Yes, I should've mentioned Withings. I think I've heard good things about them in the past as well, they used to do a scale that now, wow, looks even better [1].
The steel has no heart rate sensor. Nokias Steel HR has one, however after the aquisition the app quality tanked [1], and my SO had to return both Steel HR and scale for this reason. Connection issues, synch problems and the needed weekly factory reset for both were too much of a hassle.
I feel like this demo is not really good. A video where a (real) face is learned in and then the mask is used to unlock would be good, this could just show that the mask is learned into FaceID.
Actually, from an embedded perspective, almost all SD cards do not guarantee that they don't corrupt when you kill power during a write. This is because of the internal workings of SD cards and completely unrelated to shoddy engineering/programming.
This is absolutely not a lab condition. You can very easily extract a fingerprint from a glass or so, as was done e.g. with Wolfgang Schaeuble, a German politician
Afaik quite some of the major apps were leaving it in the last years (Sketch comes to mind), but might just be my filter bubble.. Would be interesting to hear from some Mac OS devs
It's just tricky because of the restrictions, and it's not just the restrictions themselves but the reality that you're limited to them in the future.
Even if your app can run in a sandbox today, are you willing to turn down any future feature requests that would make it so it won't?
We're putting an app on there, but our app is kind of an ideal use case because we don't expect to have to add features that can't work in the sandbox and our app is free. It's a tougher sell if you have to cut features to fit in the sandbox or hand off 30% of your sale to Apple.
Admittedly that 30% isn't unreasonable if you're really just starting out. That does include hosting, purchasing, and billing. But those things can be done at a much cheaper rate than 30% if you can set them up.
Panic is one of my favorite Mac app developers and (just checked) one of their apps (Coda) is distributed outside the App Store [1], while Transmit is distributed on both.
Given HOW broken the setup was (it wasn't even a remotely decent mail server setup in the first place, let alone 'the only secure solution' of course), what did we expect?
The marketing material was already screaming snake oil. Now they're trying to put out the fire with .. more snake oil, avoiding any specifics related to the original criticism.
They are not really hiding anything I think. Also GPGTools uses GnuPG etcpp.. Don't really see an infringement (if GPG is protected in the first place)
> It is reasonable to keep up-to-date with Mac hardware if you use computers a lot. If things go wrong, it is far easier to take the laptop to the Genius Bar than options for other laptops.
To be honest, the best service I so far was with my Lenovo machines.. Next-(work-)day technician on site, whether I'm at a customer or at home.
Now with my MacBook Pro with Apple Care they have to send it in to replace the screen.. (According to the Apple Store personell here at least)
Only if you have the right warrenty. But when you do, they take care of you. I had a defective touchpad, but it was usable with a mouse. The technician arrived at my work, and while I was in a meeting, he switched it. Done. My coworker had his screen replaced the same way. The cost of not having a machine for even just a week, means it makes more business sense to simply buy a new machine, so this next-day onsite warrenty, is worth every penny unless you have a lot of machines and can realistically buy more machines as spares and come out ahead.
I had Thinkpads until 2011. For hardware repairs I couldn't do myself there was an authorized dealer not far from work who would order the replacement parts (e.g., motherboard) and I'd bring it in for quick repair.
With Apple for a major repair, I dropped it off at my nearby Apple Store on a Monday and had it mid-day on Wednesday.
