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DoomFreak said:

Apple is full of crap.  It is very misleading to tell users they can purchase something with a "Buy" button and then suggest that they do not own it.  I think they would get a lot less money , if they had a "Use for an unknown amount of time" button.

They know people think they are buying it.  Purely deceptive.

They never suggested that you don't own it. Within the constraints of the copyright law, you "own" the copy you purchased. What Apple say is they are not under the obligation to hold your purchased copy indefinitely on their servers. Your are under the obligation of downloading your purchased copy and store it in your possession.

Disable location-aware widgets in iOS 14.

Too much efforts to steal passwords via a keylogger, placing a spy-cam is much easier. Do security-sensitive guys still type passwords? Touch ID is everywhere...

KITA said:

Interesting. This may impact iOS/macOS gaming even further, potentially making third party developers choose to drop support of iOS/macOS or find a new game engine.

It told Epic that by August 28, Apple will cut off Epic’s access to all development tools necessary to create software for Apple’s platforms—including for the Unreal Engine Epic offers to third-party developers, which Apple has never claimed violated any Apple policy. Not content simply to remove Fortnite from the App Store, Apple is attacking Epic’s entire business in unrelated areas. 

If the Unreal Engine can no longer support Apple platforms, the software developers that use it will be forced to use alternatives.

Apple would lose out on Unreal Engine 5 as well it sounds like.

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Although they are the owner of Unreal Engine, there are less than fifteen iOS games developed with it, according to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games

A recent mainstream game for the Mac is Borderlands 3, but it requires a graphics card of 8 GB on the Mac ! What a game engine is that !

So not many people will miss them once they are gone, and the whole affair will be forgotten in a couple of months even in the blogosphere that feeds it and life will continue as usual...

GeorgeBMac said:

This sounds like there is nothing new from a technical standpoint.    Rather it's just a consolidation of existing tech monitors with a structure to obtain a base line then monitor ongoing changes (or the lack of).

A lot of this is already there in Apple Health.

But, both Apple Health and the Activity app are black holes from a data standpoint:   The data goes in but the user can't get it back out (except worthless little graphs on their iPhone).   Perhaps this will be opening Apple Health so the data it collects can be used in a meaningful way -- such as how you can send an EKG taken by your AppleWatch to your doctor?   That would be a good thing.

You can send each EKG in PDF format. You can also export all your health data as a zip archive, but the contents are mostly in xml format and rather suited to be imported into medical information systems. The export feature is in the Health app, under your medical ID.