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Like with the new Apple campus, the first day it was open, visitors such as John Gruber noted there were signs everywhere warning about how slippery the ground was because apparently it wasn't designed with the idea of dealing with being wet from rain which made it very slippery, or how the showcase room while beautiful was not practical for it's intended purpose. Apple's builders do seem to have an issue with designing for use versus appearance.

The reason MAS is a ghost town I have always assumed was because of the MAS limitations and that unlike iOS devs aren’t required to use the store.

iOS and macOS are totally different so you’d still have to develop custom ui’s though Apple could certainly help to make it easier to develop for both platforms at once. But even then MAS would remain mostly a desert until they even change limitations or require all apps to be from MAS which would be nearly impossible, especially for business customers.

Am I missing something? This appears to be some random site with a random source but all the comments here seem to be treating this as a real source.

When I saw that video I assumed it Apple provided them permission to publish since of course without there permission that would be an immediate fireable offense plus any potential damages. Since it sounds like Apple did not provide permission I have no idea what he was thinking, since I don't blame the girl, as its his responsibility not to share anything especially when he knows she is recording it and shares things on her YouTube channel. I feel like there has to be more to this since since had to know he would be fired. Maybe he knew he was going to be let go over something else and decided to do this so he could get fired and gained sympathy. Who knows. Very odd.

Agreed. The constant hey siri is exhausting vs Alexa's approach. Though as others noted Siri was developed for a phone and devices on the go. Echo is a device that is in your home where you don't have to worry about someone saying Alexa unless a family or a friend is named that in which case you can change the word. HomePod will be the first chance for Apple to change that but pretty sure they are going to stick with Hey Siri for consistent and reliability.

CMD+Shift+4 has always allowed you to take screenshots of any parts of your screen, (including your devtools), so curious why this is a feature in Chrome? Unless it's meant for Windows maybe where it's harder to take screenshots?

Very odd post. Author mentions the software isn't quite there yet and is using a developer version of the software. Apple noted during the announcement the streaming music feature would come later. So it's not even out yet. If that what a pivotal feature he should have waited to purchase, but something tells me, he choose to buy now, so that he would have material for a brief blog post.

Agreed. Though always does come down to the weakest link. Such as if a person had access to just your email account password then they could reset most any other password on other accounts you have in the middle of the night while you slept. Which is why 2 factor on your email is most important though, depending on what software/methods you use for 2 factor always a chance that could be bypassed.

Also if someone gains physical access to your device(s) while you are in the bathroom or what not, if they know your laptop password which is usually something easy to remember, then they have access to all your keychain passwords no matter how complex each of them are.

Still million times better than attempting to memorize custom passwords for each site, since most people will just have one password, and will add a few characters based on the site name/domain which can also easily be cracked.

The current outdoor camera is like the old indoor camera. The new out door camera is like the new indoor camera. In that the new indoor camera is 4k and face detection. So current old door ones are not 4k and no face detection, these new ones outside will be. I have the old ones and if you attempt to zoom in its very blurry. Where is now I'd be able to zoom in full quality and more importantly the news will automatically zoom it and detect if its an unknown face or a known face.

Curious why they would publish tutorial for Transmit 4 and not Transmit 5. It says Transmit 5 tutorial will come later but not when. One would think they would have the tutorial for 5, and then later release one for people still on Transmit 4. Unless Transmit 5 doesn't support it yet?

Also a bit weird you have to use S3 to connect to it even though it isn't S3, unless this new feature is S3 but wrapped in Digital Ocean interface?

Apple Maps has slowly gotten better and better over the years. I use it now mostly over Google Maps, however that is mostly because of all the integrations with iOS Homescreen/Apple Watch/CarPlay etc and the UI, etc. In the end, it's a better experience than Google Maps on iOS, but would definetly not recommend an Android version since all those iOS benefits wouldn't apply on Android, and at the root of it, Google Maps still has superior data, so I don't see people on Android using Apple Maps, but rather tha opposite, would make them like Apple even less and not want to switch. In my opinion.

Wow Sublime that's quite a throwback. I remember it back in it's hayday as people ultimately flocked from TextMate. And then the community flocked to Atom. Hopefully Atom won't see the same fate since they are backed by a commercial organization, GitHub.

That type of response probably won't get too many people rushing to your GitHub that you are suggesting here people should try out. To answer his question, it appears it allows you to manually add/choose a emoji on a site by site basis. As of December it looks like you can now set differently for different subdomains or other variations. Also appears to offer some suggested options to choose from for popular sites.

