Defective leaky caps ring a bell? $1000 motherboard replacement, in middle of third year after having two years of Applecare. Was also on the hook for getting to repair place, 10 hour drive away.
This was for my aunt to deal with when my cousin was away. Fuck Apple forever after that ass fucking.
Apple wasn't the only mfg. bitten by bad capacitors. It has been an on and off thing for years, and has affected a diverse and wide array of electronics. Apple did not foresee that those caps were going to die, any more than any of the other mfgs. that had the same issue. The fact that it happened 6 mos after the end of AppleCare is very unfortunate. I wonder if you tried taking this up the chain a bit. Apple has certainly bent over backwards before when it is a "defect in materials or workmanship", especially for AppleCare customers, even ones technically out of warranty.
And it isn't Apple's fault you live in the boonies. Do you think HP or Samsung would have come to you?
Why couldn't you just ship the unit to the repair depot? I have worked as an electronic bench tech before, and we received about 3/4 of our business off the back of a UPS truck. If it was a bad mobo, then you wouldn't have had to send the heavy-ass and fragile monitor; so shipping should have been a viable option. I know that would have been my first thought if I lived that far away from the closest service center.
Heck, a LOT of things have to go to a repair depot or manufacturer half a continent away. Quit. Ring such a "victim"!
Not touching iOS 11 until they address the BlueTooth/WiFi settings where you toggle it OFF in control center and all it does is DISCONNECT you for the rest of the day.
Eeyup. That is why back in ye days of olde, my upgrade path went TI-99/4a --> Used Apple ][+ --> New Apple IIGS --> DOS/Win/Linux PCs and laptops.
Are you comparing the 1977 - 1992 run of the Apple ][ line, to what Logitech is doing?!?
The Apple ][, ][+,//c,//e were sold from 1977 to 1993 (yes, even in parallel with the IIGS, and a full year longer, mostly due to strong educational sales), and the IIGS was sold from 1986 through 1992. That's WELL into the Macintosh-era! Heck, Apple even released an embedded//e on a CARD for some Mac models!
And I can whip my ][+ and IIGS out of the closet right now and fire them up and, assuming the floppies will still read, use them just like they were new!
How is that in any way comparable to what Logitech is doing with the Harmony stuff?
Nothing is supported forever; but at least Apple doesn't ACTIVELY bork your gear when they stop supporting it.
iOS has been carrying around both 32 and 64-bit support for at least the past 2 major revs. That is a much larger drain on resources (development and testing resources) than you might think.
Making iOS 11 64-bit only was a concept who's time had come. Time marches on.
Unfortunately, that leaves some people with old gear out in the cold, upgrade wise...
Patently untrue. iOS 11 supports back to 5s. That's for a phone released in September of 2013. Meaning the Galaxy S5 which was released in April of 2014 will not be getting the upgrade (from Samsung). From a support model perspective, Apple wins hands down. It supports the devices longer with more frequent updates than even the best Android manufacturer.
The cutoff in iOS 11 was dictated by which devices were 64 bit, as iOS 11 is 64-bit only.
That's why the list of iOS 11 compatible devices starts at the 5s, the first 64-bit iPhone.
with vive being available right now it seems like available in 2 years is about 2 years too late.
I guess you do what you have to do in order to stay relevant.
on the upside, maybe it means that they will actually upgrade their desktop hardware in order to run their headset. custom chips are great but you still need raw horsepower to do all the calculations involved in display relative to position, especially when you use some sort of marking system to track headset orientation (vive uses stereoscopic cameras and IR leds on the headset)
This is AR, not VR.
Huge computational difference.
Look what they are already able to do with iPhone hardware and ARKit. Not very far from this to full stereoscopic output.
You're the new FakeTimCook apologist. I feel bad for you, you come across as pathetic.
And it isn't Samsung's expectation?
At least Apple will still be offering regular OS Updates for that phone for 5 years or more. They are still supporting the iPhone 5s, FFS, and up to a few weeks ago, even supported the 32 bit iPhone 5. But now that they are 64-bit only, I suspect that support for the 5s and up will continue for at least a few more years.
