Dow Jones Fake News, Cook’s Barnstorm Tour, iOS 11 Control Center – ACM 432
Tim Cook continues to raise his profile, tweeting more publicity photos of his visits to lots of places, including a Normandy war cemetery. Bryan and Jeff reexamine the idea that Mr. Cook may be thinking of political office. They also talk about Dow Jones’s brief flirtation with publishing fake news about Apple, and how Apple has changed the way on/off buttons work in iOS.
Show Notes
Sources referenced in this episode:
- Fake Story that Google Bought Apple for $9 Billion Briefly Published by Dow Jones
- Apple CEO Tim Cook Barnstorms France, Tweets from Normandy War Cemetery
- Here's How Airplane Mode is Different in iOS 11
- Jeff's Twitter
- Bryan's Twitter
- Jeff's blog: Fresh Brewed Tales
- Bryan's blog: GeekTells
If you take their word for it that it was a “technical glitch”, the Dow Jones fake stories could have been the result of test data hitting the production server. I work in QA, and this sort of thing happens sometimes. Of course, best practice is to always make sure to put “TEST” or other obvious clues in the exposed fields.