"Well Mr. Anderson, if you won't unlock your phone for us we'll just 3D-print your face and unlock it anyway, so you might as well."
"You see, Agent Smith, there is this tiny problem. I pressed the power button 5 times and temporarily disabled Face ID. I guess you will have to force me to enter my passcode anyway. And there is no way you can do that, because... errrrm, well, the same reason you can power the Matrix with humans, probably."
Do the phones crash when the line appears? If not, this name makes absolutely no sense.
According to TFA, is should be called the "Green Line of getting a replacement iPhone for an otherwise fully functional unit". Too long and not sensationalistic enough.
Apple engineering is too good for this to be a product flaw. Clearly it's those lazy Chinese workers in Apple's sweatshops that are cutting corners again.
Funny how you don't even mention Samsung, who build the display. Guess they don't pay you for that.
Maybe web sites should not be trying to behave like apps. Especially if doing so kills browser performance and battery life on mobile.
Can you give an example of a web site where this behaviour is actually desirable?
So you must have a problem with the fact that that behavior again works when the (previously not needed) option "active" is added to the onwhatever listener?
Years ago, websites were designed so that they rendered properly with Internet Explorer. Microsoft didn't have to follow any standards because they had the most widely used browser and Fuck You if you don't use IE.
Now Chrome is the most widely used browser and Google has decided to become the new Microsoft.
And they fuck that up by not breaking the web for everybody else, but only for those who use Chrome to visit those sites that expect the behavior every other browser still has. New motto: too dumb to be evil.
I stopped needing Bluetooth file transfer when I got my DropBox account 10 years ago. Having access to my files everywhere is much simpler.
So when you want to give a file to the person right next to you, you first tell him to download dropbox, and then give him your account details to access the file. Yeah, makes sense.
An extra 500,000 over expected sales of 46.6 million is 1% above target.
The headline is hyperbolic in the extreme.
Phew, thanks god iPhone sales were the only prediction anybody made. Imagine if TFA or even TFS had mentioned revenue and Mac sales 8% above expectations - how dumb would that make you look.
I'm not sure the Fappening victims are convinced Apple is doing a better job of keep their data secure and private than any of the other players.
Sure they don't - even so we (as in those who don't have their heads up their asses) all full well know that they gave their online credentials to the hackers in a way that Apple couldn't prevent. ANd that's ignoring that the majority of hacked accounts actually where from Google, for which only an idiot would claim Apple responsible.
Actually it does mean exactly that. Apple does not manufacture their products and has not for a long time.
Bullshit. If failing Dell and HP get to pretend to be computer manufacturers, so does Apple.
“While Apple has changed the supply chain in many other factories and got out of manufacturing in many cases, it has always kept the Cork facility here so we’re the only Apple-owned manufacturing facility in the world,” senior director of manufacturing Paul Coburn explains.
“There’s a huge history there and when they transitioned [to outsourcing manufacturing] I think they saw that to get rid of all manufacturing expertise from Cork would actually be a risk.”
Instead, the Cork facility has flourished in the past decade as the core knowledge of its employees — many of whom are locals — grows in importance as outsourcing continues apace and new products are brought to market.
So you're saying that it would profit Samsung more to sell a component to Apple that the best instead of using it within the same company to drive sales of their smartphones? I just want to be clear that's what you're saying.
High-end components have better margin. Apple sell more high-end phones compared to Samsung, so yes, selling high-end components through Apple is more profitable than selling them through the S and Note lines.
Are you pretending that Samsung's high end phones don't have better margin than their cheap ones? Or that they don't have high-end components?
Heck, have you seen what replacement screens for Samsung's high end phones cost, not including the actual exchange, just the hardware?
no I would think it is more based on the assumption that the note is more niche in there market space while the headline phone isn't due for a new iteration till march.
If it's so niche, why does it have the 2nd best screen? Unless of course that niche is "best screen" - so why doesn't it have that?
The problem is, the more restrictive you make laws the more they affect innocent people.
