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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, July 25, 2018
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "'The Mobile Industry's Never Seen Anything Like This': An Interview With Steve Jobs at the App Store's Launch/Hear reporter Nick Wingfield's 2008 conversation with the tech pioneer as the App Store turns 10"  WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:08 PM
  • "Steve Jobs on the App Store in 2008: 'We Didn't Expect It to Be This Big'" MacRumors 4:10 PM
  • "Annual Digital Assistant IQ Test – Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, Cortana" ["Google Assistant continued its outperformance, answering 86% correctly and understanding all 800 questions. Siri was close behind, correctly answering 79% and only misunderstanding 11 questions. Alexa correctly answered 61% and misunderstood 13. Cortana was the laggard, correctly answering just 52% and misunderstanding 19."]  Loup Ventures 7:48 AM
  • "Siri on iOS Answered 78.5% of Queries Correctly in Latest Test, Trailing Google Assistant at 85.5%" MacRumors 7:52 AM
  • "Google Assistant is still a lot smarter than Siri, new study shows" Mashable 10:24 AM
  • "Google Assistant is better than Siri in every tested category – except one" Android Authority 1:29 PM
  • "CIRP: iPhone 8 Plus the best-selling iPhone during Q2, followed by iPhone X" 9to5Mac 4:10 PM
  • "Where have all the great tech leaders gone? It used to be that those who ran tech companies enjoyed devoted admiration. Things have changed." ["Does that really leave us with just Tim Cook? Apple's CEO has the advantage of selling likable — occasionally lovable — products. Moreover, he does reflect a certain sincerity when he speaks on topics such as privacy and equality. It's easy to believe he still has something of a soul."] ZDNet 8:26 AM
  • "Who Is Buying All The Smart Speakers? According to NPR and Edison Research's 'Smart Audio Report,' 43 million people in the US now own at least one smart speaker. And the demographics and ownership breakdowns may not be exactly what you expect." PC Magazine 7:34 AM
  • "iPhones, iPads worth $29G stolen from Apple Store in Southern California" FOXNews 7:52 AM
  • "iPhone X — Unleash — Apple" YouTube 11:27 AM
  • "Can you face unlock a phone while jumping from a plane?" [Video] Mashable 8:20 AM
  • "Ex-Apple Health director is now working to fix medical records" CNBC 8:40 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Facebook Revenue, User Growth Miss Estimates as Scandals Hit" Bloomberg 8:33 PM
  • "Senate Intel Panel Plans Hearing With Facebook, Google, And Twitter Execs" BuzzFeed News 4:14 PM
  • "Assassination Markets for Jeff Bezos, Betty White, and Donald Trump Are On the Blockchain" Motherboard 4:14 PM
  • "Leagoo S10 is an iPhone X clone with an in-display fingerprint sensor" Android Authority 10:52 AM
  • "Toronto Approves Gunshot-Detecting Surveillance Tech Days After Mass Shooting" Motherboard 10:23 AM
  • "Facebook security chief's brutally honest leaked email reveals how distraught the company was about being used by the Russians" Business Insider 8:40 AM
  • "Google Drive will hit a billion users this week" TechCrunch 11:51 AM
  • "Google launches a standalone version of Drive for businesses that don't want the full G Suite" TechCrunch 11:31 AM
  • "Google Glass Is Back–Now With Artificial Intelligence" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:39 AM
  • "Google's human-sounding AI to answer calls at contact centers: If you work in a call center, your new co-workers, or perhaps competitors, are Google's powerful chatbots." ZDNet 8:26 AM
  • "Google Docs is finally catching up to Microsoft Word ... 20 years later" Quartz 8:24 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Core i9 MacBook Pro Fix, How to Hook Us on Apple's TV Shows - TMO Daily Observations 2018-07-25" The Mac Observer 1:13 PM
  • "Guy Kawasaki - What I learned from working with Steve Jobs"  The Next Web 8:19 AM