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Sonos is saying this was more of a misstep in communication.

New York Times: Names, and their concomitant marketing strategy, aside, today’s launching of the Macintosh by Apple, unlike I.B.M.’s recent introduction of the rather unexceptional PCjr, presages a revolution in personal computing. Like all major innovations, this one entails a … Continued

A baby singing Thunderstruck? Yeah, Dave found the video. We also discuss Apple encryption, as well as fixing and upgrading your Apple Watch.

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There’s a guy like this at almost every successful company, for better or worse.

While First Nations peoples were here long before them, America and Canada are the creation of immigrants. We became who we are today because of people from many places coming together to create these places. While the filmmakers say, “These are not stories with any kind of agenda,” that’s obviously disingenuous. The agenda is subtle but it’s still there. But in my opinion, it’s a good agenda.

At first blush, these hearings seemed like the typical grandstanding by no-nothing politicians. But Cicilline is well respected and knowledgeable. Hopefully, that means his findings will be taken seriously by all involved.

While this is a fairly localized and limited offering, anything that gets people up and active is a good thing. If we had a “connected gym” around us that offered these kinds of incentives, we’d be very interested in checking it out. I love the idea of saving a few bucks on your monthly bill just for going to the gym and working out.

It’s hard to have much sympathy for Bezos but this is a chilling story nonetheless.

There’s been a lot of press/hype about this vehicle over the past couple of days as the media who were blessed with rides and interviews get their articles out. But there’s not nearly enough skepticism, healthy or otherwise, around this particular implementation.

My wife is wanting to get more info on her sleep tracking using the Apple Watch v3. Does anyone use or recommend any of these apps or any that aren’t on the list?

As a photographer, sometimes you get lucky. And sometimes, you work your ass off to get just the right shot. This one is incredible.

I was as “fauxraged” as anyone else when I first saw the “offending” tweet. But, after thinking on it for a couple of days (I know – not doing a hot take is so 20th century) and reading this piece I recognized I have an emotional attachment to books that, while perhaps warranted, isn’t necessary to foist on others who don’t feel the same way.

While not always directly applicable, we can all certainly learn at least a little something from people in these countries.

This is an old post from 2016 but, in light of the recent stories, it shows a couple of things. One, that the issue has been known about for quite some time and two, some of Apple’s rationale for doing it the way they do.

Not an unexpected loss but sad nonetheless. It’s hard if not impossible to overstate Monty Python’s influence on comedy and comedians. Very much like the Beatles in music.

[VIDEO] The ad embedded in the main Loop post shows off the 4″ iPhone form-factor as being perfect for the human hand, and thumb.

I bring this ad up because it is one of the ads unearthed by the Unofficial Apple Archive, which I truly love, but also because of the rumored iPhone SE 2, which I posted about earlier.

Enjoy.

Sonos owners are pissed. But do they have a right to be? I don’t own any Sonos products so I have no dog in the fight.

I’d definitely take number two and three over number 1. As CNET says, “Clearly, curves and topography were not factored in.”

Fascinating if a little (lot?) scary.

This is an interesting case because, on the face of it, you’d think Apple is entirely in the right in saying that an employee can’t spend time “planning his new startup while on company time at Apple, spending hours on the phone with colleagues who eventually joined the venture.”

“The Typewriter for Orchestra” was written by Leroy Anderson in 1950. In this performance, the soloist is Alfredo Anaya, with conductor Miguel Roa, at the Concierto “Voces para la Paz”, Músicos Solidarios, Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid, in 2011. It is one of the silliest performances using a typewriter you’ll ever see.

While I would argue this is a feature that should have been available at launch, it’s good to see it available now for Apple Card users.

The issues being brought up in this piece are not often thought about by the general public and certainly aren’t being addressed by our authorities and/or the companies who sell these products and tools except for them to say, “Trust us.”

Check out all seven of Peart’s Audible books here.

It’s hard to find the full audio or video of the speech (it’s been locked up in litigation for years) but here is a link to the transcription of the speech text. Most people don’t realize that the title of the speech wasn’t in the original prepared text. It wasn’t until the famed Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson yelled out, “Tell ’em about the dream, Martin!” that the Reverend went off script and adlibbed much of the rest of the speech.

King speechwriter Clarence Jones realized what was happening when he saw King “push the text of his prepared remarks to one side,” he wrote in the Washington Post in 2011. “I leaned over and said to the person next to me, ‘These people out there today don’t know it yet, but they’re about ready to go to church.”

Interesting first-time individual win for Aniston. She was up against a strong field in Helena Bonham Carter and Olivia Colman for The Crown, Jodie Comer in Killing Eve, and Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale.

Cook’s not wrong but trying to overhaul the entire global system may be a task worth of Sisyphus.

Twitter user @uzbadyubi has never seen the classic film, Princess Bride. So they took to Twitter to livestream their reaction to it and it is comedy gold.

Apple is attending the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour and has announced several new programs.

Dave and I talk about Neil Peart, Rush’s drummer who died last week, as well as NBC adding a new streaming service and a bad AirPods Pro update.

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