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MacSurfer's Archive: Friday, August 30, 2019
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Army of Women Earning $4 a Day Could Be Behind Your Next iPhone: The world's largest contract manufacturer, Foxconn, is seeking to reduce its reliance on China as Trump's trade war drags on."  Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 10:11 AM
  • "Mobile payments have barely caught on in the US, despite the rise of smartphones" CNBC 8:04 AM
  • "U.S. is still lagging behind other countries on mobile payments" Cult of Mac 8:05 AM
  • "Florida IPhone 4 Users Dial Apple Into FaceTime Suit" Law360 [Paid Membership Required] 10:20 AM
  • "Apple Will Finally Sell iPhone Parts to Repair Shops But Not to You: Apple's new program is progress, but it's still not any easier to fix your own phone." Vice 8:28 AM
  • "Apple is making it easier to get your iPhone fixed at more places" CNN 2:52 PM
  • "Apple Changes Course, Gives Independent Shops Parts for Fixing iPhones" Slate 2:51 PM
  • "What Google, Amazon, and Apple were doing 20 years ago" Mashable 8:10 AM
  • "iPhone 11 Lineup Tipped to Have Familiar Rollout: September 13 Pre-Orders, September 20 Launch" MacRumors 10:12 AM
  • "Apple event 2019: How to watch Tim Cook's iPhone 11 keynote live" Telegraph 8:28 AM
  • "Pixar poster signed by Steve Jobs sells for $31,250 at auction" AppleInsider 8:04 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account has been hacked" The Verge 4:23 PM
  • "Twitter CEO's hacked account sends racist tweets" Reuters 4:23 PM
  • "For Foxit's sake: PDF editor biz breached, users' passwords among stolen data" The Register 1:34 PM
  • "Inside the media industry's struggle to take on Silicon Valley: U.S. news companies are using a playbook from Europe to challenge the online platforms they see as an existential threat." Politico 12:07 PM
  • "Google's progress w/ RCS 'hasn't been sufficient' as rollout prepares to ramp up" 9to5Google 10:09 AM
  • "Hurricane Dorian: Get your tech ready for the coming storm" ZDNet 8:07 AM
  • "Facebook is using Minecraft to build an AI assistant" Business Insider 8:00 AM
  • "Virtual afterlife: 'Hey, Google! Let me talk to my departed father.'" Washington Post 7:48 AM
  • "Sony celebrates 40 years of Walkman in Tokyo" The Verge 7:45 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "The Dalrymple Report: Apple event and Siri privacy" The Loop 1:35 PM
  • "iPhone Hacks, Python, Particle Debris – TMO Daily Observations 2019-08-30" The Mac Observer 1:27 PM
  • "9to5Mac Daily: August 30, 2019 – iPhone 11 design tweaks, more" 9to5Mac 11:27 AM
  • "Confirmed! Catch our Sept. 10th event hardware predictions, this week on The CultCastCult of Mac 8:27 AM
  • "'By Innovation Only' new iPhone event, Apple saves Amazon, Frazier Spiers on the AppleInsider Podcast" AppleInsider 8:04 AM
  • "Gadget Lab Podcast: Why It's So Hard to Unlink Yourself From Facebook" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:59 AM