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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, May 19, 2019
 

 

 
Apple/Macintosh
  • "How the US-China Trade War Could Hike iPhone Prices"  Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:58 AM
  • "Apple lied to me about the MacBook Air and now we have a problem" ["I've owned perhaps 20 or more Apple products over the years. Not once has any of them started to malfunction in the first six months. Many of them never malfunctioned at all. Yet here is one of Apple's most lauded, stable products — one that I once described as the company's best-ever product — reduced to a pathetic mess by a combination of arrogance and inattention."]  ZDNet 8:10 AM
  • "'Boycott Apple' movement gains new traction in China as US trade dispute continues" 9to5Mac 5/18
  • "Everybody complains Apple isn't innovating, but R&D spending and patents tell a different story"  CNBC 5/17
  • "Apple's entire supply chain could be disrupted by China trade fight"  Yahoo Finance Video 5/17
  • "Tariffs Are Bad for Apple 'Any Way They Slice It'" Barron's [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5/17
  • "The Supreme Court Rules That iPhone Users May Sue Apple for Antitrust Violations" Motley Fool 5/17
  • "'Over the Rainbow' composer's estate sues Apple & others over 'pirated' music sales"  AppleInsider 5/17
  • "Why is privacy-minded Apple putting its new TV app on smart TVs notorious for spying on users?"  Roughly Drafted 5/17
OS X
News
  • "Apple Promotes Music-Making on Mac in New Ad" MacRumors 5/17
  • "Apple's new 'Behind the Mac' ad is all about music-making on the Mac" iDownload Blog 5/17
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
  • "macOS Notes App Using a Ridiculous Amount of Memory" Kirkville 8:03 AM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
  • "Opera Reborn 3: No modern browser is perfect, but this may be as close as it gets/While not as innovative as its mobile brethren, new release closes the gap with Vivaldi." Ars Technica 7:59 AM
  • "Hands On: PDFpen 11 brings Split View and precision page number positioning to the Mac" AppleInsider 7:59 AM
  • "New PDFpen 11 Introduces Split View and Font Bar" TidBITS 6:21 PM
  • "Back to the Mac 013: 2019 iMac – Five takeaways from an iMac Pro user [Video] 9to5Mac 5/18
  • "ACE Protection: Apple took some pains to make sure your root level is secure. You should do the same in your home." Rixstep 5/18
  • "How To Download Zip Files Without Unzipping" macReports 5/18
  • "How to Use Gmail in Basic HTML Mode" OS X Daily 5/18
  • "How To Reduce Bandwidth Usage On Your Mac" macReports 5/17
  • "How to customize the sound quality in iTunes on Mac" iDownload Blog 5/17
  • "PATH_MAX Revisited" Rixstep 5/17
  • "How to mark up email attachments in the Mail app on Mac" iMore 5/17
  • "Figuring Out Why Your MacBook Battery Drains At Night" MacMost 5/17
Op/Ed
  • "Making The Grade: Is macOS really less stable than it used to be?"  9to5Mac 5/18
Press Releases
  • "Cisdem Video Converter for Mac 4.0.0 Updated with Refined Output Profile" prMac 6:43 PM
  • "AutoMile for macOS makes it easy to track your auto mileage" Apple World Today 5/17
General Interest/Potpourri
  • "After Tulane graduation speech, Apple's Tim Cook visits Ellis Marsalis Music Center bearing gifts" New Orleans Advocate 9:28 AM
  • "Tim Cook visits Ellis Marsalis Music Center in New Orleans " 9to5Mac 9:28 AM
  • "Photos: Apple holds Apple Park opening ceromony" 9to5Mac 5/18
  • "Steve Jobs' legacy & Apple Park celebrated by Lady Gaga concert" AppleInsider 5/18
  • "Apple CEO Tim Cook urges college grads to 'push back' against algorithms that promote the 'things you already know, believe, or like'" Business Insider 5/18
  • "Tim Cook talks climate change at Tulane commencement" 9to5Mac 5/18
  • "Apple CEO Tim Cook to the class of 2019: 'My generation has failed you'" CNBC 5/18
  • "7 ways the Apple Watch got this out-of-shape mom of two to finally prioritize herself" Today's Parent 5/18
  • "T-Mobile 'crazy in love' promotion of OnePlus 7 Pro tweeted from iPhone" AppleInsider 5/18
  • "Three big reasons why Americans aren't upgrading their phones: Yes, this has to do with China"  The Verge 5/17
