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+ "version" : "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1",
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+ "title" : "Daring Fireball",
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+ "home_page_url" : "https://daringfireball.net/",
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+ "feed_url" : "https://daringfireball.net/feeds/json",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "url" : "https://twitter.com/gruber",
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "icon" : "https://daringfireball.net/graphics/apple-touch-icon.png",
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+ "favicon" : "https://daringfireball.net/graphics/favicon-64.png",
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+ "items" : [
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Stashword",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-20T19:23:06Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-20T19:23:08Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/stashword",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/stashword",
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+ "external_url" : "http://df.stashword.com/",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>My thanks to Stashword for sponsoring this week&#8217;s DF RSS feed. Stashword is simple but feature-rich password manager for iOS and the web. In addition to passwords, Stashword can securely save notes, financial information, and more. You can even scan and save documents like your drivers license, insurance documentation, and passport.</p>\n\n<p>Stashword is free to try for 15 days. Paid membership enables you to synchronize across all your devices and <a href=\"http://df.stashword.com/\">their website</a>. As a special offer for Daring Fireball readers, through May 25 annual membership is just $7.99, which is 20 percent off the regular price.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Stashword’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/stashword\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ {
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+ "title" : "MacStories’s iOS 11 iPad Wishes and Concept Video",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-20T19:10:48Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-20T19:10:50Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/macstories-ios-11-concept",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/macstories-ios-11-concept",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-11-ipad-wishes-and-concept-video/",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Federico Viticci:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about some of these ideas since iOS 9 (you can\nsee a thread between <a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=J2VcbT4Pgdk\">my iOS 10 concept</a> and this year&#8217;s version),\nwhile others would be a natural evolution for iOS on the iPad.\nOnce again, Sam was able to visualize everything with a fantastic\nconcept that, I believe, captures the iPad&#8217;s big-picture potential\nmore accurately than last year.</p>\n\n<p>Below, you&#8217;ll find our <a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=UyFUDQ5LLZw\">iOS 11 for iPad concept video</a>, followed by\nan analysis of my iPad wishes with static mockups. I focused on\nfoundational changes to the iPad&#8217;s software &#8212; tentpole features\nthat would affect the entire OS and app ecosystem.</p>\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a prediction of what Apple will announce at WWDC; it&#8217;s\nmy vision for what the future of the iPad should be.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Viticci and Beckett put months of work into this, and it shows. Some of the ideas they present: system-wide drag-and-drop, a Finder app, a redesigned App Store, and much more.</p>\n\n<p>The best part of this feature isn&#8217;t any specific idea, but rather Viticci&#8217;s profound enthusiasm for the iPad as a platform.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘MacStories&#8217;s iOS 11 iPad Wishes and Concept Video’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/macstories-ios-11-concept\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ "title" : "10-Year-Old Open Letter Calling for Apple to Make Glucose Monitors",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-20T19:00:18Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-20T19:26:36Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/open-letter-apple-glucose",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/open-letter-apple-glucose",
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+ "external_url" : "http://www.healthline.com/health/diabetesmine/innovation/open-letter-steve-jobs",
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Amy Tenderich, 10 years ago, in an open letter to Steve Jobs:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>If insulin pumps or continuous monitors had the form of an iPod\nNano, people wouldn&#8217;t have to wonder why we wear our &#8220;pagers&#8221; to\nour own weddings, or puzzle over that strange bulge under our\nclothes. If these devices wouldn&#8217;t start suddenly and incessantly\nbeeping, strangers wouldn&#8217;t lecture us to turn off our &#8220;cell\nphones&#8221; at the movie theater.</p>\n\n<p>In short, medical device manufacturers are stuck in a bygone era;\nthey continue to design these products in an engineering-driven,\nphysician-centered bubble. They have not yet grasped the concept\nthat medical devices are also life devices, and therefore need to\nfeel good and look good for the patients using them 24/7, in\naddition to keeping us alive.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>(<a href=\"http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-10-22/features/sc-health-1020-diabetes-insulin-devic20101022_1_insulin-dependent-diabetics-high-blood-glucose-levels-blood-sugar\">Follow-up here in 2010</a>.)</p>\n\n<p>This was incredibly prescient, given the rumors <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/apple-watch-glucose\">that Apple is working on continuous non-invasive glucose monitoring</a> for Apple Watch. Jobs didn&#8217;t live to see it, but I think it&#8217;s exactly the sort of thing he would be pushing for if he were still alive.</p>\n\n<p>From chapter 37 of <a href=\"https://itun.es/us/QyFUz.l\">Walter Isaacson&#8217;s <em>Steve Jobs</em></a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Even when he was barely conscious, his strong personality came\nthrough. At one point the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over\nhis face when he was deeply sedated. Jobs ripped it off and\nmumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it. Though\nbarely able to speak, he ordered them to bring five different\noptions for the mask and he would pick a design he liked. The\ndoctors looked at Powell, puzzled. She was finally able to\ndistract him so they could put on the mask. He also hated the\noxygen monitor they put on his finger. He told them it was ugly\nand too complex. He suggested ways it could be designed more\nsimply. “He was very attuned to every nuance of the environment\nand objects around him, and that drained him,” Powell recalled.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘10-Year-Old Open Letter Calling for Apple to Make Glucose Monitors’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/open-letter-apple-glucose\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ "title" : "Scott Gilbertson: ‘Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web’",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-20T18:18:19Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-20T19:28:43Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/gilbertson-amp",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/gilbertson-amp",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/",
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Scott Gilbertson, writing for The Register:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Quite a few high-profile web developers have this year weighted in\nwith <a href=\"https://danielmiessler.com/blog/google-amp-not-good-thing/\">criticism</a> and some, following a Google conference dedicated\nto AMP, have cautioned users about diving in with <a href=\"https://css-tricks.com/need-catch-amp-debate/\">both feet</a>.</p>\n\n<p>These, in my view, don’t go far enough in stating the problem and\nI feel this needs to be said very clearly: Google&#8217;s AMP is bad &#8212;\nbad in a potentially web-destroying way. Google AMP is bad news\nfor how the web is built, it&#8217;s bad news for publishers of credible\nonline content, and it&#8217;s bad news for consumers of that content.\nGoogle AMP is only good for one party: Google. Google, and\npossibly, purveyors of fake news.</p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s time for developers to wake up and, as Jason Scott <a href=\"http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3086\">once said</a>\nof Facebook, stop: &#8220;Shoveling down the shit sherbet&#8221; Google is now\nserving with AMP.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/01/17/schreiber-amp\">I&#8217;m on the record</a> as being strongly opposed to AMP simply on the grounds of publication independence. I&#8217;d stand by that even if the implementation were great. But the implementation is not great &#8212; it&#8217;s terrible. Yes, AMP pages load fast, but you don&#8217;t need AMP for fast-loading web pages. If you are a publisher and your web pages don&#8217;t load fast, the sane solution is to <a href=\"http://idlewords.com/amp_static.html\">fix your fucking website so that pages load fast</a>, not to throw your hands up in the air and implement AMP.</p>\n\n<p>But other than loading fast, AMP <em>sucks</em>. It implements its own scrolling behavior on iOS, which feels unnatural, and even worse, it breaks the decade-old system-wide iOS behavior of being able to tap the status bar to scroll to the top of any scrollable view. AMP also completely breaks Safari&#8217;s ability to search for text on a page (via the &#8220;Find on Page&#8221; action in the sharing sheet). Google has no respect for the platform. If I had my way, Mobile Safari would refuse to render AMP pages. It&#8217;s a deliberate effort by Google to break the open web.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Scott Gilbertson: &#8216;Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web&#8217;’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/gilbertson-amp\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ "title" : "Arctic Stronghold of World’s Seeds Flooded After Permafrost Melts",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-20T17:52:14Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-21T03:41:34Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/global-seed-vault",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/global-seed-vault",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-stronghold-of-worlds-seeds-flooded-after-permafrost-melts?CMP=twt_gu",
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Damian Carrington, reporting for The Guardian:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the\nworld’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure\nhumanity’s food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried\nin a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached\nafter global warming produced extraordinary temperatures over the\nwinter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>The big takeaway from this should be that climate change truly is a threat to civilization. But, I have to say, that melting permafrost wasn&#8217;t taken into consideration during the design of this vault seems like a glaring oversight.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Update:</strong> Looks like The Guardian might have shamelessly sensationalized this story. <a href=\"http://www.popsci.com/seed-vault-flooding?src=SOC&amp;dom=tw#page-3\">Mary Beth Griggs, reporting for Popular Science</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>“If there was a worst case scenario where there was so much water,\nor the pumping systems failed, that it made its way uphill to the\nseed vault, then it would encounter minus 18 [degrees celsius] and\nfreeze again. Then there’s another barrier [the ice] for entry\ninto the seed vault,” Fowler says. In other words, any water that\nfloods into the tunnel has to make it 100 meters downhill, then\nback uphill, then overwhelm the pumping systems, and then manage\nnot to freeze at well-below-freezing temperatures. Otherwise,\nthere&#8217;s no way liquid is getting into the seed bank &#8212; so the\nseeds are probably safe. [&#8230;]</p>\n\n<p>Still worried? Maybe this will help you exhale: “We did this\ncalculation; if all the ice in the world melted &#8212; Greenland,\nArctic, Antarctic, everything &#8212; and then we had the world&#8217;s\nlargest recorded tsunami right in front of the seed vault. So,\nvery high sea levels and the worlds largest Tsunami. What would\nhappen to the seed vault?” Fowler says. “We found that the seed\nvault was somewhere between a five and seven story building above\nthat point. It might not help the road leading up to the seed\nvault, but the seeds themselves would be OK.&#8221;</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Sounds like the vault itself <em>is</em> designed to survive a climate apocalypse &#8212; it&#8217;s just the entry that isn&#8217;t.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Arctic Stronghold of World’s Seeds Flooded After Permafrost Melts’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/global-seed-vault\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ "title" : "‘It’s Borderline Stupid How Easy It Was’",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-19T20:07:02Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-19T20:13:21Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/19/json-feed-jekyll",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/19/json-feed-jekyll",
