Apple Daily Tech Support Thread - [May 11]

Daily Tech Support Thread - [May 11]
Exclusive: AirPods Studio to feature head and neck detection, custom equalizer settings, more
Apple plans $330 million investment in Taiwanese Mini LED and micro LED factory
Smartphone sales Q1 2020: iPhone 11, 11 Pro Max and iPhone XR were best-selling smartphones in the US
Some of the world's best cloud talent is assembling in an unlikely place: Apple
14-Inch MacBook Pro Now Rumored to Launch in 2021
iFixit Provides Look Inside iPad Pro Magic Keyboard Trackpad
Apple Adds Some 2013 and 2014 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Models to Vintage Products List
Low-Power LTPO Technology Not Expected on iPhones Until 2021, Possibly Delaying ProMotion
Apple - Think Different - Muhammad Ali
Apple starts selling HomePod in India for less than US pricing
For those of you who care about Privacy and Security...how much do you trust Apple?
Apple CEO Tim Cook and Others to Share Commencement Speeches on Special Podcast for National Graduation Day
Slack’s new iPhone app hits the App Store ahead of official launch
Eindhoven security researchers find fatal vulnerabilities in Thunderbolt.

Posted: 11 May 2020 08:13 AM PDT

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Exclusive: AirPods Studio to feature head and neck detection, custom equalizer settings, more

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Apple plans $330 million investment in Taiwanese Mini LED and micro LED factory

Posted: 11 May 2020 06:47 AM PDT

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Smartphone sales Q1 2020: iPhone 11, 11 Pro Max and iPhone XR were best-selling smartphones in the US

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Some of the world's best cloud talent is assembling in an unlikely place: Apple

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14-Inch MacBook Pro Now Rumored to Launch in 2021

Posted: 11 May 2020 07:09 AM PDT

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iFixit Provides Look Inside iPad Pro Magic Keyboard Trackpad

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Apple Adds Some 2013 and 2014 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Models to Vintage Products List

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Low-Power LTPO Technology Not Expected on iPhones Until 2021, Possibly Delaying ProMotion

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Apple - Think Different - Muhammad Ali

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Apple starts selling HomePod in India for less than US pricing

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For those of you who care about Privacy and Security...how much do you trust Apple?

Posted: 11 May 2020 09:26 AM PDT

I have been thinking of switching over to Apple mainly due to how they treat privacy and security. I have been an Android user for a very long time (since version 1.6) and lately I have become more disgusted by Google.

I've done what I can to take back my privacy, but Android is pretty crippled once I don't have the Play Store, and I am not comfortable with the rootkit that is Google Play Services installed on my phone. Is Apple's commitment to privacy and security sincere? Can I trust them if I switch over? I understand that there is a tradeoff between privacy/security and convenience, and if I understand that if you do not pay for a product then you are the product. If I pay that Apple tax, will they safeguard my privacy and security?

On Android, if I want to maximize my privacy I need to NOT install Google Play Services. I need to use this thing called MicroG to "fake" the existence of Play Services. I need to install alternative app stores such as Aurora to get the apps I want. Apps which use Location (Uber, Lyft) don't work, or the accuracy is bad if I use Microg. To be honest, just to get privacy I need to hack my way around Android, which causes me to lose Security because of all these workarounds.

I'm tired of that. If I go to iOS, how much of my privacy/security is safeguarded? If I install an app, like Whatsapp or Wechat (very bad examples, but I cannot force anyone to switch off) what can they see outside of the app? Can they access my data in other apps or are apps isolated into their own data folder? On Android there is still Work Profile functionality where I can sandbox a bunch of apps into one environment, but I don't think this exists for iOS.

Staying with Android isn't maintainable in the long run. I won't get updates, so I'd have to trust others who build custom ROMs, MicroG could get blocked, Aurora could lose access to Play Store apps. Google doesn't care about privacy, so I might have to jump ship.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook and Others to Share Commencement Speeches on Special Podcast for National Graduation Day

Posted: 11 May 2020 09:13 AM PDT