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4018 Days Ago

Has it been 4018 days already?

From Apple Press Release on June 28, 2007:

CUPERTINO, California—June 28, 2007—Apple’s revolutionary iPhone™ will go on sale this Friday, June 29 at 6:00 p.m. local time at Apple® retail stores nationwide. All 164 Apple retail stores in the US will stay open until midnight, and customers can purchase up to two iPhones on a first come, first served basis.

As of June 29, 2018, there are 272 Apple Stores in the United States alone.
(From Apple’s Store List, retrieved June 29, 2018; and if the author this post can count correctly.)

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Apple to Release iOS 11.2.5 Soon

According to firstnameatappledotcom, iOS 11.2.5 is ready and might be released as soon as Tuesday, January 23, 2018.

The update also includes the fix to address the crash caused by specially crafted malicious text that can cause iOS device to freeze.

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January 3, 2018

January 3, 2018

Some one at the office reminded me that the candy bucket is almost empty. In the mean time, I’ve been busy following the Meltdown and Spectre news. My colleague and I have been talking about this subject since we got together after work.

If you don’t have the time and patience to read the details, you can get a summary from Ars Technica.

P.S.
For some reasons I thought about James Bond’s SPECTRE when I first read the news.

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January 2, 2018

January 2, 2018.

Back to work after a few days off; New Year’s Day and whatnot.

What a year to start with some big computing news, which is not a good one. Tip of the hat to my colleague for forwarding me the article.

From the original article:

tl;dr: there is presently an embargoed security bug impacting apparently all contemporary CPU architectures that implement virtual memory, requiring hardware changes to fully resolve. Urgent development of a software mitigation is being done in the open and recently landed in the Linux kernel, and a similar mitigation began appearing in NT kernels in November. In the worst case the software fix causes huge slowdowns in typical workloads. There are hints the attack impacts common virtualization environments including Amazon EC2 and Google Compute Engine, and additional hints the exact attack may involve a new variant of Rowhammer. 

Yikes!

 

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SIM-Free iPhone X-change

Apple started offering SIM-Free iPhone X on Monday, December 4, 2017. There are a lot of iPhone X in stock at the time of this writing.

According to several Apple Store employees, significant numbers of customers coming in to exchange their recently purchased iPhone X with the SIM-free iPhone X.

We visited Apple Store South Coast Plaza (R004) and saw number of customers waiting in line to exchange their iPhone X with their SIM-Free counterparts.