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Apple will comply with the local data storage law, ... Apple will apparently need to decrypt and produce user data for the country's security services as requested.

So they'll stand up to OUR government in 2016 (Apple won't decrypt a phone for the FBI Info link) but they'll lower their standards for foreign governments?

No matter which way you fall on this issue -- SHOULD have or should NOT have -- this is wrong.

If Apple is "The Angel of Privacy everywhere" then they should stand up for no decryption. If they take the stance "the local government makes the choice and we'll follow", then they should have decrypted the phone.

"But now the U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create. They have asked us to build a backdoor to the iPhone." Link

So if other governments ask for it, it's OK? Expect weasel words soon: it's not OK, but they made us do it against our will. We couldn't sell there if we didn't do it. There's a chance it might be accessed, but think of all the good information they now have access to they didn't before.

I'm not a particular fan or enemy of Apple (they produce good products that don't meet my Bang for the Buck requirements) but you're actively doing things for our frenemies that you wouldn't do for our country?? And don't give me that "we're standing up for what's right" bit, you're certainly not standing up Over There.

"Oh, but politics isn't our job." Just TRY that one.

Apple is more on the road to taking a middleman cut, they don't make the content nor do they make the device its consumed on, but they do make a percentage for matching the two up. Hmm, when I put it that way is Apple a pimp?

Actually, they're more on their way to being a content creator, coming from the middle man cut. They've got at least 30 projects announce that are exclusive to them, including an adaptation of Asimov's Foundation series and an unnamed (or no known name for yet) Ronald D. Moore series (as well as tons of other, non-scifi and sci-fi content). I'm not sure I want that stuff to work out or not...

Strawman argument.

Why? Because there NEVER would have BEEN USB Thumb Drives in the first place, if not for Apple and the iMac.

HAHA good one.

Proof? USB Ports had been on EVERY Wintel motherboard for YEARS with virtually NOTHING to plug into them... UNTIL THE IMAC CAME ALONG.

That's hardly a proof. http://tylervigen.com/spurious...

I applaud your healthy skepticism; however, in this case, the vast majority of non-Apple-Hating tech experts would agree that Apple, through the iMac, pretty much singlehandedly put USB "on the map".

https://www.macworld.com/artic...

" Apple Inc.'s iMac was the first mainstream product with USB and the iMac's success popularized USB itself.[12] Following Apple's design decision to remove all legacy port from the iMac, many PC manufacturers began building legacy-free PCs, which led to the broader PC market using USB as a standard.[13][14][15]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Citations from above:

12. "Eight ways the iMac changed computing". Macworld. 15 August 2008. Archived from the original on 22 December 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2017.

13. "Compaq hopes to follow the iMac". Archived from the original on 22 October 2006.

14. "The PC Follows iMac's Lead". Business week. 1999. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015.

15. Popular Mechanics: Making Connections. Hearst Magazines. February 2001. p. 59. ISSN 0032-4558. Archived from the original on 15 February 2017.

So, no; in this particular case, the consensus is that the iMac made USB into a viable alternative to parallel and RS-232 Serial (as well as other buses, such as ADB) interfaces popular at the time.

And considering that USB Thumb Drives first appeared on the market in 2000, it is fairly certain that, if the iMac had not come along and, through its popularity, given USB the critical "push" it needed to get past the "chicken and egg" problem faced by every new technology, those USB Thumb Drives would certainly not happened in 2000, and likely not until much, much later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Heck, I'm sure that you remember: While Apple was just a few months from launching the iMac, Microsoft couldn't so much as plug in a USB SCANNER without Blue-Screening W '98, even though Windows advertises USB Support as early as W '95 OSR2.1!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

And, BTW, note that Windows didn't even HAVE Storage Device USB Support until W '98 SE (May, 1999). AFAIK, Apple supported Storage-Class Devices from the first release of the iMac in August, 1998 (running (Classic) MacOS 8.1 !!!).

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...and let's not even talk about Linux's sad and late adoption of USB. It wasn't even added until the 2.2 Kernel in 1999, although that was experimental support. Mainstream USB support wasn't really available in Linux until the 2.4 Kernel was released in 2001:

https://kernel.readthedocs.io/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And even now, USB and Linux is sometimes an exercise in frustration (but I guess that applies to all things Linux, doesn't it?)

https://www.google.com/search?...

