Alan Murray, writing for Fortune: Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down from running Alphabet, leaving the company to Sundar Pichai. This likely signals the end of an era, when Google tried to solve a vast array of human problems under Alphabet’s broad umbrella—but pretty much failed to turn any of them into a profitable business. The […]

Ars Technica: The initial release windows of both iOS 12 and iOS 13 saw users complaining about a plethora of bugs both major and minor. Apple has plans to mitigate this problem when iOS 14 launches next year, according to sources who spoke with Bloomberg. People familiar with the shift told the publication that a major […]

Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: Microsoft had been planning to launch its new Surface Earbuds “later this year,” but the company is now delaying the wireless earbuds to spring 2020. “Product-making is about the relentless pursuit to get all the details right, which takes time… sometimes more than we planned on,” explains Microsoft’s chief […]

ABC News: China is not just where the company produces its iPhones, it’s a very lucrative market for the Cupertino, California-based tech company. The Apple chief said that he doesn’t want to “speculate” on how the next round of China tariffs could raise the price of iPhones. “I’m hoping that the U.S. and China come […]

David Heinemeier Hansson (video): Jamie Heinemeier Hansson: I care about transparency and fairness. It’s why I was deeply annoyed to be told by AppleCard representatives, “It’s just the algorithm,” and “It’s just your credit score.” I have had credit in the US far longer than David. I have never had a single late payment. I do […]

CNBC: Disney’s new streaming service, Disney+, has already seen 10 million sign-ups since launching Tuesday, the company announced Wednesday.

John Gruber: Apple today is releasing its much-rumored new 16-inch MacBook Pro. It is full of good news. Yesterday, Apple held a series of roundtable briefings for the media in New York. There was an on-the-record introduction followed by an off-the-record series of demos.1 The introduction was led by MacBook Pro product manager Shruti Haldea, along with […]

Dustin Curtis: Apple TV is a hardware device. Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way to tell which ones). Apple TV is an app on iOS/iPadOS devices […]

Michael Tsai: So there are a multiple problems here: 1. It’s (apparently) impossible for Chromium to get competitive performance and battery life without using private API, which Safari freely uses. 2. Apple probably has good reasons for keeping these APIs private. 3. Private API has always been banned, but Apple has been accepting these apps […]

Adi Robertson, writing for The Verge: Facebook says that even after it locked down its Groups system last year, some app developers retained improper access to information about members. A company blog post reports that roughly 100 developers might have accessed user information since Facebook changed its rules in April of 2018, and at least 11 accessed member […]