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  • Colors in Apple's spring event invitation hint at 'a lot of things,' leaker says

    citpekscitpeks
    What it really says -- "Paul is dead."
    jeffythequickfred1watto_cobra

  • Sony pumps $200M into Epic ahead of legal fight with Apple

    citpekscitpeks
    Hold on, doesn't Sony charge game developers a 30% cut?  In Epic's view, wouldn't that make Sony's investment blood money?

    Or is that hush, or protection money?
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  • Supposed next-gen Apple TV remote turns out to be third-party hardware

    citpekscitpeks
    Throw up a story first(!), think later.

    Such is the state of the tech media.  Mostly predictable, often stale

    UEI is the venerable player in the space, and it would be great to see its remote make it to retail.
    Beats

  • The case for Apple TV -- why Apple's 'hobby' isn't as dead as critics think

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    It's not dead, it's just resting.

    For any of these possibilities to materialize, two things needs to happen -- 1) Apple management need to recognize that the home is more than just a hobby, and that it has a glaring unexploited market, if not weakness, in IoT hardware, and 2) it needs to take the initiative to rectify that.

    Meanwhile, the ATV rots, unloved, the HomePod (which began life as an audio, not smart speaker) is dead, and HomeKit is relegated to being a third-class citizen because Apple has let its fate rest with third parties, and done nothing to show how benchmark HomeKit products should look and act, least of all by producing such products itself.

    Early on, Siri was the leader, and HomeKit was something nobody else had.  Years later, they've both stagnated, and never fulfilled their early potential.

    Why should Apple users care, when Apple seemingly doesn't care, about the home, itself?

    Why don't Apple users have the option of IoT hardware that isn't produced by data-sucking companies like Google and Amazon, or disparate third-party vendors, each with their own app, and subject to privacy risks of their own?

    Surely, Apple employees must lament the situation when endeavoring to modernize their own homes, only to find that the offerings tied to the company they work for are far outnumbered by other options.


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  • Zuckerberg changes tune, says Apple's iOS 14 privacy feature might benefit Facebook

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    It's funny how much attention this feature has attracted, when the ability to deny IDFA tracking has been part of iOS for a while, on a blanket level.

    What iOS 14.5 will bring are active prompts to have the user decide to opt in/out, for each app on a granular level.

    It's not going to make a lot of difference to anyone who has already been paying attention to their privacy settings.
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