While it was once fashionable for tech companies to buy promising news apps, they're now happy to step back from the efforts and invest in their core products instead.
Combine this with Facebook and Google's increasing dominance of the ad market and it's even harder to make it as an independent developer of news apps.
From their perspective, Facebook's distribution strategy has been schizophrenic, so they've grown less willing to give Facebook access to all of their content.
While Apple's new APFS system for organising data on solid state hard drives is wildly more efficient than its double decade old predecessor called HFS+, it also drives some third party programs wild.
High on the list of casualties is crimefighter software – the forensic analysis tools that law enforcement cyber detectives rely on.
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Until they have a full set of APFS tools, some agencies think that all they can do is seize computers of interest and wait for the forensic tools to catch up with the new file system – whenever that might be.
A former prime minister of Finland once blamed Apple Inc. for torpedoing two of his country’s biggest industries -- mobile phones and paper mills.
Now Stora Enso Oyj, one of Europe’s largest paper and packaging makers, has become a key supplier to the iPhone maker, according to documents published last week.
A Better Finder Rename is a tool akin to a sledgehammer for file name changes on the Mac, but used precisely, sometimes a big hammer is what you need.
Rogue Amoeba’s Loopback for macOS is a useful tool for enabling audio routing between applications and audio devices on your Mac. In just a few clicks, you can easily pass audio directly between apps.
But perhaps the ultimate source of urgency for Intel is the resolution of Qualcomm vs Apple.
Belatedly, Intel realized it needed a seat at the smartphone table. Despite troubles with its more advanced manufacturing processes, the company managed to supply some wireless modems for the iPhone 7, 8 and X. Ironically, the alliance was aided by a long standing and bitter intellectual property dispute between Apple and Qualcomm. If Broadcom’s acquisition of Qualcomm proceeds, the dispute with Apple could disappear.
So long as RSS feeds continue to exist and I continue to have my RSS client software, I don't care who or what is the next news platform.
(And I definitely do not need push notifications for 'breaking' news.)
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