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+ "external_url" : "https://ndarville.com/blog/2017/05/19/json-feed-for-jekyll/",
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Niclas Darville, on creating a JSON Feed template for Jekyll:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>It literally took me longer to write this blog post than the JSON\nfeed code, because I couldn’t get Jekyll to escape the Liquid code\nexample.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>On Twitter, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/pessimism/status/865574252182990848\">Darville wrote</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>One of the best things about <a href=\"https://twitter.com/@jsonfeed\">@jsonfeed</a> is how well it works as a\nHello World kind of programming exercise.</p>\n\n<p>Sure beats to-do lists.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/JmacDotOrg/status/865441060176121856\">Jason McIntosh described</a> adding JSON Feed support to his home-grown blog engine as a &#8220;blowing-off-steam project&#8221;.</p>\n\n<p>These reactions are exactly what I mean about JSON Feed being <em>fun</em>. There&#8217;s a time and place for specs that are drop-dead serious, but I think it&#8217;s often overlooked just how important <em>fun</em> can be in having a new spec gain traction.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘&#8216;It’s Borderline Stupid How Easy It Was&#8217;’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/19/json-feed-jekyll\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ "title" : "Headline of the Week",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-19T19:41:15Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-20T04:12:08Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/19/trump-nut-job",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/19/trump-nut-job",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html",
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Actual headline in the staid New York Times: &#8220;Trump Told Russians That Firing ‘Nut Job’ Comey Eased Pressure From Investigation&#8221;.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Headline of the Week’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/19/trump-nut-job\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ "title" : "Requiring Facebook",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-19T07:02:39Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/requiring-facebook",
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+ "external_url" : "https://thebolditalic.com/facebook-goes-full-black-mirror-how-facebook-is-making-membership-a-prerequisite-to-everyday-e88fb03b0eb9",
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Jason Ditzian, writing for The Bold Italic on what happened when the car sharing service he&#8217;d been using for 10 years was acquired:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>However, City CarShare was recently bought by a corporation,\nGetaround. And Getaround built its platform on top of Facebook. So\nwhen I went to migrate my account over to them, I found that\nthere’s literally no way to do it as a non-Facebook user. If I\nwant to share cars with my fellow city dwellers, I’m compelled to\nstrike a Faustian bargain.</p>\n\n<p>To access the services of Getaround, one must authenticate their\nidentity through Facebook. [&#8230;]</p>\n\n<p>I know that for you Facebook-having people, this is no big deal.\nYou have resigned yourself to the idea of Facebook owning your\ndata. But if you don’t, haven’t and/or won’t resign to this fate,\nyou might end up left, like me, in a peculiar situation: the price\nof “sharing” a car equals money plus forking over a huge trove of\npersonal data. Personal information is supplanting money as a form\nof currency.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>There&#8217;s clearly a problem here, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s Facebook&#8217;s fault. I think the problem is that Getaround sucks.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Requiring Facebook’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/requiring-facebook\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ "title" : "FCC Votes to Begin Dismantling Net Neutrality",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/net-neutrality",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170517/12241437395/fcc-ignores-will-public-votes-to-begin-dismantling-net-neutrality.shtml",
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Karl Bode, writing for TechDirt:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Surprising absolutely nobody, the FCC today voted 2-1 along strict\nparty lines to begin dismantling net neutrality protections for\nconsumers. The move comes despite the fact that the <a href=\"https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170516/06570237379/time-fcc-to-actually-listen-vast-majority-fcc-commenters-support-net-neutrality.shtml\">vast\nmajority</a> of non-bot comments filed with the FCC support\nkeeping the rules intact. And while FCC boss Ajit Pai has\nbreathlessly insisted he intended to listen to the concerns of all\nparties involved, there has been zero indication that this was a\nserious commitment as he begins <a href=\"https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170206/06403236642/new-fcc-boss-ajit-pai-insists-hes-all-about-helping-poor-gets-right-to-work-harming-them-instead.shtml\">dismantling all manner of\nbroadband consumer protections</a>, not just net neutrality.</p>\n\n<p>As you might have expected, the FCC was quick to release a\nstatement claiming that gutting the popular consumer protections\nwould usher forth a magical age of connectivity, investment, and\ninnovation.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>(<a href=\"https://pxlnv.com/linklog/fcc-vote-may-18/\">Via Nick Heer</a>.)</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘FCC Votes to Begin Dismantling Net Neutrality’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/net-neutrality\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ "title" : "‘You Know My Name’",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-18T22:24:56Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/cornell-casino-royale",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/cornell-casino-royale",
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>One of my very favorite songs from Chris Cornell &#8212; the opening credits theme to <em>Casino Royale</em>. A great song that just fits the movie so damn well.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘&#8216;You Know My Name&#8217;’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/cornell-casino-royale\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ "title" : "Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, Dead at 52",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-19T07:17:15Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/cornell",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/arts/music/chris-cornell-dead-soundgarden.html?_r=0",
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>The New York Times:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Chris Cornell, the powerful, dynamic singer whose band Soundgarden\nwas one of the architects of grunge music, died on Wednesday night\nin Detroit hours after the band had performed there. He was 52.</p>\n\n<p>The death was a suicide by hanging, the Wayne County Medical\nExaminer’s Office said in a statement released on Thursday\nafternoon. It said a full autopsy had not yet been completed.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Fuck.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, Dead at 52’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/cornell\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ {
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+ "title" : "jq",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-18T20:40:38Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-18T20:40:40Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/jq",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/jq",
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+ "external_url" : "https://stedolan.github.io/jq/",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>There&#8217;s a cool command-line JSON processor called <code>jq</code> &#8212; easily installed on a Mac via download or <a href=\"https://brew.sh/\">Homebrew</a>, and even more easily tinkered with using <a href=\"https://jqplay.org/\">the online playground</a>. Here&#8217;s how easy <code>jq</code> makes it to get, say, a list of the titles from DF&#8217;s <a href=\"https://jsonfeed.org/\">JSON feed</a>:</p>\n\n<pre><code>curl -s https://daringfireball.net/feeds/json | jq '.items[].title'\n</code></pre>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘jq’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/jq\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ {
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+ "title" : "The World’s First JSON Feed Viewer",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-18T20:32:06Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-18T20:39:47Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/maxime-vaillancourt-json-feed-viewer",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/maxime-vaillancourt-json-feed-viewer",
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+ "external_url" : "https://twitter.com/vaillancourtmax/status/865291487881383937",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Maxime Vaillancourt:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Here&#8217;s a tiny proof of concept for a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/@jsonfeed\">@jsonfeed</a> viewer, built in an\nhour: <a href=\"http://json-feed-viewer.herokuapp.com\">http://json-feed-viewer.herokuapp.com</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>One of the things I love about <a href=\"https://jsonfeed.org/\">JSON Feed</a> is that it&#8217;s <em>fun</em>. JSON is so simple, and so well-supported by almost all programming languages, that you can build something interesting in just a few minutes, and something useful in an hour. There was <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14361178\">a comment</a> on the Hacker News thread about JSON Feed that I loved:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>It is very likely than I am an idiot, but I&#8217;ve always found\nparsing XML too hard, specially compared to JSON which is almost\ntoo easy.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>&#8220;Almost too easy&#8221; are three words no one has ever said about XML.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘The World&#8217;s First JSON Feed Viewer’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/maxime-vaillancourt-json-feed-viewer\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Apple Is Testing an Apple Watch Glucose Monitor",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-18T20:24:52Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-18T20:24:54Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/apple-watch-glucose",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/apple-watch-glucose",
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+ "external_url" : "http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/18/apple-ceo-tim-cook-test-drove-glucose-monitor.html",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Christina Farr, reporting for CNBC:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Tim Cook has been spotted at the Apple campus test-driving a\ndevice that tracks blood sugar, which was connected to his\nApple Watch.</p>\n\n<p>A source said that Cook was wearing a prototype glucose-tracker on\nthe Apple Watch, which points to future applications that would\nmake the device a &#8220;must have&#8221; for millions of people with diabetes\n&#8212; or at risk for the disease.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/12/apple-working-on-glucose-sensors-diabetes-treatment.html\">As CNBC reported last month</a>, Apple has a team in Palo Alto\nworking on the &#8220;holy grail&#8221; for diabetes: Non-invasive and\ncontinuous glucose monitoring. The current glucose trackers on the\nmarket rely on tiny sensors penetrating the skin. Sources said the\ncompany is already conducting feasibility trials in the Bay Area.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Non-invasive continuous glucose monitoring would be a life-changer for anyone with diabetes. But I can&#8217;t even imagine how life-changing this will be for kids with diabetes and their parents.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Apple Is Testing an Apple Watch Glucose Monitor’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/apple-watch-glucose\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "CMD-D: Masters of Automation Conference",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-18T19:53:32Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-18T19:53:34Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/cmd-d-conference",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/cmd-d-conference",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.cmddconf.com/",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>This sounds very cool: a one-day conference in August devoted to Mac and iOS scripting and automation, hosted by Paul Kent, Naomi Pearce, and Sal Soghoian.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘CMD-D: Masters of Automation Conference’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/cmd-d-conference\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Final Cut Pro X and Closed Captions",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-18T16:42:06Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-18T16:42:07Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/fcpx-closed-captions",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/fcpx-closed-captions",