I was basically going to say something similar but add that iOS only allows an app access to location service "while using the app", otherwise, permission is refused by default.

Apple are pathological about battery usage, and quite rightly also take privacy far more seriously than most other companies, thus the reason iOS allowed you control over apps well before Android starting implementing similar controls - minus Google services that is, because, you know, Google is All Knowing.

unless you're talking about AptX HD or LDAC...

Or AAC streamed directly to supporting devices, which is what AirPods and some Beats headsets use.

Glad to help you learn something today!

But then, DSD, high res WAV and FLAC, and other high-res formats are difficult if not impossible on iOS

You can use apps like VLC to play FLAC quite easily - or you can use Apple Lossless, ALAC.

Were you not aware iOS supported applications that might use other codecs? Or that Apple has had a losses codec for some time? How odd.

The difference between Android and IOS being that on iOS, I could choose to use either FLAC or ALAC - on Android I could only choose FLAC. Why people support platforms with less choice is beyond me.

So correction, I got to help you learn TWO things today!

You only need your /boot partition in that format for EFI boot. Use a separate partition for /.

Still, the relevant problem here is not being able to use the built in SSD and being forced to use an external drive for dual-boot.

But I don't thnk that is the case.

And of course, there is always FUSE, plus the (decidedly non-free) Paragon File System Link. The problems with FUSE for Mac are that it only seems to provide limited support for ext2, and none(?) for ext3 or 4:

https://www.macworld.com/artic...

So, it comes down to this. Non-Free; but it gets pretty good reviews. Plus, it appears to be the whole enchilada, even allowing FORMATTING. So, since it is compatible with Mojave, one would expect it to be able to format an Ext4 Partition on the internal SSD.

https://www.paragon-software.c...

Sorry I couldn't find a FOSS solution; but it's not the most expensive thing in the world, either.

I know the topic is TV shows and movies, but keep in mind that Apple has not sold any DRM-infected music for nine years.

I find that hard to believe. I've bought some music from them, and had a bunch that I'd ripped. Decided to get Apple iTunes Match. Cool! They would overwrite my rips with their "digital" versions. Wonderful!

Until I decided to stop paying for Match. Now NONE of my music will play, including the stuff I had ripped that they "upgraded" for me without me asking!

Tell me again how there's no DRM.

I know the topic is TV shows and movies, but keep in mind that Apple has not sold any DRM-infected music for nine years.

A lot of people (myself included) like to plug in if they are sitting at a desk, period.

Which is fine but I'm curious why wireless earphones isn't a viable option for this?

Why take the chance of running out of battery later in the day?

Multiple solutions to this if it is something you are genuinely worried about. And frankly I've never needed to charge my phone more than once mid-day even with near continuous usage unless the battery was dying. And bluetooth headphones last hours at a stretch and recharge in minutes.

Maybe you're going to go home and go for a run and you need almost a full charge to run the GPS.

That's a pretty darn long run! Though you do know that you do not need a GPS to go for a run, right?

Also, I listen to audio books at night.. So when to charge then?

During your commute. During meetings. During meals. With a battery pack while on the go. While you sleep. There are fast charge options available for the iPhone - for $ of course which can charge a phone roughly 50% in 30 minutes. Are you seriously going to claim that you use your device so much that you never have time to charge? If you want to use a wired set so you don't have to bother I don't buy claims that you can't find time to charge.

Perhaps an add-on that allowed you to attach professional lenses to your iPhone (which already has a pretty good CCD.)

People already do make add on lenses for iPhones and while they will give you some telephoto abilities they will never produce professional results. The reason is that the sensor in the iPhone and stock lens are already diffraction limited so any lens with a greater f-stop than the factory one will only make that worse. Also since no lens is perfect adding another one will only introduce additional optical defects and aberrations into the final image. Now some times this is acceptable (look at 1.4x and 2x telephoto converters) but the results are not as good as just using a larger lens to begin with. For example I have a very nice SMC Takumar 200mm lens and a really cheap 400mm lens, I get better results with the cheap 400mm lens than using the 200mm with a 2x telephoto converter. That said before I got the 400mm I would use the 200mm + 2x converter for that extra reach as the results were still better than a tighter crop of an image taken with just the 200mm lens. So don't expect adding more glass in front will work miracles.

