Link to: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/13/microsoft-statement-on-tiktok/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/11/instagram-pushes-back-on-apples-ios-ad-tracking-change.html | Continue reading
Link to: https://tinysubversions.com/notes/twitter-usernames/ | Continue reading
Apple’s tracking permission dialog is something no sane person would agree to because this sort of tracking *is* something no sane person would agree to. | Continue reading
Link to: https://twitter.com/hprange/status/1291366907271151616?s=21 | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/17/21373108/apple-response-epic-app-store-fortnite-lawsuit | Continue reading
It tastes like weak sauce even by the standards of sauce obtained from The Weak Sauce Store. | Continue reading
Epic, in a very savvy way, is waging this war as much or more in the court of public opinion as they are in any court of law. And, ultimately, Apple stands to lose more in brand equity than in dollars, no matter how this turns out. | Continue reading
Running this statement through my Applespeak-to-English decoder ring, what I hear is not that they won’t allow Xbox Game Pass because they can’t review each game separately. What I hear is that game streaming services are not allowed in the iOS App Store. Period, full stop. | Continue reading
It is prima facie wrong that one of the rules is that an app is not allowed to explain the rules. | Continue reading
A New York Times mini crossword clue over the weekend was based on the notion that “Enter” is just a synonym for the Return key. It’s not. They’re two different keys that usually perform the same action, but not always. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/portland-protests.html | Continue reading
When the waiter arrives with your appetizers, before giving you your food, he asks you again if you’d like to take a referral card for a friend or perhaps family member. You decline again. Same thing with your entrees. And again with your dessert or after-dinner drinks. And then … | Continue reading
You can’t pack every last ounce of joy, beauty, and elegance *into* something while simultaneously trying to squeeze every last dollar *out* of it. | Continue reading
What we both missed is that messages aren’t between phone numbers or email addresses or specific devices — they’re between *people*. Phone numbers and email addresses are just identifiers used to address those people. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linkedin-says-ios-clipboard-snooping-after-every-key-press-is-a-bug-will-fix/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.inputmag.com/tech/after-ios-14-theres-almost-no-reason-to-buy-an-android-phone-anymore | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/graham-cotton-blackburn-introduce-balanced-solution-to-bolster-national-security-end-use-of-warrant-proof-encryption-that-shields-criminal-activity | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/opinion/apple-app-store-hey.html | Continue reading
I’m not trying to be coy, but what is the iPhone itself? A business device or a consumer product? Using *or* instead of *and* as the conjunction there is clearly laughable. | Continue reading
I’m not trying to be coy, but what is the iPhone itself? A business device or a consumer product? Using *or* instead of *and* as the conjunction there is clearly laughable. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.protocol.com/hey-email-app-store-rejection | Continue reading
Link to: https://twitter.com/KurtWagner8/status/1271493543299698688 | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/bowser-black-lives-matter-street/2020/06/05/eb44ff4a-a733-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html | Continue reading
Link to: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/06/01/unhelpful-amazon-order-confirmation-e-mails/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/technology/facebook-employee-protest-trump.html | Continue reading
“No one will remember us or anything we’ve done — unless Netflix makes one of those documentaries like the Fyre Festival one.” | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETc6c9A-ibg&feature=youtu.be | Continue reading
Every other service that tries to answer “What time is it in London?” gets it right. Only Siri gets it wrong. | Continue reading
Link to: https://twitter.com/reckless/status/1263545804079464448 | Continue reading
Link to: https://medium.com/@awilkinson/howard-stern-is-getting-ripped-off-1b721cc2f3f2 | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/fbi-cracked-another-iphone-it-s-still-not-happy-apple-n1209506 | Continue reading
If law enforcement officials choose to wage a campaign to make strong encryption illegal under they guise that only “good guys” would have the circumvention keys, that’s on them, but news media need to get their shit together on the fact that what law enforcement claims to be ask … | Continue reading
“Unbending stance” is a rather harsh description of Apple and Google’s desire not to (a) “undermine people’s privacy” or (b) “drain phone battery life”. This isn’t an “unbending stance”. It’s table stakes for designing a system that people will actually install and use. | Continue reading
Link to: https://giphy.com/posts/slack-adds-giphy-to-every-chatroom-wut | Continue reading
“Apple Is Approaching Return to Office Work Cautiously and Humanely, Just Like Other Companies in Tech, Albeit With the Added but Obvious Burden of Having More Employees Who Work on Hardware” isn’t much of a headline, though. | Continue reading
What makes this situation unprecedented in personal computing history isn’t that one company has maintained a decade-long performance edge over the rest of the industry, but that that one company is keeping those chips exclusively for its own devices. | Continue reading
Link to: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19980517&id=PyQuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Mf0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6529,3370268&hl=en | Continue reading
A new podcast from yours truly and Ben Thompson. Three times per week, 15 minutes per episode. Not a minute less, not a minute more. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/24/21234170/microsoft-word-two-spaces-period-error-correction-great-space-debate | Continue reading
The iPhone SE is an excellent value if you’re fine with the smaller display and Touch ID instead of Face ID. It’s an astoundingly good value if you flat-out prefer the smaller form factor and familiar Touch ID experience. | Continue reading
As a physical contraption the iPad Magic Keyboard is utterly brilliant. As a practical device for work, it feels seamlessly natural. | Continue reading
There’s nothing new strategically about the new iPhone SE — it’s a nearly exact replay of the original SE strategy from 2016, before the iPhone X era began. | Continue reading
Programming is an art and code is merely its medium. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21215494/coronavirus-plans-social-distancing-economy-recession-depression-unemployment | Continue reading
Amazon has pulled a reverse Netflix. | Continue reading