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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: And the previous generation PowerPC. Pure
Apple style trechery.
pete_dushenski: "Abraham says: “Fraud in
Apple Pay… came as a surprise to all” " << mhm. right.
punkman: more likely whoever owns the
apple store
cazalla: who eats the chargeback?
apple?
pete_dushenski: "The crooks have not broken the secure encryption around
Apple Pay’s fingerprint-activated wireless payment mechanism. Instead, they are setting up new iPhones with stolen personal information, and then calling banks to “provision” the victim’s card on the phone to use it to buy goods. "
pete_dushenski: "Criminals in the US are using the new
Apple Pay mobile payment system to buy high-value goods – often from
Apple Stores – with stolen identities and credit card details." << le shock!
decimation:
apple assumes that you don't need to use your computer to compute, so it isn't designed for sustained levels of cpu-pegging
gabriel_laddel: (I have a $300 compaq that I prefer to any
apple crapware - same one as MP iirc)
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> [04:32] what does ben_vulpes do with his
apple boxen? just throws them out when disk fills ? << generally, backup disk, format, give to pets and or repurpose as misc. computing devices around the house/office.
mircea_popescu: no, it's just provincialism, the same idiotic middle age women that run
apple now run google.
jurov:
apple is such a whore with 214 root certs preinstalled?
mircea_popescu: "So what the hell do we buy now? HP's quality has hit rock bottom and is starting to dig, Lenovo is doing their best to destroy the Thinkpad brand, Asus is incapable of making a device without at least one fatal flaw... is
Apple the only one making laptops that aren't garbage anymroe?"
decimation: speaking of which, did you see the
apple macbookpro recall ascii?
nubbins`:
apple? best bsd box i ever owned
jurov: remind me to revisit this back in 10 years ...whether fluffypony will still endorse such changes (or
apple at all) by then
fluffypony: decimation: so it doesn't affect non-
Apple-users
decimation: fluffypony:
apple has been pulling this kind of thing for decades
fluffypony: so
Apple is saying -shit- about a language, and fuck, it's their language (inasmuch as they're the only ones still using it)
decimation: but it is understandable why
apple would want it on their c-machines
decimation: "Let’s talk about encryption. What’s wrong with what Google and
Apple are doing? You have encrypted email — shouldn’t everybody have encrypted email, or have their protections? Everybody should. And I’m a strong believer in strong encryption."
ben_vulpes:
apple only worked because there was one guy at the helm.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Did
Apple even release iTunes ever for Mac OS
ben_vulpes: another amusing tidbit from
apple's wholesale collapse in quality on the desktop: no longer does the right arrow in iToonz skip to the next track.
cazalla: smashed my iphone in a burst of anger so.. no more
apple products here (ipad already went out the window)
decimation: asciilifeform: actually I think the best explanation for 'why hypercard had to die' is that
apple discovered that you could sell software to chumps at huge profit, whereas actually competing on hardware is a low-margin miserable business
decimation: re:
apple compilers < i wasted a few hours last week trying to get macports to build 'octave'
ben_vulpes: the
apple binary signing process is hilaribad.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: other people in the shop use the
apple toolchain and the android toolchain. all i ever do with those is "turn the right nut" when it comes to "signing" binaries for
apple/google and cutting builds.
decimation: "Chief Executive Officer Ken Chenault, 63, has introduced new products aimed at younger and less-affluent customers as AmEx seeks to broaden its appeal. The lender is working with companies including Uber Technologies Inc. and
Apple Inc. to expand mobile payments, and courted Americans who lack access to traditional banks with products like its Bluebird prepaid card, offered at Wal-Mart Stores Inc."
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 17:51:37; thestringpuller: How is
Apple making so much money? Does everyone use macs these days?
decimation: obviously they suck at being
apple, why not try something new?
decimation: "Walkley writes that his assessment of vendor data in smartphones suggests
Apple, whose shares he rates a Buy, captured 93% of industry profits in Q4." << why are all of
apple's competitors in the 'mobile market' simply trying to imitate
apple?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform esr is posting from an universe where
apple has ambitions.
thestringpuller: How is
Apple making so much money? Does everyone use macs these days?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so im having the 2nd breakfast of the day. like the previous one, this one also consists of milk and
apple pie.
assbot:
Apple Has 93% of Mobile Profits; 650M Users by 2018, Says Canaccord - Tech Trader Daily - Barrons.com ... (
http://bit.ly/1CPQdBP )
decimation: bitcoinquestions: it is my understanding that macOs uses freebsd's rng (Yarrow), but you are implictly trusting
apple...
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2015 19:51:38; asciilifeform: 'golang' is in the same league as
apple's 'darwin' unix kernel. a whole zoological kingdom of pseudo-open, where, yes, theoretically you can read source, but it is not -for you-
decimation: that and, the only proprietary hardware unix vendor left is...
apple mircea_popescu: the funniest thing in all of this isn't exactly the horde of children who don't understand how the fuck they were tricked exactly. the funniest thing is the plethora of articles about how "
apple could buy russia"
assbot:
Apple is reportedly giving the Chinese government access to its devices for “security checks” – Quartz ... (
http://bit.ly/1yH6nWA )
mircea_popescu: yeah well,
apple pie is probably a lot more convincing than working out.