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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, July 30, 2018
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple Hires Developer of VR Painting App/Google has the Tilt Brush team, Apple has the developer of Cyber Paint: The Cupertino company recently hired Sterling Crispin, who previously built a painting app for mobile VR headsets, Variety has learned." Variety 4:37 PM
  • "Apple Hires Creator of Virtual Reality Cyber Paint App" MacRumors 4:37 PM
  • "Cupertino may take second bite at Apple's apple with business tax plan" ["The draft ordinance would raise Cupertino's current business tax revenue from about $800,000 a year by 1,275 percent to $10.2 million. Apple, which employs two-third of the workers in town, would be saddled under the new formula with a $9.4 million tax bill as a result."]  Silicon Valley Business Journal 8:31 AM
  • "Juniper Research: Contactless Payments to Represent 1 in 3 In-Store Transactions Globally by 2020" ["According to the new research, Contactless Payments: Payment Cards, OEM Pay & Mobile Wallets 2018-2023, the mobile contactless payments market will be driven by Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Google Pay and other OEM Pay wallets."] Business Wire 7:57 AM
  • "Apple Pay Predicted to Account for Half of Mobile Wallet Users by 2020" MacRumors 10:16 AM
  • "Apple Pay to account for 1 in 2 contactless mobile wallet users by 2020" TechCrunch 10:25 AM
  • "I went to Best Buy and the salesman tried to break a MacBook: Which laptop is better than a MacBook Air? I went to BestBuy to see what its salespeople would say. Or, indeed, do." ZDNet 10:23 AM
  • "1980s film 'Time Bandits' could become new Apple series" iDownload Blog 8:55 AM
  • "Apple Adds Time Bandits to its Original TV Show Lineup" The Mac Observer 10:10 AM
  • "App Store search ads expand to France, Germany, Italy, Japan & elsewhere" iDownload Blog 7:59 AM
  • "U.S. government agencies may finally listen to Jobs' advice on Flash" Cult of Mac 10:25 AM
  • "Today in Apple history: Apple launches ill-fated Lisa project" Cult of Mac 8:03 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Google fires shots at Microsoft and Apple with new Chromebook ad" Android Police 4:46 PM
  • "Google's latest Chromebook ad throws shade at macOS and Windows, showcases Pixelbook & Android apps [Video] 9to5Google 4:45 PM
  • "Sen. Mark Warner floats major tech company regulations that don't include breakups" The Verge 11:09 AM
  • "Activist Publishes 11,000 Private DMs Between Wikileaks and Its Supporters: Emma Best, a freedom of information activist, has published a large cache of Twitter direct messages between Wikileaks and some of its most fervent supporters, including ones showing antisemitic sentiment from Wikileaks." Motherboard 10:23 AM
  • "Google's lead lawyer moves into a global policy role" TechCrunch 4:36 PM
  • "Google is making it easier to reschedule meetings in Calendar" The Verge 4:36 PM
  • "Google Blocks Mining Apps From Its Play Store" Investopedia 10:25 AM
  • "Google Pixel 3 rumors: A giant notch, big bezels, and an intriguing dock/The third generation of Google's Pixel flagship phone is due to land this fall, and we already know a lot about it." PCWorld 10:16 AM
  • "Do you know your monthly spend on digital subscriptions? A survey suggests not ..." 9to5Google 10:16 AM
  • "YouTube's website now supports vertical videos without black bars" The Verge 8:44 AM
  • "Pedestrians are a hard problem for self-driving cars—here's one solution: Self-driving cars need to understand pedestrians. This startup wants to help." Ars Technica 7:57 AM
  • "Fake news inquiry calls for social media levy to defend democracy" TechCrunch 7:40 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "APFS, Shutdown, Messages, and Notifications – Mac Geek Gab Podcast 720" The Mac Observer 6:33 PM
  • "Macstock -Daniel Prinssen's Latest Projects" MacVoices 4:29 PM
  • "Bryan's Whole Home Listening Concept for Siri – TMO Daily Observations 2018-07-30" The Mac Observer 1:51 PM