especially with all the complains of non-Apple tablets being overpriced compared to the iPad--- when being cheaper then Apple is considered to be the primary reason of buying a non-Apple tablet in the first place.
As it is, all the non-iPad competitors are having a touch time matching Apple's price & feature set as it is.. So an Android tablet entirely made in the U.S.A.? It would probably cost something like $5000.
in fact, the iPad is the only computer he can actually use. When he wants to browse today's newspaper.... I placed a shortcut to the newspaper website on the home screen, tell him to touch it, and *bang*, there's today's news. He can't use a mouse because of disabilities (arthritis has locked up his right hand).. Besides, the whole WIMP interface is lost on him. But he sure knows how to 'click' an onscreen button, and double-tap to zoom-in on a web page. That's all he needs.
Oh and the whole thing about setting the iOS alarm clock is just stupid. (Besides being retired and not having to follow any kind of schedule, he knows how to use a real-world alarm clock.)
The problem with relying purely on GPS is that it can't be in use all the time, especially when the phone is on standby, since it takes quite a bit of power to run the GPS hardware. When the phone wakes up it can take up to 2 minutes for it to get a full GPS lock on it's location.... but by identifying nearby cell towers/wifi base stations, it can return its approximate coordinates instantly.... It just needs to query a database that can return those rough coordinates of such cell tower ID/Wifi base stations MAC, then use the GPS to fine tune it in the background.
Of course, the issue is that a database that maps cell tower/base station to a GPS coordiate has to be stored somewhere. Your phone either has to access it live (which if it goes to a server can be monitored live and give away your location), or it can access an internal database (like the iphone does, except it got backed up as part of the system image). Either way there's no way around it, since cell towers and wifi base stations don't naturally broadcast their own GPS coordinates.
Now I don't know about you, but I'd be awfully annoyed wait 2 minutes every time my phone has to figure out where the heck it is; especially if I'm trying to pull up a map at the side of the road, or at a place that GPS won't work at all, such as an underground parking garage.
Apple can probably have you opt-out of AGPS and rely strictly on GPS, although you'll have to get used to waiting outside for 2 minutes for your phone to get a lock on your location. Every. single. time. While those that keep AGPS will lock their location anywhere almost instantly. That's the breaks.
Nah, they'll just go to your cellphone carrier, which can give authorities a detailed log of your location within the last several months. EVERY cellphone (dumb or smart) is basically your own personal lo-jack to the government.
Every active cell phone is tracked to a cell tower location at every moment, and it's recorded in the carrier's database and retained for several years. That info is easily subpoenaed by government officials (law enforcement, DHS, FBI, etc) for any investigation as they see fit.
It doesn't matter of it's a smartphone or dumbphone... it's every cell phone. The fact that the phone may or may not retain such info is irrelevant, since the carriers already have that info anyways.
It doesn't matter if you have a smartphone, dumbphone, iphone, or not iphone...Every active cell phone is tracked to a cell tower at any moment, and it's recorded in the carrier's database and retained for several years. That info is easily subpoenaed by government officials (law enforcement, DHS, FBI, etc) for any kind of investigation.
The same goes for any text message you send or receive, it's all retained for years. So on the grand scale of the actual phone keeping such data.. that's not a big deal as long as it's not exposed to any 3rd party apps.
Steve Jobs doesn't have a marketing degree. In face he doesn't have any degree at all. But he was directly involved in transitioning personal computers from a 70's garage hobby into a mainstream market. The same cannot be said for anybody else that helmed Apple (hence why apple did so poorly when only sales and marketing guys ran it).
If it's about Fairplay there's one problem: Apple's has removed Fairplay DRM for all iTunes audio for over 3 years now (5 years for EMI music). And there's never been anything that keeps any iPods (any version) from playing standard MP3's that were bought from other sources.
The problem with that is that science in itself doesn't claim to have 'faith' in anything; Science is about maintaining the most current explanation of how and why the measurable world works. These theories are constantly self correcting (the newer ones will supplant the older ones after being independently tested and proven).
It's not our fault that a certain slice of the (non-scientific) public has a tough time accepting this; if they feel more comfortable believing in absolute explanations of the world regardless of the lack of evidence to support it, then it's no longer science, it's dogma.
