Feb 21
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Attention all Apple TV jailbreakers, FireCore has just released a new version of its popular jailbreaking utility known as Seas0nPass. The software is the ATV equivalent of an app like Absinthe.
In the latest update, which brings Seas0nPass to version 0.8.2, FireC0re has added in a new stitching feature which makes downgrading to previous firmware versions possible…(…)
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Feb 21
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Last night, it was announced that the iPhone 4S will be available on China’s second-largest carrier, China Telecom, on March 9th. Apple has been aggressively attacking China and has been reaping off its benefits. To benefit iPhone sales even more, Apple is continuing to pursue adding more carriers to support the iPhone in China.
Reuters reports China’s largest carrier, China Mobile, has been “aggressively negotiating” a deal with Apple, but some technical hurdles are holding back a launch for now…(…)
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Feb 21
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People went into quite the stir, after WSJ published an article reporting that Google had been overriding Safari’s privacy settings to track user’s web browsing habits. Google used many forms of trickery to bypass Apple’s security settings, on both the desktop and iOS versions of Safari. Many users are questioning Google’s tactics.
The whole ordeal is now entering court, as Business Week reports that an Illinois man is suing Google Inc. in a Delaware court…(…)
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Feb 21
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Pepper spray is one of the best tools for self defense when being mugged, or worse, by a criminal. However, it’s one of those things that you won’t always have on you, especially if you’re not a female who carries a purse.
Luckily, Swiss manufacturer Piexon has developed the new Smartguard case for the iPhone 4/4S that combines a can of pepper spray right on an iPhone case, leaving it always at your disposal…(…)
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Feb 21
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Skype is one of the best tools to communicate with friends, family, and colleagues. It allows you to easily send messages and call people for free. Skype’s iOS app also makes it even easier to communicate on the go.
Today, the Skype crew has released a welcomed update for their iOS app, that includes a new interface and a slew of bug fixes, in version 3.7:(…)
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Feb 21
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After threatening to sue Apple, Proview is now preparing to talk with the American company about its iPad trademark. It hopes to reach a settlement before an upcoming trial on its trademark begins. Proview’s lawyer Xie Xianghui says it is approaching Apple with “peaceful intentions” according to a report in AppleInsider and The Times of India. This renewed effort at negotiation comes on the eve of a big court hearing on Wednesday in Shanghai.
The Shanghai court will discuss the validity of Proview’s claim against Apple and its decision will have a major impact on either company. A win for Proview could potentially ban sales of the iPad in China’s wealthiest city and slow Apple’s expansion into the Asian country. A win for Apple would hurt the struggling Proview, which is facing mounting pressure from creditors and an impending removal from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Lawyers expect a decision in this case within the next few months.
Proview ready to negotiate on eve of court hearing originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Feb 21
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Apple issued a three month extension on application sandboxing today, giving devs a little more breathing room before new rules take over. June 1 2012 is now the enforcement date. We’ve been having many discussions about Mac development in the TUAW backchannel over the last week.
The introduction of GateKeeper and the notion of signed apps, sandboxing, and developer IDs have us talking about where Apple is taking the Mac, and will be moving Mac development in general. Overall, we think things are moving towards a win for consumers and better opportunities for devs. Read on to learn more about these technologies, and how they affect developers and App Store.
GateKeeper is Apple’s new approach to making your Mac safer by giving you control over which applications may download and run on your computer. With GateKeeper, developers sign apps to authenticate them with the OS — both apps that you purchase from the Mac App Store and, at the developer’s option, also apps you purchase elsewhere.
With Mountain Lion, you choose which apps are allowed to run. You’ll be able to disable GateKeeper and run apps from anywhere if you like, although this is not the default setting.
The thing is this: Apple continues moving towards a more controlled, less open, more appliance-like concept of what a Mac means. That redefinition is causing ripples, affecting app development more and more. Applications can do fewer things, access fewer system resources, and control other apps less than they did in the past.
Developers who choose to enroll in the Mac development program pay a $99/year fee just as those who enroll in the iOS development program do. Once enrolled, they can sign their apps as identified developers — as well as gain access to early beta versions of unreleased operating systems.
When the iPhone SDK first debuted, many people including yours truly complained about what couldn’t be done with the APIs: what files could be accessed, what routines could be called, and so forth. Coming from a general computing background, one learns to expect to build whatever one can imagine. If the building blocks are there, then why not build whatever tools you need? That all ties into a background of fully open computing.
Apple’s policy split the dev community into the jailbreak world and the App Store world, with many people crossing over depending on what they were building. Under jailbreak, developers gain full access to the entire iOS file system and run apps in a fully privileged mode. This gives devs a much broader development vocabulary to work with. The jailbreak world became known for its innovation, with Apple mining those forward-looking ideas and free R&D and bringing them into successive iterations of their operating system.
At the same time, developers had to change. If they wanted to market through App Store, they had to relinquish product ideas that wouldn’t work within the more closed-off system that App Store submission required and look instead for opportunities of development that were allowed.