Moving on to sensors the iPhone has a very good sensor for its size but it is still a tiny sensor (about 6mm x 5mm). Compare that to a professional full frame sensor that is 24mm x 36mm, APS-C 22mm x 14mm, medium format (43mm x 32mm or 53mm x 40mm) sensor. The light gathering ability of those larger sensors is substantially better that the tiny sensors in cellphones. The iPhone does use a back illuminated sensor which does help it out with high ISO noise but even then the high ISO performance of the larger sensors is vastly superior. It looks like the iPhone tops out at ISO 1250 which is pretty damn low compared to even an old DSLR (I have a 10 year old one that tops out at ISO 3200 and one less than 2 years old that tops out at ISO 51,200) and the amount of noise in the image from the iPhone is comparable to my newest camera at ISO 25,600 or the older one at ISO1600.

Then you have the combination of the existing lens plus sensor on the phone which produces a very deep depth of field, even with the "telephoto" lens on the iPhone. Yes software can fake it but there is a reason that professionals like a mild telephoto (in the 70mm to 150mm range) with a nice f/2 aperture on a full frame camera or better yet a 200mm on a medium format for portraits. The depth of field comes about because of the sensor size and focal length so a big sensor with a big lens will give you a shallower depth of field while the tiny sensor (crop factor of about 7) with tiny focal length (about 4mm) give a very deep depth of field. If I want that I will stick my 17mm fish-eye or 28mm wide angle on my full frame camera, set the f-stop to f/11 or f/16 spin the focusing ring over to about 2 meters and not bother focusing it again and go do some street photography. In looking at a lab test of the iPhone 8 image quality I'm not impressed with what it produces under ideal circumstances but there one is a pixel peeper.

All that aside a camera like what one finds on a modern good quality cell phone will be all most people, 99% of people fall in this category, will ever need and they will never find the camera being the limiting factor in their photography ability. The only area that these cameras could really improve would be in noise reduction, especially at high ISO, as they are at the limits of what can be done to improve image quality with optics and pixel densities. Even there they may be rapidly approaching the limits but I don't know much about that area of senso

Congratulations you invented LOGO!

Or, they could've dug through their own software catalogue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard

I love HyperCard and HyperTalk; but it does NOT have nearly the "Natural Language" properties that Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler thought it did. And as far as "wordiness", COBOL has NOTHING on HyperTalk!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Proof: One has to look no further than AppleScript, which is the syntactic kissing-cousin of HyperTalk.

That, then, raises a second question: If Apple didn't want to, or couldn't remember how to, reach back into the 80s and 90s, why not beef up AppleScript?

It's still an integral part of current OS releases, provides some level of natural text entry (or at least has DWIM syntax that's approachable by English-speaking beginners), and should provide a foundation for interfaces and modification easily enough.

There's so much that could have been done with AppleScript and OSA in general that hasn't... And yet here they are reinventing things again. Apple 2017 truly is reminiscent of Apple 1993.

Well, one thing that AppleScript ISN'T is FAST. Never was, never will be.

And there has been some interest in "updating" AppleScript, at least for iOS. Apple bought a company called "Workflow" about a year or so ago; but then... crickets. And the guy behind Automator, which is the GUI-implementation of AppleScript (kind of) for macOS, had his position eliminated; so?

Here's an interesting article on some of all this:

https://www.macworld.com/artic...

Steve Jobs had the perfect sense of exactly how to package something at exactly the right price point for the consumer.

In most instances, yes. However, this isn't the first time Apple has decided to get into the speaker business; the last time was on Job's watch, and it failed pretty hard in the marketplace: the Apple iPod Hi-Fi.

Like the Apple iPod Hi-Fi, it looks like they're going to try to position this as an audiophile speaker. I have little doubt from that perspective it's probably a better music device than its competitors; the thing to watch for is to see if people are going to care enough about that this time around (they didn't seem to last time around). Most people don't seem to care if their speakers are crappy, so long as they can hear their tunes.

Yaz

Nope, just a phone.

