Just this coyote, you know?
He/Him/Good Boy.
Old enough (to be your dad…)
Are you gonna eat that?
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Don’t you think it’s unusual you could email Steve Jobs and someone actually read it and took action? If not Steve himself, someone very high up?
What other company can you do that with? Microsoft? Google? Meta?
They’re not perfect, but that is above and beyond for a huge corporation.
Not to mention most of the time when the media reports any kind of tech controversy, be it about Apple or another company, it’s complete bullshit.
They’re misinformed, lack the technical knowledge to know that they are, and when they realize that they let the story die vs. correcting their errors.
I can recall antennagate, bendgate and batterygate. Also MacBook GPU issues.
They did what they could to make it right for the affected consumers, sometimes out of warranty, and revised the affected models or fix the flaws in future ones.
The controversies go away because they fix the problems.
No. You want to know if parts have been replaced if you didn’t expect them to be. A sophisticated attack could swap out a part with a compromised one that looks genuine, but they can’t tamper with that secure pairing info. At least you know you can’t trust that device now.
Leave a sharp screw on top of a battery and close the phone up. Guess what eventually happens?
The reasoning for it is likely all of the above. There are many reasons, and not all of them are pure greed.
What I would personally like to see is verification that parts are genuine, including notification if a genuine part has been previously paired. They’re serialized and Apple has records of what went where. But as long as no red flags are raised, pairing should be allowed via self-service.
Yep. Vehicles and the culture around them have always been a special case in that you “blame the last guy who worked on it.” The media and even to some extent the law treats it that way. Somehow technology isn’t like that. Maybe because it is more disposable and repairs are less frequent?
I’m not going to argue it’s not about Apple protecting their brand. Of course it is. Most people who need their phone fixed don’t DIY or have a technically-inclined family member do it. They take their phone to a shop and I have personally seen those do sketchy work, which reflects poorly on Apple.
There is an argument for requiring pairing even when swapping in genuine Apple parts: that part could have been tampered with, or may be a used part pulled from a scrapped/stolen phone.
Supply chain attacks are rare, but stolen phones being sold for parts happens all the time.
Nobody is telling the local news they are silly when then run an “iPhone explodes in man’s pocket” story. The only thing people see is iPhone and assume Apple.
That’s the problem. Most of the time that is due to a knockoff replacement battery, but Apple gets the bad press for it.
It doesn’t reject a non-authentic battery. You get a warning and no battery health info, as it wouldn’t be reliable.
A non-paired screen can’t use True Tone, as that requires individual calibration.
Non-paired biometrics are disabled for a good reason, they can’t be trusted.
Pairing via Apple means they have a record of the repair. It’s absolutely a choice that they keep an authorized service history of the device. Most likely to avoid liability.
Cory is pretty much against any kind of lockdown for any reason, but also a proponent of strong privacy and encryption. So his platforms of choice are open-source, which is great, but he’s against secure boot. He’s a journalist. I hope he never finds himself in the crosshairs of a targeted attack.
What is your take on their self-service repair option? That is a fully authorized repair per Apple, and anyone can do it.
On one hand, it seems cumbersome to have to rent a kit for something simple like a battery swap. On the other hand, you’re getting access to the same tools their techs use.
Now you know that is somewhat disingenuous.
If the battery is replaceable, you’re on your own if you replace it with an aftermarket battery, and you can easily see what kind of battery is installed.
You can’t do that with an internal battery, and counterfeits are a real problem.
This is not a problem that only affects Apple, but Apple is one of the few companies that bother to warn the user when a non-genuine battery is installed. And it’s just a warning, in case you were expecting (and paid for) an OEM battery.
Ah yes. My first set of those had the “touch me and I’ll scream” problem, but the replacements do not. As long as they make it right I’m happy.
Replacements get a new warranty, do they not? So if your AirPods keep dying a premature death, you should always be covered.
I’m not loyal to any other brand. Every time I buy a car, appliance, or other gadget it tends to be a different make, and I have plenty of complaints about all of them.
But Apple products and services have never let me down. That is the most important thing to me.
Maybe so. But here’s the thing: their products and the company itself have never given me a reason to not be a fanboy.
Apple hardware, software, and support have never let me down. I’ve even had them cover some odd hardware issues out of warranty because they wanted to send it back to engineering.
From a more altruistic point of view, a knockoff battery is not a visible problem, and quick-fix places often use non-genuine parts without telling the customer. This makes it visible.
The iPhone works with a non-paired battery, but it warns the user something may be wrong.
That is a safety issue, and admittedly Apple covering their own ass.
User gets the battery replaced, unbeknownst to them it is counterfeit. And defective, so it catches on fire in their pocket.
Who is the (non-tech, at least) press going to blame? Who gets sued? Whose stock is going to drop?
They also complied with the EU’s DMA and now support other app marketplaces, and it seems to be a good compromise. Apple can revoke the entitlement if one of them ends up being malicious.
Should they have withdrawn from both China and the EU? That would mean abandoning a lot of existing users.
