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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, August 22, 2016
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple introducing three new positions as part of retail store shake-up" 9to5Mac 6:35 AM
  • "New positions and credo for Apple retail staffers" Retail Dive 9:39 AM
  • "Apple Store updates: design changes, new & renamed positions + ambitious retail credo" iDownload Blog 10:58 AM
  • "Apple reportedly recrafting retail store jobs: One of the new purported positions would take some of the load off the Genius Bar crew, thereby cutting the wait time for customers." CNET 11:38 AM
  • "Apple Still Holds Vast Majority of Smartphone Profit, If a Bit Less, Says Canaccord" Barron's 11:07 AM
  • "Latest Foxconn Worker Deaths Build Case For Apple To Move Operations From China"  Forbes 6:34 AM
  • "Apple investigating deaths of two Foxconn workers amid overtime controversy" 9to5Mac 9:37 AM
  • "Privacy Advocates Cite NSA Hack as Vindication of Apple's Fight With FBI" MacRumors 6:20 AM
  • "Rare Apple I thought to be built by Steve Jobs passes $500,000 at auction" ZDNet 9:38 AM
  • "Rare Apple 1 charity auction bids have already reached $500,000" CNET 6:27 AM
  • "Apple, Xiaomi feel pressure in China by upstarts using bricks and mortar" CNBC 6:36 AM
  • "Samsung tells Galaxy Nexus owners to use Apple Music" Computerworld 8:35 AM
  • "Barbra Streisand fixes Siri with a call to Tim Cook: iOS update coming September 30th, says noted Apple leaker Streisand" The Verge 6:19 AM
  • "Barbra Streisand teaches Siri a lesson" BBC 6:33 AM
  • "The new Streisand Effect: Barbra calls Tim Cook to change Siri's pronunciation" Ars Technica 12:46 PM
  • "Siri will soon pronounce Barbra Streisand's name correctly after she complained to Tim Cook" 9to5Mac 9:01 AM
  • "Apple Announces 2016 Apple Music Festival in London" MacRumors 11:39 AM
  • "Apple just cut the length of its annual Apple Music Festival" Apple Must 12:32 PM
  • "Today in Apple history: FireWire wins Apple its first Emmy" Cult of Mac 9:01 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Xiaomi suits up for a debut on Apple's home turf" China.org.cn 9:38 PM
  • "ARM's new chip design targets high-performance computing" ZDNet 9:01 PM
  • "Google lays out plans to update Android more regularly and frequently: First new Nougat beta build will be distributed in the fall." Ars Technica 5:56 PM
  • "Amazon looks to debut Echo-only streaming music service, undercut industry pricing by half" AppleInsider 9:04 PM
  • "Amazon wants to sell a cheaper music subscription service that will only work on its Echo player: Spotify, Apple Music and everyone else cost $10 a month. Amazon wants to charge half of that." Recode 5:56 PM
  • "Happy 25th birthday, Linux" TechCrunch 4:34 PM
  • "Samsung pulls the plug on Milk Music streaming service: Music service exclusive to recent Galaxy smartphones will shut down next month, the electronics giant says." CNET 9:39 PM
  • "Samsung is planning an Apple-style refurbished phone program" BetaNews 6:19 AM
  • "We can't wait to watch Manbang, the North Korean Netflix" The Daily Dot 6:39 PM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "TMO Background Mode: Interview with Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn" The Mac Observer 4:31 PM
  • "Tonya Engst On macOS Sierra Beta, Keeping Up Or Not, and Hardware Lifespans" MacVoices 3:06 PM
  • "We found a few more reasons why iOS is better than Android. Most of these should not be too surprising." The MT Show 6:10 AM