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  • Apple TV+ scrapped show based on Gawker after Tim Cook heard about it

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    22july2013 said:
     (when you are selling movies, you can't allow historical facts to affect your sales.)

    Holllywood has never cared about historical accuracy when it comes to making movies. (I won't say money because we all know that due to their corrupt accounting rules, no film makes money)
    Hollywood will quite happily make a film that portrays an American doing something when it is a fact that someone from another nation did that thing. They'll do the reverse and make someone from anothet country the evil one when the historical facts show differently.
    They were on the MAGA bandwagon decades before Trumpy thought of it.

    Bums on seats and merchandising and sequels is what is all about.

    DAalseth

  • Researchers discover 33 vulnerabilities affecting 'millions' of IoT, smart home devices

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    Is anyone with even half a clue about IT surprised by this sort of thing?
    I decided a long time ago that I'd not be having any IoT [redacted] kit in my home. To me, they are a disaster waiting to happen.
    I'm sure that it won't be very long before your home insurance company starts demanding to know if you have things like Smart Doorbells with camera's etc installed. Watch out for insurance rates to rise accordingly.
    magman1979dysamoriajony0

  • All-in-one Apple hardware and software subscription inevitable, says analyst

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    Leasing is what my father called 'The Never, Never'. You never stop paying and you never own what you paid for.

    IANAL etc but if Apple want to paint a big target for the Anti-trust hawks in the state capitals and DC (As well as in the EU etc) then this is it.
    Let others do this but don't risk them coming after you with some really, really hefty fines and breakup orders.

    Even stop advertising. Then customers will be making their own choices.

    GeorgeBMac

  • M1 MacBook Air review: nearly as transformative as the original

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    dewme said:

    cpsro     said:
    It bugs me that many traditional Apple Mac applications (Mail, Calendar, Contacts) under Big Sur have been redesigned for a touch interface, with extra space added to make it easier to select items unambiguously with one’s fingers, but the space is completely wasted because nobody has a touch screen Mac. On a 13” screen, the inefficiency is even more pronounced. A lot of people are working significantly less efficiently now, for no good reason. Apple needs to provide an option to revert to prior spacing.

    What does this mean with respect to the MacBook Air? Also, why would Apple design a UI around a computer they don’t make? I’d bet if you talk with a UX designer you’d gain some insight into why modern UI designs are following a more open and airy appearance with more white space. 

    Yeah i know, we’d all be much more efficient if we’d just learn how to use a keyboard properly and if all UIs followed the vi editor command paradigm and Wordstar keyboard shortcuts. 

    You may not like it, but it’s really a thing. 
    https://uxengineer.com/principles-of-design/white-space/


    More whitespace means more scrolling up and down which leads to inefficiency.  The malaise has been around for several years. Even Windows Server 2015 was infected with it. Not everyone works on 4K screens but some UI designers seem to assume that we have infinite vertical space on our kit. We don't but they don't care and it seems to be getting worse.


    williamlondonwatto_cobradocno42

  • Apple developing system to filter radio stations, including AM and FM

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    lkrupp said:
    dsward said:
    I am the developer of an open-source macOS application called LocalRadio, available for download on GitHub.  It allows the user to attach an inexpensive radio receiver to the Mac's USB hub and relay the audio and an HTML user interface to any device on the network - for example, to an iPhone running Safari.  It's available for download at https://github.com/dsward2/LocalRadio

    Based on this patent filing, it sounds like Apple is considering a similar device.

    Are you a registered developer? Is your app signed and will it open without overriding security? If not then sorry, no go.
    As it is open source you can build it yourself can't you? You can even inspect the code beforehand to see if there are any nasties. In this case, signing an app is almost irrelevant.
    watto_cobrafastasleep