"Apple's Stumbling HomePod Isn't the Hot Seller It Wanted: Inventory is piling up, according to some Apple store workers/Low sales push company to cut orders with manufacturer" Bloomberg 7:07 AM
"Apple Cuts HomePod Manufacturing Orders After Disappointing Sales" [Video Report] Bloomberg 8:38 AM
"Bloomberg: HomePod sales are slow, per suppliers and analysts/Apple's $349 speaker is facing tough competition." Engadget 7:23 AM
"Channel checks, sales data on HomePod likely as wrong as it was about Apple Watch in 2015" AppleInsider 7:25 AM
"China Times Echoes Poor HomePod Sales, Says Apple Has Reduced Orders to 200,000 Per Month" MacRumors 8:18 AM
"Apple's Homepod lags behind Amazon's Echo: CNBC's Josh Lipton reports on Apple Homepod's market share, and what analyst Gene Munster says are its prospects for the future." CNBC Videos 3:11 PM
"Kuo: Apple losing AR lead to low-cost competitors, lack of software innovation to blame" AppleInsider 7:25 AM
"Korean venture calls Apple's Touch ID a copycat" The Investor 7:26 AM
"'Touch ID' Tech Infringement: A Korean Patent Startup Files Lawsuit against Apple, Samsung Electronics" Business Korea 7:26 AM
"Apple Includes 13 New WebKit Features in Safari 11.1" The Mac Observer 5:57 PM
"Mac Owners Will Start Seeing 32-Bit App Warnings Today: Apple is preparing Mac users for the transition to a 64-bit only macOS experience." PC Magazine 7:15 AM
"Apple warns Mac users that 32-bit app support is ending" The Verge 7:30 AM
"New OceanLotus Backdoor Discovered Targeting macOS" Intego 1:33 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Review: CloudMounter for Mac Mounts and Encrypts Cloud Services" The Mac Observer 1:36 PM
"What is the 'not optimized for your Mac' warning message?" Computerworld 6:58 AM
"How to Find & Compare File Differences Side-By-Side with BBEdit for Mac" OS X Daily 3:11 PM
"How to report phishing attempts and other suspicious messages to Apple" 9to5Mac 3:11 PM
"How to read legacy FileVault formats on your Mac: When the impossible becomes possible." Macworld 7:30 AM
"New Reduce File Size Options In Keynote" MacMost 10:20 AM
"How to Set Up Mail VIP Contacts in macOS, iOS 11, and iCloud Mail" MacRumors 7:10 AM
"How to sort folders in the macOS Finder to group together files by their corresponding application" AppleInsider 12:55 PM
"How to customize the Finder toolbar in macOS High Sierra" Apple World Today 7:03 AM
Press Releases
"Introduction: What's New in CLIX 2.4.0.0?" Rixstep 10:36 AM
"If you user colored Finder tags, Hue Dada! is a useful accessory app" Apple World Today 7:04 AM
"The Story of iPhone X's Notch and How It's Influencing Phone Designs" MakeUseOf 4:08 PM
"Cops Around the Country Can Now Unlock iPhones, Records Show: A Motherboard investigation has found that law enforcement agencies across the country have purchased GrayKey, a relatively cheap tool for bypassing the encryption on iPhones, while the FBI pushes again for encryption backdoors." Motherboard 12:56 PM
"Apple Stores relying on in-store contractors to catch up on iPhone battery service backlog" 9to5Mac 12:50 PM
"Google And Apple Lead The Corporate Charge Toward 100% Renewable Energy" Forbes 7:45 AM
"VirnetX Awarded $502.6 Million Jury Verdict Against Apple" PRNewswire 8:40 AM
"Will Apple Pay the $943 Million It Now Owes VirnetX?" 24/7 Wall St. 10:34 AM
"You can't use the Taiwan flag emoji on a Chinese iPhone" Quartz 7:03 AM
"Apple Store Employees to Celebrate Earth Day With Green Shirts Starting This Week" MacRumors 10:42 AM
Non-Apple News
"Survey claims that 9% of Facebook users have deleted their accounts" BGR 5:56 PM
"Amazon completes Ring acquisition, drops price of original video doorbell under $100" GeekWire 10:34 AM
"Google poised to emerge unscathed from European antitrust crackdown" Reuters 11:55 AM
"Google's not-Linux OS documentation cracks box open at last: 'The Book', a first-draft programmer's Fuchsia how-to" The Register 7:45 AM
"Amazon Alexa in Ambulances Acts as Medical Reference Backup" Digital Trends 7:16 AM
"Racism is not against Reddit rules, says CEO" BetaNews 7:16 AM
"Cambridge University hits back at Zuckerberg's shade" TechCrunch 7:54 AM
"Zuckerberg Admits Facebook Collects Data on Non-Users: He doesn't recognize the term 'shadow profiles' and says the data collection is for security purposes." PC Magazine 7:15 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 219, With Special Guest Matthew Panzarino" Daring Fireball 1:33 PM
