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- It's (not) the economy stupid; gaining convenience at the expense of agency … But this September with the next release of iOS, Apple are going to be introducing ads in Apple Maps and you won’t be able to opt out …
- It’s Not 2006 Anymore; The Useful, Vernacular Institution; What Is Free Our Feeds, Anyway? … If you’re using a client -- like FreeFeedApp for iOS -- that presents an aggregated-aggregated feed, then your main timeline doesn’t lose Mark Ruffalo. Your No Mark …
- I Don’t Know, A Skateboard Or Something … 2022 ↩︎ Apple’s What’s a Computer ad for the iPad Pro and iOS 11(!), which I can’t find on Apple’s official YouTube channel, so ¯_(ツ …
- What Are We Doing Here, Exactly?; LLMs Are Playful, Actually … Matt Webb has been Irritating Matt Webb and gone done a thing (no, not even the AI-assisted Galactic Compass he’s developed as an iOS app), and …
- Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different … You could try the same thing with tone? I mean, even the app permissions model on iOS does this -- after a while using an app with location permissions …
- What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide … of self-driving cars (Terminator 2, James Cameron, 1991). ↩︎ Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union - Apple ( archive.is ), Apple, 25 …
- It's the Unique Integration of the Hardware, the Silicon, and the Software, Stupid … The Mac gaming market is, like I said, a rounding error compared to the iOS gaming market. And just like how humans aren't great at number when …
- Marks on Flat Planes … Mac apps or iOS apps in a window in a space has simply (I acknowledge that "simply" is doing a lot of work here) been ported over for …
- Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; Streaks Broken; Aigg on your Face, Big Disgrace … Amusingly (or not, really), the question ("Step streak reset to zero on iOS Fitbit app") is marked as "Answered", because a moderator reported that it has been "reported …
- Building and Documentation; Making New Mistakes; Eternal Tumblr; Governance in the Early Days of a Better Nation … Polycam for iOS and Android ↩︎ Software and its Discontents, Part 2: An Explosion of Complexity , Kellan Elliott-McCrea, 23 January, 2023 ↩︎ dateforce.app , "the world's first Dating …
- Platform Exclusivity: Microsoft / Activision Blizzard … So would you force Apple to license iOS and macOS to third parties? If Microsoft were licensing software (my 1990s antitrust memory is fuzzy on this), then would …
- It was only a receipt; It's a social problem, not a technology problem; Stupid smart lights … Because of course the whole deal is there's a bug with the iOS app (again, weirdly and specifically on whatever new release of iOS and only on …
- Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices … you don't get to play with them that time.) The signup flow for Mastodon in a client app like on iOS or wherever explicitly involves picking an …
- What it means to be PlayStation with Netflix in the room; What's Simlish for Metaverse? … Depending on who you ask, iOS Weather says the current AQI is 150, AirNow.gov says it's 195. Either way, outdoor school is cancelled again. Welcome to …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation: Software Defined Brands; Gerrymandering Autocorrect … PlayStation has a choice as to whether to show up on iOS or Android but those are hardware/software platforms. PlayStation could show up and decide to play …
- Google Stadia, or, Winning at Videogames … PlayStation Now eventually let you stream to a PC, Xbox Cloud Gaming (nee Project xCloud), well, duh, it's Microsoft, and it also launched on iOS via Safari …
- We choose not to do the harder thing … I don’t know if we’ll ever get, say, the ability to stick Oscar on your iOS homescreen, for example. One thing, just one thing that would …
- ... for the mind? … Is this just a size thing? Is it that when you've got 1.8 billion active devices (iOS devices), or over 3 billion active devices (Android), and …
- Basement, flashlight, etc. … On my phone, I am able to open it either as a preview, or in Word or Office or whatever for iOS. The Word document says: To: Prospective …
- We Should Increase Science Funding For More Advances; Properties and Affordances of the Natural World … inertia", which hit mass awareness in computer interfaces with rubber-band scrolling in iOS. There are some easy ones too, like "when you put something down, it stays …
- A certain weariness … Support (Actually, I just remembered that one reason why this happened is because iOS Music.app doesn't support folders (never mind Smart Playlists and so on) and …
- For want of a screenless MP3 player … the phone/tablet/console edition of the game has an add-on ecosystem and on iOS at least, the way you can get those add-ons is via …
- Absurdity, net-native journalism, Promising No Solutions, Talking and Snow Crashing, chapter 16 … A computer system reaches enough complexity to become sentient, but its only method of communication with humans is via the For You section on iOS Photos. A full …
- Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15 … Hey, did you know that Apple released iOS 14.5 today, and that it gives users more of a choice about whether their activity is tracked? [ Apple ]. Next …
- The Device Becomes The App? … Artists Using Procreate or This Amazing Native iOS Video Editing App, or photographers using a new, non-Adobe native iOS photo editing app. And then it strikes me …
- Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things … web browsers so "there's not much point hacking your PC", because on iOS, "an app can't run in the background, what what you do, and steal …
- How can I help you? … account that is also an Xbox profile that is being used on an iOS Minecraft client, where the user is also a child Apple account set up with …
- On The Precipice, supporter edition … Users can already feel the pain to some extent – every time we dismiss another GDPR pop-up or navigate to Amazon’s website (not their iOS app) to …
- On The Precipice … Users can already feel the pain to some extent – every time we dismiss another GDPR pop-up or navigate to Amazon’s website (not their iOS app) to …
- They Write Software That Kills People, Don't They? … Eden’s point is that we’re back at square one, what with iOS and Android now asking/reminding you that whichever App wants permission for whatever system …
- An Institution at the Intersection of Technology and Society … I’m also typing this part on a new keyboard from keyboard.io, which means that I'm running at a drastically reduced top typing speed of around …
- Take your time reading this one … It strikes me that a lot of the conversation around the use of technological tools to aid in contact tracing — in particular smartphone applications on iOS and Android …
- Titles, am I right? … I could write what feels like twenty thousand words on how much of a complete mess family and child accounts are on iOS/iPadOS and Google, to the …
- *gestures at the world* … because they’re NFC they don’t work with Apple’s locked-down iOS. This is kind of a joke but also, in my humble opinion, a very …
- The ATCR Boundary … This, I thought, was weird and I’d assumed it was a problem with iOS. The answer, of course, was more distressing: the router’s DHCP server was …
- Software from trauma, or, fingers crossed the only blockchain episode of 2020 … Anyway, let’s try and see if it doesn’t make feel too much like a shill: 🎧 On some Apple phones, iOS 13 will let you share your …
- Tattletales, or, OK Google, what do you have on me? … hang on, I get a digital wellbeing dashboard on Android and a screentime dashboard with management controls on iOS but… not a dashboard about what sort of data …
- Ambient information radiators; butter trucks; trains … g. “OK Google, what’s the weather like?” This is different from the iOS 13 feature of the welcome message text in the morning that tells you what …
- Cynical, me?; Snow Crashing Ch 13, part 3 … Predictive text is the markov chain type model on iOS that tries to figure out what your next word is going to be and the source of a …
- No, not a mid-life crisis; Snow Crashing … I could imagine lots of things that this implies for Apple’s software development process, but at this point given the rollout of iOS 13 and macOS Catalina …
- Tireless five year olds … This TouchID bug that still exists in iOS 13.1.2 is a fucking disaster and Apple should be ashamed . The general observation that if CNN and other …
- Jeremy Bearimy … First, I think I should get an award for self-control for waiting until iOS 13.1 came out before installing it on all the things. Second, I …
- Breaking the rules … I am feeling very proud of myself because I have not upgraded to iOS 13 today and am going to try very hard to wait until next Tuesday …
- Firebreak Protocol … The thing is, Apple have trotted out, on occassion the “trucks versus cars” argument, where on one level, the iOS ecosystem are the cars (they just help you …
- Judge social networks not by their DAUs but by the content of their CEO’s character … Just so you know, the default PDF viewer on iOS spawned by Mobile Safari doesn’t - at least, didn’t when I tried it the other day - support …
- The Reboot's Cold Open … This obviously applies to iOS because where else am I spending time in embedded webviews but seriously, the use-case is this: I see stuff in Newsblur, or …
- Filtered for wide spread, low accuracy … I’m sure iOS’s parental controls could be improved (and in a statement, Apple claims they have plans to do so), but more granular parental controls in …
- Nobody expects the hiatus newsletter … the “it just works” on-demand Bluetooth connection between the meter and my phone stopped working in the latest iOS release). My new meter works by having a …
- Welcome to the Churn … The first was a reaction to the initial crop of AR apps that are the equivalent of the first iOS apps: Look! Motion control! A gyroscope! Shake to …
- Fully Connected, Feed Forward … you don't need to ask for permission if it's in the TOS, so just build something that allows you access (hi, Android and iOS app permissions …
- Of Course I Still Love You … talk to Siri more" as well as *every single bit of already existing iOS app reconfigured for floating-in-front-of-your-face mode*. (an aside: if you …
- GUT; Sixteen Theses … I *think* he's saying that "mobile" means iOS/Android and that PC means OS X/Windows and that "mobile" will beat "PC". Which, duh, because many smaller …
- Coffee; Brands; Stream, Stock and Flow; Paperless … space of around thirty minutes, the conversation covered the following beats: - an app (iOS) - that does scavenger hunts - and uses gamification - on college campuses - that "takes a physical …
- Previously … thing, they appear in the same place, with the same application icon on iOS at least) so I'm looking at you, Nike+ Running, and your usage of …
- Bob Rife Is Real; Digital Secure Confusion … No! The answer is actually "HSBC Mobile Banking supports iOS and Android devices. Apple iOS v6.0 and above. Android 2.3 and up." So, you know. Not …
