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MacSurfer's Archive: Friday, December 11, 2015
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Revenge Of The Couch Potatoes: TV Viewing Heads Back To The Living Room" ["You can thank Apple in part for the back-to-the-couch trend, because big sales of its Apple TV streaming device last holiday and since then–along with sales of great new TVs from Samsung and others–has prompted more people to watch movies and shows on demand using their cable and satellite TV accounts, according to Tamara Gaffney, principal analyst for the Adobe Digital Index."] Forbes 7:16 AM
  • "The majority of the apps on Apple TV are cheap games" Business Insider 7:01 AM
  • "Google Is Outperforming Microsoft and Apple in Edtech Sector" Market Realist 8:43 AM
  • "Apple advertising iPhone 6s to older iPhone owners through App Store popups" 9to5Mac 6:52 AM
  • "Apple is serving iPhone users with older handsets a pop-up ad asking them to upgrade — and they're not happy about it" Business Insider 9:00 AM
  • "Apple's annoying popup ads prompt iPhone 6s upgrades" AppAdvice 10:15 AM
  • "iOS has 55 percent of the medical app market in terms of dollars" Apple World Today 7:56 AM
  • "A Muslim man was thrown off a train in London for his 'suspicious' iPad use" The Next Web 7:27 AM
  • "Banksy uses Steve Jobs as an example of Syrian immigration at a refugee camp in France" 9to5Mac 9:01 AM
  • "Banksy Mural Taps Steve Jobs's Syrian Heritage to Bring Attention to Refugees in France" The Mac Observer 8:53 PM
  • "The seven best books for Apple aficionados" TechRepublic 6:53 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Some tech toys to inspire a child's imagination" New York Times 9:00 PM
  • "AT&T offers buy-one-get-one-free on iPhone 6s as Apple Watch hits Wal-Mart" AppleInsider 1:44 PM
  • "Google Wallet takes on PayPal with text message money transfers" ZDNet 10:14 AM
  • "Walmart Pay Is Here and These Three Companies Can't Be Happy About It" Re/code 9:16 AM
  • "Adobe: We locked our customers in the cloud and out poured money/Profits double after shift to software subscriptions" The Register 8:45 AM
  • "Bloomberg: Swatch is hoarding smartwatch patents/Watchmaker is believed to be holding 173-plus patents related to smart wearables." Engadget 8:40 AM
  • "Guardian article on cybercrime serves up malvertising" ZDNet 7:28 AM
  • "How fast is Google's quantum computer compared to a PC?" BetaNews 8:16 AM
  • "For Google, Quantum Computing Is Like Learning to Fly" Wired 7:20 AM
  • "Cable providers still have no answer for Netflix as cord-cutting accelerates" BGR 9:00 AM
  • "20% of Households Will Not Have Cable TV in 2018" 24/7 Wall St. 6:43 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Incomparable #276: Don't Drink the Bacta Tea" Six Colors 3:04 PM
  • "Rebound #64: A Wizard in the Backseat" Six Colors 2:51 PM
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2015-12-11: TV's Golden Age, the State of iPad Pro Cases" The Mac Observer 12:49 PM
  • "AppleInsider podcast talks Apple in education, OTT Apple TV service plans, Smart Battery Case, more" AppleInsider 10:16 AM