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Tim Cook is the latest tech CEO to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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I used to like him. I worked for the company when he took over. On the first day in the driver's seat, he sent an email to all employees stating that the policy on company-matched donations to charities was being expanded. I can't remember the details, but it was something about adding charities that SJ considered too political or something (SJ liked to keep the brand away from controversy, which is why you've never been able to get a porn app in the App Store).

I thought it was a classy way of signaling to everyone, "I'm in charge now." I really had a lot of respect for Tim Apple as a result.

The way he's fucked things around for third party developers with the App Store tax and locking down what developers can build has been so tone-deaf in the last however many years that Apple released a breakthrough hardware device (Vision Pro) and it's basically useless because no one wants to build for it. I know that he's sucking up to ensure that the admin favors his company's needs wrt manufacturing in China, but it's still a feckless move. Fuck Tim Apple. He's part of the problem now. Not like Ol' Lonnie or Zuck, but still a problem.

I remember when I liked him better when I liked him better.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Let me guess, discussing the implementation of this? But this time instead of concerts, its at peaceful protests...

(Its an apple patent that allows iPhone cameras to be remotely disabled upon detection of a signal)

[–] NotMyOldRedditName 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Couldn't you just put a filter on for that spectrum and it would never trigger the sensor?

Still terrible and should never happen, but it seems like it'd be easy to bypass and would be ripe with 3rd party vendors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If they are actually doing this, it wouldn't be with IR lights, it'd be a radio signal. And they would also make the "airplane mode" be not really turn off the radio, but it would still be listening for signals passively, but emitting no signals (so you can't detect that fact its listening passively). Then cops can turn on a radio broadcast to nearby phones with a "Disable Camera and Microphone functions" message. Any phone that pick it up will disable those functions.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Ah that does make more sense.

Time to make a Faraday cage bag that can expose the camera without exposing the radio. If that's even possible. A cage with a big hole seems... not a cage lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Or just... buy a camera?

Cameras have no radios, as far as I know. (Just watch, they are gonna start making "Smart Cameras" with phoning home to a NSA server)