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Twitter DMs are becoming absolutely unusable. If you want to get in touch, send me an email at kif.leswing
@nbcuni
.com or ask for my phone number to set up a secure text thread
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biggest announcement today? the new power brick with 2 usb-c ports.
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I can't believe I'm going to pay $80 for a green LED on my AirPods case
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So Tim, if you want to attach a photo to a text message, the camera roll is in the app strip now. I know, it's annoying
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Some personal news: I'm delighted to be joining the team
@CNBCtech
to cover Apple and hardware. There's never been a better time to cover the fruit company and I'm thrilled to be working with so many great reporters and editors.
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One teen asked Tim Cook to “dab on the haters” today during a q&a at Steve Jobs theater. His answer? “I’m not going to do that.”
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Apple TLDR
iPhone 📈 66%
Services 📈 27%
Mac 📈 70%
iPad 📈 79%
Wearables/Home 📈 24%
Overall sales: 📈 54%
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My mother is currently flying back to US from Incheon airport, in Korea. She says it's unusually empty, although it is early in the morning there
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Apple confirmed leaked iBoot source code is legit in takedown request
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tom brady’s crypto ad on tv shows bitcoin’s price nearly 40% higher than it’s currently trading
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it's just nice to see less fortunate people running up $1000 tabs in the hamptons get a little help from a celebrity. heartwarming story
Jimmy Fallon paid a table's $1,136 restaurant tab just because they didn't bother him during dinner
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The asynchronous hill I'll die on is that Slack and other work chats should be desktop-oriented — not on your phone
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Apple files appeal in Epic Games case, potentially delaying App Store changes for years
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Apple said last month that App Store had paid out $155 billion to developers
Sundar says Android developers around the world have earned a total of $80 billion from Google Play. $goog
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AT&T says it will defer turning on towers near airports.
But the larger 5G network will be turned on tomorrow.
Full statement:
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Craig Wright got called out
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Tim Cook is head of Nike's succession committee, so he definitely knew about this Nike>ServiceNow>SAP CEO musical chairs
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This isn't even really a joke. Apple has bought nearly $500B of its shares in the last decade.
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Nvidia CEO: "Gaming is no longer just gaming. It's infused into sports, e-sports, it's infused into art, infused into social. Gaming has such a large cultural impact, it's the largest form of entertainment."
That's your bull case for Nvidia.
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Every one of these stories should note the amazing rock and roll trivia fact that Dexter Holland has a PhD and he did his thesis on mRNA
The Offspring oust drummer Pete Parada for choosing not to get COVID vaccine:
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can't innovate anymore my
Apple introduces new polishing cloth for all devices, sold separately for $19 by
@parkerortolani
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"Nancy Pelosi called Zoom ‘a Chinese entity,’ but it’s an American company with an American CEO"
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several people are typing
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Apple's $2 trillion value is proof that Tim Cook's services plan worked — as Apple's value has ballooned its PE ratio has also risen to be more like a software company
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SNAP closed at $19.11 per share today, finally recovering from Kylie Jenner's infamous tweet that plunged shares back in 2018
sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me... ugh this is so sad.
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From Apple's App Store guidelines: "Push Notifications ... should not be used for advertising, promotions, or direct marketing purposes"
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Just got my first pitch at kif.leswing
@nbcuni
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Send me tips, rumors, thoughts, ideas, etc!
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Nvidia expects to sell $400 million in cryptocurrency mining chips in the current quarter
These GPUs are best at mining Ethereum
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new macbook airs have a squared off redesign , the black (midnight) is matte
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extreme sports is not a huge market but maybe the soft hands office workers who want to pretend they're outdoorsy IS a massive market
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if it's on social media, why was google invited 🙃
JUST IN from Senate Judiciary Committee: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai and Twitter's Jack Dorsey invited for hearing on data privacy in social media
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Apple's going to close some retail stores in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Arizona. Bad indicator for a smooth return to normalcy ... the company does its homework and follows guidelines
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Lady Gaga called for a "Be Kind" emoji at a concert at Apple HQ last week 🆒
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Well here's an Apple ad about cooking crack cocaine
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Apple says it's building a new campus and will hire 20,000 new employees
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Been to Moscone for so many tech keynotes and it’s inspiring to see it turned into an efficient vaccine center
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If you were guessing which tech company did a bad news dump during apple launch, it was Uber
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Now that I'm back on Twitter, I'm exclusively going to post retweet bait
That means
1️⃣ Tweets with emojis
🚀 Lists of things that didn't exist 10 years ago
💁 Inspirational "rise and grind" quotes
🍦Quote tweeting big news with "wow" or "this"
🤔.... Profit?
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if you're looking for a solid free google docs replacement, one recommendation i hear a lot is to throw your computers into the bay and head for the mountains
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Interesting analysis about Apple's go-to market for glasses
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brb AIM. brb forever
All good things come to an end. On Dec 15, we'll bid farewell to AIM. Thank you to all our users!
#AIMemories
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The midnight green iPhone 11 Pro is very subtle not very green. Think it would work for any space grey fan
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Apple is officially working on 5G, here's the story
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REVEALED: This is what secretive billion-dollar startup Magic Leap has been working on
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@MattZeitlin
Chipotle moved from a locally-sourced strategy to Big Restaurant Supply for everything in 2015, after the stock price fell, leading to an actual hedonic decrease in taste, quality and utility
this probably wasn't captured in CPI
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kind of disingenuous to say Infowars has been banned by Apple when the "Infowars Official" app is autosuggested in App Store, a much bigger platform than iTunes Podcast Directory
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Apple's board certainly seems happy with Tim Cook.
They've approved a new stock grant through 2025 that will net him over 1 million AAPL shares if everything goes well — worth $114 million at today's closing price
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Elon Musk made a $197 million bet he could help Australia's energy issues
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says that he doesn't expect the semiconductor shortage to end until 2023
"We're in the worst of it now, every quarter next year we'll get incrementally better, but they're not going to have supply-demand balance until 2023"
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all the fleece companies came together to stop advertising on one web site during the summer
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Apple predicts more climate change disasters could increase iPhone demand
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This is the ideal iPhone battery. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
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Facebook's Bosworth says glasses with cameras will be the norm in 10 years
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Apple has bought about 100 companies in the last 6 years. Here’s what it’s looking for
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It's official: Apple sends out invitations for the new iPad event on October 30
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"Some fans, however, were disappointed that the box set excludes Weezer’s other album, Pinkerton."
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It's true, you can now rent and purchase movies on Amazon Prime Video for iPhone using your card on file with Amazon. It's a small but important change.
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where are we? what the hell is going on?
Grammy Award-winning musician Imogen Heap is using ethereum and the Harry Potter musical to fund her blockchain project
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sundar stalks around the stage, looks into the camera. "and one more thing: we're bringing google reader back" the crowd celebrates so hard it turns into a riot
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late last year ago i signed up for amazon subscribe and save for toilet paper and forgot to cancel it which meant i got a box of toilet paper every two weeks
who's laughing now
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MacBook Pros are strategically important for Apple because programmers can only make iPhone apps on a Mac.
And picky programmers, like those walking the halls of Apple Park, often choose the most powerful machine they can get.
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Who gave SBF/Alameda its original bankroll?
This was the question I've always had.
Really nice scoop
@ReedAlbergotti
@semafor
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iOS 14.8 is out, and it's security fixes, including one that was reported by
@citizenlab
— which said in August that it found zero-click NSO Group attacks on Bahraini activists using current iPhones
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@tomgara
"It’s really, really hard to write a 10,000-word cover story. There are not a lot of journalists in America who can do it."
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