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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, April 20, 2016
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple App Store makes twice the money Google's Play Store does, despite most of the world using Android"  Telegraph 7:59 AM
  • "Apple's Aggressive App Strategy Is Weakening Android" Forbes 8:08 AM
  • "Google and Apple among top employers of Bernie Sanders donors: The tech titans' employees are behind Bernie Sanders, according to campaign donation data." CNET 6:51 AM
  • "FBI Got Useful Information Off San Bernardino iPhone" Fortune 10:32 AM
  • "FBI found no new information on San Bernardino shooter's iPhone" Cult of Mac 7:20 AM
  • "How Apple's early VR experiments accidentally led to RSS" The Register 7:58 AM
  • "700 Million People Just Got Encryption That Congress Can't Touch" Wired 7:02 AM
  • "The Apple Watch Hermès Just Got Way More Affordable" InStyle 10:08 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Tencent, Alibaba Battle for Chinese Office App Users: One focus of the intense rivalry is helping users to separate their work from life" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:02 PM
  • "Get Used to It: Ad Blocking Isn't Going Away Any Time Soon" Wired 3:56 PM
  • "Rich Americans seek black market brain implants in bid to plug into artificial intelligence 'matrix'" Mirror Online UK 11:15 AM
  • "News Sites Start Charging Readers to Comment on Articles: A startup thinks newspapers can profit by getting people to pay to elevate their rants—or advertisements—to the top of the comments section." Bloomberg 11:13 AM
  • "Choosing to Skip the Upgrade and Care for the Gadget You've Got" ["Mr. Lai's behavior might be extreme, but his experience with the Palm Treo illustrates there is another way: If you simply put some maintenance into electronics as you would a car, you can stay happy with your gadgets for years. It is part of a movement of anti-consumerism, or the notion of cherishing what you have rather than incessantly buying new stuff."]  New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 10:13 AM
  • "An independent organization just ranked Google as the best cloud, beating Amazon" Business Insider 4:11 PM
  • "Google is a 'partially dangerous' website, Google says" The Independent 10:09 AM
  • "Is Google.com Dangerous? Not Exactly" PC Magazine 10:08 AM
  • "Google says that YouTube ads are 80% more effective than TV ads" BGR 8:21 AM
  • "EFF sues Justice Department to discover if secret orders are used to decrypt user data"  BetaNews 7:47 AM
  • "Facebook considers letting users add a tip jar to make money from posts"  Re/code 7:20 AM
  • "These New Phones Don't Bother With A Headphone Jack, But They're Not Made By Apple" Digital Trends 6:53 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "ACM 356: Apple Pencil Rants and Raves, Apple's Recycling Program 1 new message since 2:50 PM About" The Mac Observer 6:18 PM
  • "Happy Hour Podcast 063 | New MacBooks, future iPhone rumors and what to expect at WWDC 2016" 9to5Mac 3:19 PM
  • "Clockwise #133: Talk Candidly About Ladies' Pants: Dan and Jason are joined by Kara Platoni and John Moltz to address people who are sad about the MacBook, people who are sad about the iPhone SE, people who are imagining the Apple Car, and people who are sticking technology on and in their bodies." Six Colors 1:55 PM
  • "Podcast 504: New MacBooks and WWDC 2016 dates" Macworld 1:55 PM
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2016-04-20: Why People are Bagging on the New MacBook" The Mac Observer 12:58 PM
  • "Speaking in Tech: Comparing Apples to BlackBerrys and Cooks to Chens" The Register 7:58 AM
  • "Let's Talk Jailbreak 148: Interview with nitoTV developer Kevin Bradley" iDownload Blog 7:17 AM
  • "The Committed Podcast on the WWDC, iPad Pro, and Rob's Trip to Europe (and Shakespeare)" Kirkville 7:16 AM