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Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does seem ass backwards. Google scans your content for CSAM on their servers. And they scan your content for demographic and advertising data and god knows what else. I do not see your logic here. It appears to be an ill-decided knee-jerk reaction.
What content? I don't upload any photos to Google.
Presumably you're using Android with the Google frameworks installed, so it's sending all kinds of telemetry, usage, and location data to Google. You can confirm this with something like Charles proxy.
Or you may be one of the rare breed of people who can use a "de-Googled" Android distribution, such as CalyxOS, for over a month before giving up.
Time will tell, I suppose.
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well technically it is. The front is now screen only, regardless of the actual screen size. There is just nothing else on the front
> There is just nothing else on the front ... except for a giant f'ing bezel
Do you not hold your tablets with your fingers?
Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
#214I love how everything has to be a "revolutionary breakthrough" with apple. Wow the 73rd version of the 19th variation of the ipad gets better performance. What a break though.
The funny thing is this actually is one of the most substantial upgrades they’ve done on any of their iPads. The performance stuff sure whatever that always happens, but the form factor + pencil support is significantly better. If I were looking at iPads anytime in the last 5 years the mini wouldn’t have been on my list, but now it would.
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But if I had to choose between Google and Apple for my privacy I would go with Apple (without much illusions). See - I'm right there with you about not having much dog in this fight (I don't buy Apple hardware, and I mostly left google about 3 years ago) but I come out on the other side of the coin. I'd much rather own a device made by folks I know I can't trust. Google is worse, but mostly honest about being worse…
I can sort of understand your poisiton if I squint hard enough... but what you're saying is that if apple came out as fully Anti-privacy and invasive like Google then you would be more okay with them than you are now. That's weird.
I mean - think of it like a coworker who doesn't like you.
It's much easier to work with someone (in my opinion) if you both agree you don't get along well and plan accordingly.
Having a co-worker that's sunshine and rainbows to your face, but scanning your phone for CSAM behind your back while talking shit about you to your manager is a lot harder.
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's amazing how Apple was able to get general public to be excited about things like "20% brighter display". Benefits of being rockstar I guess. But all rockstars get out of fashion...
Also "iPad mini features an all-screen design" while immediate picture underneath still shows significant bezels. Turns out they are just talking about the home button. >With iPadOS 15, powerful new ML features include Live Text, which uses on-device intelligence The chip enabling this has recently turned out to be used as an on-device intelligence agency , that reports estimates of crimes back to the mothership and…
Didn’t they put this on hold for now? Or did I misread a headline and it’s still happened/happening
Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
#217What do people use devices like iPad mini for?
The pencil is pretty fantastic for drawing.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let’s wait until Apple actual starts device scanning before condemning them for it? Apple were up front with their plans and after hearing the public outcry they canceled their rollout. Other companies would have just rolled out the change without disclosure and called it a day.
Apple already did roll out changes like this, without disclosure. They've been scanning your Emails like this without your knowledge for years, if it makes you feel any better. On top of that, people aren't mad about cloud scanning: that's obviously nothing new. Wasting my CPU resources to do it though? It just further perpetuates this feeling that I don't actually own any of my Apple devices, but rather renting them…
Re: scanning email, I did not see any articles that specifically said that Apple was scanning mail on-device. Can you point me to an article that states this fact clearly? As you say, scanning on the cloud isn’t really an issue since everyone is doing that anyways.
But as a developer you should know email is inherently not a secure method of communication thus you should not expect any privacy when using it. Email is analogous to sending a postcard through the mail system.
Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
#219Speaking for myself here, I can't really get into iOS devices like this new iPad mini anymore in part because I have grown accustomed to being able to:
a) roll back apps if a new version is broken/undesirable.
b) sideload apps if an app is not available on the app store because they fell out of grace (eg. fortnite).
c) choose a web browser, on iOS you can have any skin you want, as long as the engine is Safari.
d) choose a media player, no hardware decoding on iOS if it is not an Apple-blessed codec and last time I looked, Apple did not allow mkv and I fail to understand why I need to transcode or remux just to please them otherwise it is software decoding.
e) no emulation of other systems allowed or environments that can run code.
Android still allows all of these things.
Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
#220I waited for an update for the mini for years. What i can’t get my head around is the limitations in storage. 256GB maximum is a joke - and no, i don’t want a Pro since the form factor is what makes the mini work for me. Packaging aside, i doubt this is an engineering driven decision and well… walk away highly disappointed not ordering one. Otherwise it’d be perfect.
What do you use it for? I'm still happy with 256gb on my laptop and 32gb on my phone. I don't actually know how much storage my phone has.
I have a ton of photos, taken with high megapixel cameras and not just the phone - thus if you want those with you (not even talking about the propagated 4K and up videos from drones, phones and dslrs) it only starts to get interesting at 521GB+ (for the ones you keep).
If there’s ways of offloading video footage (lightroom for photos does work ok as a buffer) for editing-apps i’m more than happy to hear about alternatives other than adding it to your photos library or files.