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Solandri : "All Microsoft had to do was add native dialing and cellular chipset support to WinCE .. Apple knows a lot about computers. They didn't know phones"

"The original iPhone .. had a 3.5-inch LCD screen at 320x480 and 163ppi, a quad-band 2G EDGE data radio, 802.11b.g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, and a 2 megapixel camera" ref

Microsoft shows up late to the smartphone party

Any serious gamer will stick with console or PC. Any one already in the Apple eco-system might take enough interest to give it a shot. The thing that turned it from "Whatever" to "Maybe" for me was that Plex just announced they will support it. I don't really have any time or much interest for games any more so a good all in one media player that is at least as good as my phone at games and can use the phone as a controller might be cool. I have a Roku now that came with Angry Birds. I played it once. Not really an interest but I appreciate that it can do some simple games and might work for a family situation (kind of targeting Wii use case)

I'm kinda with you. I loaded a few games on my iPhone when I first got it, and went "That's pretty impressive for a phone"; but I played them once. I, too, am interested primarily in whether it will make a viable HTPC, so I can retire the hulking, liquid-cooled, G5 tower that serves as my ersatz HTPC with "Front Row" (don't laugh!), and the horrible NetFlix and Hulu apps in my LG TV.

And if Plex is going to be better-behaved on AppleTV than it has been in the past on OS X, I will be all over that!

I just saw that VLC is going to come to AppleTV, too! Seems like they got over their little tantrum...

And since TVOS can run "Universal" iOS Apps, stuff like iRedHD and SecuritySpy that already run on iOS will no doubt be setup to run on TVOS; so my G5 tower can stop being my home security server, too!

The AppleTV can use third-party Bluetooth 4/LE controllers (See this link). I'm sure plenty of folks will come out with all kinds of controllers for it. The bundled one seems okay for a lot of casual gaming, buy buying more controllers isn't going to break the bank on a $150 console with $1-5 games.

AppleTV also has an interesting storage system to deal with the 32GB problem. The "core download" for any game has to be less than 200MB, with amounts above that loaded in 64-512MB chunks that are available on-demand over a network. The AppleTV will dynamically manage the on-demand area. So your old, less-used games will shrink if you never play them, then re-download when you use them again. (See this link for more.)

"Thunderbird 2 starts with a local root privilege exploit that can load a kernel module to give it access to raw memory." ref

'DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE is a recently-disclosed privilege escalation vulnerability on OS X Yosemite'

I gave my reason originally; you just seemingly cannot comprehend it. That's on you.

If you want words to read because you lack simple common sense , read this

Since I am assured you'll learn nothing from that either, I leave the last response to you as it's not worth following up on helping you more than that.

"We're going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we're going to make FaceTime an open industry standard." - Steve Jobs, WWDC 2010

But it never happened.

And, as has been explained many times in these pages, that was SJ talking out his ass, without clearing it with his legal team. Turns out that Facetime was using some decidedly NON Open Source CODECS (and maybe other stuff), and so there was NO WAY that Apple could "Open" Facetime in any meaningful way.

In fact, Apple was fined $368 million regarding Facetime, for violating 4 patents by patent troll VirnetX. So, even if Apple had tried to make Facetime an Industry Standard (which I fully believe was SJ's intent), VirnetX would simply have been waiting in the wings to sue anyone who tried to implement said standard.

I am not apologizing for Apple; them's the facts. So, can we finally stop this meme? Of course not; this is Slashdot, afterall.

Damn, everything's on the Interwebs. Should've known: in the late 90's I once googled (Lycosed?) "Lego porn" as a joke (honestly), and was surprised to find it existed.

Nuther mPhone:

http://www.imore.com/sites/imo...

You can say google, they were a search provider in the late 90s

Damn, everything's on the Interwebs. Should've known: in the late 90's I once googled (Lycosed?) "Lego porn" as a joke (honestly), and was surprised to find it existed.

Nuther mPhone:

http://www.imore.com/sites/imo...

Body found, no fingers and cell phone missing.

I know you're probably going for Funny (which it is!) but sadly chopping fingers off to fool biometrics has been done before.

Problem with using the machete technique on the iPhone is that it requires a live body.

That is a 10 year old story and technology has moved on since then. Not only the iPhone but any modern fingerprint sensor of any quality would require a live body.

Body found, no fingers and cell phone missing.

I know you're probably going for Funny (which it is!) but sadly chopping fingers off to fool biometrics has been done before.

