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Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by teknologist »

threeseed wrote: post #321
headsoup wrote: post #311

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Sounds like it is worth debating, please, provide the argument that demonstrates such a gap.

About the A10 chip is when Apple started pushing ahead of Snapdragon equivalents. Now with the A12 the difference is massive especially as it includes a lot of capabilities directly benefiting machine learning use cases. Which aren't included in any benchmark that I know of. This is old but indicative: https://hothardware.com/ContentImages/NewsItem/45374/content...

FYI, the Huawei Kirin 980 is made with a 7nm process and has an onboard multicore neural processing unit for AI.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by teknologist »

abalone wrote: post #200
kyrra wrote: post #26

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Though I believe Apple bowed to China to give them access to Chinese citizen's iCloud data. But you can operate an iPhone without iCloud fairly easily, which is definitely nice. Doing more on-device helps them here. https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587304/apple-icloud-chi...

Also several of the iCloud services are E2E encrypted and designed to withstand adversarial clouds. They talked about it at Blackhat.[1] Doesn't help things like mail or photos, of course, but it is extremely notable in the China context for one big reason: it does E2E encrypt messages. WhatsApp was banned from China when they implemented this. Apple stands out in this way... although they're probably getting away wi…

I suspect that there might be undiscovered software differences between iPhones sold in China and those sold in other markets. The Flag of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is not present on iPhones sold in China. It shows up as a box with a question mark in it.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by teknologist »

mattnewton wrote: post #219
plussed_reader wrote: post #208

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They have iCloud for that.

Right, and that’s back-doored by the Chinese government (in China). So neither fits gp’s desired featureset of local & frictionless.

Can't reply to the guy below you but there might be some truth to this. Companies running servers in China must give up the login keys to the government. iCloud in China is not operated by Apple themselves, but a Chinese partner vendor.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by teknologist »

earenndil wrote: post #233
viraptor wrote: post #139

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It's not hard to distinguish a VPN connection by behaviour pattern really. Some simple features to detect: Both small packets and maxing out the window size in one stream. Lack of DNS queries from the host. Single connection dominating the bandwidth. There's a reason for all of those of course, but put them together on a residential connection: almost certainly a VPN user. And these are all really simple heuristics.…

There was a post recently about how someone was able to set up his own vpn which bypassed it. Something about the server padding out its response with garbage data?

You are still piping all of your traffic through one server. This would not look like a regular usage pattern by any means.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by teknologist »

craftyguy wrote: post #328
kbos87 wrote: post #20

“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.

> on-device intelligence The fuck does that have to do with privacy? That's an incredible vague thing they are saying. Does it decide what is/isn't 'private' information for sharing? It just seems way out of context, and odd, to be mentioning in the same sentence.

It means it would do e.g. the adjustable photo background bokeh effect on your device via its onboard NPU rather than upload it to Apple servers for them to process it for you.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by thirdsun »

spleen wrote: post #120

The update seems to have messed up the color profile on iPhone X. Colors are brighter, more saturated, more washed out and generally crappier.

And I thought I was just imagining things. Then again I always had the feeling that the color profile slightly adjusted after major iOS releases. It always felt slightly off for a short time.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by djrogers »

sneak wrote: post #340
djrogers wrote: post #301

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This is categorically and demonstrably false. Backing up to iCloud is disabled by default, as is Messages in iCloud. Either can be enabled or disabled as desired with no ill effect on your device or the rest of iCloud usage.

iCloud backup is on by default.

No - setting up an iPhone from new doesn’t even require an iCloud account. If you set up iCloud it will enable backups, but even then you can disable them without disabling ‘all of icloud’ as GP claims.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by ksec »

teknologist wrote: post #353
mattnewton wrote: post #219

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Right, and that’s back-doored by the Chinese government (in China). So neither fits gp’s desired featureset of local & frictionless.

Can't reply to the guy below you but there might be some truth to this. Companies running servers in China must give up the login keys to the government. iCloud in China is not operated by Apple themselves, but a Chinese partner vendor.

Exactly. It is not really a backdoor per se. And there isn't any law sitting in between your iCloud Data and government trying to collect it.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by beagle3 »

wlesieutre wrote: post #183
Jtsummers wrote: post #168

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Which iOS version do you have? I recall that same issue, but it was fixed in one of the .x updates, but I don't recall which major version number.

Still happens on 11.4.1, I've got an obvious one last Saturday where I sent a photo and my friend's response to it is placed above as if it were sent before they even saw the photo. We're both in the same time zone with correctly set clocks. I appreciate Apple's stance on privacy, but I'm still talking to a lot of people on Messenger because the messages go in the right order there.

iMessage appears to trust the time stamp from the originating device. If it’s off, message ordering will be wrong.

There’s someone whose texts to me are always “1m from now” when they arrive.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by lisper »

beagle3 wrote: post #345
lisper wrote: post #305

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> Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right But not the ability to run software not approved by Apple.

You can with a local dev certificate. But you can’t distribute it to others, unless they have one themselves we.

But to get a local dev cert you have to ask Apple, so it amounts to the same thing.
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