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MacSurfer's Archive: Saturday, May 25, 2019
 

 

 
Apple/Macintosh
  • "Apple facing class action lawsuit over alleged iTunes & Apple Music data sale: Residents of Rhode Island and Michigan lead the suit, which maintains that Apple profits unjustly by releasing what users play in iTunes and on Apple Music to other companies, and also allowing third-party app developers direct access to what tracks are in users' iTunes library." AppleInsider 9:10 AM
  • "Apple accused of selling iTunes customers' data" Bloomberg 7:23 AM
  • "30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web/From the archives: Before the World Wide Web did anything, HyperCard did everything."  Ars Technica 10:41 AM
  • "Editorial: Apple Card invites you to join a premium, private club" AppleInsider 2:46 PM
  • "Apple Accused of Selling ITunes Customers' Listening Data: Apple Inc. was sued by customers who claim the company is unlawfully disclosing and selling information about people's iTunes purchases as well as their personal data, contrary to the company's promise in advertising that 'What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.'"  Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5/24
  • "Exclusive: GameClub will counter Apple Arcade with classic iPhone games/This startup that brings old iPhone games back from the dead is adopting a subscription model, just like Apple's upcoming service."  Fast Company 5/24
  • "Apple Will Now Tell You When It's Going To Throttle Your iPhone" Tech Times 5/24
  • "Apple bought a start-up that was working on monitoring asthma in children" CNBC 5/24
  • "Apple agrees to big flagship store at San Jose's Westfield Valley Fair mall: Multi-level Apple store would anchor expansion of Valley Fair, owner says" San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required] 5/24
  • "Apple's Ex-Retail Chief Brushes Off Criticism, Says 'I Know the Facts'" Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5/24
OS X
News
  • "Expert claims macOS Gatekeeper is 'easily' fooled into allowing malicious apps to be run: Security consultant Filippo Cavallarin has detailed how a user can be tricked into running potentially malicious applications, and says that he's doing so 90 days after informing Apple." AppleInsider 12:01 PM
  • "Safari test points to a future with tracker-free ads" Sophos 5/24
Reviews/How-To/Tips
  • "Scripting a save location within Default Folder X" Six Colors 5/24
  • "How to invert the display colors on your Mac" 9to5Mac 5/24
  • "Change The Perspective Of A Photo" MacMost 5/24
Op/Ed
  • "Drafts and Dropbox redux" Dr. Drang 8:29 AM
  • "Why Microsoft Chromium Edge Browser for Apple a Major Development"  eWeek 5/24
  • "What we won't see at WWDC 2019: What won't make the cut." Macworld 5/24
Press Releases
  • "Cocoatech Releases Path Finder 8.5" prMac 5/24
  • "Microsoft Defender ATP Antivirus Software is now Available for Apple's macOS Platform" MySmartPrice 5/24
  • "EA is giving away The Sims 4 for free on Mac for a limited time" The Apple Post 5/24
  • "Syncro Soft Announces the Release of version 21.1 of the Oxygen XML Suite of Products" Syncro Soft 5/24
General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Tim Cook promotes 'Chronicles of San Francisco' exhibit and iOS app: Apple's Cook has extolled a 'moving masterpiece' by artist JR which is a mural depicting around 1,200 people filmed in San Francisco. The exhibition is accompanied by an exquisite iPhone app." AppleInsider 7:15 PM
  • "Apple Reportedly Snatched Up a Startup Working on an App for Asthma-Tracking" Associated Press 6:33 PM
  • "Apple Acquired Asthma-Monitoring Startup Tueo Health" Thurrott 6:33 PM
  • "Popular iOS game 'Clicker Heroes' pulled from App Store after name theft" AppleInsider 7:14 PM
  • "Apple already the No. 3 smartglasses player without a product, says survey: Digi-Capital and Augmented World Expo dish out a bevy of takeaways in a research report on augmented reality and smartglasses, but they didn't quite expect Apple to be cited as a player even though it doesn't have a product."  ZDNet 5/24
