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The App-Stubs Edition Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Here's Why You Shouldn't Use iPhone Mirroring On A Corporate Mac, by Tim Hardwick, MacRumors

According to a new blog post by Sevco, the core issue lies in how iPhone Mirroring interacts with macOS's file system and metadata. When activated, the feature creates "app stubs" for iOS applications in a specific directory on the Mac.

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For employees, this means that apps they use privately could become visible to their employer's IT department without their knowledge or consent. This could potentially reveal sensitive personal information, such as dating apps, health-related apps, or VPNs used in countries with restricted internet access.

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This New Device Uses Computer Vision To Teach The Piano, by Janko Roettgers, Fast Company

Four out of five parents reportedly want their children to learn a musical instrument. A much smaller number of kids actually do, and even fever stick with it.

“It’s intimidating, it’s expensive, it’s hard,” acknowledges Roland Lamb, whose company ROLI has been trying to reinvent music education, and instruments themselves, for 15 years. Now, Lamb believes that he has found a way to make piano lessons a lot more accessible: ROLI’s new Airwave product uses special infrared cameras for hand tracking, which makes it possible to take lessons on an iPad that monitor a player’s posture—just like a teacher would, but for a fraction of the price.

End Of The Road For Google Drive And Transmit, by Panic Inc

Google has a new set of policies that require apps that connect to Google Drive to go through expensive, time-consuming annual reviews, and this has made it extremely difficult for us to reasonably maintain Google Drive access.

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If iMessage Is So Great, Why Is The Messages Experience So Terrible?, by Jason Snell, Macworld

We all need more control over how Messages notifies us about goings on in our individual chats and group threads. First off, it would be great if I could specify that I wanted to be notified when new messages appeared in a chat, but not when a new tapback reaction arrived. The reaction multiplier in active chats is just too much for me to bear sometimes.

Managing notifications should also be smarter. I’d like to be able to mute notifications for a chat for some time, so I can get back to work and catch up on the chat later. Sure, I can set a Focus mode, but again… that seems like a workaround when there’s a more direct way to solve the problem. Namely, “Stop bugging me about this chat for an hour.”

Apple As Godzilla, by Nick Heer, Pixel Envy

A basic level of privacy protections should not be a competitive advantage, nor should users be required to navigate either unceasing permissions dialogs or terms of service agreements to understand the myriad ways their personal information is being exploited — because their personal information should not be exploited.

Apple Says Final iPod Nano And iPod Shuffle Models Are Now Obsolete, by Joe Rossignol, MacRumors

Apple today added the final iPod nano and iPod shuffle models to its obsolete products list worldwide, marking the end of an era.

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What I miss about iPods: their smallness. (Said me, while looking at the iPhone's dimension and weight information on Apple's website.)

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