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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, May 5, 2019
 

 

 
Apple/Macintosh
  • "Brussels poised to probe Apple over Spotify's fees complaint"  Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 6:14 PM
  • "EU set to investigate Apple over Spotify's competition claims: It reportedly sees enough merit to look into the case." Engadget 6:14 PM
  • "Apple Music EU probe: Spotify gets its wishes" 9to5Mac 8:13 PM
  • "Apple faces a fine as large as $26.6 billion in antitrust probe" phoneArena 8:33 PM
  • "Apple finds wearable 'gimmicks' really count as iPhone slips: As sales of its signature product peak a big change in strategy has emerged in the form of the Apple Watch and AirPod"  The Observer 9:54 AM
  • "Here's why Apple CEO Tim Cook is a 'genius,' says best-selling author of 'Inside Steve's Brain'" CNBC 9:54 AM
  • "Apple says your iPhone could injure you. A repair specialist is appalled: After Apple uses a curious argument to block the Right To Repair Bill, I asked an Apple repair specialist about the dangers of repairing your own iPhone."  ZDNet 12:35 PM
  • "Apple reportedly exaggerating iPhone battery life by up to 51%" Digital Trends 10:00 AM
  • "Apple Warns iPhone Users Not To Answer Apple Support Calls" Forbes 7:51 AM
  • "Apple CEO Tim Cook talks protecting customers' private data, limiting screen time: 'You are not our product'" ["In an exclusive interview, Cook told ABC News' Diane Sawyer that Apple is working hard to promote increased regulation of the use and storage of consumer data, empower parents to control their kids' relationship with devices and enable customers to be more aware of how much time they're spending on their phones."]  ABCNews 5/4
  • "Apple CEO Tim Cook says digital privacy 'has become a crisis'" Business Insider 5/4
  • "Apple's Wearables Business Is Crushing It: This small but fast-growing segment continues to deliver."  Motley Fool 5/4
  • "Your iPhone's battery life isn't as long as Apple says it is, according to a new report" Business Insider 5/4
  • "Apple Is Vastly Exaggerating iPhone Battery Life Claims According To UK Advocacy Group" HotHardware 5/4
  • "A Class Action Lawsuit has been filed against Apple in Illinois Regarding the iPhone 7 issue known as the 'Audio IC Defect'" Patently Apple 5/4
OS X
News
  • "Everything we know about Apple WWDC 2019: The date, how to livestream it and all of the rumors." CNET 5/4
  • "Firefox add-ons disabled en masse after Mozilla certificate issue" ZDNet 5/4
  • "Photoshop, Lightroom $10 plan price to double? Maybe, we're testing it, says Adobe: Adobe looks to cut out its cheapest Creative Cloud Photography plan to replace it with a $20 option." ZDNet 5/3
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
Reviews/How-To/Tips
  • "Elementary Swift: Catching the Actual Error" inessential 3:31 PM
  • "Waterlogue: iOS Favorite Remade for the Mac" eXtensions 12:54 PM
  • "Firefox Extensions Are Broken — Here's What To Do" Forbes 7:57 AM
  • "How to Reverse Image Search with Google Chrome the Easy Way" OS X Daily 11:12 AM
  • "How To Use Network Utility on Mac" macReports 5/4
  • "Final Cut Pro X Comparison Viewer: In this tutorial, I show how I set up and use the Comparison Viewein FCPX." FCPRadio 5/3
  • "Final Cut Friday: Why you should use the 'Checkerboard Player Background' when editing in FCP X [Video] 9to5Mac 5/3
  • "How to backup your Mac computer using Time Machine or iCloud" Business Insider 5/3
  • "How to download and install new fonts on a Mac computer" Business Insider 5/3
  • "How to use password AutoFill in Safari on Mac" 9to5Mac 5/3
  • "How to create relationships for contacts on your Mac" iMore 5/3
  • "How to reset a forgotten Notes password on iOS and Mac" Apple Must 5/3
  • "The Best Mac Anti-Virus Software" MacMost 5/3
Op/Ed
  • "Linus is wrong about Macs being slower than PCs. Here's why."  iMore 5/4
  • "Bad Apple #4: Reminders Stinks at Sorting" TidBITS 5/3
Press Releases