Or a wa tch.

mycomputer:~ root # csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: disabled.

guess what, it's disabled! The trick is you have to boot off the recovery partition to flip the bit. It's similar to the process of unsetting the SCHG flag on a file. You can set it with root access, but you can't UNset it if kernel protection mode has been elevated by booting off a normal OS. That is a one-way trip, and a restart is the only way to unset it. In other words, no, you cannot use system prefs to disable SIP. That's kind of the point... it prevents a user from getting social-engineered into giving malware their password (which, depending on the user, can be very easy to pull off) and then simply SUDO a command to turn off SIP. Forcing the user to boot off the recovery partition to turn off SIP has two huge advantages:

1. novice users are unlikely to be willing / able to do it
2. malware can't turn it off regardless of how successful they are at deceiving the user

The idea here is to address "The user is the weakest point in the security of most computer systems".

Here's a decent guide on how to disable it. Or how to modify other associated settings such as where a machine can netboot from:

https://www.macworld.com/artic...

Anyway, one of the things SIP does is it protects bundled applications in the /Applications folder from being modified or deleted. Other apps installed in the /Applications folder aren't supposed to be included, things like Firefox or Photoshop for example. It sounds like there's a bug here that's causing some installed apps to get granted SIP protection when they should not. Disable SIP and you should be able to remove those apps. SIP supersedes root, (which is why you can't SUDO it off) and so you can't just boot into single user mode to remove those apps if SIP is enabled

I turn it off on my computer because I'm not an easy mark to social engineer, and I occasionally need to do things that SIP prevents me from doing. (or causes me a hassle - Operation Not Permitted when I am logged in as root just pisses me off, I'm not an idiot so stop telling me what I can and can't do with my own computer!) Better than 98% of users will never have a good reason to disable SIP though. So the issue is more about clickbait and headlines than anything else. Even the crowd here probably doesn't get anywhere over 20% ever having a reason to disable it.

My comment was bitching about them charging $200 for 8GB DDR4 2133 for a Macbook Pro. That costs $200 because you have to buy it from them when you buy the device, not because it's ECC.

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

I'm guessing configuring it to 64GB or 128GB is going to cost you a lot of cash per GB. If Apple charge $200 for 8GB of non ECC memory for a Macbook Pro, how much will they charge for 32 or 96GB of ECC stuff for an iMac Pro?

And, in true Apple fashion the Ram on the iMac Pro isn't upgradeable unlike in the 5K iMac, so you need to order the device with the maximum amount of memory you think it will need over its life.

https://www.macworld.com/artic...

Apple has announced that the iMac Pro will be available beginning Thursday, Dec. 14 starting at $5,000 for an 8-core Xeon procession, 32GB of RAM, an 8GB Radeon Pro Vega GPU and 1TB SSD. That's a lot of machine, but itâ(TM)s hardly maxed out. Customers will be able to customize the iMac Pro up to an 18-core Xeon chip, 128GB of RAM, 16GB GPU, and 4TB hard drive.

But as Marques Brownlee points out, you might want to pony up some extra cash up front. Brownlee got a chance to play with the new 10-core machine for a week, and while he praises the speed, he notes that the iMac Pro isn't user upgradeable. Even the RAM door that is on the back of the 5K iMac is gone, which will surely upset power users.

Depends on the product.
My ca. 2004 12" G4 PowerBok had super easy exchangeable batteries.
Don't really know when they changed that ...

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I don't use it often, but it runs fine with Mac OS X 10.4 (Panther)

Only because there are so many browsers that MS has managed to get Bing setup as the default search engine

But the fact that Google comes as the default search on Chrome (with over 50% market share), as well as every Android and iOS, does not faze you in the least.

They had an API for writing their own apps

A secure API that let the phone install apps from many sources?

If you were building a phone that did not need third party apps shy not just put security around the whole system, rather than a per-app basis?

and initial volume would've been really low.

It was not .

Legend has it that Jobs really was actually counting on webapps for everything.

That was the very public story Apple gave to developers the first year, stalling for time until the real app store was released.

I've also heard that they took the iPod from zero to a product in considerably less than a year.

Almost year> from conception.