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+ "external_url" : "http://hammonwry.com/forgotten-again/",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Kevin Hamm:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Captions can be just text at timecode, which is simple. In their\nmost complex, they are styled, located text at timecode. That’s\nit. Nothing more. I work in text and titles and timecode every day\nin every video I do, so there is no reason that this simple\nfunction isn’t baked in at this point. Words at timecode. That’s\nall it is.</p>\n\n<p>That Apple is making their systems and products accessible is\ngreat. Xcode grants programmers the ability to build accessible\napps, and has from the beginning, which is even better as it makes\na massive part of the ecosystem accessible.</p>\n\n<p>That Final Cut Pro hasn’t ever and still doesn’t create closed\ncaptions is a smudge on that image.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>It seems bonkers to me that Final Cut Pro X doesn&#8217;t have support for closed captions. Coming from Apple, you&#8217;d think it would have <em>excellent</em> support for them. How does Apple create closed captions for their own videos?</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Final Cut Pro X and Closed Captions’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/fcpx-closed-captions\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Source Code for Panic Apps Stolen By Malware Thieves",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-17T18:26:52Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-18T00:08:29Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/panic-handbrake-thieves",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/panic-handbrake-thieves",
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+ "external_url" : "https://panic.com/blog/stolen-source-code/",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Steven Frank:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Last week, for about three days, <a href=\"https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/mac-threat-analysis/2017/05/handbrake-hacked-to-drop-new-variant-of-proton-malware/\">the macOS video transcoding app\nHandBrake</a> was compromised. One of the two download servers for\nHandBrake was serving up a special malware-infested version of the\napp, that, when launched, would essentially give hackers remote\ncontrol of your computer.</p>\n\n<p>In a case of extraordinarily bad luck, even for a guy that has a\nlot of bad computer luck, I happened to download HandBrake in that\nthree day window, and my work Mac got pwned.</p>\n\n<p>Long story short, <em>somebody, somewhere, now has quite a bit of\nsource code to several of our apps</em>.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>This is one hell of a story and quite a shock, but the crew at Panic kept their heads together and did the right thing: they&#8217;ve opened up completely and honestly, refused to deal with the blackmailer, and I think they are correctly unworried about their source code being leaked publicly.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Source Code for Panic Apps Stolen By Malware Thieves’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/panic-handbrake-thieves\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Dave Itzkoff Profiles Jimmy Fallon for The New York Times",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-17T17:33:40Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-17T17:33:41Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/itzkoff-fallon",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/itzkoff-fallon",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-interview-trump.html",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Fascinating behind-the-scenes look at The Tonight Show, including a look inside Fallon&#8217;s briefcase (he&#8217;s got a Nintendo Switch in there).</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Dave Itzkoff Profiles Jimmy Fallon for The New York Times’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/itzkoff-fallon\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Announcing JSON Feed",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-17T17:24:53Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-17T17:56:42Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/json-feed",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/json-feed",
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+ "external_url" : "https://jsonfeed.org/2017/05/17/announcing_json_feed",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Brent Simmons and Manton Reece:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>We &#8212; Manton Reece and Brent Simmons &#8212; have noticed that JSON has\nbecome the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will\noften go out of their way to avoid XML. JSON is simpler to read\nand write, and it’s less prone to bugs.</p>\n\n<p>So we developed JSON Feed, a format similar to <a href=\"http://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html\">RSS</a> and <a href=\"https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287\">Atom</a> but in\nJSON. It reflects the lessons learned from our years of work\nreading and publishing feeds.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I think this is a great idea, and a good spec. I even like the style in which <a href=\"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1\">the spec</a> is written: for real humans (much like the RSS spec). If you want to see a real-life example, <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/feeds/json\">Daring Fireball has a JSON Feed</a>. I&#8217;ve got a good feeling about this project &#8212; the same sort of feeling I had <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/2004/03/introducing_markdown\">about Markdown</a> <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/2004/03/dive_into_markdown\">back in the day</a>.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Announcing JSON Feed’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/json-feed\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "New Apple Videos Highlight Real-World Accessibility",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-17T06:03:01Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-17T06:17:10Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/accessibility-apple",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/accessibility-apple",
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+ "external_url" : "http://mashable.com/2017/05/17/apple-accessibility-videos-disability/",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Nice piece for Mashable by Katie Dupere on <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/Apple/videos\">a bunch of new videos in Apple&#8217;s YouTube channel</a>, highlighting real-world usage of iOS and MacOS accessibility features. People who can&#8217;t move, people who can&#8217;t talk, people who can&#8217;t see or hear &#8212; doing amazing things. Apple&#8217;s commitment to accessibility is one of my very favorite things about the company. It&#8217;s not just the right thing to do for people who truly need these features &#8212; it makes the products better for everyone.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Update:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.loopinsight.com/2017/05/16/apple-videos-highlight-accessibility-achievements/?utm_source=loopinsight.com/\">Jim Dalrymple has all 7 videos collected on one page</a>.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘New Apple Videos Highlight Real-World Accessibility’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/accessibility-apple\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-17T05:20:45Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-17T05:20:47Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/lyft-google",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/lyft-google",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/14/technology/lyft-waymo-self-driving-cars.html",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Mike Isaac, writing for The New York Times:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Waymo, the self-driving car unit that operates under Google’s\nparent company, has signed a deal with the ride-hailing start-up\nLyft, according to two people familiar with the agreement who\nspoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not\nauthorized to speak publicly. The deal calls for the companies to\nwork together to bring autonomous vehicle technology into the\nmainstream through pilot projects and product development efforts,\nthese people said.</p>\n\n<p>The deal was confirmed by Lyft and Waymo.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Who knows, maybe Google would have made this same deal with Lyft even in the alternate universe where Uber didn&#8217;t steal Google&#8217;s tech. But it sure looks like Uber has made a powerful enemy.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/lyft-google\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Long Live MP3",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-17T05:03:28Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-17T16:28:11Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/long-live-mp3",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/long-live-mp3",
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+ "external_url" : "https://marco.org/2017/05/15/mp3-isnt-dead",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Marco Arment:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Until a few weeks ago, there had never been an audio format that\nwas small enough to be practical, widely supported, and had no\npatent restrictions, forcing <a href=\"http://shaver.off.net/diary/2010/01/23/html5-video-and-codecs/\">difficult choices</a> and <a href=\"http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4923136/why-doesnt-firefox-support-the-mp3-file-format-in-audio\">needless\nfriction</a> upon the computing world. Now, at least for audio,\nthat friction has officially ended. There’s finally a great choice\nwithout asterisks.</p>\n\n<p><em>MP3 is supported by everything, everywhere, and is now\npatent-free.</em></p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t paying attention last week when <a href=\"http://gizmodo.com/developers-of-the-mp3-have-officially-killed-it-1795205540\">Gizmodo</a>, <a href=\"https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/12/mp3-is-dead-long-live-aac/\">Engadget</a>, and <a href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/05/11/527829909/the-mp3-is-officially-dead-according-to-its-creators\">NPR</a> got hoodwinked into writing &#8220;MP3 Is Dead&#8221; stories by an announcement from Fraunhofer pushing people to switch from the now-open MP3 to the still-patent-encumbered AAC.</p>\n\n<p>On Twitter, Marco pointed to <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/2007/04/some_facts_about_aac\">this 10-year-old piece from yours truly</a>, describing the then-pipe-dream of Ogg Vorbis:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>The ideal scenario would be for a genuinely open and free file\nformat such as Ogg Vorbis to supplant MP3 as the de facto world\nstandard. No patents, no licensing fees, a documented file format,\nopen source libraries for encoding and decoding. That doesn’t seem\nto be in the cards, however. In the real world, major corporations\nonly seem comfortable with multimedia formats backed by other\nlarge corporations.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Now that the MP3 patents have expired, the situation is even better, because MP3 has been so thoroughly vetted, patent-wise. Idealism seldom wins out in these format battles. But time always wins.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Long Live MP3’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/long-live-mp3\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Engadget: ‘The First Television With Amazon Fire TV Built in Is Just Fine’",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-17T03:52:36Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-17T03:52:38Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/fire-tv",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/fire-tv",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/16/amazon-fire-tv-built-in-4k-tv/",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>I think the big news isn&#8217;t that there&#8217;s a cheap TV with Fire built-in &#8212; it&#8217;s that Amazon is promoting it heavily on their home page. Google&#8217;s home page is probably <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/11/06/google-advertising\">still</a> the most valuable advertising real estate on the Internet, but Amazon&#8217;s is almost certainly more valuable for selling consumer goods, because people visiting Amazon are ready to buy.