Consider the plight of us semiconductor designers. You've got 10 billion transistors, all hooked up in designs by thousands of people and it all has to work together and if you get it wrong, you can't fix it. It has to be right. So hell yes, you test your own stuff before letting others see it. Then other people test it. Then you test their stuff with your stuff. Meanwhile there are teams of people putting it all together in lots of ways to try and break it.
The value in a design is not the design. It's the level of trust that the thing will work when you put it in a chip.
...and then, after it goes into the field, there are STILL one or more Errata that follow, with nice things things like "Oh, the SPI Enable doesn't work when PD20-23 are configured as SPI2"...
No, the argument is that if I want a simple, easy-to-remember passcode, I can decide that for myself. The phone should not be limiting me to a simple passcode at setup, and make me jump through hoops to "unlock" stronger passcodes and have to change it later. That's idiotic and very obviously counterproductive for security.
Bullshit.
If you consider flipping a switch in the Settings App to be "Jumping through hoops", then I pity you for feeling put-upon to have to jump through hoops like "pressing Accept on your phone just to answer a call", or "entering your PIN to access your bank website AFTER you already logged-in with your username and password", right?
I know who you are: You're that guy that makes me create a password with so many special features that it becomes TOTALLY un-remember-able, and so I end up HAVING to write it down somewhere; which, guess what? TOTALLY defeats the purpose of a "secure password".
Employing a Contract Manufacturer to do the soldering and assembly doesn't make you a "non-manufacturer" of your Hardware products.
Actually it does mean exactly that. Apple does not manufacture their products and has not for a long time. Therefore they are not a manufacturer by definition. Nothing wrong with that but you have to actually manufacture something to be called a manufacturer.
EVERYONE employs Contract Manufacturers. It's just a matter of economic efficiency, since the facilities and equipment are specialized and quite costly.
I am the GM for a (small) contract manufacturing company. I assure you I understand how it works better than you do. If you outsource 100% of your manufacturing then you are by definition not a manufacturer. Companies like Dell and HP contract out some production but they also make a substantial amount of their products themselves. Apple currently makes near as makes no difference none of their hardware nor do the assemble hardware made by others. The do design a lot of it but designing a product does not make one a manufacturer.
And I have worked for decades Designing industrial control products. The (also small) company I worked for did a lot of its own Manufacturing (including in house PCB design, board-stuffing (through-hole) and a Wavesolder line (again, for the through-hole stuff)), as well as enclosures (other than the injection molded parts) and final assembly. But, due to the equipment investment necessary for pick and place and IR reflow equipment, we also used CMs for our SMT designs. Therefore, I know EXACTLY what I am talking about. So, you would say that we didn't "Manufacture" our SMT designs, because we Contracted someone with an SMT line, right?
Apple is correctly classified as an OEM; regardless of whether they are "fabless" or not.
Your overly sophistic and narrow (and narrow-minded) classification may matter to the SEC or the IRS; but not to anyone else.
And the only reason Apple no longer maintains its former considerable manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Ireland, is because it is simply not economically practical to do so.
Employing a Contract Manufacturer to do the soldering and assembly doesn't make you a "non-manufacturer" of your Hardware products.
EVERYONE employs Contract Manufacturers. It's just a matter of economic efficiency, since the facilities and equipment are specialized and quite costly.
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.
That's because nobody but (not so) "stupid" Apple put enough R&D into Face Recognition to actually make it WORK.
Fuck, Samsung's Facial Recognition was instantly fooled by a PHOTOGRAPH. That's exactly how much effort THEY put into it...
The latest news is that third parties can nab face scan data on the new Iphone x. Customers are 'protected' by giving consent a fine print click-thu on their game (everybody they know is playing it).
It doesn't matter what brand phone you use. If your privacy matters you radically limit the info you put on it.
What Apps can access, as explained by Craig Federighi, is a LOW-RESOLUTION "motion mask"-view of the Face as tracked in real-time, and as demonstrated by Federighi during the iPhone X demo. Neither 3rd Parties, NOR APPLE, have access to the high-resolution FaceID information. It lives SOLELY in the Secure Enclave chip, ON-DEVICE.
And guess what? Even THAT is a "cooked-down" (essentially a "hashed") version of the raw camera data.
Apple is in the business of selling hardware, not selling your data. That plus creating a premium experience translates to a device that people will pay a premium to get.
