Apple told the details of Touch ID

This month, Apple released an updated version of the document «iOS Security». The text of the document in detail familiarized employees TechCrunch, who discovered several previously popup parts of Touch ID . The document describes the coprocessor on-chip Apple A7, which is responsible for mapping the read fingerprints to those already in the database. Element has been named “Protected Enclave” (Secure Enclave).

If you believe Apple, then the chance of accidental coincidence of one registered owner’s fingerprint to the read another user’s fingerprint – 1 to 50,000. It turns out that the situation in which a stranger will pass authentication on your iPhone, almost impossible if data prints are safe. It is in charge for “Protected Enclave.”

Each “protected enclaves” in the manufacturing process is assigned a UID (unique identifier), which is not available to other parts of the system, and unknown Apple. During start-up device is formed by an ephemeral key that is associated with the UID, and is used for encrypting the portion of memory that belongs to “Secure Enclave.”

Certainly users iPhone 5s have noticed that you can not always pass authentication using Touch ID. Sometimes smartphone requires a password. Here are cases in which it occurs:

Password can be used instead of the Touch ID at any time, and it still required in these cases:

- IPhone 5s had just been turned on, or rebooted
- IPhone 5s is not enabled more than 48 hours
- After five unsuccessful attempts to reconcile print
- When setting Touch ID and adding new prints
- IPhone 5s received a command to remotely lock

If you are interested in more details about the safety iOS, you can familiarize yourself with the document . Personally, I read it once again proved that my fingers are in safe hands. Is the situation with fingerprint sensor in the Samsung Galaxy S5 , which promised access to the developers?

Apple told the details of Touch ID

Mercedes-Benz and Volvo work demonstrated CarPlay

Yesterday, after Apple announced CarPlay – a new feature for iOS iPhone integration with cars, two companies have decided to show it in action. Volvo released the first promotional video with CarPlay starring in which today announced the technology in its new SUV XC90 SUV, and then the corresponding statement was made by Mercedes-Benz, publishing several photos CarPlay at new C-Class. The car will be presented at the Geneva Motor Show this month.

Video from Volvo demonstrates most of the features of the new features: making calls, dictation and sending SMS-messages, run a variety of applications, including music like Spotify . In its execution, it is vaguely reminiscent infomercials new products Apple.

Unlike Volvo, Mercedes decided to submit a small photo to work CarPlay, remembering all the basic functions. Here, for example, then it’s navigation application. 

On the main screen displays all applications from your iPhone, supporting CarPlay. 

Interface to make calls is not very different from that in iOS. 

Listen to music? 

All push-notifications from supported applications will appear not only on the smartphone screen, but also on the vehicle display. 

Volvo representatives noted that the system will combine CarDisplay existing solutions from the car manufacturer, but it is not clear exactly how they can “make friends,” wrote 9to5Mac. Mercedes-Benz has already taken care of it – in the pictures above you will notice an icon of its own application COMAND. The company claims that it will not be limited to iOS and will be developed in other directions.

Mercedes-Benz and Volvo work demonstrated CarPlay

iPad holds the title of best-selling tablet

Yesterday authoritative, Gartner has published the results of his new study of the global tablet market. Despite the rapid decline in its share , iPad has once again become the best selling tablet, and its sales have surpassed the total number of devices sold four nearest pursuers in the role that made ​​Samsung, Asus, Amazon and Lenovo.

According to experts, in the past year, Apple managed to sell 70.4 million iPad against 61.5 million a year earlier. At the same time the largest manufacturers of Android-plates joint efforts could only ship 64 million devices. In addition, the share of iPad decreased from 52.8% in 2012 to 36% last year. 

How is it that Apple sells more tablets, but at the same time losing market share? First, the same Samsung does not stand still and different incredible sales growth, which in 2013 were almost five times higher. Also, pay attention to the sixth place ranking, where the so-called “other” manufacturers tablets. This little-known companies that nonetheless manage to hold it all together almost a third of the world market.

Also do not forget that Apple focuses not on the whole market, but mostly only on the premium segment. Compared with counterparts on Android iPad mini in no way be called a budget. And in Cupertino themselves are well aware that in the emerging areas they still do nothing.

Whatever it was, the demand for iPad and thinks decrease. In December, Apple felt the boom in sales of their tablets due to the Christmas holidays, in the fourth quarter of last year, it became the most successful in the history of the company.

