I don't get why if i'm paying multiple thousands of dollars for a phone that they still bundle what I consider spyware and give the user no option to uninstall it.

On my last Samsung I went into the settings and disabled all of the apps that I couldn't uninstall .. and when I checked the settings like 6-8 months later, those apps were still disabled, but in the meantime they had installed a few more facebook authored background apps without my permission.

I will not be going back until they stop this.

Whatever Apple did to block access to the cache does not negate the fact that these notification messages are still being sent in plaintext through Apple and Google’s servers.

It’s hard to imagine that Apple/Google couldn’t just be compelled to hand this information over if ordered by a court and wouldn’t need your phone at all.

And this loophole possibly only hinges on the fact that most law enforcement maybe never realized this was something they could ask for.

Or perhaps this is happening and the public just doesn’t know it yet.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860441

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This is a simple supply and demand curve.

Higher demand means the price goes up .. this has been true of things since before SaaS and before computers

A 6% overlap is hardly unifying.

The few Trump supporters I know think the whole thing is fake.

Most notifications are sent by backend servers straight to Apple/Google

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664442

These devices came out in 2007-2012

14-19 years is a respectable lifetime for a handheld electronic device.

(Yes, that David Lynch)

There is also tm.org which is a worldwide organization offering courses in most countries.

Technology changes at a fast pace .. so new questions would get asked, and then closed by moderators and pointed to similar questions that might be 5 or 6 years old and no longer relevant.. essentially ending the discussion on many topics and actively preventing progress in certain areas.

SpaceX made 8 billion in profit last year and xAI is losing 1B per month.

The whole IPO is convincing people that datacenters in space that are orders of magnitude more expensive than ones on earth is a financially viable business model and that tens of millions of people that already have internet are going to give up fiber for starlink.

It’s FSD and robotaxis x100

They are creating countless customers for life.

Yes I understand that GPS still works in airplane mode, but the app should not have my location made available to it when I am not using it