A lot of the problems Apple had in the 80s and 90s were actually caused by Jobs. Jobs leaving the company probably made him a better leader than he would have been had he stayed.
Truer words were never spoken, and if Jobs was around, I think he would agree at least with the second statement, at least...
I wonder what type of games they're playing with the books to make this happen. It's well known that without Jobs Apple has already started going into the meat grinder.
I have no doubt they can keep this up maybe for decades (Jobs did leave a bank of ideas) but Apple in the end is headed towards the toilet. Just like the last time Jobs left them.
Jobs has been gone over 4 years now. To give you an idea how long in "Apple Years" that is, the iPhone 4s came out JUST as Jobs died. That's like EIGHT iPhone generations ago...
I kinda doubt that any amount of "book-juggling" would hide "the truth" from EVERYONE for that long.
No "meat grinder". Just stellar products that everyone but Haters seem to really like...
The point is that the default setting is designed to keep entropy low, giving people a false sense of security. Some user know this and can "enable" stronger passwords, but most people don't know this, which is why I pointed it out (and apparently got downvoted for simply doing so). Information is harmful, kids.
The whole problem here is the "secure removable storage". They claim it's good for users, but it's really only good for Google. On earlier versions of Android the SD card was a good way (and once they added that MTP abomination the only way) to move data between your phone and your computer. But of course Google has never wanted you to do that.
At least Apple lets you use iTunes or iCloud to backup your phone's data. And if you use iCloud backup, I believe its all done automagically, like with Time Machine.
And with Apple's new iCloud pricing, that option is looking pretty good, to have an always-up-to-date backup of your instantly-lose-able iPhone/iPad for 3 bucks per month ($36 per year) sounds like a pretty good deal to me. And Apple's "Family Plans" for using "Shared Storage" on iCloud are pretty reasonable, too.
And how would you design it to have a proper factory reset on the phone and still enable secure removable storage? If you do a factory reset on an iPhone all your data is lost as well and even if it didn't delete it it would be rendered inaccessible anyway since the encryption keys have been reset.
In an iPhone situation, you can do a Backup of your Phone, do a Reset to Factory Settings, then Restore From Backup. The key thing being that you musn't forget your passphrase before the Restore, or THEN you're borked...
You can even create a Non-Encrypted Backup if you don't care about Health and "Activity" Data (or iBooks PDFs!!! Grrrr!!!). But here is how you Backup, Restore to Factory Settings, then Restore (Apps & Data) for an iPhone.
Of course, if you DIDN'T make an iTunes Backup (or enable iCloud Backup) before doing an OS Upgrade that borked your iPhone, as usual, you deserve EXACTLY what you get.
Apple, on the other hand, stores photos using end-to-end encryption.
One problem I have with this is that the default passcode is limited to a 6-digit number (digits only). You can change the passcode settings to enable alphanumerics, but the default is just digits.
Given this default lack of entropy, and the fact that the secret keys in the hardware are known to Apple, it's trivial for the company to break the encryption on the vast majority of devices if they really want to. I'm not suggesting they're secretly complying with the government, but they probably do mine the "easy" information for statistical reasons just like every other company.
So they allow people that don't really care to keep their passcode simple, and those who are more sensitive to security to have a Horse Stapler Passphrase.
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Defective leaky caps ring a bell? $1000 motherboard replacement, in middle of third year after having two years of Applecare. Was also on the hook for getting to repair place, 10 hour drive away.
This was for my aunt to deal with when my cousin was away. Fuck Apple forever after that ass fucking.
Apple wasn't the only mfg. bitten by bad capacitors. It has been an on and off thing for years, and has affected a diverse and wide array of electronics. Apple did not foresee that those caps were going to die, any more than any of the other mfgs. that had the same issue. The fact that it happened 6 mos after the end of AppleCare is very unfortunate. I wonder if you tried taking this up the chain a bit. Apple has certainly bent over backwards before when it is a "defect in materials or workmanship", especially for AppleCare customers, even ones technically out of warranty.
And it isn't Apple's fault you live in the boonies. Do you think HP or Samsung would have come to you?
