All those cheapo phones you get in blister packs in Supermarkets are SIM locked because the purchase price is in fact subsidized. A $60 Tracfone, and a $60 unlocked phone are not the same beast...
Per capita incomes in India, sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia are an order of magnitude lower than they are in the US. It seems trivial to us, but $60 vs. $100 makes a massive difference in terms of affordability.
Yes. Disney (via its various retail partners: Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, etc.) sold little plastic boxes that included, inside the box, plastic coasters AND pieces of paper. Two separate items in one package. No wording on the package to imply the two are connected together, whatsoever. Disney can INTEND that to have been selling a "package deal" where the two were inseparable, but they never actually STATED that intent on the package. So they can pound sand. Same thing applies when they sell a "Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack". I'm buying two copies of the movie, in different formats. Three if there's also a download code. Even if Disney had included such language, first sale doctrine would have applied. Disney failed to enforce more restrictive terms as part of the sales contract, and they no longer own, or has any control over the physical object, once they've sold it.
What are you smoking?! Whatever biological activity may still be ongoing at the time, organ harvest cannot legally proceed until the donor has been declared dead.
You're undoubtedly referring to the single PCB trace, from the FM antenna pin of the Qualcomm modem to the Lightning jack. And some software, which has no incremental cost beyond the initial development.
Someone finally points out the gating issue! 90% of the cell phone towers in Puerto Rico are inoperative. There's precious little ability to make phone calls or text, let alone download the OTA update that would be needed to activate the latent FM capability. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico has 125 terrestrial radio stations. Even if 90% of them are inoperative, the 10% that are left cover the entire island.
In an emergency where large amounts of telecommunications infrastructure (i.e, Internet service, cell phone towers) is inoperable, a single FM station covers orders of magnitude greater land area than any cell tower or Internet point of presence, requires zero infrastructure between the transmitter and receiver, has infinite capacity for receivers, and the receivers are simple, low-cost and low-power. FM stations provide incredible resiliency and capacity for mass dissemination of information compared to any alternative method.
The OP is clearly ignorant of how the secure enclave works, or really any of the concept of operations of the Touch ID and/or Face ID sensors. Touch ID and Face ID both require the setting of a minimum 6 digit passcode for the device, as a backstop for the biometric sensor. The passcode is required for unlock after a device is rebooted, if the device ever goes more than 48 hours without being unlocked, and after 5 consecutive unsuccessful unlock attempts using the biometric sensor. FFS Craig Federighi (unintentionally) demoed this functionality during the damned keynote! Once the phone starts making you use the passcode, it only accepts passcode input from the touchscreen, and after 5 consecutive incorrect passcode inputs starts to impose increasingly long cool downs before the 6th and subsequent attempts.
Though I don't recall it being specifically addressed in the keynote, I can only imagine the Face ID sensor and secure enclave authenticate to each other in a manner similar to the way the Touch ID sensor does, as a countermeasure against the sensor being replaced with a alternative device with malicious functionality.
The iPhone 7/8 Touch ID sensor innately provides proximity/pressure sensitivity without need of moving parts. The sole value add function of the physical button is to provide tactile feedback to the user. By replacing the tactile feedback with haptic feedback using the vibration motor, Apple was able to eliminate all the moving parts from the home button, eliminating a significant source of repair claims on the entire device.
Apple's security with regard to Touch ID sensor replacements guards against the substitution of a malicious replacement sensor that compromises the security of the Touch ID system. Imagine a hypothetical replacement sensor with a "backdoor" fingerprint pattern, or a man-in-the-middle device that recorded or cloned the bits as they were being sent from the sensor to the secure enclave for authentication, thus allowing their playback for future unlocking of the device.
We have a production license for the Russian RD-180 engine in the Atlas V, as a hedge, but the Russians sell them so cheap it would be more expensive to build our own...
