It’s been a weird week. The Hacking Team got hacked, revealing its beyond-shady activities—not to mention the best argument yet for not jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad. Glenn explains why. We also unpack Nolan Lawson’s pair of blog posts about Apple not adding the latest, greatest APIs to Safari.
Closer to home, we discuss Jason Snell’s latest More Color column, on how layers of complexity added by hardware becoming connected, and software trending toward services, results in ridiculous scenarios like only being able to play *some* music on your expensive speaker system, but not *all* the music. (Remember when music traveled through wires and everything worked everywhere? That was nice, huh?) Oh, and Home Sharing is gone, or renamed at best. Note to Apple: Putting “iCloud” and “Library” in something’s name doesn’t inspire the greatest of confidence…
Show notes
Safari is the new IE by Nolan Lawson
Safari is the new IE 2: Revenge of the Linkbait by Nolan Lawson
Why compatibility isn’t just a computer problem anymore by Jason Snell
TiOS 8.4 nixes Home Sharing for music, at least for now by Jared Newman
Apple confirms it’s trying to fix Home Sharing for iOS 9 by Jared Newman
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Author: Susie Ochs, Contributor
Susie has been covering Apple since 2006, and when she isn't glued to her MacBook Air and iPhone, you can find her building sand castles at the beach or snowboarding in the mountains.