Step 1: Get Kid's iPod Touch/iPhone.
Step 2: Setting->General->Restrictions->Enable Restrictions. Remember the passcode.
Step 3: Setting->General->Restrictions->In App Purchases, TURN OFF. .
That wasn't so hard now was it?
Which essentially is updates "if the carriers & manufactures feel like it (but secretly they don't because they don't want to devalue their newer offerings)". Barring that, the end user either follows some obscure steps to upgrade their phone from some Android hacking website, or is told to go pound sand. Not very good options for common non-techie end users like my aunt.
Historically, most Apple devices you buy new today is good for about 2 years of firmware updates.
I was gonna put quotes (") around "white hat" but I was out of space. Slashdot needs to accept longer titles.
This title for was difficult to make because the TFA has subject matter that's all over the map: Collections of 0-day unpublished exploit vectors, rootkits with keyboard loggers disguising payload as ad click tracking data, and social network tracking via bot accounts. Tough to summarize in just 50 characters.
Nope. The Netflix app is just a streaming video viewer/queue manager. The app itself is free, but you need an existing Netflix account to watch streamed films.
Since Netflix already has their own subscription/CC processor back-end, so there's no need for them to use Apple's app store.
I think there's an emerging market for active low wattage, always-on, local/internet connected home devices. It'll use less power then any PC/console and be easier to setup then a Linux wall plug computer. I can think of a few examples
Home automation and security, using IP webcams and local network based sensors & switches.
Whiteboard apps: scheduler/calendar/shopping lists that sync across all inhabitant's smartphones.
Home to Home family webcam conferencing (as easy to use as a phone call- hence your grandma can do it instead of bothering with a computer).
Opening up the AppleTV to an apps market can really push its usefulness out when app developers think of it as a part of the household..
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So what do you do about people who are physically incapable of driving?
make it a mobile HTML5 web page with map overlay
And where is ASUS making their tablets? Oh wait.. NOT IN AMERICA.
especially with all the complains of non-Apple tablets being overpriced compared to the iPad--- when being cheaper then Apple is considered to be the primary reason of buying a non-Apple tablet in the first place.
As it is, all the non-iPad competitors are having a touch time matching Apple's price & feature set as it is.. So an Android tablet entirely made in the U.S.A.? It would probably cost something like $5000.
in fact, the iPad is the only computer he can actually use. When he wants to browse today's newspaper.... I placed a shortcut to the newspaper website on the home screen, tell him to touch it, and *bang*, there's today's news. He can't use a mouse because of disabilities (arthritis has locked up his right hand).. Besides, the whole WIMP interface is lost on him. But he sure knows how to 'click' an onscreen button, and double-tap to zoom-in on a web page. That's all he needs.
Oh and the whole thing about setting the iOS alarm clock is just stupid. (Besides being retired and not having to follow any kind of schedule, he knows how to use a real-world alarm clock.)
The problem with relying purely on GPS is that it can't be in use all the time, especially when the phone is on standby, since it takes quite a bit of power to run the GPS hardware. When the phone wakes up it can take up to 2 minutes for it to get a full GPS lock on it's location.... but by identifying nearby cell towers/wifi base stations, it can return its approximate coordinates instantly.... It just needs to query a database that can return those rough coordinates of such cell tower ID/Wifi base stations MAC, then use the GPS to fine tune it in the background.
Of course, the issue is that a database that maps cell tower/base station to a GPS coordiate has to be stored somewhere. Your phone either has to access it live (which if it goes to a server can be monitored live and give away your location), or it can access an internal database (like the iphone does, except it got backed up as part of the system image). Either way there's no way around it, since cell towers and wifi base stations don't naturally broadcast their own GPS coordinates.
Now I don't know about you, but I'd be awfully annoyed wait 2 minutes every time my phone has to figure out where the heck it is; especially if I'm trying to pull up a map at the side of the road, or at a place that GPS won't work at all, such as an underground parking garage.
Apple can probably have you opt-out of AGPS and rely strictly on GPS, although you'll have to get used to waiting outside for 2 minutes for your phone to get a lock on your location. Every. single. time. While those that keep AGPS will lock their location anywhere almost instantly. That's the breaks.
