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Josh, please hire a proofreader. The headline is misleading. It left out the word âmayâ.
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Live by the commodity fetish, die by the commodity. Only it shouldnât be the customer doing the dying, it should be the seller. Having had an iPhone 5 nabbed from my hands in a restaurant, and immediately thereafter having met a woman who had had the shit beat out of her for her iPhone, Apple really has to install that kill switch. The âFind My iPhoneâ app is inadequate to discourage criminal lust for this number-one âmust haveâ item.
Get those clicks, headline.
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They do have a kill switch now. If someone steals your phone and doesnât have your Apple ID password, the phone is useless to them. Not sure why people havenât heard about this more, since itâs a great feature.
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iJOBS is dead, long live the King.
The dynamic state of hand held devices aside, this is really a click bait fluff piece.
The suppositions allude much, even the crafty mention of âotherâ technology without a back story that is not exactly moral high ground to cover.
There were a few posits over the last couple of years indicating that peak phone, would arrive around 2015/2016.
Oh, in CA there is now a rule to have a brick switch but others worry the cops can blank an entire area (all mobile devices) say for a 99% reunion tour.
The computer business is not even mentioned perhaps because MACS have been eclipsed and are about to be second tiered by new PC related technologies, MOBOs, maxi CPUs etc.http://www.redsharknews.com/technology/item/1920-the-next-generation-of-pcs-is-about-to-arrive
Of course, the computer segment is miniscule and adherents will go to their graves using MAC but for folks doing film editing, even with the latest MAC, how to manage or invest in 4 and 5 K based hardware, or portable editing on set film making is about to hit the accelerator.
So yes, when Apple leads and does great things, that inspires innovation, in some cases enough for Apple to have to chase every now and then.
Keeps 'em on their toes.
Dick Tracy is vindicated!
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Thanks for this. This theft just occurred a few hours ago and I had IOS7 on it. So far my phone has told me where it is once, but apparently the police want a very fresh lead before they go after it. It seems to work, they have been unable to disable the Find my phone function, so they just have to turn the thing off.
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My miserable, pointless life is now complete.
Love, love love Apple products, but I wish theyâd stop making my Mac act like an iPhone!