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Claris FileMaker Pro gets native Apple Silicon update
Rayz2016 said:Wow. FileMaker got real expensive real quick.FMP hasn't been "cheap" for a long time, at least in terms of perpetual licenses. The real kicker is when they decided to target business users, and adopted a subscription model. That resulted in an individual perpetual license jumping from a couple hundred to $540.d_2 said:I sure miss the original FileMaker, I used it professionally in the early 90’s - it was very intuitive yet powerful, and did everything I needed (and more) - I have tried the options on the Mac App Store without any luck meeting my needsAs did I, for internal company solutions, not as a developer for hire. Started with 2.1.After that, I continued to use it for personal purposes, at least until jumping off the train due to the update costs, even long before they jacked it to $540.It's a lament I've heard from other former users in the same boat. Know and like the program, but the high cost couldn't be justified for personal use. And with the business shift, they kissed off such users altogether.
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First Google Store takes an opposite approach from Apple retail
Google is an experiential brand? Never mind "inherently experiential?"Uh oh. When one of you VPs doesn't understand the strength of the company's brand, there may be trouble.Google's most popular, non-fleeting products are tools -- search, mail, and maps. As well as others like Chrome, and Android.Its most profitable product is advertising, which forms the foundation on which all the others rest.A case can be for made for YouTube, but it has its own brand equity. The one that does fit the bill is Photos, so that is granted, but it's not Google's trademark, nor does it overshadow the rest of the market like its other products do.Experiential retail is hard to do right, inefficient, and the benefits are questionable, which is why it's not common for retailers to attempt it. But, like Microsoft's stores, let's see how long this one lasts, without even considering Google's penchant to kill products it loses interest in.As for the architectural feeling of this store, vs. Apple's, it is fair to say that Google's store exudes more of a warm feel.Apple's typical, workmanlike stores do tend to be homogeneous. But when comparing flagship to flagship, its stores do have a variety of styles, so to compare this one Google store to various Apple flagships, it's going to vary.However, the contention that Google's store is more "natural" because it has wooden furniture and flooring isn't quite right. Apple's stores have wooden furniture as well, and marble, granite, and sandstone are natural materials as well, are they not?
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Apple wants to replace passwords with your iPhone or Mac
rob53 said:It's about time but there will still be issues for installations where people aren't allowed to carry mobile devices except for approved passkeys devices. These devices usually don't do anything other than provide a PIN making them less of a security issue. That said, I no longer work in this kind of an environment so having a potentially better method of securely authenticating my account would be appreciated. Now if only more websites would include the Login using AppleID I'd think it might actually go somewhere.Yes, but this new initiative won't preclude those other approved devices from being still accepted, will they?If Apple, or other unapproved mobile devices aren't acceptable now, and still won't be acceptable in the future, nothing has changed.Those situations are in the minority anyway. To not move forward based on those situations would deny the greater overall benefit to vast majority who aren't so encumbered, and kind of like the tail wagging the dog.I also doubt that Apple would make this method exclusive, and abandon current solutions. Note that existing iCloud accounts don't requite 2FA to be enabled, though admittedly, that could change at some point.
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Newsletter publishers concerned Apple's Mail Privacy Protection will crater industry
cpsro said:It’s always bothered me that “Load Remote Images” defaulted to Yes/On when configuring new accounts in Mail. For a company that more recently claimed to care about privacy, this seemed like a real boner of an error. Users had to remember to disable the feature and decipher which emails were at least safe, if even interesting, to load images.
With iOS 15 that won’t seem to matter. Ahhhh… relief. Thank you. Apple.
Publishers can perhaps partially mitigate their issues by including a “like” button, for users to express themselves and create a trackable action.Like the piece says, most people don't know about tracking pixels, and the typical user is more likely to notice and object to an email message that's broken because the images aren't automatically loaded. That's why it has been the default. Just like with ATT, Apple can't "break" things without giving the user some notice and asking them to consciously make that choice, or the user may think it's Apple's fault and turn on it instead.That said, I've long set mine to "off" and feel no sympathy for the advertising industry not its vampiric tactics. Neither Apple nor users owes it a business model, or anything else. Those in the industry should darned well that if informed consent is going to work again them and their tactics, then they were questionable from the start. Stop playing the victim.
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HBO Max ditches tvOS API for homegrown solution, chaos ensues
AT&T probably assigned their crack development team, responsible for the AT&T TV app, to the new version of the HBOMax app.(yes, that is sarcasm)AT&T -- "We've got the anti-Midas touch™"
