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Apple TV losing market share to streaming set-top box rivals Roku, Amazon
Three reasons the Apple TV is losing market share:
1: too expensive
2: overpriced
3: too expensive.
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UK site The Guardian drops Apple News in bid to boost ad & subscription revenues
I don't care about Apple News. Don't use it and never will. I prefer to go straight to the source. Why have someone curate your information sources and impose a wall between you and your interests?
The revenue problem for news outlets such as The Guardian is they are essentially competing with public broadcasters like the ever expanding Beeb. It is very hard to make a living if you produce the exact same product as a monolithic competitor that is able to rely on tax dollars (sorry pounds)/the public purse for its revenue stream rather than sell content for which consumers are prepared to pay.
Because of that reality, I don't think a paywall will help the poor old Gruniard.
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AT&T, Verizon join firms pulling millions in ads from Google, YouTube over hate, terrorist...
Superficially sounds great, but I am concerned who gets to decide what is offensive hate material and who doesn't. Will it be on the basis of twitter campaigns? FFS? Somehow or other that would turn out to be bad.
on the other hand, imagine if a Trumpbot got to decide what was hate content. Daring fireball*would probably fit.
Overall a bad idea in the name of good.
*speaking of daring fireball, Gruber made the obvious poin the other day that this is Google responding to its customers, the advertisers.
until they started lifting their ads, Google never bothered.
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Microsoft creates tool to help Apple users migrate data from Mac to Surface
Yes, I have a HP and about the only thing I use the touchscreen for is scrolling. It isn't precise enough for anything else. It is better than the lame trackpad they come with, at least in comparison to our MBAs' excellent trackpad.johnnash said:
As a 'dual OS guy' I can concur. I use a touch enabled laptop for work and it becomes habit to reach for certain functions and some it doesn't. Workflow is easier to swipe down on your screen to read through a list or spreadsheet. My stance is that some things work better than others on BOTH OS's. Apple should seriously look at touch screens for at least their MacBooks, I can't see myself using touch on my iMac but when I'm on a plane or sitting in an office somewhere on a laptop I'd use it.paxman said:
I know a dual OS guy who cannot understand why Apple doesn't have a touchscreen on their MacBooks. He says he uses it all the time - obviously not for spreadsheet or photoshop work, and the like, but for flipping through windows and browsing etc. When I tried the new MBP with the touch bar, I found myself going for the screen on more than one occasion, and I have never even used a laptop with a touch screen. I found that my hands having left the keyboard, and now using touch at the back, away from the trackpad but very close to the screen, my hands automatically moved up to the screen following on from the trackpad. All to say it made me realize the leap is not so big and to have a touch screen input is not necessarily a terrible idea. I think the reason MS has touchscreen and Apple does not has to do with Windows being optimized for touch and OSX not.jbdragon said:I just don't get the whole touch screen on laptops and especially desktops.
but you get used to using the touchscreen for scrolling pretty quick and find yourself trying to do it on the MBA.
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Rumor: Apple Pencil 2 coming this spring with magnets to attach to iPad, plus pocket clip
Most desired feature a massive reduction in price.