They also complied with EU regarding and now support other app marketplaces, and it seems to be a good compromise. Apple can revoke the entitlement if one of them ends up being malicious.
Should they have withdrawn from both China and the EU? That would mean abandoning a lot of existing users.
As far as criticism of Apple, the vast majority of them are also true of other companies in the industry.
The ones that are unique to Apple, such as right-to-repair issues, have a critical security/privacy aspect to them. If Apple did not pair parts, that could be exploited by supply chain attacks.
They have to, as does every other service that operates in China, including Google’s and Microsoft’s.
Blame the CCP for that, if companies don’t give them access, they simply can’t be in that market. Whoever chose to hand the keys over to the CCP would get it all.
Heh.. Cory Doctorow is quite frankly a sensationalist. He should stick to writing fiction, because his nonfiction pieces end up being largely fiction anyway.
His reporting is no better than the tabloids, and he has been caught flat out repeating misinformation because it sounded scarier.
There is absolutely nothing in that post about Apple spying on you, only about their potential monopoly.
If there was any evidence of spying, Cory would be all over it.
In fact, your on-device and iCloud data is encrypted in so not even Apple can read it.
Except in China, due to CCP laws.
…only personal iOS devices.
My workaround for that was to install ARM Win11 in VMware Fusion and connect that to my work login. Oddly enough, they will happily trust a Windows VM. Sigh.
…and that is just to save my sanity on the web. I don’t consider installing a few apps from the store “not doing what I need” out of the box because everything is an app now, and anyone can figure out how to do that.
The only stumble was when my job decided to no longer provision personal Macs…
I think that “only does 80%” might be an exaggeration, or out of context in that Windows/Linux does far less than that out of the box.
Case in point: literally the only tweak I make to my macOS/iOS devices, aside from installing apps, is adding the AdGuard extension to Safari…
1) it’s what came on the computer. Same reason people use Windows.
2) what it does do out of the box, it does extremely well. That is enough for most people.
3) seamless integration with iOS and iCloud, which a Mac user likely uses too.
If the Apple ecosystem works for you, it’s “insanely great.”
1) it’s what came on the computer. Same reason people use Windows.
2) what it does do out of the box, it does extremely well. That is enough for more people.
3) seamless integration with iOS and iCloud, which a Mac user likely uses too.
If you the Apple ecosystem works for you, it’s insanely great.
Oh who are we talking about now?
I forgot who really had it out for you, which just goes to show you how forgettable they really are.
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That is very cherry picked. Anyone who does animal welfare work, especially in the south, will tell you it is not a good scene.
Regardless, people who treat animals that way should not be running for office.
There were some pressings of a NIN CD that had a hidden track at 99. Of course they had to have 80+ tracks that were less than 1 second long to do that.
Some CD players really did not like that, so it was removed.
I have a CD with a song you play by rewinding 12 minutes from the start of track 1.
There is a reason I have my YT watch history disabled. The suggestions page is just an empty nag to turn it back on.
My YT bookmark takes me right to my subscriptions. The recommendations from those videos are always relevant.
I have found Mac trackpads to be the opposite, especially since upgrading from a 2012 Retina MBP to a 2021 MBP. The big haptic trackpad is the best pointing device I have ever used.
Now, my work Dell has an abysmal trackpad. On it I use a mouse that toggles between normal and flywheel scrolling.
As for evil, you have to consider which is the lesser of two evils: the lack of complete user freedom, or the complete and total enshittification of the platform by the likes of Google and Meta. If they had free rein over iOS devices, none of the information on your devices would be safe from them.
So they relegated the grounded planes to flight instruction?
That… was not smart.
If you are technical, you can get around a lot of the walled garden at your own risk. You can sideload from AltStore, etc..
Not to mention jailbreaking used to be a thing, and not a good thing. People loved jailbreaking by visiting a website. I did not have the same reaction. That was dangerous!
…even those scam apps rely on social engineering, they are sandboxed by iOS and can’t actually steal data from other apps. This is a good thing for your average user. You can’t customize iOS like you can Android, but you also don’t have to be tech-saavy to be safe on it.
Yep, iOS is probably the most locked down platform out there, which is why you don’t see real malware on iOS.
Apps that do manage to do something nasty, typically stealing credentials or cryptocurrency by impersonating a legitimate app, are quickly removed from the App Store…
I don’t know about the hardware pricing, seems to align with the overall market given the performance, quality, and support you get.
As for App Store rules… yes, there is a profit motive, but privacy and security is a big part of it too. Play Store is a mess due to being reactive vs. proactive.
Stage Manager works well if you look at it as workspaces without swiping between desktops.
By default each app has its own stage, but you can drag window thumbnails out into the current stage. Now they’re arranged by task.
When you flip to a different task, everything else gets minimized.
…if you look at that ad as portraying Orwellian future and Apple being the alternative, that is more true now than ever considering Apple tends to lead the fight for their user’s right to privacy.
Yeah, it might be a walled garden, but you’re not being spied on.