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Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord

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Post by threeseed »

southerndrift wrote: post #254
Skunkleton wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It _always_ depends on your threat model. Most people need protection from snooping family members, or people who find your phone if you lose it. For these use cases Face/Touch ID both work great. If you are trying to secure your data from the NSA, well you have probably already lost, but by all means, turn off Face ID.

How do you protect against family members who have enough pictures of you to create a 3D printed model of your head [1]? [1]: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/hackers-trick-apple-iphone-x...

After 10 attempts it's going to wipe the phone.

Given how sensitive FaceID is I don't think this is a realistic bypass approach. Not that it was even confirmed anyway.

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Post by redwyvern »

I've learned that some of Bloomberg's journalism is bullshit, and this article helps me stand by my opinion.

FaceID? ECG monitor? AirPods and the general continuity between Apple products? Seems like Bloomberg is just an attention whore. I can see an argument for the Apple customer market becoming saturated, but Apple has not lost its inventiveness.

The idea of becoming a landlord who is unable to bring in new people with exciting technology is only true if you consider

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Post by sbuk »

southerndrift wrote: post #254
Skunkleton wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It _always_ depends on your threat model. Most people need protection from snooping family members, or people who find your phone if you lose it. For these use cases Face/Touch ID both work great. If you are trying to secure your data from the NSA, well you have probably already lost, but by all means, turn off Face ID.

How do you protect against family members who have enough pictures of you to create a 3D printed model of your head [1]? [1]: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/hackers-trick-apple-iphone-x...

If they are that desperate, you’ve got bigger problems.

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Post by krrrh »

pat2man wrote: post #137
Twirrim wrote: post #128

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Just a reminder, that under US law, the 5th amendment only applies to passwords (what you know), and not biometrics (what you are). If you choose to use FaceID, thumbprints etc, the government can force you to unlock your device.

Another reminder, you can temporarily disable Face/Touch ID by holding the volume up and power buttons for two seconds, something you could probably do while your phone is in your pocket without anyone noticing.

I just tried this on a 6S plus and it doesn't work.

The one that does is to rapidly press the power button 5 times.

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Post by seba_dos1 »

chadash wrote: post #68
reacharavindh wrote: post #33

May be people are disappointed with innovation in iPhones compared to previous years' or for the last few years, but every time I use my AirPods, I can't but feel good about the innovation it took to make it as easy to use and comfortable. * If I open the case near my phone, it automatically pairs and shoes battery levels. * They sound decent for earbuds (not in-ear plugs which I hate) * Lasts reasonable amount of ti…

I think their biggest innovation is making devices where everything just works. Look no further than any two year old who has been exposed to an iPad to see that their interfaces are super-intuitive. Plus, unlike most manufactures, they control all the hardware plus the software, so they can make sure that the entire experience is seamless.

They control all the hardware plus the software, yet the results are way more unimpressive than what I'd expect from that. I have bought an iPhone to port my game engine to iOS and setting it up was an unpleasant experience full of little annoying (although harmless) little glitches. Even LineageOS felt better that that, I honestly expected it the other way around - as I'm a Maemo user that got both Android and iOS phones only for development purposes, I tried them both at approximately the same time and could directly compare.

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Post by threeseed »

jotjotzzz wrote: post #91
reacharavindh wrote: post #33

May be people are disappointed with innovation in iPhones compared to previous years' or for the last few years, but every time I use my AirPods, I can't but feel good about the innovation it took to make it as easy to use and comfortable. * If I open the case near my phone, it automatically pairs and shoes battery levels. * They sound decent for earbuds (not in-ear plugs which I hate) * Lasts reasonable amount of ti…

I'll wait until the AirPods has noise-cancelling. I can't wait until Apple enters into the NC game!

I don't think this will ever happen.

They were designed to be used whilst people are walking around doing everyday things. That includes being near traffic where cancelling all of the noise can kill you.

Expect them to do noise cancelling in over ear form as part of Beats brand similar to 1000MX3 and QC35.

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Post by roymurdock »

hinkley wrote: post #210
roymurdock wrote: post #30

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The copy editor put a click-bait title on the article to get more hits/views, but if you read past it you'll find a fairly even and uncontroversial analysis. It's not an op-ed piece whining for more innovation as the title might imply The author emphasizes how Apple has created an ecosystem with its iPhone, but that it needs to extract more value from the services provided to that ecosystem to make up for declining s…

A significant proportion of HN comments lately have been apologist about the nature of headlines. I can’t help feeling like we should stop apologizing. They suck, they’re inflammatory. I think it should be okay to complain about them. No, I really believe we must complain about them. Loudly, and in numbers.

Nah just try to avoid reading these publications. if you really want to understand a market you need to pay to either have a phone call with an expert or buy market research. these articles are written solely to grab your attention and get you to look at ads. sometimes they are good if the journalist had integrity but in the vast majority of cases they're not because the journalist is not an expert in what they're covering/has deadlines to meet and is churning out content on some topic specified by their boss

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Post by krrrh »

ken wrote: post #290
philwelch wrote: post #161

Steve Jobs was, among many other things, both good and bad, an irreplaceable human being. The Apple that created the Apple II, Macintosh, iPod, and iPhone isn't coming back. That having been said, of the two post-Steve Jobs Apples that we've seen, this one is still pretty damn decent. They aren't killing the entire company by throwing all their software engineering resources at a Second System Effect technical quagmi…

> killing the entire company by throwing all their software engineering resources at a Second System Effect technical quagmire like Copland They bought themselves out of this, of course, by buying NeXT (managed by SJ). But NeXTstep itself could have easily fallen prey to the second system effect. Was it luck or skill that saved it? Back in 2000, SJ said that Mac OS X would set up Apple "for the next 20 years". It's 1…

The GUI and WIMP interfaces were born out of experiments by a small team doing independent research, and future interface innovation is just as likely to come from places like that. Even Apple's multi-touch gestures were largely already thought out by the small company Fingerworks before they acquired them. Though I also don't doubt that there is interesting stuff happening in secret rooms at Apple that we aren't privy to.

I'd still look at projects like Dynamicland [1], or to scifi: the form factor for the iPad appeared in ST:TNG 20 years before it did on shelves[2], many AR researchers reference Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End.

[1] http://dynamicland.org/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVqHoGKQXLI

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Post by brobdingnagians »

hinkley wrote: post #224
brobdingnagians wrote: post #17

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It seems like stagnation eventually catches up to every company. Google got big on rapid innovation and emphasis on engineering, but by long observation we can see it becomes more and more difficult to do that in a large company, and todays heros on innovation seem to be tomorrows megacorps waiting for the upstarts to overtake them when some large event changes the market. Maybe it's a mix of pride, complaceny, inter…

There’s a pattern in business of changing CEOs during different phases of the company lifecycle. They have CEOs for growth, ones for mergers, ones for IPOs and ones for selling out. When a company is growing if you let yourself get pulled in too many directions you’ll suffocate. But maybe the message becomes “we concentrate on a few important things” and eventually those things become boring. You need a new message b…

I hadn't seen this before [ https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html ], but I really like it, thank you for quoting it! Posting here in case anyone else benefits.
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