Some background: the first release of our [music practice Soundproof](https://soundproofapp.com) was “Waiting for Review” in the last week of September when my iPhone 6 arrived. I ran the app on the iPhone 6 and of course got the stretched up iPhone 5 UI. It was OK, but a bit “Duplo” shall we say. Also our very subtle background gradient was being stretched. Nobody else would notice but… there is pride to consider.
Many people are writing off some of the WATCH features that were demonstrated as pure novelties. I think this is a mistake, if understandable given that these are rather new concepts.
At our new co-working shared office in Stroud we needed a wireless speaker system that would allow anybody to throw music up onto the speakers from their computer or phone. As it is a new business, we wanted to keep costs down – what I really wanted to get was some NOCS NS2 air monitors, but we have to start somewhere.
I have a pet peeve relating to online avatars. Faces matter and it amazes me how many people do not get this. So many people fail to set up a Gravatar for themselves, which covers many services and apps. Or they upload a weird picture. Or they let an app supply a default, like an egg or some random polygonal pattern.
Much has been made of Apple not doing enough to prevent the trade in stolen iOS devices. Finally they are doing something about this, but I think it is going to cause a lot of problems for ordinary people and a predictable PR backlash against Apple. Here’s hoping that Apple put in place a system to deal with this very soon.