Downtime 391: Mister Poignant

The co-hosts talk about Sebastien’s Tesla test drive experience and Cody’s big Top Shot hit. The pair also discusses this week’s strange HomePod/Apple TV/Camera rumors, new games in Apple Arcade,  and the new Find My network accessory program. Finally, they answer questions from listeners about Apple Watch and iPad.

How to set up parental controls on Kindle Paperwhite

Reading Kindle Paperwhite

If you purchase a Kindle Paperwhite for your child to enjoy reading books, you may want to make a few adjustments. Depending on your child’s age, you can enable parental controls with a password. Then, allow or disallow specific settings, create Kindle FreeTime, choose books for them to read, and more.

Here’s how to set up the parental controls on your Kindle Paperwhite.

Apple: “We’re not against digital advertising”

Apple is getting ready to publicly launch the new App Tracking Transparency feature in iOS 14.5 that'll let its customers consent to being tracked across other apps and websites. The advertising industry has been bracing for these changes for months and now Apple's chief executive Tim Cook is on the record saying his company is not against digital advertising.

One in a million: Someone resold this iPhone 11 Pro with a misaligned Apple logo for $2,700

Photographs recently shared on Twitter show a fun little production mistake with one of the iPhone 11 Pro units exhibiting a misaligned Apple logo on the back of the device.

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Images show an iPhone with a misaligned Apple logo. This is said to be an extremely rare misprint. It could be rarer than one in a million. Surprise, production mistakes do happen

Shared by Internal Archive on Twitter, the images show a single iPhone 11 Pro unit with an Apple logo on the back of the device at an angle rather than being centered. That's not the only production mistake because the logo is also too close to the right edge of the device.

This imprint is said to be extremely rare, the poster notes.

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“I'd say one in a million or possibly even rarer,” they wrote. That's certainly a curious error to occur during production. When manufacturing issues with Apple gadgets do happen, they usually affect a certain batch of units made between very specific dates, not a single unit.

The original owner who bought the phone at an Apple Store was smart enough to keep it because the one-off mistake didn't stop someone from purchasing the unit for $2,700.