And it is also right that they are going too far against non-notarized apps on the Mac! Even worse are permissions in so apps that you must re-up every month!
And yes I can see some shields around NFC on the phone, but yes you need to be able to bypass Apple if you want to, and just install what you want.
Apple though doesn’t want to give up its cut, so this won’t happen unless they are forced and I don’t see them being forced in the US.
They don’t see the iPhones as ours but as theirs and all the software and only regulation could help stop this.
Ok so this is something that has bugged me for sometime between the Apple Watch and the iPhone.
If you use the Apple Bedtime and Sleep settings and are wearing your Apple Watch instead of the alarm happening on your phone, your watch will vibrate. Some people hate this, but I love it, as it doesn’t disturb my wife or newborn baby.
The weird thing is there are no controls for this it just happens and you can’t say have the alarm on both your watch and the phone or even just the phone.
Even weirder to me if you set alarms on your phone they don’t alert your watch even if your phone is set to silent (when it should default to vibrating your watch).
Apple really needs to have settings for this and they should be global.
If I have on my watch and have my phone set to silent I should be able to have all alarms go off by vibrating my watch, but there are no controls for this whatsoever. And the only cross alarm that happens is in the sleep/bedtime alarm mentioned earlier.
This app stops Javascript from running on pages, and I use it to block sites that make you turn off content blockers before you can view the site.
I know sites need revenue, but random ads only annoy me, and some of that is that I edit commercials, so I know the tricks and they just annoy me! So i block them and making me turn off my content blockers annoys me even more!
This takes a little effort and a little work, but it does what it says (and some pages break when you stop the scripts), and I love it.
From Joe Rossignol at MacRumors, this is exciting news, though I hope they add it to Mac as well, so it can be added to Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, since those are my editors of choice.
Filmic PRO is easily the best app for shooting video for iOS. WIth many essential features such as shooting flat and working with stabilizers. I would say anyone shooting on the iPhone should be using FiLMiCPro. It is just too bad it had to go subscription.
As a former owner of FiLMiCPro I get a download from within the app of FiLMic Legacy which has all the old features, but won’t keep being updated, so will stop working before too long, but at least it works for now, and a discount off the subscription.
New Features of FiLMiC Pro 7
The Update does look great, and the subscription model had better mean a steady stream of new features (I would love them to figure out how to get 23.976 if that is even possible). And I love the manual control sliders vs the wheels it previously was.
I just honestly hate subscriptions, especially on IOS. I already have to have he full Adobe Suite, I have Maxon’s Red Giant Suite, and a few others, and I don’t need IOS ones.
Honestly I hope EU regulators get on this and force Apple to be able to sort the store by purchase vs subscription.
I hope it really is for the Mac Pro, but honestly I doubt it. I think the Mac Pro will be a higher end Mac Studio, with more Thunderbolt ports. After the seeming upgrade-ability of the last Mac Pro which only had PCI slot upgrades, I just doubt they are making some upgrade-able aspect to the Mac Pro.
It seems much more likely to be a processor for the Reality Pro headset.
I listen to news podcasts that I always listen to at 2x speed, and then music podcasts, that need to be listened to at 1x speed so the music is correct and it is annoying to change the setting every time. You already set podcast feeds to have individual controls to how they are shown (in what order, newest or oldest first. All I ask it to allow a setting to always playback at the speed you select.
I do wish their was a way to get into the dictionary and change things on iOS so you could stop some words from showing up, but apple doesn’t even let you control sync on bookmarks (why can’t I have an overwrite cloud setting, and if you can’t not mess up my bookmarks why would I want to sync my music collection?).
Both Apple’s app stores for iOS and Mac have a huge problem, and that is subscriptions.
When the store started, it was all purchases, so you bought the app you owned it, but then they enabled in app purchases and subscriptions. Both are used to enable all features in apps, in fact some apps barely function or don’t function at without the additional purchase. And the subscription prices have been going up. It has gotten so bad, that there should be a way to filter out subscription apps, but that would cut into Apple’s profits too.
Apple acts like they are all noble, wanting privacy for their users, but then they hide subscription prices and in app purchase prices in the store.
The price is not shown in the first page, then hidden in a drop in the app info page itself. This info should be displayed on the main page, not hidden. And for subscriptions you should be able to not only filter them out, but set limits on subscriptions when you pay. An example being that you could say yes I subscribe but for only 1 month, and automatically cancel unless I re-subscribe. To have to know how to unsubscribe in the settings app is not putting the customer first, but instead Apple’s paycheck.
The app stores are getting so much pressure from regulators, but for the developer cut to apple and opening up devices, and not for things like subscriptions. The problem with 3rd party apps is already apparent on Android, with a plethora of malware, and how easily it can be installed, to steal your data. And with a phone acting as your digital wallet with ID and Bank Cards as well as your location, 3rd party apps could endanger so much in your life, but then it is not like Apple hasn’t allowed in scam apps that are still available in the app store! And even worse most congress people don’t understand technology enough to properly regulate it, other than who is paying them that is. I have no hope of US regulators making things better, but the EU is pretty consumer oriented, so maybe they will force changes.
App stores need to get better, and the companies are only worried about their bottom lines, not their customers (who become the actual product making the companies money in many ways), and regulators focus on the wrong things. Being worried about Apple’s cut, instead of how companies prey on people with subscriptions. And honestly they are Apple Devices, and an Apple built and maintained store, how can you say they don’t deserve a cut to allow access to their store.
And we have too many subscriptions in our lives. Before i could buy software and could wait on upgrades that weren’t absolutely necessary, now I have to pay or I lose use of the software. And I pay enough for Adobe Creative Cloud and Maxon’s Red Giant Plug-Ins (which have changed their licensing from 2 installs 1 in use to 1 install) and all the streaming services, plus phone bill, cable, rent/mortgage, that I can’t afford subscriptions for all my apps! At least Adobe Creative Cloud gets tons of upgrades, many subscription apps don’t get constant new features so why pay constantly?