  • "Apple and Intel just dealt Qualcomm a post-settlement blow: EPO revokes patent underlying German fake injunction against iPhone 7 and 8" Foss Patents 5/24
  • "Apple confirms ECG app for smartwatch coming to Canada but timing isn't known: Apple will bring the heart health features of Apple Watch Series 4 to Canada 'as quickly as possible'" Canadian Press 5/24
  • "Apple Watch ECG app officially on its way to Canada" iMore 5/24
  • "Huawei CEO praises iPhone ecosystem, says even bought them for his family" The Indian Express 5/24
  • "Huawei trade ban could hurt Google as well as Apple" 9to5Google 5/24
  • "Second Taiwan Apple store to open soon in Taipei's Xinyi District" AppleInsider 5/24
  • "Taiwan's Second Apple Retail Store Opening Soon in Xinyi District of Taipei" MacRumors 5/24
Non-Apple News
  • "Ransomware attacks in US cities are using a stolen NSA tool: The consequences of NSA code leaks are hitting home." Engadget 2:01 PM
  • "Twitter ousts anti-Trump Krassenstein brothers for 'fake accounts'" CNET 5/24
  • "T-Mobile and Sprint merger could reportedly still get the DOJ's blessing" CNET 5/24
  • "OnePlus 7 Pro In-Display Fingerprint Sensor Hacked In Minutes With Glue" HotHardware 5/24
  • "Huawei is banned from using SD cards in future devices: The company is now barred from the SD Association." Engadget 5/24
  • "47 Democrats cave on net neutrality after GOP calls bill 'dead on arrival': GOP blocking of net neutrality vote rewarded as 47 Democrats ask for compromise." Ars Technica 5/24
  • "Distorted Nancy Pelosi videos show platforms aren't ready to fight dirty campaign tricks: YouTube removed the video, Facebook de-ranked it, and Twitter let it stand" The Verge 5/24
  • "Google bots shut down Baltimore officials' ransomware workaround Gmail accounts: Google automatically suspended accounts after detecting they were from same network." Ars Technica 5/24
  • "YouTubers and record labels are fighting, and record labels keep winning" The Verge 5/24
  • "How bad is Facebook's spam problem? Over 1 million fake accounts are removed every hour" GearBrain 5/24
  • "Best Buy Cancels All Galaxy Fold Pre-Orders: Samsung's fragile folding smartphone looks increasingly unlikely to appear for sale, so Best Buy took the decision to cancels all pre-orders while it waits for new information." PC Magazine 5/24
  • "Galaxy Fold looks uncertain as Best Buy cancels all preorders" Cult of Mac 5/24
  • "Mona Lisa 'brought to life' with deepfake AI" BBC 5/24
Publications/Podcasts
  • "iMore show 658: 'T-key' Lounge/The iMore show brings you everything you need to know about the week in iPhone, iPad, Watch, TV, Mac, and Apple!" iMore 7:30 PM
  • "Mac Hardware at WWDC, AppKit vs. UIKit, Next-Gen Wi-Fi, with John Kheit -ACM 513" The Mac Observer 5/24
  • "Apple Setup Calls, Cricut Escapades – TMO Daily Observations 2019-05-24" The Mac Observer 5/24
  • "The Dalrymple Report: MacBook Pros and The Loop Bash at WWDC" The Loop 5/24
  • "MacVoices #19144: Victor Agreda Compares Pixelmator Pro and Photoshop CC" MacVoices 5/24
  • "Exponent Podcast: An Intra-west Debate" Stratechery 5/24
  • "Vergecast: The T-Mobile and Sprint merger, Apple tweaks the Macbook keyboards, and Huawei vs. Trump" The Verge 5/24
  • "Apple unveils the 8-core MacBook Pro, and our WWDC 2019 predictions, this week on The CultCastCult of Mac 5/24
  • "New MacBook Pro, 2019 iPhone models, Instagram, & Huawei's suffering on the AppleInsider podcast" AppleInsider 5/24
Hardware/Software
  • "Apple iOS 12.3.1 released with fixes for VoLTE bug, issue in Messages: Apple has rolled out iOS 12.3.1 update for iPhone and iPad users. The update brings with it general bug fixes, in addition, to fix for an issue relating to VoLTE calls as well as Messages, and more." The Indian Express 7:23 AM
  • "Apple Confirms Apple Watch ECG Function Coming to Canada 'As Quickly as Possible'" MacTrast 7:07 AM
