#PHK says we’re about to get “surveillance too cheap to meter”, specifically because of how telcos work and how #Apple and #Google work. “Either we slap a stiff tax on surveillance data, or we learn to love the panopticon.” #human-rights
on 02026-08-18FingerWorks was the #multitouch startup that was going bankrupt selling a multitouch keyboard in 02005 when #Apple bought them in order to bring out a multitouch screen on the #iPhone. #history
on 02026-08-18#Apple broke #Asahi #Linux booting on the #Macintosh with the new macOS beta, but apparently this will be fixed according to some #Mastodon account
on 02026-06-11Gruber criticizes #Apple’s treatment of Paris Buttfield-Addison after he attempted to redeem a gift card and got his entire Apple account nuked as “Kafkaesque”. But then “Buttfield-Addison posted an update that his account was successfully restored by the ninja on Apple’s Executive Relations team assigned to his case.”
on 02025-12-18#Law news: #Apple loses to #Epic in an en banc appellate confirmation of April’s “scathing” contempt-of-court ruling.
on 02025-12-12#India is retracting its ultimatum to install #Sanchar-Saathi in the face of resistance from #Samsung and #Apple. #human-rights
on 02025-12-03the author of #Fil-C previously worked on memory-safe C for "iBoot", the bootloader for iOS and macOS, at #Apple for #security
on 02025-11-05#Apple #PDF statement of their #iPhone environmental impact
on 02025-10-16PowerPC #Apple Macs used #OpenFirmware to boot
on 02025-08-12#retrocomputing how the #Apple 1 shift-register video circuit #electronics worked
on 02025-08-03#video #interview with #DHH on the launch of their Hey email app where they went head-to-head with #Apple over their 30% revenue cut. Says everyone owes an immense debt of gratitude to #Epic Megagames for fighting Apple on this.
on 02025-07-23“Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the #Trump administration over the #UK’s demand that #Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, two senior British officials have told the Financial Times.
The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in the face of pressure from senior leaders in Washington, including Vice President JD #Vance. (...) US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi #Gabbard has also suggested the order would be an “egregious violation” of Americans’ privacy that risked breaching the two countries’ data agreement.” #privacy #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02025-07-21the #history of why the #Macintosh didn’t have a decent #BASIC programming environment: Bill Gates bought MacBasic from #Apple for a dollar and killed it.
on 02025-07-20#Nokia internal presentation on the #Apple iPhone recognizing the threat and proposing responses to it that would have worked. #history
on 02025-01-16#Apple vs. #EU #politics: Apple now requires “notarization” for all iOS apps
on 02024-01-25#Apple fucked up #atomicity of rename() in OSX from 02008 until 02011. #concurrency
on 02023-12-29discussion of #Apple’s #privacy decision to not scan people’s phones
on 02023-09-02“#Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy: Scanning every user’s privately stored iCloud data would create new threat vectors for data thieves to find and exploit. It would also inject the potential for a slippery slope of unintended consequences. Scanning for one type of content, for instance, opens the door for bulk surveillance and could create a desire to search other encrypted messaging systems across content types. (...) We decided to not proceed with the proposal for a hybrid client-server approach to CSAM detection for iCloud Photos from a few years ago. We concluded it was not practically possible to implement without ultimately imperiling the security and privacy of our users.” #USA #politics #censorship #privacy #security
on 02023-09-02#Apple //e ROM monitor #asm listings. #retrocomputing #history
on 02023-07-02#Apple has to pay about a billion dollars for #patents on VPNs to patent pirates VirnetX
on 02021-01-24notes on the #ARM #Apple M1 CPU
on 02021-01-24on #Apple #malware in the new Big Sur release for Apple Silicon: “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.”
on 02020-11-18disassembly of #Apple Integer BASIC. #interpreters #history #PDF
on 02018-10-13how #Apple Integer BASIC works. #interpreters #history
on 02018-10-13#Apple I monitor ROM dissection. #history
on 02018-10-13Eric Smith’s disassembly of the #Apple Integer BASIC interpreter. #interpreters
on 02018-10-13reference to #Apple Integer BASIC commands. #history #interpreters
on 02018-10-13#Apple BASIC story by Woz. #history #interpreters
on 02018-10-13text version of #Apple II ROM information. #history
on 02018-10-13#Apple II ROM information from 1997/2004; includes a hex dump of the 12KiB of the ROM, the SWEET_16 source code and documentation, the #floating-point package source code, etc. #history #pdf
on 02018-10-13#Apple Integer BASIC #history #interpreters
on 02018-10-13#Apple #censorship of VPN apps due to #China policy against freedom of speech. #politics #human-rights
on 02017-07-29how transactional persistence worked on the #Apple Newton. #history
on 02017-03-07Nicolas Perriault switched back to #Linux after 10 years on #MacOS now that #Apple is kind of sucking
on 02017-01-14The developer who #Apple banned from writing apps for “review fraud” says that apparently it was his mother who did the review #fraud, apparently both on apps she developed and apps he transferred to her
on 02016-10-14#Apple #censorship #patents dramatized as plans for “the new iPhone” #sousveillance #human-rights #phone
on 02016-07-07#Apple blocking #Spotify’s streaming music update on iOS, and according to Spitify, that’s because they want people to switch to Apple Music: “says Apple turned down a new version of the app while citing ‘business model rules’ and demanded that Spotify use Apple’s billing system if ‘Spotify wants to use the app to acquire new customers and sell subscriptions.’”
on 02016-07-01Charlie Stross thinks #Apple’s future includes “a global secure payments infrastructure that takes over the role of Visa and Mastercard’s networks”, then retail banking.
on 02016-04-26#Apple is shipping an obsolete #Git version with known remote-code-execution holes, and their attempts at #security make the problem worse because you can’t tell what’s going on.
on 02016-04-18Tim Cook from #Apple fighting for #crypto #human-rights.
on 02016-01-13Woz talks about the #Apple ][ #power-supply #hardware.
on 02015-11-25