Anything aviation, space and/or military-related also seeks to be as far behind the curve as possible, to maximize "proven reliability". Customers and prime contractors demand (and end up paying for) long product life-cycles from their sub's. Anything COTS (like PC's) is stock-piled at the program's inception, to ensure continued availability of identical parts/components, throughout the projected system life-cycle. Then there's a further scramble to procure (by then EOL'ed) parts, when, decades in, the customer inevitably decides they want to extend the service life, or re-start production of a mature system.
So yes, you're suggesting we *not* use computers to determine air bag deployment. You clearly never experienced one of the early air bag cars from the 80's...
This is a system problem, but it's that the control system is incorrectly diagnosing a sensor failure, not that it is suppressing air bag deployment in response to the detected failure. There are only very specific instances where you actually want the airbags to deploy. In the event of failure of a sensor that degrades the ability to determine if airbag and/or pre-tensioner deployment, the fail-safe option is to disable the air bag system to prevent a spurious deployment, and light the warning indicator in the hope the owner has the system serviced.
Given this is a product of Fiat Chrysler America (likely with more than a little DaimlerChrysler legacy) questionable design decisions, combined with indifferent manufacturing and assembly quality, are to blame.
IBM has, over the past couple of decades, done their damndest to morph themselves into a Consulting/AI firm, but 40 years ago it was all about moving metal and collecting rent^h^h^h^h selling service contracts for their metal. It's a common latter day assumption that IBM set out to make an open industry standard with the IBM PC. The IBM PC was intended to lock customers in just as much as all of IBM's previous products did. To that end, the BIOS was copyrighted, and IBM included a full listing of the source code in the user manual. IBM's assessment was that, even in the unlikely event someone did manage to reverse-engineer the PC's BIOS, they would be unable to prove (or even credibly claim) that they had done so cleanly. Of course this assessment was proven wrong within two years, but that's another story.
Qualcomm's major advantage is their patent portfolio allows then to bake in all the CDMA/GSM/3G/4G LTE modems in with the CPU, GPU Wifi and Bluetooth. The Snapdragon SoC's implement damn near the entire cell phone in a single chip that can be used across all carriers. The carrier's underlying network technology doesn't matter because the Snapdragon supports all of them, and with one hardware version. That ne plus ultra sustains Qualcomm's hegemony and relegates Intel, Nvidia, MediaTek, etc. to Wifi-only devices.
Whatever. You're crazy! Rogue One was horrible?! If anything, it was better than TFA, which was good, but played like a high budget fanfic ripping off A New Hope. Rogue One also (very belatedly) ties up many of the loose ends A New Hope had when it was trying to be a stand-alone movie.
The "accounting by weight" method masked significant cash-flow problems in the company that threatened it with insolvency. Fearful a disruption to military production during WWII due to the company's financial state, the War Production Board quietly contrived to have Henry Ford II, then in his 20's, released from his Navy service, so he could return to Detroit and help manage the company.
The massive shift to outright and installment sales also means consumers are seeing the "true cost" of their devices, and consequently not seeing the value proposition of these "incremental" updates.
USB and Bluetooth integration are increasingly common in new cars, starting from 2011 or so. But in many cases the Bluetooth is limited to phone calls and can't do streaming audio. CarPlay has even less penetration, and is only in cars (at all) from 2014 on, is not yet remotely ubiquitous in new cars, and likely won't become moreuniversal until the federal backup camera mandate kicks in in 2018 and rail-roads all cars into having in-dash touchscreens.
One of the big wins Apple scored in the past decade, outside their own industry, was the way they spurred automobile manufacturers to add iPod/iPhone integration. Now, the average car on today's roads is about 11 years old. Most cars of the mid-2000's provided just a 3.5mm aux Jack. I realize Apple's customer base skews to the higher end of the income spectrum, and likely drives newer cars, but that still will leave a large number of customers out in the cold because they don't have the means (or willingness) to change their car.
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All those cheapo phones you get in blister packs in Supermarkets are SIM locked because the purchase price is in fact subsidized. A $60 Tracfone, and a $60 unlocked phone are not the same beast...
