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Daring Fireball: The iPad Pro (daringfireball.net)
The user should never have to wait for the computer, especially if it’s just for an animation.
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How Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina (medium.com)
HP agreed to pre-load Apple’s iTunes music software and store into its personal computers. This was a hugely valuable concession. Apple had only recently begun to push this key software into the Windows world. Millions of HP/Compaq customers would instantly become part of Apple’s entertainment ecosystem.
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Why are we watching two dudes play 3D frogger on stage? I thought this was 2015 -
Core Location in iOS 8 - NSHipster (nshipster.com)
Like many other aspects of the latest update, Core Location has been shaken up, with changes designed both to enable developers to build new kinds of things they couldn't before and to help maintain user privacy. Specifically, iOS 8 brings three major sets of changes to the Core Location framework: more granular permissions, indoor positioning, and visit monitoring.
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...after Apple announced they were sun-setting MAC address Wi-Fi triangulation (which was the indoor positioning technique Aruba/Meridian relied on at the time), the two companies decided to adopt new Apple iBeacon standards and build their own beacons so they could control their system more thoroughly.
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Interesting you mark this section of it, this part also stood out to me. As a l... | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)
At first, it was striking that one day I booked a flight and then about two weeks later, my dashboard mentioned to me that I should leave 40 minutes early for my flight because of a traffic accident. It knew my flight information, when I should leave, and routes to the airport. I followed Google's suggestion and made it to the airport on time, taking an alternate route Google displayed for me. Once I landed, Google updated my dashboard about the currency exchange, surrounding events, restaurant reviews, foreign news, and more... it "knew" I wasn't home anymore, but across the world. It was initially strange, but with more trips and more experiences, I grew to like that Google could give me handy data.
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Just created a @simple goal for $3/day to save enough for an Apple Watch by the time they come out.
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iOS 8 Wi-Fi Changes - A Privacy Win? Or iBeacon Lock-in?
In iOS 8, Wi-Fi scanning will use random MAC addresses, making it impossible to passively track a device using its MAC address. This also ensures the only way to track devices indoors is by using iBeacon technology.continue reading... -
Frequent Locations API in iOS 8
Since the launch of iOS 7, your iPhone has been collecting a list of "frequent locations" as you move around. If you don't already know about this, you can check out your list in the Settings app.continue reading... -
Apple is clearly up to more than they revealed with HomeKit in iOS 8 today. An iPhone can't control your home lights if you're away from home without some sort of connection.
If Apple adds HomeKit support to iCloud, then your phone would have a backend to talk to.
The next step would be getting some device to sit in your house to send the raw messages to all the devices. Maybe this will be built into the next Airports, or could be launched as a separate device. This device would be able to use the iCloud connection.
When you're away from home you could tell your phone to turn off the lights, it would send a message via iCloud which would be picked up by the base station at home.
