It's a huge problem in the used market. Or as in this case when both versions are being sold new simultaneously
Who fucking cares - the difference between the two versions is way smaller than the gain to last years iPhone, as well as that over CPUs found in Android devices.
And Google is owned by "Alphabet - we don't even pretend not to be evil". And Google is known to lie a lot. Like they did about the WLAN data. And of course, Porsche's decision was made when Google did ask for that information. And whenever Google has to paddle back from something, they will later try to get it anyway. Which reminds me - have they finally deleted the WLAN data they claimed they never had, then claimed to have deleted, then claimed again?
No, and that's not how it would work, either. At worst, they'd have a couple sponsored results, which would be labeled as such, jus like current Google Maps searches
Yeah right. Get with the times, fanboy. Google has been selling search results without indicating it in their "special" searches like "Hotel Finder" and "Flight Search" for years.
So you are okay with Google checking if your car service light comes on and then to send you straight to the garage paying them to give them precedence over all others.
Fandroid much? Google demands vehicle data for Android Auto, Porsche is dumb that they don't put in Android Auto and then don't fucking use it because they don't like it? What fucking sense would that make?
To block passengers in your car from doing useful tasks while you are driving such as editing a playlist, browsing your contact list, or searching for food/gas/bathrooms on your route.
FTFY. This nanny corp crap really needs to go away.
Nice try. The user interface is placed for operation by the driver. Whatever the passengers do with it will at least be in the peripheral vision of the driver, if not actually in the way of his right hand and arm - which I would count as a distraction again. Not to mention that to reach the UI, the passenger will likely need to move from his seat, probably including unbuckling, putting him in danger in case of accident. Which is actually more likely because he is fucking distracting the driver.
Tell me, which new version of the iPod came out shortly after the deal that HP did not sell under license?
The iPod Photo - which wasn't really a new version, but a top-end variation of the same iPod HP sold, just with a color display, to look at photos. Ignoring that littly fact, according to the Wikipedia article on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - "HP later added the iPod mini, the iPod photo, and the iPod shuffle to the lineup."
Which means this article is so wrong it isn't even wrong, because for the term of the contract HP sold the whole line-up of iPods (at least later on).
Apple invented basically none of the UI metaphors they capitalized on.
So who invented double-clicking? Who invented drag-and- drop file manipulation? Windows you didn't have to manually update? Drop-down menus? Keyboard mouse-modifiers (e.g. Shift-click)?
Well, I guess that being biased in favor of the ruling elite who knows the secret handshake is so much better than being culturally or racially biased.
$25 or $100 is negligible even if you value your time well below minimum wage.
If I wanted to develop an IOS app, I'd have to buy another computer and another phone. This is a $2000 minimum outlay as well as the $99 per year needed to remain a developer. Given that most apps dont even make $99 per year chances are I'd never make back the original outlay.
So what you're saying is that it was possible, but for some reason the original malware writers decided not to?
Probably because that would have led to the malware being detected by Apple's app checking, resulting in the loss of bragging rights for "First major malware attack on Apple's App Store".
Of course there are solutions. Have developers submit their source for Apple to build, instead of an already-built bundle. This could be through an automated process that does not expose the source to Apple or to anyone else, and would prevent trojanned toolchains of any sort.
However, it seems to me that a trojanned xcode isn't really the issue here. If the malware was hidden inside the provided application files, then what's to prevent people from doing the same kind of thing knowingly?
Well, many apps already do what this malware did - which was actually pretty harmless.
There is tech to inspect compiled code and try to find malicious bits, even in an automated fashion, that won't be fooled by an idle loop. It's far from perfect or being a silver bullet, but it is there and getting better by the day.
So can it identify when an app does nothing more than what most normal apps do anyway, but in a malicious way?
So you prefer Android because Apple's security isn't absolutely perfect. Which it has to be, because some fanboy supposedly said it was.
All while Google often removes much worse malware from the Play Store so often it doesn't even hit the headlines anymore. Did I mention they also scan all apps admitted? And refuse some? Like ad blockers? Must be malware.
This is the court case where Samsung presented Apple blue-prints showing the entire iThing UI and hardware design was lifted from Sony, who strangely haven't sued Apple. The documents were too inconvenient and the judge ordered they be removed from the record citing they arrived too late. Yes, too late, despite rendering Apple's case moot.
Can't have those slitty eyed eastern types showing a trendy US corporation ripping off the nations that build their products, then pretending to have invented it. Ban the gooks!
Anyone still repeating is must be dumb as shit. Especially when he tries to hide his stupidity behind the race card (not to mention that the judge is Asian-American).
Many Android devices have alternate OSes (Cyanogenmod, etc) that support the device for far longer than the OEM did.
That's another example of the freedom you get with the Android platform instead of iOS.
Android, Fuck yeah!
"Many" meaning about 500 across all ROMs, including the sort-of and the formerly supported ones (Yes, even Cyanogen drops support for older phones). Problem is, OpenSignal found 24,093 distinct Android devices in their recent survey, up from 18,796 last year.
So the chances that a random Android phone can be upgraded with any of those alternates is still lower than 1 in 10. Way lower.
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It's a huge problem in the used market. Or as in this case when both versions are being sold new simultaneously
Who fucking cares - the difference between the two versions is way smaller than the gain to last years iPhone, as well as that over CPUs found in Android devices.
And Google is owned by "Alphabet - we don't even pretend not to be evil". And Google is known to lie a lot. Like they did about the WLAN data. And of course, Porsche's decision was made when Google did ask for that information. And whenever Google has to paddle back from something, they will later try to get it anyway. Which reminds me - have they finally deleted the WLAN data they claimed they never had, then claimed to have deleted, then claimed again?
"Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No, and that's not how it would work, either. At worst, they'd have a couple sponsored results, which would be labeled as such, jus like current Google Maps searches
Yeah right. Get with the times, fanboy. Google has been selling search results without indicating it in their "special" searches like "Hotel Finder" and "Flight Search" for years.
So you are okay with Google checking if your car service light comes on and then to send you straight to the garage paying them to give them precedence over all others.
Fandroid much? Google demands vehicle data for Android Auto, Porsche is dumb that they don't put in Android Auto and then don't fucking use it because they don't like it? What fucking sense would that make?
FTFY. This nanny corp crap really needs to go away.
Nice try. The user interface is placed for operation by the driver. Whatever the passengers do with it will at least be in the peripheral vision of the driver, if not actually in the way of his right hand and arm - which I would count as a distraction again. Not to mention that to reach the UI, the passenger will likely need to move from his seat, probably including unbuckling, putting him in danger in case of accident. Which is actually more likely because he is fucking distracting the driver.
It is a vulnerability; it is one that may not hit everyone.
Well, yeah. It's a vulnerability that effects all OS, because VEBTSAC.
Tell me, which new version of the iPod came out shortly after the deal that HP did not sell under license?
The iPod Photo - which wasn't really a new version, but a top-end variation of the same iPod HP sold, just with a color display, to look at photos. Ignoring that littly fact, according to the Wikipedia article on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - "HP later added the iPod mini, the iPod photo, and the iPod shuffle to the lineup."
Which means this article is so wrong it isn't even wrong, because for the term of the contract HP sold the whole line-up of iPods (at least later on).
Didn't Apple just release a $99 pencil?
Who uses a 12" tablet as a phone? Apart from Samsung fanatics of course?
Apple invented basically none of the UI metaphors they capitalized on.
So who invented double-clicking? Who invented drag-and- drop file manipulation? Windows you didn't have to manually update? Drop-down menus? Keyboard mouse-modifiers (e.g. Shift-click)?
Well, I guess that being biased in favor of the ruling elite who knows the secret handshake is so much better than being culturally or racially biased.
A car dropping Lego bricks from its exhaust.
There's no decrease in battery life from the old 6 to the new one (from multiple reports and my own personal experience verifies).
And that despite not only the faster CPU, but also a lower capacity battery.
$25 or $100 is negligible even if you value your time well below minimum wage.
If I wanted to develop an IOS app, I'd have to buy another computer and another phone. This is a $2000 minimum outlay as well as the $99 per year needed to remain a developer. Given that most apps dont even make $99 per year chances are I'd never make back the original outlay.
What do you think it costs to develop for Android? Heck, you need to build an house extension just to store the test devices.
So what you're saying is that it was possible, but for some reason the original malware writers decided not to?
Probably because that would have led to the malware being detected by Apple's app checking, resulting in the loss of bragging rights for "First major malware attack on Apple's App Store".
"You're holding it wrong."
That's basically Apple's response to every major mess-up. Hey, it works!
http://dontholditwrong.tumblr....
it used to cost $5 many years ago because of weird accounting
I bet you also believed the line about OS X updates having to cost money because of the Sarbanes Oxley Act.
Apple charges what they do because people pay. There is absolutely no accounting or SARBOX voodoo involved.
Actually, that would be a SEXCONKER OXSHIT ACT issue, because you just made it up.
Of course there are solutions. Have developers submit their source for Apple to build, instead of an already-built bundle. This could be through an automated process that does not expose the source to Apple or to anyone else, and would prevent trojanned toolchains of any sort.
However, it seems to me that a trojanned xcode isn't really the issue here. If the malware was hidden inside the provided application files, then what's to prevent people from doing the same kind of thing knowingly?
Well, many apps already do what this malware did - which was actually pretty harmless.
There is tech to inspect compiled code and try to find malicious bits, even in an automated fashion, that won't be fooled by an idle loop. It's far from perfect or being a silver bullet, but it is there and getting better by the day.
So can it identify when an app does nothing more than what most normal apps do anyway, but in a malicious way?
All while Google often removes much worse malware from the Play Store so often it doesn't even hit the headlines anymore. Did I mention they also scan all apps admitted? And refuse some? Like ad blockers? Must be malware.
I've heard that Apple did pay royalties to Xerox for GUI technology. But, by most accounts they got a lousy deal.
Well, they got more money out of it than by marketing their own GUI systems.
Slide to unlock was prior art anyway. As in doors since, what, the 15th century?
Yeah, exactly, didn't all doors have a button labeled "Slide to unlock", which you could slide with your finger to unlock the door?
This is the court case where Samsung presented Apple blue-prints showing the entire iThing UI and hardware design was lifted from Sony, who strangely haven't sued Apple. The documents were too inconvenient and the judge ordered they be removed from the record citing they arrived too late. Yes, too late, despite rendering Apple's case moot.
Can't have those slitty eyed eastern types showing a trendy US corporation ripping off the nations that build their products, then pretending to have invented it. Ban the gooks!
Bwahahaha. That claim was even dumber than the 2001 claim. http://fortune.com/2012/08/01/...
Anyone still repeating is must be dumb as shit. Especially when he tries to hide his stupidity behind the race card (not to mention that the judge is Asian-American).
Many Android devices have alternate OSes (Cyanogenmod, etc) that support the device for far longer than the OEM did.
That's another example of the freedom you get with the Android platform instead of iOS.
Android, Fuck yeah!
"Many" meaning about 500 across all ROMs, including the sort-of and the formerly supported ones (Yes, even Cyanogen drops support for older phones). Problem is, OpenSignal found 24,093 distinct Android devices in their recent survey, up from 18,796 last year.
So the chances that a random Android phone can be upgraded with any of those alternates is still lower than 1 in 10. Way lower.