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Microsoft, Past and Future
Whatever course it takes, Microsoft’s future under Satya Nadella will not resemble its past.
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Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
Apple isn’t blocking the ability for Facebook to personalize ads, in any way. Apple is just providing *users* with control over their own privacy.
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Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri
Link to: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/11/instagram-pushes-back-on-apples-ios-ad-tracking-change.html
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The 2020 iPhone SE
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.
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Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’
One way or the other, there is more to come on this story, and either Bloomberg’s or Apple’s and Amazon’s credibility is going to take a significant hit.
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Amazon's Spending on 'Melania' Is a Barely Concealed Bribe
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/business/media/amazon-melania-trump-film-critics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IFA.R85v.5ZtNe8FttfaD
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On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple’s ‘Addition’ to NSA’s PRISM
Putting on my tinfoil hat.
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Bad Dye Job
It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.
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Apple’s Rejection of Hey from the App Store for Not Using In-App Purchases
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.
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The Apple Tablet
If you’re thinking The Tablet is just a big iPhone, or just Apple’s take on the e-reader, or just a media player, or *just* anything, I say you’re thinking too small.
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Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating ‘Irrelevance’ with ‘Inconvenience’
I’ve said it before and will adamantly say it again: it is *prima facie* wrong that one of the rules of the App Store is that an app is not allowed to explain the rules of the App Store.
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The Apple Watch
After one week wearing an Apple Watch, my big picture thoughts and observations. It all hinges on the Taptic Engine and digital touch communication.
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Translation From Apple's PR-Speak to English of the Letter Regarding iPhone 4
Take your class action suits filed four days after we released the goddamn thing and stick them up your fucking asses.
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Forstall Out; Ive Up
Scott Forstall is leaving Apple; Jony Ive is taking over software design.
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Daring Fireball: Steve Jobs Dies
Link to: http://www.apple.com/
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The Next Six Months
I am nearly dead certain the iPad 2 is going to have the same display resolution and size as the current iPad. I am not so sure at all, though, that there won’t be a double-resolution 2048 x 1536 iPad in 2011.
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Daring Fireball: Creep Executive Officer
More and more, I get the feeling that if there’s a rift between the old “Don’t be evil” Google and the new “Let’s do whatever we want” Google, that it’s a rift between Schmidt and Larry/Sergey.
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Translation from VC-Backed PR Jargon to English of Magic Leap CEO Statement
“No one will remember us or anything we’ve done — unless Netflix makes one of those documentaries like the Fyre Festival one.”
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Daring Fireball: "Facebook login"
Link to: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php
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On Succeeding Steve Jobs
A new Apple CEO would need credibility with two highly disparate factions: Apple’s rank-and-file employees, and Wall Street. The only candidates who could satisfy both factions, to any degree, already work at Apple.
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Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers
Link to: http://www.marco.org/122990476
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“This resentment runs deep and is stunningly widespread”
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/opinion/apple-app-store-hey.html
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Amazon's Play
Amazon is, to my eyes, the only company playing in the same league as Apple.
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Twitter’s Shit Sandwich
On Twitter’s just-annoucned pan to require third-party clients to use OAuth.
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Paper, by MiSoft
Link to: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/paper/id510847136?mt=8
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Cook: ‘China Hasn’t Pressured Us’
Link to: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tim-cook-talks-vision-apple-breaks-ground-facility/story?id=67165042
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Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement
So now the narrative is not “Away fires woman CEO and co-founder, replaces her with a man”. Instead, the narrative is “Away fires CEO who created ‘toxic culture’, brings in fresh leadership” — a narrative that wouldn’t be possible without The Verge’s story last Thursday.
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A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm
You don’t bring in an enterprise consulting guy to turn around a PC and device maker.
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Adobe, Apple, and Flash
If Adobe needs Apple to grant them further access to the hardware to make the *Mac* version of Flash Player better, what are the odds that they’d get that sort of low-level hardware access on the iPhone OS? (Hint: zero.)
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Vesper, Adieu
If I could do it all over again, here is what I would do differently.