Errm, no, because Corporate Taxes don't affect people, period. Unless you are a person who wants to reduce his taxes by pretending to be a corporation - at which point you are by definition not innocent.
I'm not disputing that the recent stats cited are wrong, just objecting to advocating what seems to be an inherently statistically biased source as the "most accurate" for this statistic.
As opposed to NetMarketShare's numbers, which we have no actual information on where they get there data from.
And that's before ignoring that any general usage share data where any OS can double its share from one month to the next (unless it's from 0.1% to 0.2%) must use a bullshit method to get its numbers.
I'm sure the denizens of/. are horrified that pr0n sites can use FaceID to track your O face across their platforms...with their consent.
Ahh, no worries. Not only have other phones had face id years before the iPhone, but nobody uses it because it doesn't work, so nobody will put it into phones but stupid Apple.
Words aren't "universally understood" either, not even amongst native speakers of a language. Heck, a large part of the English speaking population doesn't understand the meaning of "no".
WHY would you buy a gold bar made of glass and just carry it around to get broken or stolen?
Because you can compute and communicate with it? Are you some kind of moron who buys steel bars made of plastic just to carry them around and mostly because they are cheaper than gold bars?
The newer Samsung Note screens are even more expensive to replace, at $300 a pop. This is because they're using the Samsung Pen/Wacom technology. Even the S8 screen seems to be super expensive for some reason.
That's nothing new, the DIY replacement screens for Samsung's high end phones have cost more than a full replacement at Apple for years.
Slashdot Mirror
"Well Mr. Anderson, if you won't unlock your phone for us we'll just 3D-print your face and unlock it anyway, so you might as well."
"You see, Agent Smith, there is this tiny problem. I pressed the power button 5 times and temporarily disabled Face ID. I guess you will have to force me to enter my passcode anyway. And there is no way you can do that, because ... errrrm, well, the same reason you can power the Matrix with humans, probably."
Do the phones crash when the line appears? If not, this name makes absolutely no sense.
According to TFA, is should be called the "Green Line of getting a replacement iPhone for an otherwise fully functional unit". Too long and not sensationalistic enough.
IBM. A true Apple cultist will still call those non-Apple computers 'IBM.'
Why would they, when the computers at IBM are mostly Apples?
Apple engineering is too good for this to be a product flaw. Clearly it's those lazy Chinese workers in Apple's sweatshops that are cutting corners again.
Funny how you don't even mention Samsung, who build the display. Guess they don't pay you for that.
Maybe web sites should not be trying to behave like apps. Especially if doing so kills browser performance and battery life on mobile.
Can you give an example of a web site where this behaviour is actually desirable?
So you must have a problem with the fact that that behavior again works when the (previously not needed) option "active" is added to the onwhatever listener?
Years ago, websites were designed so that they rendered properly with Internet Explorer. Microsoft didn't have to follow any standards because they had the most widely used browser and Fuck You if you don't use IE.
Now Chrome is the most widely used browser and Google has decided to become the new Microsoft.
And they fuck that up by not breaking the web for everybody else, but only for those who use Chrome to visit those sites that expect the behavior every other browser still has. New motto: too dumb to be evil.
That's Apple's own expectation.
No it isn't. https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-expects-people-to-use-their-iphones-for-3-years-on-average/ 3 years is - and then they fully expect you to habd it to somebody else to use it for some more time.
They should know they'll be using Windows.
I stopped needing Bluetooth file transfer when I got my DropBox account 10 years ago. Having access to my files everywhere is much simpler.
So when you want to give a file to the person right next to you, you first tell him to download dropbox, and then give him your account details to access the file. Yeah, makes sense.
An extra 500,000 over expected sales of 46.6 million is 1% above target.
The headline is hyperbolic in the extreme.
Phew, thanks god iPhone sales were the only prediction anybody made. Imagine if TFA or even TFS had mentioned revenue and Mac sales 8% above expectations - how dumb would that make you look.
I'm not sure the Fappening victims are convinced Apple is doing a better job of keep their data secure and private than any of the other players.