Per capita incomes in India, sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia are an order of magnitude lower than they are in the US. It seems trivial to us, but $60 vs. $100 makes a massive difference in terms of affordability.
Yes. Disney (via its various retail partners: Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, etc.) sold little plastic boxes that included, inside the box, plastic coasters AND pieces of paper. Two separate items in one package. No wording on the package to imply the two are connected together, whatsoever. Disney can INTEND that to have been selling a "package deal" where the two were inseparable, but they never actually STATED that intent on the package. So they can pound sand. Same thing applies when they sell a "Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack". I'm buying two copies of the movie, in different formats. Three if there's also a download code. Even if Disney had included such language, first sale doctrine would have applied. Disney failed to enforce more restrictive terms as part of the sales contract, and they no longer own, or has any control over the physical object, once they've sold it.
What are you smoking?! Whatever biological activity may still be ongoing at the time, organ harvest cannot legally proceed until the donor has been declared dead.
You're undoubtedly referring to the single PCB trace, from the FM antenna pin of the Qualcomm modem to the Lightning jack. And some software, which has no incremental cost beyond the initial development.
Someone finally points out the gating issue! 90% of the cell phone towers in Puerto Rico are inoperative. There's precious little ability to make phone calls or text, let alone download the OTA update that would be needed to activate the latent FM capability. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico has 125 terrestrial radio stations. Even if 90% of them are inoperative, the 10% that are left cover the entire island.
In an emergency where large amounts of telecommunications infrastructure (i.e, Internet service, cell phone towers) is inoperable, a single FM station covers orders of magnitude greater land area than any cell tower or Internet point of presence, requires zero infrastructure between the transmitter and receiver, has infinite capacity for receivers, and the receivers are simple, low-cost and low-power. FM stations provide incredible resiliency and capacity for mass dissemination of information compared to any alternative method.
The OP is clearly ignorant of how the secure enclave works, or really any of the concept of operations of the Touch ID and/or Face ID sensors. Touch ID and Face ID both require the setting of a minimum 6 digit passcode for the device, as a backstop for the biometric sensor. The passcode is required for unlock after a device is rebooted, if the device ever goes more than 48 hours without being unlocked, and after 5 consecutive unsuccessful unlock attempts using the biometric sensor. FFS Craig Federighi (unintentionally) demoed this functionality during the damned keynote! Once the phone starts making you use the passcode, it only accepts passcode input from the touchscreen, and after 5 consecutive incorrect passcode inputs starts to impose increasingly long cool downs before the 6th and subsequent attempts.
Though I don't recall it being specifically addressed in the keynote, I can only imagine the Face ID sensor and secure enclave authenticate to each other in a manner similar to the way the Touch ID sensor does, as a countermeasure against the sensor being replaced with a alternative device with malicious functionality.
The iPhone 7/8 Touch ID sensor innately provides proximity/pressure sensitivity without need of moving parts. The sole value add function of the physical button is to provide tactile feedback to the user. By replacing the tactile feedback with haptic feedback using the vibration motor, Apple was able to eliminate all the moving parts from the home button, eliminating a significant source of repair claims on the entire device.
Apple's security with regard to Touch ID sensor replacements guards against the substitution of a malicious replacement sensor that compromises the security of the Touch ID system. Imagine a hypothetical replacement sensor with a "backdoor" fingerprint pattern, or a man-in-the-middle device that recorded or cloned the bits as they were being sent from the sensor to the secure enclave for authentication, thus allowing their playback for future unlocking of the device.
We have a production license for the Russian RD-180 engine in the Atlas V, as a hedge, but the Russians sell them so cheap it would be more expensive to build our own...
Anything aviation, space and/or military-related also seeks to be as far behind the curve as possible, to maximize "proven reliability". Customers and prime contractors demand (and end up paying for) long product life-cycles from their sub's. Anything COTS (like PC's) is stock-piled at the program's inception, to ensure continued availability of identical parts/components, throughout the projected system life-cycle. Then there's a further scramble to procure (by then EOL'ed) parts, when, decades in, the customer inevitably decides they want to extend the service life, or re-start production of a mature system.
