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- data/README.md +71 -9
- data/Rakefile +1 -1
- data/lib/feedparser.rb +2 -0
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- data/lib/feedparser/parser.rb +27 -0
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<p>Visit <a href="http://www.getflow.com/daringfireball">getflow.com/daringfireball</a> to start your free trial today, and save 20% on a monthly plan, or 30% on an annual plan at checkout. </p>
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winter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel.</p>
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<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’t taken into consideration during the design of this vault seems like a glaring oversight.</p>
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<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&dom=tw#page-3">Mary Beth Griggs, reporting for Popular Science</a>:</p>
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into the seed vault,” Fowler says. In other words, any water that
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not to freeze at well-below-freezing temperatures. Otherwise,
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<p>Still worried? Maybe this will help you exhale: “We did this
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calculation; if all the ice in the world melted — Greenland,
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Arctic, Antarctic, everything — and then we had the world’s
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largest recorded tsunami right in front of the seed vault. So,
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very high sea levels and the worlds largest Tsunami. What would
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happen to the seed vault?” Fowler says. “We found that the seed
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vault was somewhere between a five and seven story building above
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that point. It might not help the road leading up to the seed
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vault, but the seeds themselves would be OK.”</p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>Sounds like the vault itself <em>is</em> designed to survive a climate apocalypse — it’s just the entry that isn’t.</p>
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<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"> ★ </a>
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</entry><entry>
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<title>‘It’s Borderline Stupid How Easy It Was’</title>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://ndarville.com/blog/2017/05/19/json-feed-for-jekyll/" />
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<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/q0f" />
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/19/json-feed-jekyll" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/linked//6.33711</id>
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<published>2017-05-19T20:07:02Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-19T20:13:21Z</updated>
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<author>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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</author>
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<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
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<p>Niclas Darville, on creating a JSON Feed template for Jekyll:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>It literally took me longer to write this blog post than the JSON
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feed code, because I couldn’t get Jekyll to escape the Liquid code
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example.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>On Twitter, <a href="https://twitter.com/pessimism/status/865574252182990848">Darville wrote</a>:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>One of the best things about <a href="https://twitter.com/@jsonfeed">@jsonfeed</a> is how well it works as a
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Hello World kind of programming exercise.</p>
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<p>Sure beats to-do lists.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<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 “blowing-off-steam project”.</p>
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<p>These reactions are exactly what I mean about JSON Feed being <em>fun</em>. There’s a time and place for specs that are drop-dead serious, but I think it’s often overlooked just how important <em>fun</em> can be in having a new spec gain traction.</p>
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<a title="Permanent link to ‘‘It’s Borderline Stupid How Easy It Was’’" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/19/json-feed-jekyll"> ★ </a>
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</div>
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]]></content>
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</entry><entry>
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<title>Headline of the Week</title>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html" />
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<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/q0e" />
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/19/trump-nut-job" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/linked//6.33710</id>
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<published>2017-05-19T19:41:15Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-20T04:12:08Z</updated>
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<author>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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</author>
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<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
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<p>Actual headline in the staid New York Times: “Trump Told Russians That Firing ‘Nut Job’ Comey Eased Pressure From Investigation”.</p>
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<div>
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<a title="Permanent link to ‘Headline of the Week’" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/19/trump-nut-job"> ★ </a>
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</div>
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]]></content>
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</entry><entry>
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<title>Requiring Facebook</title>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://thebolditalic.com/facebook-goes-full-black-mirror-how-facebook-is-making-membership-a-prerequisite-to-everyday-e88fb03b0eb9" />
|
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|
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<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/q0d" />
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|
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/requiring-facebook" />
|
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/linked//6.33709</id>
|
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<published>2017-05-19T02:19:06Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-19T07:02:39Z</updated>
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<author>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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</author>
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<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
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<p>Jason Ditzian, writing for The Bold Italic on what happened when the car sharing service he’d been using for 10 years was acquired:</p>
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|
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<blockquote>
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|
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<p>However, City CarShare was recently bought by a corporation,
|
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Getaround. And Getaround built its platform on top of Facebook. So
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when I went to migrate my account over to them, I found that
|
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|
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there’s literally no way to do it as a non-Facebook user. If I
|
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|
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want to share cars with my fellow city dwellers, I’m compelled to
|
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|
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strike a Faustian bargain.</p>
|
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|
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<p>To access the services of Getaround, one must authenticate their
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identity through Facebook. […]</p>
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|
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<p>I know that for you Facebook-having people, this is no big deal.
