I heard from multiple sources at Apple and this is big. It's not just 1 thing is several things:
iThink an AI wrong think filter available for free on all your devices by default.
iStasi app that auto reports your intentions to the proper authorities.
iGulag for security locks you out of all devices.
iCancel included on all new iPhones, tested in the field in Chinese military helmets. A small charge allowing Apple to permanently cancel you when you put your phone up to your ear after a panel of 3 Apple employees rules against you in a secret iCourt (2 must have blue hair, and 1 must not be American).
Covid is over in February according to Chicago Mayor and California Governor Newsom and they claim science is why the schools need to open since kids did not die of this disease. Science they tell you.
Big Tech is starting to get a little shook with their globalist overlords turning on them and denouncing them.
Tim Cook is a fucking faggot. It has nothing to do with him being gay. He's a faggot.
I hated Steve Jobs, but this is NOT what he wanted for Apple. Tim has DESTROYED Steve's vision for his company. Tim knows, and doesn't give a shit. Steve Jobs would have hated Trump, but he would never have tried to have him deplatformed and he would have defended his right to free speech.
If memory serves, Steve and Don took a ride in Steve's Porsche 959 when it first came out, as it was the only one in the US at the time. They may not have liked each other politically, but they certainly wouldn't have been enemies.
I have it from several longtime former Apple employees that Steve’s talent was not in innovation, it was recognizing the innovations of others as mass marketable.
Steve hated Adobe for PostScript but he hated them more for the privacy implications of Flash - look at the Government contracts Adobe was signing around the time he barred it from iOS.
True. Apple really hard tried to decouple themselves back then with Apple Maps and a rumored search engine. It's too much tho for even a company like Apple to compete with. Even after like a decade Apple Maps is inferior in every aspect.
Devil's Advocate: The Android kernel and library set is fully open source. You can read the code yourself if you want to ensure it's not wiretapping you. There are a number of mobile phone OSes out there based off of the open Android code that are not controlled by Google, like this one.
If you don't want to use that, then you can use [Ubuntu Touch(https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/) on a number of devices, or, if you don't want to hit any of those, there are still a number of jailbreaking setups (for free or for a nominal price) that you can use on your stock Android, wherein the dev teams for those setups comb through and ensure there's no Google spying present.
If you are interested in rooting/ROMs, you are going to want a phone with an unlocked bootloader. There are carrier-locked phones with open bootloaders, and carrier-unlocked phones with locked bootloaders.
Forgive my ignorance but tell me the benefit of an unlocked bootloader. I assume it would allow one to change the programs that boot at startup? I am good with computers but not so much with phones.
Smartphones are similar to computers in the way they boot. The bootloader is kind of like the BIOS and GRUB, a locked one will restrict which operating systems can boot. There are ways to root a phone with a locked bootloader, depending on the phone, which then enables you to modify your current ROM (remove GApps, enable/disable startup services, etc). An unlocked bootloader enables you to install an entirely different ROM, such as LineageOS, which has all Google and cell carrier bloatware removed by default.
I think I'll get two for 10-20 bucks each and buy a spare battery. Stamina is really good, display clearly visible in bright sunlight, non-flashable OS, backdoor proof, no camera.
I think, and hope, it's the announcement of many people stepping down and publicly acknowledging their wrong doing with Parler. Not that it matters now because even if they opened the app store back up, Parler has no back-end services thanks to AWS.
Apple doesn't need customers any more as any failure of the company can be blamed on external factors and taxpayers will just give them money via their political prostitutes.
That would be cool if they announced that Trump tasked them with handling the election and they have digitized proof of every legal vote and that Trump won.
You can use an Android and avoid using Google's apps as much as possible. Don't use chrome browser, don't use Gmail app, don't use google messenger, find another app for navigation. Even if you stuck with some google apps, it's still better than using iphones where apple makes money on the hardware, and you're stuck using Apple's apps.
Weirdly only this week I’ve been getting notifications to clear space from my iPhone to allow auto updates to install the new ios. I never had auto-update on, never even knew it was an option that was implimented. So now I’m intentionally keeping my phone space next to capacity so it can’t install a system update without my knowledge. Paranoid? Maybe, but that’s dodgy to me.