Why couldn't you just ship the unit to the repair depot? I have worked as an electronic bench tech before, and we received about 3/4 of our business off the back of a UPS truck. If it was a bad mobo, then you wouldn't have had to send the heavy-ass and fragile monitor; so shipping should have been a viable option. I know that would have been my first thought if I lived that far away from the closest service center.
Heck, a LOT of things have to go to a repair depot or manufacturer half a continent away. Quit. Ring such a "victim"!
I can't update my perfectly working iPad because it is not supported by iOS11.
Likely because it is 32 bit.
Not touching iOS 11 until they address the BlueTooth/WiFi settings where you toggle it OFF in control center and all it does is DISCONNECT you for the rest of the day.
https://discussions.apple.com/...
They DID address it.
The toggle in Control Panel is a Disconnect; but peer-peer services such as AirDrop still work. This AVOIDS confusion on the part of users.
All one has to do to actually turn WiFi OFF, is to toggle it OFF in the Settings App.
Eeyup. That is why back in ye days of olde, my upgrade path went TI-99/4a --> Used Apple ][+ --> New Apple IIGS --> DOS/Win/Linux PCs and laptops.
Are you comparing the 1977 - 1992 run of the Apple ][ line, to what Logitech is doing?!?
The Apple ][, ][+, //c, //e were sold from 1977 to 1993 (yes, even in parallel with the IIGS, and a full year longer, mostly due to strong educational sales), and the IIGS was sold from 1986 through 1992. That's WELL into the Macintosh-era! Heck, Apple even released an embedded //e on a CARD for some Mac models!
And I can whip my ][+ and IIGS out of the closet right now and fire them up and, assuming the floppies will still read, use them just like they were new!
How is that in any way comparable to what Logitech is doing with the Harmony stuff?
Nothing is supported forever; but at least Apple doesn't ACTIVELY bork your gear when they stop supporting it.
...but it won't see iOS 11 because .. Apple.
No. Because 32-bit.
iOS has been carrying around both 32 and 64-bit support for at least the past 2 major revs. That is a much larger drain on resources (development and testing resources) than you might think.
Making iOS 11 64-bit only was a concept who's time had come. Time marches on.
Unfortunately, that leaves some people with old gear out in the cold, upgrade wise...
Patently untrue. iOS 11 supports back to 5s. That's for a phone released in September of 2013. Meaning the Galaxy S5 which was released in April of 2014 will not be getting the upgrade (from Samsung). From a support model perspective, Apple wins hands down. It supports the devices longer with more frequent updates than even the best Android manufacturer.
The cutoff in iOS 11 was dictated by which devices were 64 bit, as iOS 11 is 64-bit only.
That's why the list of iOS 11 compatible devices starts at the 5s, the first 64-bit iPhone.
with vive being available right now it seems like available in 2 years is about 2 years too late.
I guess you do what you have to do in order to stay relevant.
on the upside, maybe it means that they will actually upgrade their desktop hardware in order to run their headset. custom chips are great but you still need raw horsepower to do all the calculations involved in display relative to position, especially when you use some sort of marking system to track headset orientation (vive uses stereoscopic cameras and IR leds on the headset)
This is AR, not VR.
Huge computational difference.
Look what they are already able to do with iPhone hardware and ARKit. Not very far from this to full stereoscopic output.
http://www.madewitharkit.com/
-Doug
That's Apple's own expectation.
You're the new FakeTimCook apologist. I feel bad for you, you come across as pathetic.
And it isn't Samsung's expectation?
At least Apple will still be offering regular OS Updates for that phone for 5 years or more. They are still supporting the iPhone 5s, FFS, and up to a few weeks ago, even supported the 32 bit iPhone 5. But now that they are 64-bit only, I suspect that support for the 5s and up will continue for at least a few more years.
Apple has the same problem.
Really?
Find me more than a small handful of short-lived instances of nefarious apps (out of millions) that have ever appeared in the Apple App Store.
Consider the plight of us semiconductor designers. You've got 10 billion transistors, all hooked up in designs by thousands of people and it all has to work together and if you get it wrong, you can't fix it. It has to be right. So hell yes, you test your own stuff before letting others see it. Then other people test it. Then you test their stuff with your stuff. Meanwhile there are teams of people putting it all together in lots of ways to try and break it.
The value in a design is not the design. It's the level of trust that the thing will work when you put it in a chip.