  • "Mozilla releases Firefox 66.0.4 with fix disabled add-ons issue" ZDNet 6:14 PM
General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Tim Cook 'thrilled' Berkshire's Buffett owns Apple stock" FOXBusiness 10:00 AM
  • "With the iPhone SE fading away the iPhone 6S is the best cheap iPhone around" TechRadar UK 9:54 AM
  • "UK government starts accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay" Engadget 8:04 AM
  • "These are the first 35 games coming to Apple Arcade" Apple Must 7:51 AM
  • "Magisk developer John Wu picks up internship at Apple" Android Police 5/4
  • "Amazon Employees Make Off With $100K Worth of Apple Watches" MacTrast 5/4
  • "Photography News: Apple Aperture gets axed while Moment Pro gets new tools" Digital Trends 5/4
  • "Right to Repair Bill Killed After Big Tech Lobbying In Ontario: The bill would have been the first in North America to empower average people to repair their own devices."  Motherboard 5/3
  • "Apple & other tech companies lobby efforts kill Ontario 'Right to Repair' bill" AppleInsider 5/3
  • "Lobbyists for Apple help shoot down another Right to Repair bill" Cult of Mac 5/3
  • "IHS Markit: Apple shipped 43.8M iPhones in Q1, down 16% from 2018/Contradicting controversial smartphone shipment estimates from market research firm IDC, IHS Markit on Thursday released its own set of preliminary figures that fall in line with wider industry expectations. At least as far as Apple is concerned." AppleInsider 5/3
  • "Huawei, the Chinese tech giant embroiled in controversy, just overtook Apple to become the second largest smartphone maker" Business Insider 5/3
  • "Apple's famous design team now has no original members left" AppleInsider 5/3
  • "After the foldable smartphone, get ready for folding smartwatches: As smartphone sales slide, smartwatches continue to rise; could foldable models boost them further?"  ZDNet 5/3
  • "8+ reasons smartwatch users choose Apple Watch" Apple Must 5/3
  • "Facebook's new crypto platform could rival Apple Pay" Engadget 5/3
  • "Apple Exec Lisa Jackson Tweets Support For Paris Climate Change Deal" The Mac Observer 5/3
  • "Accidentally swallowed AirPod still worked, even in a stomach" 9to5Mac 5/3
  • "A man who accidentally swallowed his AirPod found that it still worked after passing through his digestive system: 'The battery was still at 41%'" Business Insider 5/3
  • "Watch: Apple's latest iOS Accessibility guides here" Apple Must 5/3
  • "This Goofy Apple Computer Video From 1987 Has Futuristic Gadgets That We're Still Waiting For" Gizmodo 5/3
Non-Apple News
  • "FCC demands to know if wireless carriers stopped selling location data like they promised" BGR 6:11 PM
  • "Ruthless Hacker Is Hijacking Github Repositories And Demanding Ransom" HotHardware 5/4
  • "Facebook 'labels' posts by hand, posing privacy questions" Reuters 8:54 PM
  • "Facebook Just Gave Repressive Regimes The Ultimate Surveillance Blueprint" Forbes 5:15 PM
  • "Facebook's effort to stop suicides reveals a worrisome gap between Silicon Valley tech companies and healthcare experts" Business Insider 11:14 AM
  • "Facebook Faces a Big Penalty, but Regulators Are Split Over How Big" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5/4
  • "Google Goes iPhone XR With The Pixel 3a — Latest Leaks" Forbes 5/4
  • "California Weighs Limiting Smart Speaker 'Eavesdropping': California state lawmakers seek to force smart speaker vendors such as Amazon and Google to get explicit consent from customers before voice queries are recorded and stored." PC Magazine 5/3
  • "Foxconn chairman's Trump visit shows the political tangle of its Wisconsin project: Now there are two presidential campaigns tied to whatever Foxconn is doing" The Verge 5/3
  • "Google Maps now highlights photos of restaurants' most popular dishes" Engadget 5/3
  • "Google Pixel 3a XL spotted at Best Buy ahead of launch" Engadget 5/3
  • "Robocalls are getting worse. How do we stop them?" The Verge 5/3
  • "Facebook and Instagram are still struggling to shut down videos of the Christchurch mosque massacre" Business Insider 5/3
