ppietra

ITGUYINSD said:

robin huber said:

The article on how to enable the new ad tracking function on AI is confusing to me. Apple’s own dialogue in Settings is no help either. Unfortunately there is no comments feature on the article so I am asking here. If I don’t want to be tracked, do I turn the toggle on or off? I am guessing that I leave it off, and by turning it on the app can ask me to opt in to being tracked. Am I right?

Having the option turned off is a blanket DO NOT TRACK for all apps.  If you want the granular choice of allowing or disallowing tracking in apps, then you need to enable the setting.

But to be honest, I had it on and could not find an app that actually asked me if I wanted to allow tracking.  

It's like a feature that doesn't seem to do anything.  Yet.

Apps need to be updated first in order to see the prompt. But the feature itself already does one thing, you just don’t notice it; it already stops apps from using the IDFA.

I find it troubling that this kind of analysis fails to take into account that what Apple offers is a consumer end product that competes with smartphone makers, not with Google!
Smartphone makers compete with software features such as apps, many of which are homemade.

This sounds weird... it looks like Facebook can remotely activate the prompt. It also makes me think that they will probably be testing people’s responses... guinea pigs. 
Nothing they do can be trusted.

urahara said:

ppietra said:

Hank2.0 said:

Apple's updated iPad Pro has enjoyed a number of changes for 2021, including the use of mini LED backlighting to create the Liquid Retina XDR display in the 12.9-inch model, and a change in processor to the M1. In a follow-up interview about the changes, Greg Joswiak and John Ternus discussed why Apple made those changes. 

Too bad they didn't explain why they made the change that made the current Magic Keyboard incompatible, effectively making upgraders to spend another $349. Yes, I understand that the case of the new iPad Pro is thicker, but no one could figure out to compensate for A HALF-MILLIMETER difference?

I would imagine it has to do with the new screen. Thicker screen, thicker iPad... not much can be done when it is so thin already.

Several years before the release they know that iPad 2021 (and corresponding Magic Keyboard) wold be thicker than just a year before. But they didn't consider it in the Keyboard design.
Sure they will sell them well anyway. Maybe it wouldn't have been such a good design for Magic Keyboard that it needs to accommodate a thiner version of iPad Pro 2020. But it is just maybe...

That is not how things work! First of all the previous iPad Pro design appeared 2 and half years ago, long before the new iPad Pro features were even established. Secondly the old keyboard is an accessory for the previous iPad, it would make no sense to design it for some other future product. Thirdly, you have no idea what were the timetables for Apple’s designs, they are certainly not completely locked years in advanced because planned features can change. And if you are speculating about timings you should also remember that the old keyboard design also had to be made long before launch... so quite probably before the new iPad Pro design was locked.

Hank2.0 said:

Apple's updated iPad Pro has enjoyed a number of changes for 2021, including the use of mini LED backlighting to create the Liquid Retina XDR display in the 12.9-inch model, and a change in processor to the M1. In a follow-up interview about the changes, Greg Joswiak and John Ternus discussed why Apple made those changes. 

Too bad they didn't explain why they made the change that made the current Magic Keyboard incompatible, effectively making upgraders to spend another $349. Yes, I understand that the case of the new iPad Pro is thicker, but no one could figure out to compensate for A HALF-MILLIMETER difference?

I would imagine it has to do with the new screen. Thicker screen, thicker iPad... not much can be done when it is so thin already.