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Many nerds like to shit on the official Twitter app for being an abomination, mainly due to the algorithmic timeline, but the truth is Twitter’s iOS client is worlds better than Tweetbot for accessibility.
This is the stuff I’ll miss about Twitter.
I wonder if the furore over “Electron is the new Native” is mostly a Mac issue. I have a bunch of apps on my Windows machine and I think some of them are native; I know for sure some are not and I don’t have problems with them. Maybe I’m using my computer wrong? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
… revenues rose to $11.9bn in the first three months of the year, compared to $8bn previously.
The Pink Lady Food Photography competition has its winners and they are all just brilliant.
Google Tasks is a new to-do list app
The ramp up to I/O continues apace. It’s about time they released this as a stand-alone app, separate from Calendar. Although integration with email would be good, assuming it’s not included.
In the last few years, Google has also made emoji worker characters less gender specific and included a range of skin tone options. Some believe those changes, like the water pistol, were politically motivated.
A Google update centred around podcasts
- New podcast functionality in Search and Assistant.
- Podcasts can be played directly from search results, and accessed across multiple devices.
- Subscriptions and downloads can also be managed within the Google app.
UK council giving out Amazon Echo devices to elderly and disabled by C. Scott Brown
- No Scott, it is not good that caregivers are replaced by fucking smart speakers.
- No Scott, it is not the Hampshire County Council; it’s just Hampshire County Council.
Listening to the latest Core Intuition (all caught up; yay!) was… interesting. It’s fascinating to see how different the world is when you’re locked into a walled ecosystem.
Jack Dorsey, David Karp, Mark Zuckerberg… it’s like Marvel’s obsessions with White Guys Named Chris.
I’d love to see an experiment wherein Apple tech pundits are forced to use Google Assistant exclusively for a few months. Then we’d really see some interesting opinions about Siri and its associated hardware.