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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, December 24, 2018
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Amazon Echo, Google Home: How Europe fell in love with smart speakers" ["While smart TVs and devices like Google Chromecast, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV will continue to dominate smart home purchases, IDC expects smart speakers will be the second largest category by 2022."]  ZDNet 8:04 AM
  • "Can a Smarter Siri Threaten AMZN, GOOGL in Smart Speaker Race?" Zacks 8:55 AM
  • "Is the Apple Watch Causing a Run on Emergency Rooms?"  The Motley Fool 10:32 AM
  • "Apple thanked for 'removing anti-gay app'" BBC 9:33 AM
  • "Apple removes alleged gay conversion therapy app from App Store" Cult of Mac 7:51 AM
  • "Facebook Tops the List of Least-Trusted Tech Companies: Facebook is by far the company consumers trust least with their personal data, followed by Amazon and Twitter tying for a very distant second. Uber and Google round out the top five." [Apple with 4% of vote] PC Magazine 8:10 AM
  • "Crime blotter: AirDrop Cyberflashing rises, iPad theft leads to high-speed chase, and Apple scams large and small" AppleInsider 8:08 AM
  • "The five coolest tech products that should have arrived in 2018 but didn't" [AirPower] PCWorld 7:57 AM
  • "HomePod glitter bomb video was partly staged – but without his knowledge, says creator" 9to5Mac 7:59 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:02 PM
  • "Huawei announces that it's sold over 200 million smartphones in 2018" Neowin 9:01 PM
  • "Blizzard Reportedly Giving Some Workers A Year's Salary To Quit" HotHardware 3:49 PM
  • "Headphone jack fans lost out to fullscreen smartphones in 2018: 'So, dear audiophiles, it's time to move on.'" Engadget 12:01 PM
  • "Chinese draft law would prevent forced technology transfers: It would 'encourage' foreign companies to hand things over, though." Engadget 8:00 AM
  • "Samsung begins Android Pie rollout for Galaxy S9 in Europe: An early Christmas present for S9 owners" The Verge 7:51 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 238, With Special Guest Jason Snell" Daring Fireball 2:44 PM
  • "Contacts Are the Root of All Evil – Mac Geek Gab 741" The Mac Observer 9:35 AM
  • "#225: An Upgrade Christmas Carol/Then it was, as Myke and Jason began their preparations for the Christmas holiday, that they were visited by three ghosts, representing the spirit of Apple past, present, and future." Relay FM: Upgrade 9:07 AM