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Fortune: “Trump’s Tax Reform could benefit Apple, other Multinationals” 2018

November 16, 2017

Fortune: “Trump’s Tax Reform could benefit Apple, other Multinationals” 2018

#Apple #Economics #Links

For FY 2016, Apple booked total pre-tax earnings of $61.4 billion. On its income statement, Apple showed a “provision for taxes” of $15.685 ...

The Verge: “Apple now sells an iPhone dongle with a headphone jack and charging port” 2018

October 10, 2017

The Verge: “Apple now sells an iPhone dongle with a headphone jack and charging port” 2018

#Apple #Gadgets #iPhone #Links

It took an entire year after the release of the iPhone 7 for Apple to start selling a dongle that lets you plug in headphones (or your car’s...

Gizmodo: “Uber’s iOS App had Secret Permissions that allowed it to Copy your Phone Screen” 2018

October 09, 2017

Gizmodo: “Uber’s iOS App had Secret Permissions that allowed it to Copy your Phone Screen” 2018

#Apple #Apps #Car #iPhone #Links #Mobile #Privacy #Uber

The screen recording capability comes from what’s called an “ entitlement ”—a bit of code that app developers can use for anything from sett...

Hollywood Reporter: “Apple, Amazon join Race for James Bond Film Rights” 2018

September 09, 2017

Hollywood Reporter: “Apple, Amazon join Race for James Bond Film Rights” 2018

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The tech giants are willing to spend in the same ballpark as Warner, if not much more, for the rights, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter ....

Super Ventures Blog: “Why is ARKit better than the alternatives?” 2018

August 03, 2017

Super Ventures Blog: “Why is ARKit better than the alternatives?” 2018

#Apple #iPhone #Links

All the above use the same VIO system (Tango & ARKit even use the same code base originally developed by FlyBy!). Neither Hololens or Ta...

The New York Times: “Apple’s Silence in China Sets a Dangerous Precedent” 2018

August 02, 2017

The New York Times: “Apple’s Silence in China Sets a Dangerous Precedent” 2018

#Apple #Apps #China #Links #Privacy

Search Apple’s website for a letter from Mr. Cook issuing a public rebuke of China’s intrusion into his customers’ privacy and freedom of ex...

Kirkville: “Batch Processing in Apple Photos” 2018

Kirkville: “Batch Processing in Apple Photos” 2018

#Apple #Links #Photo #Software #Tips

Apple’s Photos app does not allow you to perform batch processing. However, there is a way that you can quickly apply the same changes to mu...

ZDNet: “New details emerge on Fruitfly, a near-undetectable Mac backdoor” 2018

ZDNet: “New details emerge on Fruitfly, a near-undetectable Mac backdoor” 2018

#Apple #Links #Security #Software

Apple released security patches for Fruitfly earlier this year , but variants of the malware have since emerged. The core of the malware is ...

Daring Fireball: “Speculation Regarding the Pricing of and Strategy Behind This Year’s New iPhones” 2018

Daring Fireball: “Speculation Regarding the Pricing of and Strategy Behind This Year’s New iPhones” 2018

#Apple #Economics #iPhone #Links

It sounds to me like the OLED iPhone is a phone which Apple can’t make 40 million of per quarter, at least not today. And if that’s true, th...

Daring Fireball: “Using Today’s Web without JavaScript” 2018

Daring Fireball: “Using Today’s Web without JavaScript” 2018

#Apple #Browsers #Internet #Links

Again I say: the web would be better off if browsers had never added support for scripting. Every site on the web would load in under a seco...

The Verge: “iPad Pro 10.5 review: overkill” 2018

The Verge: “iPad Pro 10.5 review: overkill” 2018

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Now that we know that the 10.5-inch iPad Pro is an impressive device and that we further know that iOS 11 is going to radically change how y...

Privacy News: “Apple Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention can not prevent tracking” 2018

Privacy News: “Apple Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention can not prevent tracking” 2018

#Apple #Facebook #Google #Links #Privacy

Furthermore, whereas Apple’s approach to tracking scripts with Safari is welcomed - it would be incredibly naïve to believe that this techno...

Justin O’Beirne: “A Year of Google Maps & Apple Maps” 2018

Justin O’Beirne: “A Year of Google Maps & Apple Maps” 2018

#Apple #Apps #Google #Links #Maps

This all seems to suggest that Google’s location data is more precise than Apple’s. (Or that Apple’s geocoder is buggy.) And perhaps here we...

Stratechery: “Apple’s China Problem” 2018

Stratechery: “Apple’s China Problem” 2018

#Apple #China #iPhone #Links #Software

That, though, is a long-term problem for Apple: what makes the iPhone franchise so valuable — and, I’d add, the fundamental factor that was...

500ish Words: “The Great Laptop Stagnation” 2018

500ish Words: “The Great Laptop Stagnation” 2018

#Apple #Gadgets #Links

Anyway, all of that aside, if I’m being honest, I still just don’t love this machine. And that has never been the case for me with previou...

The New York Times: “How China built ‘iPhone City’ with Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner” 2018

January 23, 2017

The New York Times: “How China built ‘iPhone City’ with Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner” 2018

#Apple #China #Economics #iPhone #Links

It all centers on Zhengzhou, a city of six million people in an impoverished region of China. Running at full tilt, the factory here, owned...

Predicting Apple sales for 2017 2018

January 10, 2017

Predicting Apple sales for 2017 2018

#Apple #Gadgets #iPhone #Statistics

After the forecasts attempted in previous years, I continued to monitor their accuracy and gather the data Apple reports each quarter. Unfor...

Chuq von Rospach: “Apple’s 2016 in review” 2018

January 05, 2017

Chuq von Rospach: “Apple’s 2016 in review” 2018

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To put the Mac Pro in context: This was the “Can’t Innovate my Ass” product that Apple produced to counter criticism that it wasn’t innovat...

Flurry Blog: “From Apps to iPhones: Holiday Shoppers invest in Apple” 2018

January 02, 2017

Flurry Blog: “From Apps to iPhones: Holiday Shoppers invest in Apple” 2018

#Apple #iPhone #Links #Mobile #Statistics

This year, 44% of new phone and tablet activations were Apple devices with Samsung seeing 21%. While Samsung is slowly growing in popularit...

Business Insider: “Apple’s new AirPods are good, but get ready to make a lot of tradeoffs” 2018

December 22, 2016

Business Insider: “Apple’s new AirPods are good, but get ready to make a lot of tradeoffs” 2018

#Apple #Gadgets #iPhone #Links #Music

The second major problem is much worse though. Controlling audio with the AirPods is a frustrating experience. Since there are limited phy...