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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, May 22, 2016
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple Hit with Six-Count Lawsuit over iPad and iPhone Functions" Patently Apple 1:19 PM
  • "Queens Man Stabbed On Subway Over iPhone Upset At Fellow New Yorkers: 'Nobody Helped Me'" Gothamist 5:02 PM
  • "Jony Ive visits Apple Store in Union Square on opening day" VentureBeat 5/21
  • "Live from Apple Store Union Square's grand opening!" iMore 5/21
  • "This $1.5 billion PC gaming company's first US store just upstaged the new Apple Store in San Francisco" Business Insider 5/21
  • "Satan's Credit Card: What The Mark Of The Beast Taught Me About The Future Of Money/Silicon Valley has sold us on a cashless, cardless, walletless, supposedly frictionless future — but as I learned living in it for a month, we're not quite there yet." ["The first thing you'll notice if you ever decide to surrender your wallet is how damn many apps you'll need in order to replace it. You'll need a mobile credit card replacement — Apple Pay or Android Pay — for starters, but you'll also need person-to-person payment apps like Venmo, PayPal, and Square Cash."]  BuzzFeed 5/21
  • "Apple iPhone shipments fall 14% in 1Q16, says Gartner" DigiTimes 5/20
  • "Declining sales and growth of Chinese brands sees iPhone's worldwide market share drop three points" 9to5Mac 5/20
  • "iPhone marketshare dips to 14.8% amid tougher Chinese competition, Gartner says" AppleInsider 5/20
  • "Job listings show up for Brooklyn Apple Store, suggesting opening later this year" 9to5Mac 5/20
  • "Apple's First Retail Store in Brooklyn Confirmed by Job Listings" MacRumors 5/20
  • "Apple begins hiring for long-awaited Brooklyn store, likely opening this year" AppleInsider 5/20
  • "Watch these giant, 42-foot doors open at the crazy new Apple Store" Business Insider 5/20
  • "How a viral Steve Jobs tribute sparked one designer's career" Cult of Mac 5/20
  • "Is This the Most Ridiculous Way to Use an Old iPhone?" Apple Gazette 5/20
Non-Apple News
  • "To halt smartphone slide, Samsung rewrites playbook" Reuters 7:17 PM
  • "Google Maps Driving Mode Is Your Essential In-Car AI" ["For those times when you know where you're going but still want traffic updates, Driving Mode is helpful; it's also useful when you're touring around an area without any particular destination in mind. No word yet if the feature will make its way over to iOS."] Gizmodo 2:39 PM
  • "Google's Project Ara proves LG was right about modular phones" The Next Web 10:50 AM
  • "Your Fitbit Might Not Be As Accurate As You Might Think" Gizmodo 10:50 AM
  • "Google's Science Journal App Turns Your Smartphone Into A Super Convenient STEM Research Tool" HotHardware 5:02 PM
  • "Google's new app lets users conduct scientific research on their phones" The Verge 8:28 AM
  • "Watch us brutally destroy Titan's 'indestructible' USB cable" The Verge 8:27 AM
  • "I downloaded my data from Facebook and found everyone I unfriended in the last 10 years" VentureBeat 6:13 AM
  • "Google's Project Ara Developer Edition Arriving This Year" PC Magazine 5/21
  • "What it's like to be part of the 'rare breed' of people still using Google Glass" Business Insider 5/21
  • "How Google Allo Will Keep Your Messages Safe (and How it Won't): Google unveiled new messaging services Duo and Allo at Google I/O, but how will they stand up to hackers and spies?" PC Magazine 5/21
  • "We tried the electronic Chewbacca mask that became the most viral Facebook Live video ever — here's what it's like" Business Insider 5/21
  • "Chewbacca Mom Viral Video Shatters Facebook Live Records" Digital Trends 5/21
  • "How Beijing Is Using Big Data From Social Media And IoT To Improve Air Pollution Management" Forbes 5/21
  • "Huge new study shows that Google is watching you everywhere you go" BGR 5/20
  • "Exclusive: Levi's And Google's Project Jacquard Launch Wearable Tech Jacket For Urban Cyclists" Forbes 5/20
  • "Techitis: Constantly Using Smartphones Causing Widespread Health Problems" KDKA: CBS Pittsburgh 5/20
  • "Google and Qualcomm put Android Auto in charge of this Maserati" Engadget 5/20
  • "New leak shows Samsung's next iPhone" BGR 5/20
  • "The existential dilemma of a broken smartphone" CNBC 5/20
  • "Flaw Puts a Billion Wireless Mice at Risk" TechNewsWorld 5/20
  • "Bipartisan bill in the Senate joins existing one in the House of Representatives in seeking to limit FBI's powers" 9to5Mac 5/20
  • "Senate introduces bill to limit the FBI's new hacking rules: The Stop Mass Hacking Act would specifically block search warrants for remote computers." Engadget 5/20
  • "Zuckerberg's GOP Meeting Shows a Master Politician in the Making" Wired 5/20
  • "Apple Pay competitor Samsung Pay arrives in China with Alibaba partnership" AppleInsider 5/20
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Gillmor Gang: Rubber Room" TechCrunch 11:04 AM
  • "Union Square Apple Store, Steve Jobs 'word' painting, and more" Cult of Mac 7:52 AM
  • "Apple faces hurdles in 2016: podcast" USA Today 5/21
  • "Podcast: Google I/O, Nokia Phones, Apple in India, Maker Faire" Tech.pinions 5/21
  • "Apple Talk 03: Apple Car as a service, with Horace Dediu" iMore 5/20
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2016-05-20: Senate isn't Hip on FBI Mass Surveillance" The Mac Observer 5/20
  • "Wirelessly charging iPhones plus more whacky stories from the Cult of Mac on The CultCastCult of Mac 5/20
  • "AppleInsider podcast talks the future of HomeKit, hedge funds and AAPL, India, plus 'iPhone 7'" AppleInsider 5/20
  • "How can I ditch my carrier and just use Wi-Fi?" Recode 5/20
  • "Final Cut Pro Radio Show 015: Thomas Grove Carter" FCPRadio 5/20