Several news outlets -- most prominently MSNBC (as of Oct 12 at 10pmEST) -- are reporting that Jamal Khashoggi may have used his Apple Watch in conjunction with an app like Just Press Record in order to capture audio of his own interrogation then have it be uploaded to the cloud. (It has been alleged that Khashoggi was then murdered.)
Turkey's Sabah newspaper first reported the story saying the audio was recorded on the watch but then discovered on Khashoggi's iphone -- that his finance was holding outside the walls of the embassy.
It has been noted that the LTE feature in Apple Watch 4 is not supported by any carriers in Turkey.
AppleInsider has the most uptodate coverage I could find in print:
The more I read, the more the evidence is mounting that the long term road-map for OS X is convergence with iOS. Not next week, not next year, but it's coming. Closed is the new open, And that's a bad thing for developers and users alike.
None of the evidence by itself is particularly startling - in many cases taking what works for the iPad and bringing it to the Mac makes good sense, but taken together, it paints a picture for where the OS and its eco-system is heading.
First the Mac App Store:
Apple’s Mac App Store Opens for Business http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/01/06macappstore.html
There has been much debate already about what this means for developers, and Apple taking control of what developers can or can't do, sets a new price bar, and gives Apple a chunk of the revenue. So long as the platform remains open, it's still possible to step around Apple, but getting market share is going to be harder. iWay or the highway?
Just a neat way to launch Apps? Maybe, but its a step to moving Finder (the desktop) to being a second class citizen. What follows that?
Full Screen Apps http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/#gallery-fullscreen
So now we don't need to return to the desktop to switch between Apps. How long before we can't return, because it's not there any more? Similarly, the Four Finger Swipe to switch between apps is coming to the Pad - it's already there in Dev mode.
Apple removes Samba from Mac OS X 10.7 Server http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/23/inside_mac_os_x_10_7_lion_server_apple_replaces_samba_for_windows_networking_services.html
So this is where it gets a bit more sinister. OS X has had Samba support since day one, but with Lion it's being replaced with something developed in house. The reason? GPLv3 and the "right to tinker". If users have the right to tinker, then there has to be a way to poke around the OS to do the tinkering. If you're planning on removing that access, first you have to remove software whose licensing requires it.
And finally:
Bertrand Serlet to Leave Apple http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/03/23serlet.html
When you consider what happened during covid-19, we had a major shutoff of resources from china and every east asian country from the USA. If we ever had/have any conflict with our MEGA Big friendly neighbors to the east, we could run into issues where major tech products are no longer able to safely use TSMC due to conflict. Isn't this kind of a huge concern? I just thought it's worth starting a conversation about. Below are just a few links to articles which talk about how integrated apple, nvidia, amd, and to some extent intel are with their CPU's & GPU's. It seems like a major supply chain bottleneck.
1 company with 4 mega silicon companies using them to manufacture their primary core chips.
The rumors have been going around the last few days. For example: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/09/10/apple_to_move_aggressively_on_facetime_camera_equipped_ipads.html
What do you think? When will see the next iPad, which will presumably have a camera in it?
Specifically, encrypted with the benefit they are not retrievable by a third-party?
Per this article [0]. a specific combo of iCloud sync’ing settings will make iMessages encrypted to any unwanted 3rd-party. Question is can this state be retroactively imposed on historic messages that didn’t have this specific state originally.
" Samsung also made an absurd argument that a sales ban of the Galaxy Nexus would harm "certain "techie" consumers who value the pure Android operating system … and who will be unable to find any close substitute within the same price point." The court summarily dismissed the claim, citing Samsung's own frequent assertion that it sells more than one smartphone." http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/07/03/court_denies_samsungs_motion_to_stay_galaxy_nexus_injunction.html
Apple's tiny, third-generation, 4GB iPod shuffle, according to iSuppli, has an equally diminutive bill of materials -- the research firm says components cost just US$21.77. With a retail price of $79, that gives the iPod shuffle a nice profit margin. Of course, the difference isn't all in the margin -- iSuppli doesn't factor in the costs of licensing fees, royalties, software, shipping, or other development and channel-related costs.
Blog chatter ranged widely over Apple's so-called profit margins and corporate coffers, as well as price drops and rises for the iPod shuffle, which have done as low as $49 before creeping back up to today's $79 -- all of which brings to mind other low-cost MP3 players.
"The original price point has always been $79. They cut the price after they had been on the market for a long time. Other MP3 players are crap, which is why they are $30," commented hillstones on the AppleInsider.com post on the subject.
So how much do other low-cost MP3 players cost to build, anyway? Has iSuppli bothered to teardown any others?
"With respect to other non-display MP3 players -- we haven't done any," Andrew Rassweiler, director and principal analyst of Teardown Services for iSuppli, told MacNewsWorld.
"We actually haven't done any other media players other than Apple products, since Apple is the main 'big' player in the space (media players). The rest of the industry is composed of countless smaller-player manufacturers, none of which, in our opinion, really were worth analyzing as an individual teardown," he explained.
"Other companies can build them as cheaply, if not cheaper, but the end products are not comparable," he added.
Turkey's Sabah newspaper first reported the story saying the audio was recorded on the watch but then discovered on Khashoggi's iphone -- that his finance was holding outside the walls of the embassy.
It has been noted that the LTE feature in Apple Watch 4 is not supported by any carriers in Turkey.
AppleInsider has the most uptodate coverage I could find in print:
https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/12/saudi-journalist-used-apple-watch-to-record-own-interrogation-and-execution-report-says