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Most Advanced Surveillance System Deployed

snowmtnw — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 06:01:14 +0800

Most Advanced Surveillance System Deployed

You Are Not Aware

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Apple Curry Favour

snowmtnw — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 03:19:07 +0800

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Don’t forget, Apple is all about Privacy

In-depth report details Apple’s shift to Chinese suppliers to ‘cut costs and curry favor with Beijing’

While Apple has long been linked to Foxconn as its primary partner for product assembly, a new report from The Information goes in-depth on Apple’s newfound relationship with Chinese electronics manufacturers. The report explains that Apple has increased its reliance on Chinese partners, both as a way of cutting costs as well as to “curry favor with Beijing.”

Today’s report from The Information comes on the heels of a separate report from the publication earlier this month in which it described a so-called secret deal between Apple CEO Tim Cook and Chinese government officials. Through this deal, Apple reportedly committed to investing more than $275 billion in China over five years.

The report details that Foxconn, which is headquartered in Taiwan, is on the verge of being unseated as Apple’s top supplier by Luxshare, which is headquartered in China:

Luxshare has the potential to unseat Foxconn as Apple’s top supplier. The Chinese company already exceeds Foxconn’s main publicly listed unit in terms of market capitalization, though Foxconn generated roughly $105 billion from Apple in 2020—more than 10 times Luxshare’s haul. But in terms of valuation, Luxshare has also eclipsed major Apple contractors such as Quanta Computer, Pegatron and Wistron, all of which are headquartered in Taiwan. Foxconn has become increasingly concerned about Luxshare’s meteoric rise, including its significantly higher net profit margin, going so far as to form a task force to study the company, Reuters previously reported. (Foxconn denied the report.)

The report explains that Apple’s move to shift more of its business to Chinese companies is part of Tim Cook fulfilling his $275 billion pledge to the Chinese government:

In shifting more business to Chinese companies, Cook, the architect of Apple’s supply chain in China, is fulfilling his pledge to Beijing to expand its domestic tech industry, which will help the country reduce its reliance on companies based outside the mainland, including Taiwan—a country China considers a renegade region. A year after Cook signed the economic agreement with China, Luxshare became the first Chinese company to secure a final assembly contract for a major Apple product, the AirPods, ending the dominance of Taiwanese firms.

Apple’s moves also might win over more Chinese consumers, which at times have shunned Apple in favor of local brands like Huawei based on nationalism. Apple generates nearly 20% of its revenue from the country.

The deal between Luxshare and Apple to have Luxshare manufacture AirPods for the company was viewed as a “turning point.”

A turning point for Luxshare came in 2017, when Apple helped the company manufacture AirPods. Apple originally relied on a single source, Taiwan-based Inventec, to produce the iconic earbuds, which were in short supply in their first year of release. Apple embedded its engineers at Luxshare to teach the company how to assemble the devices over the course of the year, according to former Apple employees.

The AirPods were Luxshare’s first major assembly contract for Apple, catapulting the company into the upper echelons of Apple suppliers that handle, pack and ship finished goods.

Camera Test : iPhone 13 Pro vs Vivo X70 Pro Plus

snowmtnw — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 03:43:22 +0800

Camera Test : iPhone 13 Pro vs Vivo X70 Pro Plus

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Which Part Of The iPhone 13 Can You Replace?

snowmtnw — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 12:00:17 +0800

Which Part Of The iPhone 13 Can You Repair Or Replace?

Green Environment And Zero Climate Impact

Device should be able to be repaired when the time comes, preventing it from becoming e-waste. But is that true?

Serialized every components and makes it impossible for repair or switch up parts if your phone gets damaged

VIDEO: iPhone 13 A Repair Nightmare - Teardown and Repair Assessment

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Hugh Jeffreys :

“ I might have spent $3400 on these two phones but I truly don’t believe they belong to me. Even something as common as a display replacement will cause other functions of the phone to stop working correctly. I am disappointed that these software locks I brought to light last year have only gotten worse. I hope to see change in the form of a software update but only time will tell “

Apple told one thing when you buy iPhone, but ...

snowmtnw — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 02:21:01 +0800

Apple told one thing when you buy iPhone, but something else when you need aftersales service.

