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Apple sued over claims website is inaccessible to visually impaired users
Apple should follow accessibility guidelines for the Web, and I believe it will, shortly. But a lawsuit... really? There is a reason they are called guidelines, not laws!Although I'm removed from the problem at hand, my mom dedicated her whole life (and still does) to the teaching and training of persons with all kinds of disabilities. So I'm not unsympathetic to the troubles these people suffer. That being said, I also find this lawsuit culture abhorrent and toxic. Apple is not being sued because of their failure to follow guidelines, but because they're Apple, and have a ton o cash...
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Default Samsung messaging app randomly spamming contacts with pictures
Yeah, even "good, but not great" Dieter Bohn, from the Verge, tweeted it. So it's official, Samsung cut their losses on "advertising" strategies this year!Robots78 said:lkrupp said:And we will probably see this report exactly nowhere in the mainstream tech media.
Wow, you all are a paranoid lot.StrangeDays said:Not Apple, tech press won’t care.
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/7/2/17528076/samsung-phones-text-rcs-update-messages
https://www.cnet.com/news/is-your-samsung-phone-texting-private-pics-without-permission/
https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/02/samsung-texting-app-randomly-sends-messages/
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/02/some-samsung-users-say-their-phones-randomly-sent-photos-to-contacts/ -
Intel's next iPhone cellular modem could completely replace Qualcomm chips
A little inflammation on the rhetoric at the very end....with the results potentially determining the fortunes of both companies...
Nevertheless, while Qualcomm's fortunes are indeed very much tied to those courts hearings, Apple's are not. Partisanship notwithstanding, it is fundamentally a good thing to see Qualcomm on the ropes for the dubious licensing practices that it was allowed to enforce over so many years! -
The Mac gaming landscape remains dire, with no improvements in sight
That’s partially the reason that only Blizzard and Aspyr have seen the green of my bucks for the last several years. They are a minority among publishers as much as I am a minority among consumers, meaning, no macOS support, not on my radar! -
Apple Mail affected by critical PGP, S/MIME encryption vulnerabilities
I sure hope that, while Apple works on this issue, it’ll spur them to consolidate their S/MIME implementation (or even add native support to PGP/GPG). As it’s stands now, iOS Mail won’t recognize the S/MIME certificates I generated in macOS keychain (even though Apple Mail, in macOS has no trouble with them).
I mean, how much of a trouble would be for Apple to act as a CA, issuing certificates for our @mac, @me, and @icloud emails. It would go right along with their privacy values.
To avoid backslash, make it opt in, so the tech illiterate, who would fluster with an s/mime attachment on their webmail (eww...), don’t die from brain hemorrhage.