Sure they don't - even so we (as in those who don't have their heads up their asses) all full well know that they gave their online credentials to the hackers in a way that Apple couldn't prevent. ANd that's ignoring that the majority of hacked accounts actually where from Google, for which only an idiot would claim Apple responsible.
Actually it does mean exactly that. Apple does not manufacture their products and has not for a long time.
Bullshit. If failing Dell and HP get to pretend to be computer manufacturers, so does Apple.
“While Apple has changed the supply chain in many other factories and got out of manufacturing in many cases, it has always kept the Cork facility here so we’re the only Apple-owned manufacturing facility in the world,” senior director of manufacturing Paul Coburn explains.
“There’s a huge history there and when they transitioned [to outsourcing manufacturing] I think they saw that to get rid of all manufacturing expertise from Cork would actually be a risk.”
Instead, the Cork facility has flourished in the past decade as the core knowledge of its employees — many of whom are locals — grows in importance as outsourcing continues apace and new products are brought to market.
So you're saying that it would profit Samsung more to sell a component to Apple that the best instead of using it within the same company to drive sales of their smartphones? I just want to be clear that's what you're saying.
High-end components have better margin. Apple sell more high-end phones compared to Samsung, so yes, selling high-end components through Apple is more profitable than selling them through the S and Note lines.
Are you pretending that Samsung's high end phones don't have better margin than their cheap ones? Or that they don't have high-end components?
Heck, have you seen what replacement screens for Samsung's high end phones cost, not including the actual exchange, just the hardware?
no I would think it is more based on the assumption that the note is more niche in there market space while the headline phone isn't due for a new iteration till march.
If it's so niche, why does it have the 2nd best screen? Unless of course that niche is "best screen" - so why doesn't it have that?
Yes, we get it, government is bad. Enjoy haggling with Fire Protection Corp about the cost of extinguishing a fire while your house burns down.
One of the most difficult things in the world to find: an idea that remains reasonable when you take it to the extreme.
I doubt the IP even had to think for a second before he found "the most difficult things in the world". You now owe him $300 finders fee.
The problem is, the more restrictive you make laws the more they affect innocent people.
Errm, no, because Corporate Taxes don't affect people, period. Unless you are a person who wants to reduce his taxes by pretending to be a corporation - at which point you are by definition not innocent.
We've mostly "mastered" it because industries found inexpensive replacements for pollutants
Which they wouldn't have been looking for if we hadn't forced them to.
I'm not disputing that the recent stats cited are wrong, just objecting to advocating what seems to be an inherently statistically biased source as the "most accurate" for this statistic.
As opposed to NetMarketShare's numbers, which we have no actual information on where they get there data from.
And that's before ignoring that any general usage share data where any OS can double its share from one month to the next (unless it's from 0.1% to 0.2%) must use a bullshit method to get its numbers.
Dude, I quoted a business insider article
There's your problem, right there.
I'm sure the denizens of /. are horrified that pr0n sites can use FaceID to track your O face across their platforms...with their consent.
Ahh, no worries. Not only have other phones had face id years before the iPhone, but nobody uses it because it doesn't work, so nobody will put it into phones but stupid Apple.
Words aren't "universally understood" either, not even amongst native speakers of a language. Heck, a large part of the English speaking population doesn't understand the meaning of "no".
Of course if anything you said was actually true, you'd be in a lot of trouble now.
WHY would you buy a gold bar made of glass and just carry it around to get broken or stolen?
Because you can compute and communicate with it? Are you some kind of moron who buys steel bars made of plastic just to carry them around and mostly because they are cheaper than gold bars?
The newer Samsung Note screens are even more expensive to replace, at $300 a pop. This is because they're using the Samsung Pen/Wacom technology. Even the S8 screen seems to be super expensive for some reason.
That's nothing new, the DIY replacement screens for Samsung's high end phones have cost more than a full replacement at Apple for years.
https://de.ifixit.com/Store/Parts/Galaxy-S8-LCD-Screen-and-Digitizer/IF355-001-1 Galaxy S8 LCD Screen and Digitizer $299.99 (without repair).