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Engadget: &#8216;The First Television With Amazon Fire TV Built in Is Just Fine&#8217;’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/fire-tv\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Loog Guitars",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-16T20:27:46Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-20T03:46:03Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/loog",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/loog",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/loog/loog-pro-and-loog-mini-the-ultimate-beginners-guit",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Rafael Atijas, founder of Loog Guitars:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Loog Guitars are small, 3-string guitars designed to make it fun\nand easy for anyone to play music. They come with flashcards and\nan app that get you playing songs on day one.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know much about guitars, but these look cool, the prices seem very reasonable, and <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/loog-academy/id1068590682?mt=8\">the app</a> looks great. It&#8217;s a Kickstarter project, but it&#8217;s already fully-funded (several times over) and they expect to start shipping next month.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Loog Guitars’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/loog\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Today at Apple Launches",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-16T19:44:34Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-17T16:27:58Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/today-at-apple",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/today-at-apple",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.apple.com/today/",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Educational classes, photo walks, and more &#8212; from your local Apple Store. This, I think, is Angela Ahrendts&#8217;s biggest project at Apple to date. This is not just a program for the major flagship stores &#8212; it&#8217;s a program for every single Apple Store around the world. <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/04/26/today-at-apple\">As I wrote a few weeks ago</a>, Apple&#8217;s retail stores are one of the most overlooked / underestimated advantages in all of technology.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/16/apple-launches-a-new-website-for-its-expanded-set-of-educational-classes-now-open-for-sign-ups/\">Via Sarah Perez</a>, whose TechCrunch story points out that &#8220;The launch kicking off this week includes 4,000 sessions per day across Apple’s stores.&#8221;</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Today at Apple Launches’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/today-at-apple\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Steven Levy Tours Apple Park",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-16T19:03:18Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-16T19:03:20Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/levy-apple-park",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/levy-apple-park",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.wired.com/2017/05/apple-park-new-silicon-valley-campus",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Steven Levy, writing for Wired:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>On a crisp and clear March day, more than five years after Jobs’\ndeath, I’m seated next to Jonathan Ive in the back of a Jeep\nWrangler as we prepare to tour the nearly completed Apple Park,\nthe name recently bestowed on the campus that Jobs pitched to the\nCupertino City Council in 2011. At 50, Apple’s design chieftain\nstill looks like the rugby player he once was, and he remains,\ndespite fame, fortune, and a knighthood, the same soft-spoken Brit\nI met almost 20 years ago. We are both wearing white hard hats\nwith a silver Apple logo above the brim; Ive’s is personalized\nwith “Jony” underneath the iconic symbol. Dan Whisenhunt, the\ncompany’s head of facilities and a de facto manager of the\nproject, comes with us. He too has a personalized hat. It is an\nactive construction site on a tight deadline &#8212; the first\noccupants are supposedly moving in within 30 days of my visit,\nwith 500 new employees arriving every week thereafter &#8212; and I\nfelt a bit like one of the passengers on the first ride into\nJurassic Park.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Fantastic piece. Hard not to get a little choked up thinking about it as Steve Jobs&#8217;s final product:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>“Could we have cut a corner here or there?” Cook asks\nrhetorically. “It wouldn’t have been Apple. And it wouldn’t have\nsent the message to everybody working here every day that detail\nmatters, that care matters.” That was what Jobs wanted &#8212; what he\nalways wanted. And the current leaders of Apple are determined\nnot to disappoint him in what is arguably his biggest, and is\ncertainly his last, product launch. “I revere him,” Cook says.\n“And this was clearly his vision, his concept. Our biggest\nproject ever.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Steven Levy Tours Apple Park’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/levy-apple-park\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "When the World Is Led by a Child",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-16T16:40:49Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-16T16:40:51Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/trump-brooks",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/trump-brooks",
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+ "external_url" : "https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/opinion/trump-classified-data.html?referer=https://t.co/nBwtm1zsnd",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>David Brooks has the line of the day:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic\npowers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a\nguy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly\nin a jar.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘When the World Is Led by a Child’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/trump-brooks\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "The Washington Post: ‘Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information to Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador’",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-15T22:13:00Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-15T22:15:57Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/15/trump-russia",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/15/trump-russia",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Greg Miller and Greg Jaffe, reporting for The Washington Post:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>In his meeting with Lavrov, Trump seemed to be boasting about his\ninside knowledge of the looming threat. “I get great intel. I have\npeople brief me on great intel every day,” the president said,\naccording to an official with knowledge of the exchange.</p>\n\n<p>Trump went on to discuss aspects of the threat that the United\nStates learned only through the espionage capabilities of a key\npartner. He did not reveal the specific intelligence-gathering\nmethod, but he described how the Islamic State was pursuing\nelements of a specific plot and how much harm such an attack could\ncause under varying circumstances. Most alarmingly, officials\nsaid, Trump revealed the city in the Islamic State’s territory\nwhere the U.S. intelligence partner detected the threat.</p>\n\n<p>The Washington Post is withholding most plot details, including\nthe name of the city, at the urging of officials who warned that\nrevealing them would jeopardize important intelligence\ncapabilities.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Is Trump a Russian collaborator? A bumbling idiot? Both? No matter what the answer is, he&#8217;s unfit to be president. This would be comical if the stakes weren&#8217;t so high. If a cabinet secretary had blabbed about this they&#8217;d be fired on the spot.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘The Washington Post: &#8216;Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information to Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador&#8217;’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/15/trump-russia\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Derek Jeter on Why He Started the Players’ Tribune",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-15T21:37:06Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-15T21:37:07Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/15/jeter-players-tribune",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/15/jeter-players-tribune",
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+ "external_url" : "https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/15/derek-jeter-on-why-he-started-the-players-tribune/",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Matthew Panzarino did a terrific job with this interview with co-founders Derek Jeter and Jaymee Messler, on stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York. (Matthew very kindly set me up with backstage passes &#8212; one for me, and one for my son. Very cool.)</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Derek Jeter on Why He Started the Players’ Tribune’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/15/jeter-players-tribune\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "[Sponsor] Stashword iOS App and Website",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-15T18:52:31-04:00",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-20T15:34:13-04:00",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/2017/05/stashword_ios_app_and_website",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/2017/05/stashword_ios_app_and_website",
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+ "external_url" : "http://df.stashword.com/",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "Daring Fireball Department of Commerce"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Stashword&#8217;s iOS app is a simple yet feature rich password manager trusted by thousands of users. Stashword is not just an incredible password manager, it is also a secure digital vault where you can save, organize and share notes, codes, bank information, credit cards, and more. You can even scan and save documents such as your drivers license, insurance, passport etc.</p>\n\n<p>Stashword is free to try for 15 days. Paid membership enables you to synchronize across all your devices and use their full-featured website <a href=\"http://www.stashword.com/\">www.stashword.com</a>. For this week only, yearly membership is $7.99, which is 20 percent off the regular price.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Stashword iOS App and Website’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/2017/05/stashword_ios_app_and_website\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Derek Jeter Day",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-14T21:51:04Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-14T21:51:07Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/14/derek-jeter-day",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/14/derek-jeter-day",
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+ "external_url" : "https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/863790962291724288",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>ESPN:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Derek Jeter is the only player in MLB history to play 20+ years\nwithout experiencing a single losing season .</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/Budweiser/status/863002484838739970\">Great ad from Budweiser</a> celebrating Jeter&#8217;s number getting retired today.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Derek Jeter Day’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/14/derek-jeter-day\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "The Talk Show: ‘Anything Luxury’",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-14T20:03:52Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-14T20:03:53Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/14/the-talk-show-190",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/14/the-talk-show-190",
