fma16.com become lawgier.net. “Fma16 blog” is not original enough for a blog name. I needed a pun. So I made an awful one. But I like it.

Why Lawgier?

2 things :

1. I study law.
2. In French, the first syllable of my name is pronounced like law : it’s kinda like law-ge-ey with a very flat accent.
3. THAT PUN IS AWESOME!!! (And that’s make 3)

So, that’s it. I’ve created a new Twitter account for it, so be sure to check it out : @lawgier.

Bradley Chambers :

When the iPhone was released in 2007 with a “desktop class” web browser, it was widely praised. You could view entire websites on a mobile device. Coming from the days of WAP optimized sites on my Motorola Q, this was incredible. If we fast forward to 2014, Mobile Safari has become the app that is holding the iPad back from becoming a fully featured laptop replacement for a lot of people. While Mobile Safari is fast and loads website reasonably well, it cannot upload and download files. It can upload pictures, but that is it. Mobile Safari needs a way to upload and download any type of file into iCloud Drive (a mirrored from the Mac downloads folder).

Android does this almost since it’s beginning, and, even if it’s implementation can be messy, it is very helpful. This should be on the top list of iOS development (after bugs squashing, of course).

Re/Code delivers some new information about the GT Bankruptcy story:

Sapphire crystal maker GT Advanced Technologies, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this week, has asked the court’s permission to “wind down” operations at its manufacturing plant, less than a year after announcing a high-profile deal to supply the material to Apple.

I think that bury even more the possibility of seeing some GT Advanced sapphire screens on future iPhones. But we don’t know many things about this bankruptcy filling (GT seems to go to great lengths to comply to a confidentiality agreement that it made with Apple).

Daisuke Wakabayashi, for the WSJ:

A hint of troubles at GT came last month, when Apple said it wouldn’t use sapphire screens in its new iPhones, contrary to what many observers expected. Apple added to GT’s financial pressures by not making a final $139 million prepayment loan because GT hadn’t met the technical milestones laid out by the company, the people familiar with the matter said. GT had said earlier that it expected Apple to make that payment by the end of October.

This gives a great insight about why GT filed for bankruptcy a few days ago. This information was completely unexpected for a lot of people, including me, after the news of Apple investing heavily in their sapphire production for the Apple Watch (only rumored at this time) and the iPhone :

“To be clear, we did not see this coming,” Pavel Molchanov, an analyst with Raymond James & Associates, wrote in a note Monday. “We don’t think anyone else did either.”

That’s the best explanation for the absence of sapphire screens on the iPhone 6, a feature that was widely expected but not delivered by Apple at it’s September press event. But also, it implies some serious threats about the presence of a sapphire screen in an iPhone 6s(?) at all, since it putted GT in a very delicate situation.

But we don’t know of what the future is made of.

(Thanks to John Gruber for the link)