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MacSurfer's Archive: Saturday, November 3, 2018
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "iPad Outsold Major Notebook Manufacturers By Quite A Margin Last Year" Redmond Pie 11:56 AM
  • "Apple, Fitbit Help Drive 67 Percent Surge In Q3 Smartwatch Shipments" HotHardware 3:54 PM
  • "Redesigned Southlake, Texas Apple store now open in time for iPad Pro launch" 9to5Mac 6:00 PM
  • "India iPhone sales to fall for first time in four years: researcher" Reuters 11:50 AM
  • "As Tim Cook remains optimistic, iPhone sales in India are on track to dip year-over-year" 9to5Mac 11:57 AM
  • "Mark Zuckerberg Just Called Out 2 Competitors By Name" ["With regard to growing Messenger and WhatsApp, Zuckerberg sees Apple's iMessage as the biggest product standing in its way, particularly in the United States."] The Motley Fool 3:21 PM
  • "IDC: Smartphone shipments down 6% in Q3 2018, Huawei maintains lead over Apple" VentureBeat 11/2
  • "IDC data shows flat iPhone sales a win as global shipments fall" 9to5Mac 11/2
  • "iPad Remained World's Most Popular Tablet Last Quarter While Huawei Topped Apple in Smartphones Again" MacRumors 11/2
  • "iPad dominates tablet market again, even as sales drop in Q3" ZDNet 11/2
  • "Strategy Analytics: Global Smartphone Shipments Tumble 8 Percent in Q3 2018" ["Woody Oh, Director at Strategy Analytics, added, 'Apple iPhone growth was flat, shipping 46.9 million units for 13 percent smartphone marketshare worldwide in Q3 2018. The new iPhone XR, XS and XS Max range is in healthy demand, but Apple's relentless focus on price increases its capping its overall volume growth.'"] Strategy Analytics 11/2
  • "iPhone shipments steady amid contracting global smartphone market in recession" AppleInsider 11/2
  • "Strategy Analytics: Global Smartwatch Shipments Leap 67 Percent to 10 Million Units in Q3 2018" ["Apple Watch maintained first position with 45 percent global smartwatch marketshare, while Fitbit jumped into second place, overtaking Samsung and Garmin."] Business Wire 11/2
  • "Apple starts selling refurbished iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus units" SlashGear 11/2
  • "Battery-life of iPhones getting worse with each generation" 9to5Mac 11/2
  • "Stanford, Apple describe heart study with over 400,000 participants" Stanford Medicine 11/2
  • "Apple Heart Study not used to gain FDA clearance for Apple Watch Series 4 ECG" AppleInsider 11/2
  • "Giant Apple Watch heart health study is coming to an end" Cult of Mac 11/2
  • "2008 Steve Jobs interview about early App Store success & future of Facebook emerges" AppleInsider 11/2
  • "Apple putting live midterm election results front and center in its news app" 9to5Mac 11/2
Non-Apple News
  • "Android news and kids apps contain the most third-party trackers: Over 20 child advocacy groups have sent a letter to the FTC regarding advertising in kids apps." ZDNet 11:50 AM
  • "Amazon warehouse collapse in Baltimore leaves two dead: A storm is believed to be responsible." Engadget 8:17 PM
  • "One dead, another missing after Amazon building collapse" New York Post 7:37 AM
  • "Google Walkout protest included 20,000 participants Friday" Engadget 7:30 AM
  • "Google walkout was 'unprecedented.' It could prompt more tech protests" CNET 7:27 AM
  • "Two botnets are fighting over control of thousands of unsecured Android devices: Researchers spot Trinity and Fbot botnets trying to infect Android devices via the ADB interface." ZDNet 11/2
  • "The day computer security turned real: The Morris Worm turns 30" ZDNet 11/2
  • "Exclusive: Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts seeking to discourage voting" Reuters 11/2
  • "Dear tech: Stop doing business with Nazis" Engadget 11/2
  • "Your Smartphone's Location Data Is Worth Big Money to Wall Street: The phone in your pocket is dishing info on where you spend your time and, likely, money" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 11/2
  • "Messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts reportedly up for sale" CNET 11/2
  • "Almost 17,000 Googlers walked out to protest of sexual misconduct at the company" Business Insider 11/2
  • "Private messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for sale" BBC 11/2
  • "Samsung is losing mobile ground to its Chinese rivals" The Verge 11/2
  • "Fox Is Using Google's Machine Learning to Predict What Movies You'll Like" Motherboard 11/2
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Apple's 2018 hardware blitz! [Cult of Mac MagazineCult of Mac 11:58 AM
  • "Mac App Store Categories, USB-C iPads – TMO Daily Observations 2018-11-02" The Mac Observer 11/2
  • "What we loved and what we didn't—catch our More in the Making hardware reactions, on The CultCast" Cult of Mac 11/2
  • "Mac mini, iPad Pro, MacBook Air, 100 Million Mac users, and more on the AppleInsider Podcast" AppleInsider 11/2
  • "Vergecast: Macbook Air, iPad Pro, and Foxconn" The Verge 11/2
  • "The Mac, with Apple's Tom Boger" iMore 11/2
  • "David Ginsburg Wraps Up The Jamf Nation Users Conference" MacVoices 11/2