The iPhone used to offer a unique device ID that never changed, and was the same across all apps.
But Apple realized that was being misused for tracking,...
It's stupid for another reason. People sell their iPhones. The UDID stayed the same if you sold your phone, it was literally the device that was tracked. And tracking isn't only used for advertisements, but things like games keeping track of high scores. So if you buy a new phone and sell your old one, someone else suddenly hss all your high scores.
Whatever you think about tracking, the actual device is not what you want to track.
The issue isn't the GPS hardware, it's the signal the satellites are sending and the software that is processing those signals.
The satellites send a week number from 0 to 1023, which is a range of slightly less than 20 years. The GPS hardware needs to turn this into a date. You could build GPS hardware with firmware that assumes it will never be used _before_ the hardware was built, so the date must be between (starting date built into firmware) to (same + 1023 weeks).
This is fine if you assume your hardware breaks down within 20 years. If you assume it lasts longer, then the firmware must be updateable, so the start date can be updated every 19 years.
Why would a user who only buys brand spanken new phones know that there was something special they were supposed to after factory resetting their old one?
You don't have to do anything after factory resetting the old phone. But you have to factory reset it.
Apple WANTS people to scrap their old iPhones, because they want to sell New phones to everyone.
My wife's experience: The camera on her 2 1/2 year old iPhone stopped working. She made an appointment with the Apple Store, someone took her phone, cleaned up everything, somehow fixed the camera problem, it looks and feels like brand new, and it was free of any charge. Without having to pay for any extended warranty.
Guess what: The will sell a new iPhone to her in a few years time.
I wonder if Apple has a way to unlock them. When they swap phones out for warranty reasons, for example, they refurb the old one and give it to someone else. The one you get as a warranty replacement is often a refurb.
They ask you to erase your phone before exchanging it. They will also strongly advise you to make a backup first, so your new phone can be restored quite quickly. If your phone is not in a state where you can erase it (like if it doesn't react to any keypress), that's bad luck for Apple.
We have hundreds of iPhones returned by former employees that are unusable because of this.
A friend of mine complained because she has about half a dozen unusable phones. There are some very simple steps that the employee has to do before returning his phone. I don't know what the legal situation is if the employee doesn't do that. But also, you can call Apple to sell you phones that are bound to your company. The company can reset them at any time, and they can't be reset to be used outside the company.
1. Go to settings
2. Go to General
3. Select Reset
4. Select Erase all content and settings
5. Confirm Erase iPhone, then confirm again
6. Enter your Apple id password and select erase
Now the iPhone can be used by the next buyer. Phone thieves fail at step 6. Obviously anyone who wants to accept donated iPhones should make these steps very, very clear to the donator.
Sweden was never the problem. The Swedes aren't really interested in him except as a favor to Hillary Clinton.
Sweden is interested in Assange because he is accused of rape. They never managed to interview him or charge him because he fled the country, and when he was ready to be extradited, he fled to an embassy.
As far as I know, Sweden's extradition request to the UK is still valid. And the case against him was frozen; it will be quickly unfrozen.
No, you don't have to root the iphone or apply for a developer account. It works differently. Someone used the credentials from an Enterprise Account. To install the app, all you have to do is to install a profile created with your Enterprise Account.
Of course if you are asked to install some company's profile, you should be very suspicious. Unless you are an employee of this company, which is the only case where it would be legitimate. And even then you should be very suspicious.
I read the headline and thought it was about making Alexa work nicely in an environment where it plays loud music.
Apple's HomePod does that very nicely. Instead of adding a watermark, it compares the signal entering its microphones with the signal leaving the speakers, so if you have loud music playing through your HomePod, it can eliminate that music almost completely before it starts speech recognition.
Next, if some person in the room says "Hey, Siri", it analyses the voice of the person saying the words, and eliminates what anyone else in the room is saying. Apple published a paper about this, and has some demos somewhere. One is very loud music in a room with many people talking. Phase 1 eliminates music, leaving many people talking and a bit of white noise. Phase 2 eliminates the voices of anyone except the person saying "Hey, Siri" and what's left is one perfectly recognisable voice, plus a bit more white noise.
So "Hey Siri" works with loud music as long as it is played by the HomePod, and lots of people talking. What Amazon is planning here, on the other hand, doesn't seem to be something that any of the customers buying Alexa is asking for.