...and then, after it goes into the field, there are STILL one or more Errata that follow, with nice things things like "Oh, the SPI Enable doesn't work when PD20-23 are configured as SPI2"...
No, the argument is that if I want a simple, easy-to-remember passcode, I can decide that for myself. The phone should not be limiting me to a simple passcode at setup, and make me jump through hoops to "unlock" stronger passcodes and have to change it later. That's idiotic and very obviously counterproductive for security.
Bullshit.
If you consider flipping a switch in the Settings App to be "Jumping through hoops", then I pity you for feeling put-upon to have to jump through hoops like "pressing Accept on your phone just to answer a call", or "entering your PIN to access your bank website AFTER you already logged-in with your username and password", right?
I know who you are: You're that guy that makes me create a password with so many special features that it becomes TOTALLY un-remember-able, and so I end up HAVING to write it down somewhere; which, guess what? TOTALLY defeats the purpose of a "secure password".
Actually, these seem like very similar "hoops":
Android:
https://www.howtogeek.com/2531...
Apple:
Seems like the option to decide what passcode strength you want is right there when you enter your passcode. How much less of a "hoop" do you want???
https://www.macworld.co.uk/how...
TL;dr
You're demonstrably an idiot Apple Hater. Nothing more.
Are you high?
Nope. Don't drink either.
Employing a Contract Manufacturer to do the soldering and assembly doesn't make you a "non-manufacturer" of your Hardware products.
Actually it does mean exactly that. Apple does not manufacture their products and has not for a long time. Therefore they are not a manufacturer by definition. Nothing wrong with that but you have to actually manufacture something to be called a manufacturer.
EVERYONE employs Contract Manufacturers. It's just a matter of economic efficiency, since the facilities and equipment are specialized and quite costly.
I am the GM for a (small) contract manufacturing company. I assure you I understand how it works better than you do. If you outsource 100% of your manufacturing then you are by definition not a manufacturer. Companies like Dell and HP contract out some production but they also make a substantial amount of their products themselves. Apple currently makes near as makes no difference none of their hardware nor do the assemble hardware made by others. The do design a lot of it but designing a product does not make one a manufacturer.
And I have worked for decades Designing industrial control products. The (also small) company I worked for did a lot of its own Manufacturing (including in house PCB design, board-stuffing (through-hole) and a Wavesolder line (again, for the through-hole stuff)), as well as enclosures (other than the injection molded parts) and final assembly. But, due to the equipment investment necessary for pick and place and IR reflow equipment, we also used CMs for our SMT designs. Therefore, I know EXACTLY what I am talking about. So, you would say that we didn't "Manufacture" our SMT designs, because we Contracted someone with an SMT line, right?
Apple is correctly classified as an OEM; regardless of whether they are "fabless" or not.
Your overly sophistic and narrow (and narrow-minded) classification may matter to the SEC or the IRS; but not to anyone else.
And the only reason Apple no longer maintains its former considerable manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Ireland, is because it is simply not economically practical to do so.
Apple doesn't not manufacture hardware
Are you high?
Employing a Contract Manufacturer to do the soldering and assembly doesn't make you a "non-manufacturer" of your Hardware products.
EVERYONE employs Contract Manufacturers. It's just a matter of economic efficiency, since the facilities and equipment are specialized and quite costly.
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.
That's because nobody but (not so) "stupid" Apple put enough R&D into Face Recognition to actually make it WORK.
Fuck, Samsung's Facial Recognition was instantly fooled by a PHOTOGRAPH. That's exactly how much effort THEY put into it...
Hackers may as well try to reconstruct an image of your face based on an audio recording of your fart.
Great (and accurate) statement!
You get paid to shit spam that out, eh?
The latest news is that third parties can nab face scan data on the new Iphone x. Customers are 'protected' by giving consent a fine print click-thu on their game (everybody they know is playing it).
It doesn't matter what brand phone you use. If your privacy matters you radically limit the info you put on it.
What Apps can access, as explained by Craig Federighi, is a LOW-RESOLUTION "motion mask"-view of the Face as tracked in real-time, and as demonstrated by Federighi during the iPhone X demo. Neither 3rd Parties, NOR APPLE, have access to the high-resolution FaceID information. It lives SOLELY in the Secure Enclave chip, ON-DEVICE.
