I cancelled my Dropbox paid account and moved everything over to iCloud. Between Dropbox, iCloud, and OneDrive...I can't stand managing all these cloud services. Its more work than its worth.
Finally decided to ditch Dropbox since I'm already using iCloud for Photo Library and App Libraries. I'm happy to pay $10/mon for 1 TB...but I'm not gonna have that x2 with separate services.
Setup a couple quick symbolic links and now my Mac's user folders are entirely synced with iCloud.
The only thing missing is the ability to Share a file with a URL. But, I still have to use OneDrive for work and thats where I do most of my "sharing files by URL" so I think I'll be fine. Its more professional and secure to be sharing files via our company sharepoint than a personal dropbox account anyway.
I kinda miss the all caps keyboard. I handwrite by hand in all caps anyway, so it didn't bother me at all. Didn't have a problem with the shift key either.
I do wish they had added the low battery mode switch to Control Center.
I'm dissappointed in the News App. When it was announced, I thought I could pick and choose which participating publications I wanted to see show up. It appears that those are just starting points. When I set it up, I selected Apple Insider and the Wall Street Journal, just to see. Well, I started seeing other tech articles and other articles that didn't come from the WSJ.
I cancelled my Dropbox paid account and moved everything over to iCloud. Between Dropbox, iCloud, and OneDrive...I can't stand managing all these cloud services. Its more work than its worth.
Finally decided to ditch Dropbox since I'm already using iCloud for Photo Library and App Libraries. I'm happy to pay $10/mon for 1 TB...but I'm not gonna have that x2 with separate services.
Setup a couple quick symbolic links and now my Mac's user folders are entirely synced with iCloud.
The only thing missing is the ability to Share a file with a URL. But, I still have to use OneDrive for work and thats where I do most of my "sharing files by URL" so I think I'll be fine. Its more professional and secure to be sharing files via our company sharepoint than a personal dropbox account anyway.
On OSX the Mail app will automatically share large files by URL on iCloud.
On OSX the Mail app will automatically share large files by URL on iCloud.
All that is intended for is when people attach files too large to be attached, and Apple handles it automatically. Not in anyway a replacement for getting a URL for a file already stored in the cloud.
Google says they don't allow "sensitive" data to even be collected, much less used for ad targeting. What made you believe they did?
One persons "sensitive" data is another persons monetized asset. All depends on who is defining what "sensitive" means. And for an algorithm 'we'll know it when we see it' won't code.
I'd like to see Apple port the 'glances' approach to the iOS control panel and let me pick what features I'd like to see there. Mine would include toggle cellular on/off and this new low power mode as starters.
You can already disable cellular by turning on airplane mode (and then optionally re-enabling wifi and/or bluetooth if desired.)
I'm excited about 3D Touch and the new functions that will be easier to access. For instance, this feature could be extended so that pressing down on the wifi or bluetooth buttons could provide a "peek" to let you select a different wifi network or bluetooth device without navigating multiple screens.
Note that Google does not allow advertising directed to "sensitive categories" of internet viewers, nor do they allow collecting data about them either.
Things aren't as bad as you're making them out to be.
Sure, I trust this guy.
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
Then at best you can say that, for now, Google doesn't allow these categories to be used for targeted ads. And that's great, until they update their policies. And it still doesn't change the fact that the information is all still collected and stored and analyzed. It's just not used at the moment for ads.
Honest question: who's worse? facebook?
Up until March 1, 2012, the data Google collected on you when you used YouTube was carefully cabined away from your other Google products. So, in effect, Google could use data they collected on YouTube to improve and customize the users’ YouTube experience, but couldn’t use the data to customize and improve user experience on, say, Google+.
The same siloing took place for your search history. Previously, Google search data was kept separate from other products. Even when users were logged in, Google promised not to share the information they gathered about you from your Google search history when customizing their other products. Considering how uniquely sensitive user search history can be (indicating vital facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and much more), this was an important privacy protection.
In 2012, Google "simplified" their privacy policy and surreptitiously removed the separation between YouTube, Google search, and other Google products. By describing the change as "treat[ing] you as a single user," Google intended to remove the privacy-protective separations from YouTube and Google search.
This was not obvious from reading the new policy document itself, requiring a letter from Congress to force Google to explain the actual changes.
What are people going to complain about now that iCloudDrive has a dedicated iOS App????
Oh thats right, that cloud storage is still not unlimited and free. Damn those people offering services for money!
I don't complain about the price iCloud Drive as I understand and appreciate the differences between Apple's business model and that of their competitors.
Having said that, though, iCloud is still way behind. The app still doesn't let you search for any non-iWork documents, which severely limits the utility of iCloud Drive as a primary solution. Also, it still doesn't support selective sync. So everything you have in the cloud is forced onto the local storage of every device you have - the choice is all or nothing - which is a pain considering the limited storage on SSD-equipped MacBooks. Finally, file sync is still flaky, opaque, and unreliable compared to something like Dropbox, which is completely transparent about every file's sync status and always "just works" despite being a non-native, cross-platform service.