Exactly that. Tailgating in Germany is something they take serious. If you go below a bridge on a German motorway and there are some devices on the bridge, they don't measure your speed, they measure the distance to the car ahead. Too close can mean a massive fine (say â500), and in the worst cases can be criminal.
But also if you drive over 80mph and get involved in an accident, it's your fault unless you can prove it would have happened at lower speed as well. Doesn't matter if it was the other guy who made the mistake. If I start overtaking and don't notice you approaching at 130mph and you crash into me, it's your fault.
In regards to email, the problem Spotify has is that there is a rule whereby a developer of an iOS app is not allowed to provide information to those users about methods of payment for digital services that don't go through Apple. And this rule apparently means Spotify can't email anyone who has ever used the iOS app if those emails contain information on how to buy anything from Spotify.
If thatâ(TM)s what Spotify says, then they are lying. Been there, done that, and sent emails to customers signing up through the website. No problem with Apple. Of course, you get no information about AppStore customers, which is exactly what AppStore customers want.
You do a good job of outlining what Apple does with that 30%, but you failed to point out that app developers also don't have the option of doing those things themselves if they don't want to go through Apple. That bit's important too.
My current employer actually makes its money through sales people who sign deals with customers, and as part of those deals the end users get to download a free app from the AppStore. Zero money goes to Apple.
Right now Apple has a promotion running where you pay 10% less for App Store credit. So if you want to buy an app or services for $100, you pay $90, and the developer gets $70. Thatâ(TM)s 33.3% already gone. The rest also pays for supplying all the free apps. Like Netflix who just operate smarter. Or eBay. Or Facebook.
Apple restricts access to iOS for developers in ways that make it impossible to address certain functions (for example a non-apple app cannot develop an alarm clock).
I have two non-Apple alarm clocks on my Iphone so I guess you are wrong.
Apple gets no money if a company sells through its website. Apple pays out 70% (and doesn't keep 30% because there is cost involved) of the purchase price of the app, and of _in app purchases made through the app store_.
I don't know how far Netflix has transitioned their sales, but eventually Apple will not get a penny from Netflix. The app costs zero and Apple keeps 30% of zero. Purchases through the Netflix website, Apple gets zero. The only restriction is that you can't advertise your website through the app.
Apple has exactly the same terms for everyone. If you sell your product including in-app purchases through Apple, you get 70% of the official price. Apple doesn't keep 30%, they have to pay credit card fees, carry the cost of gift cards that stores pay less than 100% face value for, and so on. They host your app on the store, and they supply all the in app purchases.
And there is a very simple way to get around the payment, which Netflix chose to use and which everyone else is free to use: Don't sell through your app and through the app store. Create a website, and handle the purchases yourself. I worked for a company that did that (same price through in-app purchase and through the website, we kept more money from the website), Netflix does it, everyone can do it.
I have an app on the store that I wrote just for fun, and it makes a little bit of money. If I had to sell it myself I wouldn't get a penny. (I hate advertisements, so I refuse to add advertisements). Nice thing about Apple is that they treat me exactly the same as Spotify. So I'd tell Spotify to p*** right off.
On a single user machine, privilege escalations are not really that damaging. If you manage to hack into my user account on my Mac (or my Windows PC, or many Linux desktops), you have access to all the valuables. There is just nothing of value outside my account.
Totally different on a server. If you have 100 users on a server, then escalation from one hacked user to the other 99 is a fatal problem.
one Tory Minister, Chris Grayling, just awarded a contract to run a ferry service to a company that has no ferries, for about 6.5 million pound. It then turned out that what he did was illegal, because he hadn't gone through normal procurement procedures, and paid 33 million pount in damages to a real ferry company. That's about 40 million out of utter stupidity. However, that is nothing compared to about £2.5 BILLION damages he caused earlier.
So WTF are you talking here about some pencils? (Or look at the 8.8 billion dollars that HP wasted on buying Autonomy. )
They certainly have it coming! The biggest assholes in tech, by far. There are a few decent ones not totally consumed by zealotry, but the rest need to get fucked.
Im not sure if you are trying to insult all Linux users here. Or all Apple users. Or is it the Android users? Or Microsoft users?
No, I know what it is. You are the last living Amiga user and you try to insult everyone laughing about you.
