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Apple: On Ive and Apple - or not everything is or was perfect

Jony Ive Leaves Apple, Ive’s Legacy, The Post-Ive Apple

It won’t be the end of the world now that Jony Ive’s left Apple. It feels like he left a long time ago. Hopefully at some point there will be an objective view on his role – increasingly overstated, not as impactful as advertised might be my summary.

You can’t get around the fact that while the hardware (across the line) is pretty impressive, the software’s not advancing at the same rate – and a fair amount of it is actually pretty poor – if we’re allowed to be honest with each other.

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Apple: Why can't I download "free" apps on my iPhone?

You can’t participate in the Apple app ecosystem without two things: an Apple ID, and a valid credit/debit card linked to that ID. That’s right: you can’t get ‘free’ without having credit first.

If you’re setting up a new phone and your Apple ID is linked to another Apple ID via ‘Family Sharing’, you’ll also need the Family Sharing account owner’s credit/debit card expiry date and CCV number.

That’s right: your ability to use your phone with your credit card may depend on you having someone else’s credit card details.

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Apple: What to do when you drop your iPhone in the water

1. Swear.

Use your best words. But get it over with quickly – you’ve got work to do.

2. Dry your phone off.

That’s right, get a towel and dry it off ASAP. Is it dead? It probably isn’t.

Yet.

3. Back it up.

That’s right. Don’t put your phone in a bag of rice or anything like that. While it’s still alive, you need to get your data off your phone as fast as possible.

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Counting cookies

Engadget likes to share your browsing details with lots of people:

  1. Foundational partners – 10 of the usual suspects – Facebook, Google, Amazon, ebay (!?), Neilsen etc.
  2. IAB “partners” – 224 from all across the world, many you’ve never heard of

Just block 3rd party cookies. Or use an ad-blocker.

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Buzzfeed’s strange approach to “privacy”

This screenshot is what you get when you go to Buzzfeed for the first time. “We value your privacy” can be read in two ways though:

  1. “we value your ability to manage your own personal information”
  2. “your privacy is worth money to us”

 

If you are requiring visitors to accept Personalisation, then you don’t value their privacy.

Because to personalise you need to a)  track people and then b) profile them.

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Sonos Play 1 – one year on

Sonos Play

After a year with Sonos Play, what do I think?

To be honest, we almost never use it, preferring to play music via Apple TV. Given how frustrating navigating through AppleTV’s music app can be, that’s a fairly damming statement about the Sonos – or should I say about the Sonos’ software, which is the real problem. Because the player doesn’t really fit into the ecosystem, you have to do things differently to use it, and well, we don’t. Continue reading “Sonos Play 1 – one year on”

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