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  • App Store policy and developer fee drama won't change Apple's ways at all

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    OutdoorAppDeveloper said:
    It's not about the developer fee. It's about Apple having absolute control over what users are allowed to do with the devices they own. As someone who started programming on micro computers decades ago, I find this concept abhorrent. It's your device. You own it. It is extremely powerful and has many amazing features and capabilities. Many of them are locked behind Apple's code walls. You are prevented from accessing them for your own good. Apple has no such restrictions and can use those features without you even knowing they exist. Right now there is a massive controversy brewing over the COVID-19 trackers that Apple built into the latest iOS update. Apple is using features of the iPhone not available to users and developers to track users contacts with each other. Apple won't even allow developers to test the features and learn how they work unless they are affiliated with a government agency. That is freaking everyone out and rightfully so. We trust Apple but not that much.
    Yeah, I'll agree to your premise, but not to your point. Because we all knew that going in. From the very first iDevice anyone of us bought, we all knew that going in. So it is worth noting the reasoning behind complaining about it later on (really, quite so much—a decade later—on). I have never known of anybody who had the technological training to genuinely tinker around an advanced (like you put) hardware/software platform, while at the same time, to be so misinformed as to not know what he could, and could not, do, beforehand.

    I love free (open) software, and I use it on a daily basis on a freeBSD system I have at the University I teach. I also like Apple's approach for my personal devices, and that's why I paid a lot to have a Mac, iPhone, iPad, and AppleTV.
    aderutter

  • Zoom 5.0 update bolsters encryption, adds meeting security features

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    Great!

    Still not going to install it. Never! Trust in a developer is everything. In a related incident: I’m off Facebook apps for more than a year now, and it’s just fine.
    pscooter63toysandmedarkvaderqwerty52

  • Updates for older iPhones & iPads, third-gen Apple TV released

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    I had to fully reset it (which is a chore, since my aluminum remote has become finicky, after my kids mauled it), but after a second reboot, it was able to update. Now I'm watching the second episode straight of Snoopy! So far, so good!
    watto_cobra

  • Apple releases iOS 13.4, iPadOS 13.4, watchOS 6.2, tvOS 13.4, macOS 10.15.4

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    dysamoria said:
    Is iOS 13 finally safe to install on devices where we’ve been holding off on it due to the utter mess it has been so far?
    Last time I had trouble with a OS release was iOS 6, that disabled the WiFi on my year old iPhone 4S. No harm, though, as Apple sent me a replacement in less than a week!

    You can solve all your problems by switching your phone manufacturer, your OS producer and the forum you post north of 2,000 times!
    fastasleep

  • Updates for older iPhones & iPads, third-gen Apple TV released

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    I hope it fixes the audio/video sync issues that a lot of people with 3rd gen. Apple TV’s were having. That was particularly troublesome because the issues were specific to Apple TV+ content!
    edred