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'Tis almost the season, so I was happy to stumble on this old post about Fox News’ favorite thing to get mad about, the fact people just don’t say “merry Christmas” anymore. Here’s Devon Dundee writing "Happy Holidays" Isn't an Insult It’s
Karl Bode: Everything T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Critics Predicted Has Come True Gone are the interesting new promotions. Gone is the amusing ridicule of wireless giants like Verizon and AT&T. Gone is the pseudo-hip trash talking CEO in his magenta sneakers. In its place is a wireless provider that
Allison Johnson: Apple’s New FineWoven iPhone Cases Are Very Bad - The Verge But FineWoven is very much not the premium material that leather is. When I popped the MagSafe wallet out of its box, I could clearly see some places where it was already showing wear along the
Jeremy Laird: Apple Finally Put USB-C in the New iPhone, and Now We Know Why It's Limited to 23-Year-Old USB 2.0 Speeds But the really bad news here is that the USB-C port on the iPhone 15 is still limited to USB 2.0, meaning it tops
From 2010: Jesus Diaz: Why You'll Give Up Gmail for Facebook Mail According to Techcrunch's sources, a full webmail client integrated with The One and Only Social Network will debut next Monday. This is why it may become your favorite webmail service. And: If I were
From 2012: Dan Crow: We've Passed Peak Apple: It's All Downhill From Here Before we get into the quotes, you know from this headline alone that this is going to be a banger. I think in hindsight, we will see that Apple's peak of
Dan Witters: Saying Hello Linked to Higher Wellbeing, but With Limits Americans’ wellbeing score increases steadily by the number of neighbors greeted, from 51.5 among those saying hello to zero neighbors to 64.1 for those greeting six neighbors. No meaningful increase in wellbeing is seen for additional neighbors
From 2012: Sarah Perez: Checkmark Brings Better Geofenced Reminders to iPhone, Mac Version in the Works Checkmark is yet another one of those buzzy iPhone apps which people were talking about, blogging about and raving about, even before it officially launched. And today, it launched. I used Checkmark back when
As I alluded to earlier, I’ve been going through some old links I saved years ago. You’ll be seeing some links here over the next few days commenting on things people wrote in yesteryear. From 2012: John Gruber: A Few Words About the Talk Show A few administrative
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
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
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,
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
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
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