Yep. I really love the retro futurism of it all. Their little computer terminals are a cool design.

Silo is starting up again this month.

That doesn’t say the API doesn’t work. That says the API that dev chose is for when your device is going to run heavy background tasks (processing). This API is designed to run when the device has plenty of battery or is plugged in and isn’t doing anything else. That’s not unexpected, nor is it any different from Apple apps (you don’t want spotlight indexing or photo recognition to fire when you’re low on battery or in the middle of playing a game).

Uploading photos isn’t a heavy background task. There’s gotta be a way to do upload it as you take the photo. And I’d think sending new photos to an app would be done by a push notification or would work similar to receiving new emails in the background from the many third party mail apps that do this.

Again, I want to see what the suing devs claim and what Apple counters with.

Sounds spammy.

It’s strange that there would be so much documentation for an API that reportedly doesn’t work. Including a 2019 WWDC session explaining how to run in the background for more processor intensive tasks.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/707

There’s even a recent step by step post on Medium explaining how to implement short or long background tasks. Doesn’t say anything about it not working.

https://medium.com/@dbabic_38867/background-tasks-on-ios-c27366723b6d

If it really doesn’t work then I’d imagine the lawsuit will be won handily. It’ll be interesting to see what becomes of this.

It will depend on if Zuck has done anything to piss him off. If so he will probably give the FTC the go ahead. That’s how he operates. It’s not about what’s good for the country. It’s about quid pro quo.

They never should have let meta buy Instagram in the first place. 🤷‍♂️

Is this the feature you’re saying doesn’t work?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/backgroundtasks

Not getting it. There’s nothing stopping you from storing your photos in Amazon Photos, or Google photos, or Dropbox, or whatever.

I can hear that logo.

As someone once told me so I could remember how to spell it, “There’s ‘a rat’ in separate.“

“[Netflix] does not break out subscribers by tier, and in 2025 will stop reporting subscriber numbers altogether.”

That’s probably not a good sign. If they expected subcriber numbers to continue to rise, they’d be shouting it from the rooftops.

And yet the wireless keyboard charging port isn’t on the bottom of the keyboard, is it?

Download NetNewsWire. If you need it to sync with a windows machine and/or an android device, store your feeds in Feedly or a similar service. Learn to set your RSS reader to default to “reader mode” so you see the whole story and not just the first paragraph.

Some yes. Some no. And if I’m paying for news, there’d better not be any ads at all.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/16/apple-taps-infamous-taboola-as-new-ad-seller-for-apple-news-and-stocks/

They exist to push ads. Even the premium version of Apple News has ads.

Tip: Your local public library offers the same electronic versions of magazines through an app called Hoopla. For free.

Apple News is one of the most poorly managed of all the Apple products. Whomever is in charge of it should be fired.

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Good point.