Fri. 09/02 – iPhone Takes The Market Share Crown
The iPhone install base has surpassed the Android install base in the US for the first time basically since Android began. Apple settled with a developer for the first time any of us can remember. Meta signs a VR chip deal with Qualcomm. The really good and really annoying bits of the new USB standard. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Tech Brew Ride Home · Morning Brew
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Show Notes
The iPhone install base has surpassed the Android install base in the US for the first time basically since Android began. Apple settled with a developer for the first time any of us can remember. Meta signs a VR chip deal with Qualcomm. The really good and really annoying bits of the new USB standard. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Links:
- Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US (Financial Times)
- Apple settles lawsuit with developer over App Store rejections and scams (TechCrunch)
- Meta, Qualcomm sign pact on custom virtual reality chips (Reuters)
- Next-gen USB promises to be twice as fast, using cables you may already own (The Verge)
- More USB-C speed won't fix users' problems with cables (Apple Insider)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- An Apple Watch for Your 5-Year-Old? More Parents Say Yes. (NYTimes)
- Interview: Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum (Noahpinion)
- Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion’s Image Generator (Waxy.org)
- The Rise of Tech Blogs in the Mid-2000s (Nirit Weiss-Blatt)
- Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit (BuzzFeed)
- AMAZON’S THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER IS SMALL-SCREEN HIGH FANTASY DONE RIGHT (The Verge)
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