Why would it be a GPL violation? LibreOffice isn't distributed under the GPL.

Not to mention the fact that the iOS app store has been compatible with the GPL (V2 and earlier) for some time now, after complaints about this very issue - Apple changed the terms in response some time ago.

Plus, the App Store on OS X is not like the iOS one - it downloads a bundle that you can run that can contain anything you like, including the full source code if you really want.

Which you have always been able to do on OS X and still are able to do.

What this does is open up LibreOffice to a whole new demographic who wouldn't have done that before.

I'm not seeing a downside here, other than "apple bad, lolz". More exposure for large open source projects is a good thing, surely.

You've been lucky. This isn't even an "apple sucks" thing.

Cheap chargers that connect to mains voltage are a serious issue, and it's not limited to knockoff iDevice power supplies.

Poor PCB design, cheap construction methods and no quality control create a fire and electrocution hazard.

That's exactly what it's doing, according to Ars.

It's a serious hole. The update check mechanism can be fooled. It doesn't require that a genuine update is available, just that something that claims it is the server says there is.

It polls the server, the spoof replies and sends a fake hash and the payload and the phone executes it with elevated privileges.

No, it can happen if there's no keyboard update available.

The system periodically polls the server to check for an update, so it can happen as frequently as that check occurs. They don't say how often that is, but that if the keyboard is installed (i.e., if you have a non-rooted Samsung phone) even if you're using a different keyboard, you're vulnerable on an unsecured network to a MITM attack with arbitrary privileged code execution.

I would say it's a very serious problem, albeit one that can only occur when the phone does a periodic update check. It doesn't require that an actual update be available to work.

No, it verifies the hash on the file, but you can trick it by sending a fake hash too.

It's $10 per month, so unless there are 18 months in a year where you are, it's not quite $180, but to answer the question - yes, there are a lot of people who will pay to remove the adverts.

There will still be a free tier on Apple music - the radio station thing they have - but the (self directed/semi-curated) streaming service will be paid. They've clearly looked at it and decided that the free streaming market is already well supplied - Pandora and Spotify in the US, for example, and want to go after the customers who are willing to pay to be ad free.

It's not about having a "short attention span", it's about perceived value. It's clearly worth it to many since both Pandora and Spotify have paid tiers, although clearly they have a lot more free users than paid ones.

The file dialog needs some love, or a setting that says "do not poll all disks" - I have an SSD as the boot drive, but I do have connected external and internal storage on spinning drives that is accessed infrequently.

It's a pain in the ass when you open a file dialog box and the system pauses to wait for all the drives to spin up. I would prefer it to only spin the drive up if I click on a folder or volume that is on that drive.

Where are the free legal equivalents that don't have adverts?

Intel didn't have any quad CPUs that would fit at the time of the update, so they were all dual core.

Assuming it gets updated again (it's been a while) then the CPU selection will be down to whatever Intel has shipping at that time.

This is the same issue that has affected the 15" MBP refresh - the CPU was not updated since there were no quad broadwell CPUs with a suitable TDP, while the 13" was updated with the dual core broadwell chips that were available earlier this year.

Dear AC.

Ask Intel.

Regards,

Tim

That's the point.

It's like Pizza Express, whose first advert was "word of mouth since 1936" or something.

Spotify haven't used traditional advertising because it's expensive and they are already getting a lot of exposure as it is.

Cool story bro.

Sure you can buy music for dirt cheap - you'll still be able to after this launches.

It's almost as if different people have different needs when it comes to products and services. I'm sure there's some sense in there somewhere. Could it be that people are different from each other? Help me out here. This isn't making sense.

No, but facts are a very pesky issue for Apple bashing so they're frequently ignored in favour of baseless speculation and fabrication.