"Apple in 2019: One Analyst's Christmas Wish List/Between trade worries and iPhone sales, it's been a gloomy season for Apple. Wedbush's Dan Ives shares his Christmas wish list for Apple investors." TheStreet 7:35 AM
"Huawei to top Apple's 2018 phone sales as trade war heat builds: Chinese maker to grab second place globally but faces suspicion in key markets" Nikkei 8:24 PM
"Apple, Huawei make gains in Taiwan handset market in November" ["Apple led all others with a 33.6% share in unit shipments, up from 30.4% a month earlier. Samsung ranked second with a 16.7% share, followed by Asustek at 10.4% and Oppo at 8.5%."] DigiTimes 7:51 AM
"Apple in 2019: Expect more focus on enterprise identity, device ownership/Apple has done much in recent years to make it easier for IT admins to deploy, provision and manage all manner of Macs, iPhones and iPads. Here's how it did so, and what's likely to come next." Computerworld 12/24
"Chinese companies rally around Huawei after CFO arrest: Businesses also urge employees to boycott U.S. rival Apple" Nikkei 12/24
"Chinese companies are boycotting Apple to support Huawei" Cult of Mac 12/24
"Apple boycott by Chinese firms supporting Huawei is escalating" AppleInsider 12/24
"Apple admits giving governments access to thousands of iPhones and other devices" The Independent 12/24
"The patent defendant's dilemma in Munich: damned if you do, damned if you don't give up your secrets: The shocking part about last Thursday's Qualcomm v. Apple patent injunction in Munich is not that Qualcomm finally won a case after several trials at which the courts in Mannheim and Munich were rather unconvinced of a valid patent being infringed." Foss Patents 12/24
"People tweeted Apple boss Tim Cook on Christmas Day to ask him for a free iPhone" Metro UK 7:05 PM
"New iPhone activations may have to wait" [Video Report] ABCNews 1:29 PM
"Amazon Echo, Google Home: How Europe fell in love with smart speakers" ["While smart TVs and devices like Google Chromecast, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV will continue to dominate smart home purchases, IDC expects smart speakers will be the second largest category by 2022."] ZDNet 12/24
"Can a Smarter Siri Threaten AMZN, GOOGL in Smart Speaker Race?" Zacks 12/24
"Is the Apple Watch Causing a Run on Emergency Rooms?" The Motley Fool 12/24
"Apple thanked for 'removing anti-gay app'" BBC 12/24
"Apple removes alleged gay conversion therapy app from App Store" Cult of Mac 12/24
"Facebook Tops the List of Least-Trusted Tech Companies: Facebook is by far the company consumers trust least with their personal data, followed by Amazon and Twitter tying for a very distant second. Uber and Google round out the top five." [Apple with 4% of vote] PC Magazine 12/24
"Crime blotter: AirDrop Cyberflashing rises, iPad theft leads to high-speed chase, and Apple scams large and small" AppleInsider 12/24
"The five coolest tech products that should have arrived in 2018 but didn't" [AirPower] PCWorld 12/24
"HomePod glitter bomb video was partly staged – but without his knowledge, says creator" 9to5Mac 12/24
Non-Apple News
"Are you ready to break up with your phone? Google told me that around 70% of the Android users it spoke to wanted to 'find a better balance' in their tech use." BBC 6:53 PM
"T-Mobile Wins Team Telecom Support for Sprint Merger" Forbes 1:37 PM
"Huawei ships over 200 million handsets in 2018" DigiTimes 7:51 AM
"A hot new Android phone you can't buy just set a Guinness Book record" BGR 7:46 AM
"Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 12/24
"Huawei announces that it's sold over 200 million smartphones in 2018" Neowin 12/24
"Blizzard Reportedly Giving Some Workers A Year's Salary To Quit" HotHardware 12/24
"Headphone jack fans lost out to fullscreen smartphones in 2018: 'So, dear audiophiles, it's time to move on.'" Engadget 12/24
"Chinese draft law would prevent forced technology transfers: It would 'encourage' foreign companies to hand things over, though." Engadget 12/24
"Samsung begins Android Pie rollout for Galaxy S9 in Europe: An early Christmas present for S9 owners" The Verge 12/24
Publications/Podcasts
"The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 238, With Special Guest Jason Snell" Daring Fireball 12/24
"Contacts Are the Root of All Evil – Mac Geek Gab 741" The Mac Observer 12/24
"#225: An Upgrade Christmas Carol/Then it was, as Myke and Jason began their preparations for the Christmas holiday, that they were visited by three ghosts, representing the spirit of Apple past, present, and future." Relay FM: Upgrade 12/24
"Review: Jamie Allan, self-styled 'iMagician,' is really old school" ["I was expecting more stuff with phones and tablets, although Allan has some clever Siri numbers up his sleeve. And one trick that he said was new, involving coin magic with a digital gauze didn't work well for me because the dressing obscured the entree, so to speak. Allan is clearly aware of the danger of digitizing any trick, but also the advantages. It's a fine line."] Chicago Tribune [Free Registration Required] 12/24
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"Launch Center Pro 3.0 Lets You Automate Tasks On iPhone With NFC Tags" Redmond Pie 12/24
"iOS 12.1.3 Beta 2 Vs iOS 12.1.2 16C104 Speed Test" Redmond Pie 12/24
"Two years later, I still miss the headphone port: Two years ago, Applkilled the headphone port. I still haven't forgiven them for it." TechCrunch 8:26 PM
"This $80 smartwatch is better than an Apple Watch Series 4 in four important ways" BGR 7:17 PM
"Commentary: How tech giants are taking over top cities around the world" Channel NewsAsia 7:05 PM
"Ghosts of Christmas present: Spooky stories of other platforms" Macworld 9:20 AM
"Analysis: Microsoft, Google, Apple — why is Amazon the lagging tech giant in the classroom?" GeekWire 12/24
"I switch phones at least 6 times a year — here's how I easily transfer everything from one phone to another" Business Insider 12/24
"What the iPad Pro needs next: It's only a few key steps away from being Apple's killer computer. But when will Apple take those steps?" CNET 12/24
"Analyst lists the 10 things investors want to see AAPL achieve in 2019" 9to5Mac 12/24
"Apple in 2018: Where It Triumphed, And Where It Flopped" Tom's Guide 12/23
"Phones are getting more expensive and we're partly to blame" SlashGear 12/23
"Screen Time upgrades I want in iOS 13" 9to5Mac 12/23
"The Original And The Copycats: The Case Of Facial Identification" Forbes 12/23
"Windows 10 vs. macOS vs. Chrome OS: Why Google Won 2018" LAPTOP Magazine 12/22
"Apple Continues to Defend Bent iPad Pro Design" Thurrott 12/22
"Apple Music VS Spotify: Which should you pay for?" VR Zone 12/22
Non-Apple
"Surface Go with Linux Review: almost the perfect open source notepad" SlashGear 7:16 PM
"Huawei Mate 20 Pro review: The best phone of 2018" Neowin 12/23
"Douglas Adams was right: 'Genuine people personalities' are coming to our gadgets/Who needs Sirius Cybernetics when we have Google and Amazon?" Ars Technica 12/22
"Microsoft Launcher 5.1 is now available for all Android users" WinCentral 6:51 AM
"Microsoft's 2018, part 1: Open source, wobbly Windows and everyone's going to the cloud/The Vulture picks over the remnants of January to June" The Register 6:51 AM
"Microsoft: Better Than All Of FAANG" Seeking Alpha 6:44 AM
"Intel to get 700 million shekel grant for Israel expansion" Reuters 6:49 AM
"Intel receives $185M grant for Israel expansion" Seeking Alpha 6:45 AM
"Microsoft's emergency Internet Explorer patch renders some Lenovo laptops unbootable" BetaNews 12/24
"Microsoft plans new 4K webcams to bring facial recognition to all Windows 10 devices, says report" ZDNet 12/24
"IBM, Amazon and Microsoft to lead the global Alaas market" Innovation Enterprise 12/24
"IBM Research shows how health insights may come from fingernail wearable" Tech Xplore 12/24
"IBM's Debt and Deal Make the Stock a Big Loser Again" Barron's 12/24
"IBM Wants Stock-Drop Ruling Revisited by Full Second Circuit" Bloomberg Law 12/24
"United States : IBM Expands Strategic Partnership with Samsung to Include 7nm Chip Manufacturing" MarketWatch 12/24
"Investors Cool to Dell's Imminent Return to the Public Market" Barron's 12/24
"Intel's New IoT Platform to Aid Companies Trim Freight Loss" Zacks 12/24
"AMD vs Intel: Team Red lead the way in chip innovation in 2018" The Inquirer 12/24
"AMD Will Be Launching The Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs, APUs And A Radeon GPU At CES" WCCFTech 12/24
"Rumored NVIDIA GeForce GTX Turing GPU May Feature 896 CUDA Cores" HotHardware 12/24
"Oracle's NetSuite Cloud Platform Continues to Win More Clients" Market Realist 12/24
"Customers are the gems in Oracle's second-quarter earnings beat" Diginomica 12/24
"VMware tracking stock sinks as Dell readies to go public" Wall Street Journal 12/24
"Hardware Is At Microsoft's Core Says Surface Chief Panay, New Form-Factors Incoming" HotHardware 12/23
"Microsoft's first webcams in years might include Xbox One support: The rumored two models would also support Windows Hello." Engadget 12/23
"Microsoft Launcher 5.1 is now rolling out to all users with Sticky Notes, To-Do, and more" Neowin 12/23
"Bill Gates delivers another epic Secret Santa gift to lucky Reddit user, with help from Hank Green" GeekWire 12/23
"Intel 9th Gen KF iGPU-less Processor Listed" eTeknix 12/23
"Apple: The Standard In A Technological Revolution Has Become Too Cheap" Seeking Alpha 12/24
Industry News
"Japan stocks plunge, other Asia markets fall after US losses" Associated Press 7:45 AM
"Japan's Nikkei tumbles into a bear market after Wall Street's latest slide: Asian markets sink after U.S. stocks drop more than 2%" MarketWatch 7:45 AM
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