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Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
This thread is about the Apple AIDS watch, and Apple AIDS, not watching Apple AIDS consume some faggots internet personality thread

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Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Im of the opinion that Apple products were never good, and now that what little quality control they had is faltering it won't be long before their stock price is back in the 90's dumpster where it belongs

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Looking forward to cremnob tears when the iPhone 8 (released early 2017) is a cheap plastic piece of poo poo

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Chaining 6 hour probies for a long time is a time-honored IK tradition, and lets be honest: nobody is gonna miss cremnob or stux

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

echinopsis posted:

yeah the iPhone, and iPad were certainly trend following devices

I still don't understand what possible use case you could ever have for an iPad, or any other smartphone-OS tablet. At least Microsoft makes an x86 Surface.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I'm working retail while I wait for college to start and Apple Pay or any other contactless NFC payment system is totally pointless because company policy still requires people to enter their PINs manually for debit accounts or to sign all receipts for credit accounts. It's slower and more of a hassle to use them.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

mishaq posted:

ur company's pos is a pos

The whole system crashes and reboots every time the cable modem loses connection

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Extremely cool 5 figgy fucktard laughing about the wagecuck a who can't afford to pretend they are a 6 figgy fucktard via credit here.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I think it's really gay that tech nerds think they shouldn't be subject to the law IMO. Encryption is supposed to be about preventing random dickheads from stealing your info, not preventing the IRS from auditing you or whatever the gently caress people think they need it for

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
They don't have to go through Congress because they're a federal agency, not a Congressional committee.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
No you guys this is the erosion of civil liberties to perform terrorism and have your saved emails not able to be read because it would take way too long to brute force your iPhone

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I'm a big dumb idiot from the UK who doesn't understand US law and makes a big show of it

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Code is a commodity y'all. Sorry you work at a company so far in the dumpster you never had to understand congressional trade laws

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

PleasureKevin posted:

it seems to me that the FBI could have had access to the phone, but wanted an opportunity to force apple to make a backdoor

so they used a high profile terrorism case. they changed the password and locked themselves out intentionally.

Sure dude. How's the pay for writing for X-Files by the way?

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

infernal machines posted:

just fyi, no one at any point has been requesting a "backdoor"

Well, yeah. Apple's not a construction company. Would you call up Gordon Ramsay for calculus tips.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Cool thing about the US is that even though it's a fascist loving police state!!!!! you have the freedom to immigrate. Maybe that's an old meme but it's true. Really hate how tech people especially whine on the Internet all day and wonder why things suck

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I really don't understand why this is a problem for anyone. You aren't allowed to tell the police no when they search a house with a warrant. Why would the government being able to brute force your phone but only with court approval during a criminal investigation be bad. You guys are acting like they signed a law allowing all police officers to force you to open your phone for any reason

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

THC posted:

its funny when americans tell me i have to accept the rightness of their governments "lawful order"

or i have to put away my opinions and rally around kkklinton to stop a republican president

if I were actually an american I think i would be even MORE insulted by these comments

Sorry your too much of a tech slave to use only local tech products, and then think it's unfair when the country you import luxury goods from has the gall to do anything you don't like

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

THC posted:

the only local tech products i could buy are herbal vaporizers. and i already have 3

If your country is so small it doesn't even have local PC or other device manufacturers, you're literally an insignificant peasant on the global scale and you should be lucky you can afford an iphone, plebe.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

cremnob posted:

ok i dont care cause ill continue to post links news articles

You're a human being, and nobody reads or enjoys your posts, we just have to scroll past an RSS bot in the middle of the Apple AIDS Discussion THread

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Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

THC posted:

not cool. what would Tim say


Larry Parrish posted:

You're a human being

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I think your honestly too stupid to live if Snowden revealed anything surprising or unknown to you. Hasn't no-warrant data collection/surveillance been allowed since the Patriot Act. All I know is it was an extremely common rumor for like 20 years now and everyone with two brain cells to rub together (read: not terrorists or child pornographers) has been just assuming it would eventually happen if it wasn't already.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
cuckservative

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

A Pinball Wizard posted:

wait why is shark tank filtered

Its the "cuck" of the games forum

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Texas is a fail state and people who think Austin is good are addicted to the feeling of constant rear end-sweat

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I've had a 6s for a month and have already noticed micro-scratches on the camera lens. I don't know who thought it was a good idea to have it protrude out but if they're going to design iphones to be in a case, they might as well bundle it with one.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

My Linux Rig posted:

how the gently caress are you scratching the camera lens?

When I set it on a table face-up

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Hard crystals are difficult to abrade but they aren't magical plasteel from sci-fi books, you know. Dust gets on the lens and eventually friction will score it

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Tim is only pretending to fight the man to get more money out of the tech slave crowd for the soon to underperform iPhone sales on the upcoming model

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
My theory is that it really will only take one guy an hour to downgrade the security because it's not as secure as Apple claims but they're terrified of that getting out so they want to appear like it takes a lot of time

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
What's surprising, is that my desktop PC which has the resources to just keep a cached copy of my browser history from 5 minutes ago will reload a fresh page for no reason when I hit back, but my iPhone decides I really wanted to see whatever it wrote into the cache file last week instead of a fresh copy that I looked at 30 seconds ago

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

THC posted:

they would just be poo poo in different ways while introducing security vulnerabilities.

Unfortunately we really do live in the Snow Crash universe when it comes to computers and having them connect to any network is an inherently serious security flaw so I don't really think only allowing people to reskin Apple's godawful phone browser is really a significant part of Apple security technology. It's probably unironically a way for them to claim they have lots of market share and know stuff about web browsers, like Microsoft and Edge

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Seeing as I have memorized every piece of UI or arcane hand motion in iOS, really don't see how anyone could complain. It's extremely intuitive when you never have to think about what to do, because your sperg retard brain has already memorized it.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Stux posted:

nevermind that actually doing a search in safari for how to search on the same page will reveal the "on this page" section of the address bar as you're typing it in

It doesn't make sense when Find is on text highlight in literally every other iOS app.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

THC posted:

actually it's not uncommon for new software to run faster on the same hardware as developers implement optimizations that improve performance. iOS 8 and 9 are great examples of this. can't believe I'm having to explain this basic fact of computing.

Actuay it's extremely rare due to the lazy mindset employed by most commercial programmers, especially mobile ones

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
You can disable updates in usergroup settings, which is where that always should have been really. Anyway macos is loving fail. Name 1 thing an apple product can do over a chromebook besides be an extremely expensive piece of poo poo.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Hmm. No. They actually both employ the method of, every time something goes wrong you just reinstall the OS and Google/Apple re-downloads whatever you don't just keep in the cloud. Not that anything goes wrong. Cant say I've ever installed an update and had Chrome stop working

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Hey guys its me. Big retard using a private service here, wondering why it's super unsecure and keeps getting my data sold to companies.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I hated my phablet because I refuse to use anything but one thumb on a phone, and it was hard to do that. It had a resistive touch screen though which was sweet because I could use it while wearing gloves or whatever.

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Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
It's actually extremely retarded that there's computer versions of laws already. Last thing we need is more

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