It's a matter of the greater good. If my apartment house is on fire I would be expected to call the fire department...and not expect payment.
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It's a matter of the greater good. If my apartment house is on fire I would be expected to call the fire department...and not expect payment.
More cynical comments here. What is the deal with MacRumors these days? Apple literally cannot do anything right.
I think that's mostly about people who have little power and not much going on in their lives. And sticking it to "the man," helps them feel better about themselves. For a few minutes anyway.
In a word...yes. But I'd rather deal with a clunky Siri (It will get better) and keep my voice commands on the phone than send them to Google or Amazon. Just my choice.
Tons of bugs are discovered by accident. In fact, I'd suspect the majority--I'm not an expert, though, so I don't know for sure.
I can't really believe that you expect a company to compensate someone who did something on their own time without a contract or any request from the company. If I came outside to discover that someone had fixed my cracked windshield without me asking him and was now pushing me to pay him for it, I'd tell him to bug off (pun intended). If he did it out of the kindness of his heart, I probably would try to compensate him. But pressuring me to pay him for work I didn't ask him to do to begin with? That's a hard no.
36? So wrong. Where is your source? Everytime you unlock your iPhone, apple knows.
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/18/average-iphone-unlocked-80-times-per-day/
Apple tracks everything you do.
From the article I quoted. Please use your brain.
“Apple tracks everything you do.”
Uhm, no.
It is just like the way Volvo focussed on safety all those years ago. Clever marketing.
Only one (billion, active users) problem: Facebook.
That shows just how little people care about privacy. Even after the controversies.
The market right now shows Convenience>Privacy.
I just enjoy people registering and posting on public forums to tell the world how important their privacy is to them.
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Then they should seek out actual contracts to do work.
Do you not think Apple has security researchers? That it doesn't have contracts with private companies to accomplish that precise task? Why on earth would they pay Joe Shmoe for doing work they never hired him to do? If a freelance developer created a new website for Apple and then complained that they didnt take him up on his offer to buy it, would you say "you know that web developers need to pay bills?"
There is a very simple process by which business takes place.
1. I request goods/services
2. You provide goods/services
3. I compensate you for goods/services
You can't just start at step 2 and then bully me into paying you for something I never hired you to do.
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The the two things I cannot avoid are youtube and Google maps.
The only way to avoid it, is to bookmark every channel instead of subscribing them...
Youtube and Google maps are pretty much crippled if you don't login.
No they do not. They know that some random anonymous person unlocks their phone. They do not track that down to an individual.
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They don't. They use random anonymous data to come to an average. They do not know how many times I specifically unlock my phone.
You don't just happen upon the kind of bug we have in mind here. Those that you describe - the ones that you happen upon in day-to-day operations - are annoyances and rarely, if ever, have security consequence. The kind of bugs that lead to real security threats are the kind you do have to work to find. And nobody should or does find those for free.
I like their original billboard better.
This campaign explains the rubber prophylactic they are using for the butterfly keyboard in the MBPs perfectly.
You make a good analogy, but there is more to explore in your own example:
What if your car was being used to transport (and reasonably guarantee the safety of) people? That crack in your windshield now poses more of a threat than just the cosmetic inconvenience. Now you have people at risk because of your cracked windshield. Not to mention that in your example, you are the one that produced your cracked windshield. You bear the responsibility in the first place. What, are you just not going to fix it?
More to the point, the vulnerabilities are rarely that obvious. It is more like a slow, hidden leak of harmful, odorless gas that you would have to poke and pry to find. That takes a dedication.
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You miss the point, because they miss the bugs.
Apple is doing its best to keep things under control, but they're fighting a losing battle. The Internet as we know it is a cesspool and has to be scrapped.
You liberals out there will see the advantages to adopting something like this (and I'm afraid I tend to agree with you on this): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-05/vladimir-putin-wants-his-own-internet
You liberals out there will see the advantages to adopting something like this (and I'm afraid I tend to agree with you on this): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-05/vladimir-putin-wants-his-own-internet
To take your own analogy: say you claim to be the only person who can see that my windshield is cracked and also alone have the ability to fix it. You refuse to do so unless I pay you. Now who is more morally culpable: me for not fixing the problem that I didn't know existed, or you for holding the safety of all those people over my head because you just want to get paid?
More cynical comments here. What is the deal with MacRumors these days? Apple literally cannot do anything right.
It's seriously getting old fast. I started calling people out on their nonsense. Is Apple perfect? No, but judging by these forums you'd swear they made horrid products that everyone hates and that just simply isn't true.
[doublepost=1551805035][/doublepost]Agreed. It’s about time Cook pulled his finger out and got people drooling over Apple products again!
Um...privacyisaright.com is even shorter. Not sure if it's taken. But my point stands.
Being anonymous is different from privacy. I can stand inside a girls locker room and not know anyone's name inside. The woman I take pictures of are still have their anonymity.
It doesn't matter if apple doesn't record names with the data. What apple does is not privacy.
So aside all the nonsense here. How do you explain double standards from Apple? iOS has bounty, MacOS doesn't?
All people are saying here is to have bounty for both so people get paid for their time, software improves and overall quality goes higher. Apple is a company that is proud of their ECOSYSTEMS and as a whole it needs to be secure. Bounty should be for iOS and MacOS - period!
Otherwise, don't have either.