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Whatever You Say Bounces Off Me and Sticks to You

Stephen Nellis and Deepa Seetharaman, reporting Wednesday for Reuters:

★ HomeView Thoughts and Observations

I’ll start with a nomenclatural sidenote: Apple seems to be going with “Apple HomeView” as the product’s name. E.g., the URL slug for it on Apple.com is apple-homeview/, not just homeview/. Few people notice and no one who doesn’t work in Apple product marketing cares, but they a...

Apple TV Price History, Charted

Glenn Fleishman:

The Late Charlie Munger on Elon Musk and Tesla

Re: my post today on the still-vaporware Tesla Roadster and Benedict Evans’s maxim that “Elon Musk is a bullshitter who delivers”, a reader sent me this YouTube short of Charlie Munger’s answer to a question at Berkshire Hathaway’s 2020 shareholder meeting regarding Tesla’s volat...

Apple: ‘Strengthening App Review Guidelines Against Nonconsensual Intimate Imagery and Bait-And-Switch Apps’

Apple Developer News:

Apple TV Started at $69 in 2015

Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors back on 9 March 2015:

Strange Times Make for Strange Bedfellows

Mark Zuckerberg, on X:

How They Got Duo Support in NetNewsWire

From the NetNewsWire blog:

★ Real Artists Ship, Tesla Edition

Jonathan Gitlin, writing for Ars Technica:

Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir, Says AI Researchers Have Started Smoking Because They’re Convinced AI (Claude, Probably) Is Going to Cure Cancer

From the transcript of Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:

iPhone Duo Pre-Orders Launched, and Three Hours Later It’s Sold Out Through the End of January

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors:

★ Initial Thoughts on This Week’s New Apple TV 4K (4th Generation) and HomePod Mini 2

Apple Newsroom, Tuesday morning:

Secret Documents Reveal Donors Behind $330 Million for Trump’s Ballroom — Apple and Nvidia Top the List at $25 Million Each

Jonathan O’Connell, Sarah Blaskey, and Aaron Schaffer, reporting for The Washington Post (News+ link; Archive.today link):

[Sponsor] WorkOS AuthKit: Auth for Your App, Free Up to 1M Monthly Active Users

Login looks simple until you’re building password resets, email verification, MFA, social providers, session management, and the enterprise SSO your first big customer asked for last week.

The FBI Arrested a Saudi National OpenAI Employee for Planting a Recording Device in the Company’s Executive Conference Room

The Department of Justice, yesterday:

Apple HomeView

Apple Newsroom:

Mark Stephens, a.k.a. Robert X. Cringely, Died at 73

Mary Alyce Stephens (née Neader), posting on Cringely’s Facebook account:

★ X Once Again Marks the Spot

Upon taking the CEO helm last month, John Ternus began tweeting on X. He tweeted “hello”, posted an iPhone event eve teaser and then a promo video for the new products, celebrated Apple’s plethora of wins at the Emmys and launch day on Fifth Avenue, and commemorated the anniversa...

Apple Only Started Suggesting iOS 26 Users Upgrade to 27 Three Days Ago

Joe Rossignol, on Thursday:

Sunnny

My thanks to Sunnny for sponsoring this week at DF. How can B2B software be so friggin’ delicious? Find out when early access launches on Monday, October 19.