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The Talk-About-This-More Edition Saturday, March 24, 2018

Apple Proposes New Emojis To Represent People With Disabilities, by Megan Rose Dickey, TechCrunch

“At Apple, we believe that technology should be accessible to everyone and should provide an experience that serves individual needs,” the company wrote in a proposal to the Unicode Consortium. “Adding emoji emblematic to users’ life experiences helps foster a diverse culture that is inclusive of disability. Emoji are a universal language and a powerful tool for communication, as well as a form of self-expression, and can be used not only to represent one’s own personal experience, but also to show support for a loved one.”

How A Deaf, Blind Harvard Graduate Is Influencing Apple, by Kerry Flynn, Mashable

"The biggest [issue] is awareness," Herrlinger said on the panel. "I could go do a presentation in front of 1,000 people about accessibility and people would come up and say you should talk about this more."

Apple Fixes Its Buggy iPhone X Ad, by Tom Warren, The Verge

Apple published a new ad for its iPhone X last week, demonstrating the new Face ID unlock feature. It also demonstrated an iOS 11 bug, where the text from an iMessage escapes the animated bubble it’s supposed to stay inside. While it was a relatively minor issue, Apple has decided to update its ad on YouTube (somehow, without having to republish it) to remove the iOS 11 bug by re-shooting the scene it appears in.

Apple's Sales Have Grown So Much That It's Running Out Of 10-Digit Invoice Numbers, by Mitchel Broussard, MacRumors

According to a post on Reddit citing a letter from Apple called "Change in Invoice number format," the company has drafted so many invoices that it's close to going through all possible permutations for these 10-digit numeric codes, necessitating a switch to an alphanumeric system.

Stuff

Apple Events App For tvOS Updated Ahead Of Education Event, Confirms No Live Stream, by Zac Hall, 9to5Mac

Like Apple’s previous education event several years ago, the keynote will not be viewable in real time but you will be able to play the event back after it wraps up.

Develop

Is The Unified Log Private, Or A Vulnerability?, by The Electric Light Company

When developers use its public and private protection properly, the log’s privacy mechanisms do indeed prevent the leakage of private data into the log. However, that protection is easily removed by programming errors.

Notes

Apple's Tim Cook Calls For Calm Heads On China, U.S. Trade, by Matthew Miller and Cate Cadell, Reuters

“I’m cognizant that in both the U.S. and China, there have been cases where everyone hasn’t benefited, where the benefit hasn’t been balanced,” Cook said.

Speaking at the annual China Development Forum in Beijing, Cook said he hoped “calm heads” would prevail.

For The U.S. And China, A Technology Cold War That’s Freezing Over, by Raymond Zhong, New York Times

The fight between the two countries is cleaving the high-tech realm. The world’s two biggest economies have each become increasingly protective of their own leading-edge industries, and mistrustful of the other’s. Reconciliation looks difficult. And the rising tensions could further undercut American influence in a huge and fast-changing market.

Both sides have been putting up defensive walls for years.