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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, December 13, 2015
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "iPhone users upset by Apple advertising in App Store" Digital Journal 6:37 AM
  • "Today's Butlers Are Trading Silver Trays for iPads" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 12/12
  • "Revenge Of The Couch Potatoes: TV Viewing Heads Back To The Living Room" ["You can thank Apple in part for the back-to-the-couch trend, because big sales of its Apple TV streaming device last holiday and since then–along with sales of great new TVs from Samsung and others–has prompted more people to watch movies and shows on demand using their cable and satellite TV accounts, according to Tamara Gaffney, principal analyst for the Adobe Digital Index."] Forbes 12/11
  • "The majority of the apps on Apple TV are cheap games" Business Insider 12/11
  • "Google Is Outperforming Microsoft and Apple in Edtech Sector" Market Realist 12/11
  • "Apple advertising iPhone 6s to older iPhone owners through App Store popups" 9to5Mac 12/11
  • "Apple is serving iPhone users with older handsets a pop-up ad asking them to upgrade — and they're not happy about it" Business Insider 12/11
  • "Apple's annoying popup ads prompt iPhone 6s upgrades" AppAdvice 12/11
  • "iOS has 55 percent of the medical app market in terms of dollars" Apple World Today 12/11
  • "A Muslim man was thrown off a train in London for his 'suspicious' iPad use" The Next Web 12/11
  • "Banksy uses Steve Jobs as an example of Syrian immigration at a refugee camp in France" 9to5Mac 12/11
  • "Banksy Mural Taps Steve Jobs's Syrian Heritage to Bring Attention to Refugees in France" The Mac Observer 12/11
  • "The seven best books for Apple aficionados" TechRepublic 12/11
Non-Apple News
  • "Yahoo Investors Tighten Screws: Canyon Capital, SpringOwl lay out varying proposals to slash workforce, replace CEO Mayer, find a buyer" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:04 PM
  • "Disney's crazy 'FaceDirector' software can change actors' emotions in a scene" The Verge 12/12
  • "Some tech toys to inspire a child's imagination" New York Times 12/11
  • "AT&T offers buy-one-get-one-free on iPhone 6s as Apple Watch hits Wal-Mart" AppleInsider 12/11
  • "Google Wallet takes on PayPal with text message money transfers" ZDNet 12/11
  • "Walmart Pay Is Here and These Three Companies Can't Be Happy About It" Re/code 12/11
  • "Adobe: We locked our customers in the cloud and out poured money/Profits double after shift to software subscriptions" The Register 12/11
  • "Bloomberg: Swatch is hoarding smartwatch patents/Watchmaker is believed to be holding 173-plus patents related to smart wearables." Engadget 12/11
  • "Guardian article on cybercrime serves up malvertising" ZDNet 12/11
  • "How fast is Google's quantum computer compared to a PC?" BetaNews 12/11
  • "For Google, Quantum Computing Is Like Learning to Fly" Wired 12/11
  • "Cable providers still have no answer for Netflix as cord-cutting accelerates" BGR 12/11
  • "20% of Households Will Not Have Cable TV in 2018" 24/7 Wall St. 12/11
Publications/Podcasts
  • "MGG 583: Curiosity is Awesome... Unless You're the Cat" The Mac Observer 11:18 AM
  • "Chaos Group Labs Releases 'Virtual Reality Guide'—Helps Pros Venture into VR" Architosh 12/12
  • "iMore show 488: Year in review, part 1" iMore 12/12
  • "Incomparable #276: Don't Drink the Bacta Tea" Six Colors 12/11
  • "Rebound #64: A Wizard in the Backseat" Six Colors 12/11
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2015-12-11: TV's Golden Age, the State of iPad Pro Cases" The Mac Observer 12/11
  • "AppleInsider podcast talks Apple in education, OTT Apple TV service plans, Smart Battery Case, more" AppleInsider 12/11