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Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone

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Post by rescbr »

kelnos wrote: post #33
isomorphic wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm speculating that it's not the selfie; it's where that selfie ends up (or with whom).

OP apparently still hasn't learned that the kids today are taking selfies "blind" using the rear camera.

My first phone that had a (rear) camera 20 years ago also had a chrome-plated mirror thing to help us take selfies. I guess nobody called them selfies then.

I guess point and shoot cameras also had those mirrors back then.

Glad to know that kids rediscovered camera selfies.

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Post by deepsun »

p2detar wrote: post #105
sbayg wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MDM is the worst part of iOS. It undermines all of apple’s security claims, basically making iOS windows. Devices should not be able to be remotely controlled.

Yeah, no - if I provide my employees $1000 devices, I most certainly would like to be able to exercise some sort of management over them. > making iOS windows Baseless claims.

$1000 is irrelevant. Corporate information, and clients information (sometime including PII) is worth millions.

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Post by virgil_disgr4ce »

qup wrote: post #8
Cider9986 wrote: post #6

Mobile Device Management (MDM) is the only effective way to restrict idevices. All you need is a macbook and Apple Configurator. You can remove safari, blacklist or whitelist websites, block installing apps, block deleting apps. It's really customizable. Edit: expanded acronym.

What does the acronym stand for

Monumental Deployment Mastermind

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Post by jkestner »

nixosbestos wrote: post #87
eigencoder wrote: post #57

I like the feature, but I don't like the assumption at the beginning. > Come September, he will have to walk across town to school on his own. But if he's going to be walking around out in the world without me, then a tracking tag won't cut it. He is far too young to have unfettered access to the internet and social media platforms, but what if he gets lost? A classic Nokia, supplying just texts and calls, won't come…

This stuff truly makes my head spin. How do these people think humanity came to be, to today? Do they understand we in historically safe times? I thought the pendulum was swinging back on helicopter parents but some adults, some HN adults, have more money and tech-bias than common sense, or self-awareness, or any awareness of what they're doing to the children. And then remarking that they get around those restrictio…

If it bleeds, it leads. That is, our media has hyped up violence in society as it’s become more rare, and politicians use it to scare people into thinking we need to go back to the good old days.

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Post by koolala »

Cider9986 wrote: post #6

Mobile Device Management (MDM) is the only effective way to restrict idevices. All you need is a macbook and Apple Configurator. You can remove safari, blacklist or whitelist websites, block installing apps, block deleting apps. It's really customizable. Edit: expanded acronym.

Only? Their solution in the article seemed effective.

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Post by binkHN »

Cider9986 wrote: post #6

Mobile Device Management (MDM) is the only effective way to restrict idevices. All you need is a macbook and Apple Configurator. You can remove safari, blacklist or whitelist websites, block installing apps, block deleting apps. It's really customizable. Edit: expanded acronym.

> All you need is a macbook

Is it really not possible to do this with a non-Apple machine?

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Post by bawolff »

dgudkov wrote: post #127
bawolff wrote: post #20

> My son only gets Calls, Messages, Maps, Camera (so we can video call, but I've ruthlessly turned off selfies), Photos, and Music. Nothing else. I get that the internet is an addictive scary place with lots of content potentially dangerous to a young person. But why would you care if your child took a selfie? That seems pretty draconian.

Wait, not being able to make a picture of yourself is pretty draconian ? In this case, the world before smartphones was a living Hell on Earth.

Fun fact: cameras have existed long before cellphones (let alone smart phones)

Its draconian not because selfies are a fundamental need, but because they seem harmless. Rules should be justifiable.

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Post by frereubu »

whycome wrote: post #132

There are so many features under “accessibility” that have wider usages.

I'm co-owner of an agency that builds websites, and we have a phrase that "accessibility is for everyone". Like you say, there are so many accessibility settings that can make things easier to use for anyone, from simple things like reduced motion to more complex things like colour filters.
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