|
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|
-
You have resigned yourself to the idea of Facebook owning your
|
|
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|
-
data. But if you don’t, haven’t and/or won’t resign to this fate,
|
|
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|
-
you might end up left, like me, in a peculiar situation: the price
|
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|
-
of “sharing” a car equals money plus forking over a huge trove of
|
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|
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personal data. Personal information is supplanting money as a form
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of currency.</p>
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|
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</blockquote>
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<p>There’s clearly a problem here, but I don’t think it’s Facebook’s fault. I think the problem is that Getaround sucks.</p>
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<div>
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|
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<a title="Permanent link to ‘Requiring Facebook’" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/requiring-facebook"> ★ </a>
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</div>
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]]></content>
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</entry><entry>
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|
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<title>FCC Votes to Begin Dismantling Net Neutrality</title>
|
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|
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170517/12241437395/fcc-ignores-will-public-votes-to-begin-dismantling-net-neutrality.shtml" />
|
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|
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<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/q0c" />
|
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|
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/net-neutrality" />
|
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/linked//6.33708</id>
|
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|
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<published>2017-05-18T22:30:58Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-18T22:31:00Z</updated>
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<author>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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</author>
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<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
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|
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<p>Karl Bode, writing for TechDirt:</p>
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|
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<blockquote>
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|
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<p>Surprising absolutely nobody, the FCC today voted 2-1 along strict
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|
-
party lines to begin dismantling net neutrality protections for
|
|
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|
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consumers. 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
|
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|
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majority</a> of non-bot comments filed with the FCC support
|
|
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|
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keeping the rules intact. And while FCC boss Ajit Pai has
|
|
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|
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breathlessly insisted he intended to listen to the concerns of all
|
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|
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parties involved, there has been zero indication that this was a
|
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|
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serious 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
|
|
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|
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broadband consumer protections</a>, not just net neutrality.</p>
|
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|
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|
|
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|
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<p>As you might have expected, the FCC was quick to release a
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|
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|
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statement claiming that gutting the popular consumer protections
|
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would usher forth a magical age of connectivity, investment, and
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innovation.</p>
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|
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</blockquote>
|
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|
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<p>(<a href="https://pxlnv.com/linklog/fcc-vote-may-18/">Via Nick Heer</a>.)</p>
|
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<div>
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<a title="Permanent link to ‘FCC Votes to Begin Dismantling Net Neutrality’" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/net-neutrality"> ★ </a>
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</div>
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]]></content>
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</entry><entry>
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<title>‘You Know My Name’</title>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1AMUmkj-ck" />
|
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-
<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/q0b" />
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|
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/cornell-casino-royale" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/linked//6.33707</id>
|
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<published>2017-05-18T22:24:55Z</published>
|
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<updated>2017-05-18T22:24:56Z</updated>
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<author>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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</author>
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<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
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<p>One of my very favorite songs from Chris Cornell — the opening credits theme to <em>Casino Royale</em>. A great song that just fits the movie so damn well.</p>
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<div>
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<a title="Permanent link to ‘‘You Know My Name’’" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/cornell-casino-royale"> ★ </a>
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</div>
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]]></content>
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</entry><entry>
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<title>Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, Dead at 52</title>
|
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|
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/arts/music/chris-cornell-dead-soundgarden.html?_r=0" />
|
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|
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<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/q0a" />
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/cornell" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/linked//6.33706</id>
|
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<published>2017-05-18T22:20:21Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-19T07:17:15Z</updated>
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<author>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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</author>
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<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
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<p>The New York Times:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Chris Cornell, the powerful, dynamic singer whose band Soundgarden
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was one of the architects of grunge music, died on Wednesday night
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in Detroit hours after the band had performed there. He was 52.</p>
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<p>The death was a suicide by hanging, the Wayne County Medical
