★ What’s the Deal With Sensor Tower?

The news media so badly wants to know usage data that they just accept Sensor Tower and other such firms’ pronouncements at face value, without ever describing — let alone questioning — how they ostensibly know what they claim to know about very pri…

★ What’s the Deal With Sensor Tower?

The news media so badly wants to know usage data that they just accept Sensor Tower and other such firms’ pronouncements at face value, without ever describing — let alone questioning — how they ostensibly know what they claim to know about very pri…

Android Spyware Maker LetMeSpy Shuts Down After Hacker Deletes Server Data

Where’s My Fainting Couch?

★ Oh to Be a Fly on the Wall During the Conversation Where Elon Musk Asks Tim Cook to Help X Corp Replace iOS as the Bedrock Everything Platform

If Musk were to succeed in building X into an “everything app”, it would implicitly mean usurping the role iOS and Android play today as the everything platforms. Why would Apple help X Corp get started down that path by agreeing to let them conduct…

Flighty 3.0

★ Oh to Be a Fly on the Wall During the Conversation Where Elon Musk Asks Tim Cook to Help X Corp Replace iOS as the Bedrock Everything Platform

If Musk were to succeed in building X into an “everything app”, it would implicitly mean usurping the role iOS and Android play today as the everything platforms. Why would Apple help X Corp get started down that path by agreeing to let them conduct…

Apple Q3 2023 Results

Apple Card’s Savings Account Reached $10 Billion in Deposits

Apple Card’s Savings Account Reached $10 Billion in Deposits

Apple Watch Ultra 2 to Be Available in Dark Titanium, Says Leaker

Arc 1.0

Flighty 3.0

Single-Letter Second-Level Domain Names

Donald Trump Indicted Over Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election

Research Suggests Facebook’s Algorithm Is ‘Influential’ but Doesn’t Necessarily Change Beliefs

Reed Jobs Starts VC Fund Focused on Cancer Treatments

Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia Form Alliance for OpenUSD

Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia Form Alliance for OpenUSD

★ Nobody Uses Threads Anymore, It’s Too Crowded

They use different ranking formulas (and both keep their formulas secret, to thwart attempts to game the rankings), but both the App Store and Play Store have Threads ahead of X. You’d never guess that from this weekend’s “Threads is a bust” headlin…

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