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by gnaffle 13y ago
Android and Apple already do compete for this space. They both provide provisioning, encrypted storage, VPN, exchange support and remote wipe, and that's pretty much what 90% of the enterprise needs.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
At least with Apple, I'm pretty sure that if you're an enterprise customer you can run the entire provisioning / update service in-house, including specifying which apps are allowed and how/when they should be updated. I
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by gnaffle 13y ago
That's exactly the right question to ask. When they were selling 15M phones a year or two ago, selling 5-6M M phones today is a disaster, especially when the trend continues downward after releasing the BB10 which was supposed to &quot
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by gnaffle 13y ago
If I was used to paying for goods with my iPhone using touch ID and I had to start entering a passphrase instead with another phone to make payments, it might very well be one of the biggest complaints I had.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Well, people have their entire lives in their computers as well. You also see the same with touchpads. It's only after Apple pushed multitouch that touchpads have gradually started improving on PCs (many early gestures actually made PC
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by gnaffle 13y ago
While I don't generally get why people get so hung up on specifications ("my phone has more cores than yours"), the performance is actually put to good use. You wouldn't be able to do HD video recording and editing, slo-
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Strategically it has a huge benefit to Apple. Touch ID provides a secure way to authenticate your iTunes account, which millions have linked to their credit cards. If Apple ever starts offering payment services through iTunes (using NFC or
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by gnaffle 13y ago
"Target crowd" is a bit misleading. True, as long as fingerprint sensors were a bit difficult to use, only the ones with a specific need for them took the time and effort to use them. But the same was also the case with previous s
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by gnaffle 13y ago
The main reason for nicotines damage is because people smoke it. If you compare a nicotine user who doesn't smoke to a meth user who doesn't smoke, I think you'll find that it's very obvious that the consequences of nico
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by gnaffle 13y ago
It's not that they're not possible, but if you want an "upload and forget" way of deployment, you have thousands of hosting providers with a LAMP stack, but only a handful of Python/Ruby providers like Heroku (or yo
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Yet, nicotine don't destroy families and make people lose their jobs (unless they smoke it for many years), so there is a real difference in the consequences for the people who do get addicted to alcohol or the harder drugs. So grading
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Well, I'm in the camp that doesn't use any iCloud/Google services or Siri for security reasons, so I understand your point of view. For me, it's very relevant whether we have any evidence that the government is collectin
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Which is completely different scenario than "the iPhone being backdoored". You don't have to sync your device to a computer that is online, except for the first activation.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Apple being added to PRISM would, from what I read, mean that content on Apple servers could be searched, not information stored on phones. If iPhones phoned home information on stored on phones, I'd expect there to be a huge shitstorm
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by gnaffle 13y ago
My guess is that if the sensor works as well as they claim, including 360 degree orientation, it has to store a pretty complete profile of the fingerprint.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Well, you can't trust _any_ device if that's your line of thinking. Not an iPhone, not an Ubuntu phone, no device whatsoever. Not unless you've baked your own chips, or made some contraption running your software in parallel
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by gnaffle 13y ago
What? Is iPhone leaking emails and browsing? Can you provide me more information on that? If you're talking about ISP monitoring, that's not specific to the iPhone, and not relevant to this discussion.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
You don't _have_ to. You can root your iPhone and log all packets sent from the phone, and block out any stuff going to Apple (turn off iMessage, iCloud and Siri). For downloading apps etc, you can do that through iTunes and sync your
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by gnaffle 13y ago
It wasn't my intention to conflate them, just to say that it's meaningless to claim that it's a simple problem caused by a lack of willpower, given the current epidemic that we have.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Maybe you don't have to today, but you should be prepared that you might in the future as you get older and your metabolism changes. So it's a good idea to at least establish a routine of weighing and exercising when you're y
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Exactly. Had the same problem, and also shared this smug view about when it was easy for me to lose weight, why not for others? Well, it turns out that I didn't have their bodies to struggle with, but I do know - and I'm quite a b
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by gnaffle 13y ago
You do realize that these "face stuffers" are usually (as in statistically) among the poorest in our society? The ones with lots of money have time to cook proper meals, buy lots of veggies at Whole Foods or whatever, and pay for
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Do you also go around and say that anorexia can be treated by the "simple" life style change of just eating more? What we are discovering now, is that it's NOT purely psychological. There are even discoveries that hints at de
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Here's the problem: If you've never had to count calories, stick to a diet and exercise, and have had to so in a lot of challenging life situations where you have lots of other stuff to think about on top of that, you can't r
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Literally the first bullet point under Hardware says "Full access to the GPIO of the Raspberry Pi". Adding support for controlling devices using an arduino is an _excellent_ idea given that there are several home automation /
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Again, this was just _one_ example of the top off my head. I could probably have come up with lots of others. My point being that we don't know how what we post today might be used in the future. Saying that it's not going to have
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by gnaffle 13y ago
To make it completely clear, I was providing an example completely unrelated to the picture.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Agreed, but you're not making the argument that a potential health insurance company would (like the acne case I mentioned). And again, this is just off the top of my head. One specific case, one specific instance of "I didn'
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Exatly. A major argument used in the debate about new data retention laws in Europe was just this: That in face of changing subscription types like prepaid cards, the police needed data retention to still have access to the same data as bef
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Simple example: Your pretty child is also quite a bit overweight. Or fell and got a big bruise that you for some reason just treated yourself and failed to bring up in some health insurance form. Less trivial stuff (like having acne) has be

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