No one can look at App Store today, with its countless apps, and say that Apple denied developers opportunity. It’s just a somewhat different opportunity than many developers expected. It’s an opportunity that restricted certain kinds of applications, most typically OS enhancements and utilities (which have flourished on other mobile platforms with less oversight of developer access). Overall, Apple has provided better tools, better marketing, and better sales avenues than had existed before. The end result has been apps that are significantly better than previous generations.
And now, Apple is doing the same thing for the Mac.
This is emotionally hard for some long-term devs like me. We want Linux-y freedom for whatever we want to build and distribute. Now, with sandboxing (a technique that restricts application access to full system files; all apps that are not sandboxed will be removed from the Mac App Store starting June 1st) and GateKeeper (limiting apps to those that are signed and authenticated), Apple is setting a new default: software consumers will expect to be protected, and will expect that any item being delivered to them will comply with Apple policies.
We developers have two choices: either opt in to Apple’s signing (developer IS) and/or distribution system (App Store), or limit ourselves to only those customers savvy enough to opt out to the “all’s fair” system. It’s essentially a Mac jailbreak–just without all the pain of waiting for the next untethered release. (Speaking of which, yes, it would be lovely if this idea goes exactly back to the iPhone, so we don’t have to wait on those exploits and releases.)
Apple’s brave new world for the Mac gets that there are “power” users and “consumers.” And it also gets that the latter category vastly outnumbers the former. As it builds new and better operating systems that retain desktop functionality, it is shaping computing to match consumer needs and wants, not developers.
Not everything is roses. Some devs are complaining–with good reason–that Apple’s approach to proprietary technologies will prevent them from selling off the App Store for iCloud features, for example. If you want to tie into those APIs, you won’t be able to go to third party merchandising storefronts to sell your software. App Store-exclusive features will tie developers further into Mac App Store and to Apple’s 30% cut. Those Apple-specific technologies will continue to grow over time.
What’s more, developers must continue putting pressure on Apple to extend entitlements, allowing apps to grow the kinds of resource access they are allowed under Apple’s sandbox system. The current set of entitlement restrictions seems unnaturally limited.
Just as iOS’s App Store has responded to developer requests, the Mac environment will have to soften restrictive rough edges over time. A passionate and involved developer community will help those changes happen. Community-sourced advocacy such as Tim Burks‘ Open Radar project allow developers to cooperatively brainstorm and strategize about which access issues are the most important to them.
In the end, this is going to be an amazing end-point for consumers. You can talk about “what has existed for a generation,” but that means things like Microsoft Word. There is no way anyone can argue that MS Word was an amazing end-point for general consumers.
It’s a wake-up call for devs who have stuck with Apple through the dark years. Apple is changing up the game. Devs have to change it up too. And if Apple’s success with iOS App Store is any indication there will be more opportunity and better chances at creating a living than ever before.
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App-ocalypse soon: Apple extends sandboxing deadlines, but restrictions loom originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Feb 21
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Just yesterday, we reported on Apple’s move to renewable energy at the Maiden, North Carolina data center and other facilities. Now USA Today is reporting that Apple has given the green light to begin independent environmental audits of the companies that make up the Apple supply chain.
Apple apparently decided to allow the audits after environmental groups including the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) documented several hazardous material leaks and the use of toxic chemicals at supplier facilities. According to Ma Jun, the founder of the IPE, Apple’s decision came in January as a response to the reports.
Ma, who is one of China’s leading environmentalists, noted that the audits may begin as early as March and will initially focus on two suppliers although the scope could expand to as many as 14 suppliers.
Apple wants to publicize the results of the independent review as soon as the suppliers have been given an opportunity to resolve issues, so the company is expected to disclose the names of those suppliers. Apple has already confirmed that it has contracts with seven suppliers named in IPE reports in 2011: Foxconn Technology, Meiko Electronics, Ibiden Electronics, Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board, Compeq Manufacturing, Wintek, and Unimicron.
Gary Liu, the deputy director of the China Europe International Business School’s Lujiazui International Finance Research Center, said that Apple’s audits are a step in the right direction for Chinese workers and the public. Liu was quoted as saying that “Apple now realizes that its brand name will suffer if it continues to be blind to the misbehaviors” of suppliers.
Apple OKs independent environmental audits of suppliers originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Feb 21
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It’s the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You’ll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what’s happening in the Apple world.
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Daily Update for February 21, 2012 originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Feb 21
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According to De Telegraaf, a 49 year-old Rotterdam contractor was shot at and an iPhone in his pocket may have helped stop the bullet from hitting his heart. According to my limited Dutch language skills and Google’s translation, “The bullet went straight through my phone back and then only in my chest. My cell phone worked as a brake job and probably was adjusted so that no serious damage was done.” In the picture shown attached to the story, it appears the bullet had to travel through the glass of his van as well, which certainly also helped slow the velocity of the bullet before it hit the iPhone.
Back in 2007 we wrote up a story about a soldier in Iraq who had a bullet hit his iPod, saving his life. Oh, his body armor helped as well. Remember, it’s important to slow the velocity of a bullet down when protecting the body, so anything between you and a high velocity slug of lead is a good thing. And although body armor is pricey, it’s still cheaper per square inch than covering yourself in iPhones.
Thanks to Ronald Detiger for sending this in!
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