The Shape of Everything: How to Know When Apple Finally Gets iCloud Right
In about three weeks, Apple is going to talk a lot about how great iCloud is for everyone, and hopefully demonstrate a few ways that it’s gotten even better. Gus Mueller explains a few simple ways to verify.
Macworld: Silent email filtering makes iCloud an unreliable option
Apple has taken spam filtering way, way too far. It isn’t just sending a bunch of false positives to the junk folder, it wipes them out entirely so iCloud email users never even have the chance of seeing the message. It’s scanning attachments, including zipped attachments, and you don’t even need “teens” in the phrase, just the quite innocuous “barely legal.”
Customers were trying to send us emails and we just never saw them. The customer assumed we were ignoring them and justifiably got mad, we got confused and had no recourse or idea of where to start.
I get that Apple is trying to take care of its customers, but spam filtering is enough. Nuking messages from existence, even genuine junk, is over the line.
Great update to one of my favorite OS X photo editors. Plus it’s on sale in the Mac App Store for just $15.
Former Gizmodo writer Mat Honan had his Google, Twitter, and iCloud accounts compromised, as well as his Mac, iPhone, and iPad wiped, resulting in a pretty crummy Friday from which he has still not yet fully recovered. It’s not fun … Read more →
iCloud has been available for nearly a year, yet its adoption rate is low, perhaps unsurprisingly so. Lex Friedman talks to a bunch of developers to find out that, despite all of the simplicity Apple pitches for regular users, iCloud … Read more →
Quotebook is one of my favorite single-serving apps, and after a lengthy beta period that I was fortunate enough to help with, it just got a big 2.0 upgrade. It is now universal with the addition of an iPad interface, … Read more →
iCloud “Beta” Website Briefly Shows Reminders, Notes Web Apps – MacStories Interesting find, though not entirely surprising. Apple is using its iCloud platform to draw ever-clearer boundaries between web and native apps. iCloud web apps are decent in a pinch … Read more →
Tweetbot for iPhone and iPad now sync over iCloud Big updates released for Tweetbot for iPhone and Tweetbot for iPad can now sync your DM read status, mute filters, and timeline position across devices. You need to go to Settings … Read more →
Apple Support: Microsoft Exchange behavior with iCloud They can indeed coexist.
How do you know when Apple cares a lot about a new initiative, like iCloud? It creates a new badge. Update: Jordan Patterson rightly pointed out that Apple placed an iCloud badge on the bottom of iPhone 4S boxes, too.
