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  • Latest iOS 13 beta warns users before deleting an app tied to an active subscription

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    This is a good move, I agree.

    The dialogue surely needs a Cancel button too though: a likely scenario is that the user didn't mean to delete their app that has a subscription at all, perhaps they meant to delete the app next to it.
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  • Apple finally kills vestigial Dashboard in macOS Catalina

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    ednl said:
    What I'll miss terribly is Calcboard, a free form calculator with functions. One keypress away and with a transparent view of the desktop, to see the numbers I need.
    Try Command-Space?

    Spotlight does lots of calculations these days. Example: sin(pi/2)+sqrt(2) works fine.
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  • Apple's break-up of iTunes will have little impact on libraries and playback for Mac users...

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    Presumably we will still be able to rip CDs too?

    I still buy albums on CD, for a variety of reasons including the obscurity of some, though I almost never listen to them: one rip into iTunes and I have all the convenience of a download. It's also the case, if you're an albums person, that music can be cheaper on CD and sometimes it's even packaged with a worthwhile booklet!
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  • Former Apple engineer claims idea for Qualcomm patent, does not seek inventor status

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    maestro64 said:
    Just as I thought this engineer's boss took his idea and never told him he plan to apply for the patent. QCOM had and environment of you must patent or you would not go anywhere in the company. When you walk in their front door they have all their patent on display and who invented them.
    I think the point is that QC took his idea and patented it whilst Apple and QC were working together. The engineer in question was working for Apple.
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  • Publishers complaining about 'atrocious' revenues from Apple News

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    Notsofast said:
    People are missing the whole point of a subscription service. It's correct that no one is going to pay for the current free version of Apple News, but you are comparing a news aggregation of free article to one where you would have access to the articles behind paywalls. Just two or three subscriptions to a news journal or magazine would cost more than the likely monthly fee Apple would charge. Folks are missing out on how attractive that would be to millions of people who don't want to pay for, or manage, multiple monthly subscriptions to magazines or news journals. If they can get WSJ or NYT in a package with magazines and other newspapers for $9.95 a month, this will take off like a rocket
    Agreed, I thought this was the point. The attraction to me would be as you stated and freedom from ads (or from huge numbers of them anyway.

    Quality journalism costs money and I'd rather directly reward those that I perceive to be providing it than just give my time in scrolling past ads.
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