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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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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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An analysis of the App Store debate through the lens of history surrounding Windows and why curated app stores on smartphones have been beneficial to users — Debate/discussion/rants about app stores (or perhaps The App Store) have rapidly polarized to the point where it seems difficult to have a rational discussion.| 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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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo: first ARM-based Macs will be a 13" MacBook Pro and a revamped 24" iMac, coming in Q4 or Q1'21; all new Mac models will have ARM processors starting in 2021 — Apple plans to introduce its Arm-based custom designed chips for Macs at WWDC, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a note to investors today …
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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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| Mark Harris / The Daily Beast: |
Secretive disaster charity GSD, founded by Sergey Brin, uses drones, superyachts, and more to deliver humanitarian aid during high-profile disasters — WHERE THERE'S A WILL — Global Support and Development is made up of ex-military men and Brin's former bodyguards. But their mission isn't warfare.
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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| 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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| The Economic Times: |
Border tensions with China could have a negative impact on startup fundraising in India; Indian startups raised ~$4B from Chinese investors in 2019 — Prominent risk capital investors ask their portfolios to diversify their cap tables. Investors from China are on the cap tables of 18 of 30 startup unicorns from India
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