I agree; but being that this was OS X, there is very little chance that something like a keylogger could have been installed without the user's express consent.
OS X uses an encrypted connection with peripherals, like a keyboard or a mouse?
If it doesn't, you can just log the bits on the USB. The operating system is irrelevant, it'll never even have a chance to notice this.
I assume that would take either a compromised driver, or a compromised peripheral. The former falls under the "not sure how you'd get that installed without user consent", and the latter falls under the "How does the peripheral transmit said keystrokes/mouse clicks to the "command and control" server?" Certainly not over USB or Bluetooth, at least not without the assistance of a compromised driver.
Also, in Finder, you should be able to choose List View, then click the 'Type" column, and that will sort all your.mp3 files together.
I do agree with you about having to delete the Library database entries for the copies being a bit of a pain, though. But I think the "remove duplicates" or "reorganize" commands may make that easier if you have a bunch of entries to get rid of.
Most people get confused when dealing with iTunes because they don't understand that iTunes uses a separate database (Library) and "Media Store". The two are related, but are NOT the same. That's one reason why people that already have a large media collection that they have organized in some way that is not "Artist, Album", can KEEP that FILE organization, while still having iTunes PRESENT the Library entries the way it normally does. Unfortunately, almost EVERYONE who wants to do that makes the mistake of not checking out iTumes Preferences FIRST, and then watches in horror as iTunes completely reorganizes their carefully-crafted folder-tree. Personally, I REALLY wish that iTunes would either change the default on the "Keep Media Organized" Preference, or at least WARN when it detects someone adding a Folder with more than one sub-folder to the Library, and the "Keep Organized" and/or the "copy songs to iTunes Folder" Prefs. were selected. But every application has things that some people would rather be different, right?
What I have found about iTunes over the years is that, although there has been a bit of "churn" in the UI, you can usually make iTunes look/behave in the way you are used to. For example, when iTunes 11 came out with the "simplified" UI, I about went ballistic, until I found that I could easily turn "Menus" back on, and the "Column Browser" was still available. And along the way, I even found that they had added a few cool things.
But I think that we have seen the last of that level of UI changes for iTunes for awhile.
Just for grins, I just actually tried doing this. Yes, the context menu action Create MP3 Version works, in the same sense that scrubbing the bathroom tile with a toothbrush will eventually get the floor clean. Each right-clicked track gets its export version plopped down inline in the source library, with nothing to indicate which is the copy and which is the original. Okay, the copy appears to be the second of each pair. When I do a Create Mp3 Version on a whole album, the converted tracks appear interleaved with the originals, just to make life really interesting. So in my output folder I manually create a subfolder for the album, and then drag converted tracks to it one by one, hoping that I get all the MP3. Then I have to separately delete each one from the library. I'm operating on an iMac under El Capitan.
A real Export dialog works like this: I select the albums I want to export, select a format, and designate an output folder. When I hit Go, the album titles are exported as subfolders containing each track in the designated format. I now have a utility that does this, which is high-rated in App Store precisely because everyone wishes that iTunes still worked this way.
Are you stoned, or just stupid?
I pointed out ALL of the above in my post, including the fact that I would rather it asked where to put the copies. Or couldn't you read? I also pointed out that there was no need to convert songs one-at-a-time.
As for the "I hope I got the right ones" comment, you apparently are SO lame that you don't know that you can right click on any song, and choose "Show In Finder (show in Windows Explorer)". Hint: You might want to "Show File Extensions" in Windows (or, in OS X, you can Command-I (Get Info)) if you are in doubt as to whether a particular file is your "Converted" Type ( e.g..mp3) or not. And yes, as far as the "Library" database goes, in my experience, the second entry of a song is the "Converted" one.
Kind of an Edge-case, don't ya think? Considering you have to plug in a compromised TB adapter. It qualifies as "physical access" (by the "Evil Maid", etc.), since the exploit cannot be achieved without same.
It is widely considered among security experts, and most Slashdotters, that physical access is nearly impossible to guard against.
