The New York Times:
“It’s an in-your-face proposition for lots more Americans than the Snowden revelation was,” said Lee Rainie, director of Internet, science and technology research at Pew Research Center.
Terrific piece. This is a rare policy story that is emerging as national water cooler conversation.
[VIDEO] John Oliver lays out the nuance in the FBI / Apple encryption battle and addresses all the important aspects of the case with his usual biting wit in the video embedded in the main post. And there’s also a deliciously satirical Apple ad that starts at 15:50. Ouch!
Apple finally turned on the bits that allow you to re-download audiobooks, but it’s not simple. Kirk McElhearn fills in all the details.
An ACLU blog post lays out, in great detail, the process by which the FBI can bypass the auto-erase mechanism on the San Bernardino iPhone 5c. Is this correct? Is the FBI aware of this?
Niel Cybart does a solid job laying out the holes in the smart phone market, figuring out how Apple’s potential 4″ iPhone would help in expanding market share. Lots of great analysis here.
Leave your iPhone behind when you leave a restaurant? This Apple Watch app will let you know you left it behind and help you locate it. Smart idea. Review by Jonny Evans for Computerworld.
Lauren Goode, writing for The Verge:
ExxonMobil today said it would start accepting Apple Pay as a form of payment at around 6,000 ExxonMobil gas stations around the U.S, something that Apple CEO Tim Cook had said was coming during the company’s first quarter earnings call.
Interesting.
Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance was one of the witnesses who testified before the House Judiciary Committee last week (you can read details of that hearing, taking the side of the FBI.
Yesterday, Vance went on TV to lay out his case on Fox News’ Mornings with Maria. Vance does a solid job laying out his argument and is well worth watching.
Some thoughts on this.
From a Quora post about the MacBook Pro’s gently pulsing sleep light. Incredible attention to detail.
[VIDEO] Eddy Cue in a Spanish language interview with Univision, makes Apple’s case against the FBI court order.
Watch the new Microsoft ad, then go watch this old MacBook Pro ad. Notice anything similar about the music?
[VIDEO] The ad is embedded in the post. It does a number of things wrong and does not succeed in the one area critical to an ad’s success. It does not make me desire the product.
Read through it, then tuck this one away.
From S-Video, through DVI and Mini-DVI, all the way to USB Type C, this quick reference chart shows all the video ports ever used on a Mac. Anything missing?
Federico Viticci lambastes Google’s latest iOS app release. I agree.
The Washington Post on Tim Cook growing up in rural Alabama, dealing with racism and being gay, and developing his own moral compass.
The Eclectic Light Company:
The UK government, ignoring almost all the expert technical and legal advice put to it, is pressing ahead with its draconian Investigatory Powers Bill, due to undergo its second reading in the House of Commons in a week’s time. Let us suppose that this Bill, as currently before Parliament, were to come into force as it stands, becoming the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA).
Read on to see how this affects everyone, even those beyond the borders of the United Kingdom.
Kirk McElhearn walks you through the process of searching through the sea of settings to find one in particular. Search within Settings has been available since the original release of iOS 9, but it’s easy to overlook/forget about. Take a quick read through Kirk’s post, pass this one along.
This is an impressive list. It’d be interesting to compare this to a list of folks officially opposing Apple in this fight.
Amazing attendee list. I would never have imagined such a diverse group of people on the same side of an issue, enough so that they travelled some pretty sizable distances to plot and plan together.
Apple shared some magnificent pictures of the new spaceship campus. My favorite is a shot of a crane carefully lowering the new roof on top of the campus theater.
Digital Trends, on why smart watch sales have slowed to a crawl and why Apple Watch seems to be the exception.
A huge chasm between first (Apple Pay) and second place (Android Pay / Google Wallet).
There’s a survey for developers, takes 7 minutes to fill out, it’ll be up ’til April 3rd.
Know a developer? Am a developer? Please help spread the word. And there are prizes.
Serenity Caldwell outdid herself this time. The entire review is drawn with her Apple Pencil. Brilliant work.
Terrific post, definitely worth reading.
This is extraordinarily exciting for me. Of course, as a long, long time Apple user, I’m thrilled for the chance to play some old and deeply loved games from my past.
But coolness of all coolness, at least one of these is a game I helped write!!!
Color me cautiously optimistic. Quicken was a “Mac last” outcast under Intuit.
Some big names in law and computer science have banded together to back Apple in this fight. Read the post for some highlights from the brief.
[VIDEO] Oh yes. This is coming together nicely.