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+ "external_url" : "https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2017/05/13/ep-190",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>For your weekend listening pleasure, a new episode of The Talk Show, featuring special guest Ben Thompson. Topics include Microsoft&#8217;s announcements from Build 2017, search engines, Amazon&#8217;s new (confusingly-named) Look and Show devices, the need for HAL 9000, Apple&#8217;s WeChat problem in China, and more.</p>\n\n<p>Brought to you by these fine sponsors:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://pingdom.com/lp/talkshow\">Pingdom</a>: Uptime and performance monitoring made easy. Use code <strong>THETALKSHOW</strong> for 20 percent off.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://squarespace.com/talkshow\">Squarespace</a>: Build it beautiful. Use code <strong>gruber</strong> for 10 percent off your first order.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.fractureme.com/podcast\">Fracture</a>: Your pictures, printed directly on glass.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘The Talk Show: &#8216;Anything Luxury&#8217;’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/14/the-talk-show-190\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Squarespace: Customizable Design",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-13T20:57:21Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-13T20:57:24Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/13/squarespace",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/13/squarespace",
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+ "external_url" : "http://bit.ly/2kx5Ax5",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>My thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring this week&#8217;s DF RSS feed. Squarespace is the simplest way to create a beautiful website. Every template is customizable, so you can make it your own. Add a portfolio to showcase your work, a store to sell your products or services, a blog to share your ideas, and more. Start now — you can try Squarespace for free. When you’re ready to subscribe, get 10 percent off at <a href=\"http://bit.ly/2kx5Ax5\">squarespace.com</a> with offer code DARING17.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Squarespace: Customizable Design’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/13/squarespace\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Malware, Described in Leaked NSA Documents, Cripples Computers Worldwide",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-12T22:44:35Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-12T22:44:37Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/nsa-ransomware",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/nsa-ransomware",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/hospitals-across-england-report-it-failure-amid-suspected-major-cyber-attack/2017/05/12/84e3dc5e-3723-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>The Washington Post:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Cybersecurity experts said the malicious software works by\nexploiting a flaw in Microsoft software that was described in NSA\ndocuments stolen from the agency and leaked publicly in April by a\ncriminal group called Shadow Brokers.</p>\n\n<p>Microsoft released a “critical” patch fixing the flaw in March,\nbefore the NSA documents were publicly released, but the patch was\napparently applied inconsistently, with many computers continuing\nto be unprotected. The malicious software &#8212; called “ransomware”\nbecause it encrypts systems and threatens to destroy data if a\nransom is not paid &#8212; is spreading among computers that have not\nbeen patched, experts said.</p>\n\n<p>The NSA did not respond to requests for comment.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Remember last year when a whole bunch of people wanted Apple to create a special version of iOS for the U.S. government, under the promise that it would never escape their safe hands and get into the wild? <a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/17/11031910/donald-trump-apple-encryption-backdoor-statement\">Like this ignoramus</a>, who was then campaigning for president.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Malware, Described in Leaked NSA Documents, Cripples Computers Worldwide’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/nsa-ransomware\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Apple Invests $200 Million in Corning, First Investment From $1 Billion Advanced Manufacturing Fund",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-12T19:53:10Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-12T19:53:11Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/apple-corning",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/apple-corning",
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+ "external_url" : "http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170512005101/en/Apple-Awards-Corning-Advanced-Manufacturing-Fund-Investment",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Apple press release:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Apple today announced Corning Incorporated will receive $200\nmillion from Apple’s new Advanced Manufacturing Fund as part of\nthe company’s commitment to foster innovation among American\nmanufacturers. The investment will support Corning’s R&amp;D, capital\nequipment needs and state-of-the-art glass processing. Corning&#8217;s\n65-year-old Harrodsburg facility has been integral to the 10-year\ncollaboration between these two innovative companies and will be\nthe focus of Apple’s investment.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Apple Invests $200 Million in Corning, First Investment From $1 Billion Advanced Manufacturing Fund’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/apple-corning\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "The Amazing Dinosaur Fossil Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-12T19:49:39Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-12T19:49:41Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/nodosaur",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/nodosaur",
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+ "external_url" : "http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-discovery/",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Michael Greshko, writing for National Geographic:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>At first glance the reassembled gray blocks look like a\nnine-foot-long sculpture of a dinosaur. A bony mosaic of armor\ncoats its neck and back, and gray circles outline individual\nscales. Its neck gracefully curves to the left, as if reaching\ntoward some tasty plant. But this is no lifelike sculpture. It’s\nan actual dinosaur, petrified from the snout to the hips.</p>\n\n<p>The more I look at it, the more mind-boggling it becomes.\nFossilized remnants of skin still cover the bumpy armor plates\ndotting the animal’s skull. Its right forefoot lies by its side,\nits five digits splayed upward. I can count the scales on its\nsole. Caleb Brown, a postdoctoral researcher at the museum, grins\nat my astonishment. “We don’t just have a skeleton,” he tells me\nlater. “We have a dinosaur as it would have been.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Looks more like a movie prop than a fossil.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘The Amazing Dinosaur Fossil Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/nodosaur\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "HP Laptops Covertly Log User Keystrokes, Researchers Warn",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-12T16:18:01Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-12T16:18:03Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/hp-keylogger",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/hp-keylogger",
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+ "external_url" : "https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/hp-laptops-covert-log-every-keystroke-researchers-warn/",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Dan Goodin, writing for Ars Technica:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>HP is selling more than two dozen models of laptops and tablets\nthat covertly monitor every keystroke a user makes, security\nresearchers warned Thursday. The devices then store the key\npresses in an unencrypted file on the hard drive.</p>\n\n<p>The keylogger is included in a device driver developed by\nConexant, a manufacturer of audio chips that are included in the\nvulnerable HP devices. That&#8217;s according to an <a href=\"https://www.modzero.ch/modlog/archives/2017/05/11/en_keylogger_in_hewlett-packard_audio_driver/index.html\">advisory published\nby modzero</a>, a Switzerland-based security consulting firm. One\nof the device driver components is MicTray64.exe, an executable\nfile that allows the driver to respond when a user presses special\nkeys. It turns out that the file sends all keystrokes to a\ndebugging interface or writes them to a log file available on the\ncomputer&#8217;s C drive.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Whoops.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘HP Laptops Covertly Log User Keystrokes, Researchers Warn’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/hp-keylogger\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "★ Dropping Tech Giants",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-12T15:58:22Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-14T20:26:47Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/2017/05/dropping_tech_giants",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/2017/05/dropping_tech_giants",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ },
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p><a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/10/technology/Ranking-Apple-Amazon-Facebook-Microsoft-Google.html\">Great interactive feature by Farhad Manjoo for The New York Times</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet, the parent\ncompany of Google, are not just the largest technology companies\nin the world. As I’ve argued repeatedly in my column, they are\nalso becoming the most powerful companies of any kind, essentially\ninescapable for any consumer or business that wants to participate\nin the modern world. But which of the Frightful Five is most\nunavoidable? I ponder the question in my column this week.</p>\n\n<p>But what about you? If an evil monarch forced you to choose, in\nwhat order would you give up these inescapable giants of tech?</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Great question. I love thought exercises.</p>\n\n<p>My order (from first dropped to last):</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>Facebook. I love Instagram, but could live without it. I don&#8217;t use anything else Facebook offers.</p></li>\n<li><p>Microsoft. The only Microsoft product I use regularly is Skype, for podcasting, and I suspect I could find another solution. (If I couldn&#8217;t, I might have to rethink my answer here.)</p></li>\n<li><p>Amazon. I buy stuff from Amazon almost every week. I just counted &#8212; 11 orders so far in 2017. My wife buys stuff from Amazon even more frequently. But just about anything we buy at Amazon, we <em>could</em> buy elsewhere. It&#8217;d be painful to replace, but not irreplaceable. There are a couple of shows exclusive to Amazon Prime that I enjoy, but none that I love.</p></li>\n<li><p>Alphabet. I already use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine, so giving up Google search would be frustrating at times, but not a deal breaker. I use a few email accounts backed by Gmail, but I actually dislike Gmail, and have been procrastinating on moving all my mail to <a href=\"https://www.fastmail.com/\">FastMail</a> for years. I despise Google Docs. I don&#8217;t use any Android devices other than as a curiosity. I greatly prefer Safari over Chrome. YouTube, however, is irreplaceable, and so essential that it pretty much singlehandedly catapults Alphabet to #4 in my list.</p></li>\n<li><p>Apple. I mean, come on. If not for Apple I&#8217;d be stuck using computers I don&#8217;t like and a phone that I consider a distant second-best. With all the other companies on the list, what I&#8217;d miss most are certain of their services &#8212; Instagram, Skype, Amazon&#8217;s store, YouTube &#8212; but Apple is the only company in the world whose hardware I consider irreplaceable. And you need the hardware to make best use of the services from any other companies. And that doesn&#8217;t even touch upon Apple&#8217;s crown jewels: the MacOS and iOS software platforms.</p></li>\n</ol>\n\n\n\n "
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "title" : "Apple Will Announce Amazon Prime Video Coming to Apple TV at WWDC",
470