Problem with using the machete technique on the iPhone is that it requires a live body.

Why don't you educat yourself?

http://www.imore.com/will-apple-ever-bring-back-black-macbook/

When Apple first introduced the MacBook, you could get it in white or black. The black version, of course, cost an extra $200 for the coolness factor. Considering that my MacBook lasted for eight years, it was a worthwhile investment.

When my Black MacBook stopped working, I took it into the Apple Store. Most the Apple employees heard about the Black MacBook (discontinued in 2008) but never saw one in person. They took turns looking at it. Surprisingly, despite being a six-year-old laptop at the time, the Apple Store replaced the keyboard top and battery with identical replacement parts.

Did you stick an Apple logo on a Thinkpad? :-D

You must work at Google. :P

That is great service support indeed. And I can see why you wouldn't let go of this model.

P.S. I wasn't aware of black macbooks (but I have never owned a mac) - and saw an opportunity to sneak in some stinkpad love.

On a side note, check out the new XPS 13. Those near zero bezels look mighty nice.

http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-1...

Like the Sharp Aquos phone that is near bezel-less.

http://www.sharpusa.com/ForHom...

(Sorry for the OT - got carried away a bit)

Why don't you educat yourself?

http://www.imore.com/will-apple-ever-bring-back-black-macbook/

When Apple first introduced the MacBook, you could get it in white or black. The black version, of course, cost an extra $200 for the coolness factor. Considering that my MacBook lasted for eight years, it was a worthwhile investment.

When my Black MacBook stopped working, I took it into the Apple Store. Most the Apple employees heard about the Black MacBook (discontinued in 2008) but never saw one in person. They took turns looking at it. Surprisingly, despite being a six-year-old laptop at the time, the Apple Store replaced the keyboard top and battery with identical replacement parts.

Did you stick an Apple logo on a Thinkpad? :-D

You must work at Google. :P

you know, I have to say meh? Apple has sold 800 million ios devices sold worldwide. even if we put an ios controller in every US household, it only increases the ios attack surface by 15%. Also, considering iphones and ipads already have access to emails, passwords, everything else, there wouldn't be a crazy amount of additional value in people's refrigerator use.

So I would say the summary and article are dusted off from 2012. The smart home OS of the future is the mobile OS. Apple has their Homekit systems. I'm sure Google is thinking of something too.

Apple is not really a technology brand these days

lolwut?

Apple is in the same league: as long as the brand remains premium, it does not matter what the output is or for that matter what their quality is.

Too bad for your theory that Apple remains the top performer and the tops in quality and customer satisfaction.

Would you consider home address, and phone number also to be a bit of a breach?

Because you can get those and a lot more with just the email address and a call to the CurrentC web service.

they just got a hold of their email mailing list

From registered email addresses, you can get things like home address/phone number, and lots more data that may be of interest.

Basically the breach got a bunch of primary keys they can use to get something more juicy later.

Does TFA say how they got the emails? I just read yesterday that someone had discovered that you could enter arbitrary email addresses into CurrenC registration wizard, and if you were snooping the wire, the MCX server would return a completely filled-out user record for each entered email address.

If you've got a recent iPhone, it's already randomizing the MAC used for background scans:

Sort of.

http://www.imore.com/closer-lo...

The key is 'device's processor is asleep'. Any time it wakes up, it probes with its real mac. So if your in line at the store, phone is in your pocket, and twitter gets an update (over cellular data), that still wakes your phone up, and it probes with its real mac.

Or, since your in line at the store and bored, you pull out your phone and check the time, and respond to an sms... its awake and it probes wifi with its real mac.

It turns out its a lot less useful at protecting your privacy than you think.

I disagree. Although i do think my phone should change its mac address regularly so that the tracking is at most session based. They know -a phone- was in line for 30 minutes. They don't know the phone is my phone. And when they see a phone a for 30 minutes next week they won't know its the -same phone-.

Also, just a heads up to those excited about Apple's ios mac randomization -- its proving to be not remotely as good as they led us to believe it would be. (It only sends out a random mac when a) not connected to a network, b) AND asleep.

Any time anything wakes up the phone it probes with its real mac. (So for example, if your on cellular data, and twitter or email or something gets a message to your phone, it wakes up and probes wifi with its real mac...) rendering the feature all but useless. Apparently the fake probes also include your recent SSID list too making them even more useless.

http://www.imore.com/closer-lo...

So... not worse than ios7 ... but not exactly useful either.

