So, if you take Microsoft spokesperson’s comments at face value without judgment, it only reinforces my ongoing arguments that today’s regulators are so woefully out of touch with actual technology and how it all works. They not only fail to understand how it all works, but they can’t even contemplate unintended consequences of their regulations. These regulations are more political theater than doing actual good for consumers.
If Microsoft could have restricted kernel access in the way Apple does, it is much less likely this precise catastrophic failure by a third-party company would have occurred. But it is beside the point. It seems it could have done so at any time if it did not unfairly give its own security products elevated access. Left unexplored is why it has not done so.
The list features the most popular classical music albums that are streamed globally, combining five data sources from more than 165 countries. Top 100 comes from Apple Music Classical streams, Apple Music streams, iTunes downloads, iTunes song sales, and Shazam tags.
Apple says the update brings more data for MLB games and improved support for following along live with the League Cup.
Eastgate Systems has released version 10 of its Tinderbox note-taking assistant, introducing the new dynamic Gaudí view that continuously adapts the shape and placement of each note to keep more notes in sight.
Through it, you get to manipulate a document’s content by adding or removing any elements, protecting the file with a password, shrinking its size, etc. So, for many users, there’s not much to ask for beyond these core functionalities. It should meet (and, in some cases, exceed) the general expectations.
“We have a great relationship with Apple,” he said. “As much as I love their products, there’s a reason that ironically is very consistent with Apple ethos for us to want to control the ecosystem.” CarPlay isn’t “consistent with how we think about really creating a pure product experience,” Scaringe said.
One example given by Scaringe includes CarPlay’s inability to “leverage other parts of the vehicle experience,” which would require Rivian customers to leave the app in order to do things like open the vehicle’s front trunk. “We’ve taken the view of the digital experience in the vehicle wants to feel consistent and holistically harmonious across every touchpoint,” said Scaringe.
In a surprise move Google has abandoned a plan to block third-party cookies from its Chrome internet browser.
The idea was first announced four years ago, but after a series of delays it has now been cancelled entirely.
We are still living in the aftermath of the browser war of the 1990s. If we know what we know now, all these cookies and javascript and stuff will be designed quite differently.
(Thankfully, we no longer have Blinks and Marquees.)
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