Jean-Louis Gassée, writing for Monday Note, takes a long look at the company he once helped run, as Apple approaches their 40th birthday later this week.
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15 years of OS X: How Apple’s big gamble paid off
Ryan Faas walks through the history of the birth of OS X. Fascinating.
Rent a movie, instantly free up space on your iOS device
Mac Kung Fu:
Renting a title larger than the remaining capacity on your device forces iOS to use a hitherto undisclosed clean-up routine, thereby freeing-up space. Even if the download is way too big, it’ll still try to free-up space.
This cleaning technique has been around for quite some time.
Apple vs the FBI: Follow the money
Charlie Stross homes in on the core problem with an FBI backdoor into iOS . It involves the world’s payment/credit card infrastructure. Fascinating take.
Latest iOS 9.3 update breaking links for many users
Benjamin Mayo, writing for 9to5Mac:
Readers are reporting a strange bug with iOS 9.3 (and older versions apparently, exact characteristics of affected devices is unclear), primarily affecting the latest Apple devices, iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. The issue has also been reported on older phones and some iPad models as well. The cause is unknown, but many users are finding themselves unable to open links in Safari, Messages, Mail, Notes and other apps. Instead of visiting the target website, the app crashes, freezes or hangs.
iPhone, HealthKit, and Harvard team up on ex-NFL player health issues
Great use of HealthKit.
How Nike fumbled away Stephen Curry, a $14 billion mistake
The behind-the-scenes of an incredible missed opportunity for Nike.
Apple Pay coming to the web later this year
I wonder how this will impact PayPal. Will Apple create an ecosystem where I can generate a bill and have someone pay me (or vice versa), all using Apple Pay?
The FBI’s $15,000 purchase order with Cellebrite USA
A search of the General Services Administration public facing web site for Cellebrite and the FBI reveals a single match, a purchase order dated this past Monday.
Apple’s greenlights original TV series about Apps
Can’t wait to see what they come up with.
Apple TV ad: The Kiss
This is an odd one. It helps to know that the two main actors are Alison Brie (Community, Mad Men) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones).
The Wall Street Journal’s iPhone SE review
This feels like a quietly important upgrade, designed to keep the smaller form factor active and capable of working with the latest version of iOS.
Apple releases new build of iOS 9.3 for users of iPad 2 affected by bricking bug
From Twitter comments, appears that this new build addresses the problem.
Apple wasn’t ‘flouting’ iPhone order, judge says
Interesting behind the scenes on the sparring between Apple and the Justice Department attorneys.
Set an entire photo album as your Apple Watch face
Start by using Photos on your Mac or iOS device to build a custom album. The linked post walks you through the rest.
Young designer posts note to Tim Cook about iPad Pro, Tim Cook writes back
Terrific.
How to password protect Notes in iOS 9.3 and OS X 10.11.4
MacRumors:
In iOS 9.3, Apple has improved the functionality of its first-party Notes app with the ability to add password or Touch ID security for individual notes.
$1,000 invested in Apple at its 1980 IPO is worth…
Click through to the main post to see the answer to the original query. Thanks to Wolfram Alpha and Robert Davey.
Israeli firm helping FBI to open encrypted iPhone
If Israeli firm succeeds, that won’t be the end of the story, just the end of this chapter.
What’s New in iTunes 12.3.3
Kirk McElhearn walks you through the tweaks and more major changes in the just released iTunes 12.3.3.
Counterfeit Macbook charger teardown: convincing outside but dangerous inside
Astonishing how realistic a counterfeit Apple product can be. Great teardown, complete with detailed pictures.
A “multi-multi-bagger”: Apple’s astonishing roller coaster share price since its original IPO
A fantastic walk through Apple’s stock price ups and downs since its original 1980 IPO.
Bipartisan encryption back-door legislation proposal starts circulating in the Senate
The rumored back-door legislation from the Senate Intelligence Committee has now surfaced. From Reuters:
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has begun circulating long-awaited draft legislation that would give federal judges clear authority to order technology companies like Apple to help law enforcement officials access encrypted data, according to sources familiar with the discussions.
Apple’s CareKit is the best argument yet for strong encryption
Brian Barrett, writing for Wired, on why Apple’s newly rolled out CareKit, as well as HealthKit before it, relies so heavily on encryption.
FBI vs Apple: What does this delay mean?
Alina Selyukh, writing for NPR, lays out a series of questions about the latest development in Apple vs FBI.
On the FBI’s “alternative” method
Speculation from iOS security expert Jonathan Zdziarski on the nature of the third party the FBI is calling on to crack the San Bernardino iPhone.
Apple’s online store closed for today’s event
Apple has a message up on their site (image in the main post) in preparation for today’s event. The main post also has a link to Apple’s event page if you haven’t already tucked that away.
Johns Hopkins researchers poke a hole in Apple’s encryption
Matthew D. Green, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University who led the research team:
“Even Apple, with all their skills — and they have terrific cryptographers — wasn’t able to quite get this right,” said Green, whose team of graduate students will publish a paper describing the attack as soon as Apple issues a patch. “So it scares me that we’re having this conversation about adding back doors to encryption when we can’t even get basic encryption right.”
Every possible way to open a file in Mac OS X
Great post, worth it to scan through, tuck away, and pass along.
The law is clear: The FBI cannot make Apple rewrite its OS
Susan Crawford is a Harvard Law Professor and was President Barack Obama’s Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. She lays out exactly why the FBI is wrong in its full court press against Apple.