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  • Apple partner Wistron says 'iPhone 7s Plus' will include wireless charging, improved water...

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    What's the attraction of wireless charging? Can someone point out the pros? You still need to touch it on something, just not plug it in. Still needs to be in the proximity of the charger. If anything, it's more limiting, because you don't have the cable which you can use to move the phone around while charging.
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  • Amazon adds iCloud Calendar compatibility to Alexa ecosystem

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    FYI, you'll have to turn on two-factor authentication for iCloud, in order to get an app-specific password for the Alexa app.
    Which everyone should have enabled by this point considering how much data your iCloud account stores with an web-accessible portal.
    One question: if you enable two-factor authentication does it mean you cannot get on iCloud unless you have your phone? That would be a major inconvenience, in cases where you lose you phone (or worse), and want to get onto a computer to use "Find my phone" feature, or access your contacts, etc.
    2FA doesn't require an iPhone at all.

    "With two-factor authentication, your account can only be accessed on devices you trust, like your iPhone, iPad, or Mac."
    Really! What is that one-time code that's being sent to my phone each time I log into the iCloud on a web browser? How can you say that 2FA doesn't require an iPhone at all? Maybe another iDevice, but it requires that you have something else besides the usual password, otherwise it would not be something you know+something you have.
    As the link I supplied clearly states, you can have and iPhone, an iPad, or a Mac (possibly even an iPod touch if the OS is current enough), but you don't specifically need an iPhone.
    I was only trying to say that if you lose your iPhone, or it gets stolen, you cannot just run to the nearest web browser, log into iCloud and track your lost or stolen phone any longer, or access your iCloud data. 
    ben20

  • Amazon adds iCloud Calendar compatibility to Alexa ecosystem

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    FYI, you'll have to turn on two-factor authentication for iCloud, in order to get an app-specific password for the Alexa app.
    Soliben20

  • Apple makes New York Magazine editor Lauren Kern 'editor in chief' at Apple News

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    Apple News is the only aggregation service I know of which can block Fox News, New York Post, and Breitbart, completely. That is why I use them nowadays. When Google News can do that I'll start using them again. 
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  • Apple's iPhone SE, iPhone 7 Plus take top spots in customer satisfaction index

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    I bet the iPhone 7 did not get higher due to shorter battery life, and lesser camera, which is expected. But interesting to see the SE on there at the top. I think the design is definitely the best. If they sized up that design would be better than the renders we're seeing of the new one. Slab is fab.
    king editor the grate