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  • Apple Music links shifting away from iTunes domain, further signaling death of app

    looplessloopless
    You realize all these headlines about the death of iTunes is causing a media panic that everyone is going to lose their music. It’s sort of funny how the non tech media is getting this so wrong. They are totally clueless that all Apple is doing is breaking up one monolithic app into multiple apps.. 
    chasm

  • Apple facing class action lawsuit over alleged iTunes & Apple Music data sale

    looplessloopless
    In the bigger picture, when you give an app access to, say, your address book, nothing stops that app from harvesting all that data and sending it - except the threat of being discovered and banned from the App Store. Apple tries to strike a balance , in what they give apps access to and users privacy.
    arthurbaappledevwatto_cobra

  • macOS 10.14.5 goes live with security and bug fixes

    looplessloopless
    Are you referring to the authentication problem G-Suite users had? Then that was "fixed" a long time ago by "someone" (either Apple or Google) updating certificates or by some other server-side fix.
    fastasleepmacawesome88

  • How to decide if investing in a big Homekit setup is right for you

    looplessloopless
    I love HomeKit..it works extremely well in my experience. The one very annoying thing not specific to HomeKit is the requirement of ,say, Hue and Lutron hubs (that do not use WiFi to talk to their devices ) to be physically connected by Ethernet to the router. That can be a problem if the location of the router means the distance from the router to the Hue devices is too far and communication is patchy or fails. The only way I solved this was to buy a mesh WiFi (orbi) and connect the hubs to a satellite WiFi..
    GeorgeBMacwatto_cobra

  • Purged screen time monitoring apps misused enterprise tools, Schiller says

    looplessloopless
    OutdoorAppDeveloper said:
    The apps only "misused enterprise tools" because Apple refused to provide an official SDK that let the app developers do what the users wanted. Make no mistake this is fully intentional on Apple's part. Apple is very interested in limiting what users can do with their devices. This is why there is no real WiFi SDK, why the Bluetooth SDK is crippled, why apps are extremely restricted when they run in the background or with the screen off, why there are no third part Apple Watch faces, why you can't modify the user interface to suit your needs, why you can't side load apps, why there is no third party app store, why there is no professional mode, why their are no real code compilers on the iPad, why there are no virtual machines, why you can't mine cryptocurrency, why Home Kit sucks ...
    If Apple gave unfettered access to all features of a device, we end up with Windows. And we know how that ends up. Apple very carefully opens up the device via SDKs only after careful consideration and research into unintended side-effects. As they say 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions'. For example, NFC. Apple has been very careful to only support a very limited set of NFC protocols. Now that the NFC market has matured and all the security and user issues are mostly sorted, they are apparently opening up to other NFC protocols and presumably SDK access in the next iOS release.
    cornchipn2itivguywatto_cobra