av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 21, 2020 | Ted
Diskussionen om Apple och App Store går vidare och John Siracuse, utvecklare och tidigare skribent för bland andra Ars Technica och idag driver han podden Accidental Tech Podcast.
Diskussionen har tagit ny fart efter ett bråk där e-posttjänsten Hey stoppats i App Store, efter det att EU meddelat att de öppnat en formell utredning av App Store och Apple Pay samt att amerikanska politiker vill utreda Apples kontroll av App Store.
Everyone wants apps that are feature-rich, easy-to-use, secure, and have good customer support. Apple, developers, and customers all agree on this. Incentives diverge slightly from here. Both Apple and developers want to make money. Customers want app prices to be low, but also want apps that are well-supported and maintained.
Apple, through its control of the App Store, dictates the terms that developers must agree to in order to distribute iOS apps to customers. Apple’s rules determine how the interests of all parties are balanced.
Hypercritical
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 14, 2020 | Ted
How might the human race end? Stephen Petranek lays out 10 terrible options and the science behind them. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle collider gone wild?
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 12, 2020 | Ted
The digital platforms you and your family use every day — from online games to education apps and medical portals — may be collecting and selling your children’s data, says anthropologist Veronica Barassi. Sharing her eye-opening research, Barassi urges parents to look twice at digital terms and conditions instead of blindly accepting them — and to demand protections that ensure their kids’ data doesn’t skew their future.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 12, 2020 | Ted
What does the love song of a mosquito sound like? Find out as our intrepid neuroscientists explore the meaning of all that annoying buzzing in your ear.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 10, 2020 | Ted
Karen DeSalvo, the chief health officer at Google, explains the partnership between big tech and public health in slowing the spread of COVID-19 — and discusses a new contact tracing technology recently rolled out by Google and Apple that aims to ease the burden on health workers and provide scientists critical time to create a vaccine. (This virtual conversation, hosted by current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers and head of TED Chris Anderson, was recorded on May 27, 2020.)
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 8, 2020 | Ted
Lorrie Faith Cranor studied thousands of real passwords to figure out the surprising, very common mistakes that users — and secured sites — make to compromise security. And how, you may ask, did she study thousands of real passwords without compromising the security of any users? That’s a story in itself. It’s secret data worth knowing, especially if your password is 123456 …
