The article mentions a security.txt[1] which doesn't seem to contain an email address but it does contain a link[2] to a disclosure program, I'm guessing that's how they submitted all their findings?
> Bloomberg's app (Bloomberg Professional) is unusable without an account, which is 100% against iOS guidelines, but who cares? Other big players, such as Amazon, simply negotiate the Apple tax – instead of paying the 30%.
Both of the companies mentioned don't make money from the use of their app -- at least not directly.
Sure, you can do all of your purchasing w/ Amazon through their app, but the website remains available if that is more to your liking. For free apps like Google Calendar, this is also the model.
Bloomberg's app is a front-end to the Bloomberg Professional Service (colloquially, "The Terminal") and to read more than a few articles or access any of the data sources, you need to sign up.
Tl;dr It's not cheap
Free trials can be converted on iOS, but -- and correct me if I'm wrong -- require going to a web browser instead of it all happening inside of IAP, although, that could come along at some point...
(Based on no inside information, that might be the case this fall, check back in a few hours to see if it actually comes to pass)
Actually, I find airpods to be very usable as bluetooth earbuds for all kinds of devices, these days I mostly use them behind my desktop PC when playing games and they work just fine.
When I pop them out of the case they automatically connect to my PC just like they would an iPhone or other apple device. They won't automatically switch to the PC like they would for apple devices but they also won't just switch from the PC so I don't mind.
Taking them out doesn't pause media but the play/pause controls do work.
I do think that most people without an iPhone won't buy them so they're essentially still bought as iPhone accessories, but they don't have to be!
I agree about the watch though, that's definitely an iPhone accessory.
> Your dishwasher, wherever in the world you may be, will start up by using whatever water it can get for an initial rinse of the dishes, and it will measure how dirty the water is after this initial rinse.
> Normally this water will be tepid. But if you make it hot by running your hot tap first, the hot water will rinse more dirt off the dishes than tepid water ...
I might be misunderstanding you, but this definitely doesn't apply everywhere.
I don't know how this works in the rest of the world, but in the Netherlands at least my dishwasher is only hooked up to the cold water, running my tap will have no effect on the temperature of the water my dishwasher receives.
I can't speak for every person's experience, but what I believe is that most dishwashers being sold today, anywhere, are capable of being connected to domestic hot water, or cold water. They will work with both. That's not the same thing as saying every dishwasher being sold can do this, but check your instruction manual. Perhaps it can. As per a sibling comment, decide holistically if that would be a good idea or not.
Unless someone can point me to the existence of regulations saying something like "it's illegal to connect a dishwasher to a hot water line, it's gotta be cold water that the dishwasher heats up itself", then my expectation is that most dishwashers can be connected to either hot or cold, and will heat the water to the correct temperature.
Looking at EU regulations, as far as I can see, they don't regulate the intake temperatures that dishwashers have to accept. What they do regulate is energy usage labelling, and mandating there must be an "eco" mode, what the eco mode must do, and if you get to select multiple modes then "eco" mode must be the default. https://commission.europa.eu/energy-climate-change-environme...
> I can't speak for every person's experience, but what I believe is that most dishwashers being sold today, anywhere, are capable of being connected to domestic hot water, or cold water. They will work with both.
This is not my experience. Nowadays appliances such as washing machines and dishwashers, in Europe at least, only have a cold water inlet.
Apparently modern appliances use so little water overall that it's no longer efficient to connect them to a hot water supply, since they will stop drawing water before the hot water runs through the pipes, and therefore it just wastes the hot water.
Many European machines accept hot water. Any Miele does, and my entry level Bosch (in UK) accepts up to 60C but you have to set some obscure setting on the machine (the manual explains). But I find even cheap machines wash pretty well even without this, and you are right about it it being hot only if the machine is right next to the boiler.
I bought a new dishwasher (and it's not as good as the old one :/), in the instruction manual it says you can use some configuration to tell it it's hooked up to hot water.
It makes sense to hook it up to a hot water line, given things like solar collectors and heat exchangers heating / pre-heating water.
I think there is probably some selection bias here, you know people in those situations that don't have any problems because they wouldn't have bought those cars if they would have problems.
But I don't want to make any assumptions about the people you know, some people are also just less bothered by these things or care enough about driving an EV that they take it in stride.
I'm sure that when you want 100% of car owners to switch to EVs there are those that will run into issues.
Like people that work from home and can't charge at an office, or when there's no charging spot available when they're out shopping and they really don't have time this week to go charge their car somewhere. Not to mention the fact that charging at home is likely a lot cheaper than charging from public infrastructure (I don't own an EV so I don't actually know how the prices compare)
I'm not saying that these are insurmountable problems, or that some of them won't get solved along the way (like if we end up getting a surplus of chargers at public parking spots), but there are some genuine disadvantages to owning an EV when compared to an ICE.
I personally wouldn't want to buy an EV until I have my own driveway and can charge my car at home, but with current housing prices (and EV prices) I don't see this happening for a while.
I was so excited to try this because I have a book that I’ve not been able to locate (have tried my own searches, Reddit and online forums) but ChatGPT gave me a lot of hallucinations and listed out real books and incorrectly claimed that all those books had the plot bit that I’d remembered.
Damn good chance that was the one, it fits my reading timeline and I had a lot of Clarke (and my other "Golden Age" authors) - and the staggered shell for pressure reduction could very well by a minor throway plot point - Clarke put a lot of thought into space exploration and his stories were riddled with plausible notions that deserved further study (even if ultimately impractical).
That one was fun. I loved the fusion ramjet exit strategy, and the big reveal at the end.
There was also the one (was it Clarke or Asimov?) where they simply grew genetically engineered Jovian bodies and transferred their minds to them. That one (as you'd expect) ends with the explorers deciding it was way too much fun running around Jupiter as raptor-thingies.
[1] https://www.points.com/.well-known/security.txt
[2] https://bugcrowd.com/plusgrade-vdp-pro