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Mark Gurman: > The good news for Meta is it could have plenty of time to pursue > that goal. Apple’s latest Vision Pro road map doesn’t currently > call for a se...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-28/apple-rivals-retool-to-compete-with-iphone-and-vision-pro-ios-18-and-ai-details-lvjhucsv

From Six Colors’s transcript of Apple’s financial results conference call: > Keep in mind, as we described on the last call, in the March quarter > a year ago, we were a...

https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/this-is-tim-transcript-of-apples-q2-2024-analyst-call/

My recent focus on the European Union’s DMA and the notion that, if the EU pushes too hard, Apple might pull back from sales in the EU, had me looking at how the company defines the “Europe�...

https://investor.apple.com/investor-relations/default.aspx

Apple Newsroom: > Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2024 second > quarter ended March 30, 2024. The Company posted quarterly revenue > of $90.8 billi...

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/

Federico Viticci returns to the show to discuss MacStories’s 15th anniversary, Apple’s upcoming “Let Loose” keynote for new iPad hardware, and more. Sponsored by: Nuts.com : The world�...

https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/04/29/ep-399

Now, don’t get offended, but — you aren’t as good at clocking deepfakes as you think you are. And it’s not just you — nobody’s that good at it. Not your mom , or your bos...

https://l.kolide.co/43vcTaN

Google Security Blog: > In 2023, we prevented 2.28 million policy-violating apps from being > published on Google Play in part thanks to our investment in new and > impr...

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/04/how-we-fought-bad-apps-and-bad-actors-in-2023.html

European Commission press release (italics added): > On 5 September 2023, the Commission designated Apple as a gatekeeper > for its operating system iOS, its browser Safari ...

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_24_2363

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, supporting SSO, SCIM, user management, and RBAC. Recently, WorkOS acquired Wa...

https://workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=q12024

Mark Gurman, in his Power On column for Bloomberg: > Earlier this month, I broke the news that Apple is accelerating its > computer processor upgrades and plans to release t...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-28/apple-rivals-retool-to-compete-with-iphone-and-vision-pro-ios-18-and-ai-details-lvjhucsv

Speaking of fascinating perspectives, here’s David Heinemeier Hansson, who recently switched from Mac, on the Framework 13 laptop: > Those are all the good parts, but there are ple...

https://world.hey.com/dhh/imperfections-create-connections-bc87d630

Paul Thurrott, writing at his eponymous website: > Ultimately, I concluded that this isn’t just about looks, though > that obviously plays a role. Instead, it’s a sum of...

https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/mac-and-macos/301371/apple-macbook-air-15-inch-m3-review

Stephanie Farr, writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer (News+ ): > But his big break came when the downstairs bartender broke a bottle > over an unruly customer’s head (the ...

https://www.inquirer.com/life/mcgillins-olde-ale-house-bartender-john-doyle-celebration-20240426.html

Long story short, if your phone drops out of a plane, hope that it lands on grass.  ★ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=967CHiGqyAA

Chance Miller, reporting for 9to5Mac: > There appears to be an increasingly widespread Apple ID outage of > some sort impacting users tonight. A number of people on social...

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/26/signed-out-of-apple-id-account-problem-password/

Scott Hanselman and Jeff Wilcox, on Microsoft’s Open Source Blog: > Ten years ago, Microsoft released the source for MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 > to the Computer History Museum, an...

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2024/04/25/open-sourcing-ms-dos-4-0/

Brian Heater, writing for TechCrunch: > If there’s one overarching takeaway from last night’s Rabbit R1 > launch event, it’s this: Hardware can be fun again. After a�...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/rabbits-r1-is-a-little-ai-gadget-that-grows-on-you/

WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, supporting SSO, SCIM, user management, and RBAC. Recently, WorkOS acquired Warrant, the Fine Grained Authorization (FGA) service for developer...

https://workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=q12024

While I’m on a follow-up kick today, my item yesterday regarding Ed Zitron’s compelling essay on the corruption of Google Search quality by putting it in the hands of Prabhakar Raghavan, fo...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9027526-we-don-t-make-movies-to-make-money-we-make-money

Another follow-up post, this one regarding my post yesterday regarding how “greasy”-looking keyboard keys are not, in fact, in need of cleaning, but instead are worn away because they’re m...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keycap

It’s downright bizarre to think that come this fall, all iPhone 16 models will sport as much RAM as base model Macs.

https://daringfireball.net/2024/04/base-model_ram_in_apple_devices

Kyle Chayka, writing for The New Yorker: > Two years ago, they both tried Apple’s Screen Time restriction > tool and found it too easy to disable, so the pair decided t...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-dumbphone-boom-is-real

Absolutely scathing dissection of what’s gone wrong at Google Search, by Ed Zitron for his newsletter/blog: > In an interview with FastCompany’s Harry McCracken from 2018 > , > G...

