Netflix spokesperson MoMo Zhou has told The Verge that this morning’s window where Netflix appeared as a “participating” service in Apple TV — including temporary support for the watchlist and “continue watching” features — was an error and has now been rolled back. That’s a shame. The jubilation in our comments on the original story was palpable.
Earlier this week, Apple made a lot of longtime App Store customers happy. After years of asking for a way to merge Apple accounts, Apple released a tool enabling the ability to move purchases from one Apple account to another Apple account. The only catch? There are a lot of requirements that each account must meet.
When Dr. David Rabin told me how Apollo Sessions worked, my exact first thought was, “poppycock.” This was an app, he said, that would turn my iPhone into a healing device using the vibrations of the phone’s haptic engine. By stimulating the vagus nerve—a core component of the parasympathetic nervous system responsible for the body’s recovery and relaxation mechanisms—using certain frequencies, this iOS app would make me feel different. It works, he assured me. With trauma patients in clinical settings, he claimed. As someone who is skeptical about wundermedicine by default, I didn’t believe it. But as someone who has lived through a few years of a traumatic experience, I was curious. I wanted to try it.
The brand has now introduced the Lux Grip for iPhone – a MagSafe device that's designed to "improve the ergonomics and functionality of smartphone photography" to give users a similar kind of feel to classic Leica cameras.
And I’m glad I did.
This time, the latest version of the app adds multiple new widgets with different health metrics, so that users can get an overview of their health right from their Home Screen.
Inside Apple, many employees testing the new Siri have found that these features do not yet work consistently. And it’s nearing crunch time for the software to be ready. Though iOS 18.4 will not be released publicly until April, the beta version for developers is expected to debut as early as next week.
Another option on the table is including the features in the April release but having them turned off by default. In that scenario, Apple could then enable them automatically in the iOS 18.5 update.
Firstly, while Apple defines tracking “in a way that only covers data processing for advertising purposes across companies,” per the FCO, the same “strict” ATTF rules “do not cover Apple’s own practice of combining user data across its ecosystem — from its App Store, Apple ID and connected devices — and using them for advertising purposes.”
Secondly, it highlights how third-party apps may show up to four consecutive consent dialogues under the ATTF, while Apple apps show a maximum of two. Nor do the pop-ups around Apple’s own apps refer to “Apple’s own processing of user data across services (known as first-party tracking) as such,” in the FCO’s assessment.
Working at the intersection of Apple's newest hardware and Linux kernel development, for the benefit of a free distribution, was never going to be easy. But it's been an especially hard couple of weeks for Hector Martin, project lead for Asahi Linux, capping off years of what he describes as burnout, user entitlement, and political battles within the Linux kernel community about Rust code.
I wonder how Netflix could have made the error of adding some support for Apple TV app, and has to roll back the mistake?
Did some programmers failed to understand how to use Apple's APIs, and just blindly copied-and-pasted some Apple sample code?
If so, I'll strongly urged Netflix management to forgive the progrmmaers. Apple is no longer famous for having good API documentation.
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