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Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Post by cookingrobot »

swamp40 wrote: post #116
bedhead wrote: post #45

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Smartphone hardware is in the 9th inning. These devices have mostly hit the natural limits of what's achievable for now. Bad for Apple since this effectively levels the playing field.

I disagree completely. Perhaps the 9th inning of a preseason game? Flexible displays are coming soon. The paths for easy integration with multiple low power wearable peripherals have just been forged, and the area is still in its infancy. Mobile payments have not fully arrived yet. The phones are all still in rectangular boxes - something that will look ridiculous in 20 years. I think there is a lot yet to come hardw…

These are great points. To add to your list - I'd love it if as part of mobile payments they do what's needed to completely replace a wallet. If I'm at a restaurant paying for a drink with my phone, I should also be able to send them a verified copy of my id with photo and age. Then I could stop carrying a wallet entirely.

Integration with low power peripherals will be nice, but don't forget about high powered peripherals like tablets and tvs. If I put down my phone right now and pick up a tablet, I should be able to finish typing this comment with no interruption.

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Post by maaku »

gbog wrote: post #578
jsmeaton wrote: post #558

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We non-US citizens have even MORE to worry about, because there are no laws to protect us and our privacy. We are open season.

If you are in Europe then you may have better enforced laws protecting you. If you are in Africa your government might not have the expertise and resources to spy on you. If you are in China, well...

You have absolutely no protection from the U.S. government. Your European rights and protections meaning nothing in an American court.

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Post by dntrkv »

Wingman4l7 wrote: post #652
nir wrote: post #265

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First the NSA, now the wife, what's up with people in HN? Are you all planning a coup with your mistresses? If you're married and your SO can't just ask you for your PIN code - and you will, without even thinking about it, give it to them - you might want to take some time to think hard about your relationship.

How about a series of emails joking & griping about your wife's habits to your best friend? Completely harmless but not exactly the kind of thing that you'd want them reading. Our digital selves trail back in time farther and farther these days; would you want your wife reading emails between you and an ex from before you met her?

Well if your wife has so little faith in you that she goes snooping in your email history, again, "you might want to take some time to think hard about your relationship."

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Post by downandout »

VladRussian2 wrote: post #421
downandout wrote: post #398

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Obstruction of justice can only occur if someone does something in response to a legal action that inhibits it. Fortunately it is not [yet] a crime to think ahead.

>Fortunately it is not [yet] a crime to think ahead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_%28crime%29 In criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime at some time in the future.

I'm aware. It doesn't change the fact that it's not possible to obstruct a future court order.

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Post by twoodfin »

brymaster wrote: post #568
res0nat0r wrote: post #197

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We take for gospel that the NSA is spying on everyone in the world via every hardware device that has been created in the USA because of a few powerpoint slides. Interesting.

Wow. Sounds like somebody isn't paying enough attention. > In one case, after the government learned that a foreign intelligence target had ordered new computer hardware, the American manufacturer agreed to insert a back door into the product before it was shipped, someone familiar with the request told The Times. > At Microsoft, as The Guardian has reported, the N.S.A. worked with company officials to get pre-encryp…

Note that neither of your quotes even begin to imply that the NSA is spying on "everyone".

They obviously have broad powers to spy on individuals through a variety of channels, which isn't, or shouldn't be, news.

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Post by emp_ »

Vitaly wrote: post #550

So, WhereTF is my Thunderbolt Display update? 726 days since the last update according to http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/ . We just moved to an new office in august, and been waiting with buying displays hoping they'll be updated to the new formfactor of iMacs. too bad ... ;( really disappointed.

No shit. New iMac with thinner display for many months now, yet no new monitor. Considering the 27HM from Dell.

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Post by hayksaakian »

Bud wrote: post #660

Hey, not to break up the bash-the-NSA discussion, which is legit and badly needed, but did anyone notice just how bad the fact-checking is in this article? It's terrible. Error 1: article says the A7 is a "40x CPU performance bump". Wrong; it's 40x over the original iPhone, not over the A6. Error 2: article says graphics are "56x faster". Same error. Error 3: article claims the M7 is a motion sensor; it's not. It's a…

Welcome to techcrunch where the titles are clickbait and the facts don't matter

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Post by rjd »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #589
rjd wrote: post #463

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Or you could reverse the question and ask if the Lumia is inspired by a decade of Apple doing colourful iPod ranges...

Yeah, but Nokia did it with phones first, so Apple should respect that. The same way Apple claims all sorts of things were unique and patentable because they did them on a phone touchscreen and not a PDA touchscreen (which is so TOTALLY different).

Apple has been doing colorful consumer devices for over a decade... iMacs come to mind... they do the modus operandi and they are suddenly copy someone? you have some serious tunnel vision.

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Post by eksith »

Bud wrote: post #660

Hey, not to break up the bash-the-NSA discussion, which is legit and badly needed, but did anyone notice just how bad the fact-checking is in this article? It's terrible. Error 1: article says the A7 is a "40x CPU performance bump". Wrong; it's 40x over the original iPhone, not over the A6. Error 2: article says graphics are "56x faster". Same error. Error 3: article claims the M7 is a motion sensor; it's not. It's a…

Good catches.

This is another classic case of being first (or at least one of the first) out the gate is more important than the rest of the race. They just want to get the traffic up to speed for ad-views before making sure the story is correct.

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