This is kind of like saying conversationalists at risk of talking to other human beings. The term addiction is thrown around way too easily these days. Okay,
Eleven percent of those under the age of 25 would interrupt sex for a message, and 24 percent under 25 would answer a message in the bathroom.
…is a bit silly. But really, it seems to me almost like it’s a restructuring of social norms. Is it a problem, or is it just an evolving expectation that we have with the immediacy in communication and relationships?
Although, if you’re interrupting sex for a message you’re just not doing it right.
Apple is in the process of removing WiFi scanning apps from the App Store for using a private framework. Some of these apps provide functionality that the iPhone OS weakly attempts. Its own interface is buried away in Settings and tells you the bare minimum of what it thinks you need to know. There’s no advanced mode which is what these apps provide. That this is a private framework at all is somewhat of a mystery since it’s hard to believe that they’re genuinely interested in the public’s security concerns.
Bruce Shneier makes some great points about Eric Schmidt’s unbelievably narrow-minded take on privacy issues, but one that’s glossed over is his statement that “we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act.”
It’s true, though: if you’re a witch, you won’t drown.
It’s been reported that Steve Jobs responded to an iPhone app developer who was told by Apple legal to change his app’s name. Apparently, he suggested that changing the name of the app as demanded wasn’t that big of a deal.
In the same spirit, I’m going to start a company called Apple. I think they’ll understand when my legal team demands they change their name. Not that big of a deal.