Yes it's true Apple could move pretty fast but like I said there were a lot of signs at the launch of IOS that there would be third party apps. If all of that hadn't been there I would agree but I actually left my job and focused only on iPhone development, before they announced there would be an app store or third party apps - it was that obvious to me at the time. I just started with jailbroken IOS development before the official SDK launched... (and the jailbroken stuff would not have been possible without all of the system support in place for third party apps).

They're still using 5400 RPM HDDs in their low-end-yet-too-expensive Macs.

I know you're being snarky, but it's worth pointing out that the Macs you're mentioning are outliers. To get a sense for the trend across their product line:
- 2010 was the first year they launched a Mac with no HDD option at all (MacBook Air)
- 2012 was the last year they launched a laptop with HDDs as an option (MacBook Pro)
- 2015 was the last year they launched a desktop with HDDs as an option (iMac)

So, to say the least, it's pretty clear which direction the winds are blowing. Of the Macs that haven't been updated in so long that they still offer HDDs, the mini (last updated in 2014) looks likely to be discontinued, while the models of iMac that default to spinning disks (the non-Retina and low-end Retina models) are likely to go away in favor of Retina models using SSDs. If those updates happen it would mean Apple has no Macs anywhere in their lineup that use HDDs, unless they decide to keep around an iMac model with a Fusion Drive (which, from personal experience, are actually pretty great, but which anyone on /. should definitely build for themselves, rather than paying the Apple tax).

All of which is to say, contrary to your subject line, a surge in SSD pricing could be a problem for Apple, given that they've almost moved entirely over to SSDs at this point, which is more than I suspect most major manufacturers can say.

Well yes, it was an attempt at humor...

And I appreciate the detailed perspective. I don't have your history and will take you at your word that in some cases the Java platform is a good solution for devs. What you did not address is the user experience. Which is what I believe is the achilles heal of most cross platform solutions. I've never run into a Java UI that I enjoyed. This is also not to mention the security exploits that seem to pop up with great regularity. Don't take my word for it.

http://www.macworld.com/articl...

Actually, by default it restricts installation to the App Store and "Identified Developers" (e.g. established 3rd-party developers like Adobe). IIRC, you can also type in the admin account user/pass in the prompt to bypass it. Only the really out-there stuff requires going into System Preferences and explicitly allowing it.

That one TV-advertised product PC-Matic mimics this behavior in Windows if memory serves, which makes me think that Microsoft just wants to bump that company off, perhaps?

http://www.macworld.com/articl...

Right - Click. Choose "Open"

Dismiss Warning.

App Opens, and you are never bothered again about that App.

Now, was that so hard?!?

Because TFS was written by a marketer, there's no hint of what this magical technology might be good for. Except for the fact that it's Windows 10, which was also written by marketers.

Apparently switching SIMs (typically while traveling abroad) is so much trouble that "they", out of their boundless kindness no doubt, have a "solution" for you: reprogram it remotely so you could switch mobile carriers just by going to the settings page on your smartphone. Me? I'd rather trust my fat fingers than some company or some service that might work as advertised or not, thank you very much.

Incidentally, Apple has been talking about this for a while -- another reason to steer clear of it.

RT.

might infringe on some submarine patents waiting to surface

There are patent lawsuits in progress over H.264. Can you cite any lawsuits happening over VP9?

Try explaining any of this to Apple fanatics. Every time I bring any of these issues up I'm immediately labeled a troll because some guy who edits 4K video professionally loves his new MacBook Pro.

I'm a Mac user, and I don't know any Mac fanatics who defend everything that Apple does.

And Mac-related publications don't give Apple a free pass. For example, here's a Macworld article by a senior contributor, that calls for bigger batteries in Apple laptops, even if bigger batteries mean thicker laptops.

Hey Apple, it's time to give up thinness for a bigger battery ...
If Apple insists on making its devices thinner and lighter, there simply won’t be enough room for batteries that last all day in real-world situations. ...
Thinness or more battery? I’ll take more battery.

AND CHARGE THEIR PHONE AT THE SAME TIME.

I have literally not done that ever. I plug in my phone at night, I use headphones during the day... or I have the phone attached to my car via USB cable, which routes audio.

Do I have to spell this out for you?

If you really, really need to charge at the same time there are already multiple solutions.

Since the original post said it could not be done - well, the word "bald faced lie" is really not too strong, now is it?

