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by melange 13y ago
Nobody is saying users are idiots or that there is no learning curve for some older people using iOS (I have introduced it to people in their 70s and 80s too). The assertion is that the author is pretending to be an idiot in the way he is c
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by melange 13y ago
My mother in law barely noticed the upgrade to her 4s, but she did like the iOS7 version of the app 'teevee2'.
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by melange 13y ago
I look forward to seeing your smartphone UI.
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by melange 13y ago
"Any change can be construed as kicking a percentage of users to the curb." True! But not by a rational person.
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by melange 13y ago
They wouldn't collect the information at all if they cared about privacy.
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by melange 13y ago
Storing files in the cloud is a commodity service. Why wouldn't they outsource it? They use AWS too.
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by melange 13y ago
The question of whether fingerprints obtained this way are good enough to fool TouchId is still unanswered. If it were this easy, why do the hacks use carefully made fingerprints from clean polished glass? What matters is not whether one pr
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by melange 13y ago
Why isn't google open with the data it collects? Surely that would be an easy step towards "organizing the worlds information and making it universally accessible".
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by melange 13y ago
Users are not idiots - they are just people with different priorities to you. That's why this is a deeply flawed approach to design.
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by melange 13y ago
I couldn't agree more. I think iOS7 is a great upgrade in general, but the reminders app is confusing and visually terrible. Notes is pretty bad too.
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by melange 13y ago
Presumably you haven't tried it and are just relying on blog posts for your opinion.
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by melange 13y ago
Except this doesn't seem to be borne out in reality. I have installed it for people in their 60's, 70's and 80s who find a Mac barely usable, who have had no trouble at all with moving to iOS7 after using iOS6.
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by melange 13y ago
OSX is unix
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by melange 13y ago
Why was this being downvoted?
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by melange 13y ago
I'm not confusing anything, although I agree with you about Google. The point is that if source code is always available the value of software goes to zero, and the only value is in information. This leads to the existence of compani
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by melange 13y ago
Free software stands in opposition to free data. When software is free data becomes the center of value and therefore is hoarded.
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by melange 13y ago
So it's worse, but it confirms to FSF's philosophy.
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by melange 13y ago
Funny how a long in the tooth phone has taken more than 1% of the US market in 2 days and is the fastest selling phone in history by a huge margin: https://mobile.twitter.com/asymco/status/382147503644098561
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by melange 13y ago
A meticulously placed fingerprint was made on a clean and polished glass surface as if it was being taken by the police. Nothing like a normal fingerprint left by accident.
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by melange 13y ago
How is it better than regular android?
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by melange 13y ago
You haven't actually made any points at all. You've just called him names and added some dismissive words after a few quotes from him. You don't have to convince anyone that you dislike Gruber. That much is obvious.
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by melange 13y ago
That picture shows a carefully polished phone into which someone has meticulously placed 5 careful fingerprints - as if they were being taken at a police station, nothing like the fingerprints you get in normal use.
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by melange 13y ago
Those techniques still haven't been shown to work in practice because CCC was only ago to unlock the device using a carefully made high quality print, not one lifted in an ecologically valid situation. What matters is the rate at which
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by melange 13y ago
Nobody has been able to use those low quality fingerprints to defeat TouchID.
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by melange 13y ago
Actually it hasn't been demonstrated at all. They dusted a carefully made high quality fingerprint to defeat TouchID, not an opportunistic one taken from something an unwitting victim left behind. Until they do that, this doesn't
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by melange 13y ago
So rather than addressing the point, you attack him on something completely different. Presumably because there are actually no examples where he's been wrong about TouchID.
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by melange 13y ago
What would you call more reckless than having no passcode at all?
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by melange 13y ago
Getting a precise enough print is the hard part. Note that they started with a perfect, carefully staged print, so they haven't really cracked it.
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by melange 13y ago
I don't see hundreds of thousands of fingerprints being lifted from people to fabricate 2400 dpi fake fingers 'every day'.
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by melange 13y ago
Teaching users to create separate accounts might be better, but so would any number of impractical suggestions. It is perfectly reasonable to expect an application to provide more security than the user account provides because in the real

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