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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, December 15, 2015
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple Watch owners to give one as a gift: As Apple Watch enters the critical Christmas shopping season, it looks likely to get a sales boost from happy customers, almost two-thirds of whom plan to give one as a gift, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows." Australian Associated Press 8:40 PM
  • "Apple Continues To Showcase Its Own Apps In The App Store's Top Charts" TechCrunch 3:19 PM
  • "Nuance wants to build the power of Siri into every app: And every smart home product, too" The Verge 7:28 AM
  • "Nuance's voice control going where Siri, Google Now and Cortana fall short" BGR 6:01 PM
  • "Gartner Says By 2018, 50 Percent of Consumers in Mature Markets Will Use Smartphones or Wearables for Mobile Payments" ["However, mobile payments using Near Field Communication (NFC) technology (Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Android Pay) will be limited in the short to midterm due to a lack of partnerships between retailers and financial organizations, as well as consumers seeing little value in such payments."] Gartner 9:12 AM
  • "How Adobe Is Reimagining Photoshop For The Mobile Era" Fast Company 7:29 AM
  • "Apple users complain of pop-up ads telling them to buy a better iPhone" The Verge 7:30 AM
  • "Jeb Bush on the Apple Watch: 'It's not as intuitive as other Apple products'" The Verge 6:19 PM
  • "Jeb Bush says Apple Watch not intuitive, knocks battery life in 'review'" AppleInsider 7:12 PM
  • "Jeb Bush calls Apple Watch unintuitive, lists his favorite iPhone apps in new interview" 9to5Mac 7:19 PM
  • "Enjoy starts sales, white-glove delivery of AirPort routers & fourth-gen Apple TV" AppleInsider 3:18 PM
  • "Avegant taps former Apple Executive Richard Kerris for CMO position at Glyph Launch" Architosh 12:05 PM
  • "Elon Musk: I met Steve Jobs and he was a jerk" Cult of Mac 7:28 AM
  • "Apple wishes retail employees musical holidays with gifts of Beats earphones and Apple Music subscription" 9to5Mac 7:20 AM
  • "Apple is giving its retail employees a 9-month subscription to Apple Music for Christmas" Business Insider 7:35 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "How to End Online Ads Forever: We could easily go ad-free—if we put our money where our mouse is" Scientific American 9:03 PM
  • "Three men arrested in alleged wide-ranging spam operation" IDG News Service 9:03 PM
  • "Slack sets aside $80 million to help developers extend its platform" IDG News Service 9:02 PM
  • "Amazon fail made it look like Microsoft was selling $14,000 stuffed turtles" BGR 7:19 PM
  • "EU countries will be able to stop kids under 16 from using social media without permission" The Verge 4:14 PM
  • "Facebook changes enforcement of harmful real-name policy" Gigaom 3:19 PM
  • "Facebook Makes Changes To Its Real Name Policy Enforcement Process" TechCrunch 3:19 PM
  • "EFF confirms that the DEA has deleted its phone call database: The agency says it purged its collection of international call metadata in January 2015." Engadget 9:55 AM
  • "Considering Windows 10 this holiday? Here's what you need to know" The Verge 9:54 AM
  • "Hackers trace ISIS Twitter accounts back to internet addresses linked to Department of Work and Pensions" Mirror Online UK 8:04 AM
  • "Windows XP spotted on Royal Navy's spanking new aircraft carrier" The Register 7:59 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2015-12-15: Netflix's Streaming Video Changes, Mail Settings Lookup" The Mac Observer 12:05 PM
  • "Let's Talk iOS 113: Are we still talking about a case?" iDownload Blog 7:29 AM
  • "The Talk Show: Ep. 139, With Special Guests Craig Federighi and John Siracusa" Daring Fireball 7:19 AM