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Volvo transforms car servicing by giving engineers Apple Watches
Interesting, since iOS (read: CarPlay) seems like a second class citizen in Volvo’s Polestar marque, which is (in)famously based around Google’s Android Automotive OS infotainment system. (To be clear, Polestar does seem to support CarPlay, but it sounds like the mobile device must be physically connected via USB—not bluetooth—to function.)
Okay, this concludes my snarky comment for the day.
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Apple rebuilding Apple Music in macOS Monterey 12.2 as a full native app
Well imagine that. An Apple app for Macs that’s actually native to the Mac. I could never have imagined such a thing.
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Apple employees to return to in-office work in February 2022
Glad I don’t have to work there. I’m lucky that I’ve been WFH (tech job) for nearly two years now, and don’t have to return to the old fashioned ways. Offices (for tech work) are so yesterday.
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Apple cancels Joseph Gordon-Levitt's 'Mr. Corman' after one season
Two things: “The half-hour series failed to bring in the same streaming numbers as other scripted shows,” and “The series wrapped today.”See, that’s part of the problem. In the old days people used to watch episodic TV over weeks, when episodes were dribbled out to us. But I’m spoiled, and now always wait till the entire series is available before I watch a second of it. And I’m not the only one. -
How the Apple TV+ adaptation of 'Foundation' differs from its source
I sometimes feel a little bad that I won’t start watching any series before all its episodes are available (and I’m not the only one). Any beancounters watching for huge opening numbers needs to look for a secondary spike after the final episode ends, because that’s where watchers like me will come into the picture. So any decisions about whether a series will be picked up for another season also needs to accommodate streamer purists. (Watching a series dribbled out week-by-week is so 1997.)
