the phone I would prefer angled up so I could quickly glance to see in the morning if I have important messages waiting.

Sounds like an opportunity to sell a second device.

It is kind of funny to watch Apple stalinize a product though... it's like, dude, just admit it didn't work out!

You can read some more details about the technology at the links below:

https://appleinsider.com/artic...
https://www.wirelesspowerconso...

It looks to me like Apple got scammed because of lack of engineering review. The tests were only done under small signal conditions where efficiency on the transmitter's side is not a problem.

You linked to a driver, not a computer. Don't believe me that Cannon Lake is not available? Then maybe you will believe your Apple friends.

If anyone finds information on how Apple calculated that $200 valuation please share. I searched but found nothing. An AppleInsider article did say this though: "It is unclear if the $200 valuations are for hundreds of dollars or are in fact for $200 million." ( https://appleinsider.com/artic... )

That's a VERY interesting point!

If anyone finds information on how Apple calculated that $200 valuation please share. I searched but found nothing. An AppleInsider article did say this though: "It is unclear if the $200 valuations are for hundreds of dollars or are in fact for $200 million." ( https://appleinsider.com/artic... )

Don't forget high refresh rate. Apple is already moving to 120hz, which makes an incredible difference from 60hz. And OLED, which is still only in a very small number of the highest end phones.

Netflix is paywalled. In 2015 it boasted 37 percent of Internet traffic in North America according to Sandvine. The same article states that iTunes, Hulu, and Amazon Video were tied at 3 percent each, for a total of 45 percent. This didn't change much in Sandvine's 2017 survey, though Hulu and Amazon Video declined to 2 percent each.

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).

It was those yellow walkmans in the 90s. Those where like a 90s iPhone, every kid had to have one.

You do realize that every iPhone has a Sony camera in it?

Also I'd suggest that the Playstation at least at one point qualified as a hit gadget.

That doesn't mean they're making any money from it. If you sell 100,000,000 cameras for £0.01 less than what they cost to make, then you lose a million quid.

The PlayStation hardware was sold at a significant loss, this was compensated for by raising the licensing fees for games (which is why the PS/XB versions are more expensive than the PC version). Getting someone else to build it for a loss would be ideal, but I doubt they're going to find one.

It was those yellow walkmans in the 90s. Those where like a 90s iPhone, every kid had to have one.

You do realize that every iPhone has a Sony camera in it?

Also I'd suggest that the Playstation at least at one point qualified as a hit gadget.

Even appleinsider thinks your an idiot
https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/04/30/2016-macbook-pro-butterfly-keyboards-failing-twice-as-frequently-as-older-models

And they are chock full of apple worshiping nutjobs

Really? Does Apple ask users what they want

Apple claims they don't do market research, but that's because Apple lies.

or they just assume and build an ever thinner laptop?

Even if they weren't liars, building a thinner laptop and then selling it tells you that people want to buy a thinner laptop. However, Apple didn't invent the Ultrabook segment; that was Toshiba. They were making slim and lightweight 486 laptops while Apple was still making chunky, funky Powerbooks. To suggest that nobody inside of Apple looked at any reports which stated that people would like thinner laptops is laughable at best. When people say something that dumb, I like to tilt my head over to the side like a dog does, so as to imply that even a dog would be confused by that statement. It works pretty well in traffic, too.

Really? Does Apple ask users what they want

Apple claims they don't do market research, but that's because Apple lies.

or they just assume and build an ever thinner laptop?

Even if they weren't liars, building a thinner laptop and then selling it tells you that people want to buy a thinner laptop. However, Apple didn't invent the Ultrabook segment; that was Toshiba. They were making slim and lightweight 486 laptops while Apple was still making chunky, funky Powerbooks. To suggest that nobody inside of Apple looked at any reports which stated that people would like thinner laptops is laughable at best. When people say something that dumb, I like to tilt my head over to the side like a dog does, so as to imply that even a dog would be confused by that statement. It works pretty well in traffic, too.

Try to keep up. They have a new device that can unlock an iPhone now.

iPhone unlocking tool GrayKey sees increased use across all levels of law enforcement

With AirPort routers discontinued, here are the best alternatives for Mac and iPhone users

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This remains another step in the inevitable end of "MacOS" as its currently known.