Passwords are often already on the users phone. Such as if you use say Authy or Google Authenticator for your 2 factor, your phone if say an iPhone already stores all your passwords in your keychain which is accessible on your iPhone just like on your computer. Or if you use 1Password your passwords are accessible on your phone just like on your desktop. So still comes down to you having a strong master password for your keychain and or 1Password, etc that only you know.

If you use Authy on your phone, they have long had a chrome extension that allows you to get your codes on your computer, already for years and that works with all your existing codes rather than this which is limited to just GitHub currently it sounds.

But hopefully someone else can comment on the security improvements of Soft U2F or if its more just building a standard rather than people having to rely on Authy or such.

What happened when you called your credit card company, as that would be my first action to prevent any unauthorized charges since regaining access to an account can take a lot of time potentially.

Been working here all day (East Coast US). Would be helpful to know where in the country it's down when posting this.

Apple has been focusing on it for many many years, but the news today is that Cook himself has admitted it is a focus rather than they his limited past remarks such as that they are watching the space.

Imagine it's the other way around. I'm sure Apple has been working on car tech for far long than Samsung, but Samsung has been working on it because Apple is.

While Cook is mentioning it officially today, as you know they have been hiring countless people from the auto industry for many many years as they work on the tech. AI is integratal to Apple across all their product lines so makes sense to also do AI for autonomous systems such as a car. Apple isn't saying they will build their own car necessarily, they are saying they would build the underling tech for the car, that they would then presumably license to luxury car makers.

In regards to the sarcasm, Google and Facebook "the companies" purposely use a users data in ways that can abuse their privacy to offer features they believe would be beneficial, so they can get more users and make more money. Where is Apple stands on the other side where it attempts not to use user data in such a way, and uses their strength in privacy as a reason to get more users and make more money. This article is about some rogue employees in China breaking the law on their own, not Apple. Very different than Google the company instruction employees to build software that may concern user privacy.

I used them for several months. They had a great site, good service and pretty tasty meals. While expensive, that is relative, and found it a good value considering I love following directions but am at a loss grocery shopping for a week of season meals.

That being said, I left them because I didn't consider them, "healthy food". Now compared to eating out, or fast food or anything yes, they are certainly healthy. But compared to shopping yourself, or healthy food places, they are not healthy. The sodium levels and calories and everything are all very high. This is mostly because healthy doesn't typically taste as good, and there is a larger market for people who want tasty over healthy.

They may eventually offer recipes tailored to low sodium, lower calories, and all like some competitors at which time I'd love to try them again.

It's a last measure for Google since otherwise the percent of people using ad blockers (that block all ads) will become so large that Google will crippled beyond recovery.

There hope is that if a blocker is built in natively, new users won't install a third party blocker. And there blocker will allow most all their ads, but block all competitor ad's that are especially annoying. And people will presumably hate ads less.

This will most likely backfire since everyone who never considered installing an ad blocker will now have it by default.

Then eventually, Google will without question eventually block third party blockers. They will say they unsafe, negatively affect performance, or insert any excuse. Then everyone will be stuck viewing all their google ads.

If Google were to block blockers now, they would be destroyed by the public, but assume that if they offer a blocker that there maybe less backlash and hoping people won't leave for Safari or Firefox.

Adding to the sentiment of others, I've been a long time Arq user and grateful for Stefan's openness and honesty.

I imagine most or all of us with that sentiment did not suffer any data loss or rather did not need to do a retrieval and discovered data loss during that time. So much easier for us to write it off as a non issue. Where is if it affected us I imagine we'd all be quite a bit more upset.

Though most people use common alternatives such as Time Machine which every few months runs into data issues and far less transparency. Stefan could have quietly updated with a fix, and waited to see if anyone discovered the issue and then only announced the issue if that occurred. But instead he proactive announced it. So bravo. And I'm sure he will instill new procedures to hopefully avoid that in the future, but of course with any software there is always room for error no matter how much testing you do.