  • "Here are the vehicles and receivers with Apple CarPlay announced in 2018 & 2019: Once an expensive niche option — and still that way in some cases — CarPlay is becoming increasingly common on new cars, trucks, and SUVs, as well as aftermarket receivers. Here's a roundup of the intros in 2018 and 2019, the latest being retroactive upgrades for some Lexus models." AppleInsider 5/17
  • "Apple, Amazon Show Two Faces of India's Quest to Lure Investment" Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5/17
  • "Japan's Seven-Eleven stores will sell Apple's own iPhone accessories" AppleInsider 5/17
  • "How I.M. Pei helped shape Apple — and Steve Jobs' design tastes"  Cult of Mac 5/17
  • "Jony Ive's latest product is the Apple Stage, a giant rainbow under which Lady Gaga is about to play: Apple quietly filled its campus with rainbows today" The Verge 5/17
  • "Apple Park Decorated With Rainbow Colors in Celebration of Steve Jobs and Formal Opening of Campus" MacRumors 5/17
  • "Lady Gaga rumored to be performing at Apple Park opening ceremony" 9to5Mac 5/17
  • "Steve Jobs and Elizabeth Holmes shared this one 'great talent,' says filmmaker Alex Gibney" Yahoo Finance 5/17
  • "Battle royale games rake in $2 billion on mobile alone" Cult of Mac 5/17
  • "Apple's rotten trap: How one mother's determination to gain access to her late husband's digital photos to show their daughter how much he loved her resulted in a tortuous three-year legal battle with the tech giant" Daily Mail (UK) 5/17
Non-Apple News
  • "Hackers turn tables on account hijackers by stealing forum data" Engadget 6:43 PM
  • "Creators of WhatsApp attack software face lawsuit from Amnesty International" Digital Trends 6:16 PM
  • "Report: Google breaks up with Huawei, blocking it from Android apps and services" The Next Web 9:47 PM
  • "Google limits Huawei's access to Android code" Axios 6:21 PM
  • "Huawei has immediately lost access to Android and Google" Android Authority 2:49 PM
  • "Report: Google ceases business w/ Huawei, pulls Play Store" 9to5Google 1:45 PM
  • "Exclusive: Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist - source" Reuters 12:46 PM
  • "Bluetooth's Complexity Has Become a Security Risk" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:44 AM
  • "Why some of the world's top cybersecurity hackers are being paid millions to use their powers for good" CNBC 5/18
  • "AT&T Faces Backlash Over Selling Customer Location Data But Claims It Acted Legally" HotHardware 5/18
  • "Can More Affordable Pixel Resurrect Google's Smartphone Dream?" TechShout 5/18
  • "Gmail logs your purchase history, undermining Google's commitment to privacy" Digital Trends 5/18
  • "This week in tech history: Google Assistant is born" Engadget 5/18
  • "At least 186 EU ISPs use deep-packet inspection to shape traffic, break net neutrality" ["Earlier this week, this group -- made up of 45 entities from 15 countries -- has sent an open letter to EU authorities expressing concerns about European ISPs breaking net neutrality rules, and local regulators ignoring their actions."] ZDNet 5/18
  • "The Use of Cash Dwindles Less Than You May Think" Barron's 5/17
  • "AT&T defends location data sales in newly public letter: But the company says it's stopped doing so anyway" The Verge 5/17
  • "Sheryl Sandberg revealed a new argument to stop regulators from breaking up Facebook" Business Insider 5/17
  • "A smartphone company you've never heard rose to fame by being the opposite of Apple and Samsung. Now it looks like that might be starting to change." Business Insider 5/17
  • "Huge leak might show us Motorola's foldable Razr in action for the first time" BGR 5/17
  • "Google is tracking your purchases through Gmail: Every time a store sends a confirmation to your Gmail account, Google adds it to your list of purchases." CNET 5/17
  • "Google Pixel 4 Leaks Suggest Punch-Hole Selfie Camera and Total Lack of Physical Buttons" MacRumors 5/17
  • "An insider reveals how the nasty spyware used in the WhatsApp breach lets governments secretly access everything in your smartphone, from text messages to the microphone and cameras"  Business Insider 5/17