Since you mention them it does look like Facebook, at least based on their Advertising Policies page updated in April, does allow much of what Google doesn't in the way of sensitive data use and collection.
John Gruber speculated that "there’s a rift between the old “Don’t be evil” Google and the new “Let’s do whatever we want” Google, ...it’s a rift between Schmidt and Larry/Sergey — if not personally, then at least culturally within the company. On the one side, the Larry/Sergey Google that makes amazing cool things — the search engine, Gmail, Android. On the other, the Schmidt Google that, in its efforts to serve ads as efficiently as possible, no longer seems concerned with the traditional Western concept of personal privacy."
Facebook lacks this cultural rift. Their founder has always been intent on destroying privacy and his company is singularly focused on that goal.
Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, gleefully bragged about how people entrusted him with their personal information. “I don’t know why. They ’trust me’. Dumb fucks.”
Facebook's privacy policy changes reveal their intentions quite clearly.
All excellent upgrades, especially the shift key update. Like connecting a USB cable to its port, it always takes 3 tries to get it right, it always confused me whether I was in caps lock mode or not. I hated that! So that's a welcome change.
The one thing I DON'T like, however, is the lack of Siri's "ding" when activated. That audio cue comes in very handy when not looking at the phone. It lets me know Siri is listening and I can now speak to her. Without that ding, you're required to look at the screen to make sure you've successfully activated Siri. They need to bring that back in 9.1!
I'm listening to the ATP podcast and John Siricusa thinks Apple will eventually have to move Proactive server side because people will demand it when one device doesn't know what another device does because everything is local to the device. And Apple could totally do this. Their business model isn't advertising, they don't sell our data to anyone so users shouldn't have to be worried that their data will be compromised if it's on iCloud.
Apple doesn't want to do this because then that data would be targeted by the NSA and FBI.
All the new iOS 9 features described in this article (and the new improved Notes app) are really very useful little upgrades! Currently I'm very pleased with iOS 9, for me the best iOS update so far...I'm actually going to use these features, unlike on a lot of the upgrades of former iOS versions.
I've always had a 6 digit passcode, how is this new? If I swipe to login, it brings up a numeric keypad, as long as my passcode is all numbers. What's changed?
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Gone.
This is not true at all. I still have 4 digit passcodes on my iOS 9 devices. Its under Passcode Options.
I cancelled my Dropbox paid account and moved everything over to iCloud. Between Dropbox, iCloud, and OneDrive...I can't stand managing all these cloud services. Its more work than its worth.
Finally decided to ditch Dropbox since I'm already using iCloud for Photo Library and App Libraries. I'm happy to pay $10/mon for 1 TB...but I'm not gonna have that x2 with separate services.
Setup a couple quick symbolic links and now my Mac's user folders are entirely synced with iCloud.
The only thing missing is the ability to Share a file with a URL. But, I still have to use OneDrive for work and thats where I do most of my "sharing files by URL" so I think I'll be fine. Its more professional and secure to be sharing files via our company sharepoint than a personal dropbox account anyway.
Begun, this ad blocking war, has.
Pretty sure the new ad blocker doesn't effect ads in apps.
I do wish they had added the low battery mode switch to Control Center.
I'm dissappointed in the News App. When it was announced, I thought I could pick and choose which participating publications I wanted to see show up. It appears that those are just starting points. When I set it up, I selected Apple Insider and the Wall Street Journal, just to see. Well, I started seeing other tech articles and other articles that didn't come from the WSJ.
I cancelled my Dropbox paid account and moved everything over to iCloud. Between Dropbox, iCloud, and OneDrive...I can't stand managing all these cloud services. Its more work than its worth.
Finally decided to ditch Dropbox since I'm already using iCloud for Photo Library and App Libraries. I'm happy to pay $10/mon for 1 TB...but I'm not gonna have that x2 with separate services.
Setup a couple quick symbolic links and now my Mac's user folders are entirely synced with iCloud.
The only thing missing is the ability to Share a file with a URL. But, I still have to use OneDrive for work and thats where I do most of my "sharing files by URL" so I think I'll be fine. Its more professional and secure to be sharing files via our company sharepoint than a personal dropbox account anyway.
On OSX the Mail app will automatically share large files by URL on iCloud.On OSX the Mail app will automatically share large files by URL on iCloud.
All that is intended for is when people attach files too large to be attached, and Apple handles it automatically. Not in anyway a replacement for getting a URL for a file already stored in the cloud.
Google says they don't allow "sensitive" data to even be collected, much less used for ad targeting. What made you believe they did?
