And they completely defeated the entire purpose of the bill right before signing.

Verge mentions it here

If you’re still skeptical, here’s another relevant Reddit thread

We have an Alexa device and my wife and I see these articles about hackers etc. we’re like damn they’re gonna be massively disappointed when they get to us.

Chip shortages my dude.

You didn't know apple was selling the newest phone with old chips without telling you?

It's easy to become a trillion dollar company when only dummies buy your overpriced chinese phones religiously for themselves in their five-year-old children.

Apple is tricking you into upgrading your phone and paying for cheap as dirt Ram, to handle their purposely disabling updates.

The cool thing about Android is that there are hundreds of different options to choose from...fuck Samsung, go with LG... you don't like the great cameras and screens on LG phones then go with Sony, they have awesome cinematic cameras on their phones.

Name an app that’s “watered down and shitty” on iPhone

Yep I tried it at a conference and the visuals were actually really impressive. The rig was a bit big though.

>Yet, the benchmarks for it destroys all Android chips.

Lmfao! Weird how they can only Benchmark Apple official apps on iphones... weird how Android phones can run just about anything they want including functioning as full computers.

The majority apps that are on both Android and iPhone, are usually better on Android and can do more.

IPhone apps are always watered down and shitty, but if you only have an iPhone you will never notice. Shittiness is all you've ever been exposed to. There are no alternative app stores for you to even Witness how shit you have it.

>Saudis take control of US augmented reality company Magic Leap

>^Kingdom's ^sovereign ^wealth ^fund ^takes ^more ^than ^50pc ^stake ^in ^the ^business

>^^By ^^Matthew ^^Field ^^26 ^^December ^^2022 ^^• ^^1:05pm

> Saudi Arabia has taken control of US augmented reality company Magic Leap, The Telegraph can reveal, as the company taps up investors for a further $450m.

> Magic Leap, which has raised more than $4bn in debt and equity funding but never turned a profit, has been developing a pair of goggles designed to impose virtual images across the real world.

> Despite raising funds from Google, China’s Alibaba and US telecoms giant AT&T, Magic Leap has struggled to turn its vision of high-tech digital glasses into reality. At one stage it was valued at more than $4bn.

> Founded in 2010 by US entrepreneur Rony Abovitz, the company made a splash in 2015 with a teaser for its augmented reality glasses that caused a surge in consumer interest in the company.

> Headquartered in Florida, Magic Leap partnered with New Zealand’s Weta Workshop, known for its motion capture work on the Lord of the Rings films, on games for its headset. Video games for its augmented reality goggles included Dr Grodborts Invaders, featuring the voice Stephen Fry.

> However, its product, the Magic Leap One, enjoyed only modest sales when it went on sale in 2018. The company cut more than 1,000 jobs during the pandemic.

> The headset's successor, the Magic Leap 2, went on sale in September this year in an effort to revive interest. The headset costs $3,299 and is mostly aimed at industry customers. The new headset is often used by businesses to visualise design or construction work or by medical professionals who can use the headset for surgical planning.

> According to delayed accounts for its European division, Magic Leap raised $150m in preferred convertible stock and $300m in debt “to date in 2022”. The funding has not previously been disclosed. It follows a $500m raise in 2021.

> During the course of its recent funding rounds, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, Public Investment Fund (PIF) took a stake of more than 50pc in the business, giving it overall majority control. The accounts said: “As of November 2022, the PIF is entitled to appoint four of the eight directors of the board of directors of Magic Leap."

> In August, it had $223m in cash and was continuing to seek further investment.

> Saudi Arabia previously led a $400m funding round for Magic Leap in 2018.

> Other tech companies are also spending billions of dollars trying to make augmented and virtual reality devices mainstream.

> Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook as Meta last year and has unleashed tens of billions of dollars on “the metaverse”, a far-out concept to create a 3D internet using immerse virtual reality. Meta intends to spend 20pc of costs next year on the project.