And on that note, does anyone recommend a good automatic mac randomizer for android?

I'm more interested in the tear down of the $499 mac mini.

This article might help you. Notice that you can ask questions of the article's author.

Having said all that, I do think these third party keyboards Apple is now letting take over typing on iOS 8 do present a large security risk for applications, website, etc., but not for the device's passphrase since the device won't use it for that.

In other mobile OSes you might be right. But iOS is ultra-paranoid these days, and pops up a "Mind-Type is attempting to use the FaxPorter Service. Do you want to allow it?" type-Dialog at the drop of a hat.

Somehow, they've managed to keep from it being shades of UAC for Vista-level annoying, while still alerting the user when the App/Extension is attempting to access "dangerous" stuff.

Oh, and I believe there is a pretty big fence around iOS "Extensions" in general, and "Keyboards" in particular.

No. In recent versions of IOS, Macs do not run local web servers. People have to add in a web server by themselves & very few do so. In your little corner of the world (assuming you do web development or some such), people may add a web server (through macPorts or the Server Application) but there is no web server in a normal recent OSX installation. Yeah, there is the niche of MacMinis that people use as servers where this is not true, but they are the tiny minority. Most Macs sold today are either Airs or MacBooks & very few people want to have a local web server or "other advanced unix services"* on them.

As for your comment on their being "rarely updated", that's rich given the antiquated, nay archaic RHEL servers often I see in datacenters on things like Cisco VOIP gear.

The people geeky enough to be aware of the attack so far are also probably aware of how to update bash all by themselves. Everyone else will be able to get the update shortly when Apple publishes a fix.

* As labeled by an Apple spokesperson.

Android Central lists their favorite games and apps every week: http://www.androidcentral.com/...
iMore's favorite iOS apps: http://www.imore.com/ios/edito...

Happy hunting.

Does this mean that the Basic Rules that WotC made available for free a few weeks back are no longer legitimately available for free?

http://www.imore.com/get-dd-ba...

Looks like the WotC 5E page says they're $20 now.

I too thought Apple was "buying" clean energy. But it turns out they have actually built a solar plant at their datacenter along with fuel cell backups.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/05/17/apples_icloud_data_center_to_use_100_renewable_energy_by_end_of_year

http://www.cleanenergyactionproject.com/CleanEnergyActionProject/CS.Apple_Maiden_iCloud_Data_Center___Hybrid_Renewable_Energy_Systems_Case_Studies.html

This article peaked my interest though:
http://www.imore.com/apple-google-microsoft-come-out-clean-greenpeace-cloud-rankings-amazon-dirty

How exactly do they measure energy consumption from a particular power source? If the data center is grid connected the current will flow based on path of least resistance, loads and other factors. How can they be sure a load used 20% coal 30% nuclear and 50% natural gas? Did this information come from the power companies who can estimate the demands and current flows based on grid load? I read the linked Greenpeace report and nothing was made clear about how this was done.

Actually, however, there are a number of reasons to sue multiple parties in many cases regardless of the amount of money sought. Sometimes it's pretty clear who did you wrong. Here it seems rather clear that Apple made a particular promise prior to a proper appreciation or understanding of the intent of AMC.

http://www.imore.com/fans-will-need-new-season-pass-final-episodes-breaking-bad

"Final episodes of Breaking Bad reportedly require new season pass on iTunes, Amazon, other services"

On all services. Not just Apple. AMC sold the Season Pass Option on all services and now fucks over their customers, and you blame Apple for it, but not the other services, and most certainly not AMC.

As an iOS developer, I can confirm this. However, the amount of devices running older iOS versions is negligible, see this graph (this was released by Apple at this year's WWDC, so it's quite current).

Oh look. Yet another benchmark showing how superior a new handset is...yet every new handset is still laggy and jerky, including the S3

Actually the CPU allows you to run better(give it a name) programs at higher resolutions. Its why Flash was not the problem for Android that it is for Apple. Google put an awful lot of effort into improving things like responsiveness. Goolge finally managed to put this lie to sleep with Project Butter http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/27/3118769/android-4-1-jelly-bean.

Here are a few links to fixes to make the iPhone and iPad a little less laggy http://www.imore.com/speed-laggy-ios-device

As Rene Ritchie points out, "every single one of Apple's major mobile competitors now makes apps for iOS."

Most iOS apps don't make enough money to break even.

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Most iOS apps don't make enough money to break even.

