February 2012
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Dear startups and other relevant parties: It's...
chartier:
Not offer a way to download our data in some sort of a standard, transparent, and at least somewhat human-siftable format
Hide or otherwise be opaque about precisely what personal data you smuggle out of our devices
Not offer a one-to-two-click process for deleting our accounts
Fail to actually remove our data from your servers after we delete our accounts (while complying with...
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The state of Apple's platform lock-in →
I’ve written a piece for macgasm, outlining the current state of Apple’s ecosystem regarding platform lock-in.
If you’re interested in how ‘Apple’s golden cage’ — as it is sometimes called by pundits — actually looks like, I encourage you to read the article.
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How to make Twitter's favourites more useful →
Something I wrote for macgasm.net, that’s been bugging me for a while. The solution works nicely, I recommend checking it out.