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  • Apple researching mattress haptic system to wake, relax users

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    Credit Apple
    Where do you put the quarters?

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  • Apple highlights Ceramic Shield screen in new iPhone 12 ad

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    sdw2001 said:
    My pro Max screen has small scratches.  I don’t recall my previous iPhones having that problem. For the first time I am using a screen protector now.  I can’t see it’s worse, but I don’t see how it’s any better than previous models. Perhaps I’m wrong.
    It's not better or worse when it comes to scratch resistance. Still scratches at a 6 with deeper grooves at a 7.  :D  Apple is touting a different form of resistance in this commercial: shatter resistance.  Shatter resistance and scratch resistance aren't the same.  Typically, more scratch resistant (harder glass) = less shatter resistant (softer glass) and vice versa.
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  • Scam apps have made more than $400 million on the App Store, Google Play

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    In total, the team found 134 fleeceware apps on the App Store that have been downloaded a combined 500 million times. Sensor Tower estimates indicate that the apps have made $365 in revenue. 

    500 million downloads and $365 in revenue.  Could have gotten a better return on time investment by begging for change in the NYC subway.  Might have been worth the effort if they'd gotten something like $365 million.   :D :D

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  • ProtonVPN devs allege Apple is blocking app updates amid Myanmar unrest

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    tommikele said:

    CloudTalkin said:
    dewme said:
    DAalseth said:
    Just change a couple of words in the description. That’s trivial. Stop whining and just do it.
    I have to agree with you. I understand the app maker wants to extol their own personal virtues as "challengers of governments" and "deliverers of freedom" but now is not the time and Apple's App Store is not forum to play these kinds of games. This app is a tool that people need, and need now. Now is the time for pragmatism and stopping the pain. They can get back to their grandstanding and self aggrandizing signaling after the crisis is over.  
    I don't understand your sentiment here.  The underlying premise, ensuring the tool is available to the people, is sound.  The rhetoric though... not so much.  Why wouldn't Apple's App Store be the place to advocate for social issues?  Apple uses it to highlight social issues and often shines the spotlight on devs/apps that do as well.  What would be considered more grandstanding and sef-aggrandizing? 
    1.  Bringing attention to your stance on social issues during a period of social unrest; potentially risking revenue. 
    2.  Bringing attention to your stance on social issues when nothing is going on and there's no perceived risk to business and profit.  ←It's this one.  It's more grandstand-y.
         The cynic in me would say "why not both", but the human in me says it's 2.  

    Again, the right idea is to remove the offending language and get back to the business of helping the people.  There we agree 100%.  Your delivery though, like DAalseth's, is a bit tone deaf.  It's as if you both are assuming Proton's motives are completely self serving.


    And you are assuming they are not.
    Absent of any evidence, yeah I am assuming they're not.  Had their app been approved as they planned, the notations most likely would have gone unnoticed... as unnoticed as they had been for months prior to the UN recommendation.  It's not as if they had changed the app description to coincide with the UN announcement.  If they had done that, the self serving arguments might have held water.  


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  • ProtonVPN devs allege Apple is blocking app updates amid Myanmar unrest

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    DAalseth said:
    Just change a couple of words in the description. That’s trivial. Stop whining and just do it.
    Sure, that would be the expedient way.  Remove the words and everything is okay.  But is it really okay? "Challenging governments" does not singularly connote "violating local laws".  There are myriad ways to challenge governments without running afoul of the law.  

    Don't ask don't tell seems to be Apple's position.  Proton can be used how VPN's around the world are used.  Just don't say that they are going to be used how VPN's around the world are used.  Sort of weasel-like in an unnecessary way.  In conjunction with other recent acquiescing in Russia and China (continuous), Apple's human rights stance seems more advertising than actual advocacy.

    Thing is, your advice isn't wrong.  It's the means that justifies the end.  Your wording though... seems callous and dismissive of the context surrounding Myanmar.




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