Adam Engst, TidBITS: In many parts of the US, it has long been possible to make local calls with just the seven-digit phone number; the three-digit area code was implicit for calls between numbers using the same area code. Last year, however, th…
Lees meerNikkei Asia: Contract chipmaking giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. told clients Wednesday that it plans to raise prices on products by as much as 20%, in what would be the company's steepest single increase. And: The price incre…
Lees meerPhilip Elmer-DeWitt, quoting an analyst note: We now estimate that Google’s payments to AAPL to be the default search engine on iOS were ~$10B in FY 20. And: We now forecast that Google’s payments to Apple might be nearly $15B in FY 21. …
Lees meerFollow the headline link for video of a pair of AirPods dangling securely to the front of someone's MacBook screen. I tried this myself, with AirPods Pro on my M1 MacBook Air, though I think my magnet placement was different. Wondering if there wi…
Lees meerIf you've not seen one of these little cuties, take a jump over to the Playdate front page and take a look. Some gorgeous design (thanks to the folks at Teenage Engineering), in a fun yellow package. If this whet your appetite, follow the headline…
Lees meerMark Savage, BBC: Spencer Elden, the man who was photographed as a baby on the album cover for Nirvana's Nevermind, is suing the band alleging sexual exploitation. The cover depicts Elden as a four-month-old in a swimming pool, grasping for…
Lees meerSeattle Times [H/T Rob Devlin]: A passenger’s cellphone caught on fire inside the cabin of an Alaska Airlines flight from New Orleans to Seattle that had landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Monday evening. It was a Samsung Galaxy…
Lees meerThinus Ferreira, TeeVeeTee (via the excellent Overspill blog): Samsung South Africa has announced that it has activated a TV Block Function on all Samsung TV sets stolen during the looting, violence and unrest in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gaute…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Over the last nine months, a great deal of work has gone into discovering just what is in Apple’s M1 chip, and what it all does. As Apple prepares to announce its successor in the next few weeks, I thought it might be worth survey…
Lees meerApple, from August 24th, 2011: Apple’s Board of Directors today announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer, and the Board has named Tim Cook, previously Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, as the company’s new CEO. Jobs has b…
Lees meerSascha Segan, PCMag: The global chipset shortage is hurting the supply of lower-cost Android phones in the US, a new report from Wave7 Research says, with US carrier stores reporting that Samsung and OnePlus are particularly hard hit. "Sour…
Lees meerJuli Clover, MacRumors: Apple appears to be expanding on the native Apple Maps review functionality that it first introduced in iOS 14, allowing Apple Maps users in the United States the option to review places of interest, restaurants, and ot…
Lees meerWhen Apple TV+ launched on November 1, 2019, The Morning Show was the big bet, got a ton of marketing push from Apple. Since then, we've seen a wide array of shows, including the first blockbuster hit, Ted Lasso. The second season of The Morning Sh…
Lees meerDavid Becker, Appleosophy: If you’re a California resident, you now have an easy way to put your vaccine record into the Wallet app on your iPhone. Here's the process: Open CovidWallet.app in Safari on your iPhone Take a pic of your official…
Lees meerNew! BBEdit 14 is still the power tool for text and also offers a new Notes capability plus greatly expanded language support!∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerMark Gurman, Power On: Steve Jobs used to say that consumers don’t know what they want and trust Apple to make decisions for them. And: That way of thinking has helped make Apple one of the most successful companies ever, topping $2 trilli…
Lees meerThis is some fun back and forth between the @AppleTV twitter team, representing Ted Lasso, and the opposition, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, representing the Wrexham AFC soccer team (which they own in real life). Follow the headline link, read …
Lees meerThat's a lot of cheddar. Worth it, no doubt. The handwritten part: Julian, Your generation is the first to grow up with computers. Go change the world! steven jobs, 1980 Interestingly, it was also signed by Apple's angel investor and former C…
Lees meerFollow the headline link, scroll to explore various services. There's the Apple Services ToS, down at the bottom. Note the various grades. Only two "A" grades, one of them for Duck, Duck, Go. If you're on a desktop machine, hover over any of the t…
Lees meerBack in July, I posted about a machine made by ASML, The most important machine in Apple’s universe. From that post: The complex machine is widely acknowledged as necessary for making the most advanced chips, an ability with geopolitical implic…
Lees meerDave is interested in how many devices you have listed in your iCloud account, something he dubbed as your Apple Score. We also talk about the Apple TV+ movie CODA, and Spatial Audio in Netflix. Finally, reports came out this week about a double age…
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