AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes

Post by blamazon » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 9:30 PM UTC

baxtr wrote: post #333

blamazon wrote: post #260

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Okay. Let's make it more concrete. Imagine theres a bus full of people and you want to invite them to a protest, discreetly. Before state: some of them have airdrop set to open always and you can just airdrop to them. Move on to the next bus. New state: some of them may have had airdrop set to open always, but it timed out. You cannot airdrop it to them. Protest quashed. I'm still telling the same story but perhaps t…

Thanks for getting back. That explanation makes more sense now. I can see how this limit would make free data exchange much more difficult. I am still not convinced that by this protests are “quashed”. We’ll see about that I guess.

Post by fishywang » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 9:30 PM UTC

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #222

ed25519FUUU wrote: post #118

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If you don’t believe this is in response to protest then how do you explain it being rushed out ONLY IN CHINA?

I said "This is not in response to this particular protest." This already existed. They did not see the current protest and then suddenly released it.

Post by camhart » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 9:31 PM UTC

snoot wrote: post #142

jackmott42 wrote: post #45

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Their ethics are terrible. You pay $1000 for a computer, and you are only allowed to install software on it that Apple says you are allowed to. You can only pay for software on their own store. Complete bullshit, and it makes me sad that so many here on HN and elsehwere, tech people who learned to program because their 8088 was completely open and free to let you actually create things and learn about computing, so m…

> tech people who learned to program because their 8088 was completely open and free to let you actually create things and learn about computing, so many of you will defend this terrible situation. There is nothing terrible about Apple making devices my 80+ year old mother can safely and easily use. I have a Mac, and I also have Linux machines. Nothing is stopping people learning about computers. Why would anyone spe…

Post by anon400232 » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 9:31 PM UTC

jacksnipe wrote: post #255

mhoad wrote: post #9

I don’t ever want to hear again how Apple is some champion of privacy and ethics. I’ve lost count of how many scandals have come out of their relationship with China from the suicide nets to the repeated investigations showing their supply chain was riddled with slave labor that they would later campaign against protections that would prevent it. Now this. They are fucked as a company, I can’t get out of their ecosys…

Best not to conflate ethics and privacy. The most private digital world — one in which everything is e2e encrypted — is arguably totally ethical (impossible for anybody to infringe on your personal rights) or the least ethical state of affairs imaginable (free for all for criminals, terrorists, etc…).

Post by Frost1x » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 9:32 PM UTC

ralfd wrote: post #135

mhoad wrote: post #9

I don’t ever want to hear again how Apple is some champion of privacy and ethics. I’ve lost count of how many scandals have come out of their relationship with China from the suicide nets to the repeated investigations showing their supply chain was riddled with slave labor that they would later campaign against protections that would prevent it. Now this. They are fucked as a company, I can’t get out of their ecosys…

> I don’t ever want to hear again how Apple is some champion of privacy and ethics. Counterpoint: They could have just rolled out the feature change globally. Instead Apple makes it clear with singling out China, that this change was demanded by the CCP.