Nah, they'll just go to your cellphone carrier, which can give authorities a detailed log of your location within the last several months. EVERY cellphone (dumb or smart) is basically your own personal lo-jack to the government.
This article is referencing a reply Apple wrote on June 2010.
No warrant needed. Justice Dept. defends warrantless cell phone tracking
It doesn't matter, your carrier is caching your cell location and storing it in a database anyways. Remember the PATRIOT act?
The iPhone's location file is only available to root as well-- ordinary apps can't read it unless the phone is jailbroken.
Cell phones locations are tracked even when they're not at use; the carriers that are keeping that record. And they don't even need a warrant to get get those records.
Every active cell phone is tracked to a cell tower location at every moment, and it's recorded in the carrier's database and retained for several years. That info is easily subpoenaed by government officials (law enforcement, DHS, FBI, etc) for any investigation as they see fit.
It doesn't matter of it's a smartphone or dumbphone... it's every cell phone. The fact that the phone may or may not retain such info is irrelevant, since the carriers already have that info anyways.
It doesn't matter if you have a smartphone, dumbphone, iphone, or not iphone...Every active cell phone is tracked to a cell tower at any moment, and it's recorded in the carrier's database and retained for several years. That info is easily subpoenaed by government officials (law enforcement, DHS, FBI, etc) for any kind of investigation.
The same goes for any text message you send or receive, it's all retained for years. So on the grand scale of the actual phone keeping such data.. that's not a big deal as long as it's not exposed to any 3rd party apps.
Steve Jobs doesn't have a marketing degree. In face he doesn't have any degree at all. But he was directly involved in transitioning personal computers from a 70's garage hobby into a mainstream market. The same cannot be said for anybody else that helmed Apple (hence why apple did so poorly when only sales and marketing guys ran it).
If it's about Fairplay there's one problem: Apple's has removed Fairplay DRM for all iTunes audio for over 3 years now (5 years for EMI music). And there's never been anything that keeps any iPods (any version) from playing standard MP3's that were bought from other sources.
is this a white collar 'campus' prison with conjugal visits, or a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison?
The problem with that is that science in itself doesn't claim to have 'faith' in anything; Science is about maintaining the most current explanation of how and why the measurable world works. These theories are constantly self correcting (the newer ones will supplant the older ones after being independently tested and proven).
It's not our fault that a certain slice of the (non-scientific) public has a tough time accepting this; if they feel more comfortable believing in absolute explanations of the world regardless of the lack of evidence to support it, then it's no longer science, it's dogma.
the iPod touch runs most everything the iPhone can; including all the games. $229 and no cellular bill!
This is how you avoid this problem:
Step 1: Get Kid's iPod Touch/iPhone.
Step 2: Setting->General->Restrictions->Enable Restrictions. Remember the passcode.
Step 3: Setting->General->Restrictions->In App Purchases, TURN OFF.
.
That wasn't so hard now was it?
Which essentially is updates "if the carriers & manufactures feel like it (but secretly they don't because they don't want to devalue their newer offerings)". Barring that, the end user either follows some obscure steps to upgrade their phone from some Android hacking website, or is told to go pound sand. Not very good options for common non-techie end users like my aunt.
Historically, most Apple devices you buy new today is good for about 2 years of firmware updates.
I was gonna put quotes (") around "white hat" but I was out of space. Slashdot needs to accept longer titles.
This title for was difficult to make because the TFA has subject matter that's all over the map: Collections of 0-day unpublished exploit vectors, rootkits with keyboard loggers disguising payload as ad click tracking data, and social network tracking via bot accounts. Tough to summarize in just 50 characters.
Nope. The Netflix app is just a streaming video viewer/queue manager. The app itself is free, but you need an existing Netflix account to watch streamed films.
Since Netflix already has their own subscription/CC processor back-end, so there's no need for them to use Apple's app store.
I think there's an emerging market for active low wattage, always-on, local/internet connected home devices. It'll use less power then any PC/console and be easier to setup then a Linux wall plug computer. I can think of a few examples
Opening up the AppleTV to an apps market can really push its usefulness out when app developers think of it as a part of the household..