  • "Americans Show Bipartisan Support for Breaking Up Facebook" PC Magazine 5/17
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Above Avalon Podcast Episode 147: A Faster Bumper Car" Above Avalon 12:45 PM
  • "iMore show 657: Yoga Pants For Your Wrist" iMore 5/18
  • "U.S. iPhone growth lags: How slow can it go? [Cult of Mac Magazine No. 297] Cult of Mac 5/18
  • "9to5Mac Happy Hour 225: iOS 12.3 release, Apple Pay stickers, iPhone XR 2 rumors" 9to5Mac 5/18
  • "Marzipan, iMessage's Social Media Play, WWDC Spoilers, with Andrew Orr – ACM 512" The Mac Observer 5/17
  • "The Dalrymple Report: App Store and Portrait vs Landscape video" The Loop 5/17
  • "9to5Mac Daily: May 17, 2019" 9to5Mac 5/17
  • "Huawei Concerns, Shortcut Inspiration – TMO Daily Observations 2019-05-17" The Mac Observer 5/17
  • "Michael E. Cohen Takes Control of the Many Versions of PDFpen" MacVoices 5/17
  • "Epic disasters: ZombieLoad, WhatsApp, Google 2FA Keys, and Microsoft RDP" Intego Mac Podcast 5/17
  • "Huawei under pressure, pushing down on Intel, ZombieLoad and more on the AppleInsider Podcast" AppleInsider 5/17
Hardware/Software
  • "2019, 2020 MacBook Pro Due For Intel 10nm Upgrades As Computex Nears" Forbes 7:43 AM
  • "Apple invents a Vehicle Radar System that reads Road Signs & Warns of Road Hazards in low visibility Conditions like a Snow Storm" Patently Apple 12:45 PM
  • "Jailbreak iOS 12.3 / 12.2 Update: Patched Exploits To Be Released To Public Soon" Redmond Pie 5/18
  • "Intel MDS Vulnerabilities Force Mac Users To Choose Between Performance And Security" Business Times 5/17
  • "Apple partially fixes Intel chip flaw in Mac PCs and laptops, says full fix may slow down performance by up to 40%" Times of India 5/17
  • "Apple lists Macs it can't patch against 'ZombieLoad' exploits" Cult of Mac 5/17
  • "How AirPods and their case charge: how fast, what gets prioritized (and when), more" iDownload Blog 5/17
AppleCare/Helps
  • "'Why won't my iPhone update?': How to fix any iPhone updating issue, from low storage space to confusing error messages" Business Insider 5/17
Price Trackers/Deals
  • "13" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 5/17
  • "13" MacBook Air Prices & Sales" MacPrices 5/17
  • "12" MacBook Prices & Sales" MacPrices 5/17

Reviews/How-To/Tutorials/Tips
Reviews
  • "The best iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max battery cases" AppleInsider 12:45 PM
  • "OnePlus 7 Pro vs. Galaxy S10e vs. iPhone XR: A selection of flagship killers/Can Apple or Samsung steal the OnePlus 7 Pro's flagship killer title?" Digital Trends 5/18
  • "iPad Pro Keyboard Case Face-Off: Apple vs. Brydge vs. Logitech" LAPTOP Magazine 5/18
  • "Hands-on: ZUGU Muse case for iPad Pro & Apple Pencil [Video] 9to5Mac 5/18
  • "Best iPhone earbuds of 2019" SoundGuys 5/18
  • "5 Best Keyboards for 2019 (Cheap, Gaming, Mechanical)" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5/18
  • "How tough are Apple's MacBook Pro laptops? This is a question I get asked a lot. As it turns out, I got the opportunity the other day to find out just how tough they are. And the answer is, they're pretty rugged." ZDNet 5/17
  • "AMD Radeon VII versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti" Bare Feats 5/17
  • "Urbanista Stockholm review: The Urbanista Stockholm wireless earbuds look like AirPods while costing an awful lot less, but can the quality compare?" Tech Advisor 5/17
  • "Review: The $99 Urbanista Stockholm wireless earbuds get the fundamentals right" The Next Web 5/17
  • "DJI Osmo Action Review: Dual-Screen Action Cam For Selfie Fans" ["While it's nice to control the camera remotely with a larger screen, I find that the controls on the camera itself to be intuitive and simple enough that I generally don't need the app."] Forbes 5/17
  • "Review: 5.11"s AMP24 backpack can take your Mac or iPad into the brush" AppleInsider 5/17
  • "Powerbeats Pro Water Resistance Test: Find Out What Happens if You Drop Apple's Newest Earbuds in the Toilet" MacRumors 5/17
iOS Apps
  • "Discovering Apple TV Channels" TidBITS 5/18
  • "Fiery Feeds Adds iCloud Accounts, Three-Pane iPad View, New Customization Tools, and More" MacStories 5/17
