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ilias :thepiratebay:

another exempt from "Apple in China" book

this is really fascinating. not just how yellow cows in China have been outsmarting Apple business-wise, but in tech as well

and the origins of how & why Apple became strongly anti-right to repair

Burned-Out iPhones ... At the same time, the resellers orchestrating the long lines to acquire Apple products were increasingly mixed up with organized crime, and they sought ways to inflate their margins. They began buying Apple products in large quantities in the United States, where iPhones could be acquired more readily, at a lower price, and without sales tax. Some of the yellow cows found yet another ad- vantage: if they purchased iPhones through a carrier such as T-Mobile or Verizon, they could use fake IDs and acquire new iPhones with just a down payment on a twenty-four-month contract-with zero intention, of course, of ever paying the next twenty-three installments. So instead of purchasing an iPhone for, say, $500, then finding a Chinese city where Apple products were scarce and a willing buyer existed to pay a price marked up by hundreds of dollars, they found an ingenious but illegal way to acquire iPhones at less than $100, dramatically increasing their profits. The problem with these iPhones is that they were carrier-locked - that is, they were restricted to a specific US network and wouldn't function in China. But as the yellow cows elevated their tactics and grew more cunning, they developed technical know-how through factory connections. There were, after all, huge sums of money involved as the number...
... of iPhones sold in China expanded from hundreds of thousands in 2009 to more than 20 million in 2012. At these factories the yellow cows found to "burn out" the main computer chip within the iPhone. They were deliberately breaking the unit, but in the process, masking its retail market country of origin. Then they started paying Chinese mi- grants to show up at the Apple Store and complain that their new iPhone didn't work. Store employees at the Genius Bar were at first oblivious of the scheme and couldn't make heads or tails of these units. Using special tools, the Genius Bar employees would open the iPhone and confirm it to be brand new, but with the processor zapped. In some instances they reported to their bosses that the returned phones had existing customers' details attached to them-US names and addresses-which flummoxed them because that wasn't possible for a new phone. Uncertain what was going on but wanting to provide Apple's famously courteous customer service, the staff gave some customers brand-new iPhones - a delight to the reseller bosses who'd devised the scheme. "This was like cocaine to the yellow cows," says a former Apple executive familiar with the episode. "They were making a fortune."
#Apple#Tech#Technology
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Pass the SALT Conference

🔦 Our #pts25 program is out and booking site is up!

Let's start browsing together this awesome program with the #hardware & #Embedded session 🤩

- 📡 @FlUxIuS from @Penthertz will present #RFSwift a powerfull toolbox for wireless assessments !

- 👾 Aline Becq will expose her RETEX on building/running LabCyber, a fablab dedicated to CyberSecurity

- and Vincent LOPES from @quarkslab will speak about debugging embedded systems using unusual methods 🤔

🎟️ Book your (free) seat: pretix.eu/passthesalt/2025/

📖 Program: cfp.pass-the-salt.org/pts2025/

📅 July 1 to 3, 2025
📍 Lille, FR

Photo (if provided), name and affiliation of the speakers of the hardware session along with the title of their respective talk.
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Daniel 黄法官 CyReVolt 🐢

We had a very nice talk on Ariel #OS at #RustWeek - and this slide made me realize I could use another approach to explain this one thing I always try to explain:

Right between constrained #microcontrollers and application processors that offer gigabytes of memory and an MMU, platform initialization #firmware such as @oreboot is #software that transitions from what feels like an MCU over into the full system by bringing up DRAM.

In that sense, it is #embedded software programming.

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Karsten Schmidt

Btw. Here's another 6½min live performance from my talk @ #Resonate 2016. Alas, there were some cable issues on stage and I had to record it all afterwards in my hotel room. The setup was the same as in the first video from the previous post (i.e. STM32F746 DISCO + Korg Nanokontrol)

soundcloud.com/forthcharlie/st

SoundCloudSTM32F7 live recording (Resonate)Best enjoyed with headphones! Recorded live set in hotel after last minute tech issues during my lecture. Turned out the Korg nanoKontrol lost its configuration earlier - such a shame, was looking for
#STM32#Embedded#Synth
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Karsten Schmidt

Just realised the readme for thi.ng/synstack (a C11 & Forth-based softsynth engine for #STM32) had broken links to two live performances/demos I creeated in early 2016. I've now fixed those and re-uploaded these videos to my Makertube/Peertube:

STM32F746 MIDI synth & Korg Nanokontrol (live recording, 2016-01-31)
makertube.net/w/6tYcSLrJdPfev8

STM32F746 synth GUI (live recording, 2016-01-28)
makertube.net/w/mbeSF3y2rs2xnx

thi.ng/synstackthi.ng/synstack
#Embedded#Synth#DSP
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Marc-Andre Lemburg

🐍📅✨ Looking forward to attending PyCon Italia 2025 in Bologna, Italy, later this month... 🐍+🍕=😄

This time, I'll talk on something completely different than my usual architecture oriented topics: using your Python skills to program small embedded devices.

📅 The talk is on Friday, May 30, in room "Passatelli":
2025.pycon.it/en/event/program

🤝 >>> Hope_to_see_you_there() 👍

💬 Please drop me a PM if you want to meet up at the conference.

2025.pycon.itProgramming hardware displays the easy way - using MicroPython and LVGL | PyCon ItaliaJoin PyCon Italia May 28th to May 31st 2025 in Bologna, Italy!
#python#embedded#micropython
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