I heard from multiple sources at Apple and this is big. It's not just 1 thing is several things:
Stock is set to go through the roof.
joke's on Tim Apple, I don't buy their bullshit overpriced chyyynah junk!
It's a COVID tracking app
Oh yes how could I forget iSick.
Covid is over in February according to Chicago Mayor and California Governor Newsom and they claim science is why the schools need to open since kids did not die of this disease. Science they tell you.
iSpeech - only 9.99$/month, otherwise you will be censored.
If you 'think different'™, price will be 19.99$/month.
... and the “arrest your FamilyPlan.”
It'll be his 'defense' for his banning of Parler.
Big Tech is starting to get a little shook with their globalist overlords turning on them and denouncing them.
Tim Cook is a fucking faggot. It has nothing to do with him being gay. He's a faggot.
I hated Steve Jobs, but this is NOT what he wanted for Apple. Tim has DESTROYED Steve's vision for his company. Tim knows, and doesn't give a shit. Steve Jobs would have hated Trump, but he would never have tried to have him deplatformed and he would have defended his right to free speech.
If memory serves, Steve and Don took a ride in Steve's Porsche 959 when it first came out, as it was the only one in the US at the time. They may not have liked each other politically, but they certainly wouldn't have been enemies.
Limbaugh is a big fan of apple products, I hope he denounces them and tell his audience avoid purchasing their products and services.
As much as i hate to say it, the typical conservative tends not to be very tech savvy.
Worst part about it, Rush is also his family's go to for IT issues....
Apple hasnt innovated a damn thing since Steve left. Just made 75 dollar dongles.
Isn't "dongle" considered misogynist hate speech now? I don't think you're allowed to use that word anymore
It’s now referred to as a connector thingy
Still sounds gendered. Thingy
They're called front holes now
The thing, man! The thing!
Exactly. Steve was a fucking prick but you can’t deny his genius when it comes to innovation and tech.
I have it from several longtime former Apple employees that Steve’s talent was not in innovation, it was recognizing the innovations of others as mass marketable.
Fair enough
That you have to replace twice a year.
Not sure if Steve Jobs would have hated him tbh.
Job's political views and temperament are similar to his former buddy Larry Ellison who supported Trump.
Steve hated Adobe for PostScript but he hated them more for the privacy implications of Flash - look at the Government contracts Adobe was signing around the time he barred it from iOS.
Steve Jobs also hated Google with a passion
True. Apple really hard tried to decouple themselves back then with Apple Maps and a rumored search engine. It's too much tho for even a company like Apple to compete with. Even after like a decade Apple Maps is inferior in every aspect.
I finally deleted google maps and made the switch. I like it with CarPlay. The ETA only option is nice and convenient for me.
Google kept switching to Bike mode... because it thought I was some leftest who couldn’t afford a car.
I tried and got lost using Apple Maps. Have a friend who is insistent on using it for privacy reasons and he always gets the wrong address lol
That was my experience early on. Since I’ve switched, I’ve only use it for places I’ve been to before but needed etas on. (4 hour drives etc)
Bigger announcement for Mr. Tim:
Never will I or my family buy Apple again.
Give my respects to the Congolese children that mine cobalt for you.
Thanks and good night.
Tim Apple will announce that he's decided to live the rest of his life as a gay black woman.
How will Jussie Smollett even compete?
So its not a new Chinese sweat shop, overly priced phone some leftie will buy to tweet about the evils of Capitalism..
99% of people with smartphones use Google or Apple.
They both suck, but at least with Android you can totally remove GApps with some technical knowhow.
With Apple you're fuuuuucked.
Devil's Advocate: The Android kernel and library set is fully open source. You can read the code yourself if you want to ensure it's not wiretapping you. There are a number of mobile phone OSes out there based off of the open Android code that are not controlled by Google, like this one.
If you don't want to use that, then you can use [Ubuntu Touch(https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/) on a number of devices, or, if you don't want to hit any of those, there are still a number of jailbreaking setups (for free or for a nominal price) that you can use on your stock Android, wherein the dev teams for those setups comb through and ensure there's no Google spying present.
Or, we can wait for Gab to come out with a phone.
How far do we think we are from a GAB phone?
Unfortunately there's too much in the phone that's closed. The cell part actually runs it's own OS, God knows what crap is running in there.
You know Safari is Apple right?
