Sure. Google location tracking "bad" and Apple data harvesting "good", but it's pretty hack to see articles popping up about how poor Android trackers are compared to AirTags. https://somegadgetguy.com/b/46Q
Ignoring the security nightmare AirTags were at launch, the assumed permissions Apple just takes for the Find My network, and the annoying (and scary looking) process Apple forces users through to OPT OUT of location tracking, it's shocking how well Google is doing only a couple weeks into this new finder network going live.
Absolutely loved this bit of back-story on the "upside down" Apple logo that used to be on every Mac laptop, but got flipped (right side up?) by Steve Jobs.
Great, short read, shared by @gruber a few days ago.
Bei einem #heise-Artikel zu #Apple und #Security einen Kommentar schreiben, ist immer wieder eine sehr "interessante" Erfahrung.
Meistens wird man da attackiert, die unabhängigen Quellen, die man brav einbindet ignoriert oder heruntergespielt und auf persönlicher Ebene angegriffen. 🤷
As per the Beastie Boys, you’ve got to fight for your right to party.
Well, OK.
But you shouldn’t have to fight for your consumer rights… but I did when using Apple Australia’s supposedly “easy” trade-in service for an iPad. It was anything but easy…
(A long read at Gizmodo Australia, because I’m stubborn about these kinds of things. It should not take the kind of fighting I had to do here to get a positive result)
Wir sollten bei jeder Gelegenheit die Vorteile von quelloffener Software und Diensten hervorheben. Die Deutungshoheit Microsoft, Google, Meta, Apple und Co. zu überlassen, hat uns dorthin geführt, wo wir heute stehen: Ein datengetriebenes Web, das ohne Nutzerdaten nicht überlebt und uns mit Werbung bombardiert.
Next week #WWDC predictions? #AI wise easy: Nothing that's going to match or top Google, Microsoft. #Apple will focus on iterations and practical ways intelligence is incorporated into the OS.
This will extract a cry of "Apple is behind on AI". Which they are. But not worried. They'e always been fast followers.
If they don't blindly introduce a "Recall" or something that says we can put glue on our pizza, then that's a win.
When it comes to my phone improve what I regularly use. </$0.02>
Suing Apple is a necessary step in challenging our perception of Big Tech… https://somegadgetguy.com/b/468
We can't take our eyes off this target. We need to build more momentum. Our legal system has been too slow to adapt to consumer tech trends, and we need to keep the pressure on if we're to course correct for YEARS of bad policy.
"When a 23-year-old Sam Altman took the stage at Apple Inc.’s annual developer conference in 2008, he gushed about being able to use the company’s new App Store to promote his software, a friend-locating service called Loopt."
That's OpenAI's Sam Altman. He spoke at WWDC in 2008? That's incredible.
And now he's back. 2008 was the year of the App Store (and some brutal NDAs).
I'm trying out #Apple Music. I love the UI and how it feels very much like Apple but it still integrates very well with Windows 11's theme. Unfortunately, I miss the multi-device control from #Spotify. I just wanna lie down on my bed while blasting Lady Gaga out of my computer's speaker while also being able to skip to the next song without getting up. Does Apple Music have that?
#Apple#MacBook nerds. Does anyone know how to take a screenshot of an entire site page? I want to take a full screenshot of this copyright class and keep it. But not bit by bit. The entire thing.
I know the #iPhone used to let us do that. Is this still a thing? Please send help, thank you.
Bonkers how you can't 3 finger tap an item/link to open it in a new tab on #macOS like you could on #Linux (and #Windows, probably). #Apple forums I was looking into this on all starts with a simple, civilised question and quickly drags into a messy garbage of Apple extremists saying you're stupid for wanting that simple way of opening stuffs in a new tab when you can just either 1) Cmd + Click, 2) 2 finger tap + Open new tab, or 3) Get a mouse - as if those are the same things, when the answer should've been really, "you couldn't".
I've got an #iPad / #OSINT puzzle, and I could use any suggestions anybody has to throw out there.
Back in 2022 in the middle of the pandemic a medical provider in NYC sent my uncle an iPad to attend a virtual appointment on.
I'm trying to figure out how to return it to them, or barring that, to factory reset it so that it can be returned to service as a useful device rather than a nearly brand-new iPad needing to be recycled.
This has proven to be... difficult. #Apple#tech#hacking
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