Make no mistake!
It's ALL about the DATA! Don't be fooled but the other BS reasons.
Posts by NotTellinYou
29 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jan 2010
Apple Pay's Brit biz bashed by banks planning to Zapp it out
Wednesday 8th July 2015 09:52 GMT
Re: No thanks, Zapp
LOL...I'm in the business and it's NOT "Tinfoilhattery" we have petabytes of information on people, likely you included. It's not just your transactions with a retailer, but using your credit card, we match to the various data brokers such as Experian who are more than happy to sell and additional 700+ attributes about you and your family. We then take your social media info, you did use the same email address right, add to this your cell phone company is VERY happy to sell your location data, with the totality of it all being a pretty crazy file on you.
Password-flogging phishing tool pwns EVERY iOS Mail app
Wednesday 10th June 2015 19:08 GMT
Yeah yeah...another yet another ploy to get stupid users to enter their passwords. I'm sure this too will be plugged and I'm sure those looking to get passwords will move on to another way. The cure is easy DON'T BE STUPID! Question ANY time you are asked for your passwords.
Lastly, make sure you have two-step verification on for all your accounts not just iCloud. In this case, if it was enabled, having the password would do the attacker no good and the user would be warned someone was trying to access their account.
Meh!
Apple Watch is like an invasive weed says Gartner
Apple's iOS 6 maps STILL muddle Mildura
Tuesday 11th December 2012 21:03 GMT 
The REAL Story
From a real news organization:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57558512-37/apples-australian-maps-mishap-linked-to-local-data/
"Apparently there are two listings for the same problematic location in the Australian Gazetteer, the de facto local geographical dictionary that lists some 322,000 locations and their corresponding GPS coordinates.
As reported by The Register, this resulted in two possible results for "Mildura" -- one of which was located in remote wilderness more than 40 miles away from the town of the same name. Data from the Australian Gazetteer comes from various local government agencies and is managed by the country's federal government."
Boya!
Tuesday 11th December 2012 20:58 GMT 
"Perhaps they could have referred to some sort of officail Australian reference source?"
They did!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57558512-37/apples-australian-maps-mishap-linked-to-local-data/
"Apparently there are two listings for the same problematic location in the Australian Gazetteer, the de facto local geographical dictionary that lists some 322,000 locations and their corresponding GPS coordinates.
As reported by The Register, this resulted in two possible results for "Mildura" -- one of which was located in remote wilderness more than 40 miles away from the town of the same name. Data from the Australian Gazetteer comes from various local government agencies and is managed by the country's federal government."
Boya!
Don't worry, Apple: iPad still dominant in China
Android seven-inchers swipe rug from under Apple
Wednesday 28th November 2012 19:34 GMT
Re: More fake numbers by Google....
But that's the issue!
By every measure published by every web and internet analytics company, people are not using Android tablets and very few the internet capabilities of their Android based phones. So what's going on there?
How does iOS with, what 20% of the overall market, generate a majority of the web and internet traffic? What are people doing with their Android phones and tablets? They aren't buying Apps and they aren't using the internet.
If they aren't using the features that differentiate the experience then the barrier to switching will be low where the opposite is true for iOS users who overwhelmingly say that when the time comes they will purchase another iOS device.
Not flaming Android but seriously trying to understand the hype of these made up numbers and the reality of usage and why the disconnect.
Wednesday 28th November 2012 19:25 GMT
Huh?
This article cites ZERO OEM sources for its marketshare claims.
I find it funny that Samsung, Amazon, etc., REFUSE to provide sell through numbers as Apple does. I honestly think the Android numbers are all BS! Even Amazon plays games like when it said that the Kindle Fire HD had a great sales days when the iPad mini was introduced. They left out the fact it was the first day of sales to much of Europe but hey the press ran with it anyway. Though while Apple announced three days later that they had SOLD 3 million iPad mini's the best weekend intro of any iPad to date we've NEVER heard form Amazon how many Fire HD's they sold...and we never will.
I don't know how else you account for the fact that what 90% of the tablet traffic is iPad! Either the market share numbers above are right, and owners throw these Android tablets in a drawer, or these derived numbers are just plain wrong!
Either way it's not a good sign for Android and VERY positive for the iPad.
Panel production problems may stop iPad Minis getting into fans' mitts
Wednesday 24th October 2012 14:56 GMT
Re: Won't matter anyway
Actually for us, a Fortune 10 company, the smaller form factor is a HUGE plus. We've decided to deploy the iPad as our tablet of choice and for some use cases the ability to hold in one hand is an important choice for us. Glad to see Apple listened and we're looking forward to getting some for testing.
Apple's lone wolf approach to security will bite it in the rear
Monday 20th August 2012 16:17 GMT
Re: Back on topic.
LOL...uh huh...keep telling yourself that!
So if your a hacker do you go after Windows users with all their anti-virus software installed on cheap computers or do you go after the MILLIONS of unprotected expensive Mac's with owners that actually have $$$$?
Humm.... nawwwww...I'll go after the Windows boxes where I'll be lucky to infect a few thousand before I'm found out and stopped.
Great logic!
Samsung buys US Spotify clone, hopes to bruise Apple's eco-system
How Apple won the West (and lost the world)
Wednesday 4th January 2012 08:24 GMT
This is good?