  • "'The Gardens Between' Review – A Short Trip Through Fond Childhood Memories" Touch Arcade 5/17
  • "Hands-on with Minecraft Earth, Microsoft's augmented reality answer to Pokémon Go" GeekWire 5/17
How-To/Tutorial
  • "How to use Google Maps to help someone find you: Share your location in real time, and make meet-ups easier than ever" The Verge 5/18
  • "How to use the Walkie Talkie app on an Apple Watch to quickly chat with your contacts" Business Insider 5/17
  • "How to turn Macs and iPhones into the best and fastest research tools" AppleInsider 5/17
  • "How to Choose the Right Platform to Run Your Smart Home" Gizmodo 5/17
  • "How to delete all the audio recordings that Amazon Echo's Alexa has been making of you" AppleInsider 5/17
  • "Google Docs cheat sheet: Get up and running with Google's powerful online word processing app." Computerworld 5/17
Tips
  • "iPad Multitasking Made Easier with this One Tip" LAPTOP Magazine 8:03 AM
  • "Beginner's guide: How to set up and get started with your new Apple TV/Welcome to the future of TV. It's filled with apps and games on your home's biggest screen. Here's how to use it all." iMore 5/17
  • "Why you sleep through your iPhone's alarm: When you mute your phone before you go to sleep, you might also be muting your alarm. Whoops!" CNET 5/17
Analysis/Commentary/Editorial/Opinion
  • "I wanted to order my breakfast from a waiter not an iPad: Eating is a social pleasure – touchscreens just serve to make it more solitary" The Guardian 11:04 AM
  • "Apple removed a teen's award-winning anti-Trump game 'Bad Hombre' because they can't tell the difference between apps that criticize racism and racist apps" Boing Boing 11:04 AM
  • "Feature Request: How the Siri watch face could be the ultimate complication" 9to5Mac 9:29 AM
  • "Cassandra -Black & White & Dead All Over; Collateral Damage for Apple" eXtensions 8:11 AM
  • "Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life' is 'total crock'" CNBC 5/18
  • "Pitch: Apple should re-launch AirPorts and a range of Apple Home products"  iMore 5/18
  • "3 things brands can learn from Apple's struggle to stay on top: The better you are, the harder it gets" The Next Web 5/18
  • "I'm a loyal iPhone user, but after switching to Android for 2 weeks I found 3 things Google does better than Apple" Business Insider 5/18
  • "How Apple could make the iPhone lock screen more customizable" Business Insider 5/18
  • "Apple ruling opens a can of worms for digital storefronts" GamesIndustry 5/17
  • "Make that Call: Apple's New Purchase Setup Calls Can Help Even Seasoned Vets" The Mac Observer 5/17
  • "This Apple Lens concept is so ugly I can't look away" Cult of Mac 5/17
  • "I've been using Apple products exclusively for 12 years — here are 9 things I realized after giving up Apple for 1 week"  Business Insider 5/17
  • "Three keyboard changes Apple should make—to iOS: The MacBook doesn't have the only keyboard in need of fixing." Macworld 5/17
  • "Amazon, Roku, and Apple TV 'Channels' are a well-intentioned mess: Having all your streaming TV subscriptions in one place is a great idea in theory, but a headache in practice." TechHive 5/17
Non-Apple
  • "Facial Recognition Technology Ban: A Victory for Privacy" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 6:15 PM
  • "Google Wants Your Phone Number — Should You Provide It?" Forbes 7:58 AM
  • "Galaxy Fold's next move will make or break foldable phones/Commentary: There's more at stake than just a simple phone launch." CNET 7:43 AM
  • "Social Media Are Ruining Political Discourse: The endless flow of content doesn't need to make sense to create engagement." The Atlantic 7:42 AM
  • "Yes, there are security ramifications to serverless computing" ZDNet 5/18
  • "You'll Never Guess What Sheryl Sandberg Thinks About This Whole 'Break Up Facebook' Thing" Gizmodo 5/18
  • "Tech destroys the walls between our personal and work lives—I'm fighting to rebuild them" Android Police 5/18
  • "OnePlus 7 Pro vs. Galaxy S10e: Which should you buy?" Android Central 5/18
  • "Amazon Echo Show 6-month review: What I use the screen for" Business Insider 5/18
