Apple is offering rare discounts of up to 500 yuan ($68.50) on its latest iPhone models in China, as the U.S. tech giant moves to defend its market share against rising competition from domestic rivals like Huawei.
The four-day promotion, running from Jan. 4-7, applies to several iPhone models when purchased using specific payment methods, according to its website.
Apple is being thoughtful about doing this in a (theoretically) privacy-preserving way, but I don’t think the company is living up to its ideals here. Not only is it not opt-in, but you can’t effectively opt out if it starts uploading metadata about your photos before you even use the search feature. It does this even if you’ve already opted out of uploading your photos to iCloud. And “privately matches” is kind of a euphemism. There remains no plain English text saying that it uploads information about your photos and specifically what information that is. You might assume that it’s just sharing GPS coordinates, but apparently it’s actually the content of the photos that’s used for searching
What exactly is Notion? It's often nebulously described as a 'productivity app', but it can do so much that it’s hard to pigeonhole it. When you open the app initially, it can feel like a simple note-taking app or document management tool, letting you jot down just about anything. With some time and guidance, however, it can turn into just about anything you need it to.
Hardcore Notion fans have built entire project management suites and task managers within the app, but you don't have to go that far to benefit from its productivity powers.
CCI, which is yet to pronounce its verdict, last week decided to share a confidential version of its investigation report with Apple and Apple Distribution International Ltd to enable them to prepare their defences, these people said. This is the penultimate step before final hearings and adjudication on the case.
The CCI director general’s investigation report has confirmed a violation of India’s competition law provisions that prohibit abuse of dominance, one of the two persons said.
It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian comic book character Tintin, are now free to reuse and repurpose in the US.
Now that we can place icons anywhere on iPhone's home screens and control center, where else will Apple allow customization next? I am hoping the lock screen.
And I am hoping the Today's View continue to exist. Or at least the lock screen can duplicate the features of the Today's View. The most important feature, to me, is to be able to run (some) Shortcuts without needing to unlock the phone first.
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