Monday, January 25, 2016

Do Apple products slow down?

I'm sure most of you have owned or had an experience with at least one Apple product.  If you have not heard of Apple or are not familiar with them, Apple is a technology company that deals in smart phones, computers, and tablets.

If you have had an Apple product this might have happened to you:  You have the newest iPhone and it is running great.  It is quick and you are not having many problems with it, but then Apple announces their newest iPhone, let's say iPhone 7c.  With it comes a complete overhaul of the operating system like from ios 6 to ios 7 seen bellow.
This new operating system is available on your phone and it looks exciting.  You download this new firmware update and suddenly your phone seems to be slower.
This case has happened to so many people that they believe that Apple is making their new ios bad for their older phones on purpose to get them to buy their new products.  Most of this is accepted fact. The conspiracy lies with whether or not Apple is slowing phones down on purpose to get people to buy their products.

Those who do not believe in the conspiracy are generally the Apple fans who will be buying the new phones regardless.  There are two big schools of thought that the opposition of this conspiracy hold.

  1. it is illegal to do this on purpose
  2. The new software's are optimized for the new phones and not meant for their older phones
Slowing down Apple phones on purpose put them at a legal risk I do not think anyone would disagree with that.  When Apple releases new phones they typically have the next great ios to end all ios.  This great new ios is designed for the new phone with its features in mind yet they still make it available for its more recent models.  Side by side comparisons show that older phones with the new ios are very slowed down.  Some have seen it difficult just to check their email.  While Apple may not be slowing down their phones on purpose they are most definitely aware that this happens to their phones.  They would have to do testing on their old phones to figure out whether or not they would be able to support the new ios.  They also would need to modify it so it would be compatible.  If they were worried about their older phones slowing down then they would just not release the ios for their older phones.  This is why there is no way Apple is ignorant to phones slowing down with new software.

CONFIRMED

http://blackbag.gawker.com/does-apple-ruin-your-iphone-on-purpose-the-conspiracy-1690649898
http://www.theweek.co.uk/59708/does-apple-slow-old-iphones-when-a-new-model-comes-out

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Pearl Harbor

A second conspiracy theory around World War Two is that Roosevelt knew that pearl harbor was going to happen in advance and let it happen in order to have an excuse for the United States to enter the war.  Now I am going to try something different for this post and base it entirely off of the last post I made so read that one first.  This is purely my speculation and my opinion, any facts about Coventry can be seen in my last post.

Now Pearl Harbor was the event that drew the United States of America into World War Two, and I think that it is possible that the United States let the bombing happen in order to get an excuse to enter the war.  If the British let Coventry be bombed then it is possible that Pearl Harbor happened in the same way.  

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sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

Saturday, December 12, 2015

The Coventry Blitz Conspiracy

One of, if not the most famous conspiracies surrounding the Second World War was the Coventry Blitz conspiracy. This conspiracy lays the basis for another conspiracy surrounding World War two which I will cover later this week. The bombing of Coventry was one of the most devastating bomb raids carried out  during World War Two.  With this event two schools of thought arise.  The people that believe that something could have been done to warn the citizens that it was coming, and those who think the British knew nothing of the attack.

Now I am one from the first school of thought.  I believe that the British government knew that Coventry would be bombed and did not disclose this information in order to save more lives.  I must also say that since this has neither been confirmed nor denied this is my opinion and my claims are based in truth. Any fact I give is always in a given source at the bottom.

Those who believe this theory, much like myself, think that during World War Two The British were able to decode the German Enigma machine and that they knew the bombing of Coventry would happen or at least they knew that a bombing would occur.  They think that this was the case think that Churchill let the bombing of Coventry happen in order to not let the Germans know that the British decoded the Enigma machine,  According to one RAF officer, he sent in an intelligence report a few hours before the the blitzing that a bombing on Coventry was likely.  He also said that even the non Enigma sources of intelligence pointed to the general area of Coventry.  If his account is true then that would be proof that Churchill knew.  It is said that Churchill's private secretary noted that he received a red box a few hours before the raid and that Churchill told him that there was a heavy raid on London.

A man named Terry Charman, the senior historian at the Imperial War Museum thinks that Churchill really and truly thought that the bombing would take place in London and not Coventry.  He also adds that even warning the people that the attack was coming would not have done much to help them and the attacks still would have been devastating.  The people were given 3 minutes warning before the bombing and it ended up being very devastating.  I will cede that protecting them would have been hard, but the Enigma part is still intact.

The part of this conspiracy that still gets has me believe it is that the British knew how to decode the Enigma machine and did not warn the citizens because that would give it away to the Germans.  They did not warn the citizens because it was no use, I think that this still holds up because of that.

Sources
Rennell, Tony. "Did Churchill Annihilate Coventry to Protect an Even Bigger Prize?" Mail Online. March 31, 2008. Accessed December 17, 2015. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/article-1004223/Did-Churchill-annihilate-Coventry-protect-bigger-prize.html.
Shoesmith, Ian, and Jon Kelly. "The Coventry Blitz 'conspiracy' - BBC News." BBC News. November 12, 2010. Accessed December 17, 2015. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11486219.