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

Jeff Gamet on Mastodon: > Know why you can’t clean the greasy spots off your compute > keyboard? Because that isn’t grease. Lots of computer keys are > made from ABS...

https://mastodon.social/@jgamet/112323590880011048

Cristiano Lima-Strong, reporting for The Washington Post: > Congress late Tuesday passed legislation to ban or force a sale of > TikTok, delivering a historic rebuke of the ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/23/tiktok-ban-senate-vote-sale-biden/

Apple Newsroom: > Following its critically acclaimed fourth season, which has been > praised as “the best-written show on all of television” and > “superior sci-fi,�...

https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2024/04/apple-renews-globally-acclaimed-hit-space-drama-for-all-mankind-for-season-five-and-announces-new-spinoff-series-star-city/

Bertrand Serlet — who was Apple’s SVP of software engineering from 2003–2011 and a staple during WWDC keynotes during that era — is now a YouTuber. Great 30-minute lecture explai...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwtyIDmhxh4

The FTC: > Today, the Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule >  > to promote competition by banning noncompetes nationwide, protecting > the fundamental freedom of ...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

Happy ending to this saga . Remarkable engineering.  ★ 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

Adam Engst, writing at TidBITS: > This one is way too close to home. News started to spread this > morning on the MacAdmins Slack, Rich Trouton’s Der Flounder blog > ,...

https://tidbits.com/2024/04/22/take-control-author-charles-edge-dies/

Viola Zhou, reporting for Rest of World on TSMC’s massive, but now much-delayed, chip fabrication campus outside Phoenix: > The American engineers complained of rigid, counterproductiv...

https://restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-arizona-expansion/

Made by Windmill recently launched a fantastic Mac App for GitHub and GitLab issues. When it launched two months ago (and sponsored DF ), it was named Sonar. They’ve changed the name to Taska, ...

https://madebywindmill.com/taska/

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: > Apple has announced it will be holding a special event on Tuesday, > May 7  at 7 a.m. Pacific Time > (10 a.m. Eastern Time), with a live ...

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/23/apple-event-let-loose-may-7/

Stephen Hackett, writing at 512 Pixels: > The backbone of the system would need to accept modules from Apple > and other companies, letting users build what they needed in...

https://512pixels.net/2024/03/apple-jonathan-modular-concept/

Alex Heath, The Verge: > Meta has started licensing the operating system for its Quest > headset >  > to other hardware makers, starting with Lenovo and Asus. It’s also...

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/22/24137284/meta-license-horizon-os-quest-headset-lenovo-asus

Re: my previous item on LLMs being RAM-hungry while iPhones are relatively low on RAM, this certainly isn’t news to Apple. Back in December, a team of eight researchers from Apple published th...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.11514.pdf

Ron Amadeo, writing for Ars Technica on a purported leak of a trio of Pixel 9 phones: > Rozetked says (through translation) that the phone is “similar in > size to the iPhone 1...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/first-real-life-pixel-9-pro-pictures-leak-and-it-has-16gb-of-ram/

My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring last week at DF. The September 2023 MGM hack is one of the most notorious ransomware attacks in recent years. Journalists and cybersecurity experts rushed to r...

https://l.kolide.co/43vcTaN

“*The entire Mac product line is set for annual speed-bump Apple silicon updates*” is, as far I can tell, the actual story. Not “*Mac sales are in the tank and Apple is overhauling the whol...

https://daringfireball.net/2024/04/making_a_mountain_out_of_molehill-sized_m4_news

To sum up my stance: Tracking is wrong when it’s done without consent, and when users have no idea what’s being tracked or how it’s being used. Tracking is fine when it’s done with consen...

https://daringfireball.net/2024/04/face_the_critic_ian_betteridge_edition

Eric Seufert, writing at Mobile Dev Memo, spitballing how Meta might respond if the EU accepts the recommendation from the EDPB that their “Pay or OK” model is illegal: Charge a nominal fee...

https://mobiledevmemo.com/the-edpb-invalidates-metas-use-of-pay-or-okay-what-next/

Noam Bardin: > It is with a heavy heart that I share this sad news with you. > Despite how much we’ve accomplished together, we will be shutting > down Post News w...

https://post.news/@/noam/2fJw4PYRFjya343RpiToiyEQr0x

Aaron Tilley, Liza Lin, and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (News+ ): > Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp and Threads as well as messaging > platforms Signal and Teleg...

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-removes-whatsapp-threads-from-china-app-store-on-government-orders-a0c02100

Joe Fabisevich asked a common question on Threads : > What’s the go to simple USB-C podcast mic that sounds good, but > doesn’t have to be top of the line or super ex...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07ZPBFVKK/?tag=df-amzn-20

David Pierce, writing for The Verge: > Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced substantial internal > reorganizations on Thursday, including the creation of a new team > called �...

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/18/24133881/google-android-pixel-teams-reorg-rick-osterloh

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.

https://daringfireball.net/2024/04/edpb_meta_pay_or_ok

Like the stingy U.S. minimum wage — which was last increased, to $7.25/hour, in 2009 — these tiers ought to be adjusted for “inflation” periodically, but aren’t. If Apple really...

https://daringfireball.net/2024/04/online_photo_storage_is_surely_expensive_but_apple_should_offer_more

On the EU’s share of Apple’s worldwide revenue, and whether, per EC commissioner Thierry Breton, it is “unthinkable” not to serve the 450-million-citizen EU market.

https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/more_on_the_eus_market_might