Apple engineers have begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible for the government to break into a locked iPhone using methods similar to those now at the center of a court fight in California, according to people close to the company and security experts. If Apple succeeds in upgrading its security —

With both the Galaxy S7 and LG G5 sporting expandable storage, and Google adding great SD support to Android 6.0, this year it seemed like storage enthusiasts would get everything they could ever want. Apparently that’s not the case though, as both OEMs have shunned Google’s new „Adoptable Storage“ feature. Die Kurzfassung: Android Marshmallow verschmilzt den internen Speicher

As the government has confirmed, we’ve handed over all the data we have, including a backup of the iPhone in question. But now they have asked us for information we simply do not have. We feel the best way forward would be for the government to withdraw its demands under the All Writs Act and, as some in

The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand. This moment calls for public discussion, and we want our customers and people around the country to understand what is at stake.

Eine (absolut hörenswerte) Podcast-Episode mit vielen kleinen Details. Eine dieser Kleinigkeiten: Pro Tag vermittelt Apple 17 Milliarden iMessages. Zum Vergleich: WhatsApp zählt täglich 42 Milliarden Nachrichten.

Sonos (universal; kostenlos) schleust nach 57 Tagen, und einer Wartezeit von insgesamt acht Monaten nach der ersten Bestätigung über die Zusammenarbeit, ab heute (theoretisch) 10 Millionen Apple-Music-Abonnenten durch ihr Lautsprecher-Netzwerk (Affiliate-Link). Die Integration ist elegant, vermisst aber die Möglichkeit Musiktitel als Favoriten zu markieren oder Songs einer Apple-Music-Wiedergabeliste hinzuzufügen. Trotzdem, ein geglückter Auftakt. Schulnote: B-,

➝ Video Amazon has unveiled two new products aimed squarely at the professional game-developer fraternity: Lumberyard, a free 3D game engine; and GameLift, a service for quickly building backends for deploying session-based multiplayer games. Products of Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) division, Lumberyard and GameLift are aimed at developers building cloud-connected games that can work across

But look at how things were going before the iPhone 6. Had the trend of 2012–2014 continued through 2015, iPhone sales last quarter would have been 65–70 million. Instead they were just under 75 million. It’s only in comparison to the huge holiday quarter of 2014 that last quarter looks dull. I’m reminded of the