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Apple's latest Macbook Pros show the company is turning its back on its core customers — Last night's Apple event was bizarre—I had been anticipating this show for a while, mostly looking forward to being able to stop telling people not to buy a Mac, because everything was so outdated.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Apple says developers should avoid using animation and displaying alerts on the Touch Bar, limiting potential uses — The Touch Baris serious business . Apple's interface guidelines warn against all kinds of fun things that developers probably started thinking about when the new MacBook Pros leakedearlier this week.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
MacBook Pro is a hybrid system where modified watchOS on ARM-based T1 securely runs Touch Bar, Apple Pay, Touch ID, and more, while Intel CPU handles macOS — When will Apple ship a MacBook with an ARM processor? This is a question that has been top of mind for observers of the company ever since …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Fortune: |
Vine co-founders Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll launch Hype, a live broadcasting app that lets users add music and animations to their videos — As Twitter continues its attempts to get its business back on track, the company announced on Thursday that it's shutting down Vine, a short-form video service it acquired in late 2012.
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Matt Mullenweg accuses Wix of copying WordPress and violating GPL for its mobile app, suggests Wix releases entire source code under GPL to comply with license — Anyone who knows me knows that I like to try new things — phones, gadgets, apps. Last week I downloaded the new Wix (closed …
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| Jason Costa / GGV Capital: |
Comparing how Twitter and Slack managed their API ecosystems, and why Twitter, which let developers replicate core functionality, stumbled — Opening up an API is a big commitment, one that needs to be managed well over time in order to ensure a healthy and thriving ecosystem.| Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal: |
Many publishers say an AMP pageview generates half the revenue of a pageview on their full mobile website due to reliance on standardized banner ad units — Some publishers aren't generating as much ad revenue as they had hoped — Google is stepping up its efforts to serve speedy content …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Giphy announces tool to transfer Vines to Giphy, allowing users to share their Vines as GIFs — The death of Vine was perhaps not entirely unexpected, but it's sad nevertheless. Luckily, six-second videos are pretty easy to archive for posterity, and all-purpose GIF platform Giphy wants you to do just that.
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| Jamie Feltham / UploadVR: |
Starbreeze, maker of the StarVR headset, says it has acquired Belgian visual effects studio Nozon for about $7.75M — Over the past few months Starbreeze's StarVR headset has gone from an industry oddity to a genuine contender in the location-based VR scene.
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| Joseph Rosensteel / Unauthoritative Pronouncements: |
Apple TV: the only streaming media device without HDR above $90, and an app lacking integration with Netflix or cable providers, needs a total strategy revamp — The accessibility video at the start of Apple's October 27th event was the best thing in the event.
| Sam Rutherford / Tom's Guide: |
LG V20 review: rear cameras with manual controls are great, second screen is practical, but Galaxy S7 Edge is cheaper, waterproof, and has better battery life — With the demise of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7, Android fans looking for a premium big-screen phone have been left high and dry.
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| Bloomberg: |
At least 17 firms have marketed surveillance products to law enforcement agencies and oppressive regimes using Twitter's Firehose data — If you ignore all the self-promotion, ranting, and frog memes, it's possible to see the Twitter that Jack Dorsey likes to talk about.Sponsor Posts
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