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Apple doubles down on controversial decision to reject email app Hey

The Verge

Apple is standing behind its decision to reject future updates for the iOS app of new email service Hey. The letter is signed by company’s App Review Board, but Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller made similar comments in an interview with TechCrunch published today. Apple says the Hey iOS app must include in-purchases.

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Overcoming the Equation: Security = Friction

CTOvision

We’ve migrated to a userid-password society; as we’ve added layers of security, we password-protect each layer: PC (and now device), network, enclave, application, database, and storage (encryption). However, to use CAC with an Apple iPhone, you need to buy a sled – an iPhone case with integrated card reader.

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Technology Short Take 158

Scott Lowe

See this list of guidelines from Richard Bejarano. For your fix of storage-related links, J Metz has relatively recently published Storage Short Take #47. Howard Oakley takes a look at virtualization on Apple silicon Macs. Interested in hardening macOS? Programming. Are you ready to give up GitHub ? Virtualization.

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Important Things to Know About Android Smartphones and its New Launches

Galido

Why Android Phones Better than Apple iOS? When you want to buy an android phone you get a number of choices from which you can pick a mobile of your choice, but when it comes to Apple phones you can hardly get two choices that differ only in the size, the hardware parts will remain the same. These chargers work only on Apple devices.

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What we’re most thankful for in tech, science, business, and innovation

GeekWire

Listen below, and subscribe to GeekWire in Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you listen. Cloud storage: It’s not a new development, of course, but the ease of storing, syncing and backing up data in the cloud is one of those advances that become an integral part of life almost without us noticing.

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DRM Protection: The Key to Securing Your eBooks

Kitaboo

Mechanisms of DRM Protection DRM ensures that eBook files and other digital content are properly encrypted during storage and dissemination. For instance, Apple Books uses a custom-made DRM solution to ensure the ebooks are read on a certain pre-registered number of devices.

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Apple’s new App Store guidelines carve out loopholes for xCloud, Stadia, and other apps that Apple had blocked

The Verge

Microsoft and Google would have to radically change their proposed business models and jump through many hoops to get their cloud gaming services onto the iPhone this way — enough that it almost feels like Apple designed the rules so it could seem benevolent while still keeping xCloud and Stadia out. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.