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Post by Spartan-S63 »

gowings97 wrote: post #315
eastbound wrote: post #214

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Aren’t they still doing it? My Macbook 2013 runs at lightening speeds, while my iMac 2020 is slow as hell because I upgrade it. One may say it’s the layers of transparency and other services, but I don’t care about those, my Macbook 2013 was the pinnacle of perfection. Apple is still definitely slowing down Macs with every single little release.

"Apple is still definitely slowing down Macs with every single little release." This was true for Intel Macs 2014-2020. I bought a 14' M1 Macbook Pro with 32GB of memory / 1TB storage and it absolutely flies. Best machine I've owned in almost a decade (2014 15' MBP).

I think it was true of Intel Macs largely from their underpowered GPUs. I remember Yosemite being rough on a late 2013 MacBook Pro because the Intel iGPU was awful. Likewise going to Big Sur on a late 2019 MacBook Pro when not plugged into power (and thus not using the dGPU).

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Post by xpe »

lazyeye wrote: post #346
lazyeye wrote: post #10

I guess this is the kind of blind obedience to an authoritarian regime that 275 billion dollars gets you https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/07/apple-chi... But never mind, they have rainbow hashtags and censor pepe memes so they are the good guys...

I note the downvotes on this post. Silicon valley people are not our friends.

Or perhaps your comment is not considered useful. Be open to the possibility that you can share interests with people that criticize you.

> I guess this is the kind of blind obedience to an authoritarian regime that 275 billion dollars gets you https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/07/apple-chi... But never mind, they have rainbow hashtags and censor pepe memes so they are the good guys...

Speaking for myself (no comment on if I downvoted or not), I tend to not value exaggerations such as "blind obedience". That is not what is happening here. We are seeing parts of a complex power dynamic between a superpower and supercorporation. Dumbing it down is insulting to this audience.

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Post by acdha »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #539
rsj_hn wrote: post #504

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Apple don't move to China to save money, they moved to China in order to meet high demand. There was simply nowhere else that could produce the volume. And technically, Foxconn is a Taiwanese company, but that's not an important detail. Point is, only Chinese/Taiwanese contract manufacturers could give Apple the volume they needed. I really wish you could talk to some more manufacturing types -- there are many on thi…

>Apple don't move to China to save money, they moved to China in order to meet high demand. There was simply nowhere else that could produce the volume. This is the situation now, but was it also the same situation when Apple started iPod production there in 2001? From what I understand most of these electronics supply chain advantages China enjoys now are due to large companies like Apple building those out in China…

Don’t forget that this isn’t one company: Apple circa 2000 couldn’t afford to buck an industry-wide trend and since they were using more components made by other companies you get a lot of synergies from having assembly happen near where other parts are made.

This doesn’t excuse them – I think MBAs gave China enough leverage to include Harvard’s business school in human rights lawsuits – but it’s the kind of thing which is larger than the company whose logo is on the box and the answer has to be legislative.

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Post by esskay »

TheDong wrote: post #401
esskay wrote: post #318

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> Worth noting that you can actually install any 3rd party app you like on an iPhone these days. You just have a fair few hoops to jump through to do it. Can you describe those hoops to me? I have a totally up-to-date iPhone, a linux computer (no macOS), and a usb cable that can connect the linux computer to my iPhone. I found an ipa file I would like to run (say, this MAME emulator here: https://github.com/yoshisuga…

This is a pretty good guide on how to do it: https://www.getbasicidea.com/how-to-install-ipa-files-using-...

Although I think you have to use a slightly different method if you're on Linux. Info on that here: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2022/04/03/altserver-linux-gui...

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

fishywang wrote: post #353
2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #222

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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.

Nothing in the original tweet suggested it to be in response to this _particular_ protest either. There have been protests via airdrop in china for months.

I think it could be interpreted that they pushed it out because of these protests. Most people won’t know about the feature until it matters and it’s too late.

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Post by wfme »

keotuk wrote: post #475
kgermino wrote: post #244

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Do you ride public transportation in a major metropolitan area? This is not a thing I've ever even heard of happening (I'm sure someone has done it) in the real world

It happens enough that the UK government want to outlaw it. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cyberflashing-to-become-a...

> The practice typically involves offenders sending an unsolicited sexual image to people via social media or dating apps, but can also be over data sharing services such as Bluetooth and Airdrop.

I'd wager the majority of cases they refer to being via social media and dating apps given the language.

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Post by lazyeye »

dkokelley wrote: post #422

The power dynamic between China and Apple doesn't get enough attention. Apple needs China, but China doesn't need Apple. There are few if any places capable of manufacturing the amount of products China does for Apple, especially at the price. China is also an enormous market to Apple. I don't agree with the treatment of protestors or the use of technology to surveil its citizens, but the bottom line is that in China…

Agreed.

And maybe they should not take the high moral ground on other issues, telling others how to think and behave, when they themselves are happy to accept filthy lucre in return for compromising their own ethics.

I personally cannot stand these sleazy companies, happy to "take a stand" when it costs them nothing (cheap public relations!!!) but it's a "complicated world" and these issues are not simple, when they themselves bear the cost.

Seriously, they can go F themselves.

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Post by dontknowwhyihn »

zackees wrote: post #403
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…

Hopefully, they (the CCP) will collapse.

If they do, it won’t be because of Apple.

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Post by acdha »

josteink wrote: post #34
mikysco wrote: post #29

It's difficult to defend Apple in this scenario but Apple's relationship with China is just like every other company's (western or otherwise) - at the end of the day, China holds all the cards. If you don't bow to their authoritarian edict, you are kicked out of the country. The energy and anger should (as per usual) be directed at China and the Chinese communist party to a much greater degree than Apple. I'm assumin…

> If you don't bow to their authoritarian edict, you are kicked out of the country. Apple, of all companies, can probably afford to do that though. But they keep on doing business there. That’s a bit depressing. (Written on my iPhone)

I don’t know how current it is, but Bunnie Huang wrote a series of posts in the 2000s about what it was like building things in China. It was more than just being cheap, and non-trivial to replicate elsewhere (one memorable quote: “I hadn’t seen blind dedication like this since I worked with the autonomous underwater robotics team at MIT”).

Here’s the first one:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=183

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Post by andromeduck »

travisgriggs wrote: post #145

I'm a little confused by the "Apple's doing bad here" sentiment. The easier to implement, and definitely more effective solution would have been to just disable the Everyone feature completely. Just remove it from the menu. This would have been something like action.isEnabled = self.isInChina Instead, they went through the effort to actually make it still there, but time bombed. They had to add a timeout function, an…

The main use case here is sending stuff in high traffic places w/ plausible deniability such as during your commute or at a mall.
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