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Examiner’s Office said in a statement released on Thursday
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afternoon. It said a full autopsy had not yet been completed.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>Fuck.</p>
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<a title="Permanent link to ‘Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, Dead at 52’" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/cornell"> ★ </a>
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</entry><entry>
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<title>jq</title>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://stedolan.github.io/jq/" />
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<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/q09" />
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/jq" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/linked//6.33705</id>
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<published>2017-05-18T20:40:38Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-18T20:40:40Z</updated>
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<author>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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</author>
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<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
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<p>There’s a cool command-line JSON processor called <code>jq</code> — 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’s how easy <code>jq</code> makes it to get, say, a list of the titles from DF’s <a href="https://jsonfeed.org/">JSON feed</a>:</p>
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<pre><code>curl -s https://daringfireball.net/feeds/json | jq '.items[].title'
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</code></pre>
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<title>The World’s First JSON Feed Viewer</title>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://twitter.com/vaillancourtmax/status/865291487881383937" />
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<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/q08" />
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/maxime-vaillancourt-json-feed-viewer" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/linked//6.33704</id>
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<published>2017-05-18T20:32:06Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-18T20:39:47Z</updated>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<p>Here’s a tiny proof of concept for a <a href="https://twitter.com/@jsonfeed">@jsonfeed</a> viewer, built in an
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<p>One of the things I love about <a href="https://jsonfeed.org/">JSON Feed</a> is that it’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>
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<a title="Permanent link to ‘The World’s First JSON Feed Viewer’" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/maxime-vaillancourt-json-feed-viewer"> ★ </a>
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<title>Apple Is Testing an Apple Watch Glucose Monitor</title>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/18/apple-ceo-tim-cook-test-drove-glucose-monitor.html" />
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<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/q07" />
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/apple-watch-glucose" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/linked//6.33703</id>
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<published>2017-05-18T20:24:52Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-18T20:24:54Z</updated>
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<author>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
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<p>Christina Farr, reporting for CNBC:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Tim Cook has been spotted at the Apple campus test-driving a
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device that tracks blood sugar, which was connected to his
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Apple Watch.</p>
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<p>A source said that Cook was wearing a prototype glucose-tracker on
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— or at risk for the disease.</p>
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<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
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working on the “holy grail” for diabetes: Non-invasive and
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continuous glucose monitoring. The current glucose trackers on the
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market rely on tiny sensors penetrating the skin. Sources said the
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company is already conducting feasibility trials in the Bay Area.</p>
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<p>Non-invasive continuous glucose monitoring would be a life-changer for anyone with diabetes. But I can’t even imagine how life-changing this will be for kids with diabetes and their parents.</p>
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<a title="Permanent link to ‘Apple Is Testing an Apple Watch Glucose Monitor’" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/apple-watch-glucose"> ★ </a>
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<title>CMD-D: Masters of Automation Conference</title>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.cmddconf.com/" />
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<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/q06" />
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/cmd-d-conference" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/linked//6.33702</id>
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<published>2017-05-18T19:53:32Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-18T19:53:34Z</updated>
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<author>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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<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>
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<a title="Permanent link to ‘CMD-D: Masters of Automation Conference’" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/cmd-d-conference"> ★ </a>
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<title>Final Cut Pro X and Closed Captions</title>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://hammonwry.com/forgotten-again/" />
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<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/q05" />
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/fcpx-closed-captions" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/linked//6.33701</id>
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<published>2017-05-18T16:42:06Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-18T16:42:07Z</updated>
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<author>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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<p>Kevin Hamm:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Captions can be just text at timecode, which is simple. In their
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most complex, they are styled, located text at timecode. That’s
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it. Nothing more. I work in text and titles and timecode every day
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in every video I do, so there is no reason that this simple
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function isn’t baked in at this point. Words at timecode. That’s
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all it is.</p>
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<p>That Apple is making their systems and products accessible is
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great. Xcode grants programmers the ability to build accessible
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apps, and has from the beginning, which is even better as it makes
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a massive part of the ecosystem accessible.</p>
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<p>That Final Cut Pro hasn’t ever and still doesn’t create closed
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captions is a smudge on that image.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>It seems bonkers to me that Final Cut Pro X doesn’t have support for closed captions. Coming from Apple, you’d think it would have <em>excellent</em> support for them. How does Apple create closed captions for their own videos?</p>
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<div>
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<a title="Permanent link to ‘Final Cut Pro X and Closed Captions’" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/18/fcpx-closed-captions"> ★ </a>
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<title>Source Code for Panic Apps Stolen By Malware Thieves</title>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://panic.com/blog/stolen-source-code/" />
