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Comment Re:huh? (Score 1) 269

The audio part is inexplicable. I can see the concern for whether a valet takes the car for a joy-ride, or whether they did actually polish the cup holder. But what he/she talks about is entirely irrelevant to the job. It can only be peeping tom levels of nosiness for the owner to even have any curiosity about it.

What I want is a camera that starts recording the exterior if your car gets bumped in a parking lot and the alarm is set.

Already exists. Though you'd need a few angles to cover all the places you might get bumped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Just don't update it that way. (Score 1) 203

Well if we also have examples of the 5S being bent, and yet it hasn't proven to be a significant problem over the year, there is no reason to assume this one is.

ANY phone will either bent or break. It simply depends on how much stress you put on it.

The 5C is only a year old, not 2. And there's a financial compensation for that year - a significant price reduction. It's now free with a contract.

Comment Re:Just don't update it that way. (Score 1) 203

-If an Android manufacturer has this issue with a model of their phone then users can just choose a different Android manufacturer or model.

It appears to only have happened to iPhone 6 Plus phones. So there's still the choice of iPhone 6, 5S and 5C if you want to avoid the problem. The 6 Plus was probably not the best choice for anyone who keeps their phone in their jeans pocket. Better for cargo pants or a a purse.

Comment Re:Does it matter? (Score 0) 139

Your name is one of the elements where they track you across the internet, building an ever bigger picture. For sure your real name doesn't identify you, but put it together with a few more attributes, and it becomes pretty good as a unique ID. Classic big data technique.

THIS is why Google wanted your real name. It had nothing to do with cyber bullying.

Comment Re:Just don't update it that way. (Score 3, Informative) 203

Samsung phones don't get the same news coverage that Apple phones do. A new iPhone and any surrounding issues make it onto mainstream news sites and chat shows.

All large, thin phones bend. A plastic one is more likely to bend back than an aluminium one. But it depends also on the internals and how flexible or brittle they are.

Comment Re:Just don't update it that way. (Score 3, Informative) 203

P.S. My keys are metal. They don't bend.

Some people have bent their iPhones, some people have bent their keys. Looking at the video of someone bending an iPhone 6 Plus deliberately in their hands, the pressure needed is about the same as it would take to bend a key.

I'd actually say there are very few people who've never bent a key. It doesn't happen often but it does happen. And it's a precursor to the key snapping in the lock, which plenty of people have also experienced.

You can make excuses all you like - other models and manufacturers DO NOT have this problem, to anywhere near the same extent.

You don't know what the extent is. You just have a small number of examples, and this being Apple anything that happens is news. Other phones do bend, and if they don't bend, they break.

http://www.cultofmac.com/29740...

Comment Other hackable things (Score 4, Insightful) 70

The summary mentions locks and keys as also being hackable. Also combination locks, face recognition, mag stripes, signatures, DRM, many forms of encryption, passwords, captchas, PINs, ATMs Online banking, credit cards. In fact there is precious little security that isn't hackable.

Of course this isn't going to stop people here ragging on TouchID.

Comment Re:If you're not smart enough to realize this is B (Score -1) 240

If you watched the video on your own link, you'd know that the person did it with an already broken phone, and did it in the knowledge that he may well break the microwave as well. This was not someone who fell for the prank. There is no sign of anyone that really fell for it.

The gullible people are the ones who believe the story that people fell for it.

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