Of course, one iPad hard to compete with countless army of Android-plates , but until it does so quite successfully. As rightly said Tim Cook, Apple does not seek to increase its market share. She simply does not need. One need only look at the dynamics of the sales of the iPhone and iPad in recent years to see this.

iPad holds the title of best-selling tablet

Apple leads the nose Samsung

Stably in large numbers on Raqwe.com published rumors about future products Apple. Personally, I’m not very interested in the details and specifications of such articles. This was better that tell Tim Cook during the presentation. But I am interested to learn the rumors that suggests its own expectations and preferences with regards to the future of the product. By the way, rumors about Apple watch not only I, but also competing companies. Once in the head pop up two names: Samsung and Google. It’s about first.

I suggest a little dip in the past both companies and go all the way again to the recent events.

2007
Samsung produces various sliders, rotators, cots and push-piece modules that are popular on par with Nokia and Sony Ericsson, though inferior to them in features and specifications. In the same year Apple comes out the first iPhone. No one company there is nothing like, including at Samsung.

2008
IPhone 3G appears in a modified plastic case. The essence of the device is almost unchanged, the main new feature is support for third-generation networks. Among a set of clamshells and candy bars Korean company Samsung touchscreen phones come in a metal case, including the model SGH-F480 with original shell TouchWiz.

2009
Apple updates the phone last year, adding to his title character «s». Appearance of the device does not change, but its ability to leave a completely new experience. Samsung in the same year produces more than 20 sensor devices of different price categories. Among them are popular and inexpensive models Star Corby.

2010
A triumph of the Korean company. Produced Samsung Galaxy S, as well as other models of Galaxy line and ruler Wave (smartphones OS Bada). Similarity Galaxy devices with iPhone is still the subject of litigation. Finally, the company has a high-quality, bright smartphone on Android, capable of competing with Apple. 

But what happens? Steve Jobs flipping websites New York Times on the big screen iPad, returning the rest to the top of the history in 2007 when they had absolutely nothing to answer. Samsung hurry and after 7 months of releasing the first Galaxy Tab – a compact 7-inch tablet on the second version of Android, designed exclusively for smartphones.

2011
Apple has once again successfully update their portable devices, there are iPhone 4s and iPad 2. Meanwhile Park Galaxy devices added more than 15 models. Went successful Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note, as well as tablets with screens 7.7, 8.9 and 10.1 inches.

2012
About 15 smartphones Galaxy, including the incredibly popular third flagship model, and updated tablets. iPad and more perfect, and the iPhone gets a new design and a larger screen. Samsung finally caught up with Apple, and even for all this time and its nothing new in the Korean company was not invented, it became the world leader in sales of mobile devices.

Everything that happened after I would like to paint more detail. At this point, a world leader in electronics, Samsung, already has and smartphones, and tablets. In other words, for 5 years, the company managed to catch kupertinovtsy, and the next step should be a leap forward, because a little catch up, you need to overtake. But how? Recent years, and did just that copied Apple, and there was nothing to copy, and all own ideas disappeared in pursuit of the leader.

It’s time to get back to where I started, to the rumors. In the spring of 2013 begin to appear the first rumors about the product under the name unconfirmed iWatch . Tim Cook in his interviews carefully says that sees wearable electronics perspective, especially if it is worn on the wrist, then the Internet is choking wave leaks and speculation of future concepts hours from Apple. What you need to do a Korean company, not to become a catch-up again? Need to first release the product, the more they already know what to let. 

September 4, 2013 we saw the “smart” watches Galaxy Gear , which in fact were not smarter watches with built-in calculator. But it’s not even how the new product proved unsuccessful Samsung. A week later, on September 10, the presentation of the company Apple, which has not been shown clock. It was shown iPhone 5s c 64-bit processor and sensor Touch ID, technologies that Koreans have to catch up again in the following have their products.

Samsung produces so many electronics that low demand for Galaxy Gear could not greatly affect the morale of the company. There’s no time to be distracted by the little things, the task outpaced its main competitor is still not completed. And here’s what happens next. Somehow all winter to begin to understand that Tim Cook said on the wrist, but he was not talking about hours. And we are covering another wave of rumors about hiring health workers, patents for various sensors and concepts of health enhancement. What should a Samsung?

February 24, 2014, most recently hosted a major presentation of products Korean giant, which presented a new and catching flagship Galaxy S5 with a biometric sensor, and continuation of the line hours Galaxy Gear 2 (and suddenly still Apple will release time), and the highlight of the program – Bracelet Fit Gear . Curved display, tracking heart rate and applications for sports – all in the new Gear Fit. To be sure, Samsung and smartphone embedded sensor heartbeat. In other words, collected all the latest rumors about the future of Apple, hoping to this time to be the first. 

