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MacSurfer's Archive: Friday, July 12, 2019
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "PC Shipments Up as Manufacturers Scramble to Get Ahead of Tariffs: Vendors such as Lenovo, Acer, and Apple deliberately shipped more products to avoid getting ensnared in the ongoing US-China trade war, according to IDC." PC Magazine 3:47 PM
  • "Apple's Creative Director, Europe and Worldwide Video explains company's TV plans" Apple Must 12:50 PM
  • "Upcoming Apple TV+ Sci-Fi Drama 'See' Reported to Cost $15 Million Per Episode" MacRumors 8:52 AM
  • "Imelda Staunton to star in BBC-made comedy/Exclusive: The corporation's first co-production with Apple" Chortle 11:18 AM
  • "Apple may be working with the BBC on a comedy-drama series" Engadget 11:18 AM
  • "U.S. to hold hearing on French tax investigation Aug. 19" Reuters 3:47 PM
  • "City of Vancouver approves contested Pacific Centre Apple Store development" 9to5Mac 8:50 AM
  • "Amazon Music Unlimited is growing faster than Apple Music or Spotify, report says: Amazon still has a long way to go to catch up with Apple or Spotify, though." Ars Technica 8:49 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "F.T.C. Approves Facebook Fine of About $5 Billion" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 3:52 PM
  • "Negative? How a Navy veteran refused to accept a 'no' to his battery invention" TechCrunch 3:29 PM
  • "Brazil is at the forefront of a new type of router attack/Avast: More than 180,000 routers in Brazil had their DNS settings changed in Q1 2019." ZDNet 3:07 PM
  • "Peddlers of Medical Misinformation Are Using Social Media 'Censorship' as a Selling Point" Gizmodo 3:04 PM
  • "T-Mobile quietly reported a sharp rise in police demands for cell tower data" TechCrunch 12:46 PM
  • "The White House social media summit was full of hypocrisy — and comedy: Twitter going down was the icing on the cake" The Verge 9:25 AM
  • "Amazon Plans High-End Echo, Ramps Up Work on Alexa Home Robot" Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:51 AM
  • "An Amazon Phishing Scam Hits Just in Time For Prime Day" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:20 AM
  • "FTC Approves Roughly $5 Billion Facebook Settlement: FTC commissioners broke along party lines, 3-2, with the Republican majority lining up to support the pact while Democratic commissioners objected" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:30 PM
  • "Facebook Denies Being a Social Network in Lawsuit Response: Facebook denies a consumer can create a Facebook account, make friends, and build a social network, which are all things you can do on Facebook..." PC Magazine 7:59 AM
  • "AT&T to auto block fraud robocalls for free, but blocking spam calls will cost extra: AT&T will charge $4 month to automatically block all spam robocalls." ZDNet 7:58 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "iMore show 665: Things That Make You Go Hmmmm/The iMore show brings you everything you need to know about the week in iPhone, iPad, Watch, TV, Mac, and Apple!" iMore 9:28 PM
  • "The Dalrymple Report: MacBooks, an old iPhone, and Apple Watch" The Loop 3:33 PM
  • "Bryan Chaffin on A Post-Ive, Post-Ahrendts Apple, and Facebook's Cryptocurrency" MacVoices 2:59 PM
  • "Apple's AR Glasses, HomeKit Hardware – TMO Daily Observations 2019-07-12" The Mac Observer 12:50 PM
  • "9to5Mac Daily: July 12, 2019 – Q2 Mac shipments, Apple's big TV budget" 9to5Mac 10:44 AM
  • "9to5Mac Happy Hour 233: Apple shakes up the MacBook line, iOS 13 beta 3 and iPad rumors" 9to5Mac 9:38 AM
  • "RIP Macbook, Zoom runs afoul of Apple & more on the AppleInsider Podcast" AppleInsider 8:49 AM
  • "Big Mac updates! This week on, The CultCastCult of Mac 8:49 AM
  • "Vergecast: new hardware from Nintendo and Apple" The Verge 8:49 AM