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Apple Suing Samsung Over Galaxy Products
Pharismo:
kind offtopic:
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/americas/2011/04/2011421201655639384.html
is this true?
AceHigh:
Technically having any cell phone turned on allows the phone companies to for example locate your position (vaguely). The question is if anyone bothers to spy, that shit would take a lot of bandwidth, I guess.
Freedom Kira:
Eh, since smartphones have built-in GPS systems, I don't see why not, especially the iPhone.
But that's exactly the thing, would anyone bother to spy? It's not exactly bandwidth-extensive, but it's a huge waste of time. Learn to discern between convenience and malice - features are far more often added for the former than the latter, and this is no exception.
bloody000:
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--- Quote from: Micharus on April 20, 2011, 05:59:28 PM ---I've seen the interface that the original 'Apple Mac' used and the Windoze GUI is *so* similar it's not funny.
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Speaking of original, reminds me of en epic failure that OS classic was. The shit was so hopeless that Apple realized that unlike Microsoft they had no skills in making their own OS, so they resorted to Linux. ;D
GUI and icons... pretty much the maximum extent of Apple's capabilities when it comes to making an OS ::)
Back on topic: Asians have always copied the shit that is first made in the west, where all groundbreaking innovation and inventions are made. So nothing new here.
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BSD is not Linux. And no, using the same kernel and core utilities does not mean they're the same. OS X is, however, POSIX-compliant.
bloody000:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on April 22, 2011, 07:05:10 AM ---Eh, since smartphones have built-in GPS systems, I don't see why not, especially the iPhone.
But that's exactly the thing, would anyone bother to spy? It's not exactly bandwidth-extensive, but it's a huge waste of time. Learn to discern between convenience and malice - features are far more often added for the former than the latter, and this is no exception.
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It's not GPS in this specific news, it's the location of cell towers. And actually it's not even new, it's been known since iPhone 4 launch and someone even wrote a book about it.
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