Do we really think it's a good that people making $2 a day are getting sucked into a phone that cost two months salary never mind a data plan. Add to this the availability of a place to change the phone and quality signal and exactly what are these people supposed to do? They're not going to buy anything on-line.
Look, I've been to some pretty poor areas of a lot of countries even Brazil has mass poverty that I never imagined until I saw it. The goal TO ME shouldn't be to congratulate ourselves for providing cheap phones but rather life these people out of poverty and don't even start that "technology divide" BS...go to the hills outside Rio or Sao Paulo and tell me how surfing the web in the darkness of their huts and going to move the needle. We've passed that BS rationalization for technology haven't we?
Skype for iPhone makes stealing address books a snap
Tuesday 20th September 2011 14:40 GMT
huh?
So Apple should inform you...that an app will use your address book that has as a feature the use a common shared address book? Ok..fine...99% of users will click "Ok" to that, JUST AS THEY DO WITH ANDROID and Skype.
As for your location example, Apple does indeed warn you that an application wants to access your location data and you can install the the app but deny access to location services at the time of installation or at any time in the future as you wish.
Since there is malware on Android that's meant to "snarf" your stuff I wouldn't install those on my Android phone either.
Angry S Koreans mass-sue Apple over iPhone tracking
Apple's new Final Cut Pro X 'not actually for pros'
Wednesday 22nd June 2011 19:29 GMT
Let me understand you...
"You can't import legacy FCP 7 projects. Sure you can retain your FCP 7 install, but I would have liked to transition one of my current projects to FCP X, in order to learn it in my free time."
Seriously? You want Apple to invest months of work and months more of testing to provide for an import and the best rational you can come up with is "in order to learn it in my free time"?
Next!
Enough with the Apple App Store apathy
Monday 14th February 2011 09:42 GMT
Yet another? Seriously?
I give up even coming here for any sort of Apple news. I don't have an issue with articles that are contrary to Apple's policies and/or strategy. That's fine! What I can't stand is people that are given a voice to spew their Anti-Apple hate without knowing what the hell they're talking about! There are so many errors here and wild conclusions based on ZERO facts it's painful to read. It also twists facts, such as saying Apple "banned" the Sony app which certainly it did not! Also an implication that Apple is trying to get 30% from Sony books sales, which is the known App Store cut for apps purchased, not even Sony is saying that! We have no idea what the book sale or other hard goods contracts are, but that doesn't stop the likes of this author from making the jump.
But again what REALLY amuses me is the Anti-Apple-Anything Fanbois that take the time to troll and comment on Apple stuff when they have ZERO skin in the game! I can't imagine spending my afternoons reading and commenting on Android/Windows articles. I've got better things to do and think I'm a little more emotionally balanced than that.
Next!
Apple QuickTime backdoor creates code-execution peril
Apple ditches video evidence
Monday 2nd August 2010 19:23 GMT
Humm...not what PC Mag says!
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367211,00.asp
I think the words used for the iPhone Antenna is "Best in breed"?
Again you guys have given the other manufacturers, like Motorola that had FULL PAGE ads in the NYT saying you can hold your Droid X anyway you want with with no issues because of their unique antenna design. Obviously that's not true and you guys TOTALLY ignore it giving them a pass. You have ZERO credibility,
The Wrath of Jobs' latest victim: Motorola
Monday 26th July 2010 00:56 GMT
Please!
WOW! Have we forgotten the comments and ads that quickly came out from other phone manufactures, as well as Verizon, at the start of this that claimed you could "hold their phones any way you wanted to"?
Have we forgotten that, Motorola ran a full page ad in the New York TImes to show the Droid X where it said:
"And most importantly, it comes with a double antenna design. The kind that allows you to hold the phone any way you like…"
My question is why are you all giving HTC, Samsung, RIM and Motorola a FREE PASS when it comes to not only their own antenna issues but for their non-denial denials! Not a single vendor has denied what Apple has shown. NOT A ONE! They all talk around it and cry shame on Apple for bringing them into Apple's issue. When they're really saying how dare you tell people of our issues after we publicly in ads touted how you could hold our phones ANY WAY you wanted to. I guess that's been shown now not to be the case (no pun intended). Yet some of you in the press seem totally unwilling to take them to task for, first lying, and then making statements that are positioned as denials when they really are anything but!
At least Forbes has the backbone and journalistic hutzpah to call them on it!
Steve Jobs Sparks Non-Denial Denials
http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/19/rim-blackberry-samsung-technology-apple.html
Phonemakers cry foul on Steve Jobs 'We're all alike' attack
Monday 19th July 2010 20:01 GMT
LOL
Not a single one denied anything! And in the case of Samsung they just used the same "we're not getting many reports of this issue" that Apple has been taken to task for. It's amazing the "free pass" these companies are being given here! Apple showed them loosing their signal when held a specific way...yet none have disputed that fact instead they talk around it. Shame!
Experts fret over iPad security risks
Saturday 30th January 2010 00:29 GMT
huh?
The only thing worse than the usual anti-Apple anything cabal is the ones that do't understand the features and capabilities of the iPhone let alone an unreleased product. if these "experts" can't even get the fact that the iPhone CAN open PDF files by default correct, I'd have to say all their assumptions are more than suspect, their junk! Carry on!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
