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I run a small company and offer an app to monitor sales reps work. Managers use it also to see how much time employees spend in the field. To count how much time is spend in some specific location my app uses background location updates. 10 years ago I was distributing just the apk file. Then I moved to Play store. It turned out that most people on their company owned Android devices don't configure Play Store. App u…
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> Apple is tracking the exact time and location... Source?
A few months ago it came out that MacOS was constantly making unencrypted calls over the internet to check signatures of non-Apple software; such calls were thus feeding back to Apple (and anyone sniffing the connection) the time and IP address of each application's being opened. (Technically, only the company, but each company usually only has a few apps.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23281564
I run a small company and offer an app to monitor sales reps work. Managers use it also to see how much time employees spend in the field. To count how much time is spend in some specific location my app uses background location updates. 10 years ago I was distributing just the apk file. Then I moved to Play store. It turned out that most people on their company owned Android devices don't configure Play Store. App u…
A few years ago, I setup my Google My Business listing for my retail location.
Late last year I was trying to do a GSUITE account data export. It requires you to setup 2FA and I couldn't get it to work - so I asked our MSP to help since they help with other stuff. They had better luck, but multiple switching of the 2FA options and recovery emails/phone numbers caused an automatic suspension on the admin account.
I was able to quickly unlock the account with another admin account, but the suspension cascaded to Google My Business, which remains suspended because GSUITE support only support their core apps.
As you can imagine, my appeal went unresponded, and here we are, months later, with no business listing, and literally no ability to contact anyone that can help.
I wonder how many other businesses have stories like this.
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In this case it's not an indefinite suspension. The email said exactly what he needs to do to resolve the issue. I'd rather be in that situation because there would be something I could do to make progress, even if I didn't agree with the decision. In my case, I have no idea how long this is going to take - and I've seen horror stories on the Apple Developer forums of people being in review for months. It's also clea…
Does it let you file an appeal?
You can ask for an expedited review, which I did on day 6. I got a form letter back saying that my request was "escalated for continued handling". But it doesn't seem to have made any difference.
I guess the Scunthorpe problem is still a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
My particular favorite is this one: "In October 2020 a profanity filter banned the word bone at a paleontology conference." https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyzamj/a-profanity-filter-ba...
Once I confirm to them I'm an adult, I should be able to choose to see everything.
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A few months ago it came out that MacOS was constantly making unencrypted calls over the internet to check signatures of non-Apple software; such calls were thus feeding back to Apple (and anyone sniffing the connection) the time and IP address of each application's being opened. (Technically, only the company, but each company usually only has a few apps.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959
This "came out" at least 8 months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23281564
Earlier quoted context omitted.
A few months ago it came out that MacOS was constantly making unencrypted calls over the internet to check signatures of non-Apple software; such calls were thus feeding back to Apple (and anyone sniffing the connection) the time and IP address of each application's being opened. (Technically, only the company, but each company usually only has a few apps.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959
This "came out" at least 8 months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23281564
Some one said, and was downvoted into oblivion (?)... " Yup, that's about how much effort I expected them to put into their app store: absolutely nothing beyond cheap, automated heuristics. Why invest in a decent ecosystem when you're one of the two options in town? I'm about an inch away from throwing my phone in the river and switching to a GPS-only device for navigating in my car. All the convenience a mobile devi…
I literally own a pinephone so dont misunderstand me as disagreeing, but you could always just stay on Android and use F-Droid.
But there are (a) services I cannot turn off and (b) apps I really need on android.
Perhaps F-Droid would help with (a) but not (b)
SO I plan to have a cheep android for the one app I cannot do without and the Pine phone for everything else...
But time will tell
ASS subtitles are particularly popular in anime fansubbing as it allows for advanced typesetting. You can take it pretty far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9AgMlHJe7Y
Those are just "SSA" subtitles. The difference mattered (ASS was an "Advanced SSA") once but now people just call it "ASS" as a joke. So Google is sort-of right, he could leave it out of the description.
I doubt this guy knows this since it's impossible he implemented SSA on his own due to how complex it is.
ASS subtitles are particularly popular in anime fansubbing as it allows for advanced typesetting. You can take it pretty far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9AgMlHJe7Y