PS11578 - Apple fine of 12 million for misleading and aggressive commercial practices

https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/30/apple-fined-12m-for-unfair-claims-about-iphone-water-resistance/

Apple fined $12M for unfair claims about iPhone water resistance

Italian regulators have fined Apple €10M ($12M) for making misleading and unfair claims about iPhone water resistance.

The Italian antitrust authority found that Apple was guilty of two things, one of them more serious than the other …

The fine was imposed by L’Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), which translates literally as the guarantee authority for competition and the market. This is the competition watchdog responsible for ensuring that companies treat both consumers and competitors fairly.

First, it says, Apple made water resistance claims without making it clear to consumers that these were true only in ideal laboratory conditions, and phones had not passed the same tests in real-life conditions.

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The first concerns the marketing of a number of different iPhone models – iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11pro and iPhone 11 pro Max – in which it was claimed that each of the advertised products was water resistant to a maximum depth varying between 4 meters and 1 meter depending on the model. for up to 30 minutes.

According to the Authority, however, the messages did not clarify that these claims were true only in the presence of specific conditions, for example during specific and controlled laboratory tests with the use of static and pure water, and not in normal use of the devices by consumers

Second, and more seriously, Apple made iPhone water resistance claims in its marketing, but then refused warranty service on phones which suffered water damage.

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Furthermore, the disclaimer “The guarantee does not cover damage caused by liquids”, given the emphatic advertising boast of water resistance , was considered likely to deceive consumers by not clarifying which type of guarantee it referred to (conventional guarantee or legal guarantee), nor was it deemed capable of adequately contextualizing the conditions and limitations of the claims of water resistance.

The Antitrust also considered it appropriate to take into account Apple’s refusal, in the post-sales phase, to honor warranties when those iPhone models were damaged by water or other liquids, thus depriving consumers of the rights they should expect from the guarantee or in the Consumer Code .

Apple fits iPhones with internal indicators which show when there has been water ingress into the device. It is Apple policy to deny warranty repair or replacement when this indicator is activated. This means buyers are told one thing when they buy the phone, but something else when they need after-sales service.

Apple has been fined ten million Euros, and additionally ordered to publish a notice on its Italian website through a ‘Consumer protection information’ link.

The potentially opens the way for similar rulings in other European Union countries, and could conceivably lead to class action lawsuits in the US and elsewhere, now that the issue has been highlighted.

SetteBIT notes that the ruling references three Apple ads. Apple tends to delete older ads from its YouTube channel, but the site archives its own copies, providing proof of the claims originally made.

Is Samsung A Hypocrite ? Follow Apple’s Lockdown?

snowmtnw — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:50:14 +0800

What Is Anti Repair Design?

Apple has introduced serialisation by pairing component parts to phones. The result is that independent repairers are not able to repair devices with spare parts – even genuine parts that have been removed from the same Apple product. This way, only Apple will be able to repair the iPhones.

iPhone 12 Anti Repair Design Video Below:

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Is Samsung A Hypocrite?
Is Samsung Following Apple’s Industry Standard To Lockdown 3rd Party Repairs?
Are Component Parts In The Samsung S20 Digitally Paired To The Logic Board?

Let's Find Out
Galaxy S20 Teardown and Repair Assessment
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THE CAMERA BLIND TEST

snowmtnw — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 02:13:31 +0800

THE BLIND CAMERA TEST

iPhone 12 Pro Max Vs Samsung Galaxy S20 FE Vs Mi 10T Pro Camera Comparison! (Not in this order)

Which is best at what?

Front video, rear video 4k30, 4k60, audio, day stills, and low light all compared side by side!

Post only A, B, or C or just the phone's name. Not both, please!

So please don't spoil it for everyone.

Will reveal which phone is the end of this video.

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BIG BROTHER: WE “VALUE” YOUR PRIVACY

snowmtnw — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 00:06:26 +0800

BIG BROTHER: WE “VALUE” YOUR PRIVACY

WILL NOW BYPASS VPNs

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YOUR COMPUTER IS NOT YOURS
https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

12 November 2020

It’s here. It happened. Did you notice?
I’m speaking, of course, of the world that Richard Stallman predicted in 1997. The one Cory Doctorow also warned us about.

