Focus Mode / Do Not Disturb infuriates me. All I want is for my notifications to not light up the screen and make any sounds except for calls. Is that so hard? It keeps getting more complex.
iOS 15
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Re: iOS 15
#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
How Apple distributes their core apps (Safari, Mail, etc) is orthogonal to how they are implemented, secured, ring levels, sandboxing, etc. These are separate considerations. Apple's core philosophy is that upgrading the system is the fundamental way to get new things. With iOS 15 we've seen the first real fracture in this model (where they are promoting a "stay on iOS 14 for now" option), and maybe eventually they'l…
> How Apple distributes their core apps (Safari, Mail, etc) is orthogonal to how they are implemented, secured, ring levels, sandboxing, etc. These are separate considerations. Strongly disagree. If Apple distributed their apps as normal apps, they'd have normal privileges and when exploits are found the scope would be limited to that app domain. Instead, what we have seen is that Apple's apps act like system service…
One of NSO’s previous exploits targeted WhatsApp, so they seem quite capable of using “normal” apps to get their spyware on your phone.
Apple’s Apps are better targets of course because those are on every phone.
https://www.ft.com/content/4da1117e-756c-11e9-be7d-6d846537a...
Re: iOS 15
#323Has anyone noticed the “add comment” button on HN is now a blue-pill color/style with iOS 15? EDIT: this appears to only happen on mobile iOS web and not desktop macOS
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Re: iOS 15
#324Is it me or do these updates look more and more like they should be dot releases?
Re: iOS 15
#325Focus Mode / Do Not Disturb infuriates me. All I want is for my notifications to not light up the screen and make any sounds except for calls. Is that so hard? It keeps getting more complex.
The inevitable end state of a closed ecosystem is compromise and that's why I'm out.
Re: iOS 15
#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple Maps has been great for me, though I've heard the data quality varies widely based on where you live For me it's just a cleaner, simpler, less ad-infested version of Google Maps
I was a big fan when I lived in London, but I recently moved away to a new town that I don't know very well and on Friday it sent me on a 1hr walk that should have taken 25 minutes. When I looked at the route it took me afterwards, it made absolutely no sense at all.
That is hilarious.
Re: iOS 15
#327Focus Mode / Do Not Disturb infuriates me. All I want is for my notifications to not light up the screen and make any sounds except for calls. Is that so hard? It keeps getting more complex.
> Is that so hard?
YMMV, I guess—I found the customizable flavors of Do Not Disturb immediately useful. And if you don't, the old Do Not Disturb is still an option.
Re: iOS 15
#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
Battery wear, filesystem cruft, and solid state storage slowing down as it fills. People complaining about their phones being slow have aged batteries, a nearly full filesystem, and have likely gone through numerous system updates. On iOS it is trivial to move off files you don't need on the device anymore and then do a backup, full wipe, and restore.
This too, but Apple was caught a while back slowing down older phones at major version updates (their reasoning was to extend battery life / device on time). https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724
It was not just battery life, it was also to prevent phones from spontaneously rebooting.
Apple’s CPUs are very bursty, and that causes them to suddenly draw a large current from the battery. Older batteries cannot handle this so the CPU doesn’t get enough power and reboots. What Apple did was to stop the CPU from suddenly ramping up speed, which means the battery doesn’t have to deal with a sudden spike in power demand and can keep up even if it’s degraded.
This does, of course, slow the phone down as it can’t ramp up as aggressively.
Re: iOS 15
#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the sort of thing that buys a LOT of good will for me.
But does it really do anything to secure a device that’s past EOL? Or is it a marketing action? Long official support is absolutely a benefit when looking at smartphones, however, articles keep popping up about Apple basically buying and sitting on vulnerabilities for latest and greatest iOS, because that’s what works economically.
What? Yes, Security updates for eol devices is clearly better than doing nothing. Apple’s externally facing vulnerability management program has a bunch of issues but I don’t see how that is relevant
Re: iOS 15
#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meanwhile, after having every single major iPhone version since the original jesusphone, I'm switching from iOS to Android because I'd rather run out-of-date hardware and slightly more out-of-date software just to not have my phone spy on my local media contents for a remote master. Apple's days as a head-and-shoulders above clear winner are over.
Google already does the exact same scanning of images that Apple has now delayed, so, uh, not exactly gaining much there are you?
It’s not the same scanning. Apple’s scanning is on device while Google and others scan for CSAM in their respective clouds.