Apple-related issues
Sept 13, 2008 3:45:18 GMT
Post by CharlieChomper on Sept 13, 2008 3:45:18 GMT
Despite the title, this isn't actually Mac-related and instead involves some of Apple's other well-known products (specifically iTunes and the iPhone).
The first issue actually affects Vista users by far the most, but it appears that XP users aren't entirely immune to issues either. More specifically, if you're using iTunes, the most recent release (version 8) is causing Vista to crash. Any potential jokes aside in this or thinking the problem may be solely with Vista, the issues so far appear more likely to have stemmed from Apple this time around versus being Microsoft at fault. More specifically, this problem has been happening whenever Vista users plug their iPod or iPhone into the computer and find themselves dealing with a blue screen of death (BSOD).
One workaround to alleviate the crash, so far appears to be unplugging any other USB devices which may be plugged in. The current likely suspect in the matter is changes that Apple may have made to a driver (as installing iTunes also installs special CD/DVD-ROM drivers created by Apple to control and monitor things like ripping or burning CDs or DVDs as well as to just access USB devices such as iPods and the iPhone), which may also be conflicting with a Windows-related file.
So far, Apple has refused to acknowledge this problem even exists (the issue was actually first reported quite some time ago) and as is to be expected, this problem has spawned finger pointing between Microsoft and Apple as to who is at fault.
Meanwhile, some XP users are complaining of problems since the upgrade of losing access to their USB devices or sometimes being even unable to access either their iPods or iPhones that are plugged in.
On that note, if anyone owns an iPhone, you may be interested to know that anything and everything you're doing on it is being "recorded" in a sense by way of a screenshot taken and stored (when a new screenshot is taken, the old one isn't entirely deleted--it's still retrievable and has actually allowed law enforcement to catch people involved in illegal activities). Among the things that it stores are activities like typing up and texting messages or emails, what and where you're browsing online, etc. It's actually related to a feature to minimize things on the screen while a person is working. The problem is that whoever decided to implement its handling decided to do things in such a way as to create the "screenshot" so that if something became minimized, the user could retrieve everything as it was (since the system relies upon that screenshot)--but without the user being aware of that anymore than there's an absolute way of deleting the screenshots once they're created.
It was ironically found when trying to display how do-able it is to bypass the iPhone's password security (on which there now exists a video on the loose going step-by-step on how to go about it, unfortunately).
It's also among the reasons as to why I'm not posting the article where this appeared as it contains a link to that video, which was originally displayed at a major tech/techie conference that was held recently.
Regardless, Apple was made aware of both issues prior to their being made public.
The first issue actually affects Vista users by far the most, but it appears that XP users aren't entirely immune to issues either. More specifically, if you're using iTunes, the most recent release (version 8) is causing Vista to crash. Any potential jokes aside in this or thinking the problem may be solely with Vista, the issues so far appear more likely to have stemmed from Apple this time around versus being Microsoft at fault. More specifically, this problem has been happening whenever Vista users plug their iPod or iPhone into the computer and find themselves dealing with a blue screen of death (BSOD).
One workaround to alleviate the crash, so far appears to be unplugging any other USB devices which may be plugged in. The current likely suspect in the matter is changes that Apple may have made to a driver (as installing iTunes also installs special CD/DVD-ROM drivers created by Apple to control and monitor things like ripping or burning CDs or DVDs as well as to just access USB devices such as iPods and the iPhone), which may also be conflicting with a Windows-related file.
So far, Apple has refused to acknowledge this problem even exists (the issue was actually first reported quite some time ago) and as is to be expected, this problem has spawned finger pointing between Microsoft and Apple as to who is at fault.
Meanwhile, some XP users are complaining of problems since the upgrade of losing access to their USB devices or sometimes being even unable to access either their iPods or iPhones that are plugged in.
On that note, if anyone owns an iPhone, you may be interested to know that anything and everything you're doing on it is being "recorded" in a sense by way of a screenshot taken and stored (when a new screenshot is taken, the old one isn't entirely deleted--it's still retrievable and has actually allowed law enforcement to catch people involved in illegal activities). Among the things that it stores are activities like typing up and texting messages or emails, what and where you're browsing online, etc. It's actually related to a feature to minimize things on the screen while a person is working. The problem is that whoever decided to implement its handling decided to do things in such a way as to create the "screenshot" so that if something became minimized, the user could retrieve everything as it was (since the system relies upon that screenshot)--but without the user being aware of that anymore than there's an absolute way of deleting the screenshots once they're created.
It was ironically found when trying to display how do-able it is to bypass the iPhone's password security (on which there now exists a video on the loose going step-by-step on how to go about it, unfortunately).
It's also among the reasons as to why I'm not posting the article where this appeared as it contains a link to that video, which was originally displayed at a major tech/techie conference that was held recently.
Regardless, Apple was made aware of both issues prior to their being made public.
