Google doesn't but Apple does. Apple's user experience seems to be WAY better than Androids (just follow the Android privacy or malware thread VS. iOS), it is plain as day.
I believe that if I want to pay a company to protect me from bad actors among the literally hundreds, if not thousands of apps I have no bandwidth to police by myself, I should have the right to do so. Given the fact that there are other options, this isn't a monopoly.
Besides, it is their product and service. If it was someone else's platform, and they used a market position to say for example "you can only have access to Apple computers if we get to control entirely the app process on your mobile OS", then that would be an abuse of a monopolistic position (assuming they had a monopoly on desktops, they do not). Them controlling their own product, without the need to bully anyone into submission, means it isn't a monopoly.
What you consider their BS is their way of making sure your BS doesn't get on their user's phones. Seriously, they have over a million apps that are regularly managed and updated. If you can't get your app through their app screening process, do all your Android customers a favor, and change careers.
It's not about retaining it. There are many things that computer chips can do much better even in their current state than a human brain can. Recall information is one (you try memorizing a few megabytes, never mind an entire hard drive perfectly), math is another. Imagine if you could think of a math problem and realize it's solution near instantaneously? It would change our understanding of finance, ethics, the arts, and so many other fascets of modern life.
It is still a lot, but that isn't the bottle-neck. The real problem is sourcing the raw materials and rare-earths for that much production. The costs go down, when we have cheap oil, because demand falls. When oil gets expensive, demand for solar goes up, but the raw materials become scarcer, which drives price up. It isn't so much that factories don't have capacity, its that they have supply-chain issues with building that much. Also, a solar panel loses its ability to create power as it ages, so you effectively need to build 1/20th of your entire requirement every year.
This will probably happen over time, but the energy grids are not ready for 1/2 of all vehicles chewing through MWh of energy. I have a Tesla, and it works great. We also have solar panels on our building at work (2500 sq. ft. worth of panels), which is where I charge, but I can't imagine what would happen to power demand and supply (which is as oversubscribed as wide area networks are, in terms of back-bone / last mile) if suddenly all cars needed their energy from the grid. The panels do not nearly provide enough power for the car and the building.
It's Apple's product, one they see fit to help users with their battle against privacy. The thing about the walled garden, is it protects you out in the Jungle. Maybe your C-programming skills are finely tuned and you know what you are doing, but that is not the vast majority of users out there, who Apple, I'm sorry to say, does the very best job in the valley defending.
The SPAM calling this is getting old. I would rather we all move to a platform where the caller identification is required to be accurate so we know the return path. Hide or fake a caller ID, phone call doesn't go through on technical grounds.
Really, we should just get rid of the telephone system. Put it on open protocols for audio/video/data, run it over the internet. End to end encrypted. That old shit has got to go. Plus, I don't want to pay for a phone plan when an iPhone and a data plan will do.
No. 4.19 was insecure, but faster. 4.20 is more secure, but slower. So? If I store my passwords in plain-text it's faster. Faster still if I don't have to do a DB lookup and just hard code some that I need.
4.20 is better. The performance penalty is the cost of better security in almost all computer operations (often negligible due to faster and faster chips). Because of hardware advancements though, it's most of the time a very worthwhile tradeoff. If your application suffers that much, size up the gear.
It's not a crime if it's done outside the country, right? I mean.... it's a crime in many countries to depict the Prophet Mohammed, and some of those countries are international treaty signatories, but that doesn't mean they get to extradite Charlie Hebdo artists.
Was he in the US during any of his espionage activities?
If every merchant would support contactless payments, this wouldn't be an issue. Your phone is something you have and something you are, and something you know (phone, face, pin to unlock).
You don't authenticate to your credit card. That's always going to be a problem.
Actually, it is probably with Apple, since the second SIM only supports 2g and no MMS? How are you supposed to comparison shop when one has such limitations?
I'm not sure if this is an Apple code, something an update can fix, or if this is common on dual sim phones?
No, it's not. The rich pay the vast majority of taxes. No one disputes that. There is a famous story about bottles of beer being served and priced based on taxes. It's too long to look up, but it's an interesting read.
The part that irks me about this tax is it's focus and unfair application.
If I run a web site, and host it locally where I live, who cares where the users come from? Say my site helps you find Linux drivers, and I run ads to pay for the hosting fees, and turn a profit. Am I supposed to contact the U.K. authority and file taxes because some of my users may have come from the U.K.?
What happens when we end up with 190 different laws in as many countries? And then provinces and states?
The internet was supposed to be free from geo-regulation. Where are all the people who were mad about region-locked DVDs? Where are all the people who were mad about licenses that were restrictive because of the country you came from?
You pay taxes where you are incorporated. If you make a sale, you pay sales tax where you have presence (since you have a tax relationship with the local government).
