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★ Tired: Irresistable Force vs. Immovable Object — Wired: Unchanging Prices vs. Nonsensical Tariffs
The erratic, illogical, nonsensical nature of Trump’s tariffs is bad for everyone. (Understatement.) But it’s particularly troublesome for a company that sees retail price stability as part of the branding...
Reuters Headline: ‘A $2,300 Apple iPhone? Trump Tariffs Could Make That Happen.’
Akash Sriram, reporting for Reuters: Most iPhones are still made in China, which was hit with a 54% tariff. If those levies persist, Apple, opens new tab has a tough...
Why Trump’s Tariffs Are Rattling Even Meta
Mike Isaac, writing for The New York Times: Apple, Dell, Oracle — which rely on hardware and global supply chains that are in the direct line of fire from tariffs ...
Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Preorders Over Tariff Concerns
Emma Roth, The Verge: Nintendo is pushing back preorders for the Switch 2 due to concerns about Donald Trump’s newly announced tariffs. According to a statement sent to The Verge...
Apple Cash Switched From Discover to Visa in 2022
Allison McDaniel, writing for 9to5Mac back in 2022: Apple Cash is a virtual debit card where you can send and receive money through iMessage. Stored in your Wallet, you can...
Costco Only Accepts Visa Credit Cards
I observed yesterday that, in general, Visa and Mastercard credit cards are both accepted at the same locations. The most notable exception is Costco, which, as part of the deal...
Bill Gates on the Creation of Microsoft, and the Source Code for Its First Product
Bill Gates, commemorating Microsoft’s 50th anniversary: The story of how Microsoft came to be begins with, of all things, a magazine. The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics featured an...
The Making of the Lumon Industries WoeMeter
Wonderfully detailed write-up of a perfect prop from Make3: Repurposed Nagra Knobs & Switches — To ground the device in a tangible, vintage aesthetic, we salvaged original knobs and switches...
Jason Snell’s M4 MacBook Air Review
Jason Snell, last month: The new M4 MacBook Air is the Mac most people should buy. [...] That’s why perhaps the most important change in the M4 MacBook Air is...
U.S. Transaction Shares for Visa, Mastercard, and Amex
Following up on the previous item, here’s a WSJ report from October on Visa’s dominant position in the payments industry: Visa, based in San Francisco, has built its network over...
WSJ: Visa Offers Apple Roughly $100 Million to Switch Apple Card’s Network From Mastercard
AnnaMaria Andriotis, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (News+ link): The Apple card is up for grabs because Goldman Sachs, the bank behind it, is getting out of the consumer...
‘Trump Declares a Trade War on Uninhabited Islands, US Military, and Economic Logic’
Mike Masnick has a great piece at TechDirt running down just how stupid everything about Trump’s tariff trade war is: Whoever on the Council of Economic Advisers used this formula...
The Economist on Trump’s Mindless Tariffs
The Economist: On economics Mr Trump’s assertions are flat-out nonsense. The president says tariffs are needed to close America’s trade deficit, which he sees as a transfer of wealth to...
Trump Tariffs, