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Who is this guy again? Some serious problems with this article that call into account the integrity of the author: 1. He makes a direct, unqualified comparison
by abalone 9y ago
Who is this guy again? Some serious problems with this article that call into account the integrity of the author:
1. He makes a direct, unqualified comparison between a Windows vulnerability that allowed remote execution of code over the Internet to a macOS one that was only a local privilege escalation.
2. He mischaracterizes the macOS bug as "password-free access," when in fact you need to log in to an account to begin with. Basic miscomprehension.
3. Apple Park isn't even open yet. Who knows if it will have bugs too (spoiler: DEFINITELY). Holding it up as less buggy than other Apple product is nonsensical on its face. It is just idiotic to report they don't lavish the same attention to detail on the iPhone as they do the pizza boxes in Cafe Macs.
4. Apple has a long history of favoring the cutting edge over the tried and true. It has worked out pretty well for them. It is totally dishonest to characterize that as something new.
5. This author is part of a long history of click-baity "Apple has finally screwed things up this time" reporting that happens every single product cycle.
- sedatk 9y ago> when in fact you need to log in to an account to begin with. Guest account is enabled by default on Macs.
- anon11082016 9y agoI think it's worth pointing out that for #4, it's more like "cutting edge once we can wrangle an Apple experience around it". They didn't adopt NFC, quick charging, water proofing, and so on for a while after their competitors, albeit somewhat haphazardly, added those cutting edge features.
- SyneRyder 9y agoIt wasn't limited to local access. This tweet should have got much more coverage at the time (note that ARD is Apple Remote Desktop): https://twitter.com/unsynchronized/status/935656609140711426 https://twitter.com/unsynchronized/status/935656609140711426 "macos 10.13 bug isn't limited to root in all circumstances; via ARD, you can log in as any existing user (e.g. _applepay) and share the screen of the logged-in user. also _uucp is allowed to log in"
- kemayo 9y agoIt was limited to local access for people using the default settings, though, since ARD is something you have to explicitly enable in the system preference. Not that this isn't a bad thing, but it's vastly better than a remote execution exploit which is default-enabled.
- ggg9990 9y ago> Apple has a long history of favoring the cutting edge over the tried and true. This is categorically false. Apple has always taken ideas poorly executed by other companies, learned from their mistakes, and shipped a vastly improved product built on technologies that others failed with. Their new building is practically the only exception. Even things like depth sensors on phones have been attempted by Google (project Tango) with little commercial success.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoThose are “tried” but they don’t qualify as “tried and true.” Something remains cutting edge until it ultimately fails and disappears or is a success and becomes mainstream.
- whyenot 9y ago> This is categorically false. some counterexamples: iMacs without floppy disks and with USB, MacBooks with only USB3 ports, the original iPhone, the touch bar (like it or not, it's pretty cutting edge), ...
- dingaling 9y ago> like it or not, it's pretty cutting edge As with your other examples it has antecedents, just poorly executed. Acer, Microsoft ( Windows Sideshow, 2008) and Razer had all experimented with an adaptive secondary LCD.
- anon1253 9y agoNot to mention Lenovo carbon X that replaced the function keys with an OLED display
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- abalone 9y agoYour statement is trivially false. “Ideas poorly executed by other companies” are not “tried and true” ideas, by definition.