The app store is secure, but telemarketers still call up old people and get them to reverse mortgage their house. One company controls that's like back in the old AT&T days, one company controls it. Once the app gets on your system and says, hey, you should sign up for our thing and type your credit card number here, how did that get through Rapper? I don't know. It's so bad. And even if it's a benign scam ... there's all sorts of ways that these applications can be used or hostile"
- Pre-show:
- Declan made an interesting observation
- Marco files a bug report… AND ACTUALLY GETS A RESPONSE
- unlike FB12026558: “Media services reset repeatedly upon initiating audio playback in iOS 16.4 betas”
- John has…returned.
- Follow-up:
- Apple Spring Event… Maybe?
- More on John’s COVID project
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- Post-show: Some more home theatre talk
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