What this does is collect a tax from people who have no relationship to the tax authority, and therefore have no say in what is taxed, how much it is taxed, and how those funds are spent. That is taxation without representation. I wholeheartedly disagree with the principles behind these tax regimes.
Instead these local governments should be encouraging development of robust services so they can have a robust economy to provide for their government services. Not push everything back to the folks in Silicon Valley to pay for everything.
WOZ wasn't behind their most successful products. He is for certain an engineering genius.
Apple has still the best ecosystem around. Perhaps some of their pieces are sub-par, but the giant can still only focus on so much for so long. Apple has back-burners their Macs for a while, and focused on making their phone utterly brilliant. It has faceID tech that no one has truly copied, it has the very best CPU, which no one can deny, and it's camera has gone in a strange direction. Can the Samsung Phones and Google Phones do the same AR workload an iPhone can?
They have gone to pour more into the "taking pictures" function of a camera, but Apple has made the camera have other uses. Try the Measure app, it's amazing, and accurate!
Apple will circle back and update their Mac computers, and their apps will have incremental updates that make them a good part of the ecosystem, though I will admit not the best.
No watch compares to the Apple Watch, in terms of fitting in, no TV device fits like the Apple TV device in terms of fitting in. Your apps automatically install on the TV and Watch, your content resumes where it left off, and it is by far the best content aggregator there is (their TV App). It did that in a short time period.
Apple has expanded its ecosystem so big that they can only focus on so much at once, that much is clear. And clearly there are trade offs for the privacy protection you get. Siri is still the only one that does most of the work on device when possible.
Given the alternatives: the walled garden is still the nicest real estate, by far.
No you can not just "blow off all subpoenas". The court orders you to show up, if you feel that you don't want to, you can argue your case, the court (which issued the subpoena) will hear you out and throw you out anyway.
Apple didn't have the ability to open the phone, without writing software to bypass authentication, and signing the software so the phone adopted it. They would have had to write a version that works differently. They didn't feel they had to, since it would violate their first amendment rights. So... they went to court to argue that.
No, it isn't. In some countries, they want their king. They may be be devout, religious followers of their king. Like England. The Queen has the authority to declare war. To decapitate the government. She has never exercised that power, but she still has it. She doesn't need a drivers license, since it's her country. It's pretty totalitarian but her subjects are mostly in support of her. You can't argue that you as an American (I presume) have the authority to determine how other nations organize themselves. They do. They may ask for help achieving that end, but it's ultimately not your call.
Because that's not how a civilized society works out it's issues. We have all agreed on a system by which our laws are determined. It's called "the consent of the governed".
Getting away with something doesn't make it right. If you disagree, voice your opinion. Vote. Contribute. Campaign. Run. Get involved in the civic process. Anarchy is a bad alternative.
It's not American businesses job to refute totalitarian regimes. When in Rome, you follow Roman laws. You have an issue with it, contact the State department.
The thing about Stamos is, he is wrong in one respect. Tim Cook is trying to influence opinions on privacy vs. security by speaking his mind. He isn't flouting law.
In China, it is law to block those services. Like it or not, their rule of law applies to US companies who do business there. The right way to change laws is to debate and convince law makers (or whatever system you hve arranged to determine what your laws are) and not simply flout them.
Apple should absolutely follow Chinese law when operating in China, and its employees or management are free to speak their minds when they are here (I don't know if China has free speech laws) if they disagree with those laws.
We would expect a Chinese company operating in the US to respect American laws when they are operating here, irrespective if they disagree with them.
Apple has done nothing wrong by trying to follow the law there. Neither for that matter has google. It's just stupid PR that got mishandled.
I disagree with many laws in the US, but I don't protest them by breaking those laws, I voice my opinions in the hopes that opinion will persuade government to move towards my way of thinking. Tim Cook is doing the same thing.
Doesn't matter unless you gather the private keys of every data service he uses. Modern networks even encrypt dial-up voice, which I doubt he uses this phone for.
Your point was that they were not following GAAP accounting. Had you taken my advice and read the report I conveniently linked to you, you would have seen the very first sentence : Q2 Automotive gross margin increased to 20.6% GAAP and 21.0% non-GAAP.
Thats their profit margin. Also, FYI, you book revenue when you ship, not produce. So having 13k vehicles in inventory is a drag on their balance sheet, not a boost.
Not so. They report bot produced and delivered cars. Just take a look at the report to understand the company financials. It's much more intelligent than just talking out of your ass:
Slashdot Mirror
Google doesn't but Apple does. Apple's user experience seems to be WAY better than Androids (just follow the Android privacy or malware thread VS. iOS), it is plain as day.
I believe that if I want to pay a company to protect me from bad actors among the literally hundreds, if not thousands of apps I have no bandwidth to police by myself, I should have the right to do so. Given the fact that there are other options, this isn't a monopoly.
