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Apple Brings Device-Level Age Verification to Two More Countries

11 days ago Apple launched device-level age restrictions in the U.K. There were some glitches, reports the blog 9to5Mac. For me, the experience was an entirely painless one, taking less than 30 seconds. All I had to do was tap a confirm and continue button, and Apple told me that the length of time I'd had an Apple account was used to confirm that I'm 18+. Others, however, experienced difficulties with the process timing out or failing to complete. We summarized some of the steps you can take to try to address this. Apple has since listed additional acceptable ways to verify your age. "You can confirm your age with a credit card, or by scanning a driver's license or one of the following PASS-accredited Proof of Age cards: CitizenCard, My ID Card, TOTUM ID card, or Young Scot National Entitlement Card." If you don't verify your age, then you'll be treated as a child or teenager, meaning that both the web content filter and communication safety features are switched on. Apple is continuing the roll-out in Singapore (population 6 million) and South Korea (population 52 million), the article points out, citing a new Apple support document. South Korea's law actually requires Apple to re-verify someone's age annually.

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Apple's First 50 Years Celebrated - Including How Steve Jobs Finally Accepted an 'Open' App Store

Apple's 50th anniversary got celebrated in weird and wild ways. CEO Tim Cook posted a special 30-second video rewinding backwards through the years of Apple's products until it reaches the Apple I. Podcaster Lex Fridman noticed if you play the sound in reverse, "It's the Think Different ad music, pitched up." TechRadar played seven 50-year-old Apple I games on an emulator, including Star Trek, Blackjack, Lunar Lander, and of course, Conway's Game of Life. And Macworld ranked Apple's 50 most influential people. (Their top five?) 5. Tony Fadell (iPhone co-creator/"father of the iPod") 4. Sir Jony Ive 3. Steve Wozniak 2. Tim Cook 1. Steve Jobs One of the most thoughtful celebraters was David Pogue, who's spent 42 years of writing about Apple (starting as a MacWorld columnist and the author of Mac for Dummies, one of the first "...For Dummies" books ever published in the early 1990s.) Now 63 years old, Pogue spent the last two years working on a 608-page hardcover book titled Apple: The First 50 Years. But on his Substack Pogue, contemplated his own history with the company — including several interactions with Steve Jobs. Pogue remembers how Jobs "hated open systems. He wanted to make self-contained, beautiful machines. He didn't want them polluted by modifications." The tech blog Daring Fireball notes that Pogue actually interviewed Scott Forstall (who'd led the iPhone's software development team) for his new book, "and got this story, about just how far Steve Jobs thought Apple could go to expand the iPhone's software library while not opening it to third-party developers." "I want you to make a list of every app any customer would ever want to use," he told Forstall. "And then the two of us will prioritize that list. And then I'm going to write you a blank check, and you are going to build the largest development team in the history of the world, to build as many apps as you can as quickly as possible." Forstall, dubious, began composing a list. But on the side, he instructed his engineers to build the security foundations of an app store into the iPhone's software-"against Steve's knowledge and wishes," Forstall says. [...] Two weeks after the iPhone's release, someone figured out how to "jailbreak" the iPhone: to hack it so that they could install custom apps. Jobs burst into Forstall's office. "You have to shut this down!" But Forstall didn't see the harm of developers spending their efforts making the iPhone better. "If they add something malicious, we'll ship an update tomorrow to protect against that. But if all they're doing is adding apps that are useful, there's no reason to break that." Jobs, troubled, reluctantly agreed. Week by week, more cool apps arrived, available only to jailbroken phones. One day in October, Jobs read an article about some of the coolest ones. "You know what?" he said. "We should build an app store." Forstall, delighted, revealed his secret plan. He had followed in the footsteps of Burrell Smith (the Mac's memory-expansion circuit) and Bob Belleville (the Sony floppy-drive deal): He'd disobeyed Jobs and wound up saving the project. In fact, the book "includes new interviews with 150 key people who made the journey, including Steve Wozniak, John Sculley, Jony Ive, and many current designers, engineers, and executives" (according to its description on Amazon). Pogue's book even revisits the story of Steve Jobs proving an iPod prototype could be smaller by tossing it into an aquarium, shouting "If there's air bubbles in there, there's still room. Make it smaller!" But Pogue's book "added that there's a caveat to this compelling bit of Apple lore," reports NPR. "It never actually happened. It's just one more Apple myth."

