If your company has deployed enough iPhones to have hundreds returned by former employees, I'm gobsmacked that you're not using an MDM tool of some sort. And if you are using MDM and it's not letting you unlock your company's phones, you're not doing it right.
I had the old App Store version, and when this happened, the people at BareBones only asked me to send a copy of my receipt (which I could still download from the App Store) and they sent me a license for the stand-alone version, no muss, no fuss. I also recall that this process was clearly spelled out right on the front page of their website.
Except for the fact that the domain will not be released for re-registration until a year after Brexit. By that time, everyone will have figured out how to find the new domain, or switched to a competitor.
I understand that this is just the start of Marzipan, but the Home and News apps are just clones of the iPad apps. Even if the Marzipan framework supplies tons of extra features to make the Mac apps perform like Mac apps, it's still not going to stop 3rd parties from doing the same thing as Apple did: namely take their iPad app and run it through Marzipan to provide a sub-par experience on the Mac.
Maybe for new apps that get developed for all platforms at the same time with Marzipan in mind will turn out well on all platforms, but I see a future that's full of crappy iPad-like apps on the mac soon after this is available to developers because it's easier to do than to re-create your UI from scratch to accommodate such different UXes.
We already have a few Marzipan apps in MacOS 10.14, namely the News and Home apps. And your fears are well founded. I'm hoping that they're just proof-of-concept apps and that Apple will figure out how to expand the UI to encompass more Mac-like behavior on the mac, because right now, the only good thing that you can say about Marzipan apps on the Mac is that when you click on them, they launch.
There's only one thing missing from your analysis, and that's the FRAND contract Qualcomm agreed to when their patent-encumbered designs were selected for the LTE standard. Apple's argument is that the deal they're getting from Qualcomm isn't fair, reasonable, or non-discriminatory. I'm not sure if it is or if it isn't, but there's certainly enough gray area to dispute that this is all Apple's fault, hence the lawsuit.
That's why RH implemented Software Collections. The base install may contain an older stable-when-the-distro-was-new version of software, but a supplementary repo that's maintained by RH provides more current versions of most major tools. It's a couple of steps more involved than just "yum install python-3.6.5" but it's there and supported by RedHat.
Interesting. My bank isn't on that list, and I only used my card a few times the last time I traveled (ApplePay worked just about everywhere), but when I did use my card, I always validated with PIN and not signature.
Some credit card issuers will assign a PIN to your credit card if you request it. That way, when you go to Europe, you can use your card just like everyone else.
No, that's not the case. Fusion drives are not hybrid drives. While the OS presents a single drive to the end user, a fusion drive is two separately addressable drives to the lowest levels of the operating system. Apple figured that the OS could do a better job of optimizing what data went on the SSD than drive firmware could, since it would know *what* the data was, not just how often or recently it was accessed.
Why wouldn't they upgrade? The old OS doesn't support APFS on fusion drives either. And it's not like Apple said "Buy this computer now, and get APFS on it later."
Why is this even news? A feature in a beta version of software got cut for the GM. Happens all the time. Any idiot can read between the lines and understands that there's a bug in APFS for fusion drives, and rather than delay the release, Apple is just disabling it on fusion drives until a point update down the line.
By default, the notch is blacked out in landscape mode. You have to click on the "expand" arrows to fill the screen to the edge and make the notch visible.
But I am also for saying the real version of "The Pledge of Allegiance".
Which "real" version are you referring to? The original, written in 1887? Or the one that was modified during the red scare of the McCarthy era that added the words "under God" at the end?
And whose God is it anyway? Most of the founding fathers were Deists, and had very little in common with the Evangelicals or even mainstream Protestants or Catholics of the modern era. Our country was most definitely not founded on Christianity.
You call it a disease, yet the more religion we force out of the USA the worse the USA becomes. Crazy right?
The only people it gets worse for are the ones who have in the past enjoyed special privileges and have been shielded from discrimination because of the social status afforded by their religious affiliation.
So, yeah, it's crazy to think that people actually think that forcing religion out of our government is making things worse. It's just the butthurt christianists that are used to getting their way and keeping everyone else "in their place" that are worse off.
This is the same argument that it's always been. Qualcomm has patents that are necessary to use cellular networks, and in return for making them standards, they've agreed to license them (either in their chips or their competitors) for "reasonable" amounts of money. Unfortunately for Apple, Qualcomm is trying to charge a license for a percentage of the final value of the phone, instead of a unit price per radio. They've been in court several times to determine if Qualcomm is being "reasonable" or not.
It seems a pretty specious argument to me. Just like the article says, you don't charge somebody more for a sofa just because they want to put it in a more expensive house.
Apple went to Verizon first with the iPhone. When they told Verizon that Apple would control the phone, the updates, the eventual App Store, and they wouldn't be able to put their logos on it, Verizon told them to go fuck themselves.
AT&T though, they were desperate. They were losing land line subscribers left and right and their two different cell phone companies were flailing. So they let Apple do its thing.
Just a little correction here. AT&T wasn't desperate. Cingular Wireless was desperate. They made the deal with Apple, but didn't happen fast enough to save them, and they were acquired by AT&T between the time that the iPhone was announced and the time it was released. I believe that Apple went to AT&T after being rebuffed by Verizon, only to get the same response.
So while the iPhone launched on AT&Ts network, it was only because AT&T bought Cingular and was forced to honor its contract, not because of negotiations between Apple ant AT&T.
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If your company has deployed enough iPhones to have hundreds returned by former employees, I'm gobsmacked that you're not using an MDM tool of some sort. And if you are using MDM and it's not letting you unlock your company's phones, you're not doing it right.
