Apple iPhone app, allegedly for selling cocaine and meth, leads to UC Santa Cruz student's arrest
For a young UC Santa Cruz student arrested for allegedly dealing cocaine and methamphetamine via an iPhone app, posters advertising the illicit business were his undoing, authorities say. The app is seemingly named after the UC Santa Cruz mascot, the banana slug. "Howard developed the 'Banana Plug' application, which was available on the Apple App Store," prosecutors said. "Posters advertising the application had been hung up around the UC Santa Cruz campus," prosecutors said. On Tuesday night, the Banana Plug app appeared to be a game involving images of bananas and plugs in rows.
Soor: A Third-Party Apple Music Client for iPhone
As it stated in Soor, a third-party client for Apple Music created by indie developer Tanmay Sonawane, is based upon a fascinating premise: unlike other standalone music players for iPhone, Soor works with Apple's native MusicKit API, enabling direct integration with Apple Music; unlike Apple's Music app though, Soor prioritizes one-handed gestures, user customization, and a single-page design that packs multiple sections into one view. Two years later, it's fair to say music utilities have benefited from MusicKit's native integration with Apple Music and the user's local music library, but alternative clients have fared better on a platform where an Apple Music app is not available – the open web. I suppose this is a logical consequence: from a user's perspective, it makes more sense to gain access to Apple Music on a platform that doesn't have a dedicated, built-in Music app than to install an alternative Apple Music player on an iPhone, which already has a pre-installed, full-featured app from Apple. What's for certain is that Soor is a $10 iPhone app (it doesn't support the iPad in this first version) that is advertised as having "full Apple Music support" while in reality it's a music player that integrates with Apple Music but lacks dozens of features that make up the modern Apple Music experience. But if you're a heavy Apple Music user, Soor's approach, despite its beauty and cleverness, is too limited to replace Apple's Music app today.Apple threatens to remove iPhone apps caught recording user activity without consent
Apple has threatened to remove applications from the App Store if they record users' actions without their explicit permission. Apple has since put developers on notice that they need to tell users if and when they're recording a user while they're using an app. "Protecting user privacy is paramount in the Apple ecosystem," Apple said, according to TechCrunch. "Our App Store Review Guidelines require that apps request explicit user consent and provide a clear visual indication when recording, logging, or otherwise making a record of user activity. One developer told TechCrunch that action includes removing their app from the App Store if it isn't updated to meet the guidelines.
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