Apple TV Plus may not have a specific prestige aesthetic yet, the way HBO shows once felt like HBO shows and AMC shows felt like AMC shows, but what it does have is momentum and potential. While the must-see Disney Plus original content still seems stalled in a galaxy far, far away, Apple TV Plus has a treasure trove of decent-to-great programming to tap into right now.
It hurts to admit it, but maybe, just maybe, Tim Cook did optimize entertainment the way Apple does smartphones. Or he came close enough, anyway.
You can currently sign up for an Apple One bundle by going to the App Store on an iOS or iPadOS device and tapping your profile picture in the top right corner of the screen. Tap on your profile at the top of the next screen and then Subscriptions, where you should find a banner promoting Apple One.
So you can subscribe to any of the Apple One tiers and then add on an extra 50 GB, 200 GB, or 2 TB on top via the normal iCloud tier. The prices for the iCloud plans are unchanged if you have Apple One.
While the options here will help users with multiple Apple IDs actually sign up for the service, it's far from the easy account merging or consolidation that users have been asking for.
Affected AirPods were manufactured before October 2020, and those who have AirPods experiencing issues can take them to Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider for service free of charge. Apple says that the AirPods Pro will be examined prior to service to verify that they’re eligible for the program.
Visually impaired persons have fought an uphill battle negotiating with such popular delivery apps and their makers, which rose in popularity since the lockdown. To solve this problem, activist Aziz Minat approached these apps to make them user-friendly for the visually impaired.
Apple has packed an interesting new accessibility feature into the latest beta of iOS: a system that detects the presence of and distance to people in the view of the iPhone’s camera, so blind users can social distance effectively, among many other things.
The feature emerged from Apple’s ARKit, for which the company developed “people occlusion,” which detects people’s shapes and lets virtual items pass in front of and behind them. The accessibility team realized that this, combined with the accurate distance measurements provided by the lidar units on the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max, could be an extremely useful tool for anyone with a visual impairment.
The benefit of a HomeKit router is that you can hand that task off to the router and Home app by simply making a few security choices up front. I’ve been impressed with just how easy HomeKit support was to enable and manage with Linksys’ Velop WiFi routers, and hope it’s a feature that Linksys and other router makers continue to implement in their products.
Apple’s approach cleverly solves the problem by creating encryption keys on devices that rely on biometric data (backed by a passcode) and then securely storing them in the Secure Enclave built into every iPhone and iPad, and Macs with Touch ID. Since no one, not even Apple, can access those locally stored keys, the company can remotely sync and store data encrypted by those keys on its iCloud servers while providing a strong assurance of protection from crackers—or even pressure from the highest levels of domestic and foreign governments.
Apple told the developer of Drive Turnout, Ari Steinberg, that the app violates a guideline which forbids compilation of personal information from "any source that is not directly from the user or without the user's explicit consent, even public databases." The company held the app for two weeks before ultimately issuing a denial.
The iPhone maker’s latest annual report, published on Friday, is peppered with new warnings and disclosures about the legal risks rising up around its business in a marked change from last year’s filing, as it was forced to acknowledge the growing political hostility against big tech companies.
Looks like I don't have to make the decision today whether to subscribe to Apple One... because Apple One is not available to me here in Singapore. Apple's website still says: coming later this year.
But now that the iCloud storage cost is clearer to me, I will not be subscribing to Apple One anyway, at least not until the free Apple TV+ trial runs out in February. We don't need Apple Arcade, we will need to top up iCloud anyway, and so my comparision is just the price of Apple Music family versus Apple One family.
I do enjoy having Apple TV+, so I'm leanin towards Apple One staring in March.
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Apple should just offer the same 2TB of iCloud at the family tier. I don't know what's Apple profit margins for iCloud is, but I'd guess the cost to Apple between 200GB and 2TB is actually not that different. By offering more storage space, the frustration of the family's CTO in managing storage space will be greatly reduced.
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Thanks for reading.