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fny 9y ago
This should be the link. It gives more context than the Facebook post.
robterrell 9y ago
Hard to take the article seriously with this breathless and inaccurate lead: “Take the “BatteryGate” for example. Apple secretly and deliberately reduces the performance of old phones in order to boost new phone sales in the name of extending the battery life. The company only revealed this after being caught red-handed.”
- scarface74 9y ago
  And it couldn't be they reduce performance to keep the phone from shutting down prematurely when you have a bad battery- a known issue that people were having? If they wanted to encourage people to buy new phones wouldn't it just be easier to not support older phones with new iOS updates? Why base the slow down on battery life instead of just slowing the phone down after two years? There are much easier ways to encourage people to buy new phones if they wanted to be underhanded than the Rube Goldberg conspiracy that you are suggesting.
pilif 9y ago
>Puffin is a victim of Apple’s abuse. Puffin is a server-based web browser where web browser sessions are executed on the cloud servers You and me know to not use something like this for any kind of sensitive site. But the common iOS user doesn’t know this. Apple is protecting their users and their platform. It’s 2018. making a web browser where all traffic goes through the browser makers server, being unencrypted and then reencrypted is not acceptable any more (I would argue it never was, but then, back in the days of 9600 bits/s it was more excusable)
- joshuaturner 9y ago
  Especially when you read their privacy policy, realize they're a Chinese company, and see this: "However, be aware of the possibility of surveillance by intelligence agencies in your home country and our home country."
  - sjroot 9y ago
    I wish this was higher up in the discussion. This is a very interesting point, not only when considering the Puffin browser, but considering this entire company. Their whole business model is to improve traditionally-local software by having data processed in the cloud. I have seen people affiliated with the company reply to other comments on this post but yours demands some sort of clarification. This company's real business is selling reports generated from the logs of its users' activity.
  - pingyen 9y ago
    Puffin is not a Chinese company.
    - ac29 9y ago
      They are based in Taiwan based on their job postings [0]. Whether or not Taiwan is technically part of China is up for debate, but the two are defintiely linked. [0] https://www.cloudmosa.com/jobs/ https://www.cloudmosa.com/jobs/
- khc 9y ago
  And somehow that's ok if it's webkit?

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fny 9y ago

This should be the link. It gives more context than the Facebook post.

robterrell 9y ago

Hard to take the article seriously with this breathless and inaccurate lead: “Take the “BatteryGate” for example. Apple secretly and deliberately reduces the performance of old phones in order to boost new phone sales in the name of extending the battery life. The company only revealed this after being caught red-handed.”

scarface74 9y ago
And it couldn't be they reduce performance to keep the phone from shutting down prematurely when you have a bad battery- a known issue that people were having? If they wanted to encourage people to buy new phones wouldn't it just be easier to not support older phones with new iOS updates? Why base the slow down on battery life instead of just slowing the phone down after two years? There are much easier ways to encourage people to buy new phones if they wanted to be underhanded than the Rube Goldberg conspiracy that you are suggesting.

pilif 9y ago

>Puffin is a victim of Apple’s abuse. Puffin is a server-based web browser where web browser sessions are executed on the cloud servers You and me know to not use something like this for any kind of sensitive site. But the common iOS user doesn’t know this. Apple is protecting their users and their platform. It’s 2018. making a web browser where all traffic goes through the browser makers server, being unencrypted and then reencrypted is not acceptable any more (I would argue it never was, but then, back in the days of 9600 bits/s it was more excusable)

joshuaturner 9y ago
Especially when you read their privacy policy, realize they're a Chinese company, and see this: "However, be aware of the possibility of surveillance by intelligence agencies in your home country and our home country."
- sjroot 9y ago
  I wish this was higher up in the discussion. This is a very interesting point, not only when considering the Puffin browser, but considering this entire company. Their whole business model is to improve traditionally-local software by having data processed in the cloud. I have seen people affiliated with the company reply to other comments on this post but yours demands some sort of clarification. This company's real business is selling reports generated from the logs of its users' activity.
- pingyen 9y ago
  Puffin is not a Chinese company.
  - ac29 9y ago
    They are based in Taiwan based on their job postings [0]. Whether or not Taiwan is technically part of China is up for debate, but the two are defintiely linked. [0] https://www.cloudmosa.com/jobs/ https://www.cloudmosa.com/jobs/
khc 9y ago
And somehow that's ok if it's webkit?