Amazon to Acquire Roomba Robot Vacuum Maker iRobot for $1.7 Billion

Nikkei: ‘Apple Warns Suppliers to Follow China Rules on “Taiwan” Labeling’

Nikkei: ‘Apple Warns Suppliers to Follow China Rules on “Taiwan” Labeling’

China Fires Missiles Over Taiwan

★ Dropbox Branding and App Store SEO Shenanigans

The App Store should *discourage* SEO nonsense like keyword spamming, not reward it.

Podcast episode 62: Buggy Betas and Apple Cubes

This week's episode of the In the News podcast starts with a discussion of the possibility that iOS 16 will come out sooner than iPad OS 16 and whether this is a good or bad thing. Next, after a brief...

Dropbox Branding and App Store SEO Shenanigans

John Gruber: I quickly determined that this was just the regular Dropbox app. Dropbox has simply renamed it to include “Cloud Photo Storage” in the name for SEO purposes. This apparently works so well, at the moment, that some apps are putting these…

DuckDuckGo Increases Protection From Microsoft Trackers

José Adorno: Starting next week, DuckDuckGo will expand the third-party tracking scripts it blocks from loading on websites to include scripts from Microsoft. This update applies to the iOS and Android apps and browser extensions with beta apps to f…

Apple’s People Team

Matt Drange: In responding to a shareholder proposal for Apple to assess potential risk associated with using NDAs “in the context of harassment, discrimination, and other unlawful acts,” Apple told the SEC that its “policy is to not use such clause…

AMD vs. Intel

Dan Luu: Looks like AMD passed Intel in market cap last Friday, after being fairly close for quite a while.The majority of comments I’ve seen are betting on AMD, but I’d bet, at even odds, ten years from today, the 1-month trailing average market ca…

★ Dropbox Branding and App Store SEO Shenanigans

The App Store should *discourage* SEO nonsense like keyword spamming, not reward it.

★ Dropbox Branding and App Store SEO Shenanigans

The App Store should *discourage* SEO nonsense like keyword spamming, not reward it.

Apple Releases Studio Display Firmware Update to Fix Speaker Issue

Apple Releases Studio Display Firmware Update to Fix Speaker Issue

GitLab to Delete Dormant Projects From Free Accounts

Simon Sharwood: GitLab plans to automatically delete projects if they’ve been inactive for a year and are owned by users of its free tier.The Register has learned that such projects account for up to a quarter of GitLab’s hosting costs, and that the…

iMessage and the Secret Service

Tom Bridge: The Secret Service has lately been in some hot water because they failed to backup the text message (and iMessage?) history of the devices issued to their staff during an MDM transition. I talked some with Jason Snell from Six Colors in …

How Apple Limits VMs

Apple: Learn how you can use the Virtualization framework to quickly create virtual machines on your Mac. We’ll show you how to create a virtual Mac and quickly test changes to your app in an isolated environment. We’ll also explore how you can inst…

Studio Display Firmware Update 15.5 (19F80)

Apple (via Howard Oakley, MacRumors): Resolves an audio issue with Studio Display Are they not able to give it a new version number because there’s no iOS 15.5.1 for phones? Previously: Studio Display Audio Issues Studio Display Firmware 15.5

Fools and Their Money

The L.A. Times: Remembering Dodgers Legend Vin Scully

Examining Slack’s New Free Plan Restrictions and Motivations

Adam Engst: As it stands now, free teams are restricted to being able to see the last 10,000 messages chronologically and access the most recent 5 GB of files. (Compare that to the Pro plan’s unlimited messages and 10 GB of files per user.) A free p…