My post this week about Shazam’s history got me thinking about Apple’s track record with acquired apps. Apple acquired Shazam in 2018, and soon integrated its capabilities into Siri. But they’ve also kept the Shazam app going, including the Android version. They even still h...
Apple Newsroom:
Shazam has now officially surpassed over 100 billion song
recognitions since it launched. To help put that into perspective:
That’s equivalent to 12 songs identified for every person on
Earth.
A person would need to use Shazam to identify a song every
s...
Mishaal Rahman, reporting yesterday for Android Authority:
Android Authority has learned that Google has canceled the Pixel
Tablet 2, the presumed name of Google’s second-generation Pixel
Tablet. This is disappointing for Pixel fans who were waiting for
Google to refresh...
Mike Masnick, writing for MSNBC:
Turns out for the “Twitter Files” crew, “creeping
authoritarianism” isn’t so creepy when it’s your team doing the
creeping.
Before, we were told that White House officials’ merely reaching
out to social media companies about election mis...
Anil Dash, “Don’t Call It a Substack”:
We constrain our imaginations when we subordinate our creations to
names owned by fascist tycoons. Imagine the author of a book
telling people to “read my Amazon”. A great director trying to
promote their film by saying “click on my...
Sara Fischer, reporting for Axios:
Apple has started selling its own advertising inventory for Apple
News, two sources familiar with the effort told Axios. It’s
pitching new ad units that it hopes will maximize revenue for
itself and its publishing partners. [...]
Publ...
Dade Hayes, reporting for Deadline:
Fielding a question from a Wall Street analyst about the growth
outlook and pricing strategy of Disney+, Iger divulged how many
Disney+ subscribers take the ad-supported tier in the U.S. (37%)
and globally (30%). The disclosure was unu...
James Baggott, writing for Car Dealer Magazine:
Jaguar unveiled a new look, logo and direction for its cars at
what was quite possibly the most bizarre automotive media launch
I’ve ever attended — here’s what happened.
Embargoed until today, the event felt like a halluc...
The Hollywood Reporter, which of course is where one now goes to find news of incoming Executive Branch appointments and nominations, “Trump Nominates Dr. Mehmet Oz to Run Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services”:
“America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may ...
Troy Closson, reporting for The New York Times (gift link):
The optional curriculum, one of most sweeping efforts in recent
years to bring a Christian perspective to more students, would
test the limits of religious instruction in public education.
It could also become ...
Lukas Schneider:
On 13 November 1961, the Oceanic building at London Airport opened
to handle long-haul flight departure. In 1979, German publisher
Ravensburger brought out a game designed to help children learn to
count. Around Christmas 2023, I stumbled across a copy o...
Mishaal Rahman, reporting for Android Authority:
While both Android and ChromeOS have seen huge success in
different markets, they’ve struggled to compete in one product
category where they overlap: tablets. The high-end tablet market
is dominated by the Apple iPad, and ...
Jason Koebler, writing for 404 Media:
According to the filing, which was first reported by our
friends at Court Watch, Said was an aspiring ISIS
graphic designer who was working with ISIS’s second-in-command
graphic designer. That person told Said that ISIS’s chief
desig...
Filipe Espósito, writing at 9to5Mac:
Apple introduced the “Hey Siri” command with iOS 8 to let users
easily interact with the virtual assistant without having to press
any buttons. However, over the years, this has resulted in Siri
being mistakenly triggered when the com...
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My thanks to Upgraded for sponsoring last week at DF. Upgraded’s basic premise is simple: it’s like Apple’s iPhone upgrade program, but for MacBooks. Through Upgraded, you can get a new MacBook every two years with low monthly payments, AppleCare+ coverage, and effortless up...
Leah Nylen and Josh Sisco, reporting for Bloomberg:
Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a
judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off its Chrome
browser in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the
biggest tech companies in the wor...
Dominic Patten, reporting for Deadline Friday night:
Netflix’s much hyped and much delayed live fight tonight between
Mike Tyson and Jake Paul is taking some hits even before the
former heavyweight champion and the YouTuber turned boxer have
climbed in the ring.
From ne...
Bryce P. Tetraeder, Global Tetrahedron CEO, in an op-ed for The Onion:
Through it all, InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to
manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members
of society — values that resonate deeply with all of us at Global
Tetrah...
Brandy Zadrozny and Erik Ortiz, NBC News:
The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed
conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for
control over his media empire — most notably Infowars, the
far-right, conspiracy-minded website that...
Bill Atkinson, on Facebook, “Request for Prayers”:
On October first, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Because
of vascular involvement, surgery is not possible. I am taking
weekly chemo treatments to shrink the tumor before surgical
resection. I am tolerating the c...
Some Big Tech CEOs, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Disney’s Bob
Iger, and TikTok’s Shou Zi Chew didn’t post a message for Trump.
Netflix co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos also didn’t comment.
Here’s the Apple support page listing the devices compatible with iOS 18. They’re listed in chronological order, oldest to newest, and the list begins with the iPhone XR and iPhone XS from 2018. But on this support page, Apple styles the “R” and “S” suffixes as small caps. S...
Apple Newsroom:
Apple has introduced Share Item Location, a new iOS feature that
helps users locate and recover misplaced items by easily and
securely sharing the location of an AirTag or Find My network
accessory with third parties such as airlines. Share Item Location
...
Chance Miller, 9to5Mac:
iOS 18.2 beta 3 adds another new toggle for
personalizing the iPhone 16’s Camera Control. Now, you can open
the Camera app with a single press of the Camera Control even if
your display is off.
If your iPhone 16’s display is off, the default beha...
John Geleynse, Apple’s longtime head of developer evangelism, on LinkedIn:
Doing anything for 25 years is a pretty big deal. Being a part of
Apple for 25 years has been the privilege and experience of a
lifetime.
My last day at Apple was exactly a week ago today. I’d al...
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