And guess what? Even THAT is a "cooked-down" (essentially a "hashed") version of the raw camera data.
See:
https://images.apple.com/busin...
Apple is in the business of selling hardware, not selling your data. That plus creating a premium experience translates to a device that people will pay a premium to get.
Precisely!
A lot of the problems Apple had in the 80s and 90s were actually caused by Jobs. Jobs leaving the company probably made him a better leader than he would have been had he stayed.
Truer words were never spoken, and if Jobs was around, I think he would agree at least with the second statement, at least...
I wonder what type of games they're playing with the books to make this happen. It's well known that without Jobs Apple has already started going into the meat grinder.
I have no doubt they can keep this up maybe for decades (Jobs did leave a bank of ideas) but Apple in the end is headed towards the toilet. Just like the last time Jobs left them.
Jobs has been gone over 4 years now. To give you an idea how long in "Apple Years" that is, the iPhone 4s came out JUST as Jobs died. That's like EIGHT iPhone generations ago...
I kinda doubt that any amount of "book-juggling" would hide "the truth" from EVERYONE for that long.
No "meat grinder". Just stellar products that everyone but Haters seem to really like...
Explain to me why CHOICE isn't a Good Thing(tm)?
Strawman.
The point is that the default setting is designed to keep entropy low, giving people a false sense of security. Some user know this and can "enable" stronger passwords, but most people don't know this, which is why I pointed it out (and apparently got downvoted for simply doing so). Information is harmful, kids.
No. Your entire premise is a Strawman argument.
so Razer is following the trend, and ditching the old-skool 3.5 mm headphone jack.
Color me unsurprised.
The whole problem here is the "secure removable storage". They claim it's good for users, but it's really only good for Google.
On earlier versions of Android the SD card was a good way (and once they added that MTP abomination the only way) to move data between your phone and your computer. But of course Google has never wanted you to do that.
At least Apple lets you use iTunes or iCloud to backup your phone's data. And if you use iCloud backup, I believe its all done automagically, like with Time Machine.
And with Apple's new iCloud pricing, that option is looking pretty good, to have an always-up-to-date backup of your instantly-lose-able iPhone/iPad for 3 bucks per month ($36 per year) sounds like a pretty good deal to me. And Apple's "Family Plans" for using "Shared Storage" on iCloud are pretty reasonable, too.
And how would you design it to have a proper factory reset on the phone and still enable secure removable storage? If you do a factory reset on an iPhone all your data is lost as well and even if it didn't delete it it would be rendered inaccessible anyway since the encryption keys have been reset.
In an iPhone situation, you can do a Backup of your Phone, do a Reset to Factory Settings, then Restore From Backup. The key thing being that you musn't forget your passphrase before the Restore, or THEN you're borked...
You can even create a Non-Encrypted Backup if you don't care about Health and "Activity" Data (or iBooks PDFs!!! Grrrr!!!). But here is how you Backup, Restore to Factory Settings, then Restore (Apps & Data) for an iPhone.
Backup: https://support.apple.com/en-u...
Reset to Factory Settings: https://support.apple.com/en-u...
Then, Restore your Backup: https://support.apple.com/en-u...
There: Is THAT clear enough for ya?
Of course, if you DIDN'T make an iTunes Backup (or enable iCloud Backup) before doing an OS Upgrade that borked your iPhone, as usual, you deserve EXACTLY what you get.
Apple, on the other hand, stores photos using end-to-end encryption.
One problem I have with this is that the default passcode is limited to a 6-digit number (digits only). You can change the passcode settings to enable alphanumerics, but the default is just digits.
Given this default lack of entropy, and the fact that the secret keys in the hardware are known to Apple, it's trivial for the company to break the encryption on the vast majority of devices if they really want to. I'm not suggesting they're secretly complying with the government, but they probably do mine the "easy" information for statistical reasons just like every other company.
So they allow people that don't really care to keep their passcode simple, and those who are more sensitive to security to have a Horse Stapler Passphrase.
Explain to me why CHOICE isn't a Good Thing(tm)?
I don't want my phone analyzing my pictures. Fuck Apple.
Then there's a whole universe of Android phones.
Those would NEVER analyze your data, right? (rollseyes)