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Post by species9606 »

fsflover wrote: post #486
kube-system wrote: post #430

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The operating system is not the missing part of the puzzle. There are plenty of FOSS operating systems already. The missing part of the puzzle is that phones are much more than an OS. To get a phone , you need an SOC, baseband, drivers, regulatory approval, manufacturing, etc. Those are the missing parts. I think it's a pretty futile effort to make a completely open phone. Even the richest companies on the planet out…

> I think it's a pretty futile effort to make a completely open phone. No, it's not: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5 .

If you can afford one, which most people can’t.

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Post by fsflover »

lovvtide wrote: post #412
rchaud wrote: post #213

Time for a new operating system (if we didn't already hit that mark with the 2013 NSA leaks). Apple, Google, Samsung, Huawei: they all exist at the pleasure of the state. Please ignore their glitzy PR-laden presentations about protecting people's privacy and upholding human rights. They will sell you out in a second if it's convenient. On the mobile side of things, we need, at the barest minimum: - a web based OS wit…

I would add: - The ability to send push notifications without replying on GCM/APN - Support for mesh networking (multiple low power peer connections) - Convenient "lockdown" mode that encrypts your phone's contents for international travel - Included hardware wallet/keystore for signing all data that you upload to social media

You might like Librem 5 phone with the smart card running GNU/Linux.

Re: AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 »

hellfish wrote: post #450
anon400232 wrote: post #397

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Bowing to censorship? Bowing isn't necessarily done happily. Or maybe more ideas are also in play? Perhaps recognizing the existing power dynamics? Perhaps playing the game over a longer time frame? Not all ethicists recommend "dying on your sword" so to speak. Sometimes it is useful to maintain influence and fight another day. These things are far from simple. If you want Apple to push back on censorship in China, l…

> Perhaps recognizing the existing power dynamics? by "power dynamics", do you mean lies propagated by the CCP? > Perhaps playing the game over a longer time frame? Apple isn't a government. What do you mean here exactly? Money? That propagating lies for money is a legitimate way of doing business?

Hm.

Parent is likely referring to Apple's position in the market[1], where their profit - not revenue - alone ( 141b in 2021 ) dwarfs many nations' GDP[2] in the world.

I would not call it a lie.

[1]https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/gross-p... [2]https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?most_rec...

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Post by murderfs »

zerocrates wrote: post #435
throw7 wrote: post #426

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Truth. And it's not just apple, on android we (U.S.) get a "water gun" for gun and no emoji shows up when you search for rifle.

The gun emoji became a toy on all major platforms everywhere several years ago. This is surely related to the political climate but I believe the entities involved applied that change worldwide.

It became a toy because Apple unilaterally changed it, and then everyone had to follow because it would otherwise lead to things like this: https://blog.emojipedia.org/content/images/2016/08/emojipedi...

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Post by gorkish »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #454
gorkish wrote: post #428

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Airdrop uses a combination of bluetooth and wifi and does work with Airplane mode enabled.

Which can be tracked… Likely all the way via satellite.

Assuming the MAC randomization does not work as advertised and airplane mode does not actually disable the cellular and satellite modems as advertised, and airdrop's identity hashes are not as secure as advertised, or the attacker can fingerprint your specific radio and trilaterate its location via satellite, then sure, it can be tracked. Boy, do I feel stupid.

If on the other hand you want to enjoy having your phone broadcast your name and picture to everyone just because you forgot to change that setting back after the last time you AirDropped a video to your coworker, then by all means, Apple has done you a disservice.

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Post by lordofgibbons »

sneak wrote: post #485
Mikeb85 wrote: post #396

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At least Google and Samsung don't give in to dictatorships. Yes, hypothetically the US and South Korea hold some power over them... However Google has stood up to Russia, China and others. Unlike Apple...

If Apple breaks Chinese law in any big or meaningful way... there is no iPhone 15 . Full stop. Apple is dead in the water without their CCP-jurisdiction manufacturing which produces approximately 100% of their products (and all of their biggest moneymakers).

China didn't become an authoritarian police state AFTER Apple went in there with their manufacturing. They absolutely knew about CCP behavior, but they went there anyway in order to save money. So, they can't really play the helpless multi-hundred-billion-dollar-corporation victim card.

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Post by manishsharan »

ibz wrote: post #189
skrowl wrote: post #154

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Do you personally know anyone who has been using the same iPhone for 8 years? I find that claim dubious.

You can't even run WhatsApp on a 6S, which is just 7 years old. So I doubt.

>>You can't even run WhatsApp on a 6S, which is just 7 years old

This is simply wrong.

My wife's still has her IPhone 6S and she absolutely loves it. We are able to take advantage of Apple free battery replacement program a couple of years ago. She doesn't see the need to upgrade to new phones as Whatsapp, Facebook, Insta and Google Maps etc. work just fine on her device.

I, on the other hand, have gone through several Android Flagship products in this period.

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Post by lovvtide »

joosters wrote: post #438
lovvtide wrote: post #412

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I would add: - The ability to send push notifications without replying on GCM/APN - Support for mesh networking (multiple low power peer connections) - Convenient "lockdown" mode that encrypts your phone's contents for international travel - Included hardware wallet/keystore for signing all data that you upload to social media

Is it even possible to do push notifications without relying on a centralized system (Google, Apple, or whoever)? Sounds like a very difficult problem to solve while preventing privacy leaks, spamming, DOS attacks and still being reliable and globally available. Who would pay for the infrastructure? (Please, no 'blockchain will solve this' answers!)

It's a very difficult problem, no doubt. Implementations are currently battery-constrained, hence the usefulness of GCM/APN for efficiently batched polling. I suspect a fully decentralized system could be feasible for use cases that can tolerate higher latency.

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Post by sneak »

ben_w wrote: post #367
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 trust any mega-corporation very far these days. That said: > the suicide nets I know this was painted as a scandal, but was it actually? First, at the time Foxconn — or rather more specifically, Longhua Science and Technology Park, which was the site of the suicides that got in the news — was employing approximately 50-80% the population of Wyoming at the time depending on who you ask. For reference, there we…

The per-capita suicide rate at the building with the suicide nets (before the nets went up) was half the per-capita suicide rate in the entire province in which the building is situated.

It's agenda-based narrative pushing.

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