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Apple says the attack was “narrowly-focused” rather than a broad-based exploit of iPhones as described. Fewer than a dozen websites targeting Uighur Muslims were affected, according to Apple. Further, Apple says that Google created a false impression of mass exploitation, causing fear among iPhone owners.

Google also got the length of the attacks wrong. Apple says the websites were operational for approximately two months rather than two years, with the vulnerabilities fixed 10 days after Apple learned about them. Fixes were already in the works when Google approached Apple.

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For those that keep telling me that Apple isn’t doing well or isn’t doing anything new or isn’t doing that great. Source: Whaddya know, iPad and Apple Watch are selling like crazy again

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Perhaps someone from Apple heard Jobs screaming from his grave or read my blog post and decided to fix the terrible layout of the audio buttons on the iPhone lock screen.  I believe it was just fixed in iOS 6.1.4. See this post on how they screwed up at one point. Glad to see it […]

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You won’t see this headline often as most of what Apple does in the UI area is very very good. However, I’ve had some issues with the terrible interface for the “music” app when accessed through the lock screen on the iPhone for a long time now. I’m pretty sure this was introduced in iOS5 […]

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Image via Wikipedia The most popular game for all of the 90’s has just been released for the iPhone. Myst by Cyan. This is a perfectly suitable game for the iPhone interface. I predict that this will quickly rise to the #1 selling game on the iPhone for a whole new generation of folks. I […]

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Looks like the Google GMail team is doing some interesting things with HTML5: The HTML5 draft adds a lot of exciting functionality to browsers. Perhaps the most exciting is adding a way for websites to be launched offline. For devices that have a high bandwidth and highly available connection, offline functionality might not be so […]

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Great, 9 days after I purchased my iTouch, Apple announces a new one. I should be able to return mine however to get the new one. In my previous post I mentioned the only negative I had about the device, however in the meantime, I found another very annoying problem with the device. And that […]

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