Is Apple Changing from a Hardware Company to a Service Company?
This week's news include info about an Instagram data breach, an Amazon data breach, a new class-action lawsuit against Apple, and an expensive way to get access to your iPhone if you get locked out. Then we discuss whether Apple is morphing from a hardware company to a service company.
Kirk's Hackintosh project (http://www.macworld.com/article/3196994/macs/how-to-build-a-hackintosh.html) and his Hackintosh parts list
Kirk wrote about how much dust the Mac Pro collected back in 2014
Instagram accidentally reveals plaintext passwords in URLs (https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/11/20/instagram-accidentally-reveals-plaintext-passwords-in-urls/)
Apple Facing Class Action Lawsuit Over Lack of Filters in MacBooks and iMacs Causing Trapped Dust (https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/28/apple-macbook-imac-dust-filter-lawsuit/)
DriveSavers Lets Consumers Retrieve Data From Locked iOS Devices for $3,900 (https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/27/drivesavers-ios-passcode-recovery-service/)
Amazon warns customers it leaked their names and email addresses (https://www.grahamcluley.com/amazon-warns-customers-it-leaked-their-names-and-email-addresses/)
Technical foul: Amazon suffers data snafu days before Black Friday, emails world+dog (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/21/amazon_data_breach/)
How Apple Is Changing from a Hardware Company to a Services and Media Company
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