Technology and Society
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Daily Update: Facebook Launches Atlas, News as a Service
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Daily Update: Shame on Bloomberg (and Apple); Apple Refutes Bend-gate; China Mobile Cutting Subsidies
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Don’t Blame Uber
At the risk of painting too broad a stroke, it seems to me that much of the opposition to changes wrought by the Internet undervalue the positive impact said changes have on normal people. For example, people despair over newspapers closing without appreciating the explosion in quality content freely available to anyone anywhere in the […]
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Daily Update: What I Got Wrong About Apple Watch, The Best iPhone Review, German Court Lifts Uber Ban
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Daily Update: American Girl, Minecraft, and the Next Generation of Builders; The Panasonic Cameraphone; China’s Antitrust Crusade
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Daily Update: Google Launches Android One in India, Good News on Patents, Apple’s Payment Strategy
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Daily Update: iPhone Delayed in China, Apple Watch Edition, Xiaomi Could Have Done Worse
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iCloud and Apple’s Founding Myth
From a certain perspective, what is happening to Apple this week is unfair. Both OS X and especially iOS are more secure than their competitors, and Apple has regularly prioritized security over features that customers have demanded. For example, Android has long supported custom keyboards, but Apple is only adding them in iOS 8. The […]
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Daily Update: Apple’s iCloud Press Release, Fantasy Sports Site Raises $70 million, TV’s Golden Age (and Journalism)