On modern versions of macOS, you simply can’t power on your computer, launch a text editor or eBook reader, and write or read, without a log of your activity being transmitted and stored.

It turns out that in the current version of the macOS, the OS sends to Apple a hash (unique identifier) of each and every program you run, when you run it. Lots of people didn’t realize this, because it’s silent and invisible and it fails instantly and gracefully when you’re offline, but today the server got really slow and it didn’t hit the fail-fast code path, and everyone’s apps failed to open if they were connected to the internet.

Because it does this using the internet, the server sees your IP, of course, and knows what time the request came in. An IP address allows for coarse, city-level and ISP-level geolocation, and allows for a table that has the following headings:

Date, Time, Computer, ISP, City, State, Application Hash

Apple (or anyone else) can, of course, calculate these hashes for common programs: everything in the App Store, the Creative Cloud, Tor Browser, cracking or reverse engineering tools, whatever.
This means that Apple knows when you’re at home. When you’re at work. What apps you open there, and how often. They know when you open Premiere over at a friend’s house on their Wi-Fi, and they know when you open Tor Browser in a hotel on a trip to another city.

“Who cares?” I hear you asking.

Well, it’s not just Apple. This information doesn’t stay with them:

1. These OCSP requests are transmitted unencrypted . Everyone who can see the network can see these, including your ISP and anyone who has tapped thier cables.

2. These requests go to a third-party CDN run by another company, Akamai.

3. Since October of 2012, Apple is a partner in the US military intelligence community's PRISM spying program , which grants the US federal police and military unfettered access to this data without a warrant, any time they ask for it. In the first half of 2019 they did this over 18,000 times, and another 17,500+ times in the second half of 2019.

This data amounts to a tremendous trove of data about your life and habits, and allows someone possessing all of it to identify your movement and activity patterns. For some people, this can even pose a physical danger to them.

Now, it’s been possible up until today to block this sort of stuff on your Mac using a program called Little Snitch (really, the only thing keeping me using macOS at this point). In the default configuration, it blanket allows all of this computer-to-Apple communication, but you can disable those default rules and go on to approve or deny each of these connections, and your computer will continue to work fine without snitching on you to Apple.

The version of macOS that was released today, 11.0, also known as Big Sur, has new APIs that prevent Little Snitch from working the same way. The new APIs don’t permit Little Snitch to inspect or block any OS level processes. Additionally, new rules in macOS 11 even hobble VPNs so that Apple apps will simply bypass them.

@patrickwardle lets us knowthat trustd , the daemon responsible for these requests, is in the new ContentFilterExclusionList in macOS 11, which means it can’t be blocked by any user-controlled firewall or VPN. In his screenshot, it also shows that CommCenter (used for making phone calls from your Mac) and Maps will also leak past your firewall/VPN, potentially compromising your voice traffic and future/planned location information.

Those shiny new Apple Silicon macs that Apple just announced, three times faster and 50% more battery life? They won’t run any OS before Big Sur.

These machines are the first general purpose computers ever where you have to make an exclusive choice: you can have a fast and efficient machine, or you can have a private one. (Apple mobile devices have already been this way for several years.) Short of using an external network filtering device like a travel/vpn router that you can totally control, there will be no way to boot any OS on the new Apple Silicon macs that won’t phone home, and you can’t modify the OS to prevent this (or they won’t boot at all, due to hardware-based cryptographic protections).

Your computer now serves a remote master, who has decided that they are entitled to spy on you. If you’ve the most efficient high-res laptop in the world, you can’t turn this off.

Let’s not think very much right now about the additional fact that Apple can, via these online certificate checks, prevent you from launching any app they (or their government) demands be censored.

Dear Frog, This Water Is Now Boiling

The day that Stallman and Doctorow have been warning us about has arrived this week. It’s been a slow and gradual process, but we are finally here. You will receive no further alerts.

