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    Yet Another Fingerprint Fantasy

    October 14th, 2014

    They talk about art imitating life, but more often than not, there’s only a slight resemblance of the former to the latter. Take a recent episode of a police detective procedural, the rebooted “Hawaii 5-0,” which had a plot device that might present concerns about the Touch ID fingerprint sensor on an iPhone. Before I go […]


    The Wackiest Reasons Not to Upgrade to iOS 8?

    October 10th, 2014

    As I write this piece, online stats show that iOS 8 is closing in on an adoption rate of 50%, moving ahead of iOS 7 for the first time. That number sounds impressive, and it would be except for the fact that migration from iOS 6 to iOS 7 was far higher at this point in […]


    Is There Really a Serious Problem with iOS 8?

    October 7th, 2014

    Since iOS 8 doesn’t look altogether different from iOS 7, there’s the perception that there aren’t lots of changes. If you look at the bill of particulars though, it’s not a handful of refinements and some new apps. There are loads of significant changes that are more than skin deep. It’s also true that the controversial […]


    The Apple-Taking-On-Too-Much Report

    October 3rd, 2014

    It is certain that Apple seems to be beset with lots of problems these days. While everything appeared to be coming up roses when the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were launched on September 9th at a media event, things sort of went downhill from there. Even the live stream of that event had […]