  • "Who's slowing down fast 5G? Forget America's opposition to Huawei. The real threat to 5G nirvana lies elsewhere. (Hint: Conspiracy theories are involved.)" Computerworld 5/18
Humor/Cartoons
Press Releases/Products/Public Relations
  • "Gene Steinberg meets tech pundits Josh Centers of TidBITS and commentator Peter Cohen, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 7:07 AM
  • "Wallpaper Weekends: Abstract iPhone Wallpapers From the macOS Desktop Pictures Folder" MacTrast 5/18
  • "Pasithea 2 clipboard manager for jailbroken devices gets iOS 11 and 12 support" iDownload Blog 5/18
  • "2018 Lexus Models Get Apple CarPlay Update in Canada, USA" iPhoneinCanada 5/17
  • "'Lemmings with Zombies' Game 'Zombie Night Terror' is Hitting iOS and Android on May 21st" Touch Arcade 5/17
  • "Kenwood Announces 5 Wireless And 2 Wired CarPlay Receivers" Redmond Pie 5/17
  • "7 iPad Music Apps for Making Music on iOS" Apple Gazette 5/17
  • "Minecraft Earth for iOS and Android goes a step beyond Pokémon Go" The Verge 5/17
  • "Minecraft Earth makes the whole real world your very own blocky realm" TechCrunch 5/17
  • "New app lets Face ID iPhone owners make 'music' by waving their hands in the air" 9to5Mac 5/17
  • "Call of Duty Mobile beta coming this week to Android and iOS" 9to5Google 5/17
  • "Most downloaded iOS app was TikTok for the 5th quarter" 9to5Mac 5/17
Computer Industry
  • "Microsoft Admits Updates Are Freezing Windows 10 Computers — Again" Forbes 7:43 AM
  • "Microsoft Borks Windows 10 Update Again As System Restores Won't Boot" HotHardware 6:17 PM
  • "South Korean Government To Give Windows The Boot In Favor Of Linux" HotHardware 6:17 PM
  • "Intel reclaims worldwide semiconductor throne" TechSpot 9:52 PM
  • "AMD Zen 2 EPYC 32 And 64-Core CPU Specs And Benchmarks Leaked On SANDRA" HotHardware 6:17 PM
  • "AMD: Mid-Year Update - Incredibly Strong Performer" Seeking Alpha 7:58 AM
  • "Dell Technologies World attendees promoting STEM education in Las Vegas - Video" ZDNet 9:49 PM
  • "As a tech Cold War looms, this veteran Silicon Valley patent attorney says that China's push to win the AI processor market is a serious threat to American tech" [BI Prime] Business Insider 8:15 AM
  • "How tech companies are shaping the rules governing AI: Industry group urges EU policymakers not to draw 'red lines' around specific uses of AI." Ars Technica 8:00 AM
  • "Hewlett Packard Enterprises Buys America's Most Storied Tech Company" 24/7 Wall St. 5/18
  • "HP's Spectre x360 puts a premium on design and battery life - Video" CNET 5/18
  • "AMD's Data Center Dominance Could Send the Stock Higher" Motley Fool 5/18
  • "Jensen Huang interview — 'the foundations of gaming are just fine, just fantastic'" ["This week, Nvidia reported earnings and revenues that were down compared to a year ago."] VentureBeat 5/18
  • "Exclusive: U.S. may scale back Huawei trade restrictions to help existing customers" Reuters 5/18
  • "US government to limit trade restrictions on Huawei to prevent disruptions" Telegraph 5/18
  • "China Paper Says U.S. 'Fabricated' Forced Tech Transfer Claims: The U.S. 'purely fabricated' accusations that Chinese authorities had been forcing foreign companies to transfer technology, according the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party, saying it was an old argument to suppress the country's development." Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5/18
Finances (Click heading for current Apple Stock price.)
Apple News
  • "Apple shares fall as Instinet cuts stock price target on China trade tensions" MarketWatch 5/17
Industry News
  • "Stocks close lower as trade-related uncertainty overshadows strong data: China hints at hardball tactics on trade" MarketWatch 5/17
  • "Stocks fall in choppy session, despite trade progress" FOXBusiness 5/17
  • "Stocks Lose Steam, Close Lower for the Week: For Dow industrials, a fourth straight week of declines" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5/17
  • "Stocks gain in Japan, but trade tensions weigh on Hong Kong, mainland China: Sony leaps on buyback news" MarketWatch 5/17

 
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