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Re: Apple Reports First Quarter Results

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Post by nomel » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 5:05 PM UTC

dijit wrote: post #195

nomel wrote: post #112

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> Only the ones your device intends to send to iCloud. From a practical perspective, for most everyone, "intending to send" and "on iCloud" is probably a 300ms delta in time.

It’s a capability problem. Once they scan files that are due to be uploaded it’s not very difficult to just.. scan all files. It’s the motte and bailey.

I don't understand "capability". Surely you realize the capability is already there. Scanning an image and sending a "bad detected" message is absolutely trivial. The image classification algorithms that run locally, used for categorical search (like "dogs") are already there.

Re: Apple Reports First Quarter Results

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Post by mensetmanusman » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 7:07 PM UTC

MattGaiser wrote: post #17

mensetmanusman wrote: post #8

As Apple continues to dominate, we can’t forget that the iPhone is approaching >90% utilization by the youth: https://www.howtogeek.com/778355/new-study-says-87-of-us-tee... This means we will soon enough have a situation where a corporation controls the primary medium of communication of the citizens. At this point a smart society would consider how to regulate this situation to safely prevent domination abuse, but…

Microsoft is probably 90% of computers already for everyone.

You can write an OS on Windows, the same is not true on iOS.

Re: Apple Reports First Quarter Results

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Post by smoldesu » Sat, Jan 29, 2022, 1:39 AM UTC

justsomehnguy wrote: post #192

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #124

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Absolutely. Rumors that have been correct so far (and correctly predicted the M1 Pro and M1 Max 16 and 32 GPU core configurations) say that Apple is planning a 2 and 4 M1 Max multi-die design in the future. The M1 Max already has a die-to-die interconnect bus that is unused. Also, according to reverse engineer Hector Martin, the interrupt controller on the M1 Max theoretically allows for up to 8 M1 Max dies (though w…

> That should be good competition for ... Intel Xeon. Poor Xeons with meager TBs of RAM.

Even if you managed to strap 4 M1 Max together, you'd only have enough memory lanes to drive 256gb of RAM.

Re: Apple Reports First Quarter Results

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Post by tomxor » Sat, Jan 29, 2022, 1:44 PM UTC

joering2 wrote: post #104

jb1991 wrote: post #55

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I’m talking about myriad software bugs.

it blows my mind every day how they screwed up somewhat very good native mail client. once I've updated to iOS14, daily: - my mail will disappear. I would open a folder and see emails from 2007 at the top... wait and see he is loading them again and more are popping up.. takes few minutes to catch up with 2021. - my contacts will not work when I start typing email. literally sometimes the do sometimes they don't - em…

I really hate promoting Steve Jobs as some kind of miracle worker - But I swear there is a correlation between his death and the hard to quantify decline of software quality at Apple since.

I clearly remember at the time all of the rampant speculation about the downfall of Apple and thinking it's all bullshit, that the people doing the real work are still there and still care and his absence would make little difference, which was true immediately, but gradually over the last decade? perhaps individual work ethic is not enough in a large megacorporate structure to overcome corporate pressures. Perhaps, in such a large structure you really do need someone pushy and particular enough at the top to get emotional and pissed at people when small details suck to prevent it adding up over time.

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Post by lvl100 » Sat, Jan 29, 2022, 8:55 PM UTC

dwaite wrote: post #180

decafninja wrote: post #166

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IIRC, he was also adamant against a bigger iPhone and a smaller iPad, both which ended up being hit products.

Also adamant against iTunes for Windows

Also adamant against App Store!

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Post by decafninja » Sat, Jan 29, 2022, 10:42 PM UTC

lvl100 wrote: post #215

dwaite wrote: post #180

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Also adamant against iTunes for Windows

Also adamant against App Store!

Those happened while he was alive though no? Whereas the iPhone6 and iPad Mini came after his death.

Re: Apple Reports First Quarter Results

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Post by dijit » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 7:13 AM UTC

nomel wrote: post #211

dijit wrote: post #195

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It’s a capability problem. Once they scan files that are due to be uploaded it’s not very difficult to just.. scan all files. It’s the motte and bailey.

I don't understand "capability". Surely you realize the capability is already there. Scanning an image and sending a "bad detected" message is absolutely trivial. The image classification algorithms that run locally, used for categorical search (like "dogs") are already there.

When I say capability I mean the functionality currently exists to do that, it’s implemented and functioning, and the evidence for it existing is not a surprise.

If WhatsApp has the function for Facebook to read messages, then it’s not going to be a surprise when reversing the program to see that code; but if they claim that there is no capability to do that and you discover it then it’s much more damning.

Also; if functionality exists it’s easier to argue for a scope change… much easier than arguing for new functionality to exist.