Besides, it is their product and service. If it was someone else's platform, and they used a market position to say for example "you can only have access to Apple computers if we get to control entirely the app process on your mobile OS", then that would be an abuse of a monopolistic position (assuming they had a monopoly on desktops, they do not). Them controlling their own product, without the need to bully anyone into submission, means it isn't a monopoly.
What you consider their BS is their way of making sure your BS doesn't get on their user's phones. Seriously, they have over a million apps that are regularly managed and updated. If you can't get your app through their app screening process, do all your Android customers a favor, and change careers.
It's not about retaining it. There are many things that computer chips can do much better even in their current state than a human brain can. Recall information is one (you try memorizing a few megabytes, never mind an entire hard drive perfectly), math is another. Imagine if you could think of a math problem and realize it's solution near instantaneously? It would change our understanding of finance, ethics, the arts, and so many other fascets of modern life.
It is still a lot, but that isn't the bottle-neck. The real problem is sourcing the raw materials and rare-earths for that much production. The costs go down, when we have cheap oil, because demand falls. When oil gets expensive, demand for solar goes up, but the raw materials become scarcer, which drives price up. It isn't so much that factories don't have capacity, its that they have supply-chain issues with building that much. Also, a solar panel loses its ability to create power as it ages, so you effectively need to build 1/20th of your entire requirement every year.
This will probably happen over time, but the energy grids are not ready for 1/2 of all vehicles chewing through MWh of energy. I have a Tesla, and it works great. We also have solar panels on our building at work (2500 sq. ft. worth of panels), which is where I charge, but I can't imagine what would happen to power demand and supply (which is as oversubscribed as wide area networks are, in terms of back-bone / last mile) if suddenly all cars needed their energy from the grid. The panels do not nearly provide enough power for the car and the building.
It's Apple's product, one they see fit to help users with their battle against privacy. The thing about the walled garden, is it protects you out in the Jungle. Maybe your C-programming skills are finely tuned and you know what you are doing, but that is not the vast majority of users out there, who Apple, I'm sorry to say, does the very best job in the valley defending.
The SPAM calling this is getting old. I would rather we all move to a platform where the caller identification is required to be accurate so we know the return path. Hide or fake a caller ID, phone call doesn't go through on technical grounds.
Really, we should just get rid of the telephone system. Put it on open protocols for audio/video/data, run it over the internet. End to end encrypted. That old shit has got to go. Plus, I don't want to pay for a phone plan when an iPhone and a data plan will do.
No. 4.19 was insecure, but faster. 4.20 is more secure, but slower. So? If I store my passwords in plain-text it's faster. Faster still if I don't have to do a DB lookup and just hard code some that I need.
4.20 is better. The performance penalty is the cost of better security in almost all computer operations (often negligible due to faster and faster chips). Because of hardware advancements though, it's most of the time a very worthwhile tradeoff. If your application suffers that much, size up the gear.
It's not a crime if it's done outside the country, right? I mean.... it's a crime in many countries to depict the Prophet Mohammed, and some of those countries are international treaty signatories, but that doesn't mean they get to extradite Charlie Hebdo artists.
Was he in the US during any of his espionage activities?
If every merchant would support contactless payments, this wouldn't be an issue. Your phone is something you have and something you are, and something you know (phone, face, pin to unlock).
You don't authenticate to your credit card. That's always going to be a problem.
Clearly at $3t and with its ability to afford to pay people to watch porn, it needs to be reduced. He was stealing from tax payers.
Actually, it is probably with Apple, since the second SIM only supports 2g and no MMS? How are you supposed to comparison shop when one has such limitations?
I'm not sure if this is an Apple code, something an update can fix, or if this is common on dual sim phones?
Wait, what?
You think a gp-cpu will switch as fast as an switches ASIC? Do you know how many interrupts you need to switch at 10g?
No, it's not. The rich pay the vast majority of taxes. No one disputes that. There is a famous story about bottles of beer being served and priced based on taxes. It's too long to look up, but it's an interesting read.
The part that irks me about this tax is it's focus and unfair application.
If I run a web site, and host it locally where I live, who cares where the users come from? Say my site helps you find Linux drivers, and I run ads to pay for the hosting fees, and turn a profit. Am I supposed to contact the U.K. authority and file taxes because some of my users may have come from the U.K.?
What happens when we end up with 190 different laws in as many countries? And then provinces and states?
The internet was supposed to be free from geo-regulation. Where are all the people who were mad about region-locked DVDs? Where are all the people who were mad about licenses that were restrictive because of the country you came from?
You pay taxes where you are incorporated. If you make a sale, you pay sales tax where you have presence (since you have a tax relationship with the local government).
What this does is collect a tax from people who have no relationship to the tax authority, and therefore have no say in what is taxed, how much it is taxed, and how those funds are spent. That is taxation without representation. I wholeheartedly disagree with the principles behind these tax regimes.
