Daring Fireball
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Joined December 2007
★ Profiles in Cowardice: Owner Jeff Bezos and Publisher William Lewis of The Washington Post https://t.co/zYYpnMRZL5
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Liberal newspapers breaking tradition to not endorse anyone is *worse* than if their owners had forced them to endorse Trump instead.
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★ Consider the Plight of the VC-Backed Privacy Burglars https://t.co/SsORtqUXoK
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The question to ask is, “Is this what users want and expect?” Sometimes it really is that simple. I’m not sure it’s ever worth asking “Is this what growth-hacking VC-backed social-media app makers...
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★ Thoughts and Observations in the Wake of Apple’s ‘It’s Glowtime’ Keynote https://t.co/BoV629hBar
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Keynotes as a proxy for reflecting on Apple as a whole.
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★ The iOS Continental Drift Fun Gap https://t.co/bP8Jf2NUBm
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As it stands, fun side is not the EU. But hope springs eternal.
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★ The Mac Is a Power Tool https://t.co/i57TrOdizz
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The Mac is a platform where you need to be able to shoot yourself in the foot.
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Susan Wojcicki, Former YouTube CEO and Longtime Google Executive, Dies From Cancer at 56 https://t.co/p0yqTGE1Qg
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Link to: https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1822132667959386588
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★ Apple Strikes Deal With Taboola to Sell Ads for Apple News https://t.co/ccETdfgbXH
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So while I don’t think it’s good news that Apple is partnering with Taboola, I don’t expect it to make any discernible difference in the ad quality or frequency.
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Google Is Shutting Down Its URL Shortener, Breaking All Links https://t.co/MslAXGkaft
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Link to: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
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Meta Won’t Bring Future Multimodal AI Models to EU https://t.co/RJ7t8C4aah
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Link to: https://www.axios.com/2024/07/17/meta-future-multimodal-ai-models-eu
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Bug With Widely-Deployed Security Tool CrowdStrike Is Crashing Windows, Causing Widespred Outages Across Many Industries https://t.co/50pZRUW5fe
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Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201717/windows-bsod-crowdstrike-outage-issue
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★ Daring Fireball: Brief Thoughts and Observations on Yesterday’s ‘Let Loose’ iPad Keynote https://t.co/rtklftYzXM
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New iPad Pros and iPad Airs.
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★ European Data Protection Board Goes There, Rules Against Meta’s ‘Pay or OK’ Model https://t.co/NheSkPqJvu
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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.
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★ Apple Adjusts DMA Plan to Offer Direct Downloading of Apps From the Web (With a Big Asterisk), Custom Link-Out Screens, and Marketplaces Solely for the Distribution of the Developer’s Own Apps https://t.co/cizWVOoScc
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I suspect Apple was ready to go from the start with web downloads — they knew the EC *might* demand it — and so they opened their hand January 25 with the compliance plan they hoped would fly, and...
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★ Once More Unto the Apple / Epic / European-Commission Breach, Dear Friends, Once More https://t.co/S1fxKSj9MH
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Although Apple as an institution granted, revoked, and under public pressure reinstated Epic’s new account, from the perspective of Apple leadership, they only revoked a new account that had been...
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Business Insider Report Claims Apple Is Testing an AI-Powered Ads Platform https://t.co/tLQ5dba9MA
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Link to: https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/11/report-apple-testing-ai-powered-ads-platform/
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Steven Spielberg, FineWoven Case Owner, Photographs His Hamburger at an Oscars Party Using an iPhone 15 Pro https://t.co/gq5ERyOGKn
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Link to: https://twitter.com/etnow/status/1767076793696370832
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