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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, October 31, 2018
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "October Event 2018 — Apple" YouTube 3:08 PM
  • "Apple's New iPad Pros Are Almost Sold Out" UberGizmo 8:45 PM
  • "App Buyers 'Have No Answer' To Illinois Brick, Apple Says: Apple on Monday again urged the U.S. Supreme Court to undo a Ninth Circuit decision reviving an antitrust suit from app buyers accusing the tech giant of illegally monopolizing the iPhone..." Law360 [Subscription Required for Full Article] 8:33 AM
  • "Apple Showed Diversity as Well as New Products on Tuesday" The Mac Observer 4:05 PM
  • "iPhones are Allergic to Helium" ["'My immediate thought was that the MRI must have emitted some sort of EMP, in which case we could be in a lot of trouble.' But an electromagnetic pulse would have taken out medical equipment in the facility as well, and they were working fine! He started investigating, and learned that every single impacted device was made by Apple—the technician's Android phones were fine. And it was a wide-sweeping issue, impacting 40 different devices. What the heck?"]  iFixit 10:12 AM
  • "Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility: The bizarre incident happened during the installation of an MRI machine and was a surprise to everyone except Apple."  Motherboard 9:40 AM
  • "Apple Watch business to grow 40% YOY in 2019 with 33M units, UBS predicts" 9to5Mac 11:17 AM
  • "NEW! 2018 Mobile App Engagement Index: In the first half of 2018, the combined app revenues for the Apple App Store and Google Play broke another record with a 27.8% increase YoY." Liftoff 12:05 PM
  • "Apple Pay 'Making Up a Lot of Ground' With Competitors Thanks to Success of Apple Pay Cash" MacRumors 10:32 AM
  • "Mark Zuckerberg: Apple is Facebook's 'biggest competitor by far' in messaging" CNBC 8:17 AM
  • "Apple promotes creativity at upcoming Champs-élysées store: 'Open to your wildest ideas'" 9to5Mac 7:29 AM
  • "Feds took woman's iPhone at border, she sued, now they agree to delete data/CAIR lawyer pleasantly surprised: 'We were prepared for much more pushback.'" Ars Technica 8:27 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Over 1,500 at Google Plan Walkout to Protest Handling of Sexual Harassment" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 7:30 PM
  • "It's Kind of Brilliant How this Dual-Screen Smartphone Avoids the Notch" Gizmodo 9:40 AM
  • "Smartphone Makers Bet New Foldable Handsets Have Flex Appeal: Samsung and Huawei lead quest by phone makers to redesign smartphones and reverse sliding sales" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:31 AM
  • "Google, YouTube, Samsung are world's top brands, but how do they do in Middle East? Although tech brands dominate everywhere, in the Middle East there are some key differences from the global picture." ZDNet 7:37 AM
  • "Confirmed: Samsung will reveal how its foldable phone works next week" Android Authority 7:35 AM
  • "Hate speech is finding a home on Instagram: Another Facebook division is found promoting bigots" The Verge 7:34 AM
  • "Facebook approved fake Brexit ad 'paid for by Cambridge Analytica'" Telegraph 9:45 AM
  • "Facebook's user base is declining in Europe and that ought to terrify its American bosses" Business Insider 7:26 AM
  • "Facebook moves past controversies to focus on its growth story: Mark Zuckerberg pitches analysts on his plan to bring advertisers to its new platforms" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 7:20 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Halloween Special, New iPads and Macs, Mr. Ricky Cleans House -ACM 486" The Mac Observer 8:29 PM
  • "9to5Mac Happy Hour 197: MacBook Air, Mac mini, and iPad Pro event impressions" 9to5Mac 2:06 PM
  • "Modern day mixtapes, new Mac mini feelings – TMO Daily Observations 2018-10-31" The Mac Observer 12:52 PM
  • "A breath of fresh MacBook Air, and more from Apple's event (The 3:59, Ep. 483): If that's not enough, we also chat about the new iPad Pro and the Mac Mini." CNET 12:36 PM
  • "The MacJury's Reaction to Apple's Mac/iPad Event" MacVoices 10:28 AM
  • "Apple's Mac mini, MacBook Air, and iPad Pro event on the AppleInsider Podcast" AppleInsider 7:30 AM