64 posts tagged ‘Business’
Selling Outside of the Mac App Store
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Matthias Gansrigler: But once the Mac App Store hit, I transitioned all my apps to it pretty much right away. It’s just so convenient: no license creation, no license verification (apart from receipt validation, but that has become more convenient recently), easy updating, no handling of payments, invoices, refunds, and the potential of getting featured […]
Microsoft Still Unhappy With iOS Cloud Gaming Rules
Ryan Christoffel: Back in January, when Apple first shared its new App Store guidelines that allowed cloud streaming apps, it was expected that these would pave the way for services like Xbox Cloud Gaming to debut.Over half a year later, there’s been no news on Microsoft’s front about an upcoming release.A new report by Tom […]
Pat Gelsinger Out at Intel
CNBC (MacRumors, Hacker News): Intel ousted CEO Pat Gelsinger over the weekend, capping a tumultuous nearly four-year tenure at what was America’s leading semiconductor company before its stock price and market share collapsed. The company announced Gelsinger’s resignation Monday morning, which a person familiar with the matter said came after a contentious board meeting last […]
Microsoft at 50
Steven Levy: [Nadella] tells a story from a few years ago, when a group of tech analysts came from China to take the measure of Silicon Valley. They attended all the key developer’s conferences: Apple’s WWDC, Google I/O, AWS Re:Invent, and of course, Microsoft’s own Build. “They said, ‘God, you know what? For anything that […]
Apple’s Movie Theater Beef With Hollywood
Mike Fleming Jr.: Jon Watts, the filmmaker who stepped out of the Spider-Man franchise with Tom Holland and Zendaya to script and direct George Clooney and Brad Pitt in the film Wolfs for Apple, created a press dustup yesterday when he let slip that he and they would not be doing a sequel, even though […]
Apple Tends to Do Right by Apps It Acquires
John Gruber (Mastodon) has gone through the list of Apple acquisitions: The bottom line is that what we, as users, hope for after a big company acquires a beloved app is for an outcome where the users of that app remain happy. That might mean just keeping the app going, like with Logic. Or it […]
Apple Directly Selling Apple News Ads
Sara Fischer: Apple has started selling its own advertising inventory for Apple News, two sources familiar with the effort told Axios. It’s pitching new ad units that it hopes will maximize revenue for itself and its publishing partners.[…]Beginning next year, Apple will sell premium sponsorships of editorially curated content for relevant events, such as the […]
Bluesky CEO taunts Musk with "billionaire proof" design claim
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LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The fast-rising Xitter alternative Bluesky is designed to be "billionaire-proof," says CEO Jay Graber. Speaking to CNBC's Money Movers, Graber explained that unlike Musk's walled garden, Bluesky's open-source architecture means users can pack up their digital bags — followers and all — and move if the network becomes a cesspool of sociopathic manbabies. — Read the rest The post Bluesky CEO taunts Musk with "billionaire proof" design claim appeared first on Boing Boing.