2023-12-02
“Huawei timed the release of the phone to coincide with US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo's visit to China in part because of direct encouragement from a senior official at the top of the regime” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
An in-depth look at China's efforts to help Huawei build a self-sufficient chip supply chain via a network of enterprises backed by Shenzhen's investment fund
Bloomberg :
2023-11-24
Pretty devastating, but it's not surprising to close followers of Google's culture. https://ln.hixie.ch/...
Hixie's Natural Log
Reflecting on 18 years at Google: early Google had a vision, but its culture has eroded, morale is at an all-time low, and healing requires changes at the top
1. Talks about really believing “don't be evil” especially as a contrast to Microsoft. As a Microsoftie at the time, it was really annoying to see a company take a moral stand tha...
2023-11-23
Pretty devastating, but it's not surprising to close followers of Google's culture. https://ln.hixie.ch/...
Hixie's Natural Log
Reflecting on 18 years at Google: early Google had a vision, but its culture has eroded, morale is at an all-time low, and healing requires changes at the top
I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google.
2023-01-02
So on top of everything else, Meta's bet on winning the next computing platform involves cutting themselves off from China? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Sources: Meta is struggling to move hardware manufacturing out of China; after abandoning its smartwatch plans, the company is still working on a wrist wearable
2021-05-24
Overall a good day for Tim Cook. No real headlines that can be used against Apple in the future. The thing the press has latched on to is Judge YGR's pointed questioning, but only within the frame of “wow she's skeptical.”
Protocol
As Apple and Epic make their closing arguments, a look back at the judge's pointed questioning of Cook on Friday that touched on App Store's lack of competition
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over the Epic v. Apple antitrust trial, saved her best for last.
Overall a good day for Tim Cook. No real headlines that can be used against Apple in the future. The thing the press has latched on to is Judge YGR's pointed questioning, but only within the frame of “wow she's skeptical.”
TechCrunch
In his Epic v. Apple trial testimony, Tim Cook offered a carefully tended ignorance that left many of the lawsuit's key questions unanswered, or unanswerable
2021-05-22
Overall a good day for Tim Cook. No real headlines that can be used against Apple in the future. The thing the press has latched on to is Judge YGR's pointed questioning, but only within the frame of “wow she's skeptical.”
TechCrunch
In his Epic v. Apple trial testimony, Tim Cook offered a carefully tended ignorance that left many of the lawsuit's key questions unanswered, or unanswerable
Apple CEO Tim Cook took his first turn in the witness chair this morning in what is probably the most anticipated testimony of the Epic v. Apple antitrust case.
2021-03-10
This really highlights that the issues with the App Store and certain developers are fundamentally different from the antitrust issues with other tech companies. With Apple it's just a commercial dispute between businesses, mostly over pricing. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Q&A with Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter's head of consumer product, on focusing on growth, deciding what to prioritize, paying for tweets, Clubhouse, and more
Nilay Patel / The Verge :
2020-07-24
Did the Washington Post write about the equivalent of the MFI license agreement for Find My? This story feels extremely lightweight. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Leaked doc: while Apple will let third-party devices connect to Find My app, customers will be barred from using other competing services simultaneously
Opening the “Find My” feature to other companies was seen as an olive branch to developers. But Apple threatened legal action if developers talked about the software.
2020-07-17
Ah this again. Apple has said multiple times on the record that there's no exceptions made for China https://twitter.com/...
Reuters
AG Barr accuses Apple, Google, and Microsoft of collaboration with CCP, says iPhones wouldn't be sold in China if they were “impervious to penetration” by China
2020-07-15
This case was always about that the fact that the EU remains an unfinished political project. Using state aid rules to combat the low-tax states is a shortcut than federalism. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Apple wins its EU court fight over the record $14.9B Irish tax bill, as EU's General Court rules that Ireland's tax arrangements with Apple weren't illegal
- EU lower court ruling on Apple, Ireland cases can be appealed — Company, Ireland challenged European Commission decision
2020-07-11
Isn't this the second time this has happened? At some point it's a problem for Apple as well. They need to undo this dependency in major apps. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
An issue with Facebook SDK, which lasted for about 3 hours, crashed iOS apps for TikTok, Spotify, Tinder, Pinterest, and others that use Facebook Login
what you need to know [Update] Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors : Facebook SDK Issue Again Causing Numerous iOS Apps to Crash or Freeze Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac : iOS apps crashing on op...
2020-07-10
Isn't this the second time this has happened? At some point it's a problem for Apple as well. They need to undo this dependency in major apps. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
An issue with Facebook SDK, which lasted for about 3 hours, crashed iOS apps for TikTok, Spotify, Tinder, Pinterest, and others which use Facebook Login
The issue has now been resolved and apps are working once more — A number of popular apps and services including Spotify, Pinterest …
2020-05-28
“According to a source familiar with Apple's thinking, the company remains uninterested in using Apple TV+ as a repository for old shows and movies from other suppliers” https://www.vulture.com/... https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Apple's acquisition of Fraggle Rock's past TV seasons ahead of a reboot on TV+ signals a strategy shift for the service that had relied on original content
Apple isn't echoing Netflix's strategy, but it's certainly doing something new — Apple is acquiring Fraggle Rock's past TV seasons ahead …
2019-11-27
I initially thought this acquisition was driven by trying to get competitive with the Apple Watch but this kind of changes that. Google is incredibly competitor focused and it makes more sense that it was about keeping a data set away from Facebook https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Sources: Facebook made several bids to acquire Fitbit, including a final offer of $7.30/share, below Google's announced offer of ~$2.1B in cash at $7.35/share
2019-11-19
Stratechery's antitrust argument against Apple doesn't make any sense because Apple isn't extending dominance in smartphones to anything else because it isn't dominant in smartphones https://stratechery.com/... pic.twitter.com/r2Q97b2awy
Stratechery
Apple's integrated approach is fostering monopolistic behavior and has started to stifle innovation resulting in user-hostile keyboards and no NFC based apps
When I started Stratechery in 2013, the conventional wisdom was that modularized ecosystems were best.
2019-09-23
Taking time spent away from the F2P casinos doesn't seem like it will be that difficult. I think a lot of people are underestimating how much this can restructure the mobile gaming economy https://twitter.com/...
Los Angeles Times
Apple Arcade may break the iOS game industry's risk-averse focus on in-app purchases, promoting games with higher quality than free-to-play games
Todd Martens / Los Angeles Times :
2019-09-19
Steve Dowling's PR approach was right for this stage of Apple's life. The Katie Cotton era was much more aggressive, less transparent, and less friendly to the press. Good for when Apple was an underdog, not a good look when you're a trillion dollar company https://twitter.com/...
Vox
Apple's VP of communications Steve Dowling is leaving the company after five years in the role; Dowling joined the company 16 years ago
and for me, last — launch cycle” 👀 https://twitter.com/...