Because these people use an âoeenterprise licenseâ. You can get the normal developer license and publish on the AppStore, or you can get an enterprise license and distribute _within your company_, whatever you like. But only within your company.
You gotta admit, having most of a company's reserves tied up somewhere where it can only be retrieved with a password held only in the CEO's memory is quite unusual. And unless CEO is code for sole proprietor, very irresponsible on the part of the other officers.
Considering most of the money wasn't theirs, it was always irresponsible.
The price per MB for overage is outrageous (even at Verizon's old.002 CENTS per KB). If you think that taxpayer dollars shouldn't be spent on outrageous plans, then perhaps the FCC should step in.
0.002 CENTS per KB is on the expensive side, but not outrageous. It only becomes outrageous when there are numpties involved who can't do maths and turn 0.002 CENTS per KB into $2 per MB, because to them thousand times 0.002 cents is two dollars, not two cents.
Here's the facts: We want emergency services to be able to communicate during an emergency, without restrictions. We want emergency service to pay just like everyone else. We don't want massive infrastructure that the end user pays for, and that is useless 99.9% of the time, except in emergencies.
So what telcos should do: Offer a plan exclusively to emergency services with the following rules: 1. They pay for their data and call allowance just like everyone else. 2. When they exceed their data allowance, for example due to an emergency, the bill for that is sorted out later, but they are NEVER capped and NEVER throttled and NEVER blocked. Also, they should get priority of networks are congested due to high traffic.
Of course that doesn't give a firefighter the right to watch videos all the time with a 500MB plan. They will not be capped, or slowed down, or blocked, but they will pay the bill.
The previous guy talked about even software changes to the entertainment system could potentially be dangerous... how is that different than having a custom deck put in?
It's software. Software has bugs. Changes to the entertainment system shouldn't cause problems elsewhere, but how sure are you that they don't? And the problem with insurance is not that they may not pay out if the software caused a crash, they may declare your insurance void if they find out the software is modified. Of course they will only do that after an expensive accident, and return say $2,000 insurance payments instead of paying out say $20,000 for damages.
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The iPhone used to offer a unique device ID that never changed, and was the same across all apps. But Apple realized that was being misused for tracking, ...
It's stupid for another reason. People sell their iPhones. The UDID stayed the same if you sold your phone, it was literally the device that was tracked. And tracking isn't only used for advertisements, but things like games keeping track of high scores. So if you buy a new phone and sell your old one, someone else suddenly hss all your high scores.
Whatever you think about tracking, the actual device is not what you want to track.
The issue isn't the GPS hardware, it's the signal the satellites are sending and the software that is processing those signals.
The satellites send a week number from 0 to 1023, which is a range of slightly less than 20 years. The GPS hardware needs to turn this into a date. You could build GPS hardware with firmware that assumes it will never be used _before_ the hardware was built, so the date must be between (starting date built into firmware) to (same + 1023 weeks).
This is fine if you assume your hardware breaks down within 20 years. If you assume it lasts longer, then the firmware must be updateable, so the start date can be updated every 19 years.
Why would a user who only buys brand spanken new phones know that there was something special they were supposed to after factory resetting their old one?
You don't have to do anything after factory resetting the old phone. But you have to factory reset it.
Apple WANTS people to scrap their old iPhones, because they want to sell New phones to everyone.
My wife's experience: The camera on her 2 1/2 year old iPhone stopped working. She made an appointment with the Apple Store, someone took her phone, cleaned up everything, somehow fixed the camera problem, it looks and feels like brand new, and it was free of any charge. Without having to pay for any extended warranty.
Guess what: The will sell a new iPhone to her in a few years time.
I wonder if Apple has a way to unlock them. When they swap phones out for warranty reasons, for example, they refurb the old one and give it to someone else. The one you get as a warranty replacement is often a refurb.
They ask you to erase your phone before exchanging it. They will also strongly advise you to make a backup first, so your new phone can be restored quite quickly. If your phone is not in a state where you can erase it (like if it doesn't react to any keypress), that's bad luck for Apple.
We have hundreds of iPhones returned by former employees that are unusable because of this.