  • "This password-stealing malware just evolved a new tactic to remain hidden" ZDNet 5/3
Publications/Podcasts
  • "#481: Finder and Its Alternatives/At the heart of the macOS experience is Finder, which is part file manager, part search tool and a whole lot more. Its smiling blue icon boasts many features, and third-party developers have written tools to make it even more powerful for those users who need more." Relay FM: Mac Power Users 5:15 PM
  • "The Dalrymple Report: Parental Controls and Voice Assistants" The Loop 5/4
  • "What's brewing for iOS and macOS [Cult of Mac Magazine No. 295] Cult of Mac 5/4
  • "iMore show 656: iOS Rancho Cucamonga/The iMore show brings you everything you need to know about the week in iPhone, iPad, Watch, TV, Mac, and Apple!" iMore 5/3
  • "9to5Mac Happy Hour 223: Apple earnings, Screen Time App Store controversy, Jony's design lab" 9to5Mac 5/3
  • "Glasses As Health Tracker, TMO Tips – TMO Daily Observations 2019-05-03" The Mac Observer 5/3
  • "9to5Mac Daily: May 3, 2019" 9to5Mac 5/3
  • "Foxconn's Wisconsin adventures, iCloud spy chip allegations fallout, Geert Bevin of Moog, & more on the AppleInsider Podcast" AppleInsider 5/3
Hardware/Software
  • "Kuo: 2019 iPhones to feature redesigned antenna structure with focus on improved indoor navigation" 9to5Mac 11:13 AM
  • "2019 iPhone expected to shift to MPI antenna tech for tech robustness, supply chain advantages" AppleInsider 11:17 AM
  • "Kuo: 2019 iPhones and New iPad Pro Models in Late 2019 to Early 2020 to Adopt New Antenna Technology" MacRumors 12:52 PM
  • "Apple Pay Express Transit set to expand to new card types" 9to5Mac 8:02 AM
  • "Confirmed iOS 13 Features Based on Leaks" iPhone Hacks 7:51 AM
  • "Smartphone battery life claims vs Which? Tests: Apple overstates by 31%/The Which? test labs have been running the numbers on popular mobile phone brand battery life claims - see who delivers less, and more, than promised." Which? 5/3
  • "Apple significantly overstates iPhone battery life"  BetaNews 5/3
  • "Which? accuses Apple of exaggerating iPhone battery life claims: Apple has signficantly overstating iPhone battery life length, according to consumer watchdog Which?" i News 5/3
  • "Apple's Failed Sapphire Glass Supplier GT Advanced Charged With Misleading Investors" MacRumors 5/3
AppleCare/Helps
  • "Unable to Activate, An Update Is Required To Activate Your iPhone, Fix" macReports 8:04 AM
  • "The System Administrator Has Set Policies to Prevent This Installation, Error Fix" ["If you receive this error message on your computer when you attempt to install iTunes for Windows or QuickTime for Windows, here is what you can do. Do not worry, fixing this problem is really simple."] macReports 8:03 AM
  • "Family Sharing is broken, but Apple could easily fix it: With several Family Sharing-enabled services on the way, now is the time for Apple to fix its family payments problem." Macworld 5/3
Price Trackers/Deals
  • "13" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 5/3
  • "13" MacBook Air Prices & Sales" MacPrices 5/3

Reviews/How-To/Tutorials/Tips
Reviews
  • "IOGEAR Quantum Thunderbolt 3 Docking Station Pro 85 (GTD735) for Windows 10 and macOS [Review] BetaNews 6:14 PM
  • "Hands-on: How the Brydge Keyboard for the 2018 iPad Pro compares to Apple's Smart Keyboard Folio" 9to5Mac 8:02 AM
  • "Razer Core X Chroma Review - still the best eGPU for Mac" 9to5Mac 5/3
  • "2019 iMac 27-inch with 580X GPU versus with Pro Vega 48 GPU" Bare Feats 5/3
  • "Thule Crossover 2 review: This battle-tough backpack looks killer, too" Cult of Mac 5/3
  • "WaterField Designs iPad mini Travel Case review: A mini marvel for a mini iPad" Macworld 5/3
  • "Denon D9200 review: the best portable headphones don't come cheap" The Verge 5/3
iOS Apps
  • "500 Days of Duolingo: What You Can (and Can't) Learn From a Language App/Free language learning apps often promise the world — but don't expect fluency from one. Here's what to expect before you sign up." New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5/4
