You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with games delivered on disc. The ability to lend, share, and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you. Also important to you is the freedom to play offline, for any length of time, anywhere in the world.

Why would you give money to a company that has to be convinced to do the right thing?

(Via Kotaku.)

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Apple today announced that HBO GO and WatchESPN are now available directly on Apple TV joining the great lineup of programming offered to customers. iTunes users have downloaded more than one billion TV episodes and 380 million movies from iTunes to date, and they are purchasing over 800,000 TV episodes and over 350,000 movies per day.

I spent some time with the HBO GO and WatchESPN apps and they are great. I just wish that I could pay a monthly fee to get access to these without having to have a cable subscription.

Wouldn’t it be neat if Apple offered a monthly iTunes subscription that would give you access to most (or all) of the Apple TV-compatible services? Hulu, Netflix, and HBO GO for one price and the ability to add the sports services at a discount for those that are paying for the others. I’d pay for that.

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What I can’t promise in volume, I will make up for in quality. I’m dedicating myself to publish highly informative, well thought out pieces whenever inspiration strikes and time allows.

I really enjoyed reading Glenn’s site in it’s previous iteration and I’m excited to see what he has in store with the relaunch.

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Apple has always placed a priority on protecting our customers’ personal data, and we don’t collect or maintain a mountain of personal details about our customers in the first place. There are certain categories of information which we do not provide to law enforcement or any other group because we choose not to retain it.

For example, conversations which take place over iMessage and FaceTime are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can see or read them. Apple cannot decrypt that data. Similarly, we do not store data related to customers’ location, Map searches or Siri requests in any identifiable form.

Exactly what I’d expect from Apple. I just wish our government was requesting so much data — or any data at all.

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According to Apple, no one wanted a flashy weather app. They were so certain of this, they built one themselves.

It’s sad when situations like this happen. But luckily, they are happening with far less frequency than they used to.

(Via TidBITS.)

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Some designers are saying that the new look is “over the top.” The same thing was said about Aqua over a decade ago. And in succeeding years, that original UI has continuously been refined to what we see today.

I too think that iOS 7 may be a little more out there than I was expecting. But, as Craig explains that’s typically what Apple does with user interface changes — “it’s much easier to take away elements from a design than it is to add them.”

However, as we begin to get some distance between us and the keynote I’m warming up to the changes they’ve made. Even the icons are less annoying then they were the day of the keynote.

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I’m really glad you liked that. Those words mean a great deal to us and you’ll see that reflected throughout the show today.

It feels like a Pixar short but says something very powerful about Apple’s philosophy of design and development.

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I just wish it looked a little bit less like a trash can.

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The primary problem Apple faced with the iPhone in 2007 was building familiarity with a new way of using computers. That problem has now been solved. It is time to solve new problems.

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Vesper – $4.99

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