Craig Federighi, VP of Software Engineering at Apple, said in a recent interview that some of the child-protection features were ‘misunderstood’.
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When you talk about “OS X,” Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, ribbed his engineers for going on some “inspired” tour around California. Well, now it’s time to say hello to “Sierra,” but bye bye to Mac OS X. It’s “macOS Sierra”.And there’s no shortage of mobile-related features that will be introduced to the Mac for continuity purposes.Auto Unlock allows Apple Watch owners to unlock their Macs just by having their smartwatch nearby if both machines are on the same network. It’s pretty much an ...
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On Wednesday, James Pinkstone of Vellum Atlanta penned a blog post about how “Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.” In it, Pinkstone details how his subscription to Apple Music had caused 122GB of music — from downloads to his own compositions — to disappear.Signing up for Apple Music, he said, triggered iTunes song matching software and it scanned his entire local library of music files before deleting the whole thing.Where iTunes was able match songs, it gave him an equivalent ...
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There were strong reports at some point that claimed that Apple’s Steve Jobs made a very strong offer to acquire DropBox, and to which the later refused. The rest is history as Apple eventually decided to build its own iCloud service in a way to cover up the horror stories that MobileMe users experienced. iCloud Drive was the latest push in making the service more like DropBox, and today we see that taking shape.In the past iCloud Drive was a service that existed, but oddly had no product placement in your iOS device’s home screen. This is a very odd behavior considering how ...
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We’ve been able to share files instantly on Android devices and even certain services on Windows Phones for the longest time, and still, Apple didn’t wake up to that need until iOS 8. That being said, even if the feature exists today, it still depends on the speed at which developers have decided to adopt iOS 8, and that’s taken a bit. You’d ...
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While smartphones haven’t exactly changed all that much in the last two or three years, the services and applications that make them run definitely have. The apps and services are smarter, more affordable, and more openly available to a wider array of devices and operating systems.More specifically, cloud storage is available in abundance. Two years ago, cloud storage was relatively expensive, corresponding mobile application support was sparse, and there were only a few services to choose from.
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