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  • Mac app buyers influenced by security more than features or price, survey states

    robertwalterrobertwalter
     I agree that security is primarily important to me. 
    twokatmew

  • Telus Health launches fall detection monitoring for Apple Watch

    robertwalterrobertwalter
    Wheats the user case here?  Isn’t the Apple Watch doing this already?  Isn’t 9-1-1 also available 24/7?
    watto_cobra

  • WebKit code leaks Apple's next OS names as macOS 12, iOS 15

    robertwalterrobertwalter
    Hardest of agrees! Came here to say same thing. It’s really getting confusing having all these annual revision numbers out of sync. Same for product naming, dump the S update game and just make this year’s phone the iPhone 21. Apple already does something like this with Mac. Who cares if there is a skip between years like going from Mac Pro 19 to Mac Pro 21. People will get used to this because those that know are used to this.
    watto_cobra

  • NHS admits contact tracing app won't work on older iPhones

    robertwalterrobertwalter
    Mr Lewis sounds like one of those dolt Project leaders that will push through in a bad idea to maintain his empire even though better concepts With fewer problems and better overall performance and compatibility are further advanced and are close at hand. 

    Drains batteries?  Of course not. 

    Doesn’t work on older phones?  Nbd those aren’t significant anyway. 

    Big thing seems to be folks should update their s/w. Apparently he hasn’t seen the high uptake rates of iOS 13, not to mention that 11, 12 and 13 combined cover near 100% of BLE iPhones already (5S and up). Since his s/w requires iOS 11 or later, he's essentially covered regardless of Update status. This also puts paid to his “haven’t got around to covering all phones yet”, but TBH this probably applies more to android than iOS. 

    It has been reported NHS has been studying adopting the Swiss tracking app. 

    Frankly any national app that don’t intercommunicate with other apps should be junked. That WHO, EU, CDC, etc haven’t worked on an Apple/Google-based global solution is frankly astounding, and pretty incompetent. 

    Today the Swiss government expanded its testing phase for its app to wring out the last of the bugs. Prior to this it was in small scale testing inside the Ranks of the Swiss Army. (TBH, the app will probably be ready for release before the Swiss Parliament gets a law in place to allow public roll out - at last word, such law was targeted for early June.)
    rossb2PetrolDavewatto_cobra

  • Crime blotter: Stolen iPhone solves Florida fireman's slaying

    robertwalterrobertwalter
    apple ][ said:
    Man, so much evil scum exists, just read some of these stories. Stealing from a woman suffering a seizure?

    I'm hoping for some more feel good stories again next week, where some of the criminals get to pay the ultimate price for their crimes. I want to see them six feet under.

    The only stories where I don't feel sorry for the victim, is where somebody arranges to meet in person some totally random, unknown person through an online market place and then sell them their iPhone or whatever. 
    How is that really any different from the old days when folks put want ads in the paper, or parked their car at the supermarket with a for sale sign?

    So much hostility, from wanting to see the crooks dead, and ok with the suffering of some of the victims. 
    steveau