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Bloomberg: Apple Is Working on a New TV Product With HomePod and Videoconferencing Capabilities
Mark Gurman, Bloomberg: The company is working on a product that would combine an Apple TV set-top box with a HomePod speaker and include a camera ...Mark Gurman, Bloomberg: The company is working on a product that would c...
Ad Attribution Gives False Hope
I read these two stories from the Wall Street Journal today, back to back, and I think that is how you should also read them...I read these two stories from the Wall Street Journal today, back to bac...
Keyboard Shortcuts in Many Web and Electron Apps Do Not Work Correctly With Non-ANSI Keyboard Layouts
Speaking of bad keyboard shortcuts, here’s Thomas Kainrad (via Michael Tsai) explaining how web apps from big-name tech companies are not fully com...Speaking of bad keyboard shortcuts, here’s Thomas Kainrad (via Michael T...
Apple Keeps iMessage Exclusive to Its Products Because It Is an Effective Differentiator
In a court filing from Epic in support of its lawsuit against Apple, many Apple executives are on the record in emails stating the obvious: iMessag...In a court filing from Epic in support of its lawsuit against Apple, man...
Samsung’s ‘iTest’ Lets You Try a Galaxy Device on Your iPhone
Clever new web app from Samsung, simulating a handful of apps as though you are using a Galaxy phone...Clever new web app from Samsung, simulating a handful of apps as though ...
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Wix Is Running a Bizarre Ad Campaign Mocking WordPress
Matthew Mullenweg: Wix, the website builder company you may remember from stealing WordPress code and lying about it, has now decided the best way ...Matthew Mullenweg: Wix, the website builder company you may remember fro...
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Third-Party Accessories Can Now Use Apple’s ‘Find My’ Network
Apple: Apple today introduced the updated Find My app, allowing third-party products to use the private and secure finding capabilities of Apple’s ...Apple: Apple today introduced the updated Find My app, allowing third-pa...
Google’s Primary Apps Now Feature Privacy Labels
Taha Broach, the 8-Bit: After an almost four-month-long wait, Google has updated the App Store pages of all of its popular apps with Apple’s Privac...Taha Broach, the 8-Bit: After an almost four-month-long wait, Google has...
‘New Outlook’ for Mac Has an Objectively Stupid Keyboard Shortcut for Discarding Messages
This episode of Josh Calvetti’s excellent “Sweating the Small Stuff” series is infuriating...This episode of Josh Calvetti’s excellent “Sweating the Small Stuff” ser...
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Snap Has Explored Tracking Groups of Users Without Consent
Patrick McGee and Hannah Murphy, Financial Times: According to recent internal documents seen by the Financial Times, Snap wanted to gather data fr...Patrick McGee and Hannah Murphy, Financial Times: According to recent in...
Apple Stops Identifying Siri Voices by Gender, Adds Two New American English Options
Matthew Panzarino, TechCrunch: Apple is adding two new voices to Siri’s English offerings, and eliminating the default “female voice” selection in ...Matthew Panzarino, TechCrunch: Apple is adding two new voices to Siri’s ...
Lux’s Long Term iPhone 12 Camera Review
Lux’s Sebastiaan de With reviewed the iPhone 12 family as cameras...Lux’s Sebastiaan de With reviewed the iPhone 12 family as cameras...
WWDC 2021 Starts June 7
I know this is trite in 2021, but I had to look back and see what happened last year...I know this is trite in 2021, but I had to look back and see what happen...
What Happened to Arizona’s App Store Bill?
Brittany Gibson, the American Prospect: Big Tech lobbyists in Arizona caused just enough confusion over an app store reform bill to run out the clo...Brittany Gibson, the American Prospect: Big Tech lobbyists in Arizona ca...
Apple Tells Australian Regulator That the App Store Has Plenty of Competition With Websites and Other App Marketplaces
Asha Barbaschow, ZDNet: Apple has responded further to the Australian consumer watchdog’s probe of app marketplaces, this time rejecting characteri...Asha Barbaschow, ZDNet: Apple has responded further to the Australian co...
