This biased post pollutes HN.
if the author truly buy-in the idea of new cold war, then holywood, youtube, and facebook are weapons too. the author even try to use blog platform and public forum like HN as weapon as well.
Unlike with TikTok there is no government in control of American social media the way the Chinese government controls TikTok. Your take is quite facile.
And an article attempting to highlight the issue is not comparable to the kinds of subtle influence the CCP may try to exert over American opinion through TikTok. I don't think there is evidence of that yet, but I also don't see a good argument for waiting around to find out.
A weapon that is not controlled by any government is just a not-government-controlled weapon.
But I disagree with the "weapon" classification entirely, because highlighting an issue is the best a subtle influence campaign can achieve, unless Jedi mind tricks are real. And if people don't agree that the issue being highlighted to them is worthy of their attention, even such attempts will fall on deaf ears.
both macOS and ChromeOS are bind to the device in most case. So this conclusion means that Chromebook device had already sold more than the whole macOS device volume?
The key for goolge's monopoly is not only its index algorithm capability, but also the brand, the chrome browser, the android and all other google product integration.
airdrop is actually like a security hole when Apple set "open to everyone" by default.
There are already quite some cases using it to send * photos as sex harassment.
Apple should set default to "only contacts".
criticism on SQL does not make it meaningful for a new database. I mean, an ORM with its own query language, a new SQL dialect, some language that compile to standard and optimized SQL are all good ideas.
An quick stop for the possbile privacy disaster for Apple is to stop group facetime call at once but not wait for later this week for bug fix.
Could image that quite some one might already try to peek for privacy using this.