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Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by fulafel »

bobbles wrote: post #295
fulafel wrote: post #227

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Citation needed for Android doing this?

https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/1033093... We invest heavily in fighting child sexual exploitation online and use technology to deter, detect, and remove CSAM from our platforms. This includes automated detection and human review, in addition to relying on reports submitted by our users and third parties such as NGOs, to detect, remove, and report CSAM on our platforms. We deploy hash matching, i…

But no on-device fuzzy hash scanning and swat-ing on Android afaik - the above quote enumerates cloud services.

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Post by 7v3x3n3sem9vv »

runjake wrote: post #270
jmnicolas wrote: post #255

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I'm on GrapheneOS since last December. Yes it's tough, but before that I had come to resent my phone and wondering what it was doing in the background.

I am sincerely jealous of your tolerance skills. I'd love to have the tolerance to jump to a de-Googled Android phone and bypass FAANG's walled garden. I've tried many times.

What didn't you like? Been using LineageOS on an old OnePlus I had and I'm enjoying it the last few months. Especially knowing it's not doing anything weird without my approval.

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Post by theshrike79 »

n8cpdx wrote: post #191
theshrike79 wrote: post #136

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Nothing was going to get scanned on iOS either, unless you had "upload to Apple servers" enabled...

*unless one of the iOS updates surreptitiously re-enabled "upload to Apple servers" as they are notorious for doing...

If your threat model includes Apple surreptitiously enabling spying features on your phone, sure.

Mine doesn't.

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Post by dang »

anm89 wrote: post #6

I 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.

No doubt it's annoying, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

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Post by Wildgoose »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #205
Wildgoose wrote: post #199

I can't see any mention of a headphone jack, does this mean they've removed it? I ditched my iPhone because of the lack of something this basic, I'm glad I bought an iPad mini last year while they still have this functionality. N.B. (1) I can't use in-ear ear-buds (2) I have high quality wired headphones I want to use (3) I want to use it in my car which although it has bluetooth, does not work with music, only with…

But it has USB-C, so you can use USB-C headphones or one of the many dongle adapters.

But I have good quality wired headphones that I like.

A headphone jack is pennies. I don’t want to buy, possibly charge and generally carry around something else when this is a solved problem that Apple has broken.

I also like being able to charge my device AND listen to it at the same time.

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Post by Corrado »

jnsie wrote: post #52

Is it just me or are these latest announcement events lackluster and over-produced? I'm not judging the devices (going to pick up the watch series 7) but the events themselves are tough to sit through.

I agree and found myself wondering what Steve Jobs would think of these events. I think he might like it in that they would be "perfect" as he was notoriously fastidious about these types of events. However, he might also not like the "sterility" that seems to accompany them; he was a showman and liked to work the crowd.

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Post by Causality1 »

hbn wrote: post #128
Causality1 wrote: post #7

iPad mini features an all-screen design half inch bezel on all sides Removing the home button is not the same as making an all-screen design.

Maybe you're just trying to catch them on wording, but if you're actually wanting them to make it completely bezel-less... I don't think you actually do It's hard enough to grip the previous iPad minis from the side, an entirely bezel-less tablet would have nowhere to hold it without touching the screen

Of course I don't. What I want is for them to stop propagating the myth that all-screen designs are desirable.

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Post by solarkraft »

eykanal wrote: post #49

Can we change the title here to something less marketing-ish? Possibly just "Apple releases new iPad mini"?

I find it generally sub-optimal to link Apple press releases. They won’t mention the things that are actually notable, like perhaps a daringfireball would.

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Post by realityking »

Sunspark wrote: post #291
extra88 wrote: post #286

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.mkv is a container format, not a video codec. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska

Still not going to be decoded in hardware on iOS.

You‘re spreading FUD. iOS (and other Apple platforms) had low level APIs to decode videos on hardware for years. Of course the video codec needs to be supported (AFAIK right now just H.264 and HEVC) but the container format doesn‘t matter, you just need to unpack it yourself.

Here‘s a - 6 year old - guide on how to set it up: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29525000/how-to-use-vide...

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