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<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/q04" />
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/panic-handbrake-thieves" />
|
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/linked//6.33700</id>
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<published>2017-05-17T18:26:52Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-18T00:08:29Z</updated>
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<author>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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<p>Steven Frank:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<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
|
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-
HandBrake</a> was compromised. One of the two download servers for
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HandBrake was serving up a special malware-infested version of the
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app, that, when launched, would essentially give hackers remote
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control of your computer.</p>
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<p>In a case of extraordinarily bad luck, even for a guy that has a
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lot of bad computer luck, I happened to download HandBrake in that
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three day window, and my work Mac got pwned.</p>
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<p>Long story short, <em>somebody, somewhere, now has quite a bit of
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source code to several of our apps</em>.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<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’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>
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<div>
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<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"> ★ </a>
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</div>
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<title>Dave Itzkoff Profiles Jimmy Fallon for The New York Times</title>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-interview-trump.html" />
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<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/q03" />
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/itzkoff-fallon" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/linked//6.33699</id>
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<published>2017-05-17T17:33:40Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-17T17:33:41Z</updated>
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<author>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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<p>Fascinating behind-the-scenes look at The Tonight Show, including a look inside Fallon’s briefcase (he’s got a Nintendo Switch in there).</p>
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<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"> ★ </a>
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</entry><entry>
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<title>Announcing JSON Feed</title>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://jsonfeed.org/2017/05/17/announcing_json_feed" />
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<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/q02" />
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/json-feed" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/linked//6.33698</id>
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<published>2017-05-17T17:24:53Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-17T17:56:42Z</updated>
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<author>
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<p>We — Manton Reece and Brent Simmons — have noticed that JSON has
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become the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will
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often go out of their way to avoid XML. JSON is simpler to read
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and write, and it’s less prone to bugs.</p>
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<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
|
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JSON. It reflects the lessons learned from our years of work
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reading and publishing feeds.</p>
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<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’ve got a good feeling about this project — 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>
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<div>
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<a title="Permanent link to ‘Announcing JSON Feed’" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/json-feed"> ★ </a>
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</entry><entry>
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<title>New Apple Videos Highlight Real-World Accessibility</title>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://mashable.com/2017/05/17/apple-accessibility-videos-disability/" />
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<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/q01" />
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/17/accessibility-apple" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/linked//6.33697</id>
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<published>2017-05-17T06:03:01Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-17T06:17:10Z</updated>
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<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’s YouTube channel</a>, highlighting real-world usage of iOS and MacOS accessibility features. People who can’t move, people who can’t talk, people who can’t see or hear — doing amazing things. Apple’s commitment to accessibility is one of my very favorite things about the company. It’s not just the right thing to do for people who truly need these features — it makes the products better for everyone.</p>
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<updated>2017-05-17T05:20:47Z</updated>
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<p>Who knows, maybe Google would have made this same deal with Lyft even in the alternate universe where Uber didn’t steal Google’s tech. But it sure looks like Uber has made a powerful enemy.</p>
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<title>Long Live MP3</title>
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<p>I wasn’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 “MP3 Is Dead” stories by an announcement from Fraunhofer pushing people to switch from the now-open MP3 to the still-patent-encumbered AAC.</p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p>I think the big news isn’t that there’s a cheap TV with Fire built-in — it’s that Amazon is promoting it heavily on their home page. Google’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’s is almost certainly more valuable for selling consumer goods, because people visiting Amazon are ready to buy.</p>
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<title>Loog Guitars</title>
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<p>Educational classes, photo walks, and more — from your local Apple Store. This, I think, is Angela Ahrendts’s biggest project at Apple to date. This is not just a program for the major flagship stores — it’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’s retail stores are one of the most overlooked / underestimated advantages in all of technology.</p>
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<p>We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic
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powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a
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guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly
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in a jar.</p>
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<a title="Permanent link to ‘When the World Is Led by a Child’" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/16/trump-brooks"> ★ </a>
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<title>The Washington Post: ‘Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information to Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador’</title>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="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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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/15/trump-russia" />
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<published>2017-05-15T22:13:00Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-15T22:15:57Z</updated>
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<author>
