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  • OpenID Foundation says 'Sign in with Apple' has critical gaps, urges changes

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    There is absolutely nothing about OpenID/OAuth 2.0 that Apple cares about. Their solution isn't about conforming with it. Sign in with Apple has no interest in opening up its middleware to OpenID which has a history of flaws. Among the many flaws is Phishing.

    Sorry, but when SIgn in with Apple arrives it'll be whined about that the FBI and others can't hack into it as well.
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  • Apple looks to rejigger Apple News+ as publishers carp over low revenues, 'unfinished' pro...

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    AppleExposed said:
    Does it still redirect you to Safari websites when clicking "read more"?

    That was the last straw for me.
    Then piss on the Publisher who has yet to fully buy into the platform, not Apple.
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  • Apple looks to rejigger Apple News+ as publishers carp over low revenues, 'unfinished' pro...

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    stevenoz said:
    The two newspapers for which I would buy-in, the New York Times and the Washington Post, are not included.

    Lots of women's magazines and fading stars (Time Magazine) though.

    I don't think I'd like to read National Geographic on an iPhone.

    But I'm sure it will appeal to some (with a lot of time).
    It's fantastic on the iPad. It's the primary platform for News+. I imagine with iPadOS it will only become more enhanced. The Times and the Post, WSJ, and other are not Magazines. News+ is mainly Magazines and it sure as shit well worth it.
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  • Apple design chief Jony Ive to depart later this year, create new studio with Apple as cli...

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    rogifan_new said:
    Well Apple does know how to keep secrets. I still think all these hot takes of [insert Apple product I don’t like here] is because of Ive is a little too simplistic. John Gruber was pretty scathing in his blog post. But if you read the New Yorker profile it’s clear Ive never wanted the role of “THE product guy” at Apple. It’s everyone else crowned him that person.
    He is now one of the two most powerful people in the world’s most valuable company. He sometimes listens to CNBC Radio on his hour-long commute from San Francisco to Apple’s offices, in Silicon Valley, but he’s uncomfortable knowing that a hundred thousand Apple employees rely on his decision-making—his taste—and that a sudden announcement of his retirement would ambush Apple shareholders. (To take a number: a ten-percent drop in Apple’s valuation represents seventy-one billion dollars.) According to Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’s widow, who is close to Ive and his family, “Jony’s an artist with an artist’s temperament, and he’d be the first to tell you artists aren’t supposed to be responsible for this kind of thing.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-come
    It seems pretty clear with his working on Apple Campus and Apple Stores that he was getting bored designing computers. Which makes me wonder just how much he was involved in things like the butterfly keyboard. I doubt he spent much time at all on software design. I do wonder what will happen now. Surely Jeff Williams overseeing his teams is temporary. But I wonder if they’ll put the human interface team under software engineering and the industrial designers under hardware engineering and get rid of the CDO position for good.
    The man knows nothing about Software Design. He was a figure head leader over way too many pots. Several of my former NeXT colleagues who pioneered OS X have come back to ``fix Apple'' and the lack of consistent design and results that NeXTSTEP was known for from a mere 300 people world wide. New teams in iOS building are the old guys that lead the build structures for OS X. All sorts of people got bored, left, and some have trickled back in, and with 30+ years of every conceivable level of OS design and application development you can already see the changes happening, from the Pro Apps, sudden improvements to iWorks, revamping of the flag ship consumer apps, or did everyone think it's Craig? Craig is glad to have them all back.
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  • Apple design chief Jony Ive to depart later this year, create new studio with Apple as cli...

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    decondos said:
    Time for him to go. Mac Pro is either hideous or coarse retro. Apple needs to try something new.
    We all have opinions and yours about the Mac Pro is comically sad. It's a beautiful piece of engineering--what it should be.
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