  • "2020 iPhones May Have Full-Screen Touch ID, New iPhone SE Based on iPhone 8 Also Possible Next Year" MacRumors 5/24
  • "iPhone SE 2 might finally launch next year" Cult of Mac 5/24
  • "It looks like Apple is getting ready to release an all-screen MacBook Pro with a 16-inch OLED" BGR 5/24
  • "2019 MacBook Pro keyboard changes don't look like they're going to do much" AppleInsider 5/24
  • "iFixit: 2019 MacBook Pro butterfly keyboard includes new membrane covers and tweaked dome switch" 9to5Mac 5/24
  • "iFixit Examines Apple's 4th Try at Butterfly Keyboard" ["So. did Apple 'fix' the butterfly keyboard? No, iFixit says. 'The fundamental problem with this laptop remains—if the slightest thing ever goes wrong, you'll be replacing half the machine,' the firm notes. 'Even if the keyboard is perfect this time, you're taking a gamble on everything else.' And it has rated the new MacBook Pro a woeful 1/10—its worst-possible score for repairability."] Thurrott 5/24
  • "That magical super material Apple hopes will hit backspace on its keyboard woes? Nylon" The Register 5/24
  • "iOS 13 concept visualizes many of the features Apple expected to unveil at WWDC" 9to5Mac 5/24
  • "Stunning new video shows off Apple's leaked iPhone 11 design" BGR 5/24
  • "Apple No Longer Signing iOS 12.2 Following Release of iOS 12.3" MacTrast 5/24
  • "Download: iOS 12.3.1 IPSW Links, OTA Update Out, Here's Changelog And Release Notes" Redmond Pie 5/24
  • "Apple releases iOS 12.3.1 with bug fixes for VoLTE and Messages" iDownload Blog 5/24
  • "iOS 12.3.1 for iPhone and iPad is out" ZDNet 5/24
Price Trackers/Deals
  • "15" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 5/24
  • "13" MacBook Pro Prices Prices & Sales" MacPrices 5/24
  • "13" MacBook Air Prices & Sales" MacPrices 5/24

Reviews/How-To/Tutorials/Tips
Reviews
  • "Tested: Apple's updated 2019 MacBook Pro butterfly keyboard" AppleInsider 6:33 PM
  • "Galaxy S10 vs. iPhone XS, Pixel 3: All specs compared/How does Samsung's latest Galaxy S10 stack up against its Apple and Android rivals spec-by-spec?" CNET 7:23 AM
  • "Hands on: 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro with 2.4 GHz i5 processor" AppleInsider 5/24
  • "iPhone XS Max vs. OnePlus 7 Pro" MacRumors 5/24
  • "Apple iPhone XS Max review: Holding strong" Pocket-lint 5/24
  • "Review: 23.7-inch LG UltraFine Display – faster charging, and two Thunderbolt 3 ports [Video] 9to5Mac 5/24
  • "Apple fans get real about the MacBook Air 2018: Readers rate and review the latest Air, from the keyboard to the processor." Engadget 5/24
  • "Fitbit Inspire HR review: One size, many styles, fit all" Macworld 5/24
  • "Review: Creative's Sound BlasterX Katana brings a punch to the desktop" AppleInsider 5/24
How-To/Tutorial
  • "How to replace the RAM in the 27-inch iMac" iMore 8:53 AM
  • "MacBook Pro 15" Touch Bar 2019 Teardown"  iFixit 5/24
  • "How to delete an email account on iPhone, iPad and Mac in Mail" iDownload Blog 5/24
  • "How to use Switch Control on iPhone and iPad" iMore 5/24
  • "How to use a GIF for your iPhone wallpaper" Cult of Mac 5/24
  • "Why iOS offloads apps and how to reinstall them: Apps can be automatically or manually put into a kind of standby mode." Macworld 5/24
Tips
  • "Here are a few ways you can find some pretty great shortcuts for your iPhone and iPad" iDownload Blog 5/24
Analysis/Commentary/Editorial/Opinion
  • "WWDC 2019 Preview: Here's everything we expect to see!"  iMore 8:28 PM
  • "Apple's New Pro Display To Feature HDR, True Tone Technology, Night Shift" Redmond Pie 6:35 PM
  • "2020 iPhones To Have Full-Screen Touch ID, iPhone SE Reboot With iPhone 8 Internals Rumored" Redmond Pie 2:48 PM
  • "2019 iPhones to reportedly drop 3D Touch, 2020 models to bring fullscreen Touch ID" Neowin 7:06 AM
  • "An iOS 13 Wish: A Return of Vibrant Tapdown States" Daring Fireball 5/24
  • "Why Apple Still Has No Faith In Its New Fix Of The MacBook's Keyboard: Analysis" Forbes 5/24
