Opinion
MATT BOLTON…
IS REASSESSING THE LINE BETWEEN A HIDDEN FEATURE AND A ‘HACK’ WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT THE iPHONE CAN DO
Severaldays ago, I saw essentially the same ‘news’ story pop up on Google from two different big tabloid newspapers: it was a ‘hack’ for using your iPhone to store your receipts and other important documents. If you’ve been reading MacFormatfor a while, you might have the same reaction I did: why would you need a hack for that when you can just do it in the Notes app? And it turns out that’s what the hack was: to use the feature in the Notes app that’s designed exactly for this purpose. While I have happily used the word hack in close proximity to the names of these newspapers many times in the past, it didn’t really seem to belong in this case.