+ "date_published" : "2017-05-12T06:56:51Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-12T07:04:01Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/apple-tv-amazon",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/apple-tv-amazon",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnpaczkowski/apple-will-announce-amazon-prime-video-coming-to-apple-tv",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>John Paczkowski, reporting for BuzzFeed:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Sources in position to know tell BuzzFeed News that Amazon&#8217;s Prime video app &#8212; long absent from Apple TV &#8212; is indeed headed to Apple&#8217;s diminutive set-top box. Apple plans to announce Amazon Prime video&#8217;s impending arrive to the Apple TV App Store during the keynote at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 5 in San Jose, CA. A source familiar with the companies&#8217; thinking say the app is expected to go live this summer, but cautioned that the hard launch date might change. Amazon had previously declined to even submit a Prime Video app for inclusion in Apple&#8217;s Apple TV App Store, despite Apple&#8217;s &#8220;all are welcome&#8221; proclamations.</p>\n\n<p>Recode <a href=\"https://www.recode.net/2017/5/5/15552954/amazon-video-apple-tv-app-jeff-bezos-tim-cook\">earlier reported</a> that Apple and Amazon were nearing an agreement that may finally bring the Prime Video app to Apple TV. It&#8217;s now official.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Still no word on what exactly the holdup was, or what, if anything, has changed.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Apple Will Announce Amazon Prime Video Coming to Apple TV at WWDC’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/apple-tv-amazon\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ "title" : "Apple: ‘How to Shoot on iPhone 7’",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-12T06:24:04Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-12T06:24:05Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/how-to-shoot-on-iphone-7",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/how-to-shoot-on-iphone-7",
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+ "external_url" : "http://apple.co/2pF230L",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Cool new series of videos from Apple, showing how to get the most from your iPhone camera.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Apple: &#8216;How to Shoot on iPhone 7&#8217;’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/12/how-to-shoot-on-iphone-7\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ {
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+ "title" : "The Girls’ Soccer Team That Joined a Boys’ League, and Won It",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-11T20:26:13Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-12T05:55:07Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/11/girls-soccer-team",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/11/girls-soccer-team",
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+ "external_url" : "https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/sports/soccer/girls-soccer-team-won-boys-league-spain.html",
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Raphael Minder, reporting for The New York Times:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>The ponytailed forward cut through the rain and the defense and\ndrove a low shot past the outstretched arm of the goalkeeper. The\npinpoint strike &#8212; her 38th of the season &#8212; confirmed Andrea\nGómez as the top scorer for her championship team.</p>\n\n<p>The boys Gómez left in her wake, though, were not the first ones\nforced to retrieve one of her shots from their net. Gómez, 13, and\nher teammates had been confounding boys all season, playing so\nwell that their girls’ team recently won a junior regional league\nin Spain over 13 boys’ teams.</p>\n\n<p>“I always try to show that soccer isn’t just for boys,” Gómez\nsaid. “If you’re technically better, you can compensate for being\nperhaps physically weaker.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Quite telling who gave them the most heckling trouble:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>The transition was not easy. The girls finished 12th in an 18-team\nleague in their debut season. But as the team improved, and began\nto beat boys’ teams with more regularity, its progress generated\nunpleasant reactions.</p>\n\n<p>“It’s really been more a problem for parents rather than their\nboys,” Salmerón said of comments directed at the team during\nmatches. “It’s strange, but most of the macho comments and insults\nhave come from the mothers of some of the boys we play.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘The Girls’ Soccer Team That Joined a Boys’ League, and Won It’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/11/girls-soccer-team\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ "title" : "Stack Overflow Trends",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-11T18:52:18Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-11T18:52:21Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/11/stack-overflow-trends",
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+ "external_url" : "https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/09/introducing-stack-overflow-trends/",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>David Robinson:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>On a typical day, developers ask over 8,000 questions on Stack\nOverflow about programming problems they run into in their work.\nWhich technologies are they asking about, and how has that changed\nover time?</p>\n\n<p>Today, we’re introducing the <a href=\"https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?utm_source=so-owned&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=trends&amp;utm_content=blog-link\">Stack Overflow Trends tool</a> to track\ninterest in programming languages and technologies, based on the\nnumber of Stack Overflow questions asked per month. For example,\nwe could compare the relative usage of three programming\nlanguages.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Stack Overflow Trends’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/11/stack-overflow-trends\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ "title" : "[Sponsor] Squarespace: Customizable Design",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-08T20:19:59-04:00",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-12T01:55:21-04:00",
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+ "external_url" : "http://bit.ly/2kx5Ax5",
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+ "author" : {
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+ "name" : "Daring Fireball Department of Commerce"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Squarespace is the simplest way to create a beautiful website. Every template is customizable, so you can make it your own. Add a portfolio to showcase your work, a store to sell your products or services, a blog to share your ideas, and more. Start now — you can try Squarespace for free. When you’re ready to subscribe, get 10 percent off at <a href=\"http://bit.ly/2kx5Ax5\">squarespace.com</a> with offer code DARING17.</p>\n\n<div>\n<a title=\"Permanent link to ‘Squarespace: Customizable Design’\" href=\"https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/2017/05/squarespace_customizable_desig\">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>\n</div>\n\n\t"
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+ "title" : "★ Apple’s China Problem: WeChat",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-05-05T18:37:24Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-05-06T01:58:08Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/2017/05/apples_china_problem_wechat",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/2017/05/apples_china_problem_wechat",
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p><a href=\"https://stratechery.com/2017/apples-china-problem/\">Ben Thompson had a great column this week</a>, in the wake of Apple&#8217;s quarterly results and Microsoft&#8217;s announcement of the Surface Laptop:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Did you hear about the new Microsoft Surface Laptop? The <a href=\"https://twitter.com/reckless/status/859448810187235330\">usual\nsuspects</a> are claiming it’s a MacBook competitor, which is\ntrue insomuch as it is a laptop. In truth, though, the Surface\nLaptop isn’t a MacBook competitor at all for the rather obvious\nreason that it runs Windows, while the MacBook runs MacOS. This\nhas always been the foundation of Apple’s business model:\n<a href=\"https://stratechery.com/2016/everything-as-a-service/\">hardware differentiated by software</a> such that said hardware\ncan be sold with a margin much greater than nominal competitors\nrunning a commodity operating system.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Hardware differentiated by <em>superior, exclusive</em> software is the key to understanding Apple. It&#8217;s the reason the company was founded. Apple II&#8217;s were the best personal computer hardware <em>and</em> had the best software. Part of why Woz is so venerated is that he was unimaginably gifted at both hardware <em>and</em> <a href=\"http://gizmodo.com/how-steve-wozniak-wrote-basic-for-the-original-apple-fr-1570573636\">software</a>. Hardware differentiated by software is how Apple survived in the late &#8217;90s, when the company was struggling. It explains all the company&#8217;s success after that: the iPod, the resurgence of the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Any comparison between Microsoft&#8217;s Surface Laptop and Apple&#8217;s MacBooks that doesn&#8217;t place heavy emphasis on the value of MacOS is vapid.</p>\n\n<p>Thompson then turns to Apple&#8217;s languishing iPhone sales in China:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>But that is not what is going on in most of the world: plenty of\nfolks &#8212; more than last year &#8212; are happy to buy the iPhone 7,\neven though it doesn’t look much different than the iPhone 6.\nAfter all, if you need a new phone, and you want iOS, you don’t\nhave much choice! Except, again, for China: that is the country\nwhere the appearance of the iPhone matters most; Apple’s\nproblem, though, is that in China that is the only thing that\nmatters at all.</p>\n\n<p>The fundamental issue is this: unlike the rest of the world, in\nChina the most important layer of the smartphone stack is not the\nphone’s operating system. Rather, it is WeChat. Connie Chan of\nAndreessen Horowitz <a href=\"http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/\">tried to explain in 2015</a> just how integrated\nWeChat is into the daily lives of nearly <a href=\"http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5d6Th5wndmJT25cRHemZNg\">900 million Chinese</a>, and\nthat integration has only grown since then: every aspect of a\ntypical Chinese person’s life, not just online but also off is\nconducted through a single app (and, to the extent other apps are\nused, they are often games promoted through WeChat).</p>\n\n<p>There is nothing in any other country that is comparable: not\nLINE, not WhatsApp, not Facebook. All of those are about\ncommunication or wasting time: WeChat is that, but it is also for\nreading news, for hailing taxis, for paying for lunch (try and pay\nwith cash for lunch, and you’ll look like a luddite), for\naccessing government resources, for business. For all intents and\npurposes WeChat is your phone, and to a far greater extent in\nChina than anywhere else, your phone is everything.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>As Thompson adds in a footnote, &#8220;Or, to put it another way, the operating system of China is WeChat, not iOS/Android.&#8221;</p>\n\n<p>Thompson cites a staggering statistic: among existing iPhone users in China who bought a new phone in 2016, only 50 percent of them bought another iPhone. That is an incredible statistical outlier compared to iPhone users in the rest of the world, where Apple&#8217;s retention rates hover around the mid-80s.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-users-abandon-loyalty-to-apple-2016-11\">Here&#8217;s a Business Insider report from November of last year</a>, with retention statistics from 2014 through 2016 from UBS analysts Steven Milunovich and Benjamin Wilson. Business Insider leads with the iPhone&#8217;s slowly declining retention rate globally, but the real story is halfway down the page, in <a href=\"http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5818d4cbdd089533548b4991-1015/screen%20shot%202016-11-01%20at%2016.29.01.png\">this chart</a>.</p>\n\n<p>According to that research from UBS, iPhone retention rates hover in the mid-to-high 80s in the U.S., U.K., and Germany. In Japan they&#8217;re in the mid-70s, but holding roughly steady. China&#8217;s numbers have plummeted &#8212; and these numbers from UBS (in the mid-50s for Q4 2016) are in line with the 50 percent number in the Chinese survey Thompson cited.</p>\n\n<p>So here&#8217;s Apple&#8217;s China problem: Chinese iPhone users aren&#8217;t nearly as loyal to the iPhone platform as iPhone users elsewhere are. This is already hurting Apple financially. Apple&#8217;s Q2 2017 financial results (announced this week) were, overall, OK. But other than China, they were actually good. The drop in iPhone sales in China was so severe, and China is so big, that it singlehandedly turned a good quarter into a so-so quarter.</p>\n\n<p>I subtly disagree with Ben Thompson on one point. Thompson attributes the iPhone&#8217;s slide in China to two factors:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>The whole &#8220;the operating system of China is WeChat, not iOS/Android&#8221; thing.</li>\n<li>The staleness of the iPhone 7 form factor.</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>Thompson knows Chinese culture well &#8212; he lives in Taipei, visits China often, and speaks Mandarin. My grasp of Chinese culture is rudimentary at best, and I&#8217;ve never traveled to Asia. So I defer to him on the point that the iPhone as a status symbol is more important in China than it is elsewhere.