Apple prints two tiny QR codes on every iPhone screen. The news about this is focussed on it being part of a crackdown on dodgy fault complaints, but that’s not what interests me here… I just like to imagine what it was like to be on the team tasked with this piece of the iPhone manufacturing process. It’s amazingly complex, and had to overcome issues with it potentially...
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Sounds bad.
UPDATE: 02 Oct 2023: Looks like a software update with fix this.
Haven’t had a chance to see the new FineWoven cases in person yet, but what a terrible launch they’ve had – with a continuous stream of very bad reviews. Third party leather case vendors must be ecstatic. What a bumper year they’re about to have. UPDATE: Got a chance to see them in the Apple Store yesterday. My impressions: didn’t give me joy, but wasn’t as bad...
Not before time (via Bloomberg): Amazon.com Inc. will let Alexa users opt out of human review of their voice recordings, a move that follows criticism that the program violated customers’ privacy. emphasis mine Apple has actioned this just recently, and Google has (in EU at least) as well. Still not right that people can opt out (ie they need to take the initiative) – this should be an...
From The Guardian: Apple contractors regularly hear confidential medical information, drug deals, and recordings of couples having sex, as part of their job providing quality control, or “gradingâ€, the company’s Siri voice assistant, the Guardian has learned. I shouldn’t be surprised, but I really did think (somewhat naively I guess) that Apple had better privacy controls. Perhaps...
Got the 'iCloud Music Library couldn't be enabled' error. Check all the other devices linked to your Apple ID. One of your devices may need to Transfer.
If you want to cut the start of a song in iTunes, follow these steps:
1. In iTunes, right-click on the song
2. Select ‘Get Info’
3. Choose the ‘Options’ tab
4. Enter a new ‘Start time’, eg 0:15 if you want to cut out the first 15 seconds.
Interesting to read all the analysis of Apple’s latest results eg things like this. There’s all kinds of opinions about whether it’s a good result or not, and what the future holds. But ever so occasionally something with real relevance pops up. Like this, from Jeff Johnson: Apple stated that Q1 FY2017 was an all-time record for quarterly revenue. The media dutifully and mostly...
Full marks to Apple for being seasonally aware and promoting apps related to Chinese New Year: But I can’t help wondering if there’s a massive opportunity they’ve missed. I don’t speak Chinese, I’ve never shown any interest in Chinese apps, and nothing in my past activity would suggest an interest in Chinese Apps. Apple has no idea about me it seems. Google would be...
Marco’s post is getting a lot of attention at the moment, and for good reason – it eloquently summarises the frustration a lot of Apple users are currently experiencing: We now need to treat Apple’s OS and application releases with the same extreme skepticism and trepidation that conservative Windows IT departments employ. He’s not mentioning anything new of course – the...