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Yeah but even if they use e2e, which btw was found to be flawed at the protocol design level by prof. Matthew Greene and his team, they also automatically back-up the messages to iCloud with no way to disable that without disabling the whole of icloud. It would sure be nice if they changed that.
There is the option in Settings to disable storing Messages and Backups in iCloud.
After installing it, head to https://purecycles.com/products/urban-commuter-bike to see the best feature. Placing 3D models in your house via ARKit right from Safari. Writeup on this Shopify rollout: https://www.shopify.ca/blog/shopify-ar
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No one is mentioning that Apple is a hardware company first. They're not an ad company that makes hardware. Completely different approach and their stance for privacy makes sense.
What is absurd is that one of the two largest smartphone ecosystems (Android/Google) is run by a company for whom their supposed "customers" are in fact also a product, with Google double-dipping by selling us off to a second set of customers (advertisers). It boggles the mind how... understanding... people are to Google's business practices; "well, they're an ad company, so it just makes sense they they'd want to pu…
I understand your sentiment about the price being subsidized with vendor lock in, advertisement and data gathering. But the point on the price might be true for the US only.
In most of Europe, as well as in my country, (let alone poorer parts of the world), a used, cheap iPhone can cost as much as two months of the rent money for a small apartment; a new iPhone/Apple device is out of the question.
So the dilemma for most people either no smartphone or an Android smartphone.
The new Shortcuts app by Apple (must be downloaded separately: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/workflow/id915249334?mt=8 ) is definitely interesting. An example from the description: "Run custom scripts in Safari with the new Run JavaScript on Web Page action". Edit: Just discovered that there's also "Run Script Over SSH" that takes input passed to a shell script (stdin) and returns the output from the shell script (…
> How much is the bill?
50
> Your tip is $2.500,00 and your total is $2.550,00
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“Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right, which is why iOS has always been designed with built-in encryption, on-device intelligence, and other tools that let you share what you want on your terms.” It isn’t often that you see any company the size of Apple take that strong of a stance. Privacy is their best feature and it seems like they are doubling down.
> Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right But not the ability to run software not approved by Apple.
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I had used Android Nexus devices starting from Nexus S up to 6P and finally switched to iPhone 8 this year. Android has better UX and has some nice features but there are no real privacy settings, Android apps have no proper inspection before being released on the market and too frequently some 0day RCE exploits are released publicly for Android. Privacy features were the biggest reason I switched and even though it…
> "Android has better UX..." ruhr? i have both an android and an ios phone, and i'm comparatively amazed at how bone-headed android UX can be. it's also a hot bed of paralysis-of-choice (in both apps and in settings/configuration). sure, ios has issues here and there, but (to me) ios is generally more intuitive (==better UX).
This is a bit funny, everyone said how intuitive iPhone is, but on the first day I accidentally opened magnifier and was unable to close it without getting to my computer and googling. None of my friends who had iPhone knew what that square was and how to remove it from the screen. It is not intuitive in any way to do 3 finger double tap.
And even custom keyboards are too limited by iOS SDK. For typing in languages where symbols with accents or diacritics are used it is inconvenient that the long tap doesn't bring the wanted symbol in focus and you have to swipe as well. That is not a problem on Android.
And you have to know when and where to swipe left or right to bring up some other menu or to go back one step. On Android you just click the OS back button on the bottom of the screen. For app switching - there is a button for that.
Overall it requires more clicks and swipes on iOS to get around.
I am not sure what Android version You used but the stock Google Android was a lot better in many ways. Sure, there are cool iOS features as well that are not available on Android but there are very few of those.
I'm still on iOS 10 on my iPhone SE. Why should I upgrade? Even if there was a convincing reason to, I'm afraid performance will tank, as it often does on older iPhones getting their last update.
At the same time, I hate the change that came with iOS 11 for WiFi and Bluetooth in Control Center. Toggling them only disconnects them temporarily, and doesn't turn the radios off. WiFi and Bluetooth will automatically reconnect if you go to a different location or at 5 in the morning local time. So Control Center is useless if you want to turn off the radios (to save on battery, depending on your location and other factors) and/or want control on when and where they connect and/or want to stay off the grid on your own terms and also enhance security. You have to go to the Settings app to turn them off completely or use Siri, and neither of these actions are as easy to do as using Control Center. This behavior remains the same in iOS 12 too. When this change was added in iOS 11, EFF wrote an article about how harmful this new behavior is. [1]
That said, some (or many) people do like the new behavior in iOS 11, where they don't have to remember that they turned off the radios and want to connect automatically.
For security's sake, especially when you have a device that's capable of getting updates for several years, it's better to keep it up-to-date.
[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/ios-11s-misleading-ish...