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Did a criminal call smartphone encryption a "gift from God"?
An article on Ars Technica reports on a rant against Apple made by New York County District Attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., for including strong encryption in their iPhone OS. One claim he made jumps out as being suspect (or rather even more suspect…
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Was iOS twice as memory-efficient as Android?
John Brownlee wrote, in 2014, on Cult of Mac:
iOS is twice as memory-efficient as Android
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As it turns out, an iPhone 6 with 1GB of RAM runs much faster than a similarly specced Android smartphone with 2GB of RAM. And it all has to do with the…
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Did Steve Jobs steal the die for the Apple II case from a vendor?
I'm fairly certain that decades ago I read an interview in a computer magazine where someone (one of the Steves?) claimed that after the Apple II case was designed, there was some kind of problem with paying for the die (or mold), so Steve Jobs…
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86% of Steve Jobs patents were design patents?
A claim making rounds lately is that 86% of Apple patents attributed to Steve Jobs were for design patents, rather than technology.
Example of such a claim:
Apple’s patent portfolio is weighted toward design patents. According
to one study, 2.7%…
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Did Steve Jobs compare Apple's market share with BMW, Mercedes-Benz's and Porsche?
From The Register: Apple CEO Cook: 'We're not in the junk business'
Steve Jobs reprised nearly that exact argument in a 2004 interview.
"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's
in the automotive market," he said at…
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