Instead these local governments should be encouraging development of robust services so they can have a robust economy to provide for their government services. Not push everything back to the folks in Silicon Valley to pay for everything.
WOZ wasn't behind their most successful products. He is for certain an engineering genius.
Apple has still the best ecosystem around. Perhaps some of their pieces are sub-par, but the giant can still only focus on so much for so long. Apple has back-burners their Macs for a while, and focused on making their phone utterly brilliant. It has faceID tech that no one has truly copied, it has the very best CPU, which no one can deny, and it's camera has gone in a strange direction. Can the Samsung Phones and Google Phones do the same AR workload an iPhone can?
They have gone to pour more into the "taking pictures" function of a camera, but Apple has made the camera have other uses. Try the Measure app, it's amazing, and accurate!
Apple will circle back and update their Mac computers, and their apps will have incremental updates that make them a good part of the ecosystem, though I will admit not the best.
No watch compares to the Apple Watch, in terms of fitting in, no TV device fits like the Apple TV device in terms of fitting in. Your apps automatically install on the TV and Watch, your content resumes where it left off, and it is by far the best content aggregator there is (their TV App). It did that in a short time period.
Apple has expanded its ecosystem so big that they can only focus on so much at once, that much is clear. And clearly there are trade offs for the privacy protection you get. Siri is still the only one that does most of the work on device when possible.
Given the alternatives: the walled garden is still the nicest real estate, by far.
No you can not just "blow off all subpoenas". The court orders you to show up, if you feel that you don't want to, you can argue your case, the court (which issued the subpoena) will hear you out and throw you out anyway.
Apple didn't have the ability to open the phone, without writing software to bypass authentication, and signing the software so the phone adopted it. They would have had to write a version that works differently. They didn't feel they had to, since it would violate their first amendment rights. So... they went to court to argue that.
No, it isn't. In some countries, they want their king. They may be be devout, religious followers of their king. Like England. The Queen has the authority to declare war. To decapitate the government. She has never exercised that power, but she still has it. She doesn't need a drivers license, since it's her country. It's pretty totalitarian but her subjects are mostly in support of her. You can't argue that you as an American (I presume) have the authority to determine how other nations organize themselves. They do. They may ask for help achieving that end, but it's ultimately not your call.
What an asshat. If you don't have consent of the governed... you have a revolution. Just ask King Louis of Francs.
Because that's not how a civilized society works out it's issues. We have all agreed on a system by which our laws are determined. It's called "the consent of the governed".
Getting away with something doesn't make it right. If you disagree, voice your opinion. Vote. Contribute. Campaign. Run. Get involved in the civic process. Anarchy is a bad alternative.
It's not American businesses job to refute totalitarian regimes. When in Rome, you follow Roman laws. You have an issue with it, contact the State department.
To comply with the all writs act, would violate their first amendment right not to speak (or write software) by being compelled to by law.
Since in this case the two laws were contradictory, the courts needed to sort it out.
Oh, and get off your high-horse. You look like an idiot riding it with a dunce hat on.
The thing about Stamos is, he is wrong in one respect. Tim Cook is trying to influence opinions on privacy vs. security by speaking his mind. He isn't flouting law.
In China, it is law to block those services. Like it or not, their rule of law applies to US companies who do business there. The right way to change laws is to debate and convince law makers (or whatever system you hve arranged to determine what your laws are) and not simply flout them.
Apple should absolutely follow Chinese law when operating in China, and its employees or management are free to speak their minds when they are here (I don't know if China has free speech laws) if they disagree with those laws.
We would expect a Chinese company operating in the US to respect American laws when they are operating here, irrespective if they disagree with them.
Apple has done nothing wrong by trying to follow the law there. Neither for that matter has google. It's just stupid PR that got mishandled.
I disagree with many laws in the US, but I don't protest them by breaking those laws, I voice my opinions in the hopes that opinion will persuade government to move towards my way of thinking. Tim Cook is doing the same thing.
Doesn't matter unless you gather the private keys of every data service he uses. Modern networks even encrypt dial-up voice, which I doubt he uses this phone for.
Sure! I'm glad you asked.
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Your point was that they were not following GAAP accounting. Had you taken my advice and read the report I conveniently linked to you, you would have seen the very first sentence : Q2 Automotive gross margin increased to 20.6% GAAP and 21.0% non-GAAP.
Thats their profit margin. Also, FYI, you book revenue when you ship, not produce. So having 13k vehicles in inventory is a drag on their balance sheet, not a boost.
Not so. They report bot produced and delivered cars. Just take a look at the report to understand the company financials. It's much more intelligent than just talking out of your ass:
The Latest 10-q
The Update Letter
Both of those documents are SEC filed.