The Streaming Music Paradox
Ben Sisario of the New York Times, in conversation with Shira Ovide: There’s a complicated and opaque formula that determines how the $10 monthly s...Ben Sisario of the New York Times, in conversation with Shira Ovide: The...
Uyghurs and Activists Targeted by Eleven Zero-Days in Mass Spying Operation, Again
Maddie Stone of Google’s Project Zero: In October 2020, we discovered that the actor from the February 2020 campaign came back with the next iterat...Maddie Stone of Google’s Project Zero: In October 2020, we discovered th...
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s New Strategy
I snarked the other day about the declining quality of the Intel marque, but I was persuaded that this is the right direction for the company after...I snarked the other day about the declining quality of the Intel marque,...
⌥ Mac OS X Turns Twenty
Cupertino, California — March 21, 2001 — Apple today announced that beginning this Saturday, March 24, customers can buy Mac OS X in retail stores ...Cupertino, California — March 21, 2001 — Apple today announced that begi...
Most Links to Shortcuts Are Currently Broken
John Voorhees, MacStories: iCloud links to shortcuts broke sometime in the past 24 hours...John Voorhees, MacStories: iCloud links to shortcuts broke sometime in t...
New York Department of Financial Services Finds Goldman Sachs Did Not Violate Fair Lending Laws in Apple Card Cases
In November 2019, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote on Twitter about a huge discrepancy between the credit offered to him and his wife when each appli...In November 2019, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote on Twitter about a huge...
After Union Push, Medium Follows the Trend
Medium CEO Ev Williams, in a companywide email: Though Medium has been an open platform since day one, we’ve had an editorial team almost as long...Medium CEO Ev Williams, in a companywide email: Though Medium has been a...
Intel Is Trying to Court Apple for Chip Manufacturing at New Foundries
Juli Clover, MacRumors: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger today shared some details on Intel’s future plans, which includes the founding of a separate “Intel...Juli Clover, MacRumors: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger today shared some detail...
Backblaze B2 Was Leaking Metadata to Facebook
Ben Cox: WTF? @backblaze’s B2 web UI seems to submit all of the names and sizes of my files in my B2 bucket to facebook...Ben Cox: WTF? @backblaze’s B2 web UI seems to submit all of the names an...
Judge Certifies Class Action Lawsuit Against Apple for Butterfly Keyboards
Adi Robertson, the Verge: A judge has certified a class action suit against Apple for its fragile butterfly keyboard design...Adi Robertson, the Verge: A judge has certified a class action suit agai...
The HomePod Mini Contains an As-Yet Unused Temperature and Humidity Sensor
Mark Gurman, Bloomberg (via Dan Moren): The Cupertino, California-based technology giant never disclosed this component and the device currently la...Mark Gurman, Bloomberg (via Dan Moren): The Cupertino, California-based ...
Irrelevant Inside
I do not have any strong feelings about the new Intel ads featuring Justin Long; I don’t really have any feelings about them at all...I do not have any strong feelings about the new Intel ads featuring Just...
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⌥ Privacy, Policy
Earlier this week, Patrick McGee and Yuan Yang explained in the Financial Times how some high-profile developers based in China were seeking to eva...Earlier this week, Patrick McGee and Yuan Yang explained in the Financia...
French Regulators Say the Upcoming iOS Tracking Permission Feature Is Not an Antitrust Concern
Mathieu Rosemain and Foo Yun Chee, Reuters: The head of the watchdog, Isabelle de Silva, said she had worked closely with France’s CNIL data privac...Mathieu Rosemain and Foo Yun Chee, Reuters: The head of the watchdog, Is...
Debates About ‘Big Tech’ Often Overlook Telecom Conglomerates
Osita Nwanevu, the New Republic: And yet the telecoms rarely enter our debates over “Big Tech” and corporate power in the internet age...Osita Nwanevu, the New Republic: And yet the telecoms rarely enter our d...
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