Academics probe #Apple's #privacy settings and get lost and confused
Researchers note many studies examinedprivacy issues with 3rd-party apps for Apple devices, little literature investigates first-party apps – like Safari and Siri. Just disabling #Siri requires visits to five submenus.
They also criticize data collection by Apple apps like Safari and Siri, where data is sent, how users can (and can't) disable data tracking, and how Apple presents privacy options to users https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/apple_apps_privacy_study/
> voilà l'aberrante rationalité entrepreneuriale du néolibéralisme, rationalité à laquelle certains de nos ministres (coucou Bruno) nous demandent de faire confiance plutôt que de la contraindre...
WTF #Apple. I’m minding my own business, and get an alert on my watch & phone. “Sign in with your AppleID”. Ok, why? I enter my password anyway. Then: Locked out. WTF? Then worse. I can’t unlock my account for an hour because I’m not at a familiar location. I’m home. Where I rarely leave. If my home isn’t familiar, where the hell is? #kwality#enshittification
Apple’s Vision Pro is a bad product with an even worse vision for the future of computation.
New sales numbers prove it’s a failure, but more than that it shows the idea of tech’s inevitability is a myth. We have the collective power to stop tech that doesn’t serve us.
The thing I hate most about #macOS is how simple problems which should have simple solutions on any other operating system almost ALWAYS have no solution at all. The #Apple Forum's super helpful too, can always count on them to give you the "welp, you should've not had that problem in the first place - too bad <3".
In this case, the context is: you cannot copy over your #TimeMachine backups from a drive to another - which seems like a very fucking logical thing to do for when your backup is growing or your drive is aging. The solution provided by everyone is to just "start a new backup on the new drive" or "you should've used a bigger drive 3 years ago". These fucking bitches.
Apple has removed a number of AI image generation apps from the App Store after they were found to be advertising the ability to create nonconsensual nude images.
Apple’s actions come following an investigation by @404mediaco, which found adverts for these apps being pushed on Instagram. The apps were only removed when 404 Media provided links to them and their related ads to Apple, indicating “the company was not able to find the apps that violated its policy itself.”
@thurrott A masterclass review Paul! I still have a primary #windows11 PC, but I love my M1 #MacBook Pro. As you mentioned, the integration with the rest of the #Apple ecosystem is a delightful part of owning a #Mac. When Apple hits M5 I plan to replace my Windows laptop with either a Mini or Studio. There just isn't anything sticky in Windows for me anymore.
@arstechnica So we have powerful tablets with CPUs that power Pro laptops, but with an OS that is limited to something like a Smart TV. And the next update to that OS could have a calculator app? And that's somehow news? =) #Apple world is just mad.
Apple is cutting Vision Pro production as it fails to meet sales targets.
Analysts expected it to sell 700-800k units in 2024, but it could now be as low as 400k. A lower cost model could now be pushed beyond 2025, if it ever arrives.
Does anyone know how can I Increase/decrease playback speed of audio messages in iMessage with using VoiceOver on iPhone? I'm trying to do it and I can't. Thank you in advance for help. #Accessibility#Blind#Technology#Apple
Here's my finale post on Avventura nel Castello, including ruminations on how context affects the reception of historical games, and a close encounter with the Loch Ness Monster.
I have an annoying thing on my MacBook where video seems to be jumping back and forth in brightness/saturation. Feels like HDR is being turned on and off every few seconds depending on what is on screen. A quick Google search led me nowhere. Does anyone know what my issue is and how to fix it?
Things I've checked that haven't worked:
❌ True tone
❌ Auto-brightness
@georgetakei I just want #Apple to bring back truly random shuffle. The pseudo random version they have now is horrific because so frequently hearing a new band means you know another track by them will play in like 2-6 more songs.
Also, never implementing album shuffle on iPhones is incredibly lame and lazy of them.
Apple muss WhatsApp aus chinesischem App Store löschen
In China kann man WhatsApp und Threads künftig nicht mehr aus dem App Store laden. Damit schließt China ein Schlupfloch in seiner "Firewall", mit der die Regierung Informationen kontrolliert.
🧵 In Apple's recent flurry of frivolous motions in the civil lawsuit, Apple motioned for something so bizarre that I could not find any legal or factual precedent for it. #Apple found a copy of my #SEC#whistleblower complaint (filed to the SEC about Apple) & Apple tried to request Judicial Notice of it for Apple's defense, despite not being a party to it & that also not being how judicial notice works.