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A lot of people are thinking that the Apple Maps errors are just going to be shrugged off – that in a few months or a few years, they'll reach "good enough" status, and everyone will just forget this embarrassing incident. But I think it goes deeper than that. A major part of Apple's appeal, one big reason why they have been able to charge premium prices and get people lining up to buy their stuff, is that their devices "Just Work." Other companies routinely used their customers as beta testers (this is why it's common knowledge that you never buy a new version of Windows or Office until at least the first Service Pack is out). But Apple avoided that.

No longer. For Apple Maps users *are* beta testers, make no mistake about it. Apple's primary method of map improvement is for users to report problems so they can be fixed. This is unpaid QA work. This is not what Apple's customers thought they were signing up for.

Add that to the fact that the new Lightning connector on the iPhone has an IC designed solely to prevent creation of compatible cables, and of course the numerous lawsuits against Android vendors. It's increasingly starting to look like the post-Jobs Apple is no longer putting the customer experience first. Oh, they always cared about making money, but they understood that their business model was to make money by making the customers happy. Even moves that could be seen as anti-competitive, like the walled garden, could be justified from a user experience perspective (non-technical users probably *shouldn't* be randomly downloading un-vetted executable code, for security reasons). But with Maps, for the first time, they are sacrificing a significant aspect of user experience to internal politics. It is an ill omen for the future. If they continue on this road, what separates them any more from Microsoft, except that MS has a bigger installed base of business users?

Yawn. First of all, lets link to the original article instead of the BGR rumination.

"However, if you want a thinner phone that still takes great photos, if you want a better screen that gives a more accurate representation of your photos, if you want the ability to take photos while shooting video, then taken together, the answer could very well change to yes. In fact, if taking and enjoying photos with your iPhone is one of your primary passions -- if you consider yourself an "iPhoneographer" -- the display alone is worth the upgrade to the iPhone 5."

Oh, and how about the motto of the photo blog http://www.imore.com/photography: "Everything you need to know to take the best pictures imaginable with the iPhone, the best camera you have with you".

Yawn. First of all, lets link to the original article instead of the BGR rumination.

"However, if you want a thinner phone that still takes great photos, if you want a better screen that gives a more accurate representation of your photos, if you want the ability to take photos while shooting video, then taken together, the answer could very well change to yes. In fact, if taking and enjoying photos with your iPhone is one of your primary passions -- if you consider yourself an "iPhoneographer" -- the display alone is worth the upgrade to the iPhone 5."

Oh, and how about the motto of the photo blog http://www.imore.com/photography: "Everything you need to know to take the best pictures imaginable with the iPhone, the best camera you have with you".

iMore grabbed an iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S and did a fantastic shoot-out between the two device's rear cameras.

Here's a link to the actual comparison, instead of a blog describing the comparison: http://www.imore.com/iphone-5-vs-iphone-4s-camera

I do think the screen on the iPad 3 is very nice. I was even considering buying one, but in use I just find it a pain in the ass: I'm very used to having a convenient "back" button in Android. It even works to go back to the previous application that you were using. For example if you tap on a youtube link in the browser, it takes you to the youtube app - tap "back", and you will be back where you were in the browser.

http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-use-ipad-multitasking-gestures-and-why-you-should/
Specifically #3 on the list.

Also if it is jailbroken (You really should jailbreak it, the configuration options are as plentiful as unix), Activator is pretty much a required tweak.
You can set any of the gestures/buttons/actions to do this or any of a hundred+ other commands.
I also use it on my phone while in the car to control the iPod app in a way that doesn't require looking at or touching the screen at all. On my volume rocker switch, I hit "Up, Down" to go to next track, "Down, Up" to go back a track, and "Up and Down together" to pause/play. Much safer way to use a car mount bracket and bluetooth stereo.

Also a task manager can pretty up the whole operation. Personally I use MultiFl0w (Not free, but I don't remember what I paid for it so long ago), and activator is configured to call it upon a "home button double-tap".
All open app windows show up and you tab on any to bring it forward, and can easily jump between 12 apps with just two actions (or three if you have more apps running than 12)
There are plenty of other task managers to install, and a bunch of free ones too. Pick your stylistic poison.

I also use Backgrounder, to switch between "native" background usage (via the real API) and the standard unix way (app doesn't go away until you close it... But mind your batt life!)

Lastly there is even a tweak in Cydia that adds a function to Activator, to perform the exact "Android back button" behavior that you can bind to the home button. I'm not exactly sure what it was called (And never personally used it) but it had both "Back" and "Android" in the name, for search terms.