And what will happen? At one point, all of a sudden realize that Tim Cook and fitness bracelet did not say anything? Somehow Apple makes giant Korean company copied products that do not exist, and sell them under the guise of his own ideas, even though everyone knows that from Samsung in these devices only iron. At the same time it distracts from the really important developments, products and even releasing a week earlier, Samsung can not get rid of catching power. Do not be surprised if there is not a bracelet or hours, and all the rumors only to a certain copy machine had something to do with their own ideas because they have long observed the crisis.

Apple leads the nose Samsung

Symbiosis Mac Pro and iMac to a new concept

As a rule, all concepts of devices from Apple – are products that we are likely to see in the future, no matter what version. This concept – an exception, yield such a product does not portend. This flight of fancy Apple lover Kurt measurements, Jr., in which he wanted to show the computer symbiosis Mac Pro desktop and iMac.

Copyright depicted product called iPro. This desktop size 800 x 600 x 150 mm. The thickness of the upper part of a non-existent device of 8 mm and the base diameter – 120 mm. This computer is equipped with 35-inch OLED display with a resolution of 3382 x 1964, ventilation and audio speakers. Of the interfaces in a fictional computer 4 port Thunderbolt ports and 8 USB 3.0. The display can be tilted 20 degrees on itself, or from himself, for maximum comfort.

According to Kurt, they invented the computer is designed for professionals for whom there is no excess capacity. In this iPro retains the balance between performance and sophisticated design. Such aesthetics will not be achieved by connecting to the most beautiful Mac Pro is all you need for the job. There is no reason to believe that Apple are thinking of a similar computer, so if you like it, you can only enjoy the pictures.

Symbiosis Mac Pro and iMac to a new concept

Tim Cook defended his environmental initiatives Apple

Apple – the epitome of capitalism, but as it turned out, capitalism with a human face. Using stamped and annoying phrases justified recent statement Tim Cook: CEO noted that the profit is not worth it for Cupertino in the first place.

A few days ago in a conversation with a representative of the National Center for Public Policy Research, as well as shareholder CEO Apple said that is not going to abandon the investment in projects to develop methods of energy in an environmentally sound way. Even if the investment does not pay off.

“When we make products suitable for the blind, we do not think how to get profit from this damn”, – said Tim Cook, using bright epithet. “If you want me to work only in order to” fight off “your investment, you can sell their shares. There are other reasons for our actions, in addition to profits. We want to leave this world in a better state than it was when we entered into it. “

Saying top manager many felt angry. Usually calm and reasonable Cook vehemently rejected the proposal of shareholders to provide financial reports on environmental initiatives.

This was followed by immediate reaction. On the pages of the National Center for Public Policy Research has published an article in which current and future shareholders of Apple warn that the vendor does not always take into account the interests of investors and spends a large part of investments on projects that have no benefit (at least in the short term).

Tim Cook defended his environmental initiatives Apple

When we see a new Apple TV?

This Friday, Apple launched an interesting share holding which is quite unusual for the company from Cupertino. All customers who purchase a set-top box Apple TV in the official shops Corporation until March 5, get iTunes gift card for 25 dollars. Given that the cost of Apple TV is $ 99, the deal turns very profitable.

Generous share Apple surprisingly coincides with rumors about a possible release of a new generation Apple TV this month . Previously, a number of foreign sources claimed that the new console will be presented in March, but its sales will begin only by the fall of this year. It is possible that Apple in an accelerated mode gets rid of old inventory to make room for new.

However, one of the editors of the publication The Loop does not believe the news enough to make a judgment about the imminent presentation of the new Apple TV. According to him, the company can crank out such action and without the hidden intention.

Nevertheless authoritative U.S. sources continue to hint at a new generation of set-top box this spring. Financial Times argues that the new Apple TV can be expected “at any time”, while Bloomberg calls clear temporal boundary – in April this year.

As we know, Apple rarely does anything by accident, which is why the stimulation of demand for Apple TV from the corporation has certain underlying causes. No wonder that at a recent shareholders’ meeting , Tim Cook announced billions of dollars earned in 2013 with the help of Apple TV.

Judging by the actions of Apple, it’s not going to pull with his novelty to developer conference WWDC in June and announced a new Apple TV without presentation.

When we see a new Apple TV?