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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich I'm assuming Apple will offer this capability to their app developers to make Apple an even more attractive option for games and other apps. I would assume that you assume correctly.
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I wouldn't call a $3 downturn a "Dive", by any stretch of the imagination.
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Quote: Originally Posted by joelsalt In Canada they've said as much as using a VPN to watch US-only content is stealing. Not sure about using an in-country VPN or not Well, Canadian Content Distributors have claimed as much, yes... Be…
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Wow. Everyone seems to be completely missing the point here... This isn't about Censorship, or Terrorists or "Those people". This is about a Developer who spent countless hours/days/weeks/months building an App -- an App that Apple could have r…
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"Elsewhere, new wording about encryption emphasizes the **impotance** of the technology in protecting things like financial transactions." I assume that should read "impoRtance"? Unless you meant that they're using really crappy encryption.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil If it was going to be in OS X this time around, it would have already been in the DPs. While that's typically true, it wouldn't be the first time a feature was added after the Developer Preview.
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich Voice controlled anything on the desktop makes less sense. We have trackpads and keyboards. Regardless, it's coming. You'll see.
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I'm surprised no one is talking about Siri on OS X... The last demo of 10.11 showed "natural language search" using text -- this is obviously being done by the Siri engine, they just chose not to show the voice-activated part, in hopes of keeping it…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ddawson100 Does anyone know why Apple doesn't simply spoof the identifier rather than pass along the real useragent info on these test phones? Who's to say they didn't? Until the new hardware is actually released…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismY Sure, but Tidal also offers 1411kbps, 16-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC and ALAC streams from their $19.99 month Tidal HiFi service. That makes a mention of bitrate, codec, and codec type understandable when discussi…
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Again with the "just 256 kilobits per second" nonsense... Apple uses AAC to stream audio, everyone else uses MP3. Apple Music's 256k AAC playback is higher quality than the 320k MP3 format that competitors are using -- and on top of sounding bette…
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Quote: Originally Posted by EricTheHalfBee It's been mentioned before. It's used to measure distance traveled. Far more accurate than a vehicle odometer (which is often out by 5-10%). Not to mention that interfacing the data-collecting co…
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Apple Maps data corroboration is my guess.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cyberzombie The HealthKit app doesn't 'do' anything. It is a repository. Au contraire, it "does" exactly the same thing the app being talked about above does. It shows you stored data from your embedded motion…
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So wait... it does all the things that HealthKit currently does -- except it costs $2?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lord Amhran I must be the only one who didn't like this.... Pretty much :P
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Zdziarski is a Joke. Don't even get me started.
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Quote: Originally Posted by EricTheHalfBee And why does the bayonet have to protrude? Why not have it flush where there's a "notch" in the phone body that the lens attaches to? Exactly. They patent docs show it protruding so that Scamscum …
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"...and find it interesting that the company is giving the downloads away for free. This is likely because they know they can't sell the applications themselves while Apple is including iWork for free with all new iOS device purchases" No. It's th…
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Adaptive security profiles would be a treat.