  • "Apple Card is the subscription that pays you to use it. Here's why" Roughly Drafted 5/24
  • "Former Apple retail chief Ahrendts says 'mission accomplished,' denies reported criticisms" AppleInsider 5/24
  • "Angela Ahrendts on Apple Retail Criticism: 'I Don't Read Any of it, and None of it is Based on Fact'" MacRumors 5/24
  • "The Commercial Robot Business Forges Ahead Without Apple" The Mac Observer 5/24
  • "Soon every credit card will be like Apple Card: Apple has been cooking up change with MasterCard and Goldman Sachs"  Computerworld 5/24
  • "11 things my Android phone does way better than your iPhone" ZDNet 5/24
  • "Apple Brings Back Interest To Buy Tesla, Could They Succeed This Time?" China Business Times 5/24
  • "Apple's App Store ads make finding the app you want frustrating: Apple used to pride itself on a creating a streamlined simplicity that made its products an absolute joy to use. But slowly, the move towards wanting to grab more cash is eroding that once pleasant experience."  ZDNet 5/24
Non-Apple
  • "Is the voice assistant on your phone sexist?" BBC 8:37 PM
  • "Lenovo IdeaPad S940 unboxing and first impressions" Neowin 2:02 PM
  • "Maybe the 'Netflix of Gaming' Will Be...Netflix: It might not be into traditional games, yet. But who's to say what is a 'game'?" The Motley Fool 7:22 AM
  • "OnePlus 7 Pro review: Super-charged superphone [Video] 9to5Google 5/24
  • "Google Pixel 3a XL Review: Full-Featured And Affordable" HotHardware 5/24
  • "Huawei is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month — here's what's going on" Business Insider 5/24
  • "Trump's glib approach to Huawei invites nasty unintended consequences" VentureBeat 5/24
Press Releases/Products/Public Relations
  • "Electra Team releases Chimera v1.0.7 with a faster jailbreak process" iDownload Blog 7:22 AM
  • "Pwn20wnd updates unc0ver jailbreak to version 3.1.2 with more bug fixes" iDownload Blog 5/24
  • "Mark Zuckerberg apparently tried to buy Panic, the creator of Playdate" Engadget 5/24
  • "Best Artistic iOS Games in 2019" iMore 5/24
  • "Class Action Update for EB, AAPL and NOK: Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Reminds Investors of Class Actions on Behalf of Shareholders" ["The lawsuit alleges that, during the class period, Apple Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) the U.S.-China trade war had negatively impacted demand for iPhones and Apple's pricing power in greater China, one of Apple's most important growth markets"] AccessWire 5/24
  • "Apple pulls popular iOS game after Chinese company steals its name" Cult of Mac 5/24
  • "Apple Updates the MacBook Pro with Eight-Core Processors; Now Available at B&H" Business Wire 5/24
  • "Benjamin Rivers' 'Worse Than Death' Finally Has a Release Date for iOS with Pre-Orders Now Live" Touch Arcade 5/24
  • "'Dragalia Lost' Just Got a Big Update Allowing Local Co-op Based on Location, Crafting Improvements, UI Fixes, and More" Touch Arcade 5/24
  • "First ever Lego RPG is coming to mobile this fall" Cult of Mac 5/24
  • "Amplify your voice or sing with bluetooth speaker through iPhone" prMac 5/24
Computer Industry
  • "Microsoft's xCloud Capable of Streaming 3,500 Xbox Games: Microsoft is telling game developers porting existing Xbox games to the company's upcoming cloud gaming service will be easy. 'Developers will be able to dramatically scale their existing games across devices, with no additional development,' a company executive said." PC Magazine 7:18 AM
  • "Microsoft's Purple Xbox One S Fortnite Console Leaks" Thurrott 12:01 PM
  • "Get your Excel out of my Visual Studio: tweaked VS Code icons now in preview" Neowin 6:35 PM
  • "How Screwed is Intel without Hyper-Threading?" TechSpot 7:19 AM
  • "Windows 10 May 2019 Update Is Tripping On Some AMD Ryzen PCs, Here's How To Fix It" HotHardware 4:17 PM
  • "AI created through neuroscience" ZDNet 7:18 AM
  • "Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity talent top list of hard-to-find skills" ZDNet 8:32 PM
