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They’re working on cars for sure

The DSA was not written overnight. The agreement was made in 2022, the text is from 2020, preliminary versions probably available years before that. And even without having the exact wording Apple must have known their anticompetitive behavior wouldn’t be tolerated forever way before that. Mandatory Browser Choice exists since when, Windows XP times? There was enough time, there is no excuse.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=COM%3A20...

> Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

Comprehend your own business processes and rewrite legacy code?

Job listing says remote though I’m not sure if they mean other countries as well.

It’s a remote job offering so it must be networked somehow. Probably behind VPN and Remote Desktop though.

Google marketed Google Workspace (called “Google Apps” at the time) as a solution for individuals and families with custom domain. People still have these accounts and there is no way to migrate (e.g. purchases on Google Play, reviews on Google Maps, notes in Google Keep, etc.).

Why do you care if other people „start using the Facebook spyware store“? No one is forcing you to use another store. Android has alternative app stores and you can still use the Google Play Store for everything if you want to.

This. Outage started 30 minutes ago and the status page is still not updated. Either everyone is asleep at Netflix or the chain of command for this task is too long.

Down in Germany too. Official status page does not show any outage.

Average individual does not know how to open a terminal window. :-)

They canceled their plans for client-side scanning. They do scan content on their servers. Therefore whether your data in iCloud Photos is scanned depends on whether Advanced Data Protection is enabled or not. It’s disabled by default. Enabling ADP will turn on E2E encryption and disable account access via iCloud.com.

I have a friend who lost data with Backblaze’s backup product. It can always happen. Don't trust a single provider or software. Backups should not be “integrated”, they should be as much apart as possible.

Synology NAS can already do this without any third-party products via the ActiveBackup application. Supports Google Workspace and MS 365. It’s free, assuming you already own the Synology NAS. It replicates data from Mail, Contacts, Calendar and Drive within seconds or minutes, keeps a history of all changes and offers a nice timeline view to show and export data at any point in time.

Doesn’t mean your apps need to run in the background all the time. State restoration is a concept that has been present in Android/iOS from the beginning (or almost) and many apps implement it successfully. This is not why the “Don’t kill my app” author wants to run in the background.

Also Android has ongoing notifications which let your app stay running forever and iOS introduced Live Activities in iOS 16 which can be used similarly (e.g. Instagram uses it to finish uploads in the background). But what the author of “Don’t kill my app” wants is to run in the background without making it obvious to the user, which many would consider malicious.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/view_control...

https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/s...

Priority should be to make the browser usable. It's not. For example it’s extremely unstable for video conferencing. Last time, I don’t know what exactly happened, but I had to reboot my MacBook because the system wouldn’t recognize the camera anymore after trying to join a video conference in Safari, not even in other browsers. Never experienced something like this in any other browser. Many work tools such as Confluence, MS Teams and Google Docs just work better in Chrome. I wish I could switch, and I retry after each major release, but it’s just not good enough yet. I always end up switching back to Chrome after 1-2 days. If Microsoft and Mozilla can do better why can’t Apple?

I believe Safari will improve though. Currently Apple has little incentive to put more money into Safari because there’s no competition. Once they have to open up iOS to competition, they’ll spent more money on Safari to stay competitive. The web is still an important platform they cannot just ignore. And they have the resources and the know how, so they have a good chance of succeeding. And they will still be the native and default choice (even with browser choice), so they will also have that advantage still.

This time it can mirror widgets from iPhone though, which makes it much more useful.

I think OP’s point was that Google Maps prioritizes profitable POIs over useful POIs. Profit over UX. Whereas Apple Maps seems to do the opposite in this case. If I’d have to choose between seeing ads by default or the content that I actually need right now, I would pick the latter. You different?

In big airports, such as FRA, it can take 50 minutes to walk to the gate (if you’re lucky enough to have your gate in terminal 1). Checking the map is useful to see the estimated walking time and to get an overview of the route if you’re not already familiar with the airport.

However seeing the locations of the nearest fast food restaurants on the map is superfluous: they’re everywhere. My gate however is only in one location.

It would still break end-to-end encryption if I allow it.

However I just found out Apple added a way to manage rules in iCloud Mail to iOS 17. It's in Settings > [Your Name] > iCloud > iCloud Mail > iCloud Mail Rules. They did not mention this anywhere, but it's there and it's new!

Unfortunately still unusable for me because it allows only a single condition. No AND or OR conditions. For example still not possible to filter by FROM and Subject and the same time. And you can only filter a very limited amount of fields: FROM, TO, FROM or TO, CC, Subject and List-ID. For example it's not possible to search the body.

iCloud Mail and Calendar are way too simple to be useful for me. Calendar only searches 1 year back, even if everything is synced (I actually need this quite often). No weekly view in portrait mode (I use this all the time in Google Calendar). Calendar and Reminders don't integrate at all (Google Calendar shows tasks from Google Tasks). Not possible to sync calendar subscriptions across devices.

199$ is still quite expensive for many though. I believe common repairs for inexpensive parts (back glass, USB-C port, battery) should be below 100$.

Unfortunately the iCloud webinterface is completely disabled when Advanced Data Protection is enabled, including iCloud Mail/Contacts/Calendar, even though these services are not covered by end to end encryption. This means basic features like filters are missing too.

That comes later this year.

9% lighter Pro

8% lighter Pro Max

They also increased the smallest storage size for the 15 Pro Max to 256 GB, which is a welcome change.

It works better because iOS had this for many years and apps implement it natively. Android's implementation is basically a workaround. The back gesture is recognized by the system and forwarded as back button event to the app. On iOS the gesture is handled by the app, which can provide proper animation, giving users the ability to “preview” what’s behind (and pull back to the left to stop going back). Android is trying to copy that right now (as they should because it works really well), but it will take many years for apps to adopt it.

Source? IIRC Apple was hosting data from Chinese citizens in China to comply with regulation but still keeping encryption keys outside of China.

Don’t know if this is still the case but back when Reddit was open source they would keep the comment in the database on deletion, but using the edit feature you could actually remove the content from the db.

It’s not all or nothing. It does improve privacy.

I assume it only blocks known tracking. Using lists, similar to how content/ad blockers work.