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PayPal brings their debit card to Apple Wallet
PayPal Newsroom: Introducing PayPal Everywhere
customers can now add their PayPal Debit Card to Apple Wallet in just a few
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Reeder might be my favorite app in the world, and it kinda got an update
Reeder is out today and Devon Dundee has a great overview over on MacStories. I wanted to call out a
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I’ve heard this story before
Andy Bell: Just Use Fucking Paper, Man
I’ve given up this week and gone back to paper and a
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I found a new fediverse analogy I love
David Imel explaining the fediverse on the latest Waveform video:
Just like the United States is a federation, right? Like
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Straight to jail
Oliver Darcy on his new, excellent Status newsletter: Zucker-Bucks Under Pressure
Notably, Zuckerberg's GOP-friendly behavior comes after Trump
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How dare you want more
Allison Johnson writing for The Verge: European iPhones are more fun now
Whining about stuff is a treasured American pastime,
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“What is a photograph?” is just getting more complicated
Allison Johnson for The Verge: Google’s AI tool helped us add disasters and corpses to our photos
In our
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The “hot” feature people want in the new iPhones
Steven Knight from SellCell: iPhone 16 Pre-Launch Survey: 62% of iPhone Users to Upgrade to iPhone 16
The second rumored
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Everywhere you want to be
Myke Hurley talking about Apple opening the NFC chip to other payment apps on the iPhone during today’s episode
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Shareshot is my new favorite way to share screenshots
Marc Palmer: Launch Day! Shareshot 1.0 Is Live in the App Store 🎉
Today we launched Shareshot! We’ve been
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What is X in 2024?
Casey Newton on Platformer: X Is Just a Political Project Now
The Trump years were characterized by constant (and almost
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Apple opens up NFC to payment apps world wide, not just in the EU
Apple today: Developers can soon offer in‑app NFC transactions using the Secure Element
Starting with iOS 18.1, developers
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It’s bad for consumers and it’s bad for Patreon, but what are you going to do, not ship on iOS?
John Gruber: Nick Heer on Patreon Creators Paying the Full 30 Percent App Store Rate for New Subscriptions
The whole
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Power tools and RSI
John Gruber: The Mac Is a Power Tool
Safety by default, but don’t get in the way of power
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Apple gets its pound of flesh from struggling creators
From the Patron blog today:
As we first announced last year, Apple is requiring that Patreon use their in-app purchasing
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Choose your fighte…billionaire!
M.G. Siegler: A Time to Kill... Xitter
This has all been instituted under the guise of free speech, but
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The opposite of claim chowder
Ezra Klein back in February 2024: Democrats Have a Better Option Than Biden
Everybody I have talked about this, literally
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You thought that was good news? Sucker!
M.G. Siegler on his relatively new Spyglass blog (running on Ghost, which always makes me happy): Apple Introduces Revolutionary