Category: iOS 7
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iPhone 4s Performance Under iOS 8 is Good
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome of you may know that I am using an iPhone 4s temporarily because I broke my 5s about a week ago. I upgraded the 4s I’m using to iOS 8 this afternoon, and the performance of the 4s feels about the same to me under the new operating system as…
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Are Critics Misunderstanding the Reason Apple is Recommending Two-Step Verification?
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the wake of the targeted attack that was perpetrated on the individual iCloud accounts of a number of female celebrities, an Apple Media Advisory recommended that “all users… always use a strong password and enable two-step verification.” This resulted in stern criticism for Apple from some writers and analysts. For example:…
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Anti-Apple Publications Start Recognizing Apple’s Excellence
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the last few years, Business Insider has made a name for itself by finding a way to point out the negative implications of current technology news on Apple Inc. So, I was surprised to read Jay Yarrow’s post, It’s Pretty Clear That Apple Is Winning The War With Samsung, which discusses…
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Siri Can’t Correctly Answer the First Day of Spring Question in 2014
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI couldn’t be more frustrated about the fact that Siri in iOS 7.1 could not correctly answer the question, “When is the first day of Spring?” on the first day of Spring 2014. Siri said that the first day of Spring in 2014 is Sunday, March 23. When I asked Google…
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iOS 7.1 Released
Reading Time: 2 minutesI am really pleased to hear that Apple released iOS 7.1 today. There are a lot of features that improve services that I like, and we have waited a long time for this update to mature to the point where it could be released. Some of the improvements that stand out to…
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Anonymous iOS 7 ‘UX Critique’ Hits a Number of Valid Issues
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKudos to John Gruber for pointing out this anonymous critique of iOS 7 user experience issues that was published on Tumblr. The important thing to note about this Tumblr blog is that the issues identified here have been posted periodically since September 24: FaceTime Recents in a dark room Semi-transparent layering…
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U.S. Federal Trade Commission Sanctions Maker of an Extremely Popular Flashlight App for Android
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFast Company reports that an Android app called “Brightest Flashlight Free” has been found to collect location information and device identifiers for the phones on which the app is running, even if the user opted out of collection of that information. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleges in their press release…
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KitKat Release of Android Available on Only 1.1 Percent of Active Android Devices One Month After Its Release
Reading Time: 2 minutesEngadget reports that the KitKat version of Android, also known as Android 4.4 is only available on 1.1% of active Android devices, according to the Android Platform Versions Developer Dashboard. There are two aspect of this statistic that are interesting: The Chikita advertising network estimated that iOS 7 was available on 51%…
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What Benefits Does Apple Get from Acquiring Topsy?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today Apple acquired Topsy Labs, a company primarily known for offering search and data analysis tools that work with the Twitter data stream since 2006. Most analysts believe that it isn’t immediately clear how Apple will use Topsy’s know how, or its access to the Twitter firehose. Here are my…