And I am not sure that Thunderstrike went beyond the proof-of-concept stage, anyway.
So, is that the best you can do? If so, still no cigar...
Ok, I take it back about the Bose Stores. I guess they DO have some, although I can't for the life of me imagine why, other than the fact that general-purpose "HiFi" stores are all but gone in the U.S. I have just never seen one.
Bose DOES look like they copied Apple's general "look" for their stores, though.
Comcast enabled IPv6 a while back. Apple hardware, including routers (Airport), enables IPv6 by default. That means a lot of Apple owners in Comcast territory are doing IPv6 and don't even know it.
And Cox enabled it in December.
Funny story: Apple routers crash hard when using Dual Stack mode. Guess what method Cox used to enable IPv6 on their network?
Perhaps it is actually Cox that has the issue; since they are the only carrier that has this problem.
Having said that, it appears that the best solution for users of Airport routers on Cox networks (at least for now) is to set the IPv6 configuration to "Link Local Only", which will disable IPv6 for external connections, but still allow OS X (and iOS?) to use IPv6 for intranet traffic (which apparently it does).
And those important organs that are outside the blood-brain barrier, but are hugely important, like the eyeballs, the tongue, etc? And look at it this way - you get to see the same face after, rather than looking at a dead man walking.
Kind of like that horrible John Revolta movie, Face/Off?
Gotta admit, that WOULD be mondo-creepy to NOT see the same face in the mirror that your brain EXPECTED to see!!! I think that would foster a whole new section of the DSM-V, LOL!
There used to be an Export facility in iTunes. Inexplicably, it was taken out in version 11. App Store has third-party utilities for accessing your library and pulling off songs in the MP3 format readable by car audio. Other utilities are available for cleaning up the resource-fork mess left by the first export utility on your SD card.
WTF does EXPORT have to do with ORGANIZATION?
But the "Export" command was not removed, it was RENAMED to "Create New Version". Look in the File Menu (you DO run iTunes with the Show Menus feature enabled, right?). The Menu has a Sub-Menu that has "Create iPod or iPhone version", "Create AppleTV Version", and "Create MP3 Version" selections. Choose the one that you want (after selecting what you want to convert), and off you go.
BTW, I discovered that by Launching iTunes 12 on my work Win7 laptop, and it was on the first Menu I opened.
Bonus: You can also make selections and RIght-Click, and the "Create MP3 Version" is right there. Wow! What a concept, eh?!? One small caveat about Right-Click for this, I discovered that the Right-Click Contextual Menus is not available other than at the "Songs" level, but the "Create New Version" MENU will happily convert WHATEVER is Selected, so if you Select an Album (or an Artist, or a Genre) in Column View, it will convert ALL of the Songs that are "implied" by what is Selected (You DO run iTunes with the "Column Browser" Shown, right?).
And BTW, you aren't limited to creating ONLY.mp3 versions. In fact, the "Create..." command uses your "Import" settings to choose what format/bit-rate, etc. to offer for that Command. E.g., if you change your Import settings to "WAV", the "Create MP3 Version" becomes "Create WAV Version".
One other understandable caveat: "Create New Version" is only available for locally-hosted songs, not ones with the little "Cloud" symbol next to them (.m4a files). However, I WAS able to select a Death Cab song I purchased on iTunes, Right-Click, choose "Download", then, after it was on my local drive, I was able to use the "Create New Version" for that song (after it appeared as a separate song WITHOUT the Cloud symbol). So, not so bad.
In fact, the only thing I would change is that it creates the.mp3 version in the same directory as the original AAC version. I think it ought to ask where you'd like to place the new file; but oh, well. It DOES do it.
