Earlier this year, Apple announced a new iPad with support for the new Logitech Crayon, a stylus this is almost as good as the Apple Pencil for half the price. Although the Crayon was only available for the education market, I said at the time that I hoped it would give rise to many new stylus options with the precision of the Apple Pencil. The jury is still out on whether additional styluses are coming, but in a baby step towards that future, attorney John Voorhees of MacStories reports that Apple announced this week that the Logitech Crayon will be available for everyone to purchase, even if you are not in the education sector, starting September 12. Of course, that is also the day next week when Apple has scheduled a big event at its campus to show off the new iPhones and who knows what else. The Crayon announcement makes me think that we may see a new iPad next week, and if Apple wants to show off even more new stylus options next week, I would certainly love that. And now, the news of note from the past week:
- The Lit Software blog features Arizona attorney Brian Snyder and explains how he uses his iPad in his law practice.
- What will the new iPhones being unveiled next week be called? John Gruber of Daring Fireball has some theories.
- Earlier this year, I discussed a service called TeenSafe which restricts the ability of your kids to use your iPhone, but does so at great risk because you have to give the service access to your iCloud backup, which is a problem if the site is hacked — and sure enough, TeenSafe was hacked. Ben Lovejoy of 9to5Mac reports that a similar product called mSpy accidentally exposed millions of passwords, text messages, contacts, call logs, notes and location data, etc. to the Internet. I remain very suspicious of services like this. Be careful out there.
- Cella Lao Rousseau of iMore discusses some of the best watch stands for the Apple Watch.
- Recently, a 15-year-old student tried to share with her mother a photo of a mock crime scene from a medical biology class. She tried to do so using AirDrop, when she was on a plane, and instead she shared the photo with 15 other random passengers, as the plane was taken off. The chaos that ensued resulted in grounding the Hawaiian Airlines flight for 90 minutes. Michael Potuck of 9to5Mac has more details (including the picture). Hopefully something like this will never happen to you.
- I cannot tell you what features the new iPhones will have next week, but one thing that they surely won't have is support for the upcoming 5G standard. I see iPhone 5G support in 2019 or 2020. But that's not that far away, so it isn't too early to think about what 5G means. I discussed the transition to 5G earlier this year. This week, David Pogue of Yahoo wrote a good overview of what 5G means, and also created a nice video overview.
- The Sweet Setup recommends photo editing apps for iOS.
- Phishing attacks are increasingly common, and are especially dangerous for law firms because of the confidential information stored on law firm networks. Many law firms have had to deal with major hacking attacks over the last few years. Yesterday, the Apple Support account on Twitter posted a good, short video explaining how to look out for phishing attacks on your Apple devices:
Got a suspicious email or text? Don't click on any links or open any attachments. It could be a phishing scam.
— Apple Support (@AppleSupport) September 6, 2018
Watch our video below to see more ways to avoid phishing. pic.twitter.com/YjIHCXbqxH