  • "Microsoft Announces New Windows 10 Password And Encryption Security Defaults" Forbes 5/24
  • "Microsoft rolls out support for tough federal security standards to all U.S. Azure regions ahead of JEDI contract decision" GeekWire 5/24
  • "Headsup for those managing Windows 10 boxen: Microsoft has tweaked patching rules" The Register 5/24
  • "Microsoft is putting the sexy into unsexy software: First it was Windows Terminal, now it's SharePoint" The Verge 5/24
  • "Microsoft reveals xCloud can stream up to 3,500 games from the cloud" The Verge 5/24
  • "HP Inc Earnings: HPQ Stock Is Up as Q2 Earnings Top Expectations" InvestorPlace 5/24
  • "HP Shares Gain After Q2 Earnings Beat, Full Year Guidance Bump: HP shares traded higher Friday after the personal computing group posted stronger-than-expected second quarter earnings and lifted its full-year profit guidance thanks to a steadying printing supplies division." TheStreet 5/24
  • "Hewlett Packard Enterprise is projecting a strong outlook for the rest of the year — but the CEO says that the overall data center market slowdown is his 'biggest worry'" [BI Prime] Business Insider 5/24
  • "HP: Based on our Intel, don't hold your breath waiting for Chipzilla's CPU shortage to end" The Register 5/24
  • "HP Looking To Managed Print Services To Reverse Supplies Dip" CRN 5/24
  • "IBM's AI uses grammar rules to catch linguistic nuances of U.S. English" VentureBeat 5/24
  • "IBM highlights Australia's digital and cyber security potential" Defence Connect 5/24
  • "How IBM helps retailers thrive when the weather changes" Yahoo Finance 5/24
  • "IBM Techscale launches in partnership with YIEDI" IT News Africa 5/24
  • "Lenovo CEO: 'I don't think we have a reason to be targeted'/Lenovo delivered a positive set of financial results for the latest quarter and fiscal year, but a geopolitical cloud hangs over the company." ZDNet 5/24
  • "Intel's Silicon Photonics Work Could Supercharge AI Neural Networks" ExtremeTech 5/24
  • "Intel Launches NUCs With Radeon 540X GPU, Soldered RAM" PC Magazine 5/24
  • "AMD's 3rd Gen Ryzen Is The Most Exciting Processor Launch In A Decade" Forbes 5/24
  • "AMD partner leaks two mid-range Navi GPUs" Engadget 5/24
  • "AMD Scores Big Wins With Ryzen In New Acer Nitro 5 And Swift 3 Notebooks" Forbes 5/24
  • "AMD Ryzen 3000 Zen 2 CPUs Rumored To Support JEDEC DDR4-3200 Memory Spec And Speed" HotHardware 5/24
  • "Here's how to watch AMD reveal its new Ryzen chips at Computex" Digital Trends 5/24
  • "Google and Oracle's $9 Billion 'Copyright Case of the Decade' Could be Headed for the Supreme Court" Newsweek 5/24
Finances (Click heading for current Apple Stock price.)
Apple News
  • "Apple faces 'low likelihood' that its iPhones will be subject to tariffs, says Wedbush" MarketWatch 5/24
Industry News
  • "Hope gives way to worry as stock-market investors reassess U.S.-China trade fight: Investors are facing up to the potential for a protracted fight" MarketWatch 5/24
  • "Dow Ends Modestly Higher; Stocks Edge Up Ahead of Holiday Weekend: Stocks ended higher Friday as Wall Street heads into a long Memorial Day weekend." TheStreet 5/24
  • "Dow Jones Leads As Stock Market Caps Volatile Week With Gains: Key indexes capped a volatile week with modest gains in today's stock market, with the Dow Jones industrials and small caps taking the lead." Investor's Business Daily 5/24
  • "US stocks rebound, but S&P 500 ends with 3rd weekly loss" FOXBusiness 5/24
  • "US stocks end higher heading into holiday weekend but down for week" FOXBusiness 5/24
  • "Dow Industrials Fall for Fifth Straight Week as Trade Dispute Drags On: Treasury yields on Thursday hit their lowest levels since 2017" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5/24
  • "Asian markets mixed amid lingering trade-war worries: Nikkei down, but stocks up in Hong Kong, Shanghai" MarketWatch 5/24

 
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