Techmeme Ride Home
Brian McCullough
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Wed. 11/17 – Apple Will Let You Do At-Home iPhone Repairs, Yourself
Hell freezes slightly over. Apple is gonna let you repair your own devices, at home, yourself. The Staples Center goes crypto. Meta wants to bring tou...
Tue. 11/16 – The War Between The Furries And The NFTs
Twitter has followed through on its promise to decentralize and play nice with 3rd party developers. Will the Nvidia/ARM acquisition actually happen?...
Mon. 11/15 – Why Apple Buying Google Ads Might Be Weird
Some app developers say Apple is buying Google ads to cut App Store work-arounds off at the pass. Huawei thinks it has an end run around US sanctions....
(TWTR SPC) How To Build A Metaverse
Coming at the Metaverse from a different angle. If you're a dev or even just an enthusiast, how, from a technological perspective, will the Metaverse...
Fri. 11/12 – MoviePass Is Coming Back
Beware a watering hole, zero day attack that affected macOS. Spotify is getting into the audiobook game. MoviePass looks like it might be coming back...
Thu. 11/11 – Do Gamers Not Like Crypto?
Discord floats the idea of incorporating crypto, but backs down after a vicious backlash. Apple wants to manage IT for small and medium businesses. Yo...
Wed. 11/10 – Big Tech Smacked Down In Court
Apple and Alphabet suffer setbacks in court. More hardware moves in the great Metaverse realignment of the tech landscape. Unity buys Weta Digital. No...
Tue. 11/09 – Robinhood Hacked By Unknown Bandits
Robinhood has been compromised by some true brigands. If you’ve got a Robinhood account, double down on being wary of phishing attacks. Netflix takes...
Mon. 11/08 – McAfee To Go Private
McAfee is taken private. The recently passed Infrastructure Bill complicates the tax picture for crypto. Also, playing NFT games could seriously compl...
(TWTR SPC) Where's The Money In The #CreatorEconomy?
Poking some holes in the Metaverse hype and also examining the financial realities of the Creator Economy.Simon Owen's Media NewsletterZealous.appThe...
Fri. 11/05 – Meta To Open Metaverse Retail Stores?
Is Meta going to open actual physical retail stores to try to sell folks on the promise of the Metaverse? More tangible signs Apple’s silicon is leavi...
Thu. 11/04 – Instagram Can Post To Twitter Again
Instagram is playing nice with Twitter all of the sudden. But Meta has some new creator tools that try once again to shiv the App Stores. That South K...
Wed. 11/03 – Meta And Zillow Shut It Down
Facebook shuts down its decade-old face scanning and photo tagging feature. Zillow shuts down its house flipping business entirely. Netflix’s foray in...
Tue. 11/02 – Apple Sacrifices iPad Production To Protect The iPhone
Apple is cutting iPad production in order to allocate more components to iPhone production. The Biden administration is getting serious about stableco...
Mon. 11/01 – How Much Money Is Apple’s ATT Costing Snap, Facebook, Et Al?
How Much Money Is Apple’s ATT Costing Snap, Facebook, Twitter and the like? $10B or more? The chip shortage is hitting Apple at the Worst Time. But ne...
Fri. 10/29 – Signs Of A Meta Watch
Tons of meta commentary about the Meta move by Facebook, including the appearance of a Meta smartwatch. Small bit of earnings fallout for Apple and Am...
Thu. 10/28 – Facebook’s New Name Is Meta
Facebook’s new name is… Meta. All the headlines from Facebooks’ Connect event today. Also, is Copilot taking over Github? The new Raspberry Pi device....
Wed. 10/27 – Is Robinhood The Company Doge Made?
Microsoft and Google continued to report earnings that boggle the mind. Meanwhile, Robinhood discovered that if you live by crypto trading revenues, y...
Tue. 10/26 – Facebook Pivots To Youth
Facebook whistles past the ATT graveyard, but Zuckerberg wants to target ‘da yoots.’ Adobe adds support for NFTs. Amazon is coming after Clubhouse, jo...
Mon. 10/25 – Everybody Dumps (Reports) On Facebook
Running down the headlines from all of those Facebook stories that we were promised would land this week. PayPal backs away from Pinterest, Tesla roll...
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