It looks like Office for iOS is http://www.macworld.com/articl...>free. If you're used to it being free for your tablet, why would you expect hundreds of dollars on your desktop?

AC, for a reason I guess, like perhaps we'd label him a trolling idiot on multiple fronts: Apple is calling the new screen a “Retina 5K display,” and says it's the world's highest resolution computer screen at 5120-by-2880 pixels. (Dell might argue that it shares that crown, but its display won't actually ship until the fourth quarter.) At 217 pixels per inch, the pixel density is just a smidge lower than that of Apple's MacBook Pro with Retina Display, though it's safe to assume most users would keep the iMac screen further away than a laptop.

The new MacBooks Pros have been improved in nearly every way

Unless you buy the smaller, cheaper Macbook Pro, (that probably should have been called an "Air Plus" or something), the new Pros have no dedicated function keys. (People are already posting instructions on how to configure a physical Escape key). But you DO get a whiz-bang OLED strip that gives you, (among other things), stuff like emojis and more streamlined online payments. Also, you can't charge an iPhone with the new MacBook Pro, unless you buy a pricey adapter; and then you'll have yet another piece of hardware cruft to be broken, lost, or forgotten. How is this "improved in nearly every way"? For that matter, how does it qualify as "Pro"?

The new MacBook DOES have a stereo headphone jack though. I guess their 'courage' failed them this time. Apple should get rid of their courage altogether - their products would be the better for it. I've never liked Apple, but mostly I at least respected them. With their latest product decisions, even that respect is gone.

http://www.macworld.com/articl...

Sounds like you are looking for excuses for your hate Apple, not reasons why their products are bad.

Create a bootable external drive of Sierra. It's slower than putting Sierra onto your main drive, and some things might work differently than if it were on your main drive. But it's a way to test out Sierra without committing to it.

Sorry if I misunderstood. It would be if it weren't for "the Apple way" stuff getting in the way.

No worries. As I said, I think I didn't state my question too clearly. And quite frankly, I'm not sure I did much better on the second attempt, LOL!!!

"The Apple Way" stuff you are referring to: Are you talking about the GUI, or macOS' propensity to play a bit of hide-and-seek against the casual browser of System files (which is easily defeated temporarily or permanently) (caution: Sound on that Page)? By the way, that stuff works on other "Hidden" Directories, too. Or are you talking about something(s) else?

Starting with iOS 9, there's an 8 hour timeout on TouchID. Longer than that, and you need to re-enter your passcode. TouchID won't work. (Source: http://www.macworld.com/articl...)

And of course as others have mentioned, on power up, passcode is required once. So if there's any possibility of a police interaction, crashboot your phone (hold power & home for five seconds), or shut it down normally if you have the time. Failing that, have your attorney appeal EVERYTHING to blow the 8 hour timeout away.

Also, FFS run the latest version of iOS, since this and other protections (some of which have worked in the San Bernardino case) aren't present in older releases.

The electronics, powered by the lightning jack, in a lightning-to-headphone-jack adapter could be small enough to be part of the jack body. An optional version including a lightning jack could provide for charging and other accessories.

Strap on battery packs are typically designed to fit the phone model. Those designed for jack-less phones could extend the lightning jack.

With only one hole to deal with wishing for a water resistant iPhone 7 could become a reality.

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.

The Macalope has already deconstructed this bit of click-bait. http://www.macworld.com/article/3061053/ios/over-the-top-making-your-apple-watch-diatribe-stand-out.html

I liked it when it was Sound Jam!
http://www.macworld.com/articl...
https://www.panic.com/extras/a...

Paid good money for that software, a month before Apple took it, called it iTunes and released it for free.

Glad to
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Rip Mix Burn... The Internet is a device to steal intellectual property. Some steal a little some a lot.

Besides Apple just released this.

Wow -- Apple finally has a way to interface conveniently with camera photos on an SD Card?? Welcome to the year 2005, folks.

Errm. 2005 is spot on.

If code is well-written, with portability in mind, then there is absolutely no reason for games to not come on Mac at release.

Well, 1 reason may be that Macs suck for gaming. Yes, all of them, even the $6000 Pros.