</p>\n\n<p>Thompson, though, I think places too much weight on the fact that at a glance, some models of the iPhone 7 are indistinguishable from the iPhone 6 and 6S. Thompson argues that this is more of a problem in status-conscious China than it is elsewhere &#8212; that in China, there are many people who forego an upgrade to an iPhone 7 because other people won&#8217;t be able to tell that it isn&#8217;t, say, a boring two-year-old iPhone 6. I just don&#8217;t buy that. For one thing, the black and especially jet black iPhone 7 models <em>are</em> instantly recognizable as the latest and greatest.</p>\n\n<p>But more importantly, I just think the whole &#8220;<em>if it doesn&#8217;t have an altogether new form factor, it&#8217;s boring</em>&#8221; thing is hogwash. <a href=\"http://daringfireball.net/2016/09/design_as_branding\">I wrote an entire column about this</a> when the iPhone 7 debuted, and won&#8217;t rehash the whole argument here. But I am convinced this viewpoint is mostly that of the tech and gadget obsessed.</p>\n\n<p>Again, I&#8217;ll concede that the status symbol aspect of a high-end smartphone may well be more important in China than anywhere else in the world. But even if I also concede that the iPhone 7&#8217;s mostly-like-the-iPhone-6 form factor is a problem for the Chinese market, if the iOS platform engendered the loyalty in China that it does elsewhere, the result would be Chinese iPhone owners waiting another year for the <em>next</em> iPhone. Instead, according to the market research cited above, half of the Chinese iPhone owners who bought a new phone in 2016 switched to an Android device. There are some fine looking Android phones at the high end of the market, but there are none that, based on form factor alone, would explain this. And none of them have anything close to the luxury brand prestige that Apple does.</p>\n\n<p>In Apple&#8217;s &#8220;hardware differentiated by software&#8221; formula, the software is more important than the hardware. That&#8217;s why gadget writers so often get Apple wrong: they&#8217;re focused solely on hardware &#8212; the object, not the experience of using the object. That&#8217;s also why the financial press so often gets Apple wrong: they focus only on the hardware because that&#8217;s where the money comes from.</p>\n\n<p>If forced to choose, I would much rather run iOS on a Google Pixel than Android on an iPhone 7. I would rather run MacOS on a ThinkPad than Windows on a MacBook Pro.<sup id=\"fnr1-2017-05-05\"><a href=\"#fn1-2017-05-05\">1</a></sup> Whenever I bring up this thought experiment &#8212; would you rather run Apple&#8217;s software platform on non-Apple hardware or run some other software platform on Apple hardware &#8212; I get email from readers who say they actually do choose Apple products, especially MacBooks, for the hardware. I believe them, but those are the sort of customers with the least loyalty to Apple. If all you depend on is, say, Chrome, a text editor, and a terminal, it&#8217;s easy to switch to another laptop brand. If you depend on native Mac and iOS apps, iCloud, and iMessage, it&#8217;s arduous, at best, to switch.</p>\n\n<p>If it really is true that &#8220;the operating system of China is WeChat, not iOS/Android&#8221;, that&#8217;s the whole ballgame right there. Again, my disagreement with Thompson here is subtle. He even describes WeChat&#8217;s centrality to the Chinese smartphone stack as &#8220;the fundamental issue&#8221;, leaving the supposed boringness of the iPhone 6S and 7 as a secondary issue. My difference with Thompson is that I don&#8217;t think the iPhone 6S/7 hardware is a problem at all. Personally, I think the iPhone 7 is such a great phone, and the 7 Plus in particular has such a great camera, that the quality of the latest iPhone hardware, including how it looks, shows just how much of a problem it is that WeChat, not iOS, is central to the iPhone experience in China.</p>\n\n<p>That&#8217;s a real problem for Apple, because even if Thompson is right (and I&#8217;m wrong) and Apple <em>does</em> have a boring-looking-hardware problem in China, they can (and seem poised to) remedy that by releasing exciting new iPhone hardware this year. But if the problem is that iOS engenders far less platform loyalty in China because of WeChat&#8217;s centrality &#8212; or even worse, if WeChat is central <em>and</em> better on Android than it is on iOS &#8212; there&#8217;s no easy fix for Apple.</p>\n\n<h2>Postscript</h2>\n\n<p>For those of you like me, who know very little about WeChat, this 2015 piece by Connie Chan (as linked to by Thompson) is a terrific introduction: &#8220;<a href=\"http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/\">When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China</a>&#8221;.</p>\n\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\n<hr />\n<ol>\n<li id=\"fn1-2017-05-05\">\n<p>I always use ThinkPads as my go-to example of high-quality PC hardware; perhaps I should start using Microsoft Surfaces?&nbsp;<a href=\"#fnr1-2017-05-05\" class=\"footnoteBackLink\" title=\"Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.\">&#x21A9;&#xFE0E;</a></p>\n</li>\n</ol>\n</div>\n\n\n\n "
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+ "title" : "★ Judging Apple Watch’s Success",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-04-24T22:28:32Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-04-25T01:47:44Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/apple_watch_success",
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Mike Murphy, writing for Quartz, &#8220;<a href=\"https://qz.com/967256/two-years-after-its-launch-the-apple-watch-hasnt-made-a-difference-at-apples-revenue-streams-aapl/\">Two Years After Its Launch, the Apple Watch Hasn’t Made a Difference at Apple</a>&#8221;:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Apple’s biggest launch since the iPad in 2010, the Apple Watch was\nexpected to be a hit: Given the massive financial success of the\niPhone, it stood to reason that a companion device might be\nsomething customers craved.</p>\n\n<p>Not so much. Apple has never shared hard numbers on how many\nwearables it has sold, and doesn’t even break out Watch sales in\nits quarterly earnings report. Instead, the device is bundled into\nApple’s “Other products,” which the company says includes, “Apple\nTV, Apple Watch, Beats products, iPod and Apple-branded and\nthird-party accessories.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>These articles come out like clockwork every 3 months, as Apple&#8217;s earnings report draws near. Apple told us they were not going to report hard numbers on Apple Watch right from the start, six months before it shipped. They want to keep them secret for competitive reasons.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Two years and two iterations after its launch, the Apple Watch has\nnot proven to be as indispensable as the iPhone, or even as\nlucrative as the Mac, the iPad, or Apple’s services businesses.\nIt’s unclear whether an iPhone-like overhaul, or attempts to\nmarket the watch directly to athletes or millennials, will\nultimately make a difference.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>(&#8220;Two years and two iterations after its launch&#8221; &#8212; I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s a mistake, if Murphy is counting WatchOS releases, or if he&#8217;s counting Series 1 as a full hardware iteration. But it&#8217;s sloppy writing. Most people would surely agree that there&#8217;s been only one iteration since launch, the Series 2 watches released last September.)</p>\n\n<p>The nut of every &#8220;Apple Watch is a dud&#8221; story is the fact that it&#8217;s clearly not an iPhone-size business. But that can&#8217;t be the only measure of success. The iPhone is the biggest and most successful consumer product in the history of the world. Nothing compares to the smartphone market, and it&#8217;s possible nothing else will in our lifetimes. You and I may never again see a product as profitable as the iPhone &#8212; not just from Apple, but from any company in any industry. Or maybe we will. It&#8217;s a complete unknown.</p>\n\n<p>But if Apple gets it into its head that they should only work on iPhone-sized opportunities, it would paralyze the company. In baseball terms, it&#8217;s fine for Apple to hit a bunch of singles while waiting for their next home run. According to Apple, <a href=\"https://www.wareable.com/apple/watch-sales-rolex-tim-cook-556\">they had more watch sales by revenue in 2015 than any company other than Rolex</a>, and Apple&#8217;s &#8220;Other&#8221; category, which is where Watch sales are accounted for, <a href=\"https://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q1fy17datasum.pdf\">had a near record-breaking holiday quarter</a> three months ago, suggesting strongly that Watch sales were up over the year-ago holiday quarter.</p>\n\n<p>These two facts are both true: Apple Watch sales are a rounding error compared to the iPhone, and Apple Watch is a smash hit compared to traditional watches and other wearable devices.</p>\n\n\n\n "
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+ "title" : "★ On Uber’s ‘Identifying and Tagging’ of iPhones",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-04-24T00:54:36Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-04-24T03:19:56Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/uber_identifying_and_tagging_iphones",
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+ "url" : "https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/uber_identifying_and_tagging_iphones",
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p><a href=\"https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanick-pushes-uber-and-himself-to-the-precipice.html\">Mike Isaac&#8217;s profile of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick for The New York Times</a> contains an accusation that, on its face, sounds outrageous:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>For months, Mr. Kalanick had pulled a fast one on Apple by\ndirecting his employees to help camouflage the ride-hailing app\nfrom Apple’s engineers. The reason? So Apple would not find out\nthat Uber had been secretly identifying and tagging iPhones even\nafter its app had been deleted and the devices erased &#8212; a fraud\ndetection maneuver that violated Apple’s privacy guidelines.</p>\n\n<p>But Apple was on to the deception, and when Mr. Kalanick arrived\nat the midafternoon meeting sporting his favorite pair of bright\nred sneakers and hot-pink socks, Mr. Cook was prepared. “So, I’ve\nheard you’ve been breaking some of our rules,” Mr. Cook said in\nhis calm, Southern tone. Stop the trickery, Mr. Cook then\ndemanded, or Uber’s app would be kicked out of Apple’s App Store.</p>\n\n<p>For Mr. Kalanick, the moment was fraught with tension. If Uber’s\napp was yanked from the App Store, it would lose access to\nmillions of iPhone customers &#8212; essentially destroying the\nride-hailing company’s business. So Mr. Kalanick acceded.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>&#8220;Secretly identifying and tagging iPhones even after its app had been deleted and the devices erased&#8221; is a rather startling accusation, because it sounds like it should be technically impossible. It&#8217;s also very much unclear what information Uber was able to glean from these &#8220;identified and tagged&#8221; iPhones other than some sort of unique device identifier. Unfortunately, the Times story is very short on details here. But note that the Times is <em>not</em> saying Uber was &#8220;tracking&#8221; these phones. A lot of people are jumping to the conclusion that Uber was somehow tracking the location of users even after they deleted the Uber app, but the word &#8220;track&#8221; only appears in the article in the context of Kalanick having &#8220;excelled at running track and playing football&#8221; in high school.</p>\n\n<p>[<strong>Update:</strong> This explains a lot, regarding the hubbub today over this story. <a href=\"http://newsdiffs.org/diff/1383350/1383404/https%3A/www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanick-pushes-uber-and-himself-to-the-precipice.html\">When first published, the Times story <em>did</em> use the word &#8220;tracking&#8221;</a>, but a subsequent revision changed that word to &#8220;identifying and tagging&#8221;.]</p>\n\n<p>Reading between the lines, it is possible &#8212; and my gut says quite probable &#8212; that Uber wasn&#8217;t <em>doing</em> anything on these iPhones other than when its app was installed and running on them. From the end of the article:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>The idea of fooling Apple, the main distributor of Uber’s app,\nbegan in 2014.</p>\n\n<p>At the time, Uber was dealing with widespread account fraud in\nplaces like China, where tricksters bought stolen iPhones that\nwere erased of their memory and resold. Some Uber drivers there\nwould then create dozens of fake email addresses to sign up for\nnew Uber rider accounts attached to each phone, and request rides\nfrom those phones, which they would then accept. Since Uber was\nhanding out incentives to drivers to take more rides, the drivers\ncould earn more money this way.</p>\n\n<p>To halt the activity, Uber engineers assigned a persistent\nidentity to iPhones with a small piece of code, a practice called\n“fingerprinting.” Uber could then identify an iPhone and prevent\nitself from being fooled even after the device was erased of its\ncontents.</p>\n\n<p>There was one problem: Fingerprinting iPhones broke Apple’s rules.\nMr. Cook believed that wiping an iPhone should ensure that no\ntrace of the owner’s identity remained on the device.