As for your whining about "Resource Forks", at this point in time, I'm not sure what you are talking about. Are you using the OS X version of iTunes, or the Windows version? I'm pretty sure that, if your SD Card/USB Stick is formatted as FAT, OS X will NOT include Resource Fork information for any files. Resource Forks have been deprecated in OS X for a while now; so I don't know what they would be doing on your external media, especially if it is formatted as FAT/FAT32. IIRC, NTFS supports metadata, like Resources; but I don't think that many SD/USB storage media is formatted for NTFS. Maybe that's why they handed the actual "Export" (file-copy) part of the operation over to the Finder/Windows Explorer; because it followed the rules regarding Resource Forks and other metadata better than what they built-into iTunes' old "Export" command(?).
But at $20 million dollars, it's definitely something you don't want to lose your head over. Too damn expensive!
Ba-dum-BUMP!
However, since the brain is off-limits to the immune system (which would REALLY love to attack and kill brain cells!), wouldn't it be better to do a BRAIN transplant, rather than messing with all the fleshy/muscle-y parts that are NOT off-limits to "rejection"?
Slashdot has had several articles about osx viruses. Prove you're right.
And yet not ONE of the "Several Slashdot Articles" referenced? Cat got your tongue?
Way to make a convincing argument.
Is that because, in EVERY SINGLE CASE, those Articles ACTUALLY referenced a TROJAN, not a VIRUS???
Since proving a negative is an impossibility (and an "illegal" debate tactic), you SHOULD already know that I can't PROVE there have been no VIRUSES (I didn't say TROJANS) for OS X.
So the onus is STILL on you to prove otherwise, COWARD.
You don't understand the difference between "makes" and "designs".
As an embedded Developer with almost 40 years' PAID experience and several industrial product designs under my belt, I think I DO understand the difference, COWARD.
The first product I designed the software and most of the hardware for (it employed an already-built power-electronics assembly, but I did the controller design and and all the software), back in 1989, we used a Contract Manufacturer, because we didn't have SMT fabrication facilites in-house. And since that time, I think I have done the software and hardware for several other products that were ultimately built by Contract Manufacturers. So, I think I DO know the difference between "Design" and "Makes" (manufactures).
So, STFU, and go crawl back under whatever slimy rock you live under.
The other problem with iTunes is that when you do use it for music, it imposes its own organization and won't let you organize your music your way. And if you want to do something like write out a given selection of music out to an SD card to play in your latest-model car audio, iTunes can't do that by itself. You need to bolt on two third-party utilities to make it work.
Wrong. If is easy to tell iTunes not to reorganize your media files. Apparently you have never bothered to look at the Preferences that have changed hardly at all in the past 10 years. Hint: look at the "Advanced" Tab.
Not many programs have to do as much as iTunes. iTunes has to manage music, handle ratings, act as a downloader, manage DRM, handle device reflashing (DFU or normal), sync apps/music/media with devices, handle backups of devices, handle restores, act as a music player, act as a movie player with a remote, rip CDs, and so on. I don't know any other utility that does this much. On the PC side, I have MediaMonkey, HTC Sync, a shell prompt for fastboot and adb, all separate programs.
Not to say that iTunes can be engineered better. I also don't expect much in the way from Apple for stuff working on Windows either.
I think you hit the nail on the head.
And the way these capabilities have evolved and intertwined makes it a virtual certainty that iTunes is a huge pile of spaghetti-code. It would be hard to imagine that NOT happening.
But it is terrible shit. That a tech company with as much money as Apple has can continue to make this steamy pile of shit even more steamy and shitty is a testament to the contempt the company has for its customers. I haven't bought anything on iTunes since 2013. When I'm out and out buying music, I just go to the Google Play store. A lot less hassle and a lot more light weight.
Not that I'm a big fan and I do use it but when a writer has to scream "It'z Teh TERBBIGEAL HELLSHTUE!!!!1111!!!!" every other sentence I'm simply not going to take them seriously. Maybe too much politics makes me cynical but I don't find a lot of value in statements that need to use more adjectives than nouns. That to me reeks of fanboyism.
My feeling about halfway through TFS was "What's this guy selling?"
After this much time, and considering the actual experts that they have access to, I can't help but feel that the esteemed Congresscritters Feinstein and Burr are not at ALL "ignorant" of the particulars of this issue.