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<p>Greg Miller and Greg Jaffe, reporting for The Washington Post:</p>
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<p>In his meeting with Lavrov, Trump seemed to be boasting about his
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inside knowledge of the looming threat. “I get great intel. I have
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people brief me on great intel every day,” the president said,
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according to an official with knowledge of the exchange.</p>
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<p>Trump went on to discuss aspects of the threat that the United
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States learned only through the espionage capabilities of a key
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partner. He did not reveal the specific intelligence-gathering
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method, but he described how the Islamic State was pursuing
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elements of a specific plot and how much harm such an attack could
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where the U.S. intelligence partner detected the threat.</p>
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<p>The Washington Post is withholding most plot details, including
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<p>Is Trump a Russian collaborator? A bumbling idiot? Both? No matter what the answer is, he’s unfit to be president. This would be comical if the stakes weren’t so high. If a cabinet secretary had blabbed about this they’d be fired on the spot.</p>
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<a title="Permanent link to ‘The Washington Post: ‘Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information to Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador’’" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/15/trump-russia"> ★ </a>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://df.stashword.com/" />
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<link rel="shorturl" href="http://df4.us/pzt" />
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/2017/05/stashword_ios_app_and_website" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017:/feeds/sponsors//11.33689</id>
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<author><name>Daring Fireball Department of Commerce</name></author>
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<published>2017-05-15T18:52:31-04:00</published>
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<updated>2017-05-20T15:34:13-04:00</updated>
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<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
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<p>Stashword’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>
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<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>
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<a title="Permanent link to ‘Stashword iOS App and Website’" href="https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/2017/05/stashword_ios_app_and_website"> ★ </a>
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/2017/05/dropping_tech_giants" />
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<link rel="shorturl" href="http://df4.us/pzj" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017://1.33679</id>
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<published>2017-05-12T15:58:22Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-14T20:26:47Z</updated>
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<author>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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</author>
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<summary type="text">My answer to Farhad Manjoo’s question: “If an evil monarch forced you to choose, in what order would you give up these inescapable giants of tech?”</summary>
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<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>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet, the parent
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company of Google, are not just the largest technology companies
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in the world. As I’ve argued repeatedly in my column, they are
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also becoming the most powerful companies of any kind, essentially
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inescapable for any consumer or business that wants to participate
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in the modern world. But which of the Frightful Five is most
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unavoidable? I ponder the question in my column this week.</p>
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<p>But what about you? If an evil monarch forced you to choose, in
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what order would you give up these inescapable giants of tech?</p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>Great question. I love thought exercises.</p>
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<p>My order (from first dropped to last):</p>
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<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’t, I might have to rethink my answer here.)</p></li>
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<li><p>Amazon. I buy stuff from Amazon almost every week. I just counted — 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’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>
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<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’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>
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<li><p>Apple. I mean, come on. If not for Apple I’d be stuck using computers I don’t like and a phone that I consider a distant second-best. With all the other companies on the list, what I’d miss most are certain of their services — Instagram, Skype, Amazon’s store, YouTube — 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’t even touch upon Apple’s crown jewels: the MacOS and iOS software platforms.</p></li>
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<title>★ Dropping Tech Giants</title></entry><entry>
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2017://1.33666</id>
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<published>2017-05-05T18:37:24Z</published>
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<updated>2017-05-06T01:58:08Z</updated>
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<author>
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</author>
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<summary type="text">Hardware differentiated by *superior, exclusive* software is the key to understanding Apple. And it might explain the iPhone’s sluggish sales in China.</summary>
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<p><a href="https://stratechery.com/2017/apples-china-problem/">Ben Thompson had a great column this week</a>, in the wake of Apple’s quarterly results and Microsoft’s announcement of the Surface Laptop:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Did you hear about the new Microsoft Surface Laptop? The <a href="https://twitter.com/reckless/status/859448810187235330">usual
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suspects</a> are claiming it’s a MacBook competitor, which is
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true insomuch as it is a laptop. In truth, though, the Surface
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reason that it runs Windows, while the MacBook runs MacOS. This
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has always been the foundation of Apple’s business model:
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<a href="https://stratechery.com/2016/everything-as-a-service/">hardware differentiated by software</a> such that said hardware
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can be sold with a margin much greater than nominal competitors
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running a commodity operating system.</p>
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<p>Hardware differentiated by <em>superior, exclusive</em> software is the key to understanding Apple. It’s the reason the company was founded. Apple II’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 ’90s, when the company was struggling. It explains all the company’s success after that: the iPod, the resurgence of the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Any comparison between Microsoft’s Surface Laptop and Apple’s MacBooks that doesn’t place heavy emphasis on the value of MacOS is vapid.</p>
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<p>Thompson then turns to Apple’s languishing iPhone sales in China:</p>
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<p>But that is not what is going on in most of the world: plenty of
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even though it doesn’t look much different than the iPhone 6.
