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I unexpectedly find myself defending color
Ben Lovejoy: Unpopular Opinion: iPhone Colors Don’t Matter to Most People
But in all honesty, I could buy any of the colors and it wouldn’t really make any difference. The total time my iPhone remains caseless, with its color visible, is about two minutes per year – between removing it from the box and
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All is Violent, All is Bright (365 Albums)
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I love the pieces, hate the whole
Heatmap News: Is There Really a Working Class Backlash to Biden’s Climate Law?
when voters are asked about the individual provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, including EV subsidies, tax incentives to install solar panels and industry subsidies for wind and solar power generation, they support them by double-digit margins. A recent Washington
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Disney would prefer I see ads
Ben Thompson: Disney Earnings, A Split Disney?, ESPN’s Advertising
Advertising takes away the trade-offs: more customers mean more money, both in terms of increased inventory and also increased leverage on your advertising infrastructure; meanwhile, the lower prices made possible by ads lead to decreased churn. At the same time, the upside for advertising
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The same conversation for a decade
Harry McCracken: Why the iPad Remains a Beautiful Disappointment
All along, we’ve known that Apple wants the iPad to be capable but distinctly different from the Mac. Yet, as the iPad gets more powerful and the Mac gets more modern, it isn’t clear that even Apple has a coherent view of where that
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Two Vines (365 Albums)
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People get to be wrong
I was linked to yet another cringy “this is how ChatGPT has already disrupted every single aspect of our lives” threads on Twitter, and I thought about posting something to Mastodon like:
Twitter should let people automatically block anyone who’s writing “thought leader” threads about ChatGPT if that person was writing these same threads
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Mac gaming should catch up with Linux (yes, Linux)
Liam Dawe: 5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming
Gamers using Linux (be it desktop or Steam Deck) in 2023 are now in a place where they can get excited alongside friends who use Windows or traditional consoles, because they know there's a good probable chance at release that whatever
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Facebook removed news from Canadian's news feeds. It changed nothing
Steve Scherer: Exclusive: Meta's Canada News Ban Fails to Dent Facebook Usage
Daily active users of Facebook and time spent on the app in Canada have stayed roughly unchanged since parent company Meta started blocking news there at the start of August
These "pay to send traffic to someone else" laws
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Gone Now (365 Albums)
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Revolver (365 Albums)
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Let the internet run out
Sometimes I read the last post in my Mastodon feed, and pull to refresh, and there’s nothing new to
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Pieces of the People We Love (365 Albums)
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My baseless predictions for Sony’s upcoming PlayStation Portal
Sony’s upcoming handheld is a device that will exclusively stream games running your PS5. I think it could be good if it works well, but I’m not convinced. Despite that, I have two predictions I wanted to get on paper now, just in case they come true.
1. The Portal doesn’t support
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Hauf/Heim (365 Albums)
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Jason Snell, Travel, and the iPad
Jason Snell: Giving Up the iPad-only Travel Dream
My productivity needs are clearly unlike those of most people, but the truth is that everyone’s got different productivity needs. The problem with the iPad continues to be that as it builds functionality, it has failed to build in flexibility—or at least the flexibility
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I hope this isn’t the “controversy” with this year’s iPhones
Yesterday:
Another rumor today suggests that Apple's standard iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus models are unlikely to enjoy any increase in data transfer speeds following the transition.
Followed by this report today:
Apple may offer a USB-C data transfer accessory cable for iPhone 15 Pro models that is capable of Thunderbolt
