Apple’s Q4 2019 Results

‘Puts’

Google to Acquire Fitbit for $2.1 Billion

Google to Acquire Fitbit for $2.1 Billion

Jason Snell on Apple’s Drive for Services Revenue

Apple’s Q4 2019 Results

★ Getting Started With Apple TV+ Is Easy and Obvious and Only the Very Last Step, Which Isn’t Related to the Apple TV+ Signup Process in Particular, Made Me Want to Throw My iPhone Against a Wall

It was a simple four-tap process to sign up — fast, easy, and obvious.

★ Getting Started With Apple TV+ Is Easy and Obvious and Only the Very Last Step, Which Isn’t Related to the Apple TV+ Signup Process in Particular, Made Me Want to Throw My iPhone Against a Wall

It was a simple four-tap process to sign up — fast, easy, and obvious.

Shootout: Best Wireless In-Ear Charging Case Lid Sound Competition

iOS 13.2 Is Overzealously Killing Apps in the Background

‘Maintainable Code Is More Important Than Clever Code’

The Talk Show: ‘With Ham I’d Be Better’

iOS 13.2 Is Overzealously Killing Apps in the Background

Google Acquires Fitbit

Rick Osterloh (via MacRumors, Hacker News): Today, we’re announcing that Google has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fitbit, a leading wearables brand.[…]Over the years, Google has made progress with partners in this space with Wear OS…

The Varying Date.distantFuture

Apple: An NSDate object representing a date in the distant future (in terms of centuries). Craig Hockenberry: Date.distantFuture is fixed at “January 1, 4001 at 12:00:00 AM GMT” - that means its timeIntervalSince1970 (currently at 64,092,211,200) wi…

Tylenol Moment for Apple’s Laptop Keyboards

Kev van Zonneveld (Hacker News): Both in terms of productivity and delight I had my best years on Apple and I didn’t think I’d ever look back. But here we are. Why? I (guess I’m the only person alive that) didn’t mind the TouchBar or lack of a real …

The TV App Strategy Tax

Joe Cieplinski: Take a look at the TV app on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV. At first, when I saw the way Apple was mixing and matching all the content from available channels, iTunes rentals, purchases, and streaming services like Prime, I was anno…

Giving Notes on China

Eddy Cue, just a few months ago: There’s never been one note passed from us on scripts, that I can assure you. We leave the folks [alone] who know they’re doing. Alex Kantrowitz and John Paczkowski (via John Gruber, Hacker News): Apple’s recent acti…

Safari Safe Browsing, China, and Privacy

Matthew Green (tweet, Hacker News): It appears that, at least on iOS 13, Apple is sharing some portion of your web browsing history with the Chinese conglomerate Tencent. This is being done as part of Apple’s “Fraudulent Website Warning”, which uses…

Geekiest Show Ever 320 – Cutting Cords and Cutting Costs

After a discussion about the weather (of course) we compare notes about online banking and e-bills. From there we move on to Mike and The post Geekiest Show Ever 320 – Cutting Cords and Cutting Costs appeared first on MyMac.com.

iOS 13.2 Is Overzealously Killing Apps in the Background