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Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

ihuman wrote: post #10
ffrryuu wrote: post #2

Have they added color profile support yet?

What do you mean by color profile? Something like f.lux, where it changes the color of the screen?

I think he meant ColorSync[1] or ICC support for color management. An image that uses a color space other than sRGB (like Adobe RGB or CMYK) will look different on iOS than it does on OS X.

Apparently, iOS 4 did add ICC support in CoreGraphics for apps to use [2] but it seems to me that Apple’s apps don’t take advantage of it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorsync

[2] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/General...

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Post by rdl »

I'm sad it seems most likely the 5S will be fingerprint OR pin/passphrase to unlock. I can imagine situations at borders or in interactions with police where compelling a fingerprint swipe is physically easier than compelling a passphrase entry, and I think it is also legally easier to compel later.

The ideal would be a 4-8 digit numeric PIN with strong "10 tries and it dies" plus fingerprint, and as a backup, a full length desktop-style passphrase (iCloud passphrase). And maybe some kind of "only works on pre-authorized devices" enrollment system requiring the passphrase to generate local keys, too.

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Post by rimantas »

Heliosmaster wrote: post #9

About the ID fingerprints? Am I the only one so in constant fear and doubt that thinks this would be a great way of bulk collecting the fingerprints of ANYONE?

They said fingerprints never leave the devices, are not backed up and "don't hit Apple servers".

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Post by kaolinite »

josteink wrote: post #16

I wonder how the people claiming plastic in those Android-phones feels "cheap" is going to react to this.

The plastic they're using (hard-coated polycarbonate) is, I believe, the same plastic used on many of the Nokia Lumia phones which a lot of people say feel much higher quality than other, regular plastic phones. That said, the 5C is the cheaper option and it isn't going to feel as good as the aluminium of the 5S. I don't however think it will be anywhere near as cheap-feeling as other phones (e.g. the Samsung Galaxy S4 which has been described as feeling "greasy").

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Post by stakecounter »

ihuman wrote: post #14
Heliosmaster wrote: post #9

About the ID fingerprints? Am I the only one so in constant fear and doubt that thinks this would be a great way of bulk collecting the fingerprints of ANYONE?

They say that applications don't have access to it and it is never uploaded online, but until the device is out there is no way to verify it.

That may be true now, but we've seen very recently how powerful government orders can be. I could easily see it starting with "we do not upload fingerprints" to "we only send fingerprints at the request of government warrants" to something much more massive down the road.

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Post by cliveowen »

United857 wrote: post #13

Two biggest new things for developers: * OpenGL ES 3.0 support (things like true HDR rendering, etc. will finally be possible) * 64-bit support. For most app developers, this will just be a recompile. The tricky part is that any closed-source 3rd party SDKs/libraries/frameworks used will also have to be rebuilt first by their authors.

More importantly, what are they talking about when they say 64-bit? The architecture uses 64-bit addresses? The processor uses 64-bit registers? What are the main advantages to current CPUs?

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Post by sdoowpilihp »

ihuman wrote: post #14
Heliosmaster wrote: post #9

About the ID fingerprints? Am I the only one so in constant fear and doubt that thinks this would be a great way of bulk collecting the fingerprints of ANYONE?

They say that applications don't have access to it and it is never uploaded online, but until the device is out there is no way to verify it.

I would hope that they simply save a hash of the fingerprint with a reasonable level of collision built in to make it difficult to tie a hash to a single person's fingerprint (maybe ~10 people would have that hash?). I would imagine they could then use some sort of secret tied to the device id and hash pair to positively identify to the server.

edit for clarity

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