A friend of mine complained because she has about half a dozen unusable phones. There are some very simple steps that the employee has to do before returning his phone. I don't know what the legal situation is if the employee doesn't do that. But also, you can call Apple to sell you phones that are bound to your company. The company can reset them at any time, and they can't be reset to be used outside the company.
For an iPhone, the steps are:
1. Go to settings
2. Go to General
3. Select Reset
4. Select Erase all content and settings
5. Confirm Erase iPhone, then confirm again
6. Enter your Apple id password and select erase
Now the iPhone can be used by the next buyer. Phone thieves fail at step 6. Obviously anyone who wants to accept donated iPhones should make these steps very, very clear to the donator.
Sweden was never the problem. The Swedes aren't really interested in him except as a favor to Hillary Clinton.
Sweden is interested in Assange because he is accused of rape. They never managed to interview him or charge him because he fled the country, and when he was ready to be extradited, he fled to an embassy.
As far as I know, Sweden's extradition request to the UK is still valid. And the case against him was frozen; it will be quickly unfrozen.
No, you don't have to root the iphone or apply for a developer account. It works differently. Someone used the credentials from an Enterprise Account. To install the app, all you have to do is to install a profile created with your Enterprise Account.
Of course if you are asked to install some company's profile, you should be very suspicious. Unless you are an employee of this company, which is the only case where it would be legitimate. And even then you should be very suspicious.
I read the headline and thought it was about making Alexa work nicely in an environment where it plays loud music.
Apple's HomePod does that very nicely. Instead of adding a watermark, it compares the signal entering its microphones with the signal leaving the speakers, so if you have loud music playing through your HomePod, it can eliminate that music almost completely before it starts speech recognition.
Next, if some person in the room says "Hey, Siri", it analyses the voice of the person saying the words, and eliminates what anyone else in the room is saying. Apple published a paper about this, and has some demos somewhere. One is very loud music in a room with many people talking. Phase 1 eliminates music, leaving many people talking and a bit of white noise. Phase 2 eliminates the voices of anyone except the person saying "Hey, Siri" and what's left is one perfectly recognisable voice, plus a bit more white noise. So "Hey Siri" works with loud music as long as it is played by the HomePod, and lots of people talking. What Amazon is planning here, on the other hand, doesn't seem to be something that any of the customers buying Alexa is asking for.
Exactly that. Tailgating in Germany is something they take serious. If you go below a bridge on a German motorway and there are some devices on the bridge, they don't measure your speed, they measure the distance to the car ahead. Too close can mean a massive fine (say â500), and in the worst cases can be criminal.
But also if you drive over 80mph and get involved in an accident, it's your fault unless you can prove it would have happened at lower speed as well. Doesn't matter if it was the other guy who made the mistake. If I start overtaking and don't notice you approaching at 130mph and you crash into me, it's your fault.
In regards to email, the problem Spotify has is that there is a rule whereby a developer of an iOS app is not allowed to provide information to those users about methods of payment for digital services that don't go through Apple. And this rule apparently means Spotify can't email anyone who has ever used the iOS app if those emails contain information on how to buy anything from Spotify.
If thatâ(TM)s what Spotify says, then they are lying. Been there, done that, and sent emails to customers signing up through the website. No problem with Apple. Of course, you get no information about AppStore customers, which is exactly what AppStore customers want.
You do a good job of outlining what Apple does with that 30%, but you failed to point out that app developers also don't have the option of doing those things themselves if they don't want to go through Apple. That bit's important too.
My current employer actually makes its money through sales people who sign deals with customers, and as part of those deals the end users get to download a free app from the AppStore. Zero money goes to Apple.
So, Apple is keeping 95% of that 30%, at least.
Right now Apple has a promotion running where you pay 10% less for App Store credit. So if you want to buy an app or services for $100, you pay $90, and the developer gets $70. Thatâ(TM)s 33.3% already gone. The rest also pays for supplying all the free apps. Like Netflix who just operate smarter. Or eBay. Or Facebook.
Apple restricts access to iOS for developers in ways that make it impossible to address certain functions (for example a non-apple app cannot develop an alarm clock).
I have two non-Apple alarm clocks on my Iphone so I guess you are wrong.
Apple gets no money if a company sells through its website. Apple pays out 70% (and doesn't keep 30% because there is cost involved) of the purchase price of the app, and of _in app purchases made through the app store_.
