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Work on iOS 10 and OS X 10.12 Ramping Up Ahead of WWDC

The weekend looking spikes lend credence to their authenticity...if they were spoofed as some suspect, I doubt the spoofer would have thought to add such a distinguishing feature to their spoof.

Edit: Argh botched the quote...
 
Improvements to the Photos app? Lots of opportunity there Apple.

Also how about a usable iTunes app?

Too much time is being spent on the OS, not enough on the apps.
 
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Why no mention in news articles here about Apple disabling our ethernet cards with their latest 'security' patch.
Folks like me have been going crazy trying to fix it without knowing there was even a stealth update.
My network settings said cable unplugged, so I re-set the modem, bought a new cable and was about to have Time Warner come over until I went to the forums and found out about the fix.

How the hell can Apple disable their own freaking drivers!?
 
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gwhizkids said:
I've always found visits by Apple employees to Apple-related sites interesting. What portions of the site do they hit? Do they just hit the home page or do they go to the forums? The latter would be very interesting.
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They do go to Mac related websites but the internal policy is to NEVER comment on them. Often the stories cause great amusement as they hit wide of the mark, but others cause head scratching as their too close to the truth.
 
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So surely these visits are from some Apple techs/interns/minions locked away in a super secured lab testing iOS and OSX. But could it be the execs too? I find the thought of Eddy Cue or Craig Federighi spending their relaxation time reading MacRumors stories hilarious.
 
-Ray- said:
Ever hear of IP Spoofing?
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I have. Have you?

The browser user-agent gives away the OS, and that is part of the HTTP protocol, which is encapsulated by TCP. Please explain to me how, given that TCP requires a three way handshake, it would be possible to spoof the source IP of packets containing HTTP and still have that HTTP information processed by a web server. I'd love to know.
 
steve333 said:
Why no mention in news articles here about Apple disabling our ethernet cards with their latest 'security' patch.
Folks like me have been going crazy trying to fix it without knowing there was even a stealth update.
My network settings said cable unplugged, so I re-set the modem, bought a new cable and was about to have Time Warner come over until I went to the forums and found out about the fix.

How the hell can Apple disable their own freaking drivers!?
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It was mentioned and there was an article about that. On Saturday. You missed it apparently.

https://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/27/ethernet-not-working-imac-macbook-pro/
 
I can't wait to see what iOS 10 brings to the table. I have a feeling we might see something big this year for the 10th release!
 
Flow39 said:
I can't wait to see what iOS 10 brings to the table. I have a feeling we might see something big this year for the 10th release!
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I think so, too. We even got a potential hint with the colors of the iOS logos: 7's was one color, and 8/9 was another. A subtle hint for a bigger change, perhaps?
 
I always love hearing about this every year around this time. It just makes me happy to know that even Apple's engineers are human too and want to see what their colleagues might be working on. I would imagine it's exciting at first to be working on something the general public is none the wiser to for many months or even years, but eventually curiosity gets the better of you and you want to see what hardware might run the software you're building, what services will connect it, etc.
 
gwhizkids said:
I've always found visits by Apple employees to Apple-related sites interesting. What portions of the site do they hit? Do they just hit the home page or do they go to the forums? The latter would be very interesting.
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Pretty hard to cover up your operating system ...
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Pretty easy actually! The OS is derived from the browser identifier - it is up to the browser to sent whatever it wants. So an Internet Explorer running on Windows 10 could identify itself as "Safari/OS X".

The browser Opera actually made this a user-accessible feature, in order to control "compatibility" with sites that insisted that they are "only compatible with IE".
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garirry said:
Um, how exactly is it determined that someone visits from a software that was never released?
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Uhm... from the browser identifier string that every browser on this planet sends (and which can be set to any value, off course by the people in the know)?

Not to mention it's just weird, isn't it supposed to be ultra-confidential whatever they work on?
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What exactly is "ultra-confidential"? How does a browser identifier string tell you what (new) features a browser supports (apart from what the browser reveals itself anyway), other than "Hey! I'm Safari 10 running on OS X 10.12"?

And how is it ultra-confidential that Apple is working on OS X 10.12?!
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evenworstteddy said:
What's the scale for these graphs ?
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Kilogram per bug, divided by velocity.
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Michael Goff said:
I'm guessing browser sniffing.
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You guessed wrong: there's no need for "sniffing"! The browser tells you right away!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent
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emm386 said:
absolutely. pretty, pretty hard.


Browser:"Hello www.macrumors.com - I would like to have some data from... "
Website :"*sniff* *sniff*"
Browser:"What the heck are YOU doing?"
Website :"Sniffing you... "
Browser:"... are you from the past? that's soo 90'ish... why don't you just read my user agent ?"
Website :"*sniff* *sniff*"
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Hahahaha, lol! :)

That exactly :)
 
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If I had a wish, it would be that Apple brings out a "new" Operating System only every 2 years. But get this one right.

Snow Leopard was the last "perfect" all-around Operating System they released. Anything after that was either slow, buggy or both...
 
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emm386 said:
If I had a wish, it would be that Apple brings out a "new" Operating System only every 2 years. But get this one right.

Snow Leopard was the last "perfect" all-around Operating System they released. Anything after that was either slow, buggy or both...
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AMEN! ios 9.4 would be my perfect iOS 10
 
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