Bringing a shared HW base to all lines of HW, along with a a integrated SW build base, and brinign iOS apps to the Mac Desktop https://appleinsider.com/artic...

Brings closer the drive of moving to what the future of iOS will be, as opposed to the MacOS is. By bringing iOS apps to the 'Desktop' OS, it allows those apps to encroach on the otherwise conceptually separate desktop environment. Donig so also open up the changing of those apps to work better on a 'desktop' environment which is to really begin to work the semantics of the 'mobile' in with the less touch oriented uses. As time goes on the apps will dual target, until the HW platforms become no long different and the semantics are all interchangeable.

Back in 2005, well before Android was released, Rubin wrote, "If Sun doesn't want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language - or - 2) Do Java anyway and defend our decision, perhaps making enemies along the way."

Regarding that email, Mueller noted that the judge overseeing the case observed, "Google may have simply been brazen, preferring to roll the dice on possible litigation rather than to pay a fair price [to license Java]."

Rubin's email suggests that the Android group was fully aware that it had already invested a lot of work into its Java-related platform, too much so to shift to the adoption of Microsoft's alternative language and runtime.

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

That pretty much says they did it, to use existing code they had already written.

I think that this is just marketing. If you read Apple's privacy policy it is actually pretty bad. It's basically the extreme case of "all your data are belong to us" and we'll use it however we want.

You are aware that Apple runs an Ad network, right?
https://developer.apple.com/ne...
https://developer.apple.com/ne...

Apple's ad platform allows advertisers to purchase ads based on previous purchases according to news articles. I've never personally placed an ad, but I think the above statement is intentionally misleading. Maybe they don't use the data from Apple Pay specifically, but they allow advertisers to target based on past purchases in the App Store and iTunes at least.

Non-personal information according to Apple:

        occupation
        language
        zip code
        area code
        unique device identifier
        referrer URL
        location
        time zone
        customer activities on our website, iCloud services, our iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, App Store for Apple TV and iBooks Stores and from our other products and services
        We may collect and store details of how you use our services, including search queries.

"We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose."

"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."

"Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device."

Source:
https://www.apple.com/legal/pr...

Apple also uses differential privacy which according to these articles isn't as non-personal as they claim:
https://www.wired.com/story/ap...
http://appleinsider.com/articl...

I'm sorry if I'm disappointing you, but Apple is making money off your personal information just like every other major tech company. Apple doesn't document how much they make from ads. This article claims they probably make about $1 billion a year off search ads, but that doesn't include Apple News adds, iTunes ads, App Store ads, and in-app ads. The total mobile ad market is estimated at $20.86 billion, but I don't know how much of that is Apple's share. Based on Apple's earning's report, their share isn't more than $8.5 billion (total for Apple "services"), but I don't know where in the $1 to 8.5 billion range the total is.
https://mobiledevmemo.com/appl...

What has Android copied from iOS?

R U Sirius?!?

http://appleinsider.com/articl...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/1...

http://appleinsider.com/articl... turn off smart quotes, please

Turn of fancy punctuation, and people won't call you out as an Apple user here. It likely looks fine to you and other mobile users, but your quotes (and anything else you can't type directly on a normal desktop keyboard) devolve into weird accented a's, TM symbols, and other madness on normal platforms. http://appleinsider.com/articl...

You say "SSD" like that means anything. Does YOUR SSD do writes on a fully encrypted partition at 2996MB/sec?

It better write fast because you will NEVER be replacing it!

Har har har!

No headphone jack.

The iMac Pro actually *does* have a standard 3.5" stereo headphone jack. Why would that even matter, I have zero idea.

Already updated to 16gb and SSD

Base iMac Pro ram is 32GB...

You say "SSD" like that means anything. Does YOUR SSD do writes on a fully encrypted partition at 2996MB/sec?

why lock raid 0 storage to the MB?

Isn't part of that answer in security? With it paired to the MB if you detach the storage you can't read anything from it.

It's not like the storage is slow (this link says 2996MB/s write, 2450MB/s read), how much would have been gained with the x4 link?

