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One Month After Being Acquired by Google, North’s Smart Glasses Will Stop Working
Brooklyn Neustaeter, CTV News: North, which started as Thalmic Labs in 2012, announced on June 30 that it would be “winding down” production of its...Brooklyn Neustaeter, CTV News: North, which started as Thalmic Labs in 2...
Quarterly Earnings Announcements From All Four Tech Companies Represented at Wednesday’s Antitrust Hearing
Apple PR: Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2020 third quarter ended June 27, 2020...Apple PR: Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2020 th...
Ben Thompson’s Questions for Tech Company CEOs
Another good piece written before Wednesday’s antitrust hearing, from Ben Thompson: To that end, I thought it would be interesting to think about w...Another good piece written before Wednesday’s antitrust hearing, from Be...
Despite Virtual Testimony From Tech Company CEOs, It Was In-Person Congressmen Who Departed From Reality
Robin Givhan, Washington Post: The hearing was billed as an investigation into online competition...Robin Givhan, Washington Post: The hearing was billed as an investigatio...
Big Tech’s Power Comes Under Fire at Congressional Antitrust Hearing
Ryan Tracy, Wall Street Journal: The chief executives of Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc...Ryan Tracy, Wall Street Journal: The chief executives of Amazon.com Inc...
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A Preview of Wednesday’s Big Tech Antitrust Hearing
Om Malik: The big tech is going through the great American ritual — the making of stars, the praise of the stars, and then the tearing down of the ...Om Malik: The big tech is going through the great American ritual — the ...
The Icons of Big Sur
A few of these are better than the icons they replace, a few are worse — what the fuck is going on with that QuickTime icon? — but most are equival...A few of these are better than the icons they replace, a few are worse —...
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Reuters Interviews Phil Schiller Ahead of U.S. Antitrust Hearing
Stephen Nellis, Reuters: “One of the things we came up with is, we’re going to treat all apps in the App Store the same – one set of rules for ever...Stephen Nellis, Reuters: “One of the things we came up with is, we’re go...
Apple’s Thirty Percent Cut
Brent Simmons: Quality costs money, and profitability is just simple arithmetic: anything that affects income — such as Apple’s cut — goes into tha...Brent Simmons: Quality costs money, and profitability is just simple ari...
WaPo Reporter Emphasizes Nondisclosure Agreements in Article About Apple’s ‘Find My’ Spec
Reed Albergotti, Washington Post: During Apple’s annual developers conference last month, it announced that smaller developers would finally have a...Reed Albergotti, Washington Post: During Apple’s annual developers confe...
- #iOS
User Interfaces for Streaming Video Apps Are Almost Universally Terrible
Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone: The part of the streaming shell game that I’ve never been able to fully understand — and that has somehow gotten wor...Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone: The part of the streaming shell game that...
What Happened to Digital Contact Tracing?
Chas Kissick, Elliot Setzer, and Jacob Schulz, Lawfare: In May of this year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged the United Kingdom would develop ...Chas Kissick, Elliot Setzer, and Jacob Schulz, Lawfare: In May of this y...
Apple Pledges to Be Carbon Neutral by 2030
Sarah E. Needleman, Wall Street Journal: Apple Inc...Sarah E. Needleman, Wall Street Journal: Apple Inc...
Apple’s Security Research Device Program, Announced Last Year, Is Now Accepting Applicants
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, Vice: Apple just announced that it will send special devices that make it easier to find flaws and vulnerabilities i...Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, Vice: Apple just announced that it will s...
An Apple-Funded Study Compares App Store Commission Rates to Other Digital and Physical Platforms
Sarah Perez, TechCrunch: Apple today is again taking to the press to fight back against claims of anti-competitive practices on its App Store...Sarah Perez, TechCrunch: Apple today is again taking to the press to fig...
Microsoft President Brad Smith Raised Apple Issues to House Antitrust Group
Dina Bass, Bloomberg: Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith raised concerns to U.S. lawmakers about what the company regards as Apple Inc...Dina Bass, Bloomberg: Microsoft Corp...
Apple Wallet Car Keys Are Live
Juli Clover, writing for MacRumors last week: watchOS 6.2.8 introduces Car Key, a feature also available on the iPhone with iOS 13.6...Juli Clover, writing for MacRumors last week: watchOS 6.2...
- #Apple Watch
- #iOS
- #iPhone
Prominent Organizations, Including Github and Apple, Are Dropping Exclusionary Developer Terminology
Catie Keck writing last month for Gizmodo: Github, the Microsoft-owned developer platform, is working on implementing language that moves away from...Catie Keck writing last month for Gizmodo: Github, the Microsoft-owned d...
Today’s Breach of High-Profile Twitter Accounts Was Enabled by an Employee
Natalie Gagliordi, ZDNet: A number of high profile Twitter accounts, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Apple, were breached on Wednesday...Natalie Gagliordi, ZDNet: A number of high profile Twitter accounts, inc...
⌥ Google’s Abuse of Its Dominant Position Isn’t Only Maybe Illegal, It Also Makes for Worse Products
David McCabe, reporting for the New York Times on worldwide antitrust investigations into Google’s business practices: Google has largely stayed qu...David McCabe, reporting for the New York Times on worldwide antitrust in...
Facebook Moves Fast, Breaks Apps Again
For the second time in two months, a change Facebook made to its iOS SDK caused disparate high-profile apps to crash...For the second time in two months, a change Facebook made to its iOS SDK...
App Review Rejects Information Superhighway
Kyle Hughes: Y’all, I fear that Information Superhighway is dead...Kyle Hughes: Y’all, I fear that Information Superhighway is dead...
Safari and Edge Offer Performance and Battery Life Improvements Over Chrome
Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal: Microsoft’s new Edge browser, rolling out to Windows 10 machines this summer and available now for download on a...Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal: Microsoft’s new Edge browser, rolling...
On Standards
Alison DeNisco Rayome, CNet: The iPad just became a more useful multitasking tool for Gmail users...Alison DeNisco Rayome, CNet: The iPad just became a more useful multitas...
The Internal Tension of New Web APIs
Mike Zornek reacts to Apple’s decision to decline support for several new APIs on privacy foundations: But if I’m reading the tea leaves right, and...Mike Zornek reacts to Apple’s decision to decline support for several ne...
Internal Law Enforcement Bulletin Advises Use of iOS Shortcut to Record Police Encounter May Be Suspicious
Brian Krebs writing last month: Hundreds of thousands of potentially sensitive files from police departments across the United States were leaked o...Brian Krebs writing last month: Hundreds of thousands of potentially sen...
In a Statement to the Verge, Apple Confirms That It Will Support Thunderbolt in ARM-Based Macs
Chaim Gartenberg, the Verge: Apple is moving away from Intel’s chipsets in favor of its new, custom-designed ARM chips — but the company is promisi...Chaim Gartenberg, the Verge: Apple is moving away from Intel’s chipsets ...
The Variety of ‘Facial Recognition’ Technologies Necessitates Nuanced Legislation
John Oliver: This technology raises troubling philosophical questions about personal freedom, and, right now, there are also some very immediate pr...John Oliver: This technology raises troubling philosophical questions ab...
Climbing Up the Walls
Apple’s introduction at WWDC of Macs running on own-brand processors was as complete as many people were expecting...Apple’s introduction at WWDC of Macs running on own-brand processors was...
Apple’s Subscription Requirements Continue to Be Confusing for Third-Party Developers
This series of posts compiled by Michael Tsai regarding Down Dog’s App Store rejection — ostensibly for not automatically charging users after a fr...This series of posts compiled by Michael Tsai regarding Down Dog’s App S...
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