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MacSurfer's Archive: Thursday, May 17, 2018
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Huawei is better than Apple in the eyes of Chinese consumers despite their preference for global companies, new poll reveals"  South China Morning Post 7:08 AM
  • "Huawei beats Apple in China-focused corporate reputation survey" AppleInsider 7:08 AM
  • "Apple brings Everyone Can Code to schools serving blind and deaf students nationwide" Apple 7:46 AM
  • "Apple's Everyone Can Code Curriculum Expanding to Schools Serving Blind and Deaf Students" MacRumors 7:47 AM
  • "Apple.com Updated With Focus on Accessibility Features of iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch, and More" MacRumors 7:27 AM
  • "Apple brings its coding lessons to schools for students who are blind and deaf" TechCrunch 11:04 AM
  • "Apple updates Accessibility pages with great content and more" Apple Must 8:44 AM
  • "Apple and Its Rivals Bet Their Futures on These Men's Dreams: An oral history of artificial intelligence, as told by its godfathers, gadflies, and Justin Trudeau." Bloomberg 8:20 AM
  • "How a cartoonist makes digital art" ["Working with a program I was used to helped me adjust to drawing on an iPad, and adding a matte screen protector from PaperLike made a huge difference. Using an Apple Pencil on the iPad is just way more pleasant now, and it reduces glare."] The Verge 8:18 AM
  • "Global PC sales to hit bottom in 2Q18" ["Meanwhile, Taiwan's Acer and Asustek are losing ground in the market for business-use PCs, failing to compete well with Dell and HP in the US and Europe markets or challenge Lenovo in China. Their PC shipments for the first quarter of 2018 declined 7-13% on year, with their shipment gaps widening further with Apple, now the world's No. 4 PC brand vendor. Austek also estimated its PC shipments for the second quarter to see a 10% sequential fall."] DigiTimes 7:48 AM
  • "Strategy Analytics: Amazon's Global Smart Speaker Share Falls Below 50% in Q1 2018 as Competition Heats Up" Business Wire 2:42 PM
  • "Apple HomePod Shipments Estimated at 600,000 for 1Q18 [Chart] iClarified 2:43 PM
  • "Apple shipped an estimated 600,000 HomePods in the first quarter of the year" The Verge 7:09 PM
  • "Samsung slams iPhone speed in a fun ad that doesn't make much sense/Headscratcher: Samsung doesn't compare the Galaxy S9 to an iPhone X, but an older model." CNET 8:48 AM
  • "Samsung takes a swipe at iPhone 'Batterygate' and notch in new ad" Android Authority 8:54 AM
  • "Apple corrects its IPhone map, stops sending unsuspecting travelers into unfinished tunnel" Iceland Magazine 10:07 AM
  • "Dubai is constructing a building that looks like a giant iPad and has so much technology it acts like 'Iron Man's armor'" Business Insider 7:56 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Google needs to catch up on blockchain before it's too late, this former Google manager says" Business Insider 7:17 PM
  • "Valve's PC game streaming service Steam Link launches in beta on Android" The Verge 7:09 PM
  • "House committee accepts amendment to uphold ZTE ban" TechCrunch 7:08 PM
  • "Facebook's accessibility ambitions" TechCrunch 11:04 AM
  • "More Artists Are Writing Songs in the Key of AI" Wired 10:07 AM
  • "Senate approves resolution to reverse FCC's ending of Net Neutrality" New York Post 7:05 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "9to5Mac Daily 076: May 17, 2018" 9to5Mac 7:14 PM
  • "Getting Ready for WWDC iOS and macOS Betas, App Camp for Girls Fundraiser Concert -TMO Daily Observations 2018-05-17" The Mac Observer 6:57 PM
  • "Full transcript: Dave Patterson and John Hennessy on Recode Decode/The pair won the Turing Prize in 2017 for revolutionizing computer processing by developing RISC." Recode 12:56 PM
  • "187: Sittin' Here With a Bunch of Jazz" The Rebound 10:19 AM