> Meanwhile, iPhone-maker Apple is rumoured to be working on a pair of augmented reality glasses and a virtual reality headset, which could be revealed in 2023.

> Peggy Johnson, who became Magic Leap chief executive in 2021, said this month: “At Magic Leap, we believe that the metaverse is already here, with many currently experiencing a limited view via phones, computers, and tablets. Our goal is to make our interactions with the metaverse a more natural extension of how we view and operate in the physical world.”

> Magic Leap did not respond to requests for comment.

I'm sorry what? The closest thing to that would be the M1 ultra which is only on MacOS devices.

iPhones and iPads are all using single SOCs, like every other mobile device.

Here is iFixit's breakdown on the 14pro max
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+14+Pro+Max+Chip+ID/153224

You have a source for this?

Normalcy bias at its finest

I think it’s reasonable to believe the only people hearing my requests is Google. And in this case, that is what is happening except the hacker reprogrammed my Google Home onto their account. The only thing that would change is that all my searches would be listed under the hacker’s account, giving the attacker access to my search history from that device alone and the voice recordings that are attached to the searches. If they’re lucky, they could maybe peek at what is playing on my Chromecast. They can’t actively listen whenever they want to. The article’s headline is incredibly misleading

Chill out bro wth lol

I’ve noticed in the plus models (iPhone 13 plus and iPhone 6 Plus) they def last longer. Now I know there are bigger batteries in them but they def last longer longevity wise as well

Yet, the benchmarks for it destroys all Android chips.

Everyone says this, but if you think about it for more than a minute you realize it’s impractical and unrealistic

How exactly would it listen to you? Obviously they don’t listen LIVE to millions of devices. Store your every word into a database? That’s illegal wiretapping in most states and Google Legal wouldn’t fuck with that. Even if they did: what keywords would they look for, and how is any of that data any more useful to them than the data you willfully hand over? (e.g. Search queries, cross-site cookie tracking)

You should be more skeptical about real, scary data harvesting, not theoretical nonsense like this

>you absolutely have no idea what you are talking about.

>Apple newest chip for the iPhone, the A16 Bionic Chip is far faster than any chip in any other smartphone.

Doubt it.

Its just a clockspeed adjustment.

Apple users are too stupid to know what that even means so it shouldn't bother them. As long as they perceive it faster they'll think it's better.

Well no one electrocutes folks anymore. And only in a small number of mouth breather states do they still bother executing people. ( which in itself, is not a barbaric thing necessarily when dealing with people who are proven mass murderers etc etc )

But nice try saying “The US is just as bad as Saudi Arabia so stop criticizing them!”

The iPhone literally needs to have two chips inside of it because a single chip is too shitty on its own for full processing. "It's not a bug! It's a feature, now your phone can work like its supposed too"

Ya, you absolutely have no idea what you are talking about.

Apple newest chip for the iPhone, the A16 Bionic Chip is far faster than any chip in any other smartphone. It’s designed by Apple, not Samsung. LMAO. Likewise, Apple started designing their own laptop chips with the Mx line.

The A16 chip destroys any other mobile chip in both single core and multi-core performance benchmarks. Hell, the 2020 A14 chip beats the best Android chip in Single Core performance.

https://nanoreview.net/en/soc-list/rating

Google Home Mini mic switch physically unplugs the microphone from power

Designed and fabricated are two completely different things. If that was the case, then AMD is just TSMC's chips, the same with Nvidia.

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Samsung owns the factory that puts Apple's design into the physical silicon, and Apple actually designs the chip itself.

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Because roasting people to death on an electric chair or painfully botching executions with an illicit cocktail of drugs is so much more humane...

Saudis are creeping in to all our lives slowly but steadily! You see the commercials for Public.com? It’s Saudi owned and a mix of investing/ social media. But if you say something negative about the Saudi’s? They disable your account so you can’t post. But will let you keep your money in. I left .02 cents in! I’m not allowed to have a negative honest opinion well then here’s my 2 cents