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TikTok users and K-pop fan accounts claim they registered thousands of tickets for Trump's Tulsa rally as a prank, resulting in lower than expected attendance — Did a successful prank inflate attendance expectations for President Trump's rally in Tulsa, Okla.?
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from WWDC 2020: transition to ARM Macs, iOS 14 with Car Key and a Google Translate-like feature, third-party music services on HomePod, and more — - Company to announce move to Macs running its own processors — Developers complaining about longtime App Store rules, fees
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| Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
An estimated $519B+ of commerce facilitated by App Store, of which Apple captures ~4%, proves developers can find business models that work within Apple's rules — In March 2016 Ben Bajarin and I put on an event called SUBSCRIBE where we asked, among other things, — How will the online services business models evolve?
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| by Brent Simmons / inessential: |
Apple's App Store brings in users because it is the only choice, not because it offers some kind of exceptional distribution and marketing to developers — One might argue that developers should love the App Store because it brings the users. AppleInsider writes about the App Store …
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| Jason Fried / HEY: |
HEY's Jason Fried responds to Apple, says the dispute is not about the money, but about how Apple forcibly inserts itself between developers and their customers — So far, much of the recent discussion around Apple, HEY, In App Purchase (IAP), Subscriptions, the App Store, and the iOS developer community has been about money.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo: first ARM-based Macs will be a 13" MacBook Pro and a redesigned 24" iMac, launching in Q4 or Q1 2021, with a refresh of existing Intel iMac coming in Q3 — Apple plans to introduce its Arm-based custom designed chips for Macs at WWDC, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a note …
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| Brian Barth / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at Toronto's growth as a tech hub, selling itself as a gentler, kinder version of Silicon Valley — The Canadian tech hub is selling itself as an antidote to the tech industry's worst impulses. But what does that entail? — It is a frigid February day when I visit Communitech … | Brian Fung / CNN: |
VF Corp's The North Face, REI, and Upwork say they are committing to an ad boycott of Facebook in light of its handling of misinformation and hate speech — (CNN Business)Outdoor apparel brand The North Face has become the best-known company yet to commit to an advertising boycott of Facebook …
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An in-depth look at how Figma, a browser-based collaborative design tool, has found success, as it seeks to become a platform by building out a plugin ecosystem — Companies are a sequencing of loops. While it's possible to stumble into an initial core loop that works … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
In internal email, Snap VP of diversity and inclusion apologizes for the Juneteenth filter, and says Black team members were fully involved in its development — In an internal email, Oona King says black and white employees collaborated on its “smile and break the chains” filter
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The Next Web and Pocketnow
| Sarah Holder / Bloomberg: |
Nextdoor discontinues a feature that let users forward posts directly to police departments, but retains other ways, like DMs, to contact police via its app — “Forward to Police,” one of several Nextdoor programs to strengthen law enforcement relations, has been criticized for elevating racial profiling.
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The Verge, Engadget, and Gizmodo
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple is temporarily closing 11 stores across Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, and South Carolina amid COVID-19 spikes — Apple Inc. is temporarily shutting some of its U.S. retail stores again after cases of Covid-19 spiked in some areas across the country, Bloomberg News reports.
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