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Le lancement d'Artémis 2 a été noyé dans un flux d'actu massif. A-t-on complètement perdu le sens de l'information en 2026 ? C'est la question qu'on se pose dans Toujours Plus, notre newsletter qui anticipe l'avenir et que vous recevrez tous les jeudis dans votre boîte mail si vous vous abonnez ici !

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MacBook Neo, Air, Pro ou Mac mini : quel est le meilleur ordinateur Apple en 2026 ?

L’époque où le MacBook et l’iMac étaient le seul dilemme chez Apple est révolue. Depuis plusieurs années, le constructeur n’a cessé d'élargir sa gamme. Entre les MacBook Air, Pro et plus récemment Neo, et les modèles de bureau iMac, Mac mini et Mac Studio, le choix n’a rien d’évident. On fait le point pour vous aider à choisir le meilleur MacBook (ou bien le Mac fixe) selon vos besoins.

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Amazon veut s’offrir Globalstar pour contrer Starlink… mais Apple utilise déjà ses satellites

Amazon envisagerait de racheter Globalstar, un opérateur de satellites en orbite basse (1414 km), selon le Financial Times. Devenu un maillon stratégique de l’iPhone grâce au SOS d’urgence, le groupe est détenu à 20 % par Apple. En toile de fond : la tentative d’Amazon de rattraper Starlink dans la course aux constellations.

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Les 50 ans d’Apple en 10 dates : l’histoire de la marque qui a changé le monde

Le 1er avril 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak et Ronald Wayne fondaient Apple Computer Company, une entreprise qui commercialisait alors un seul ordinateur fait maison : l'Apple I. Cinquante ans plus tard, en 2026, Apple célèbre ses 50 ans et génère des centaines de milliards de dollars tous les trimestres. Le plus célèbre des constructeurs californiens est devenu une légende de l'histoire de l'informatique.

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Quel smartphone choisir en 2026 ? Voici 8 modèles incontournables

Vous avez l’impression qu’un nouveau téléphone sort tous les jours ? C’est peut-être exagéré, mais ce n'est pas très loin de la vérité… Quoi qu’il en soit, dénicher un excellent smartphone en 2026 demande que l’on s’y attarde. Que vous cherchiez le meilleur en photo, un monstre d’autonomie ou le champion du rapport qualité/prix, nous avons fait le tri pour vous. Voici notre comparatif pour trouver enfin votre smartphone idéal.

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iPhone 18 Pro et iPhone Fold : nouveautés, date de sortie, prix… Toutes les infos sur les smartphones Apple

Neuf ans après l'iPhone X, Apple devrait annoncer son smartphone le plus disruptif en 2026 : l'iPhone Fold (qui ne s'appellera probablement pas comme ça). Un smartphone pliant devrait être accompagné de l'iPhone 18 Pro et de l'iPhone 18 Pro Max, deux smartphones surpuissants avec des innovations en photo et une puce gravée en 2 nm. Numerama fait un point sur les rumeurs.

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Apple Just Lost Me • AndreGarzia.com

Apparemment les gens au Royaume Uni qui viennent de mettre à jour leur iPad (et autes matériels Apple) se retrouvent avec une vérification d'âge forcée. En présentant la carte de crédit.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/apple-begins-age-checks-in-the-uk-with-latest-ios-update/

Ce qui est particulièrement stupide car:
1) une carte de crédit n'est pas un document officiel.
2) tout le monde n'en a pas forcément une (et certains ont une carte de *débit*... qui n'est donc pas acceptée.)

Exemples:
https://mastodon.social/@BenCotterill/116286218174294851
https://mastodon.social/@joeress/116286148356587812
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