One persons "sensitive" data is another persons monetized asset. All depends on who is defining what "sensitive" means. And for an algorithm 'we'll know it when we see it' won't code.
...but using it as anonymized data.
I'd like to see Apple port the 'glances' approach to the iOS control panel and let me pick what features I'd like to see there. Mine would include toggle cellular on/off and this new low power mode as starters.
You can already disable cellular by turning on airplane mode (and then optionally re-enabling wifi and/or bluetooth if desired.)
I'm excited about 3D Touch and the new functions that will be easier to access. For instance, this feature could be extended so that pressing down on the wifi or bluetooth buttons could provide a "peek" to let you select a different wifi network or bluetooth device without navigating multiple screens.
This is not true at all. I still have 4 digit passcodes on my iOS 9 devices. Its under Passcode Options.
You can't create a new 4 digit passcode. If you try to change your current 4 digit code, you now have to use 6 digits.
Note that Google does not allow advertising directed to "sensitive categories" of internet viewers, nor do they allow collecting data about them either.
Things aren't as bad as you're making them out to be.
Sure, I trust this guy.
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmidt-dismisses-privacy
Then at best you can say that, for now, Google doesn't allow these categories to be used for targeted ads. And that's great, until they update their policies. And it still doesn't change the fact that the information is all still collected and stored and analyzed. It's just not used at the moment for ads.
Honest question: who's worse? facebook?
In 2012, Google "simplified" their privacy policy and surreptitiously removed the separation between YouTube, Google search, and other Google products. By describing the change as "treat[ing] you as a single user," Google intended to remove the privacy-protective separations from YouTube and Google search.
This was not obvious from reading the new policy document itself, requiring a letter from Congress to force Google to explain the actual changes.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/what-actually-changed-google's-privacy-policy
And yes, Facebook is even worse, except for one thing... Facebook is far easier to avoid than Google.
What are people going to complain about now that iCloudDrive has a dedicated iOS App????
Oh thats right, that cloud storage is still not unlimited and free. Damn those people offering services for money!
I don't complain about the price iCloud Drive as I understand and appreciate the differences between Apple's business model and that of their competitors.
Having said that, though, iCloud is still way behind. The app still doesn't let you search for any non-iWork documents, which severely limits the utility of iCloud Drive as a primary solution. Also, it still doesn't support selective sync. So everything you have in the cloud is forced onto the local storage of every device you have - the choice is all or nothing - which is a pain considering the limited storage on SSD-equipped MacBooks. Finally, file sync is still flaky, opaque, and unreliable compared to something like Dropbox, which is completely transparent about every file's sync status and always "just works" despite being a non-native, cross-platform service.
Since you mention them it does look like Facebook, at least based on their Advertising Policies page updated in April, does allow much of what Google doesn't in the way of sensitive data use and collection.
John Gruber speculated that "there’s a rift between the old “Don’t be evil” Google and the new “Let’s do whatever we want” Google, ...it’s a rift between Schmidt and Larry/Sergey — if not personally, then at least culturally within the company. On the one side, the Larry/Sergey Google that makes amazing cool things — the search engine, Gmail, Android. On the other, the Schmidt Google that, in its efforts to serve ads as efficiently as possible, no longer seems concerned with the traditional Western concept of personal privacy."
Facebook lacks this cultural rift. Their founder has always been intent on destroying privacy and his company is singularly focused on that goal.
Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, gleefully bragged about how people entrusted him with their personal information. “I don’t know why. They ’trust me’. Dumb fucks.”
Facebook's privacy policy changes reveal their intentions quite clearly.
The one thing I DON'T like, however, is the lack of Siri's "ding" when activated. That audio cue comes in very handy when not looking at the phone. It lets me know Siri is listening and I can now speak to her. Without that ding, you're required to look at the screen to make sure you've successfully activated Siri. They need to bring that back in 9.1!
I'm listening to the ATP podcast and John Siricusa thinks Apple will eventually have to move Proactive server side because people will demand it when one device doesn't know what another device does because everything is local to the device. And Apple could totally do this. Their business model isn't advertising, they don't sell our data to anyone so users shouldn't have to be worried that their data will be compromised if it's on iCloud.
Apple doesn't want to do this because then that data would be targeted by the NSA and FBI.
All the new iOS 9 features described in this article (and the new improved Notes app) are really very useful little upgrades! Currently I'm very pleased with iOS 9, for me the best iOS update so far...I'm actually going to use these features, unlike on a lot of the upgrades of former iOS versions.
I've always had a 6 digit passcode, how is this new? If I swipe to login, it brings up a numeric keypad, as long as my passcode is all numbers. What's changed?
It is no longer optional.
Custom numeric code could be 4 digits, no?
Often they enforce minimums. I'll know in a week.
Can you add multiple file attachments to an email in Mail?