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Apple shares a look inside its first ever ‘floating’ store

The Verge

Apple’s latest retail store has drawn comparisons to a floating lantern, with a unique design incorporating a glass dome that sits directly on the water of Singapore’s Marina Bay. Image: Apple. On the interior wall of the sphere there are baffles that create shade and what Apple is calling a “nighttime lighting effect.”

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Apple stumbled into a war with the gaming industry, and the future of iOS is at stake

The Verge

Apple’s cloud ban and Fortnite feud have made it gaming’s latest villain Apple has always had a complicated relationship with the game industry, but this month that relationship slid into a bitter and very public legal and regulatory war that could shape the future of iPhone apps. Join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming ‘1984.’”.

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Why Spotify’s Horacio Gutierrez thinks Apple behaves like a monopolist

The Verge

Spotify’s chief legal officer on tech’s ‘ruthless bully’ This week I’m talking to Horacio Gutierrez, head of global affairs and chief legal officer of Spotify, to help me understand why Spotify and so many other app developers are so frustrated with Apple. And of course, there is the trial between Epic Games — maker of Fortnite — and Apple.

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Our biggest burning question about Apple’s ARM silicon

The Verge

For years, Apple has steadily revealed how the ARM-based chips in its mobile phones were catching up in performance to the beefier silicon you’d find inside a laptop or desktop — in 2018, the company claimed its new iPad Pro was faster than 92 percent of portable PCs. Apple wouldn’t chat about it when we asked.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Apple iPad vs the Blackberry Playbook

Sean Daniel

Apple iPad vs the Blackberry Playbook. So I own an iPad (Hey, the Windows 8 tablet’s aren’t out yet, it’s ok!), and I thought it would be great to do a little bit of a comparison now that I’ve played with it for a bit. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Friday, May 25, 2012. The PlayBook does enterprise Wi-Fi right.

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Microsoft avoided a round of Big Tech scrutiny. Then it bought a company for $69 billion.

Vox

Over the next few weeks, we’ll cover what’s happening with Apple , Amazon , Microsoft, Facebook, and Google. There’s nothing more metaverse-y than games, where people already create virtual versions of themselves and navigate virtual worlds, often interacting with virtual versions of other, real, people along the way.

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people. The protagonist is a master hacker who gets in katana fights at a virtual nightclub. But wait, now Ready Player One isn’t a metaverse and virtual worlds don’t have to be 3D?

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