I don't know how far Netflix has transitioned their sales, but eventually Apple will not get a penny from Netflix. The app costs zero and Apple keeps 30% of zero. Purchases through the Netflix website, Apple gets zero. The only restriction is that you can't advertise your website through the app.
Apple has exactly the same terms for everyone. If you sell your product including in-app purchases through Apple, you get 70% of the official price. Apple doesn't keep 30%, they have to pay credit card fees, carry the cost of gift cards that stores pay less than 100% face value for, and so on. They host your app on the store, and they supply all the in app purchases.
And there is a very simple way to get around the payment, which Netflix chose to use and which everyone else is free to use: Don't sell through your app and through the app store. Create a website, and handle the purchases yourself. I worked for a company that did that (same price through in-app purchase and through the website, we kept more money from the website), Netflix does it, everyone can do it.
I have an app on the store that I wrote just for fun, and it makes a little bit of money. If I had to sell it myself I wouldn't get a penny. (I hate advertisements, so I refuse to add advertisements). Nice thing about Apple is that they treat me exactly the same as Spotify. So I'd tell Spotify to p*** right off.
On a single user machine, privilege escalations are not really that damaging. If you manage to hack into my user account on my Mac (or my Windows PC, or many Linux desktops), you have access to all the valuables. There is just nothing of value outside my account.
Totally different on a server. If you have 100 users on a server, then escalation from one hacked user to the other 99 is a fatal problem.
one Tory Minister, Chris Grayling, just awarded a contract to run a ferry service to a company that has no ferries, for about 6.5 million pound. It then turned out that what he did was illegal, because he hadn't gone through normal procurement procedures, and paid 33 million pount in damages to a real ferry company. That's about 40 million out of utter stupidity. However, that is nothing compared to about £2.5 BILLION damages he caused earlier.
So WTF are you talking here about some pencils? (Or look at the 8.8 billion dollars that HP wasted on buying Autonomy. )
They certainly have it coming! The biggest assholes in tech, by far. There are a few decent ones not totally consumed by zealotry, but the rest need to get fucked.
Im not sure if you are trying to insult all Linux users here. Or all Apple users. Or is it the Android users? Or Microsoft users? No, I know what it is. You are the last living Amiga user and you try to insult everyone laughing about you.
Because these people use an âoeenterprise licenseâ. You can get the normal developer license and publish on the AppStore, or you can get an enterprise license and distribute _within your company_, whatever you like. But only within your company.
You gotta admit, having most of a company's reserves tied up somewhere where it can only be retrieved with a password held only in the CEO's memory is quite unusual. And unless CEO is code for sole proprietor, very irresponsible on the part of the other officers.
Considering most of the money wasn't theirs, it was always irresponsible.
The price per MB for overage is outrageous (even at Verizon's old .002 CENTS per KB). If you think that taxpayer dollars shouldn't be spent on outrageous plans, then perhaps the FCC should step in.
0.002 CENTS per KB is on the expensive side, but not outrageous. It only becomes outrageous when there are numpties involved who can't do maths and turn 0.002 CENTS per KB into $2 per MB, because to them thousand times 0.002 cents is two dollars, not two cents.
Here's the facts: We want emergency services to be able to communicate during an emergency, without restrictions. We want emergency service to pay just like everyone else. We don't want massive infrastructure that the end user pays for, and that is useless 99.9% of the time, except in emergencies.
So what telcos should do: Offer a plan exclusively to emergency services with the following rules: 1. They pay for their data and call allowance just like everyone else. 2. When they exceed their data allowance, for example due to an emergency, the bill for that is sorted out later, but they are NEVER capped and NEVER throttled and NEVER blocked. Also, they should get priority of networks are congested due to high traffic.
Of course that doesn't give a firefighter the right to watch videos all the time with a 500MB plan. They will not be capped, or slowed down, or blocked, but they will pay the bill.
The previous guy talked about even software changes to the entertainment system could potentially be dangerous ... how is that different than having a custom deck put in?
It's software. Software has bugs. Changes to the entertainment system shouldn't cause problems elsewhere, but how sure are you that they don't? And the problem with insurance is not that they may not pay out if the software caused a crash, they may declare your insurance void if they find out the software is modified. Of course they will only do that after an expensive accident, and return say $2,000 insurance payments instead of paying out say $20,000 for damages.