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2022


Apple Music's Killer Feature

I’ve been testing Apple Music recently and I discovered that it still supports uploading local files to iCloud Music Library. The interface of Music app is indeed somewhat atrocious, but look:

2021


The Deceptive PR Behind Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children”

Update Dec 7, 2022: Apple scrapped the plan of CSAM-scanning iCloud Photos libraries. My wife is pretty tech-savvy. While not a software engineer and not a computer scientist, she has a good understanding of computing technologies, statistics, formal methods, and an intuitive (but quickly growing) grasp of machine learning.

2020


Sunk cost of my iPad Pro

In January 2019 I bought an 11-inch iPad Pro. It’s a magnificent piece of hardware that you can read many reviews of online.

2016


iPhone 7 Plus and its Two Lenses

To some, Apple’s yesterday keynote wasn’t all that impressive. After all, the new iPhone 7 doesn’t look all that new, the new Apple Watch looks exactly like the old one, and minor improvements aside (water resistance, GPS for the watch, new processors), there wasn’t really anything impressive shown in San Francisco last night.

2011


Macbook Pro After 6 Months

Some readers of this blog probably know that for a very long time (ca. 1998– 2010) I’ve been a devout linux user.