I pre-ordered an iPhone 11 Pro this morning in green and immediately felt buyers remorse. The purchase feels extravagant. Surely I could have gotten by a little longer with my iPhone 7, and it's cracked screen. The screen protector I bought the last time I repaired the phone after a drop onto the parking lot floor is keeping the glass from shredding my fingers and keeps the phone usable. But Phil Schiller is a masterful weaver of the Apple Reality…
Privacy on iPhone by Apple (YouTube) Your privacy matters. From encrypting your iMessage conversations, or not keeping a history of your routes in Maps, to limiting tracking across sites with Sa... Hat tip to JOHN VOORHEES on MacStories…
How the headphone jack-less iPhone came to be by Vicki Boykis (veekaybee.github.io) “But Phil, do you ever feel like your customers have gotten used to having it easy? click, and there’s your email. Swipe, all your notifications. Easy upgrades. The ecosystem’s all in the Apple store. They’re so used to having everything handed to them that they don’t have to work for anything anymore. They’ve gotten lazy and entitled, and are demanding more and more from you.” Phil frowned…
Yesterday, I received the following email from a friend (and former Sarnoff colleague). Went to Apple to get a new battery under the battery warranty program. ($29) (My old battery had been recharged over 700 times, however, was still showing effectiveness of 93%. This surprised me… I thought it wasn’t holding that well. I nonetheless decided to do battery replacement…) However… Apple killed home button on iPhone in process of battery R&R! [argh!] So… Apple gave me a brand new…
In 2016 I posted about my about my iPhone 6 photography kit which was an update from the photography kit I used in 2015. I bought an iPhone 7 last year and changed my photography kit only slightly but I made some changes to how I process my mobile images. NOTE: Lightroom CC refers to the new cloud-based desktop version of Lightroom. Lightroom Classic CC refers to the regular desktop version of Lightroom. Lightroom CC mobile refers to the iOS…