"32-bit Mac App Support's Demise, Shows We Want Apple to License -TMO Daily Observations 2018-04-12" The Mac Observer 12:21 PM
"9to5Mac Happy Hour 168: Red iPhone 8, 2019 Mac Pro, macOS 64-bit app transition" 9to5Mac 10:24 AM
"Our biggest gripes with Apple's 2018 iPad" AppleInsider 6:37 PM
"iPad review: Significant changes make for the most complete entry-level tablet" Calgary Herald 4:08 PM
"Review: Case-Mate Power Pad Wireless Charger" iLounge 4:06 PM
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"Firefox for iOS now has Tracking Protection enabled by default" SlashGear 9:53 PM
How-To/Tutorial
"How to set up Apple Pay on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or Mac" 9to5Mac 9:50 PM
"How to extract text from JPEG screenshots on iPhone" Cult of Mac 3:10 PM
"Editing RAW Images on an iPad: Photographers who want to leave the bulky laptop at home can edit and save images in the uncompressed RAW format right on Apple's tablet." New York Times [Free Registration Required] 8:53 AM
"How to create blank icons on your iPhone, no jailbreak required" iDownload Blog 7:16 AM
Tips
"tvOS: 2 Siri Remote Shortcuts for the Apple TV" The Mac Observer 12:32 PM
"11 Tips for Working on the iPad" MacStories 10:34 AM
"PC shipments slump for the 14th consecutive quarter, surprising no one: The PC isn't dead, it's just resting" The Inquirer 6:58 AM
"Global PC market's slump continues; HP and Lenovo lead, Dell grows fastest" Gadgets Now 7:08 AM
"Dell And HP Posts Sales Gains As Overall PC Shipments Flat During Q1 2018" HotHardware 5:50 PM
"Global PC shipments continue to fall, but Dell shows encouraging growth: The market isn't looking very healthy" TechSpot 7:09 AM
"Good News! The PC Market Flat-Lined in Q1 (Premium)" [Free/Paid Registration required] Thurrott 9:33 AM
"PCs were more and less expensive in Q1 as shipments stalled: HP and Lenovo are kings of the ever-shrinking hills, but Dell's made a move" The Register 7:53 AM
"'I felt so alone': What women at Microsoft face, and why many leave" Seattle Times 9:58 AM
"3 Ways Microsoft's Ceo Satya Nadella Uses His Passion For Cricket To Shape His Leadership" CMI 8:40 AM
"Windows 10 Spring Creators Update Public Rollout Reportedly Stalled Due To Major Bug" HotHardware 5:51 PM
"Microsoft to announce Build session schedule the week of April 23" Neowin 8:56 PM
"Dell comes to the rescue as IDC and Gartner show a drop in overall PC shipments" MSPoweruser 7:09 AM
"Dell Accidentally Recommends an 8th Gen Intel CPU When Cheating in PUBG" ExtremeTech 5:09 PM
"2 in 1 Laptops Market- increasing demand with Industry Professionals: Dell, Apple, Samsung, Sony" The Financial 7:09 AM
"AMD users running Windows 10 get their Spectre fix" Help Net Security 9:56 AM
"AMD pushes out fix for CPUs affected by Spectre Variant 2: Microcode updates cover products dating as far back as 2011" The Inquirer 6:36 AM
"AMD's RX 500X graphics cards specs show they're actually just OEM rebrands" Rock, Paper, Shotgun 6:59 AM
"AMD's New RX 500X GPUs are OEM Rebrands, Not New Cards" ExtremeTech 10:56 AM
"AMD fortifies years' worth of processors with Spectre mitigating fix" KitGuru 7:29 AM
"Intel Core-B Processors: 8th Gen BGA with 65W TDP" AnandTech 7:30 AM
"Home>Laptops: The Dell Latitude 13 7390 2-in-1 Review" AnandTech 7:09 AM
"Dell XPS 13 9370 (2018) review: A superb small-format laptop, with one drawback" ZDNet 6:58 AM
"HP's new Windows 10 laptops: Pavilion x360s get faster processors, thinner bezels" ZDNet 6:59 AM
"IBM, Slimfast Pull Advertising On Laura Ingraham's Fox Show" Hot Air 9:11 AM
"Technology, industrials and banks lead rally as stocks rise" FOXBusiness 5:54 PM
"US Stocks-Wall St gains on earnings optimism, waning Syria jitters" Nasdaq 5:55 PM
"Stocks Up But Still Face Resistance, As Big Banks Prepare To Report" Investor's Business Daily 5:55 PM
"Stocks Bounce Back, Led by Banks: With earnings season approaching, BlackRock's results raise investor optimism for strong quarterly numbers from financial firms" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5:55 PM
"Asian markets drop amid global uncertainty" MarketWatch 7:38 AM
"European stocks drop as Syria tensions keep traders on edge" MarketWatch 7:38 AM
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