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★ Profiles in Cowardice: Owner Jeff Bezos and Publisher William Lewis of The Washington Post daringfireball.net/2024/10/p…

Profiles in Cowardice: Owner Jeff Bezos and Publisher William Lewis of The Washington Post

Liberal newspapers breaking tradition to not endorse anyone is *worse* than if their owners had forced them to endorse Trump instead.

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★ Vision Pro Bites Dog daringfireball.net/2024/10/v…

Vision Pro Bites Dog

It’s almost as though — hear me out — Apple launched Vision Pro in 2023 for long-term strategic reasons, not with short-term sales in mind.

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★ Consider the Plight of the VC-Backed Privacy Burglars daringfireball.net/2024/10/c…

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★ The iPhones 16 daringfireball.net/2024/09/t…

The iPhones 16

What more proof of the camera’s singular importance to the iPhone would one need than the ever-growing block of camera lenses on the back of each year’s new models, or the “Shot on iPhone” ad...

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★ Thoughts and Observations in the Wake of Apple’s ‘It’s Glowtime’ Keynote daringfireball.net/2024/09/t…

The Things They Carried

Keynotes as a proxy for reflecting on Apple as a whole.

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★ The iOS Continental Drift Fun Gap daringfireball.net/2024/09/i…

The iOS Continental Drift Fun Gap

As it stands, fun side is not the EU. But hope springs eternal.

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★ The iOS Continental Drift Widens daringfireball.net/2024/09/t…

The iOS Continental Drift Widens

What’s happening with Apple Intelligence and iPhone Screen Sharing this year is what I expect to happen with every new product or service Apple creates that integrates with iOS: they will come late,...

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★ The Mac Is a Power Tool daringfireball.net/2024/08/t…

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Susan Wojcicki, Former YouTube CEO and Longtime Google Executive, Dies From Cancer at 56 daringfireball.net/linked/20…

Susan Wojcicki, Former YouTube CEO and Longtime Google Executive, Dies From Cancer at 56

Link to: https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1822132667959386588

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★ Apple Strikes Deal With Taboola to Sell Ads for Apple News daringfireball.net/2024/07/a…

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Google Is Shutting Down Its URL Shortener, Breaking All Links daringfireball.net/linked/20…

Google Is Shutting Down Its URL Shortener, Breaking All Links

Link to: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/

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Meta Won’t Bring Future Multimodal AI Models to EU daringfireball.net/linked/20…

Meta Won’t Bring Future Multimodal AI Models to EU

Link to: https://www.axios.com/2024/07/17/meta-future-multimodal-ai-models-eu

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Bug With Widely-Deployed Security Tool CrowdStrike Is Crashing Windows, Causing Widespred Outages Across Many Industries daringfireball.net/linked/20…

Bug With Widely-Deployed Security Tool CrowdStrike Is Crashing Windows, Causing Widespred Outages...

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201717/windows-bsod-crowdstrike-outage-issue

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★ The M4 iPad Pros daringfireball.net/2024/05/t…

The M4 iPad Pros

A “pro” device that goes pro by getting thinner and lighter, not heavier and thicker, is not a non sequitur.

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★ Daring Fireball: Brief Thoughts and Observations on Yesterday’s ‘Let Loose’ iPad Keynote daringfireball.net/2024/05/b…

Brief Thoughts and Observations on Yesterday’s ‘Let Loose’ iPad Keynote

New iPad Pros and iPad Airs.

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★ European Data Protection Board Goes There, Rules Against Meta’s ‘Pay or OK’ Model daringfireball.net/2024/04/e…

European Data Protection Board Goes There, Rules Against Meta’s ‘Pay or OK’ Model

If Meta caves and complies with this ruling by offering a free tier with significantly lower ARPU, that opens the door for regulators and legislative bodies around the globe to demand the same.

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★ Apple Adjusts DMA Plan to Offer Direct Downloading of Apps From the Web (With a Big Asterisk), Custom Link-Out Screens, and Marketplaces Solely for the Distribution of the Developer’s Own Apps daringfireball.net/2024/03/a…

Apple Adjusts DMA Plan to Offer Direct Downloading of Apps From the Web (With a Big Asterisk),...

I suspect Apple was ready to go from the start with web downloads — they knew the EC *might* demand it — and so they opened their hand January 25 with the compliance plan they hoped would fly, and...

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★ Once More Unto the Apple / Epic / European-Commission Breach, Dear Friends, Once More daringfireball.net/2024/03/o…

Once More Unto the Apple / Epic / European-Commission Breach, Dear Friends, Once More

Although Apple as an institution granted, revoked, and under public pressure reinstated Epic’s new account, from the perspective of Apple leadership, they only revoked a new account that had been...

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Business Insider Report Claims Apple Is Testing an AI-Powered Ads Platform daringfireball.net/linked/20…

Business Insider Report Claims Apple Is Testing an AI-Powered Ads Platform

Link to: https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/11/report-apple-testing-ai-powered-ads-platform/

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Steven Spielberg, FineWoven Case Owner, Photographs His Hamburger at an Oscars Party Using an iPhone 15 Pro daringfireball.net/linked/20…

Steven Spielberg, FineWoven Case Owner, Photographs His Hamburger at an Oscars Party Using an...

Link to: https://twitter.com/etnow/status/1767076793696370832

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