Given the issues Chipotle has had in recent months with regard to food safety, this is actually not unlikely!
This won't be news until Google completely removes the third parties from the update equation.
So yes, you're suggesting we *not* use computers to determine air bag deployment. You clearly never experienced one of the early air bag cars from the 80's...
Can't help but notice you conspicuously didn't mention how long you continued driving the car after the idiot lights first came on...
This is a system problem, but it's that the control system is incorrectly diagnosing a sensor failure, not that it is suppressing air bag deployment in response to the detected failure. There are only very specific instances where you actually want the airbags to deploy. In the event of failure of a sensor that degrades the ability to determine if airbag and/or pre-tensioner deployment, the fail-safe option is to disable the air bag system to prevent a spurious deployment, and light the warning indicator in the hope the owner has the system serviced.
Given this is a product of Fiat Chrysler America (likely with more than a little DaimlerChrysler legacy) questionable design decisions, combined with indifferent manufacturing and assembly quality, are to blame.
IBM has, over the past couple of decades, done their damndest to morph themselves into a Consulting/AI firm, but 40 years ago it was all about moving metal and collecting rent^h^h^h^h selling service contracts for their metal. It's a common latter day assumption that IBM set out to make an open industry standard with the IBM PC. The IBM PC was intended to lock customers in just as much as all of IBM's previous products did. To that end, the BIOS was copyrighted, and IBM included a full listing of the source code in the user manual. IBM's assessment was that, even in the unlikely event someone did manage to reverse-engineer the PC's BIOS, they would be unable to prove (or even credibly claim) that they had done so cleanly. Of course this assessment was proven wrong within two years, but that's another story.
Qualcomm's major advantage is their patent portfolio allows then to bake in all the CDMA/GSM/3G/4G LTE modems in with the CPU, GPU Wifi and Bluetooth. The Snapdragon SoC's implement damn near the entire cell phone in a single chip that can be used across all carriers. The carrier's underlying network technology doesn't matter because the Snapdragon supports all of them, and with one hardware version. That ne plus ultra sustains Qualcomm's hegemony and relegates Intel, Nvidia, MediaTek, etc. to Wifi-only devices.
Whatever. You're crazy! Rogue One was horrible?! If anything, it was better than TFA, which was good, but played like a high budget fanfic ripping off A New Hope. Rogue One also (very belatedly) ties up many of the loose ends A New Hope had when it was trying to be a stand-alone movie.
The "accounting by weight" method masked significant cash-flow problems in the company that threatened it with insolvency. Fearful a disruption to military production during WWII due to the company's financial state, the War Production Board quietly contrived to have Henry Ford II, then in his 20's, released from his Navy service, so he could return to Detroit and help manage the company.
So, in other words the pointless feature-creep that plagued dumb-phones before the iPhone came along?
The massive shift to outright and installment sales also means consumers are seeing the "true cost" of their devices, and consequently not seeing the value proposition of these "incremental" updates.
the market, to include the developing world, is getting saturated.
USB and Bluetooth integration are increasingly common in new cars, starting from 2011 or so. But in many cases the Bluetooth is limited to phone calls and can't do streaming audio. CarPlay has even less penetration, and is only in cars (at all) from 2014 on, is not yet remotely ubiquitous in new cars, and likely won't become moreuniversal until the federal backup camera mandate kicks in in 2018 and rail-roads all cars into having in-dash touchscreens.
One of the big wins Apple scored in the past decade, outside their own industry, was the way they spurred automobile manufacturers to add iPod/iPhone integration. Now, the average car on today's roads is about 11 years old. Most cars of the mid-2000's provided just a 3.5mm aux Jack. I realize Apple's customer base skews to the higher end of the income spectrum, and likely drives newer cars, but that still will leave a large number of customers out in the cold because they don't have the means (or willingness) to change their car.