It sounds almost like an iPad pro, doesn't it. Except a lot cheaper and a lot less locked down. Less stupid-proof, though, which probably gets some people nervous.
No. An iPad Pro is still an iPad, and makes no claims to be otherwise. It just has a couple of unique features (compared to the "non-pro" iPads).
Having said that, I do believe it is really a Development Platform for Apple internally to play around with migrating OS X to ARM (and with Touch support). But that's just a guess on my part.
But what I find suspiciously absent is the PROOF they are NOT.
And they have nicer retail displays, just like Bose sound equipment.
They also have (much) nicer industrial design and manufacturing, at the very least. I'm not sure what you mean by "nicer retail displays", though. Are you referring to the Apple Retail Stores? If so, I don't get the comparison to Bose, who, to my knowledge, doesn't have any Retail Stores of their own.
And there is a VAST difference between Bose's quality and Apple's. I know. I have worked on enough Bose equipment, as well as some Apple equipment, to have an informed opinion on the matter.
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I thought you were going to start quoting Whitesnake! Then I realized it would've been "I", not "We"... Disappointed! :-/
LOL, Sorry! I hate that song. ;-)
I agree; but being that this was OS X, there is very little chance that something like a keylogger could have been installed without the user's express consent.
OS X uses an encrypted connection with peripherals, like a keyboard or a mouse?
If it doesn't, you can just log the bits on the USB. The operating system is irrelevant, it'll never even have a chance to notice this.
I assume that would take either a compromised driver, or a compromised peripheral. The former falls under the "not sure how you'd get that installed without user consent", and the latter falls under the "How does the peripheral transmit said keystrokes/mouse clicks to the "command and control" server?" Certainly not over USB or Bluetooth, at least not without the assistance of a compromised driver.
Also, in Finder, you should be able to choose List View, then click the 'Type" column, and that will sort all your .mp3 files together.
I do agree with you about having to delete the Library database entries for the copies being a bit of a pain, though. But I think the "remove duplicates" or "reorganize" commands may make that easier if you have a bunch of entries to get rid of.
Most people get confused when dealing with iTunes because they don't understand that iTunes uses a separate database (Library) and "Media Store". The two are related, but are NOT the same. That's one reason why people that already have a large media collection that they have organized in some way that is not "Artist, Album", can KEEP that FILE organization, while still having iTunes PRESENT the Library entries the way it normally does. Unfortunately, almost EVERYONE who wants to do that makes the mistake of not checking out iTumes Preferences FIRST, and then watches in horror as iTunes completely reorganizes their carefully-crafted folder-tree. Personally, I REALLY wish that iTunes would either change the default on the "Keep Media Organized" Preference, or at least WARN when it detects someone adding a Folder with more than one sub-folder to the Library, and the "Keep Organized" and/or the "copy songs to iTunes Folder" Prefs. were selected. But every application has things that some people would rather be different, right?
What I have found about iTunes over the years is that, although there has been a bit of "churn" in the UI, you can usually make iTunes look/behave in the way you are used to. For example, when iTunes 11 came out with the "simplified" UI, I about went ballistic, until I found that I could easily turn "Menus" back on, and the "Column Browser" was still available. And along the way, I even found that they had added a few cool things.
But I think that we have seen the last of that level of UI changes for iTunes for awhile.
Just for grins, I just actually tried doing this. Yes, the context menu action Create MP3 Version works, in the same sense that scrubbing the bathroom tile with a toothbrush will eventually get the floor clean. Each right-clicked track gets its export version plopped down inline in the source library, with nothing to indicate which is the copy and which is the original. Okay, the copy appears to be the second of each pair. When I do a Create Mp3 Version on a whole album, the converted tracks appear interleaved with the originals, just to make life really interesting. So in my output folder I manually create a subfolder for the album, and then drag converted tracks to it one by one, hoping that I get all the MP3. Then I have to separately delete each one from the library. I'm operating on an iMac under El Capitan.