I wonder how useful it would be to keep a "Ransomware canary" around. I'm thinking of, say, a Word .doc file on a network drive. A process on some separate computer then checks its entropy every few minutes to make sure it has not grown huge.

The idea fails for local files because (as I recall) the more sophisticated ransomware inserts itself as a filesystem driver.

Or tripwire which I think should protect very well against cryptolocker type attacks:
http://hints.macworld.com/arti...

asked phone manufacturers LG, Samsung, and Sony and computer manufacturers Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo (which also owns phone manufacturer Motorola) whether they agreed with the government or Apple in the unfolding legal battle.

None of them also make the OS, they're just the hardware guys. The FBI is asking for a software backdoor.

Google (those guys behind Android) has stood by Apple

Don't the Iranian powers that be have something to say about this? When people began writing apps to publicize checkpoints here in the U.S., our morality police threw a hissy fit.

It seems to me that Adobe Systems is no longer a well-managed company, and hasn't been since Bruce Chizen got tired of managing Adobe, which was well before he resigned in 2007. Here is a story from 2007 about that: Bruce Chizen's legacy.

This is a comment from a reader of that story who called himself Tidewind: "I might be in the minority on this, but under Bruce Chizen, I felt Adobe became, well, arrogant." That was my experience, also.

Part of the attraction of Flash has been that it is used to violate the privacy provisions of browsers. Flash can be used to generate what are called Flash-cookies, Local Shared Objects (LSOs), or Super-Cookies, which are files placed on a visitor's computer by the Flash plug-in.

(To avoid permanent tracking: In Firefox, use the BetterPrivacy add-on.)

Now Adobe is trying to make money by making its very expensive products even more expensive by charging monthly for them.

Microsoft followed that monthly business model with Office 365: Pay every day, 365 days each year, even if some of those days you don't have internet access. (Read the comments about Microsoft's other methods of abuse, such as restricting each copy to one country.)

Flash is either VERY buggy, or deliberately buggy. Possibly one way Adobe Systems makes money is by allowing vulnerabilities supplied by secret government agencies. Those agencies can spend billions of dollars of taxpayer money without public oversight.

The new software company business model is apparently "Be abusive".

Apple products are used by government agencies only on TV. In real life, it's all Windows, mostly Windows XP.

Really? They say otherwise.

I ask because multiple sources confirm, split-view multitasking only works on iPad Air 2 and newer.

If it's working on your iPad Air 1, you must have one of those rare ones that lacks a mute slider; e.g. an Air 2.

Not the original poster, and it was a bit hard to find, but there's this: https://www.securemac.com/maco...

I remember a slashdot discussion about it years ago as well.

Ok, well now I remember it; but according to this article (and the comments following it), this is MUCH different than the Lollipop vulnerability:

1. It is only the SCREENSAVER-lock that is affected. The regular OS X Login Screen CANNOT be bypassed in this manner! BIG difference!

2. You must know the USERNAME of an ADMINISTRATOR Account; regular (non-Admin) Users CANNOT use this vulnerability to gain unlock the screensaver. Again, BIG Difference!

3. This has been fixed for aeons.

I've since discovered that a crossword game using Pinyin that is similar to Scrabble exists.

Not streamed at 256Kbps so I really have no idea why you wrote all the irrelevant stuff above. This is about streaming audio and not some download once track for your mp3 player.
Consider how your post looks after such a basic mistake that renders it entirely offtopic. Those insults to the guy who was talking about something else don't look so clever now do they?

What are you talking about? Music today is streamed at 256k or better.

What "basic mistake" did the GP make? How does that affect the "cleverness of his insults"?

"Apple Music streams songs at 256kbps, which is the same rate as iTunes Match. That’s a bit of a drop from Beats Music and Spotify, which use a 320kbps bitrate."

Source: http://www.macworld.com/articl...

it's fair to say that while many sites such as gmail had integrated advanced security features such as 2FA, apple had not done so in the name of usability. this was the fundamental flaw. after the fappening apple rolled out 2FA.

However, i would call this a security problem not a privacy problem.

Wrong.

Apple added two-factor Authentication to Apple IDs and iCloud in March, 2013.

The Fappening happened around September 1, 2014.

And it is well-established that the "breach" of iCloud happened due to good ol' Password-Guessing, nothing more, nothing less.

Nice try, hater.