Tuesday, May 16, 2017





One More Thing: Inside Apple's insanely great (or just insane) new Mothership




"Jobs had a better sense than most arborists," says David Muffly, whom the Apple chief tapped to handle the trees for the new campus. "He could tell visually which trees looked like they had good structure."





Q1: Apple took 83% of smartphone profits with 13.5% unit share - Canaccord raises price target to $180







US companies push hard for lower tax rate on offshore profits






Remember when Apple execs were in LA interviewing media execs?

Apple seeks programming chief for TV, movie content effort



HBO's former programming chief Michael Lombardo with Silicon Valley producer Mike Judge


HBO's former programming chief Michael Lombardo with Girls Star Lena Dunham







Barbers is a great ad!

In Portrait mode on the iPhone 7 Plus, you look fantastic 






Repurpose the cylindrical Mac Pro?

Apple patents method of building feature-rich cylindrical devices, hints at Siri home speaker






iPhone 8 renders point to glass back and wireless charging 






Another report claims Apple working on diabetes treatment tech for Apple WATCH, this time via "smart bands"




watchOS 3.2.2 update now available




Just in time for WWDC like the WATCH update above

tvOS 10.2.1 update for Apple TV







macOS 10.12.5 rolling out on the Mac App Store with USB headphones fix, Windows 10 improvement, more






Apple releases iOS 10.3.2 update for iPhone and iPad






They aren't beloved features: They were all that was available at the time, and times change.  

The automobile industry is changing.  

Are people going to complain about not buying gasoline anymore?

Electric cars are a certainty.

Why Apple has to enrage its best customers



Apple has a long tradition of killing off beloved product features. Dediu noted that the company removed the DVD and CD drive from many of its products, along with parallel ports. Way back in 1998, Apple also raised some alarms when it killed the floppy disk drive in its new iMac. At the time, The New York Times suggested the move might alienate some of its customers.

"A few customers may be able to work effectively without some way to transport data physically, by backing up files to a network server or to the Internet," The Times noted, "but most of the consumers Apple is trying to appeal to live in a world where floppy disks are important."




Tim Cook's refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated by "WannaCry" ransom-ware attack






US man thanks iPhone's Siri for saving his life in explosion






I'll bet this screen size reappears as a visual Siri stand-alone device

Report: Apple to phase out the iPad mini, no more updates planned






How to quickly and easily create time-lapse videos from video or stills in Final Cut Pro X






Purdue grad finds "kill switch" in malware used in world-wide cyberattack 






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