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>What Isaac is reporting here doesn&#8217;t require any code running on an iPhone other than when the Uber app is itself installed and launched. I&#8217;m speculating here, but it could be something like this:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>The Uber app, while installed, fingerprints the device somehow, and reports the fingerprint home to Uber&#8217;s servers, where it is tied to the user&#8217;s Uber account. (All iPhones have a Unique Device Identifier &#8212; &#8220;UDID&#8221; &#8212; but <a href=\"http://lifehacker.com/5898282/what-a-udid-is-and-why-apples-rejecting-apps-that-want-yours\">Apple banned third-party apps from accessing it in 2012</a>. Uber either found a way to access UDIDs surreptitiously, or created some other way of uniquely identifying devices even after they&#8217;ve been wiped. It would be good to know exactly what they did, but for the sake of my argument here it doesn&#8217;t matter.)</p></li>\n<li><p>The Uber app is deleted from the device and/or device is wiped. At this point, Uber knows the fingerprint for the device, but can’t use it to track the device in any way, <em>and they don’t care</em>, because until someone reinstalls the Uber app on the phone it isn&#8217;t being used to book fraudulent rides.</p></li>\n<li><p>The Uber app is reinstalled on the iPhone. When it launches, it does the fingerprint check and phones home again. Uber now knows this is the same iPhone they’ve seen before, because the fingerprint matches. This is the violation of Apple&#8217;s privacy policy.</p></li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>But until step 3, when the Uber app is reinstalled, I don&#8217;t think Uber was &#8220;tracking&#8221; the phone in any way. And they didn’t care — the Times says the whole project was designed to counter fraud in China, which required the Uber app to be reinstalled on stolen iPhones.</p>\n\n<p>Repeating from the opening of the article, Isaac wrote:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>So Apple would not find out that Uber had been secretly\nidentifying and tagging iPhones even after its app had been\ndeleted and the devices erased &#8212; a fraud detection maneuver that\nviolated Apple’s privacy guidelines.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>That <em>sounds</em> like Uber was doing the identifying and &#8220;tagging&#8221; (whatever that is) after the app had been deleted and/or the device wiped, but I think what it might &#8212; <em>might</em> &#8212; actually mean is merely that the identification persisted after the app had been deleted and/or the device wiped. That&#8217;s not supposed to be technically possible &#8212; iOS APIs for things like the UDID and even the MAC address stopped reporting unique identifiers years ago, because they were being abused by privacy invasive ad trackers, analytics packages, and entitled shitbags like Uber. That&#8217;s wrong, and Apple was right to put an end to it, but it&#8217;s far less sensational than the prospect of Uber having been able to identify and &#8220;tag&#8221; an iPhone <em>after</em> the Uber app had been deleted. The latter scenario only seems technically possible if other third-party apps were executing surreptitious code that did this stuff through Uber&#8217;s SDK, or if the Uber app left behind malware outside the app&#8217;s sandbox. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the case, if only because I don&#8217;t think Apple would have hesitated to remove Uber from the App Store if it was infecting iPhones with hidden phone-home malware.</p>\n\n<p>The article does raise some questions:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>What APIs and device info was Uber using to identify iPhones? Are these API loopholes now closed in iOS? If we don&#8217;t learn exactly what Uber was using to identify devices, we cannot know that the technique no longer works. iOS users should be able to feel confident that when they delete an app, all connections between their device and the developer of the app are disconnected, and that when they wipe a device, everything personally identifying has been removed from it.</p></li>\n<li><p>What exactly did Apple know about Uber&#8217;s actions in this regard when Tim Cook called Kalanick in for the meeting? Was Apple aware that Uber was specifically keeping a database of unique iPhone identifiers? If so, how?</p></li>\n<li><p>What prompted Apple to investigate Uber in this regard? And why did Uber suspect Apple was going to investigate, prompting them to geofence their fingerprinting so it wouldn&#8217;t trigger in Cupertino? (My theory: the Uber app was calling private APIs, and they used the geofence to avoid calling those private APIs while the app was in App Store review, assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that all App Store reviewers work in Cupertino. App Store review can identify apps that call private APIs.)</p></li>\n<li><p><strong>Update</strong>: Why didn&#8217;t Apple require Uber to disclose what they’d done as a condition for remaining in the store? Shouldn&#8217;t iPhone users who had Uber installed know about this?</p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>[<strong>Update 2:</strong> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/chronic/status/856250223777206273\">Will Strafach examined a 2014 build of the Uber iOS app</a> and found them using private APIs to use IOKit to pull the device serial number from the device registry. There might be more, but this alone is a blatant violation of App Store policy. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/chronic/status/856333895050178560\">Strafach confirms</a> that the technique Uber was using no longer works in iOS 10.]</p>\n\n<hr />\n\n<p>The article also contains this non-Apple-related tidbit:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Uber devoted teams to so-called competitive intelligence,\npurchasing data from an analytics service called Slice\nIntelligence. Using an email digest service it owns named\nUnroll.me, Slice collected its customers’ emailed Lyft receipts\nfrom their inboxes and sold the anonymized data to Uber. Uber used\nthe data as a proxy for the health of Lyft’s business. (Lyft, too,\noperates a competitive intelligence team.)</p>\n\n<p>Slice confirmed that it sells anonymized data (meaning that\ncustomers’ names are not attached) based on ride receipts from\nUber and Lyft, but declined to disclose who buys the information.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>This is, needless to say, super shitty. We expect it from Uber. But Slice should be ashamed of themselves. Their <a href=\"https://unroll.me/\">Unroll.me</a> service is billed as a tool to &#8220;Clean up your inbox&#8221; by identifying subscription emails and allowing you to unsubscribe from them in bulk. It&#8217;s &#8220;free&#8221; in the sense that you don&#8217;t pay them money, but they&#8217;re selling your personal information to companies like Uber. Supposedly that information is anonymized, but wiped iPhones are supposed to be anonymized too, and Uber found at least one route around that. </p>\n\n\n\n "
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+ "title" : "★ The Swiss Watch Industry Should Double Down on Mechanical Watches",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-04-11T00:15:08Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-04-12T03:38:06Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/double_down_on_mechanical_watches",
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+ "name" : "John Gruber"
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p>Jean-Louis Gassée penned a good column a few weeks ago <a href=\"https://mondaynote.com/swatchos-not-a-smart-decision-6b2cc883c99f#.rre6lnb1g\">on the Swatch Group making their own watch OS</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Nick Hayek’s father triumphed against Japanese quartz watch makers\nby playing on his own turf. Trying to defeat the established\nsmartwatch players by playing their game won’t work. Is there\nsomething in Swatch Group’s culture that predisposes it to be\ncompetitive with Google and Apple software engineers?</p>\n\n<p>Just as Nokia should have embraced Android in 2010, riding on its\nproven combination of Design, Supply Chain, and Carrier\nDistribution prowess to keep a leading role in the smartphone\nrevolution, Swatch could use its native &#8212; but circumscribed &#8212;\ncultural and technical skills to create beautiful, fun\nsmartwatches … that run on Google’s software. But just like\nNokia&#8217;s culture and success prevented it from seizing the Android\nmoment, similar factors will keep Swatch from being a powerful\nplayer in the smartwatch world.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I agree. <em>If</em> the Swatch Group wants to make smartwatches, they should almost certainly go with Android Wear, and they&#8217;re almost certainly doomed with their pre-announced homegrown OS. And it&#8217;s crazy that even if they succeed at creating their own OS, that they think it won&#8217;t need frequent updates and bug fixes. That&#8217;s not how computer platforms work, and make no mistake, smartwatches are computer platforms.</p>\n\n<p>But I think the Swiss watch industry would do well to stick to their mechanical guns. They should leave it to computerized gadgeteers to make smartwatches, and focus on making mechanical watches that stand the test of time (no pun intended). I love computers (duh), but I find mechanical watches to be a source of joy, a bulwark against the ever-encroaching computerization of everything.</p>\n\n<p>The bread and butter for high-end watch companies are aficionados who own multiple watches. Almost no one uses multiple smartwatches. People might have old ones in a drawer, but just as with with phones, it&#8217;s only convenient to have one smartwatch <em>in active use</em> at a time. Apple knows this: that&#8217;s why they made it so easy to swap straps &#8212; multiple looks for variety, but just one watch. For watch fans who actually do want multiple watches <em>and</em> a smartwatch, every watch other than their one smartwatch is likely to be a mechanical.</p>\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t think the Swiss watch industry has a chance of out-computer-engineering Apple. Instead they should focus on what they&#8217;ve always done: designing and making great mechanical watches &#8212; creating a breath of analog fresh air in an ever-more-digitized world.</p>\n\n\n\n "
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+ "title" : "★ ‘So-Called’",
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+ "date_published" : "2017-04-06T19:46:56Z",
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+ "date_modified" : "2017-04-06T22:55:22Z",
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+ "id" : "https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/so_called",
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+ "content_html" : "\n<p><a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/world/asia/xi-jinping-golf-trump-mar-a-lago.html\">From a New York Times report by Alan Wong</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>President Xi Jinping of China is not expected to be strolling the\nmanicured fairways of the Trump International Golf Club on\nThursday, sizing up his approach shot.</p>\n\n<p>Mr. Xi is known to be an avid soccer fan, bent on transforming\nChina into a great power in that egalitarian team sport, but the\nChinese Communist Party maintains an ideological contempt for golf\nas a rich person’s game.</p>\n\n<p>That view, among others, places him at odds with President Trump,\nwho owns more than a dozen golf courses and whose so-called Winter\nWhite House, the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., charges\nmore than $200,000 for membership.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Describing Mar-a-Lago as &#8220;the so-called Winter White House&#8221; is pernicious at best, and I would argue it&#8217;s downright outrageous. No news organization, let alone one as prestigious in stature and as fastidious about style and usage as The New York Times, should <em>ever</em> describe Mar-a-Lago as &#8220;the Winter White House&#8221;. Prefacing it by &#8220;so-called&#8221; doesn&#8217;t make it right. So-called by whom? By Trump.</p>\n\n<p>There is only one White House. It is in Washington D.C., and it is owned by the U.S. federal government. It is sometimes and rightly called &#8220;The People&#8217;s House&#8221;, because we the people own it, and we vote to elect the president who lives and works in it. No one profits financially when a state visit is held at the White House.</p>\n\n<p>Mar-a-Lago is a private facility owned by Trump himself. When he hosts state visits there, not only does someone personally profit from it, that someone is Trump himself. Using Mar-a-Lago for official state business goes against everything that the actual White House stands for.</p>\n\n<p>This is no little thing. Describing Mar-a-Lago in a news article as &#8220;the so-called Winter White House&#8221; is normalizing out and out corruption &#8212; Trump&#8217;s shameless profiteering off the presidency.</p>\n\n<p>If the Times wants to quote Trump using the phrase, so be it. But the description should never be used in news copy. The New York Times has no more reason to describe Mar-a-Lago as &#8220;the Winter White House&#8221; than they do to refer to their own publication as &#8220;the failing New York Times&#8221;.</p>\n\n\n\n "
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