A real Export dialog works like this: I select the albums I want to export, select a format, and designate an output folder. When I hit Go, the album titles are exported as subfolders containing each track in the designated format. I now have a utility that does this, which is high-rated in App Store precisely because everyone wishes that iTunes still worked this way.
Are you stoned, or just stupid?
.mp3) or not. And yes, as far as the "Library" database goes, in my experience, the second entry of a song is the "Converted" one.
I pointed out ALL of the above in my post, including the fact that I would rather it asked where to put the copies. Or couldn't you read? I also pointed out that there was no need to convert songs one-at-a-time.
As for the "I hope I got the right ones" comment, you apparently are SO lame that you don't know that you can right click on any song, and choose "Show In Finder (show in Windows Explorer)". Hint: You might want to "Show File Extensions" in Windows (or, in OS X, you can Command-I (Get Info)) if you are in doubt as to whether a particular file is your "Converted" Type ( e.g.
Thunderstrike 2 worm can infect your Mac without detection
Kind of an Edge-case, don't ya think? Considering you have to plug in a compromised TB adapter. It qualifies as "physical access" (by the "Evil Maid", etc.), since the exploit cannot be achieved without same.
It is widely considered among security experts, and most Slashdotters, that physical access is nearly impossible to guard against.
And I am not sure that Thunderstrike went beyond the proof-of-concept stage, anyway.
So, is that the best you can do? If so, still no cigar...
https://www.bose.com/en_us/sto...
Ok, I take it back about the Bose Stores. I guess they DO have some, although I can't for the life of me imagine why, other than the fact that general-purpose "HiFi" stores are all but gone in the U.S. I have just never seen one.
Bose DOES look like they copied Apple's general "look" for their stores, though.
Comcast enabled IPv6 a while back. Apple hardware, including routers (Airport), enables IPv6 by default. That means a lot of Apple owners in Comcast territory are doing IPv6 and don't even know it.
And Cox enabled it in December.
Funny story: Apple routers crash hard when using Dual Stack mode. Guess what method Cox used to enable IPv6 on their network?
Perhaps it is actually Cox that has the issue; since they are the only carrier that has this problem.
Having said that, it appears that the best solution for users of Airport routers on Cox networks (at least for now) is to set the IPv6 configuration to "Link Local Only", which will disable IPv6 for external connections, but still allow OS X (and iOS?) to use IPv6 for intranet traffic (which apparently it does).
Yeah, she's the one that, in the mid 1990s, wanted to ban Civil-War Reenactments as "Blood Sport" that fomented a culture of violence.
Consistent? Yes. Consistently HYPOCRITICAL.
So you are saying that in disguise she participates in Civil War Reenactments?
LOL, right!
Exactly the response I would have expected from someone with the insight to reference "Illuminatus!" in their Username...
And those important organs that are outside the blood-brain barrier, but are hugely important, like the eyeballs, the tongue, etc? And look at it this way - you get to see the same face after, rather than looking at a dead man walking.
Kind of like that horrible John Revolta movie, Face/Off?
Gotta admit, that WOULD be mondo-creepy to NOT see the same face in the mirror that your brain EXPECTED to see!!! I think that would foster a whole new section of the DSM-V, LOL!
There used to be an Export facility in iTunes. Inexplicably, it was taken out in version 11. App Store has third-party utilities for accessing your library and pulling off songs in the MP3 format readable by car audio. Other utilities are available for cleaning up the resource-fork mess left by the first export utility on your SD card.
WTF does EXPORT have to do with ORGANIZATION?
.mp3 versions. In fact, the "Create..." command uses your "Import" settings to choose what format/bit-rate, etc. to offer for that Command. E.g., if you change your Import settings to "WAV", the "Create MP3 Version" becomes "Create WAV Version".
.mp3 version in the same directory as the original AAC version. I think it ought to ask where you'd like to place the new file; but oh, well. It DOES do it.
