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“Happy Holidays” is a kindness
'Tis almost the season, so I was happy to stumble on this old post about Fox News’ favorite thing
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This is why major company acquisitions put me on edge
Karl Bode: Everything T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Critics Predicted Has Come True
Gone are the interesting new promotions. Gone is the
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Apple’s leather iPhone cases were great, but problematic. I’m not convinced FineWoven is a great successor yet
Allison Johnson: Apple’s New FineWoven iPhone Cases Are Very Bad - The Verge
But FineWoven is very much not
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The iPhone USB-C “controversies” have already begun, but this one isn’t what you expected
Jeremy Laird: Apple Finally Put USB-C in the New iPhone, and Now We Know Why It's Limited to
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Remember Facebook Mail? I don’t either
From 2010: Jesus Diaz: Why You'll Give Up Gmail for Facebook Mail
According to Techcrunch's sources,
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From 2012: “it’s all downhill from here” for Apple
From 2012: Dan Crow: We've Passed Peak Apple: It's All Downhill From Here
Before we get
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Want a better life? Just say hello to your neighbors 🙃
Dan Witters: Saying Hello Linked to Higher Wellbeing, but With Limits
Americans’ wellbeing score increases steadily by the number of
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Alto’s Task Manager
From 2012: Sarah Perez: Checkmark Brings Better Geofenced Reminders to iPhone, Mac Version in the Works
Checkmark is yet another
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A few words about the Talk Show from 11 years ago
As I alluded to earlier, I’ve been going through some old links I saved years ago. You’ll be
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Basing one’s whole argument on an irrelevant metric
Ted Gioia: Ugly Numbers From Microsoft and ChatGPT Reveal That AI Demand Is Already Shrinking
What’s wrong? Everybody was