Please note all the above suggestions except the very first one require jailbreaking.
Head to pwnmyi.com to get the right app, connect your device by USB, and run it. Use http://pwnmyi.com/gui/ To plug in your device, OS ver, and PC OS info to find the right jailbreak app/version and download links.

That depends on how you define ownership. Legally, I can reprogram my trucks computer for better horsepower, I can bypass failed safety shutoff switches in my microwave to keep it operational and save a buck, I can even flash a custom bios to my pc's motherboard, but if you do exactly the same procedure to a wii then you are a criminal. How does this relate to iDevices? Only phones can be legally jailbroken. Explicitly:

Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset.

This does not, and never did, extend to iPads or iPods. And more so, the exemption is set to expire soon.

If you own the hardware but not the required software to make it work, then what do you own other than a pile of scrap?

You would think they would be happy, with regard to the design patent suits, particularly given Jonathon Ive's statement about Apple's designs:
“We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable. That leave you with the sense that that’s the only possible solution that makes sense,” he explains.
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Since that appears to be working they are now complaining about it, as though it's a case of we did it "right", and we did it right "first" so now everyone else must continue to do it wrong.
Realistically if you were going to buy an iphone but didn't know what it was, only knew vaguely what it looks like and weren't even sure why you wanted one then potentially you could accidentally buy a galaxy instead (if you didn't ask for it by name). But even then if you actually hold them in your hand or use them you can tell immediately that they are very different. Yes they look similar (well the old iphone and old galaxy do, not any more) but given the design goals it seems that's highly likely to happen unless you intend to be different for the sake of it.

Apple got there first in most respects - at least pre-iOS5 - and they have a great product with great brand loyalty and great market share, what more do they need? What is the damage that is actually being done to warrant all of this? Designs have since changed so are they really still holding on to this?

Ultimately the issue is really basic.

Console lockdown has created a giant opening for cross-platform gaming. The platform is not "the device" but simply "the genre of the game" Something that runs on the tablet/smartphone will almost guaranteed be able to run on any computing device, basically. Which is something consoles don't really lean towards (see: "Exclusive" titles, PC only, etc).

so the question of "what will it play on?" is basically gone. Which is why companies like gameloft are going to be out of business - they rip off games and market them to specific devices and try to create this exclusivity, and then blame the market for their own failures in 2009. Yet a year later? "we're moving in on android!" etc etc.This is a company trying to become another console manufacturer equivalent (failure) for smartphones, and thus has huge money being poured in from console manufacturers. Why? Because they are one. Owned by lovely Ubisoft.. Half of their games are exclusive to specific iphone models or specific android phones. Yet, long term? colossal failure.

The other companies that made cellphones had occasional hissing matches with each other, as companies seem to like to do, but it would get resolved since they realized it was in their best interests. While they'd all like to be the one and only phone provider in the world, they know that isn't going to happen so they'll settle for cross licensing and so on.

Um. No.

http://flowingdata.com/2010/10/11/mobile-patent-lawsuits/

I really hate those infographics because they dumb down the scenarios so badly.

Plus that one is wrong, it doesn't even include Apple v Samsung or Apple v Motorola, both Motorola and Samsung's suits against Apple are counter suits.

The graphic lower down on that page explains that the majority of Nokia's suits are over LCD price fixing (so no shit they are suing multiple companies, it's part of the same fucking suit). But as I said, it does not even include the Apple v Samsung case that has garnered a lot of attention.

And, for the record, it seems that Nokia is the most aggressive company out there, not Apple.

For the record, that is bullshit.

If you bothered tor read the incorrect article you linked to, three out of the five Nokia suits are in relation to LCD price fixing, the same suit for three different companies. One of the remaining two is a counter suit against Apple. So that leaves the suit between Nokia and Qualcomm. The original Nokia V Apple was resolved with Apple paying Nokia license fees mid last year, license fees which Nokia had been chasing Apple for since it released the Iphone and Apple had been refusing to pay.

The big difference between Apple and other companies is that Apple is suing it's competitors to prevent them from competing. They aren't asking for reasonable license fees, chances are HTC, Samsung et al. would have paid the danegled to make Apple go away (it worked for Microsoft didn't it), but Apple didn't want this, Apple asked the courts for injunctions, not license fees, so dont act all butt hurt that now everyone else is doing that to Apple.