But the "Export" command was not removed, it was RENAMED to "Create New Version". Look in the File Menu (you DO run iTunes with the Show Menus feature enabled, right?). The Menu has a Sub-Menu that has "Create iPod or iPhone version", "Create AppleTV Version", and "Create MP3 Version" selections. Choose the one that you want (after selecting what you want to convert), and off you go.
BTW, I discovered that by Launching iTunes 12 on my work Win7 laptop, and it was on the first Menu I opened.
Bonus: You can also make selections and RIght-Click, and the "Create MP3 Version" is right there. Wow! What a concept, eh?!? One small caveat about Right-Click for this, I discovered that the Right-Click Contextual Menus is not available other than at the "Songs" level, but the "Create New Version" MENU will happily convert WHATEVER is Selected, so if you Select an Album (or an Artist, or a Genre) in Column View, it will convert ALL of the Songs that are "implied" by what is Selected (You DO run iTunes with the "Column Browser" Shown, right?).
And BTW, you aren't limited to creating ONLY
One other understandable caveat: "Create New Version" is only available for locally-hosted songs, not ones with the little "Cloud" symbol next to them (.m4a files). However, I WAS able to select a Death Cab song I purchased on iTunes, Right-Click, choose "Download", then, after it was on my local drive, I was able to use the "Create New Version" for that song (after it appeared as a separate song WITHOUT the Cloud symbol). So, not so bad.
In fact, the only thing I would change is that it creates the
As for your whining about "Resource Forks", at this point in time, I'm not sure what you are talking about. Are you using the OS X version of iTunes, or the Windows version? I'm pretty sure that, if your SD Card/USB Stick is formatted as FAT, OS X will NOT include Resource Fork information for any files. Resource Forks have been deprecated in OS X for a while now; so I don't know what they would be doing on your external media, especially if it is formatted as FAT/FAT32. IIRC, NTFS supports metadata, like Resources; but I don't think that many SD/USB storage media is formatted for NTFS. Maybe that's why they handed the actual "Export" (file-copy) part of the operation over to the Finder/Windows Explorer; because it followed the rules regarding Resource Forks and other metadata better than what they built-into iTunes' old "Export" command(?).
But at $20 million dollars, it's definitely something you don't want to lose your head over. Too damn expensive!
Ba-dum-BUMP!
However, since the brain is off-limits to the immune system (which would REALLY love to attack and kill brain cells!), wouldn't it be better to do a BRAIN transplant, rather than messing with all the fleshy/muscle-y parts that are NOT off-limits to "rejection"?
Slashdot has had several articles about osx viruses. Prove you're right.
And yet not ONE of the "Several Slashdot Articles" referenced? Cat got your tongue?
Way to make a convincing argument.
Is that because, in EVERY SINGLE CASE, those Articles ACTUALLY referenced a TROJAN, not a VIRUS???
Since proving a negative is an impossibility (and an "illegal" debate tactic), you SHOULD already know that I can't PROVE there have been no VIRUSES (I didn't say TROJANS) for OS X.
So the onus is STILL on you to prove otherwise, COWARD.
You don't understand the difference between "makes" and "designs".
As an embedded Developer with almost 40 years' PAID experience and several industrial product designs under my belt, I think I DO understand the difference, COWARD.
The first product I designed the software and most of the hardware for (it employed an already-built power-electronics assembly, but I did the controller design and and all the software), back in 1989, we used a Contract Manufacturer, because we didn't have SMT fabrication facilites in-house. And since that time, I think I have done the software and hardware for several other products that were ultimately built by Contract Manufacturers. So, I think I DO know the difference between "Design" and "Makes" (manufactures).
So, STFU, and go crawl back under whatever slimy rock you live under.
It's a good question, but it's worth noting that at least Feinstein has always been a fascist hypocrite.
Yeah, she's the one that, in the mid 1990s, wanted to ban Civil-War Reenactments as "Blood Sport" that fomented a culture of violence.
Consistent? Yes. Consistently HYPOCRITICAL.