I had the old App Store version, and when this happened, the people at BareBones only asked me to send a copy of my receipt (which I could still download from the App Store) and they sent me a license for the stand-alone version, no muss, no fuss. I also recall that this process was clearly spelled out right on the front page of their website.
Except for the fact that the domain will not be released for re-registration until a year after Brexit. By that time, everyone will have figured out how to find the new domain, or switched to a competitor.
I understand that this is just the start of Marzipan, but the Home and News apps are just clones of the iPad apps. Even if the Marzipan framework supplies tons of extra features to make the Mac apps perform like Mac apps, it's still not going to stop 3rd parties from doing the same thing as Apple did: namely take their iPad app and run it through Marzipan to provide a sub-par experience on the Mac.
Maybe for new apps that get developed for all platforms at the same time with Marzipan in mind will turn out well on all platforms, but I see a future that's full of crappy iPad-like apps on the mac soon after this is available to developers because it's easier to do than to re-create your UI from scratch to accommodate such different UXes.
We already have a few Marzipan apps in MacOS 10.14, namely the News and Home apps. And your fears are well founded. I'm hoping that they're just proof-of-concept apps and that Apple will figure out how to expand the UI to encompass more Mac-like behavior on the mac, because right now, the only good thing that you can say about Marzipan apps on the Mac is that when you click on them, they launch.
There's only one thing missing from your analysis, and that's the FRAND contract Qualcomm agreed to when their patent-encumbered designs were selected for the LTE standard. Apple's argument is that the deal they're getting from Qualcomm isn't fair, reasonable, or non-discriminatory. I'm not sure if it is or if it isn't, but there's certainly enough gray area to dispute that this is all Apple's fault, hence the lawsuit.
'Twasn't there a minute ago.
Not even a link to the article?
if you have an idea of the device type, you can guess a good portion of the mac address to make brute forcing easier
if the device is using ipv6 without privacy and has the mac address embedded in the ip, you already have the mac then
nmap does a pretty good job of guessing the device type.
nmap does a pretty shitty job of scanning a /48 ipv6 subnet.
That's why RH implemented Software Collections. The base install may contain an older stable-when-the-distro-was-new version of software, but a supplementary repo that's maintained by RH provides more current versions of most major tools. It's a couple of steps more involved than just "yum install python-3.6.5" but it's there and supported by RedHat.
In summary, MS are too stupid to be genuinely evil.
Stupid and evil are not mutually exclusive.
This is Swatch internet time all over again.
Interesting. My bank isn't on that list, and I only used my card a few times the last time I traveled (ApplePay worked just about everywhere), but when I did use my card, I always validated with PIN and not signature.
How can I use an American credit card in Europe?
Some credit card issuers will assign a PIN to your credit card if you request it. That way, when you go to Europe, you can use your card just like everyone else.
What could possibly go wrong?
No, that's not the case. Fusion drives are not hybrid drives. While the OS presents a single drive to the end user, a fusion drive is two separately addressable drives to the lowest levels of the operating system. Apple figured that the OS could do a better job of optimizing what data went on the SSD than drive firmware could, since it would know *what* the data was, not just how often or recently it was accessed.
Why wouldn't they upgrade? The old OS doesn't support APFS on fusion drives either. And it's not like Apple said "Buy this computer now, and get APFS on it later."
Here's David Pogue mentioning it: https://twitter.com/Pogue/stat...
Why is this even news? A feature in a beta version of software got cut for the GM. Happens all the time. Any idiot can read between the lines and understands that there's a bug in APFS for fusion drives, and rather than delay the release, Apple is just disabling it on fusion drives until a point update down the line.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
By default, the notch is blacked out in landscape mode. You have to click on the "expand" arrows to fill the screen to the edge and make the notch visible.
Time to download more porn. ;)
But I am also for saying the real version of "The Pledge of Allegiance".
Which "real" version are you referring to? The original, written in 1887? Or the one that was modified during the red scare of the McCarthy era that added the words "under God" at the end?
And whose God is it anyway? Most of the founding fathers were Deists, and had very little in common with the Evangelicals or even mainstream Protestants or Catholics of the modern era. Our country was most definitely not founded on Christianity.
You call it a disease, yet the more religion we force out of the USA the worse the USA becomes. Crazy right?
The only people it gets worse for are the ones who have in the past enjoyed special privileges and have been shielded from discrimination because of the social status afforded by their religious affiliation.
So, yeah, it's crazy to think that people actually think that forcing religion out of our government is making things worse. It's just the butthurt christianists that are used to getting their way and keeping everyone else "in their place" that are worse off.
This is the same argument that it's always been. Qualcomm has patents that are necessary to use cellular networks, and in return for making them standards, they've agreed to license them (either in their chips or their competitors) for "reasonable" amounts of money. Unfortunately for Apple, Qualcomm is trying to charge a license for a percentage of the final value of the phone, instead of a unit price per radio. They've been in court several times to determine if Qualcomm is being "reasonable" or not.
It seems a pretty specious argument to me. Just like the article says, you don't charge somebody more for a sofa just because they want to put it in a more expensive house.
Apple went to Verizon first with the iPhone. When they told Verizon that Apple would control the phone, the updates, the eventual App Store, and they wouldn't be able to put their logos on it, Verizon told them to go fuck themselves.
AT&T though, they were desperate. They were losing land line subscribers left and right and their two different cell phone companies were flailing. So they let Apple do its thing.
Just a little correction here. AT&T wasn't desperate. Cingular Wireless was desperate. They made the deal with Apple, but didn't happen fast enough to save them, and they were acquired by AT&T between the time that the iPhone was announced and the time it was released. I believe that Apple went to AT&T after being rebuffed by Verizon, only to get the same response.
So while the iPhone launched on AT&Ts network, it was only because AT&T bought Cingular and was forced to honor its contract, not because of negotiations between Apple ant AT&T.