I was referring to the MagSafe feature being removed. Seems small but it actually prevents accidents. As my colleague said today: "hope apple care includes drops"
Facebook's business model I suspect is relying more and more on things like user location. As I recal, there was some blowback from messenger requesting location services in iOS while not using the app. This almost seems like strong-arming users into using messenger perhaps because they are able to extract more user info and metadata due to the additional priveleges. I've never installed messenger, so I may be off the mark...
I agree. Run Charles Proxy on their free trial for 15 minutes with the OS X proxy turned on and find out what your Mac is really sending out and taking in. Then buy it because it's an incredible tool that proves extremely useful when debugging your own work!
Android is tricky. I'm not an expert at their permissions settings but it seems that some of them are worded alarmingly for over-reaching yet justifiable permissions. I'm thinking for example (not one you listed, but..) that displaying push notifications immediatly when the phone is not in use requires a permission to "prevent the phone from sleeping"...
No I totally get it about the security updates; but it's the principle that I can't opt out if my own dumb ass wants to. Ultimately I would absolutely opt-in for security updates, but they don't seem to come stand-alone. If I'm not mistaken, Apple can push critical security updates these days anyway - there's been at least one.
I'm also really purturbed by apple's 'version ratchet' (great term btw). In my case it's the infuriation caused by the 'notifications' to upgrade ... Which you CANT DISMISS! It's either install, or 'remind me later': tonight..tomorrow, but explicitly not 'never for this version'. I've turned off notifications altogether on Yosemite. Ios9 is the icing on the cake.
I've long held such sentiment for MS. Thing is, I've been staring to hate on Apple for such digressions as well... It's nice to be reassured that it's still objectively worse over in PC-land.
Likewise, and Steve is just rolling in his grave. Apple used to be so meticulous about UI. Directly unrelated to the road snapping, but a shining example of this inconsistency: I open up the App Store, and tap on the 'hamburger' to get ... "Wish list"???!!
But you'd think they'd do something like '200 users have liked...' A cron like every 5 minutes (or more) after the first 10 likes or something like that..
To speculate on the final question in the article, I think it will take a lot for the FCC to do anything about it because time and time again we discover that governing bodies are woefully inadequate at understanding such technical issues.
I've used trello for mobile dev; trello in general is cool for some things, but I don't think mobile dev is it. JIRA (and to a lesser degree the stock issue tracker in BitBucket) is much superior for this purpose (imho)
I grew up with this book (TWEC) in the house, and I found this arrival interesting, but it left me hanging. Anyone know whatever became of the 14800 that left with the one guy? Did they ever regroup to put it towards something?
I actually find myself reading the site considerably less because of this, I'm sure I'm not the only one. Please let me set a cookie to keep the desktop version!!
I'm sure a couple years ago almost all mobile ran WebKit, but aren't a huge chunk of new android phones running some flavor of chromium these days? I'd be surprised if WebKit was still in the high 90% range.
True, although using Cordova to wrap a good mobile site isn't too cost prohibitive. It seems a lot of small companies approach having an app as a marketing tool though. Not having an app is kinda like not having a website in 1999.