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Apple Special Event: September 12, 2018
Apple will be live-streaming the event on Apple Website, Apple TV and @AppleSupport Twitter account.
As usual, there will be live coverage from other sites. Links will be updated as they become available.
Has it been 4018 days already?
From Apple Press Release on June 28, 2007:
CUPERTINO, California—June 28, 2007—Apple’s revolutionary iPhone™ will go on sale this Friday, June 29 at 6:00 p.m. local time at Apple® retail stores nationwide. All 164 Apple retail stores in the US will stay open until midnight, and customers can purchase up to two iPhones on a first come, first served basis.
As of June 29, 2018, there are 272 Apple Stores in the United States alone.
(From Apple’s Store List, retrieved June 29, 2018; and if the author this post can count correctly.)
According to firstnameatappledotcom, iOS 11.2.5 is ready and might be released as soon as Tuesday, January 23, 2018.
The update also includes the fix to address the crash caused by specially crafted malicious text that can cause iOS device to freeze.
January 4, 2018
Parking is hard, apparently.
Another day goes by and my colleague and I are still talking about “Meltdown and Spectre” exploits.
Apple started offering SIM-Free iPhone X on Monday, December 4, 2017. There are a lot of iPhone X in stock at the time of this writing.
According to several Apple Store employees, significant numbers of customers coming in to exchange their recently purchased iPhone X with the SIM-free iPhone X.
We visited Apple Store South Coast Plaza (R004) and saw number of customers waiting in line to exchange their iPhone X with their SIM-Free counterparts.
Apple is preparing iOS 11.2 for public release. With the deployment of iOS 11.2 beta 6 which internally labeled as the Release Version.
Apple Pay Cash is expected to be made available following iOS 11.2 public release.
Apple will be issuing Software Update to disable “root” user which is inadvertently enabled by default with blank password in macOS High Sierra.
To disable “root” user, follow the instruction from Apple or the instruction below:
Disable the root user
Choose Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Users & Groups (or Accounts).Click the Lock, then enter an administrator name and password.
Click Login Options.
Click Join (or Edit).
Click Open Directory Utility.
Click the Lock in the Directory Utility window, then enter an administrator name and password.
From the menu bar in Directory Utility: Choose Edit > Disable Root
In previous incarnations of macOS/OS X/Mac OS X, “root” user is disabled by default.
Note:
Anyone with physical access to your Mac potentially can reset your password.