Apple could easily afford to buy the company and I'll bet that the owner would be happy with a few million dollars.
Masimo is a publicly traded company with a market cap of around $10 billion. Why would they ever sell for just a few million dollars?
TFA tells you exactly what action to take:
Google said that patches will vary depending on the manufacturer, but noted that its Pixel devices are already patched with its March security updates.
Until affected manufacturers push software updates to their customers, Google said users who wish to protect themselves can switch off Wi-Fi calling and Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) in their device settings, which will “remove the exploitation risk of these vulnerabilities.”
I get that there is one coinbase wallet that holds all the funds. I don't get how its that much different from something like an etrade, or any custodial account. are all these things subject to the same whims?
Brokerage accounts (like etrade) are insured by the SIPC. The SIPC insures any cash you have in your brokerage account up to $250,000 (like the FDIC does for bank accounts). The SIPC also insures any securities your brokerage is holding for you up to $500,000.
Coinbase also has SIPC insurance. That would protect any "real currency" (USD, Euros, etc) they are holding for you, but it doesn't protect crypto-currency they are holding for you.
Microsoft would reject rival xCloud equivalent software on XBOX. They require each software publisher to pay heavy amount for it to run on XBOX. That is why you don't see free games on XBOX. Only expensive paid content.
Umm... there *are* free games on XBox:
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/gam...
Putting your app on iOS is far less restrictive than putting on XBOX. iOS/iPhone are Apple proprietary in the same manner as XBOX is MS proprietary. You can't keep your system closed from everyone and ask others to open theirs. You are always welcome to create xCloud as a MacOS app.
Game console != smartphone/tablets
Flagships are $999+ nowadays, not $699.
It's because they're charging flagship prices but only offering high-end mid range features, and nothing that differentiates them from other flagships.
They've corrected that with the Pixel 5... upper-mid-range specs and upper-mid-range price.
Now, realistically, did they actually expect to compete with Samsung and Apple? Probably not, and I certainly don't fault them for not reaching those sorts of sales figures, but they were certainly shooting for something quite a bit better than where they are now. I suspect that they were hoping to carve out a niche in between the low and high ends, but they haven't managed to find the sweet spot yet. Let's see if they pivot and come up with something better.
No doubt Google would like higher sales. My point was that these pundits seem to think anything short of Samsung-like sales is a failure when that is not Google's goal.
On paper Google should fit the bill, but the company has consistently failed to live up to expectations.
Whose expectations are they referring to? Google seems content with the modest sales the Pixel line generates each year. They would do things much differently is they expected to compete with Samsung and Apple. Only pundits and faceless analysts seem to have higher expectations for the Pixels.
Once the Apple ecosystem defenses are breached, there probably won't be any end to it. You'll just have another version of windows. Every niche has 1800 programs that do the same thing, with 3 of them being good. So many people doing so many different things that they can't drop ANY OS feature because of legacy load. Optimization impossible. Security has to be weak because so many different programs do so many different things that any tightening up breaks things and people get all mad and litigious.
You're being overly dramatic here. Allowing alternative messaging apps isn't "breaching any defenses", nor would it make it any more difficult to drop any OS feature in the future.
If Epic gets their way, Apple will eventually lose a great deal ability to police the app store. Denied your way with the app store? Just sue..... the courts will get you in.
Not really what we're discussing here. The debate over the 30% "Apple tax" is a whole other thing. Beyond the payments part, Fortnite isn't malware so shouldn't be blocked from the App Store once the payments issue is resolved. Stadia and xCloud shouldn't be blocked either.
And... regarding Android... no matter what they say, your data is up for sale. Laws are enforceable. But when a company quietly violates their stated policies, the consequence is "whoopsie, caught us tee tee". Policies are malleable, mutable and ignorable. Apple is the only one holding the line on user privacy.
The ability to change one's default SMS app in Android has nothing to do with Google's questionable privacy policies. And if Google's privacy policies are a concern to you, it's a very good thing that people aren't forced to use their messaging apps on Android.
Sorry, no. no. and no again. I want iOS and macOS to remain tightly controlled by a single company. If you want to have the choice of 25 different messaging apps, there's an Android with your name on it. Please, don't force your philosophy on Apple just because you hate that there's a different model out there.
Nobody is forcing anything on Apple here. If Apple wants to continue their restrictive policies, that's fine, they are just missing out on a lot of potential customers who require more choice, and the same time limiting innovation by 3rd party developers on their platform.
Note that changing the default e-mail client or default web browser doesn't affect other users the least, it is only you who see the change, changing the Messaging app would.
No, it wouldn't. I use Pulse SMS as my default on my Android phone... nobody knows or cares that I use that instead of Android Messages or something else, they just see standard SMS/MMS messages, same as they would see if I used Android Messages. If I made Facebook Messager my default, then SMS/MMS would go through that, but again, others would just see SMS/MMS messages.
In other words, we should let the barbarians into the walled garden because they promise that they'll only take their steaming dumps in the northwest corner, while I'm welcome to stay in cleaner we-totally-pinky-promise-we-won't invade southeast corner.
Apple already rejects malicious apps from the App Store. Allowing you to set a different default messaging app doesn't change that. Nor does allowing a different default messaging app allow the app to do anything more than what is already allowed plus being the default messaging app.
Yeah. Sorry. I'm not naive enough to buy it. I've been around the block once or twice. Apple needs to hold the line here and now, or they'll wind up as just another version of windows and android. At that point, I'll just go Samsung and my current iMac will be my last. It wouldn't be the end of the world but I'm happy with my systems as they are.
So don't change *your* default messaging app. Other people might want to *theirs*.
If an app makes itself a 'default app' (whatever that means) when I install it then it made an administrative change. Do you think that Facebook really wants your permission to make these kinds of changes?
The app itself cannot change the default messaging app... only the user can.
the ability for ANYONE to put ANYTHING on my system at will, and the ability for ANYONE to reach in and extract ANY DATA from my systems,
How does allowing you, the user, to change your default messaging app allow "anyone to put anything on your system at will" or "anyone to reach in and extract any data from your system"?
In other words, I'm in your ecosystem because I consciously want a controlled environment.
Facebook wants the ability to harvest my data at will and pump my phone full of adds. You prevent these things and it makes them unhappy.
So don't change the default messaging app. Don't use Facebook at all. Allowing you to change the default messaging app doesn't give Facebook, or anybody else, any additional power over you or your device.
As a consumer, if I'm buying Apple, I want Apple messaging to be default
You want iMessage to be the default, so nobody else should be allowed to set a different default?
I'll change it to what ever I'd like after - if I feel inclined to do so.
Wait, what? So you do want to be able to change the default?
Who said anything about changing administrative settings?
It is your destiny. - Darth Vader
