Month: February 2016

Tim Cook appears on ABC's World News – Pleads Case for Apple going against FBI

Dan Uff February 25, 2016 0

On Wednesday evening, Apple CEO Tim Cook went on ABC's World News Tonight show to lay out why Apple won't help the FBI in the case of the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone.

In questioning Cook, Muir first addressed public opinion, which relates the ongoing encryption debate directly — and solely — with 14 people who lost their lives in last year's San Bernardino terrorist attack. Cook, however, remained resolute in his stance that creating a software workaround endangers hundreds of millions of Apple customers.

"It's not like we have information on this phone in the next office over. We have no other information on this phone. None," Cook said. "The only way we know to get additional information is to write a piece of software that is the software equivalent of cancer. That is what is at stake here."

Put more succinctly, Cook said "the future is at stake" in Apple's legal battle for user privacy.

For those of you who have not seen the interview, we are including it below. Please feel free to comment about this in our comment area.

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Bill Gates sides with FBI on iPhone Request

Dan Uff February 23, 2016 1

Tech industry luminary Bill Gates has suggested that Apple is mischaracterizing its fight against an FBI request to unlock the iPhone of deceased San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook.

"It is no different than ... should anybody ever have been able to tell the phone company to get information ... should anybody be able to get at bank records," the Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30)founder said in an interview with the Financial Times. "There's no difference between information."

To read the rest of the CNN/Money report, click here.

How to: Check and see if Apple Services are On or Offline

Dan Uff February 22, 2016 1

Is iCloud down? Is the iTunes store down? If you have an iPhone or use any of Apple's services, I'm sure you've asked that question a few times.

Fortunately, Apple provides a not well known service for its customers to answer that question.

The company offers a service status page. Here's how to get it:

Open any web browser as normal.
Go here: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
That's it.

"No Apple Music or iTunes for my Music!" – Kanye West

Dan Uff February 17, 2016 0

Rapper Kanye West debuted “his new album, ‘The Life of Pablo,’ exclusively through the Jay Z-owned [Tidal] streaming music service,” Patrick Seitz reports for Investor’s Business Daily. “West also announced that he would not offer the album through Apple.”

“It’s been a busy few days for self-proclaimed genius West. He released his new album on Tidal after performing on ‘Saturday Night Live’ over the weekend,” Seitz reports. “He also announced that he is $53 million in debt and asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for $1 billion. And he got into a new spat with pop star Taylor Swift and proclaimed himself this generation’s Walt Disney.”

“West later took to Twitter to announce that the album would never be on Apple iTunes, Apple Music and presumably other services, such as Spotify,” Seitz reports. “‘My album will never never never be on Apple. And it will never be for sale… You can only get it on Tidal,’ West tweeted on Monday.”

“Tidal might not get much traction from the West album release because it upset customers who wanted to download the album,” Seitz reports. “Tidal initially offered the album as a digital download, as well as via the streaming option. But customers who paid for the album (at $20 a pop) were unable to download it. They were also hit with a mysterious $1 service fee, TechCrunch reported. Some customers reported being double-billed for the album and the service fee. West later decided not to offer the album for download on Tidal, and customers are left waiting for refunds.”

Read more in the full article here.