How-To/Tutorial
  • "Here's how to get started with your new Apple TV 4K or Apple TV HD" AppleInsider 8:02 AM
  • "How to Cancel Apple Music Subscription" OS X Daily 5/4
  • "How to use Apple Watch SOS mode in emergencies" Cult of Mac 5/3
  • "How to add bookmarks on an iPad, and sync them across all of your Apple devices" Business Insider 5/3
  • "How to free up space on your iPhone or iPad" Mashable 5/3
  • "How to use Hey Siri to use Google Assistant on iPhone" Computerworld 5/3
Tips
  • "For cellphone batteries, what's the best charging strategy?" Seattle Times 5/4
  • "Useful iOS 12 tips and tricks: Handy iOS 12 tips and tricks to help you master your Apple device" Digital Trends 5/3
  • "The best iPhone speed-up tip is also the worst: I've been testing ways to speed up an old iPhone, and I've come to the conclusion that the best is also the worst." ZDNet 5/3
Analysis/Commentary/Editorial/Opinion
  • "Opinion: Copying Huawei won't make iPhone much better" CGTN 8:33 PM
  • "5 reasons Apple should dump Intel processors [Opinion] Cult of Mac 4:19 PM
  • "Editorial: The new Services - Can Apple Arcade fuel iPhone growth in a slowing smartphone market?"  Roughly Drafted 3:30 PM
  • "Comment: Mouse support in iOS 13 would solve iPad ergonomic issues for me" 9to5Mac 10:01 AM
  • "iOS 13 Wishlist: 10 Major Features We Want to See" iPhone Hacks 9:54 AM
  • "An OS Vendor: Something Apple will never accept, even begrudgingly."  Rixstep 7:52 AM
  • "The New York Times' latest Apple hit piece is embarrassing and downright lazy" BGR 5/4
  • "The smartphone market is in decline, and nothing is coming to save it" Business Insider 5/4
  • "Editorial: The new Services - How will Apple Arcade's exclusivity, privacy affect Android & Google Play?"  AppleInsider 5/4
  • "Why Is Apple Asking for These Documents to Change Address on a Developer Account?"  Kirkville 5/4
  • "Xiaomi takes offense at smartphone estimates off by 2.5M units, Apple doesn't: Xiaomi took the unusual step of reporting its smartphone shipments for the March quarter, which it issued in response to phone shipment data it said was 'inaccurate and unfair, and deviates from our actual performance in terms of shipment of smartphones.' Apple neither reported iPhone units nor took issue with IDC's data, despite its shipments clearly being undercounted by a margin more than twice as large." AppleInsider 5/3
  • "Apple Glasses Could be the Company's Next Health Device" The Mac Observer 5/3
  • "Apple's Explanation for Removing Rival Wellness Apps is 'Misleading'" Thurrott 5/3
  • "The new Services: Apple Arcade plays to win, but what game?"  Roughly Drafted 5/3
  • "Feature Request: Cycling routes in Apple Maps" 9to5Mac 5/3
  • "5 critical features the iPhone needs to keep up with Android" Business Insider 5/3
Non-Apple
  • "A CEO Who Can Write — Part II: Once again, Jeff Bezos writes to his shareholders — and the word at large. It's always a pleasant, clear and, in places, enlightening read — even if this year's vintage tiptoes around a couple of topics." Monday Note 12:52 PM
  • "We are leaving older adults out of the digital world" TechCrunch 10:01 AM
  • "'Game of Thrones' in Silicon Valley: Who tech execs would be in Westeros" Mashable 10:01 AM
  • "Hacker Lexicon: What Is Application Shielding?" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:59 AM
  • "Piper Computer is a great value in teaching coding to students" 9to5Mac 5/4
  • "RFID-blocking products are practically worthless. Here's why" Digital Trends 5/3
  • "Far-right extremists keep evading social media bans: Will Facebook's latest effort to ban Alex Jones be any different?" The Verge 5/3
  • "Android customization: The simple joys of making your phone your own" Android Authority 5/3
Press Releases/Products/Public Relations
  • "Gene Steinberg meets tech pundits Josh Centers of TidBITS and Andrew Orr, of The Mac Observer, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 7:50 AM
