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In case you’re using DEP and haven’t noticed this, you need to accept the latest terms of service in the Apple license agreement for DEP if you’re going to continue using the service. I don’t usually post emails I get from Apple, but I can easily see orgs using accounts that don’t have email flowing to anyone that is capable of responding, so I strongly recommend you go in and accept the latest and greatest agreements so your stuff doesn’t break!

Here’s the email I got from Apple:

Apple Deployment Programs

Thank you for participating in the Device Enrollment Program. On September 13 Apple will release updated software license agreements. Your Program Agent must go to the deployment website and accept the following agreements to continue to use the program:

  • iOS 10 Software License Agreement
  • Software License Agreement for macOS Sierra

For more information please see this support article:https://support.apple.com/kb/HT203063.

Note: If you’re using Casper, then the errors you’ll see will be something along the lines of:

Unable to Contact https://mdmenrollment.apple.com

September 12th, 2016

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September 10th, 2016

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September 9th, 2016

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Special thanks to @dials_mavis for being basically the best ever, cutting this thing together while he was sick, and for the rest of the team for being awesome to help hide the fact that I’m not. 🙂

September 8th, 2016

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App Store Stats and Fun Stuff

  • 17,000,000!
  • 900,000,000 lighting connector devices
  • 10 year anniversary of the Apple Music Festival, with Britney
  • 140 billion app downloads
  • 106% YoY download increases
  • 2 times the “nearest competitor”
  • 1/2 million games on the store
  • Mario: Super Mario Run
  • Mention ConnectEd!
  • Everyone Can Code
  • iWork
    • Real Time Collaboration (only behind Google by how long?)
    • But it’s prettier than what Google does
    • Apple is the 2nd largest watchmaker now, and largest smartwatch maker

Watch:

  • WatchOS 3
    • New dock
    • New faces
    • Tapback messaging
    • Animated stickers in messages
    • Full screen effects, just like in Messages for Mac
    • Breathe
    • Emergency Messaging
    • Developers
    • Pokémon Go for watch
    • 500,000,000 downloads of Go, 4.6 Billion KM
  • Apple Watch Series 2: $369, Series 1 is $269
    • 50 meters, new seals, new adhesives, speaker ejects water
    • Redesigned SiP, 2nd gen display, 2x brighter
    • 1,000 nits, great for sun
    • Built-in GPS – exposed to the API
    • Available in ceramic
    • NikePlus watch

iPhone 7: $629 with Plus starting at $729

  • Over 1 Billion devices, with the best selling product “of its kind” in the history of the world
  • A video that left no dry eyes in the audience
  • New design
  • Jet black finish, black finish (my style btw), gold, silver, rose gold
  • Force sensitive, solid state, taptic Engine-driven home button
  • Homekit, home app, Works with “Apple HomeKit”
  • Messages: Stickers, confetti, etc
  • Water and dust resistant
  • New dual camera, stabilization, f/1.8 aperture sense for 50% more light, six-element sense, 12 megapixel sensor, true tone flash, with 4 LEDs (50% brighter, with a flicker sensor to compensate for artificial lighting), 2x the throughput of the image signal processor (called by Phil Schiller “the supercomputer of” digital photos), depth of field
  • Front-side camera: 7MP FaceTime HD camera, wide color capture, image stabilization
  • 1x to 10x zoom
  • 25% brighter display, wide color gamut, Instagram sent a rep
  • Stereo Speakers on the phones
  • Headphones via lightning or bluetooth, comes with a free adaptor
  • Wireless: Apple AirPods, W1 Apple-designed wireless chip, intelligent high-efficiency playback, infrared sensors detect you, voice accelerometers target the source of your voice, and reduce external noise. 5 hours per charge, 24hours of life off the case, with incredible sound “a technical tour de force”
  • LTE up to 450Mbps
  • Apple Pay goes to Japan
  • Performance: “Apple’s chip team is killing it”
  • A10 Fusion: 64 bit, four-core processor, 40% faster than A9, 2x faster than A8, 120x faster than iPhone1. 2 high performance cores, two high efficiency cores, for longer battery life, with a performance controller, new 6 core graphics chip in the A10, for 3x faster GPU of the A8, for a total of 240x the performance of the original iPhone.
  • 7 and 7 plus now go from 32 to 256GB of storage (yowza)
  • iPhone Upgrade Program, includes a new iPhone every year, choose your carrier, starts at 32/mo and includes AppleCare Plus, now expanding to the UK and China

iOS 10 drops on September 13th 2016, OS X on September 20th, 2016.

Things not discussed re: iOS 10:

  • Siri API (e.g. Wink, but also options for when I’ll use the Home app vs Wink – and waiting for Wink to integrate with HomeKit)
  • All the fun new Messages options:
    • Sketches
    • Annotations on photos and videos
    • Bigger emoji
    • Effects in messages
    • Messages app store
    • Memories in Photos like I have in Facebook
  • Better Apple Music and Maps
  • The ability to manage the following with MDM:
    • Callkit: managing the default app for Calls
    • Moving some restrictions to Supervised mode (differentiating Corporate vs personally owned devices
    • Notification APIs

September 7th, 2016

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You can disable the Connect to Server menu in OS X. This can be done via MDM or using defaults. To do so with the defaults command, send a ProhibitConnectTo key into com.apple.finder as True and then restart the Finder, as follows using the defaults command:

defaults write com.apple.finder ProhibitConnectTo -bool true ; killall Finder

To undo:

defaults write com.apple.finder ProhibitConnectTo -bool false

September 7th, 2016

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When speaking to a group of people, I once created a folder called Old and then moved all my files in there. However, you can create a temporary desktop that shows as clean and empty. To do so, write the CreateDesktop key in the com.apple.finder defaults domain, with a setting of false, as follows:

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false

Then restart the Finder and it will show crisp and new:

killall Finder

Then once you’re done, delete the temporary desktop, by deleting the key, as follows:

defaults delete com.apple.finder CreateDesktop

Then restart the Finder to see your files again:

killall Finder

September 6th, 2016

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Set plain text in TextEdit as the default format to save files in using the defaults command to write the RichText key into com.apple.TextEdit as an integer of 0, as follows:

defaults write com.apple.TextEdit RichText -int 0

To remove the key:

defaults delete com.apple.TextEdit RichText

September 5th, 2016

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I’ve been on a quest to have less meetings in this world. But since that doesn’t seem likely, I’m settling on shorter, more specific meetings. One of the ways I’ve been trying to achieve this is to send a key called “Default duration in minutes for new event” into com.apple.iCal with an integer. In this case, I’m going to reduce my default meeting times to 15 minutes.

defaults write com.apple.iCal 'Default duration in minutes for new event' 15

And viola, just like that I get to have less time spent in meetings! Note that this doesn’t change the default time of Quick Events.

September 3rd, 2016

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My latest piece, called The Immutable Laws Of Game Mechanics In A Microtransaction-Based Economy is now available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-edge/the-immutable-laws-of-gam_b_11810172.html. In this piece I explore a few of the emergent rules that game developers should/need to follow when building out game play and planning for monetization of various aspects of their games.

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Hope you enjoy!

September 2nd, 2016

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