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This isn't unique to Linux.

Most people would read "Apple App Store Found to Contain Malware" as "Apple Devices Found to Contain Malware" too.

Yes, that and Apple Writer. Full disclosure: I wrote Apple Writer.

Must watch recollection of the history of Mach and NeXT and Apple by Avie Tevanian. Long but great.

1/2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwCdKU9uYnE (early days)

2/2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtpIFrOGTHk (around Apple acquisition and beyond)

Not as exciting as my initial reading of the headline promised... "Apple Tries to Kill Steve Jobs, Story in Sunday Times"

Even you want to change, I still recommended Apple Magic Keyboard 2 for its pure quality and reliability. Not the most budget keyboard out there, but you get what you pay for
(unlike their infamous butterfly switch Macbook keyboard, their desktop keyboard is good) It gots ultra low profile and good key travel, and the quiet, tactile, clickiness, which I really like.

It has lightning, but I plug it only for charging for an hour, and use it wirelessly for several months before I have to charge it again, no big deal. I mean, the battery life is insane, you forget to charge it.

I used to use Logitech G Pro tenkeyless for a while, it's good, but the most used key's keycap fell off after a while, which is quite disappointing. It is also unrepairable because they use their proprietary switch. Also, personally, it's too big for my hands anyway.

I used to getting into mechanical keyboard scene for some times. It's cool to talk about variant of switch and design and artisan keycap, but I found that it never ends(and it's expensive) So I just grab an Apple's one and get on with my life. Happy so far. :)

These are some of the alternatives.

OneNote (http://www.onenote.com/),
Notebook from Zoho (http://zoho.com/notebook),
Apple Notes (https://www.icloud.com/#notes),
Keep from Google (https://www.google.com/keep/),
Simplenote (https://simplenote.com/)

It also messes with dictionary lookup! It adds this nonsense if you select more than two Chinese characters, and so it makes it really hard to look up four-character Chinese idioms in my dictionary (which are, inexplicably, frequently missing from the built-in “lookup” dictionary).

Apple Books is so close to being a nice reading interface, but there are so many stupid little bugs. Highlighting is another horrid little bug that can easily wipe out a full chapter’s worth of highlights with one tap...

You will be surprised at how difficult this is. Book titles can be all over the place and mimic product names. For example there is a book called "Apple".

Search is definitely a case of "the devil in the details", each person got their own very "simple" test or search improvement but to make search for everyone "generally" valuable is a very hard tuning problem.

In my past job as head of search for a large price-comparison service, what we build and found work best is to handle search-tuning as the same as test-driven-development.

We will actually write test in the form of "When someone types apple, there should be at least xyz products from category cellphones and their pricing should be between $XYZ--$ABC", whenever we had a manager or a person just walk in with oh search should work like this, we will put it in a test and thus as we tune, weights and vectors we can always see how it impacted previous cases of "Managers walking in telling us, his fav search query is bogus"

I do not know specifically as I have not read Apple Maps policy but to choose Apple Maps over Google Maps says a lot. I use google maps personally. Apple maps is getting better, but it's not google maps. So one can assume, the choice to choose apple over google means, IMHO, is that with Apple Maps they do not track as much as google would/does. Apple stance on privacy, publicly, has been pretty good. Tracking is everywhere and DDG still is sticking to their privacy first method.

Lastly, I love that I can dump random searches from my weird brain into DDG without the feeling that I'm giving some random machine, data that at some point can tell someone what I may want or do or have searched. Everyone knows what you're doing on the toilet, everybody poops, but we still close the door for privacy.

Apple Maps screenshots book?

A few thoughts:

Apple's Face ID takes a 2-dimensional infrared image of your face as well as projects 30,000 IR dots to form a 3D depth map of the face. It feeds this into a NN in a separate Secure Enclave processor to determine whether the face is attentive and authorised. I believe they also implement specific NNs just to perform anti-spoofing, both physical and digital.

This is contrasted to Samsung and Microsoft's solutions which take a picture and try to match it.

Apple's Platform Security Guide on Face & Touch ID [0] is an interesting read.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec067eb0c9e/...

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