» Turning This Car Around #80: Figurative Hole in the Ground
This week on America’s most equal dadcast we talk about sharing duties and then entertainment and bathrooms.
» Hermès
Benjamin Clymer takes a look at the interesting, Ryan Bateman)
» The ‘s’ is for scuba
Wired‘s Brian Barrett:
Over the past few days, you may have seen reports that the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are waterproof. In fact, not just reports; there now exist multiple videos that show Apple’s new smartphones surviving extended periods of water submersion. Those videos aren’t fabrications or pranks. Apple’s new iPhones really do hold up under water, thanks to a brilliant new technique that the company quietly pioneered.
Do not go scuba diving with your iPhone 6s. But it does hold up better if it accidentally takes a dunk.
» The Rebound #54: iPhone success
Dan and I talk about our new phones so much that Lex can’t get a word in edgewise. Also, he was not on this episode. So there’s that.
» ‘To renew or not to renew?’
On Six Colors, Dan Moren talks about the pros and cons of actually paying for Apple Music now that it’s time to put our money where our ears are.
While there are several things I don’t like about it — particularly its confusing nature — I am dropping my cash on the subscription, mostly for the following reasons:
- Seamlessly syncing playlists across all my devices. I am very playlist-dependent and being able to set them up and then instantly have access to them across all my devices is terrific. For all the crap I give Apple about syncing services, this one really works. Well, unless you have a non-catalog item in the playlist and then it doesn’t work at all, but at least I understand that.
- Discovery. I like picking a song and having Apple Music make a playlist off of it. I often find a few songs I really like that I hadn’t heard before that way.
- Fear. I fear what will happen to my library if I try to turn Apple Music off.
I’m not sure I’ll subscribe forever, but so far it’s worth it for me.
» The Rebound #53: Hit It Twice, Sam
On last week’s second episode, Lex, Dan and I talk about the iPhone 6s, watchOS 2 and the ad blocking that’s so popular with the kids these days.
» The Rebound #52: Equally Wrong
Hey, we forgot to push this episode last week. Oops. So bonus this week because there will be one tomorrow as well. In this one we talk about 3D Touch, Lex’s NAS and iOS 9.
» XcodeGhost
This is an interesting piece of malware. It’s introduced via local download copies of Xcode in China and then inserts malicious code into whatever apps are made with that copy of Xcode. Some of these get into the App Store because the code is so deeply hidden or, easier still, find their way into corporate app distribution that doesn’t go through Apple’s approval process.
Since I left the corporate world, I’m not up on the state of outsourcing but I wonder if Indian developers similarly download local copies of Xcode or if there are Chinese development firms that are used now (I would think if there were they’d tend to be less popular for security reasons).
(Via Craig Hockenberry and Frederic Jacobs)
» Marco Arment pulls Peace from the App Store
Marco says the “all or nothing” approach necessitated just didn’t sit right.
Even though I’m “winning”, I’ve enjoyed none of it. That’s why I’m withdrawing from the market.
This has been a weird week.
» iOS 9: The MacStories Review
Federico Viticci’s iOS 9 review is the place to go if you don’t want to miss a single feature. I’ve been using iOS 9 for weeks on my iPad and still missed a number of features. (One is a number. So is 27.) Viticci ate all of the dog food on this one as this tome was written entirely on an iPad.