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Thursday, January 31, 2019
Apple Has Restored Facebook’s Certification to Run Internal iOS Apps, and more for 01/31/2019
Facebook found itself on the wrong end of Apple’s company wrath recently, but it looks like things are starting to even out. 
The legal battle between Apple and Qualcomm will continue for at least a while, and Apple has seen a pretty strong case made against it up to this point. 
What started as a pretty big Facebook issue transformed into an equally-sized Google issue, and Apple has responded in kind. 
iOS 13 is starting to get some attention as January wraps up, but the latest rumor isn’t a positive one. 
Apple was told to stop selling specific iPhone models in Germany last year. The company already ran afoul of that court order once, in the form of a press release. 
Self-lacing shoes aren’t entirely new, but the technology is improving enough to still make them a marvel. 
Apple had a rough end to 2018 thanks to the “bendgate” issue and the new iPad Pro. Unfortunately, 2019 didn’t start off all that well, either. 
The ride-hailing service Uber is looking to expand its usefulness to customers, and has set its sights on public transportation. 
Apple decided to make a change to how it hands quarterly earnings reports, no longer breaking down specific numbers. 
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
New York State AG Says Group FaceTime Eavesdropping Bug is ‘Serious Threat’ as it Launches Investigation, and more for 01/30/2019
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Augmented reality is a major focal point for Apple, especially with its ARKit development platform. 
A lot of companies out there collect data. That’s an understood reality. However, doing so in a shady way isn’t a good look for any of them. 
Back in December of last year, Microsoft teased an incoming design change for Outlook for iOS. At the time, unfortunately, it was only available for beta testers. 
Project Titan is an effort still at Apple, even if it did just lose over 200 employees. As a result, secrets are still important. 
There is a bit of tug of war happening for Apple right now. The company says the iPhone XS, and especially the iPhone XR, are popular. However, it also admits not enough people upgraded to those popular devices in 2018. 
It’s a fact of life in this modern world — your iPhone charging cable is going to fray and break at some point. And at that steep price, that’s a very frustrating truth to come to terms with. That’s where the Syncwire 2M UNBREAKcable MFi-Certified Lightning Cable comes in, offering you an much sturdier option for just $12.99. 
Apple has disabled the ability to downgrade one’s iPhone or iPads using local IPSW firmware files starting with the latest iTunes 12.9.4.61 beta release. This means that when one tries to downgrade their iPhone or iPad using iTunes, it will only end up being restored to the latest available version on Apple’s servers. 
Just before the end of 2017, the repair blog iFixit announced that it was lowering the price of its do-it-yourself iPhone battery repair kit. 
If you happen to find yourself on a specific flight under the American Airlines banner in the United States, you will soon get a nice Apple Music perk.
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