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Spotify abruptly loses its chief content executive ahead of planned IPO
In a seemingly abrupt move, Spotify’s chief content officer has today announced that he will be leaving the music streaming service just ahead of its IPO.
Cosmetics company is making a $50 iPhone accessory to sell you more products
iPhone accessories can do some amazing things in the area of medical diagnosis. But if there’s one thing nobody needs it’s an accessory that shows you a 30x magnified view of your skin in order to sell you beauty products …
LG wins CES Best of Innovation award with ultra-bright, 150-inch 4K HDR projector
LG has won a CES Best of Innovation award with what looks like a stunning new 4K projector. Designed to project an image of 150-inches, it supports the HDR 10 standard for high dynamic range, with the company’s brightest ever image of 2,500 lumens …
Apple product delays have more than doubled under Tim Cook’s watch, says WSJ analysis
Delays between Apple announcing a product and shipping it to customers have more than doubled under Tim Cook’s watch, according to a WSJ analysis.
Of the 70-plus new and updated products launched during Mr. Cook’s tenure, five had a delay between announcement and shipping of three months or more, and nine had delays of between one and three months. Roughly the same number of products were launched during Mr. Jobs’ reign, but only one product was delayed by more than three months.
The averages bear out the paper’s claim, though also illustrate the rather small difference for a typical product launch …
Apple & others say ‘little to no performance hit’ from security mitigations for CPU flaw
Concerns about the performance hit of mitigating the security flaw in Intel, AMD and ARM processors appear to have been dramatically overblown.
The initial report in The Register suggested ‘a ballpark figure of 5-30% slow-down,’ but Intel now says that the performance impact ‘should not be significant,’ with Apple and others agreeing that this is the case …
Report: Uber cofounder & former CEO Travis Kalanick to sell nearly one third of his shares
Apple: All Mac & iOS devices affected by Spectre & Meltdown flaws, but there are ‘no known exploits’
Apple this evening has officially released a statement on the Meltdown and Spectre bugs affecting ARM and Intel processors. In a new support document, Apple says that ‘all Mac systems and iOS devices are affected’ by the vulnerability, but that there are no known exploits impacting customers right now…
Report: Apple Music’s Jimmy Iovine to depart Apple in August
Happy Hour Podcast 154 | Ringing in the New Year, HomePod challenges, and battery saga continues
This week Benjamin and Zac catch up on Apple news since the new year including talk about the iMac Pro accessories and wallpaper, Apple Watch Activity Sharing and Series 3 rebooting in ICUs, the need for a refreshed HomePod pitch before launch, how Alexa compares to Siri today, and Apple’s iPhone battery response.
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