- 2015 (1); A Manifesto Walks Into A Website; Stuff About The Web And Post Capitalism Again … why there's nothing quite like responsive design (and I even changed the user-agent to Safari iOS 8.1) I mean, you could talk about the copywriting …
- Any Old Iron … Drug Pump's Security Flaw Lets Hackers Raise Dose Limits | WIRED [8] New iOS Bug Crashing iPhones Simply by Receiving a Text Message [Includes Fix] - Mac Rumors [9 …
- Typing, Continued … Via Hacker News[1] comes news of STREAKS[2], a new to-do/habit-forming app for iOS (and the developer's first using Swift, Apple's latest …
- What Apple Is … It looks like with what we've seen with iOS given its appearance in the Apple TV, and its frankly abortive attempts with CarPlay is: what are the …
- Thinking In Public; Writing In Public … zero time today on basic sysadmin to fix my phone after the botched iOS 8.01 over-the-air upgrade. And whilst forgetting to go to a friend …
- WATCH; BERG … The other thing is that whilst, thank God, Apple didn't just cram the iOS interface onto a watch-shaped and sized thing, they did do something a …
- The Networked Lens; Twitch; Sufficient Density … So what are some alternatives? Not using the main Camera app, the one that, at least until iOS 8 has been privileged in accessing certain camera functions? Using …
- 17.5; Other Newsletters Are Available; SNOWPIERCER WALKTHROUGH V12.03 … Mouse House and instantly taken up by kids onto their borrowed Android and iOS devices because of the Brand Recognition. A massive piece of entertainment disguised as something …
- Transparency Through Bot; Mundane Fictional Spytech; The Horizontal Arcology … It's one of those things that feels strange because you've got consumer tech (Hey! Jeremy Renner's using the standard iOS clock application to set a …
- A Continued Error; Nadella; Hypermedia … for certain values of ready that include a nigh-unusable shift key in iOS 7 - there's every other OEM doing the equivalent of a cambrian explosion at …
- Mundane Blue Ant; Press Square To Hack … these days, Blue Ant looks like collaboration with Slack (of, if you're being obnoxious, a "bespoke collaboration app built by a world-famous iOS developer recruited away …
- The Material (4); More Ways Of Seeing … when you're looking at more single-use-at-a-time devices like the iOS kind, there's less of a need to interrogate the state of a …
- The New Jobs; Disrupting Bitcoin; Protect Us; The Full Stack Is Better?; Dumb Screens … One thing that's struck me about screens - and it looks like the idea might be coming back with Apple's iOS 8 and Yosemite through something they …
- Email Is Still A Killer App; Dubya Dubya Dee Cee … bits rendered through HTML (apart from if you read this in Gmail for iOS on an iPhone in which case the formatting is really terrible. Sorry about that …
- The Internet of Safety; Invisible Technology; Like A Dog Whistle; Odds … For example, he'd compare iOS device shipments against Windows PC shipments and have to explain that, whilst they were *unfair* in terms of iOS devices being a …
- Recall; ATMs; … Windows Automatic Update, OS X and iOS over-the-air updates and so on. But then, of course, that requires us to think, as a culture, or population …
- The iPad; The Difficulty; Tools; Silly … Sure, Android has it in spades, but the reality of the situation is that the better-designed applications *feel* like they're hitting iOS first. If the thing …
- Apple and Nike; Critiquing Everyone Deserves Great Design; Odds … with Nike+ Move - Certain Nike+ mobile software was only ever available on the iOS platform Here's some other things I think we can also agree on: - Apple …
- On Design; New Aesthetic Zeitgeist Bingo; Odds … 3.0 Odds Do you like word games? If you do, then you should play Ludometrics' new game, dsmvwld, for iOS.[1] Facebook bought Moves[2]. Honestly I …
- Disbanded; The Responsive OS … The Nike+ Running iOS running app, however, is on the same playing field as every other app-based running system, ie, at the whims of Apple's iTunes …
- Living In An Immaterial World; Snow Crashing 4; Odds … how rich an ecosystem can one build with an integrated software/hardware stack? If we look elsewhere than Twitter, another answer is Apple, with its hardware/software iOS …
- BBC Heaven; Shorts … But this may just be a by-product of the nature of iOS push notifications. Thirdly, in tweets (for whom I can't remember the author), yes, it …
- Numbers; Performance and Practice; The Kessler Run In Over 12 Billion … Apple could only build OS X and then iOS and then the App Store which distributed billions of dollars to developers through the contributions of open source and …
- Structure; Humble, Direct and Curiously Cautious; The Scale Of Things, Risks … Apple's iOS and OS X SSL bug brought these two lists to the fore of my attention again, and a discussion with a friend as to the …
- This Inexplicable Future, Where Did All The Agents Go, Brittle … There were (obviously?) no unit tests that caught the OS X and iOS SSL failure, and once in the wild and deployed, end-user systems themselves weren't …
- The Job To Be Done, The Ethics, The Good and The Practice … The Job To Be Done Benedict Evans posted the other day[1] that the number of Apple Computers-With-An-Asterisk (ie iOS and OS X devices that …
- The Inevitable Apple TV Episode and Algorithmically Induced Sadness … a new Apple TV hardware identifier has been found in developer iOS 7 bundles[1], with a bump in major version (ie AppleTV 3,2 -> Apple TV 4 …
- Rate All The Things … Nests and Nest-type things don't fit in Apple's iOS/OS X/iTunes ecosystem (at least, not yet), because: where would Apple stop? Revolutionising the world …