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After all, if you need a new phone, and you want iOS, you don’t
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have much choice! Except, again, for China: that is the country
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where the appearance of the iPhone matters most; Apple’s
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problem, though, is that in China that is the only thing that
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<p>The fundamental issue is this: unlike the rest of the world, in
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China the most important layer of the smartphone stack is not the
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phone’s operating system. Rather, it is WeChat. Connie Chan of
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Andreessen Horowitz <a href="http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/">tried to explain in 2015</a> just how integrated
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WeChat is into the daily lives of nearly <a href="http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5d6Th5wndmJT25cRHemZNg">900 million Chinese</a>, and
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that integration has only grown since then: every aspect of a
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typical Chinese person’s life, not just online but also off is
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conducted through a single app (and, to the extent other apps are
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<p>There is nothing in any other country that is comparable: not
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communication or wasting time: WeChat is that, but it is also for
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reading news, for hailing taxis, for paying for lunch (try and pay
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accessing government resources, for business. For all intents and
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purposes WeChat is your phone, and to a far greater extent in
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China than anywhere else, your phone is everything.</p>
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<p>As Thompson adds in a footnote, “Or, to put it another way, the operating system of China is WeChat, not iOS/Android.”</p>
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<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’s retention rates hover around the mid-80s.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-users-abandon-loyalty-to-apple-2016-11">Here’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’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>
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<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’re in the mid-70s, but holding roughly steady. China’s numbers have plummeted — 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>
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<p>So here’s Apple’s China problem: Chinese iPhone users aren’t nearly as loyal to the iPhone platform as iPhone users elsewhere are. This is already hurting Apple financially. Apple’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>
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<p>Thompson knows Chinese culture well — he lives in Taipei, visits China often, and speaks Mandarin. My grasp of Chinese culture is rudimentary at best, and I’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>
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<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 — that in China, there are many people who forego an upgrade to an iPhone 7 because other people won’t be able to tell that it isn’t, say, a boring two-year-old iPhone 6. I just don’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>
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<p>But more importantly, I just think the whole “<em>if it doesn’t have an altogether new form factor, it’s boring</em>” 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’t rehash the whole argument here. But I am convinced this viewpoint is mostly that of the tech and gadget obsessed.</p>
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<p>Again, I’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’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>
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<p>In Apple’s “hardware differentiated by software” formula, the software is more important than the hardware. That’s why gadget writers so often get Apple wrong: they’re focused solely on hardware — the object, not the experience of using the object. That’s also why the financial press so often gets Apple wrong: they focus only on the hardware because that’s where the money comes from.</p>
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<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 — would you rather run Apple’s software platform on non-Apple hardware or run some other software platform on Apple hardware — 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’s easy to switch to another laptop brand. If you depend on native Mac and iOS apps, iCloud, and iMessage, it’s arduous, at best, to switch.</p>
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<p>If it really is true that “the operating system of China is WeChat, not iOS/Android”, that’s the whole ballgame right there. Again, my disagreement with Thompson here is subtle. He even describes WeChat’s centrality to the Chinese smartphone stack as “the fundamental issue”, leaving the supposed boringness of the iPhone 6S and 7 as a secondary issue. My difference with Thompson is that I don’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>
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<p>That’s a real problem for Apple, because even if Thompson is right (and I’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’s centrality — or even worse, if WeChat is central <em>and</em> better on Android than it is on iOS — there’s no easy fix for Apple.</p>
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<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: “<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>”.</p>
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<summary type="text">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.</summary>
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<p>Mike Murphy, writing for Quartz, “<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>”:</p>
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<p>These articles come out like clockwork every 3 months, as Apple’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>
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<p>(“Two years and two iterations after its launch” — I don’t know if that’s a mistake, if Murphy is counting WatchOS releases, or if he’s counting Series 1 as a full hardware iteration. But it’s sloppy writing. Most people would surely agree that there’s been only one iteration since launch, the Series 2 watches released last September.)</p>
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<p>The nut of every “Apple Watch is a dud” story is the fact that it’s clearly not an iPhone-size business. But that can’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’s possible nothing else will in our lifetimes. You and I may never again see a product as profitable as the iPhone — not just from Apple, but from any company in any industry. Or maybe we will. It’s a complete unknown.</p>
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<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’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’s “Other” 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>