The other problem with iTunes is that when you do use it for music, it imposes its own organization and won't let you organize your music your way. And if you want to do something like write out a given selection of music out to an SD card to play in your latest-model car audio, iTunes can't do that by itself. You need to bolt on two third-party utilities to make it work.
Wrong. If is easy to tell iTunes not to reorganize your media files. Apparently you have never bothered to look at the Preferences that have changed hardly at all in the past 10 years. Hint: look at the "Advanced" Tab.
Yeah I haven't used iTunes in years. Way, way more efficient to use Rockbox and rsync for my iPod Classic.
That is, if you don't care about things like Playlists, Apple Music, iTunes Match, etc.
Not many programs have to do as much as iTunes. iTunes has to manage music, handle ratings, act as a downloader, manage DRM, handle device reflashing (DFU or normal), sync apps/music/media with devices, handle backups of devices, handle restores, act as a music player, act as a movie player with a remote, rip CDs, and so on. I don't know any other utility that does this much. On the PC side, I have MediaMonkey, HTC Sync, a shell prompt for fastboot and adb, all separate programs.
Not to say that iTunes can be engineered better. I also don't expect much in the way from Apple for stuff working on Windows either.
I think you hit the nail on the head.
And the way these capabilities have evolved and intertwined makes it a virtual certainty that iTunes is a huge pile of spaghetti-code. It would be hard to imagine that NOT happening.
But it is terrible shit. That a tech company with as much money as Apple has can continue to make this steamy pile of shit even more steamy and shitty is a testament to the contempt the company has for its customers. I haven't bought anything on iTunes since 2013. When I'm out and out buying music, I just go to the Google Play store. A lot less hassle and a lot more light weight.
I'm sure they'll miss you.
Not that I'm a big fan and I do use it but when a writer has to scream "It'z Teh TERBBIGEAL HELLSHTUE!!!!1111!!!!" every other sentence I'm simply not going to take them seriously. Maybe too much politics makes me cynical but I don't find a lot of value in statements that need to use more adjectives than nouns. That to me reeks of fanboyism.
My feeling about halfway through TFS was "What's this guy selling?"
After this much time, and considering the actual experts that they have access to, I can't help but feel that the esteemed Congresscritters Feinstein and Burr are not at ALL "ignorant" of the particulars of this issue.
It sounds almost like an iPad pro, doesn't it. Except a lot cheaper and a lot less locked down. Less stupid-proof, though, which probably gets some people nervous.
No. An iPad Pro is still an iPad, and makes no claims to be otherwise. It just has a couple of unique features (compared to the "non-pro" iPads).
Having said that, I do believe it is really a Development Platform for Apple internally to play around with migrating OS X to ARM (and with Touch support). But that's just a guess on my part.
They are Designed in California by Apple.
Yada yada. Whooie.
But what I find suspiciously absent is the PROOF they are NOT.
And they have nicer retail displays, just like Bose sound equipment.
They also have (much) nicer industrial design and manufacturing, at the very least. I'm not sure what you mean by "nicer retail displays", though. Are you referring to the Apple Retail Stores? If so, I don't get the comparison to Bose, who, to my knowledge, doesn't have any Retail Stores of their own.
And there is a VAST difference between Bose's quality and Apple's. I know. I have worked on enough Bose equipment, as well as some Apple equipment, to have an informed opinion on the matter.
You probably say that because you have only a narrow understanding of what people actually do with computers,
Of course. I've only been an embedded developer for nearly 4 DECADES. A total noob.
complicated by a narrow understanding of what Android apps can do
Oh, you mean like steal your private information? (ducks)
What about "touchpads" (trackpads) that have the entire touchpad as a "clicky" button, ala Apple?
Suck.
They are widely regarded as having the hands-down (no pun) best trackpads in the industry, by a very wide margin.
And who, pray tell, do you think makes a better Trackpad than Apple?
Seems like a very low bar.
Hahahahahahahahaha funniest comment I've read all week
Really? SIXTEEN years of OS X being virus-free says otherwise.
Trojans don't count.
Prove me wrong.