iOS 17

OrbitDeck for iOS, a comprehensive amateur satellite tracking application for iPhone and iPad, is now available on the Apple App Store.

Developed by Paul Stutzer, November 8, Hotel Mike, the app runs natively on both iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or later, and its source code is published on GitHub.

At its core, Orbit Deck computes live look angles, range, range rate, sub-point and footprint for any satellite, along with next pass predictions featuring quality scoring and elevation profiles, a daily schedule of every favourite satellite's passes ordered by AOS, multi-day pass progressions, a full ground track map, an all-sky radar showing every favourite at once, An animated 3D globe and a polar sky plot marking AOS, LOS and direction of travel.

Orbital elements are pulled from Sallustrack and AMSAT and refreshed automatically, with cached data keeping core tracking features working offline.

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On today's show, Apple's iOS 17 update blocks the trade desk from Safari.

Applovin sues Unity over alleged data harvesting, and IAB Europe releases new standards for connected TV measurement.

First, the Trade Desk has hit a wall with Apple since the iOS 17 release on X, its core ad-serving domain, edsrvr.org, has been blocked on Safari for all updated users.

This not only halts its ads, but also cuts off access to crucial identity solutions like UID 2.0.

The Trade Desk's Senior Director of Engineering, Ian Meyer, has pushed back, arguing the domain is for ad delivery, not cross-site tracking.

Like, you know, you help make the amp accords, and we were really clear not to just say, these are the answers to the questions, but to say, like, how do you actually bring this to market? What are the technical challenges, the market challenges you're going into? And like, what the audience can't see right now, for those that are watching our download, and Media Roundtable episode, is that behind the camera, you've got a room filling up with people who work in this industry, they make their living on it, and a lot of them are on the sell side.

And what they're all terrified of, and they come by it honestly, is iOS 17 times a thousand.

So you've got everybody going, You know, you got platforms going, oh, we just doubled the consumption that we're going to report to you, even though audience didn't change.

And we're going like, actually, we think we need to have it probably when we actually see what's really happening.

And again, as always, Josh, the man, Hickman, his images came clutch.

So this capability of keeping this information between those two databases is being active or shows up since iOS 17.3 and onwards.

So iOS 17.

So I took one of these images and I ran it.

And the cool thing about Josh's images, as you all know, is that he has a PDF that describes every single action, place, location he's been into.

At least you know it's close.

For the platform, we have iOS 17 and A20 Pro chipset, same 7-core graphics GPU.

For the storage configuration options, you have the exact same options as the Pro, starting at 256GB of internal storage with 12GB of RAM.

512GB of storage with the same size RAM, 1TB of internal storage with the same 12GB of RAM, and then the highest end model which is 2TB of storage with the same 12GB of RAM.

When the diplomat's browser hits the shadow server, the server instantly profiles the device's user agent string.

It determines, ah, this is an iPad running iOS 17, or this is a Samsung running Android 14.

And based on that specific fingerprint, it serves a highly customized fake update prompt.

The industry calls this a click-fix lure.

That's hard to say.

The iPhone app supports iOS 17 and later, while the web version uses OpenStreetMap-based services.

An Android version is planned.

Dang, okay.