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<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>
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<summary type="text">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 “track” only appears in the article in the context of Kalanick having “excelled at running track and playing football” in high school.</summary>
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from Apple’s engineers. The reason? So Apple would not find out
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<p>But Apple was on to the deception, and when Mr. Kalanick arrived
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<p>For Mr. Kalanick, the moment was fraught with tension. If Uber’s
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millions of iPhone customers — essentially destroying the
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<p>“Secretly identifying and tagging iPhones even after its app had been deleted and the devices erased” is a rather startling accusation, because it sounds like it should be technically impossible. It’s also very much unclear what information Uber was able to glean from these “identified and tagged” 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 “tracking” 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 “track” only appears in the article in the context of Kalanick having “excelled at running track and playing football” in high school.</p>
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<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 “tracking”</a>, but a subsequent revision changed that word to “identifying and tagging”.]</p>
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<p>Reading between the lines, it is possible — and my gut says quite probable — that Uber wasn’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>
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<p>There was one problem: Fingerprinting iPhones broke Apple’s rules.
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<p>What Isaac is reporting here doesn’t require any code running on an iPhone other than when the Uber app is itself installed and launched. I’m speculating here, but it could be something like this:</p>
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<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’t being used to book fraudulent rides.</p></li>
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<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’s privacy policy.</p></li>
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<p>But until step 3, when the Uber app is reinstalled, I don’t think Uber was “tracking” 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>
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<p>That <em>sounds</em> like Uber was doing the identifying and “tagging” (whatever that is) after the app had been deleted and/or the device wiped, but I think what it might — <em>might</em> — actually mean is merely that the identification persisted after the app had been deleted and/or the device wiped. That’s not supposed to be technically possible — 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’s wrong, and Apple was right to put an end to it, but it’s far less sensational than the prospect of Uber having been able to identify and “tag” 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’s SDK, or if the Uber app left behind malware outside the app’s sandbox. I don’t think that’s the case, if only because I don’t think Apple would have hesitated to remove Uber from the App Store if it was infecting iPhones with hidden phone-home malware.</p>
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<p>The article does raise some questions:</p>
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<li><p>What exactly did Apple know about Uber’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>
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<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’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>
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<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>
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<p>Uber devoted teams to so-called competitive intelligence,
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<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 “Clean up your inbox” by identifying subscription emails and allowing you to unsubscribe from them in bulk. It’s “free” in the sense that you don’t pay them money, but they’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>
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<summary type="text">Instead of getting into the computer business, traditional watch companies should focus on what they’ve always done: designing and making great mechanical watches — creating a breath of analog fresh air in an ever-more digitized world.</summary>
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<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>
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smartwatch players by playing their game won’t work. Is there
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something in Swatch Group’s culture that predisposes it to be
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competitive with Google and Apple software engineers?</p>
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<p>Just as Nokia should have embraced Android in 2010, riding on its
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proven combination of Design, Supply Chain, and Carrier
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Distribution prowess to keep a leading role in the smartphone
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revolution, Swatch could use its native — but circumscribed —
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cultural and technical skills to create beautiful, fun
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smartwatches … that run on Google’s software. But just like
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Nokia’s culture and success prevented it from seizing the Android
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moment, similar factors will keep Swatch from being a powerful
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player in the smartwatch world.</p>
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<p>I agree. <em>If</em> the Swatch Group wants to make smartwatches, they should almost certainly go with Android Wear, and they’re almost certainly doomed with their pre-announced homegrown OS. And it’s crazy that even if they succeed at creating their own OS, that they think it won’t need frequent updates and bug fixes. That’s not how computer platforms work, and make no mistake, smartwatches are computer platforms.</p>
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<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>
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<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’s only convenient to have one smartwatch <em>in active use</em> at a time. Apple knows this: that’s why they made it so easy to swap straps — 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>
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<p>I don’t think the Swiss watch industry has a chance of out-computer-engineering Apple. Instead they should focus on what they’ve always done: designing and making great mechanical watches — creating a breath of analog fresh air in an ever-more-digitized world.</p>
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