  • "Chimera 1.0.4 iOS 12 Jailbreak Update For iPhone XS, XR, iPad Pro Released" Redmond Pie 5/4
  • "Google Fi Now Supports Visual Voicemail on iPhone" Thurrott 5/4
  • "Apple Pay now accepted for payments on some gov.uk services" ITV 5/4
  • "5 AirPod alternatives that almost make the grade" Apple Must 5/3
  • "Toyota Announces 2020 Prius Prime to Include CarPlay Support" MacTrast 5/3
  • "Toyota's 2020 Prius Prime arrives with CarPlay and Alexa" Engadget 5/3
  • "Google's wireless phone service adds Visual Voicemail for iOS" Cult of Mac 5/3
  • "Delivery firm Rappi to enhance 'super-app' with $1bn funding" ZDNet 5/3
Computer Industry
  • "Dell's SupportAssist app had serious security flaws, reveals 17-year-old" Digit 8:16 AM
  • "Dell Reverses Course: Set to Triple AMD EPYC Server Offerings, Support 7nm Rome Chips: Report" Tom's Hardware 8:16 AM
  • "Dell G5 15 (2019): We've been putting Dell's refreshed G5 15 series through its paces." Gamereactor 8:16 AM
  • "Silicon Valley 'Hackathon': Coders target deadly California wildfires/IBM event gathers developers to brainstorm how tech can aid in disaster response" San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required] 8:17 AM
  • "Microsoft's Project xCloud streaming service moves to 'take-home' testing phase: 'Excited to get feedback from our internal teams ahead of public trials later this year.'" Eurogamer 8:18 AM
  • "Microsoft Build 2019 Preview: Edge, Andromeda, and More" LAPTOP Magazine 8:06 AM
  • "Xbox outlines the kind of things you can and cannot say on Xbox Live with its new community standards • Eurogamer.net" Eurogamer 4:21 PM
  • "AMD Seen Facing Huge 20% Stock Swings Amid Earnings" Investopedia 8:03 AM
  • "7nm AMD Navi to Destroy Competing Nvidia GPUs (Latest Rumors)" UltraGamerz 8:17 AM
  • "Quantum computing a step closer to reality" Asia Times 8:17 AM
  • "Dell's pre-installed software left PCs open to hijacking" Engadget 5/4
  • "Have A Dell PC? You Might Want To Secure Yourself Against This Vulnerability" Redmond Pie 5/4
  • "Microsoft says acceptable Xbox Live trash talk includes 'get wrecked' and 'potato aim': Acceptable ways to be angry at online video games" The Verge 5/4
  • "Microsoft Attempts to Clean Up Xbox Live Trash Talk With New Guidelines" Digital Trends 5/4
  • "Lenovo's All-New ThinkBook S Laptops Outed With Intel Whiskey Lake And AMD Radeon 540X" HotHardware 5/4
  • "Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Selling Customers' Location Data: The lawsuits come after a Motherboard investigation showed AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile sold phone location data that ended up with bounty hunters, and The New York Times covered an instance of Verizon selling data." Motherboard 5/4
Finances (Click heading for current Apple Stock price.)
Apple News
  • "How Apple, Amazon and Microsoft Hit $1 Trillion Valuation" [Video] Wall Street Journal 8:02 AM
  • "Buffett says Berkshire is sticking with Apple and he's pleased with latest earnings report" CNBC 5/3
  • "Apple: $300 Is My New Price Target 1 Year From Now" Seeking Alpha 5/3
Industry News
  • "Nasdaq rings up a record to end the week after hotter-than-expected April jobs report: The U.S. generated 263,000 jobs in April, Labor Department data show" MarketWatch 5/3
  • "Stocks Soar, Nasdaq Hits Record Close Following Strong Jobs Report: The Nasdaq hits a record close as lowest jobless rate in nearly 50 years helps put aside investors' concerns about U.S. economy's strength." TheStreet 5/3
  • "Stocks close up on big April jobs report, falling unemployment" FOXBusiness 5/3
  • "U.S. Stocks Climb on Strong Jobs Data: U.S. stocks advanced Friday after data showed the U.S. labor market added more jobs than expected in April." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5/3
  • "Asian markets pull back on Fed's stance, lower expectations for trade deal: Hang Seng slips; indexes in China, Japan closed" MarketWatch 5/3

 
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