Tech Reflect: I wrote this little anecdote shortly after Steve Jobs passed away. Despite it happening more than 5 years ago, it still is imprinted on my brain and does a great job of illustrating the person I felt he was. Found this in my save…
Lees meerLinked by Jason Snell here, and pairing well with his Cutting the Cord post from a few weeks ago, Suppose.tv uses your location to help you work through the math of cutting the cord. Pick a channel from the list on the right and Suppose will give y…
Lees meerMakena Kelly, The Verge: The bipartisan “Open App Markets Act,” introduced by Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) would ban app stores from forcing developers to use the store’s payment systems. It …
Lees meerApple Machine Learning white paper (via MyHealthyApple): Respiratory rate (RR) is a clinical metric used to assess overall health and physical fitness. An individual’s RR can change due to normal activities like physical exertion during exercise…
Lees meerI do realize that most of you know how to do this, but thought this was worth passing along for the folks who don't, and for you to pass along to the folks who you tech support. Don't miss that bit about turning the mic on and off.
Lees meerGood read, but: In iPadOS 15, today's beta changes the shading of the tab interface in Safari in an effort to make it more clear which tab is the active tab. In the image that Juli Clover posts, there clearly is a difference between the grey…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito, 9to5Mac: While Apple mentioned that users will be able to locate lost AirPods with Precision Finding, iOS 15 will also link AirPods with your Apple ID to ensure that you can easily find them anywhere. And: To achieve this,…
Lees meerMatthew Panzarino, TechCrunch: From personal experience, I know that there are people who don’t understand the difference between those first two systems, or assume that there will be some possibility that they may come under scrutiny for innoce…
Lees meerMatt Birchler: While I’m quite a bit older than I was when After Dark’s bizarre flying toasters were popular, I still enjoy it when the internet is weird. I think that many people confuse “owning my enemies” with “weird”, but despite that crowd,…
Lees meerTom Warren, The Verge: Apple’s AirPower wireless charger was supposed to arrive with the unique ability to charge an iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods all at the same time. Unfortunately, Apple canceled AirPower in March 2019, citing difficulties…
Lees meerThe linked report from Mark Gurman is full of spoilers, so don't follow the headline link if you want to be surprised by Apple's coming hardware event. And the text below has one of those spoilers, a tiny one, but one I think may compel a lot of pe…
Lees meerAs pointed out in our previous post, Apple is about to enter the big leagues in CSAM (child sexual abuse material) reporting. John Gruber: I do wonder though, how prepared Apple is for manually reviewing a potentially staggering number of accou…
Lees meerBen Thompson, Stratechery: How is it, then, that a company like Facebook, which is mostly used on mobile — i.e. Android or iOS — made 20.3 million reports of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) in 2020, while Apple made only 265? After all, there…
Lees meerHere's a link to Apple's Expanded Protections for Children pdf. I'm finding it very difficult to wrap my head around all of this. The best I can do at this point is try to read as much as possible, understand the concerns being raised, Apple's resp…
Lees meerThe video from Apple Support, embedded below, tells you to tap the white side of an AirTag to the top center of your iPhone to read the NFC tag. Watch the video, it's short. My instinct, based purely on where the animation appears when I open my Ai…
Lees meerMark Gurman, from his Power On newsletter: When Apple introduced the Apple TV in 2007, the rationale for buying one was clear: The box could store TV shows and movie files and pull media from the owner’s Mac onto the big screen. The next version…
Lees meerFrom this tweet by Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser: https://twitter.com/MayorBowser/status/1423995113064251392 Not sure if Apple was involved here, even behind the scenes, but props to whoever came up with this plan.
Lees meerSteven Aquino, Forbes, responding to the cancellation (covered in this Loop post) of the Apple TV+ original series Little Voice: The drama, which stars Brittany O’Grady, chronicles the trials and tribulations of aspiring singer-songwriter Bess (…
Lees meerDid you know that ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons was in a TV Show? Also, Dave and I talk about Apple's newest TV show with Mark Ronson called Watch the Sound where he discusses some key points in music with famous people. Speaking of Apple TV, the company j…
Lees meerJuli Clover, MacRumors: According to Apple's developer website, the second AirPods Pro firmware update adds support for Conversation Boost, a feature that was missing from the first beta. Conversation Boost is an iOS 15 feature that uses …
Lees meerStarlight! Yeah, the rewritten version is much better, especially once you've seen the video.
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