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  • Germany launches antitrust investigation over App Tracking Transparency [u]

    darkvaderdarkvader
    darelrex said:
    In any discussion of Apple's ATT, we should keep in mind that it is up to each individual user to decide whether to allow/disallow tracking, and they can make this choice for each individual app. As long as Apple's own apps respect that user decision as all iOS apps are required to do, then where is the special preferencing of Apple? Or is it just that Apple, as the creator/controller of its own platform, potentially can make that platform do anything it wants, while third parties cannot, and that is an unfair advantage in the eyes of power-mad regulators?

    The problem is that Apple does not respect the user's choice for their own apps and the OS itself.  The regulators aren't power-mad, Apple is power-mad. 

    Not every app needs internet access at all.  Little Snitch is great, but that functionality should really be built into every OS, and turned on by default.  The default should be that no app or operating system should be allowed to make any network connection without explicit user permission.  And most tracking should just be flat out illegal.
    williamlondonbadmonk

  • Apple's macOS Ventura beta review: great new features, but some concerns

    darkvaderdarkvader
    I suppose the workaround for 'unsend' with iMessages is to keep an older Mac running Messages all the time. 

    Mail is going to be more annoying, given that any Mac running 13 will likely respond to the 'unsend' email and delete the message from your inbox.  I'll have to configure my mail server to keep copies of everything before I ever install 13 on anything - or just give up on Apple Mail and use Thunderbird on any Mac running 13.

    Hopefully Apple will see the insanity before release and add a setting to just disable this 'feature' that's really a bug.
    williamlondonbonobob

  • Future MacBook Pro screens may kill off the bezel completely

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    fastasleep said:
    darkvader said:
    I'm fine with bezels on my computer.  I don't really care how big they are.  They can be huge, tiny, or nonexistent.

    But that stupid notch has to go.  It's a no-brainer to give up screen real estate to get rid of it, because screen with a notch in the middle of it is useless anyway.  It was an incredibly stupid move by Apple.

    I'd rather give up the camera entirely.  Most users tape over it anyway, so it's not like anybody is actually giving up anything of value.  If you need a camera, there are plenty of external cameras on the market.
    “Useless” 
    “most users”
    LOL

    The. Stupid. Notch. Blocks. The. Menu. Bar.

    How is that anything but useless?  There are ways to move the menu bar down and turn the 'screen' space beside the notch into a bezel, but that's less than ideal.  Sure, it's better than the notch, but it wastes more screen real estate than putting the camera in a proper bezel would.

    And yes, most users.  I haven't seen a MacBook Pro in years that didn't have tape (or a torn post-it note) over the bezel.  For iMacs, it's usually just an entire post-it note with something written on it.  But the camera is covered, because almost nobody trusts a camera pointing at them all the time.  It used to be camera shutters, but those break screens now.  Entire offices have virtually every camera taped.  The only computers without tape are the few people who do videoconferences all the time and maybe a dedicated video conference computer.

    Users working from home who have to do video conferences typically tape the camera and have an external cam that they cover or unplug when it's not in use.

    Maybe my clients are just particularly privacy conscious.  But they almost all cover cameras.
    grandact73williamlondon9secondkox2

  • Waze adds Apple Music support for iPhone users

    darkvaderdarkvader
    I wonder if that's actually useful...

    Nope, not even remotely.  I have ZERO interest in streaming music.  And it won't access my music library, it just wants to connect to the stupid Apple Music "service" that I don't use.  I've got the accumulated music that I've acquired over the last 30+ years on my iPhone.  Why should I pay for a ridiculous 'service' just to play what I already have?

    Oh well, not like I can't control it from outside the Waze app.  But I seem to remember music controls used to work inside it, then stopped a while ago.
    Japhey

  • Future MacBook Pro screens may kill off the bezel completely

    darkvaderdarkvader
    I'm fine with bezels on my computer.  I don't really care how big they are.  They can be huge, tiny, or nonexistent.

    But that stupid notch has to go.  It's a no-brainer to give up screen real estate to get rid of it, because screen with a notch in the middle of it is useless anyway.  It was an incredibly stupid move by Apple.

    I'd rather give up the camera entirely.  Most users tape over it anyway, so it's not like anybody is actually giving up anything of value.  If you need a camera, there are plenty of external cameras on the market.
    williamlondon9secondkox2