I remember when Things 1 was released and how much I loved it at the time. Unfortunately it quickly looked dated, especially by version 2 where the UI felt ancient. Version 3 looks quite modern and streamlined and more enjoyable than the current just in the space, ToDoist. However where ToDoist shines is how it integrates with nearly everything. Things appears to lack all of those integrations and doesn't even have quick entry intelligence like Reminders, Fantastical, Google Calendar, iCal, etc where you can say "Take out trash tomorrow at 8pm" and have it automatically parse the date and time. Things does not appear to do that sadly. Though the biggest issue with any reminder app is the apple limitation that makes it so you can't set a third party reminder app for Siri use. And 9/10 times its easier to do a quick siri reminder, than open up an app. Things 3 can integrated with a single iCloud reminder list, but with a major limitation, in that it can't import any reminders with locations. So everytime you say, remind me to do x when i get home, or when I leave work, etc will not be imported.

Reminders has seen little to no love in years, like Mail and Calendar as third party apps have blossomed but held back but lack of native integrations. Let's hope next month Apple announces either major updates to it's core apps to catch up with competitors or allows users to set third party apps as default.

In the meantime time I think this app may be DOA which is sad since it looks great but but a year or two late to the game.

If Apple were to buy Netflix, which I don't think would make any sense from a business perspective. That being said, the only thing that would make even less sense would be for Apple to buy Netflix and then make it no longer available on the web or any device other than Mac. That would make 0 sense. And I'm sure you are aware Apple Music for instance is built and supports both iOS and Android.

As much as I'd love them to buy Netflix, people have been saying it for years and still doesn't seem to make sense, since in general Apple get's everything it needs from Netflix through AppleTV. Owning it wouldn't greatly increase their profits vs the cost to get it. More importantly, when its time to renew all the shows, all the major networks could simply increase all there rates knowing Apple can afford it. Yes, Netflix has a lot more original content now, but even that may suffer with a company at the helm.

For Tesla, Apple can build their own car if they won't but it sounds like they have decided against that and instead will focus on building the intelligence of the cars and then sell that to all the car manufactures through licensing which is much more lucrative based on the effort involved.

Instead Apple will continue to focus on smaller companies to gain more control over their supply chain and the companies that they have to pay licenses to. That is guaranteed savings in the long run vs something like Netflix which could devalue itself with a new owner.

Seems odd that the airlines keep talking about overbooking but while yes overbooking is an issue, it's not this issue. This issue is that UA wasn't overbooked but rather allowed someone to get kicked off who was already boarded because late staff wanted to catch a free ride.

JetBlue doesn't overbook, but they have removed passengers already boarded who have not violated any rules, other than they wanted to accommodate other passenger(s).

Overbooking is an issue, and they should either stop overbooking (though that means potentially higher ticket costs for everyone), or when they do overbook make sure they don't start boarding everyone until someone has agreed to not fly and offer the appropriate amount to get someone not to fly, such as the max amount or cash rather than a voucher. But once again, that's a different discussion, and SW and others should focus on the bigger issue at hand that UA violated.

Chrome allows you to turn any website into it's own app, but saving a website such as Google Earth to your bookmarks then drag that to chrome://apps and right click on it and choose Open Full Screen and create short cut. So it will you will be able to open it like an app and find it in spotlight/alfred and you can still use chrome for websites separately.

Time zones certainly won't be Google's super intelligence achilles heel, but certainly a good dramatic title to get people to read a bug report/feature enhancement.

The author says you should assume the time zone of where you will be when that time occurs, but that's certainly not a safe assumption, as I may schedule a call at my Boston office for a certain time, but then may be traveling during that actual trip but the time should still be Boston and not where I'm traveling. I use Google Calendar backend but only interact through my Mac or iPhone using iCal or Fantastical both which support time zones. So for most people who time zones isn't an issue, its not a problem. For people who travel often or who have clients in different time zones, you simply add a couple keys when creating a smart entry in Fantastical. Just like when I'm talking to client who know are in a different time zone I always mention the time zone after the time.

My thoughts exactly. Of course a lot of room for improvement in all these airline apps but the person was intentionally playing dumb on a few of those steps knowing it would double the number of steps. Of course the app should have better protection and warnings to prevent that from happening but since reading that on a phone with no swipe to view next slides and having to tap that tiny arrow that often zoomed in instead shows the author may want to focus on their own app a bit first.

You're right, it isn't hard to think up situations where passengers would have to be deboarded such as weather change, another plane crashing into them etc as you noted. However all of those items you mentioned are noted in the United Contract of Carriage which mentions force majure including weather, and damage to the airplane, running out of fuel, strikes etc. However, none of those reasons applied to Dr. Dao, and his being boot from the plane which why he would have a very good chance of getting far more than a refund. You can also be sure, eventually United and other airlines will quietly update there contracts to allow them to legally boot a customer under any circumstances at their sole discretion.