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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I never said all services should be socialized. For example, I don't think auto repair services should be socialized. Do you see how silly your statement is? And no... there is no way that a private company could offer something cheape
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I feel like I have to say this to everyone all the time when they try to defend the US as having the greatest healthcare system ever. It's literally impossible to offer the same service as a socialized, government program for cheaper w
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
The walled garden isn't some impenetrable fortress, though. It does allow quality control and that is shown time again and easily seen when you compare the Apple App Store against the Google Play store, for example. All Apple is verify
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Ok but that entire insinuation is disingenuous. The article is taking a statement that Tim Cook made about what happens on an iPhone users phone in terms of Messages, FaceTime, and Apple Pay and is attempting to apply it to the entire App S
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Why is this titled this way? This is not inherent or specific to iPhones. The title should really be "Apps can do whatever you let them including send your data to unknown servers". This is the worst kind of piggyback article out
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Did you have anything else serviced during that time? This was automatically flagged if you had a logic board or top-case/keyboard replacement done. In some cases, it was also done for trackpad replacements so it's possible it was
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
That doesn't change the fact that they could be using another framework or library that has code to access Bluetooth. As long as the app has been granted access, the framework would have access too.
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
It's not Fitbit that necessarily is collecting this data, though. Fitbit might simply be using an SDK for Bluetooth detection, for example, that's provided by a company that does sell user data. The number of paid platforms and
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
That still won't change much, though, because, inevitably, there will be some app that requires Bluetooth for some fundamental aspect of its use that will also use one of these SDK's. Granting that app access to this will give it
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
The issue is that there are legitimate uses for this type of code, though. For example, I have my home set up with tons of automations that change, for example, the color of the lights when I'm in the kitchen vs. when my wife is in the
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
>Current Macs have that possibility built-in, but it only works with the Watch. Maybe built-in to the OS. You can definitely do this with any Bluetooth device and any Mac with both free and paid software.
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
It's not that you should necessarily be afraid of it but rather that you should be more aware of it. Advertising is now weaponized to the point that companies can take advantage of people through psychological tricks to get them to dis
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
This is, in general, the problem with America and other countries, in my opinion. Technical literacy is extremely low for the level of technical sophistication present in everyone's everyday life. I know it's not great in other co
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I feel like this has somehow passed into the realm of urban legend as I've since heard a few similar stories repeated back to me but I used to work in phone support quite a ways back and we had a recorded call that we used to pass arou
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
It does. Touch ID is just disabled and a message pops up saying that the display key doesn't match the Secure Enclave and that Touch ID has been disabled.
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
It's not disagreeing with Apple PR. People are saying that Apple hid the CPU slowdown from consumers to fix a problem with the batteries so that people would be forced to upgrade to newer devices. That's not true and the only evid
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
This is already the case. TouchID will disable on a device with a screen that is not re-keyed. Your solution isn't simple at all because it doesn't actually address the problem.
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
That's not true at all. They're fighting to stop stores from repairing items claiming that they're using original Apple parts when they're actually refurbished. This is the kind of misrepresentation that I'm talking
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Yes, they did. It's in the changelog for the version of iOS that introduced the battery performance changes.
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Except that people are misrepresenting all 3 of those situations to make their point. Apple didn't slow down people's phones in order to get them to buy newer models. They actually slowed them down to extend their lifespans when
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Why should they be available for 3rd party repair? If ifixit wants to do a teardown of the devices and document them then that's fine. I think it's completely reasonable for Apple to require a certification in order to get manuals
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I really don't understand how people can simultaneously say that Apple is anti-consumer and then ignore moves like this that not only show that Apple is committed to consumers. It would be so easy for them to gather all this info and s
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I don't think that HD space was the limiting factor. We'd still have gotten to the point of unlimited storage space like we have now.
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
What? That's exactly how the internet worked before YouTube. YouTube became the standard because you could easily upload things for free since the content was no longer the product. YouTube is only free because they can sell the data s
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Even in that case, you'd have to deal with every hosting provider which, at the very least, would require an actual legal DMCA request rather than an automated one and, since people would be able to self-host, a way to contact their IS
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I would agree with you if thousands of videos and accounts weren't removed daily due to false "intellectual property" claims and automated reporting. YouTube's system is terrible because they're so large that they&#
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I was going to say something similar. I actually think YouTube (as a hosting/sharing platform) is a net-negative for the internet because there are already millions of videos that were embedded in pages that are no longer working bec
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Batteries, mostly. Tesla's battery technology is light years ahead of where anyone else is and their charging network is already better than anyone else out there, including the private companies using standards, and they've just
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I think it's moreso that these problems are a minority. Yes, they're very bad problems but Tesla, for what I think are obvious reasons, tends to really get the spotlight shined on it when any kinds of issues arise. Media outlets w
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by dpkonofa 8y ago
>that need to be charged at least as often as a my phone That's not true at all with AirPods. I use them nearly every day and I haven't had to charge them in almost 2 full weeks since charge while in the case and 5 minutes of c

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