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Re:Apple Pass Designer on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:41PM (#49937681)
Very likely they might use some common frameworks that are shared between macOS, iOS, and watchOS to design (e.g. SwiftUI) and writing the whole stack for non-Apple platforms simply wouldn't make sense.
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:10PM (#49633463)
Thought it will bring "desiging for foldables" onto the table which would benefit Android foldables too.
Re:loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE on Monday May 18, 2026 @04:56PM (#48185514)
It looks cool but I wasn't able to get any audio when I started playing.

iOS 26.4.2, Safari, sound is on.

Re:Arm AGI CPU on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @05:18AM (#47515076)
Buy it in combo with the good ol' Blockchain perfume!
How would this play with mobile apps?

I'd love to see an agent doing work, then launching app on iOS sim or Android emu to visually "use" the app to inspect whether things work as expected or not.

Re:Bugs Apple Loves on Friday January 23, 2026 @01:43AM (#46729263)
The AirDrop randomly not working one is really manifesting at the most inconvenient times.

Apple simply won't fix it.

Re:The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem on Thursday October 30, 2025 @05:46AM (#45758089)
Let me have a look. Do you think the material is of good quality and healthy (no weird questionable materials for wearing/skin contact for long time with sweat etc)?
Re:The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @11:37AM (#45748281)
Cushions (yeah replacable but not super cheap), the cable that connects one earpiece to other, the bit connecting the earpieces, the hinges around the earpieces.

Literally everything. The sound is still great and battery is awesome. But I doubt it will last long.

(Just to be clear: I've used it A LOT over the years, and is already worth every penny I spent on it)

Re:The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @02:01PM (#45736459)
Just curious, which Sennheisers did you give up on in favor of APP3?

I have over-the-ear Momentum 3 and love it, but if APP3 provides better sound quality and better ANC I might consider switching as Momentum 3, while I love it, is bulky, heavy, and started to wear off and break down.

All those modular smartphones, and also Amazon's Fire phone.

Why? Obviously close-to-zero market. It was unbelievable how those people though those projects would even succeed.

Re:Say Bye with JavaScript Beacon on Friday September 05, 2025 @03:06PM (#45142371)
It's just an extra measure, not protecting the server from a malicious user, but an honest user's potential mismanagement of credentials.
Re:Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others on Friday September 05, 2025 @03:04PM (#45142360)
Banning anything is never the solution.

Don't want to use social media? Don't use it. No one can decide for others.

Re:Say Bye with JavaScript Beacon on Thursday September 04, 2025 @06:59AM (#45125833)
There might be some sensitive applications where server might want to immediately revoke credentials server-side though.
Re:Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for on Thursday September 04, 2025 @06:49AM (#45125771)
Great. Let's not slow down CPUs coupled with aging batteries and instead have a full system crash suddenly at the most demanding moment. Sure that would be much better.
Re:Is Google Down? - EU networking issue on Thursday September 04, 2025 @03:23AM (#45124545)
All down here (Turkey).
Re:Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @01:42PM (#45118530)
I'd love to know how many people use VPNs because of "fear of being hacked" (hack covering everything non tech-savvy here).

Almost everyone I know use VPNs only to bypass restrictions, not for fear or privacy.

Re:Magic Lantern Is Back on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @06:16AM (#45114090)
I don't think forcing a company to open source their IP is a good move, but perhaps there might be some encouragement implemented for opening up their bootloader so the device is more hackable.

But forcing is never a right thing.

Re:Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @02:57AM (#45099921)
Actually I didn't mean anything that contradicts your comment. I do agree with what you are saying.

I don't think we should be expecting moral values from any company over a certain size, be it Apple, Google, or anything else. They "care" about privacy as long as they profit from it directly as device/service sales or indirectly with brand value/trust/PR.

Re:Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @02:53AM (#45099900)
1. Not endorsement, but at least a recognition of some sort that Apple recognized the dev and the app and allowed them to publish this app (regardless of which store).

2. AFAIK Apple isn't doing anything illegal by pulling out this app. Malicious compliance? Perhaps. Illegal? Nope. If Apple doesn't do this, then it would indeed attract legal issues due to the first point.

Re:Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @02:48AM (#45099863)
If an OS needs antivirus for this, that OS has been designed wrong (excluding Linux, FreeBSD etc as the target audience isn't regular end users) in the first place.

An OS should NOT need antivirus, it needs proper sandbox and containerization.

Re:Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe on Monday September 01, 2025 @10:44PM (#45098622)
Not to play devil's advocate here and also IANAL but:

If (as as it is) Apple is still controlling apps via notarizarion/digitally signing apps of and recognizing developers, and if the app is developed for something that would land Apple in legal trouble (e.g. it makes it easy to freely and illegally download music and Apple also has legal contracts with record labels as they have Apple Music, and not only legal but it also affects Apple's own music revenue too) as the app has passed explicit notarization of Apple (in other words: Apple "knowlingly" allowed them and greenlighted them by notarizing the app), wouldn't it cause legal trouble for Apple?

For that, it's the logical behavior for a company like Apple to stop allowing the app.

Again, I'm not supporting it, but I can imagine where it's coming from and that makes sense from a business perspective as torrenting on mobile has almost no legal use cases. We all know you have not installed it to download your favorite Linux distro to your iPhone.

Or:

One (a big entity with enough resources) should take this as an opportunity and create a new, third truly open alternative to iOS and Android (no, I'm not talking about an AOSP fork, I'm saying something totally new) and let iOS/Android have their thing as they want, letting consumers decide between the three instead of forcing vendors into ridiculous business decisions like forcefully opening their own platforms for others.

Re:I Don't Have Spotify on Sunday August 31, 2025 @04:08PM (#45086610)
Putting aside security/privacy implications,

Why not?

Re:The GitHub website is slow on Safari on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @03:22PM (#45043882)
While I agree about devs should be testing on slow devices, the particular target audience of the site generally have pretty decent machines (including two that I have) and there isn't much reason for the site lag. It's not really doing any 3D rendering with complex shaders or video filtering; it just shows changed lines in two files. That shouldn't lag.
Google was always dystopian and evil. They just wore good mask for some time in the beginning.
"Can?" Sure.

"Would?" Google has zero incentive to do that.

Not sure how to get it to work. When I open the page there's an empty box at top left resembling an incoming message but without any message.

I also tried sending a "hello" message anyway, and after it, another completely empty incoming message was added.

Am I missing something obvious?

Re:Pixel 10 Phones on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:20PM (#44966605)
Hardware: looks nice. Software: big NO. Anything from Google is a red flag for me.

If there was a hypothetical phone with this hardware with iOS, that would be really nice.

But can't the bad actors use the same APIs to ensure that it's passing this first?
Re:Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification" on Sunday August 17, 2025 @04:16PM (#44934567)
Speak for yourself please.

No one can dictate who can watch something or not.

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