Shhhhh, they're trying to sound like they know what they're talking about. That little tidbit kinda gave them away.
whatever the announcement is, prepare to watch their stock go down 🤞
I turned off all updates 3 days ago. I am switching to Motorola.
FYI, Motorola smartphones do run Android (I own one, though I jailbroke it, mostly for giggles.)
I was on their website today and there is one you can buy from them unlocked.
Yep - I only buy unlocked; saves being tied to a stupid contract, and nobody can complain if I dork around with it at the system/OS level.
Spez: "unlocked" does not mean jailbroken, BTW. Not sure if you know that.
If you are interested in rooting/ROMs, you are going to want a phone with an unlocked bootloader. There are carrier-locked phones with open bootloaders, and carrier-unlocked phones with locked bootloaders.
Forgive my ignorance but tell me the benefit of an unlocked bootloader. I assume it would allow one to change the programs that boot at startup? I am good with computers but not so much with phones.
Smartphones are similar to computers in the way they boot. The bootloader is kind of like the BIOS and GRUB, a locked one will restrict which operating systems can boot. There are ways to root a phone with a locked bootloader, depending on the phone, which then enables you to modify your current ROM (remove GApps, enable/disable startup services, etc). An unlocked bootloader enables you to install an entirely different ROM, such as LineageOS, which has all Google and cell carrier bloatware removed by default.
Very nice. Thanks for the info.
Motorola is owned by Lenovo. Lenovo is a PRC company.
Reminds me to at last get this bad boy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6mKU7zQUQI
I think I'll get two for 10-20 bucks each and buy a spare battery. Stamina is really good, display clearly visible in bright sunlight, non-flashable OS, backdoor proof, no camera.
This is probably it : https://www.sfgate.com/culture/editorspicks/article/Apple-announcement-hbcu-racial-equality-detroit-15867680.php
$100 says they are firing all White employees, or something equivalent.
The apple is poisoned
Never let a fag run your business.
I think, and hope, it's the announcement of many people stepping down and publicly acknowledging their wrong doing with Parler. Not that it matters now because even if they opened the app store back up, Parler has no back-end services thanks to AWS.
I seriously doubt that. SJWs always double down.
Big announcement is "Apple is coming out gay for CCP"
Probably be announcing the entire board of directors at Apple will be replaced with 100% LGBTQ-P.
Tim Cook announcing he is transitioning maybe
They have an update coming. Can’t update if you’re battery isn’t charged enough!!
Nothing crazy here https://www.macworld.com/article/3603133/apple-to-launch-a-new-education-and-innovation-hub-in-pledge-to-fight-racial-inequity.html
We're moving back to China!
Cheap Uyghur child slave labor!
Fuck you MAGA!
Tim Cook will announce that he’s a huge faggot
Maybe he's stepping down as ceo cause he got exposed somehow? Can only smoke so much hopium.
I'm sure he'll talk about major iPhone updates coming soon?
Want to partly disable iPhone updates? Turn off WiFi and it will keep the phone from updating. It can update without the help of WiFi
Apple doesn't need customers any more as any failure of the company can be blamed on external factors and taxpayers will just give them money via their political prostitutes.
Hopefully they're moving to China, Lock Stock and Barrel.
It could be their own social media platform for free speech as a counter move
They upgraded the Foxcon jumper net from wire to twine?
That would be cool if they announced that Trump tasked them with handling the election and they have digitized proof of every legal vote and that Trump won.
From my understanding they are going to be selling cars to compete with Tesla in 2024 and also they have a new high tech battery in development.
Serious question. Any smartphone platforms that are a viable alternative to google, apple?
You can use an Android and avoid using Google's apps as much as possible. Don't use chrome browser, don't use Gmail app, don't use google messenger, find another app for navigation. Even if you stuck with some google apps, it's still better than using iphones where apple makes money on the hardware, and you're stuck using Apple's apps.
Good points. Thanks
Apple refused to unlock the iPhone of a mass shooter. Keep that in mind.
It may be the Apple iCar but no sane person would buy one.
Weirdly only this week I’ve been getting notifications to clear space from my iPhone to allow auto updates to install the new ios. I never had auto-update on, never even knew it was an option that was implimented. So now I’m intentionally keeping my phone space next to capacity so it can’t install a system update without my knowledge. Paranoid? Maybe, but that’s dodgy to me.