av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 23, 2019 | Lästipset
Inside Apple’s team that greenlights iPhone apps for the App Store
In an inside look at Apple, CNBC has learned from people familiar with the process how the company reviews and approves apps and other iPhone software.
The app review process has grown in importance as Apple increasingly emphasizes its App Store services as a source of revenue and iPhone security as a key selling point.
In addition, Apple’s platform is drawing new scrutiny as politicians and regulators take a more skeptical look at the power of big tech companies. In the United States, presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren says that Apple competes with the apps on its own platform. Spotify, the streaming music service that competes with Apple Music, has filed a competition complaint with the EU. And Apple’s own developers for years have chafed under App Review’s sometimes arbitrary rejections and boilerplate feedback.
Källa: Inside Apple’s team that greenlights iPhone apps for the App Store
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 11, 2019 | Lästipset
Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017.
They had encountered significant turbulence in the product line over the preceding years, especially Macs. It was a rough time to be a pro Mac user.
The “trash can” 2013 Mac Pro addressed only a fraction of the needs solved by the previous “cheese grater” towers, aged quickly without critical upgrade paths, and suffered from high GPU-failure rates from its cooling solution — all because its design prioritized size and appearance over performance and versatility in the one Mac model that should never make that tradeoff.
Over the next few years, it became clear that the Mac Pro was an embarrassing, outdated flop that Apple seemed to have little intention of ever updating, leaving its customers feeling unheard and abandoned. I think Apple learned a small lesson from it, but they learned a much bigger one a few years later.
Apple is Listening
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 9, 2019 | Lästipset
The Making of a YouTube Radical
Caleb Cain pulled a Glock pistol from his waistband, took out the magazine and casually tossed both onto the kitchen counter.
“I bought it the day after I got death threats,” he said.
The threats, Mr. Cain explained, came from right-wing trolls in response to a video he had posted on YouTube a few days earlier. In the video, he told the story of how, as a liberal college dropout struggling to find his place in the world, he had gotten sucked into a vortex of far-right politics on YouTube.
“I fell down the alt-right rabbit hole,” he said in the video.
Källa: The Making of a YouTube Radical
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 7, 2019 | Lästipset
Två män, luggslitna, på samhällets botten inser att vänskapen kan rädda livet på dem båda.
Om väggklockans tick är ljudet av tid som går, är tystnaden däremellan ensamhetens läte. Däri ryms sekunderna som han nu ska fylla. Det här är en berättelse av Magnus Wennman och Erik Wiman om Pekka och Mattes vänskap och hur den tar slut.
Källa: Pekka och Matte – en historia om vänskap av Magnus Wennman – Pekka & Matte
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 6, 2019 | Lästipset
En skoltidning, en redaktör, tryckfrihet och så en historia om en ung kvinna som spelar in porr för att ta sig ur en ekonomisk kris. En intervju som skulle ha tryckts om det inte vore för en myndighet och en skolinspektör.
Stockton, California, is inland, hot, 20 percent poor, and crime-ridden. The top nine employers are schools, hospitals, the government, and Amazon, whoch has two giant fulfillment centers in the city. No. 10 is O’Reilly Auto Parts. It’s a good place to leave, if you can. As ever in places like this, the high schools are full of trouble and promise, and one of them—Bear Creek High School—has lately been in the news because of two of its students: Bailey Kirkeby, a junior, and Caitlin Fink, a senior.
They are thoroughly creatures of the modern age, but what impresses me about both of them is how deeply they also exemplify some of the most enduring traits of girlhood. They are hopeful, concerned about fairness, foursquare on the side of the underdog, and drenched in a romantic vision of life, in whoch sorrows can be easily overcome and infinite happiness is always on the horizon. Like every girl since the beginning of history—and surely, to the last syllable of recorded time—they are subjects of great interest to people who don’t mean them well. Let’s get to know them a bit.
Källa: A High-School Porn Star’s Cry for Help
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 3, 2019 | Lästipset
Den 4 april 1989 inleddes protesterna på Himmelska Fridens Torg som slutade med en massaker när den kinesiska folkarmen gick in på torget och sköt ned obeväpnade civila.
Inför 30-års dagen så har New York Times publicerat en serie bilder som inte visats tidigare.
HONG KONG — Jian Liu has kept 60 rolls of film hidden from public view for three decades.
He was a 20-year-old fashion design student in Beijing in the spring of 1989 when a student-led pro-democracy movement drew thousands of supporters to Tiananmen Square. Captivated by the spirit of the movement, he photographed the protests for about 50 days.
Mr. Liu said he had been exhilarated by the protesters’ bold demands for greater freedom and an end to corruption, and had set out to capture their enthusiasm and zeal.
“It made me think that this country would get better and better,” he said.
Then, on June 4, 1989, the People’s Liberation Army rolled into Beijing and opened fire at the activists and civilians, killing hundreds, possibly thousands.
New York Times
