Category: iOS
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NameDrop in iOS is not a Security Risk
Reading Time: < 1 minute This NameDrop controversy that took place on Facebook earlier this week is one of the most misunderstood technical issues I’ve seen in a long time. Contrary to all of these posts from official sounding police-related Facebook pages, it’s not really a security risk. NameDrop is useful if you want to…
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Buying a Bus Ticket in Switzerland with Your Watch
Reading Time: < 1 minute A company in Switzerland called Fairtiq has an iOS app with support for the Apple Watch that lets you pay for transit tickets using your Watch. The way it apparently works is you start the trip on your Watch as you board the bus (they also have partnerships with rail…
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Motigo is a New App for Runners That Provides In-Race Motivation
Reading Time: < 1 minute Motigo is currently an iOS-only app that was initially released in June 2014 to provide in-race motivation to endurance athletes. This app allows you to record, manage, and play at specific points in your race motivating audio clips from family or friends. I know I’d get a big kick out…
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Why Plugging an iPhone in to Use the “Hey Siri” Feature Makes Sense
Reading Time: < 1 minute Let’s say we are in a room full of iPhones. If “Hey Siri” could be enabled by default without a constraint like having the phone plugged in to power, when one of us said, “Hey Siri,” all of the iOS devices in the room would start listening and responding at…
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iPhone 4s Performance Under iOS 8 is Good
Reading Time: < 1 minute Some 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…
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Will The Apple Watch Change Us the Way Other iOS Devices Have?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Maybe you were blown away by Apple’s announcements yesterday: iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and Apple Watch. Wait, what? We were ready for the introduction of a wearable device. Some people were sure it was a watch. Some people thought it was the iWatch. It turned out to be the…
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Is Cook’s Team Fostering a New Era of Apple Secrecy?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Great post this morning by Dave Mark on The Loop called iWatch speculation, where he cites James Gill’s Why Would Apple make a watch? Gill said: Not long after Tim Cook took over as full time CEO, he made a promise: “We’re going to double down on secrecy.” A few years…