The layoffs included some engineering roles, and the biggest cuts were made to the team responsible for the Apple Books app and Apple Bookstore. There were also layoffs in other services teams, including the one that runs Apple News.
Apple Books has become less of a priority for the company, which doesn’t see it as a major part of its services lineup. The Books app is still expected to get new features over time, according to the people. As for Apple News, the layoffs aren’t a sign that it’s becoming less of a focus, they said.
The videos weren’t a complete solution to the problem, though. A smartphone’s speaker seems to be powerful enough to push air out from right next to the speaker, but not to solve problems elsewhere in the device — particularly underneath the buttons, the USB port, or the SIM card slot, which were the other most common intrusion spots. And if it didn’t get the liquid out in that first burst, Ritter found it mostly just sloshed the droplets back and forth as the speaker moved.
I’m writing this post to remind everyone to have a little more humility when suggesting you know how other people use software. You may have good intuition and be right more than the average person, but as we see all the time with software, even the people working on things often miss the mark with what their users actually want.
The update brings support for IPv6, provides a Copy button in the output text field, and adds options to show or hide hidden network adapters, display underlying shell commands, and benchmark uplink and downlink separately in the Speed test.
Okay, so should I stop waiting for Apple to expand Apple Books and Apple News to where I live?
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