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Comment Re:The protocol doesn't give the government any in (Score 2) 110

I'm not sure about the Google side, but Apple has been explicit in stating that they will not alllow apps on the App Store that do this. They have to use the API only as intended, and are auditing the code to insure that they're doing so.

And nobody is pushing the apps on the phones. You'll still have to download it and enable it yourself.

Comment Re:Wow.. That sounds super reasonable. (Score 1) 335

The storage is absolutely user-upgradeable. Apple even demoed a RAID array that can be added internally as a PCI component, and with four TB3 ports, external storage is a no-brainer as well. The on-board SSD can be as big as 4TB, but you're most likely just going to put the OS on it, so it doesn't really need to be that big. Besides, starting with Catalina, the OS is automatically installed onto a separate partition from the user data and is made read-only. Just because the T2 chip encrypts data doesn't preclude you from using whatever storage you want to throw at it.

Comment Re:Agreed, story is ridiculous. $2,000 Olive Garde (Score 4, Insightful) 335

I can assure you that there are plenty of professionals out there who know that time is money and this machine is going to save them time. 1.5 TB of RAM, 28 cores and four Vega II video cards will enable them to do their job faster, and recoup the $50,000 in a reasonable amount of time. Ergo, they'll sell plenty of them to people whose workflow can take advantage of horsepower like this.

Comment Re:Still using TextWrangler (Score 2) 22

I had the old App Store version, and when this happened, the people at BareBones only asked me to send a copy of my receipt (which I could still download from the App Store) and they sent me a license for the stand-alone version, no muss, no fuss. I also recall that this process was clearly spelled out right on the front page of their website.

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