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  • 'AirTags' leak reveals circular button design of tracking accessory

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    davgreg said:
    As a Tile user this is what I will be looking for:

    1- White plastic- no go.
    2- No replaceable battery - no go.
    3- No slim tracker for a wallet - no go.

    Me too features are not going to get me to switch from Tile.
    As a Tile use this is what I will be looking for:

    1. Not giving my location to Tile via their creepy app.
    Xed

  • Apple blocked WordPress for iOS updates until it agreed to in-app purchases [u]

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    FTA:
    It's worth noting that the WordPress for iOS app is a project of WordPress.com. It's a hosting service built on the WordPress backbone but technically separate from the open-source platform at wordpress.org.
    From the Automattic article on Wikipedia:
    Automattic Inc. is an American global distributed company which was founded in August 2005 and is most notable for WordPress.com (a freemium blogging service), as well as its contributions to WordPress (an open source blogging software). 
    ...
    Automattic raised US$617.3 million in six funding rounds. In the last round, in September 2019, the company was valued at US$3 billion.
    The WordPress for iOS app has?/had? webviews inside the app which offered paid plans from WordPress.com; and the reason that was "problematic" would appear to be because that would be an end-run around App Store rules about IAP. In that case, the "change" would be that the webview to the freemium plans had to either be removed or replaced to use IAP instead. Surely Automattic had to know this, despite the tweet. My guess after a quick trip around the updated app is that the webview might have been removed.

    I'm wondering whether Mr. Mullenweg is relying on the fact that most people don't know the difference between WordPress.org (the open source project) and WordPress.com/WordPress for iOS app (owned by the privately-held, for-profit Automattic, valued in 2019 at ~$3 billion). 

    Gotta get on the manufactured outrage train when it comes by, it seems.

    Edit: Grammar is hard.
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  • Steve Jobs emails reveal why iOS users can't buy Kindle books

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    iOS users can—and do—buy Kindle books. Just not directly from within the Kindle app on their iPhone.

    In fact, on an iPhone, external links to Kindle books automatically redirect through the Amazon app to the related Amazon.com URL in Safari where they can be purchased, due to some fancy footwork using custom URL schemes.

    This article deserves a more accurate headline.
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  • Case for affordable 4.7-inch iPhone arrives at Best Buy, suggests handset will debut this ...

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    chasm said:
    I have to point out that his doesn't actually prove anything at all. Case makers have long taken measurements from rumours and put out cases in the hopes that the rumours were true. When they aren't, they just write off those prototype cases.
    It’s one thing to mock up cases based on rumored specs. It’s another thing altogether to put them in retail packaging and ship them to Best Buy stores.
    ZepLepplind_2dewmerazorpitStrangeDays

  • The top malware threat for macOS infects one in 10 users

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    AppleInsider said:
    One type of malware that the Shlayer Trojan installs is a Safari Extension and the Mac does ask if you are sure that you want to use it. However, while macOS is warning that this is an unrecognized extension, Shlayer is overlaying that message with a fake dialog box saying that the installation is complete.

    Users see an "Okay" button and click it, but in reality they are clicking a Trust button that macOS was actually displaying. They are telling the Mac that it is okay to install this software, so it does.

    Left: what the user sees. Right: what the Mac is actually displaying (Source: Kaspersky)
    Left: what the user sees. Right: what the Mac is actually displaying (Source: Kaspersky)
    An application should never, ever be allowed to layer a window or dialog box over the top (i.e. a higher z-order) of a system notification. Even that company in Redmond figured this out (back in Vista IIRC).
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