Notices tagged with apple, page 13

Change My View: #Apple will lose the #patent trial, as it should

https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/21/apple-samsung-patent-trial-verdict/
"My expectation is that Apple will lose the case"
@fosspatents

They are not suing #apple because Apple fanbois wrongly assume that Apple cares about #privacy
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/21/google-sued-tracking-44m-uk-iphone-users-browsing-data-apple-safari
#nsa #prism

In which Apple destroys my daughter’s iPad forever

My daughter has an iPad mini. It is a second-hand one given very graciously by a friend when his daughter outgrew it. My daughter has taken good care of this iPad, an astonishing thing given her ag…

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17132248

Posted by ingve (karma: 81360)

Post stats: Points: 77 - Comments: 96 - 2018-05-23T08:19:31Z

#HackerNews #apple #daughters #destroys #forever #ipad #which

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My daughter has an iPad mini. It is a second-hand one given very graciously by a friend when his daughter outgrew it.

My daughter has taken good care of this iPad, an astonishing thing given her age and the number of second and third hand iOS devices she had accidentally destroyed when younger.

She loves it and she had a lot of precious things in her iCloud account.

The other day, Apple locked her out of her iCloud account and her iPad. We don’t know why. The Apple support people don’t know why. I think it may have to do with when I modernized my AppleID to use an email address, which is what the iTunes account on the iPad is registered to.

My daughter knows her account name. She knows her password.  She did not forget either one. She did not lose her device. She did not do anything to trigger the Apple ID issue. The only thing we know is that it happened at roughly the same time the ApplePay person told me to update my AppleID. It may be related. It may not be.

She set up this Apple ID on her own around 2010 or so, when she was quite small and listening to her Mom, who said don’t give out personal information, she made up a birthday and answers to the security questions. 8 years later, she does not know that information and there’s no way for us to guess it.

Despite the fact that she owns the iPad, has the physical iPad, knows her id, and knows her password, there is no way for her to ever use the iPad again because we do not have a receipt for the iPad, nor does the kind gentleman who gave her the iPad. The Apple Store does not provide access to records from that far back, roughly 7 years ago. Also, her email provider deleted the account about 3-4 years ago and is no longer allowing email signups.

What’s more, Apple will not unlock her iCloud account to get all those drawings and letters she put there for “safety” even though she has never forgotten her password.

We dug up a previous iPad with a cracked screen that used the same iCloud account, and for which I did have the receipt. That was insufficient for Apple to unlock her device or to let her back into iCloud, even though both devices use the same account and both are physically in our possession.

My daughter is the owner of a brick, which is not getting replaced.

Update: Just for the lawls. I don’t know why it says Weds, Dec 31. This is the older mini with the cracked screen that I had the receipt for.

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#hypePhone users might be gullible and self-deluding enough to actually believe that #apple respects their #privacy and does not put back doors in phones
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-21/google-could-face-4-3-billion-claim-in-u-k-iphone-privacy-case
#nsa #prism

Steve #Wozniak Talks Disk ][ https://paleotronic.com/2018/05/19/steve-wozniak-talks-disk/ #apple

In #Apple v #Samsung #Patents That Should Never Have Been Granted May Result in a Billion Dollars in 'Damages' http://techrights.org/2018/05/20/apple-v-samsung-qualcomm-v-apple/

Will Homer Simpson sway the #Apple v. #Samsung design #patent damages retrial jury? http://www.fosspatents.com/2018/05/will-homer-simpson-sway-apple-v-samsung.html #patents
"jurors won't have the benefit of such information on the wider ramifications of what they're required to decide."

Popular #YouTuber Says #Apple Won't Fix His #iMac Pro Damaged While Disassembled https://www.macrumors.com/2018/04/18/linus-tech-tips-imac-pro-repair-video/

#Apple v #Samsung Poses Threat Beyond Just Tech
http://www.insidesources.com/apple-v-samsung-poses-threat-beyond-just-tech/
this is true.
Also see: http://10thousandcouples.com/2018/05/samsung-tries-a-new-knife-to-whittle-apples-iphone-patent/
https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-apple-patent-trial-phone-components-get-15-minutes-fame/ @fosspatents

I will soon be writing about #appsung - aka #apple v #samsung - #patent dispute. in the meantime:
https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/16/samsung-apple-mac-designer-witness/

http://www.globallegalpost.com/corporate-counsel/the-apple-drops-for-samsung-98987739/ @fosspatents

Steve Wozniak Recounts His Efforts to Engineer the Apple II Floppy Disk System

HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17101830

Posted by empressplay (karma: 2750)

Post stats: Points: 232 - Comments: 46 - 2018-05-18T14:42:08Z

#HackerNews #apple #disk #efforts #engineer #floppy #his #recounts #steve #system #the #wozniak

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#Qualcomm says #Apple canceled recent patent and #antitrust settlement meeting on short notice http://www.fosspatents.com/2018/05/qualcomm-says-apple-canceled-recent.html #munich #de #germany #patents

If #eff went a step further and was more clever about it, it would tell members/readers to avoid such devices altogether because even outside the border they're remotely exploitable https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180516/08113239842/eff-asks-fbi-doj-to-turn-over-details-thousands-locked-phones-fbi-seems-uninterested-cracking.shtml #apple #google #nsa #prism #vault7

Seeking billions in 'damages' over a simple shape of something

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-15/apple-wants-1-billion-from-samsung-at-smartphone-retrial #apple #samsung #appsung

#apple has taken #patent lunacy to new heights in #california

https://www.patentprogress.org/2018/05/16/icon-patents-shouldnt-entitle-profits-on-whole-device/ @fosspatents