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The Day Before Apple September 2016 Event

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Apple is set to announce new line up of iPhone and Apple Watch on Wedensday, September 7, 2016 at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. The event starts at 10:00 San Francisco time (that’s Pacific Time, UTC+7:00).

The event will be live-streamed at Apple Website and Apple TV.

Some people are hopeful to see Apple watch with cellular capability, assuming Apple had figured out a solution for the power consumption issue that came with it.

Low hanging fruits:

  • iOS 10
  • iPhone
  • Apple Watch
  • tvOS 10

We would like to know what the immediate future of:

  • MacBook Pro
  • Mac Pro

We all will findout within a day.

http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2016/

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A Swollen iPhone 5 Battery

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A colleague of mine asked me if I could “unbend” his iPhone 5. I found out that the battery was swelling and pushed the screen out. I then proceeded toat take the screws out and removed the battery.

As of August 29, 2016, Apple is offering $75 in gift card for iPhone 5 trade-in. Apple charges $79 for out of warranty battery replacement. So, It’s not worth having Apple to replace the battery, unless I can give this iPhone 5 to someone.

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iOS 9.3.5 Addresses Critical Security Vulnerabilities

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Apple released iOS 9.3.5 on Thrusday, August 25, 2016 to address numbers of Critical Security Vulnerabilities.

Both Citizenlab and Lookout were credited for the security fix.

Persistent, enterprise-class spyware is an underestimated problem on mobile devices. However, targeted attack scenarios against high-value mobile users are a real threat.

Citizen Lab (Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto) and Lookout have uncovered an active threat using three critical iOS zero-day vulnerabilities that, when exploited, form an attack chain that subverts even Apple’s strong security environment. We call these vulnerabilities “Trident.” Our two organizations have worked directly with Apple’s security team, which was very responsive and immediately fixed all three Trident iOS vulnerabilities in its 9.3.5 patch.

It is imperative to update any affected iOS devices to iOS 9.3.5.

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Installing watchOS 3.0 Beta 2

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It has been a few hours since the installation was initiated. Hopefully by tomorrow, since it is almost midnight, watchOS 3.0 Beta 2 would be succesfully installed.

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About the Apple Patent that can disable cameras

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Must be a slow Tech news day for and old story making the round again.

Stereogum:

Apple Patents Technology To Disable iPhone Cameras At Concerts

Jason Snell chimed in and said:

I hope this is one patent Apple puts in the drawer and never, ever implements.

Then Gruber said:

This must be patent anything you can get a patent for patent.

Déjà vu! I remembered reading abou this some years ago.

Patently Apple on June 02, 2011:

This example could easily apply to movie theatres trying to stop customers from filming a movie for illegal distribution or any kind of music concert to protect an artist’s image from being photographed or videoed illegally

Even back then a lot of us agreed that this is just like what Gruber just said.

To quote Bad Religion:

Strewn about the battlefield of life are the remainders of history.
When convenient, we exalt them and pay them such respect,
As if we’re all in an equivalent trajectory.

Apparently a lot of people can easily forget.

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watchOS 3: Find My Apple Watch

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I don’t remember if “Find My Apple Watch” was mentioned during the WWDC 2016 Keynote.

The first generation of Apple Watch has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for connectivity, that means for “Find My Apple Watch” to work, it has to be within the Bluetooth proximity and/or connected to known Wi-Fi.