Safer, faster, and less annoying. Yes, these three things are the things turning up our digital lives. Let’s go further:
Safer:
YouTube is the second most visited site on the web. It has recently announced it would be getting serious about cleaning up is the platform of bigoted videos, finally! This means that parents could potentially get a little more comfortable about having their kids watching YouTube.
This week, YouTube said it would be more diligent about getting them down. With a new stated policy prohibiting videos “alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.”
Faster:
Amazon will be getting products to homes instantly. Not a day or two but the exact same day. The e-tailer introduced its latest drone. The drone which can fly vertically, and is being targeted to ship out smaller items like toothpaste and some household goods within next year.
Less Annoying:
Apple is bringing its latest operating system upgrade with 200 new tweaks. And if you had to sum up the highlights, the key ones are about making your iPhone experience less bothersome.
A new setting in iOS 13, which will be available to the public in September, will allow only phone numbers that are recognized (via your Contacts, Mail, and Messages) ring. All other calls will be sent to voicemail, and you’ll only know about it if the caller has left a voicemail.
The “death of iTunes” got lots of attention since Apple announced that it was splitting up the program into three areas; Music, Podcasts and TV/Movies.
The reality is, yes, iTunes had become really annoying, slow and overly bloated by trying to do too many things. But it’s desktop software in a mobile world, and most of us don’t plug our phones into the computer anymore to sync content. We don’t check our downloaded music libraries, because most of us prefer to stream and get access to either pre-arranged radio like Pandora or pay for unlimited music listening from the likes of Spotify, Amazon and Apple Music.