I've been out of PC building for a while and do not know what the x4 link is or what it would buy you...

It's simple, they didn't want the users to know about it. It's planned obsolescence.They knew the Lithium batteries would deteriorate after a few hundred charge cycles, ~18-24 months and the software would slow down the phones.

The fact that it was NOT disclosed, tells you about their motive. Sell more hardware.

If that was the real motive, the "slowdown" would have been baked-into iOS 2 rather than iOS 10 or 11.

Instead, the timing of this (no pun) makes it OBVIOUS that the "current spike-spreading" code was added to iOS when Apple said they had a software-fix for the iPhone 6 "shutdown" problem. They just didn't take the infinity amount of time it would take to discover how that fix would affect every single iPhone on the planet, and thus, eventually, someone noticed. But what's clear is that Apple was DEFINITELY NOT "trying to sell new phones". New iPhones have been PLENTY faster year-over-year on their own!

https://www.iphonebenchmark.ne...

And lest you think that those recent performance figures are in any way ho-hum compared with the competition, read this:

https://www.cultofmac.com/4626...

http://appleinsider.com/articl...

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/i...

So, Apple doesn't HAVE to slow down their older phones to "make their new phones seem faster." They ARE faster (and also fastEST!)

"For fucks sake", please turn off 'smart punctuation' on your iPhone.

You are likely correct. No official visit or tour, as is the case with Jobs and Atkinson from Apple in 1979. I don't have my copy of the "Dealers in Lightning" at the moment but I thought I remembered Gates being offered a tour.

A year and a bit later, Microsoft hired Charles Simonyi from Xerox, where he'd been working since 1974 on WYSIWYG wordprocessor software. Simonyi was hired "to port the Alto's Bravo word processing software to other personal computer platforms under the name Microsoft Word." quote from http://appleinsider.com/articl...

This is perhaps less direct than the official visit...

Yes, they often use heat pumps when using heat in municipal heating systems that has been generated in a factory. It is very efficient.

Apple are building a new datacenter here in Denmark and wants to deliver the produced heat to the already existing municipal heating.
They ran into some tax problems and I don't know if they have been resolved. The heat became a product from the company that they were selling and the taxes made it too expensive, at least that were their story.
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https://investinviborg.com/Dat...

I bet that whatever happened, it's not as simple as that. What happened to "that apple employee" (whoever they were) may still be wrong, but it cannot possibly be that simple.

Oh, but sometimes it really is *that* simple. And it gets even better! Are you enjoying the progressive stack yet?

Please MS, please stick to what you know

They have been incredibly successful at creating markets for new devices, enough to make every manufacturer add another form factor to their lineup and enough to scare Apple into giving up on one of the original core premises of the iPad (a tablet should not need a stylus).

It does seem that the Surface and similar products do have a future, but the narrative that they are wildly successful and overshadowing Apple's products seems a bit overstated. This highly fanboyish article from appleinsider.com indicates that Surface revenues seem to be about one third of Applewatch/TV/other revenues, and about one quarter to one fifth of iPad or Macintosh revenues. Maybe more recent quarters are substantially different, but it doesnt look like Apple should be panicing. It seems as though the Apple Watch business all by itself is about twice the size of the MS Surface business - and none of the sales trends seem to indicate immediate changes in these types of relationships.

http://appleinsider.com/articl...

With that said, who knows what the future will hold? Currently however, most of Apple's sales seem to be solidly ahead of the Surface sales, and the projections are not hugely different.

Why does any sort of physical contact have to be part of the equation? Wireless charging has been a thing for several years at this point.

There have been technologies which charge bluetooth devices wirelessly from several feet away demonstrated at CES in 2015.

There are even people working on AA batteries which charge wirelessly.

Even Apple is on the wireless charging bandwagon, including their AirPods which charge wirelessly.

Upgrade the firmware from 4,1 to 5,1 -- it's unsupported by Apple, but it convinces the 2009 mac pro that it's a 2010 mac pro, and can accept High Sierra.

http://appleinsider.com/articl...
https://arstechnica.com/gadget...
how-to video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Hope this helps.