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Worries about privacy are a top reason people with substance-use disorders don’t get treatment, according to a 2020 survey from the Department of Health and Human Services. But some of the top-downloaded habit-tracking apps — including those that track sobriety — leave room in their privacy policies to share data liberally with third-party companies.
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Help Desk examined the cost, ease of use and privacy policies of 11 popular habit-tracking and sobriety apps. Here’s what to know before downloading.
I know there is no perfect solution. A singular productivity tool that works for everyone is a unicorn — beautiful, perfect, and completely fictional. Still, there has to be some sort of middle ground between an unachievable fantasy and the current landscape. I would happily settle for two, maybe three apps. Honestly, less than 10 is all I’m asking for.
In addition to a gift card, the first 30,000 customers in Japan who purchase a new iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 12, or iPhone SE from Apple during the promotion will receive a limited-edition AirTag with a Year of the Rabbit engraving for 2023.
Balance hopes to help users build a set of healthy work habits rather than get granular data about their productivity. It won’t tell you long you had Slack, Microsoft Teams, Chrome or any other application open on your machine, but will offer general insights into your overall usage of the system and time spent in various sessions in a week.
If you told me that my iPhone that lasts 5 days (122 hours) could last nearly 3 weeks (466 hours) if I turned off the always-on display, I might consider doing that, but that's not what this actually say at all. There are so many things on your phone that chew up battery life, and the screen, even in always-on mode is a tiny part of that.
It was 2008, and iPods were more plentiful than the snowflakes that fell from the sky. Before Apple Stores served a truly global audience, holiday window displays were explicitly Christmas-themed. The App Store was new, and it would be another seven years before pivot doors eliminated the space for expressive decorations.
It was under these circumstances that Apple developed its most memorable holiday displays to date.
Apple Japan is being charged 13 billion yen ($98 million) in additional taxes by Tokyo authorities, apparently for bulk sales of iPhones and other devices to foreign tourists that were incorrectly exempted from the consumption tax, Nikkei learned on Monday.
Bulk purchases of iPhones by foreign shoppers were discovered at some Apple stores, a source said. At least one transaction involved an individual buying hundreds of handsets at once, suggesting that the store missed taxing a possible reseller.
I have always treated Apple Arcade as the free portion of my Apple One subscription, even though I am playing games from the service every month.
Of course, I am also listening to Apple Music every month, watching Apple TV+ every month, and storing stuff in iCloud+ every month too. (I also paid extra for the 2TB of iCloud storage. The highest tier of Apple One is not available here in Singapore where I live.)
The difference: I value the latter three subscriptions much more than games. I guess I am not a serious gamer. If I can choose the different components of my Apple One subscription, and if Apple News+ is available where I live (it is not), I will replace Arcade with News+.
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