Despite the program’s name, I think it’s not so much about individual users repairing their own personal devices. The biggest ramification, I think, will be that the program will allow unofficial independent repair shops to procure genuine OEM Apple replacement parts and service … | Continue reading
Nice, and perhaps a bit surprising, but a small deal, not a big deal. | Continue reading
Link to: https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/1452066487913664512 | Continue reading
The differences between a MacBook Pro and MacBook Air should not be subtle. Let the truck be a truck, true to its purpose. Let the MacBook Pro be unabashedly *pro*. | Continue reading
Link to: https://twitter.com/fbnewsroom/status/1450154004730707972 | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/health/covid-vaccine-children-dose.html?searchResultPosition=1 | Continue reading
Link to: https://512pixels.net/2021/10/apple-outlines-new-voice-music-plan/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/10/apple-event-coming-oct-18/ | Continue reading
There are very few reasons to consider buying a Series 7 other than the reasons why anyone ever buys a new watch: because you like the way it looks. Apple Watch is a watch that happens to be a computer, not a computer that you happen to wear on your wrist. Evaluate the upgrade de … | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xpm8/company-that-routes-billions-of-text-messages-quietly-says-it-was-hacked | Continue reading
Change for change’s sake alone is masturbatory. That with Safari 15 it actually makes usability *worse*, solely for flamboyant cosmetic reasons, is downright perverse.we | Continue reading
Change for change’s sake alone is masturbatory. That with Safari 15 it actually makes usability *worse*, solely for flamboyant cosmetic reasons, is downright perverse.we | Continue reading
Link to: https://popular.info/p/apples-texas-problem | Continue reading
Accounts that have never been disabled include the accounts for Rocket League (a game whose Mac support [Epic discontinued in January 2020][rl]), and separately, Unreal Engine. My understanding is that none of those accounts are affected by Apple’s decision not to reinstate the F … | Continue reading
I get it: it seems odd that in 10 years we might be awaiting the introduction of the iPhone 23 lineup, but at the moment, I don’t see this changing. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.nytco.com/press/the-new-york-times-company-launches-digital-subscriptions-for-wirecutter/ | Continue reading
Patience and focus are essential to winning a long game, but success can be rather thankless. Apple excels at thankless long games. | Continue reading
Adding support for third-party payment processing for in-app purchases in no way prevents Apple and Google from providing robust parental controls to approve their kids’ in-app purchases. But there are trade-offs that aren’t being considered by legislators. | Continue reading
Adding support for third-party payment processing for in-app purchases in no way prevents Apple and Google from providing robust parental controls to approve their kids’ in-app purchases. But there are trade-offs that aren’t being considered by legislators. | Continue reading
Link to: http://www.businessinsider.com/littlethings-online-publisher-shuts-down-and-blames-facebook-algorithm-2018-2 | Continue reading
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Link to: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-08-08/why-should-i-buy-an-apple-aapl-tv-instead-of-amazon-fire-google-chromecast-ks3ihfcz | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_for_Children_Frequently_Asked_Questions.pdf | Continue reading
The stakes are incredibly high, and Apple knows it. Whatever you think of Apple’s decision to implement these features, they’re not doing so lightly. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pke9k9/facebook-wanted-nso-spyware-to-monitor-users | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.theringer.com/2021/7/21/22585355/giannis-antetokounmpo-book-excerpt-the-improbable-rise | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/anti-vaccine-groups-changing-dance-parties-facebook-avoid-detection-rcna1480 | Continue reading
Sometimes a cigar is just an integer math conversion glitch. | Continue reading
One can only presume that Apple’s HI team thinks they’re reducing needless “clutter”, but what they’re doing is systematically removing the coherence between what apps look like and the functionality they offer. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20210624PD206.html | Continue reading
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Link to: http://www.getnewsstand.com/ | Continue reading
I remain convinced Apple wouldn’t be facing these regulatory pressures today if they’d walked away from a strategy of maximizing App Store profits years ago, and I also think they could largely dissipate these pressures today by doing it now — better late than never. | Continue reading
I remain convinced Apple wouldn’t be facing these regulatory pressures today if they’d walked away from a strategy of maximizing App Store profits years ago, and I also think they could largely dissipate these pressures today by doing it now — better late than never. | Continue reading
Link to: https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit/CAHk-=wiB6FJknDC5PMfpkg4gZrbSuC3d391VyReM4Wb0+JYXXA@mail.gmail.com/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/4/22491629/apple-employees-push-back-return-office-internal-letter-tim-cook | Continue reading
In the shift from home button Touch ID to Face ID on iPhones and iPads, Apple has recalibrated the balance between convenience and security to be a little more secure but a little less convenient. | Continue reading
Link to: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/27/facebook-sponsored-research-paper-lambasts-apples-ios-145-privacy | Continue reading
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It’s a bad spot to find yourself utterly reliant on a single, powerful, increasingly-demanding partner whom you can’t trust. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/app-store-stopped-over-1-5-billion-in-suspect-transactions-in-2020/ | Continue reading
You can argue that the 70/30 split is too high, but it holds no water to argue that it’s too high only for iOS and Android, but not for Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.wsj.com/articles/berkshire-hathaways-stock-price-is-too-much-for-computers-11620168548 | Continue reading
Everything is an innovation at some point. But things that should be built in eventually will be built in, and innovators need to design with that in mind. | Continue reading
Link to: https://nathangathright.com/the-future-of-apple-podcasts/ | Continue reading