21 Jan 2020: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained

In other News

In other news, Apple has quietly backdoored the end-to-end cryptography of iMessage. Presently, modern iOS will prompt you for your Apple ID during setup, and will automatically enable iCloud and iCloud Backup.

iCloud Backup is not end to end encrypted: it encrypts your device backup to Apple keys. Every device with iCloud Backup enabled (it’s on by default) backs up the complete iMessage history to Apple, along with the device’s iMessage secret keys, each night when plugged in. Apple can decrypt and read this information without ever touching the device. Even if you have iCloud and/or iCloud Backup disabled: it’s likely that whoever you’re iMessaging with does not, and that your conversation is being uploaded to Apple (and, via PRISM, freely available to the US military intelligence community, FBI, et al—with no warrant or probable cause).

BIG BROTHER: WE “VALUE” YOUR PRIVACY

snowmtnw — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 00:01:42 +0800

iPhone 12 Pro Too Hot To Handle…

snowmtnw — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:49:29 +0800

EXYNOS BESTIE : A14 EXYNOS

#ThrottleGate

iPhone 12 Pro Vs Mi 10T Pro Vs Vs Poco F2 Pro Vs Mi 10 Ultra thermal throttling 20-minute test using now 3DMark Wildlife as many wanted to see this more "FAIR" test according to some.

The end result is the same as the first two videos.

The final result is some demanding games on my iPhone 12 Pro really lag and stutter at times which is completely unacceptable due to its price.

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For people who don’t like the results, you’ll never be able to do a “FAIR” test. They’ll always cry foul.

It shouldn't throttle anywhere near as this much or get this hot. The heat will also degrade the battery much quicker and maybe some other components

Apple Has One Of The Largest...

snowmtnw — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 16:19:31 +0800

Apple has one of the largest cash piles among U.S. companies

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Apple regularly has one of the largest cash piles among U.S. companies

RETEST: Apple Exynos A14

snowmtnw — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:35:46 +0800

21.9% Thermal Throttling Madness

EXYNOS HAS SERIOUS COMPETITOR

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iPhone 12 Pro (A14 Bionic) ~ Throttling 21.9% in performance

Mi 10 Ultra (SD865) ~ Throttling of 4.27% in performance

Retest as many claimed it was not fair to use the larger Fold2 Vs iPhone 12 Pro and they did not have both at 100% battery.

This time around used the same form factor, the same tests before and after, thermals, and also timed for 1 hour.

This throttling on the iPhone 12 Pro and can also see it on other demanding games like Shadowgun legends and The Elderscrolls Blades.

Clearly the GPU throttles so much it causes noticeable lag on my iPhone 12 Pro. None happened on SD865 phones

Nobody else seems to want to talk about this clear issue with GPU throttling, poor thermals, and performance after sometimes only a few minutes of gaming!

Apple Exynos A14

snowmtnw — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 03:06:59 +0800

16.9% Thermal Throttling Goodness

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* VIRAL: iPhone 12 Anti Repair Design *

snowmtnw — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 21:32:34 +0800

Environment…HAHAHA

Apple says they are aiming for zero climate impact by 2030.

Device should be able to be repaired when the time comes to, preventing it from becoming e-waste. But is that true?

Makes it impossible for you to repair or switch up parts of your phone if it gets damaged

iPhone 12 Anti Repair Design - Teardown and Repair Assessment

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" You purchased the right to use it, but never really own it "

* VIRAL: iPhone 12 Anti Repair Design *

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DON'T Buy The New iPhone SE

snowmtnw — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:33:12 +0800

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Lowyat.NET: Latest topics by snowmtnw

Most Advanced Surveillance System Deployed

Apple Curry Favour

Camera Test : iPhone 13 Pro vs Vivo X70 Pro Plus

Which Part Of The iPhone 13 Can You Replace?

Apple told one thing when you buy iPhone, but ...

Is Samsung A Hypocrite ? Follow Apple’s Lockdown?

THE CAMERA BLIND TEST

BIG BROTHER: WE “VALUE” YOUR PRIVACY

BIG BROTHER: WE “VALUE” YOUR PRIVACY

iPhone 12 Pro Too Hot To Handle…

Apple Has One Of The Largest...

RETEST: Apple Exynos A14

Apple Exynos A14

*** VIRAL: iPhone 12 Anti Repair Design ***

*** VIRAL: iPhone 12 Anti Repair Design ***

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DON'T Buy The New iPhone SE

* VIRAL: iPhone 12 Anti Repair Design *

* VIRAL: iPhone 12 Anti Repair Design *