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The All-Together Edition Sunday, January 19, 2025

OK Go’s Clever iPhone-starring Music Video Will Start Your Weekend On A High Note, by Jason Cross, Macworld

The video features “64 videos on 64 iPhones” and makes use of clever framing, choreography, and edits to tie it all together. Not only were all the videos shot on iPhone, but the iPhones are the star of the video.

ByteDance

About Availability Of TikTok And ByteDance Ltd. Apps In The United States, by Apple

Apple is obligated to follow the laws in the jurisdictions where it operates. Pursuant to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, apps developed by ByteDance Ltd. and its subsidiaries — including TikTok, CapCut, Lemon8, and others — will no longer be available for download or updates on the App Store for users in the United States starting January 19, 2025.

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If you already have these apps installed on your device, they will remain on your device. But they can’t be redownloaded if deleted or restored if you move to a new device. In-app purchases and new subscriptions are no longer possible.

Marvel Snap Is Banned, Just Like TikTok, by Richard Lawler, The Verge

The card game battler set in the Marvel universe is developed by Second Dinner, which is based in California. But the game is published by Nuverse, a company owned by ByteDance. As a result, it’s subject to the same shutdown order.

Stuff

'PostPocket' Is A Universal Bookmarking Tool For Your iPhone, by Michael Burkhardt, 9to5Mac

PostPocket is a simple tool, aiming to help users keep track of various links, posts, articles, videos, or anything from across the internet. It allows you to save everything in one centralized place.

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When I am sad, and if I do want to cheer myself up, one of the thing I do is to watch some music videos from OK Go over at YouTube.

And the latest video, A Stone Only Rolls Downhill, gave me so much joy. Especially so once I realized, as claimed by the band, they are all single-take videos. (This last sentence probably doesn't make sense to you until you have watched the music video.)

(My favorite OK Go video is still White Knuckles.)

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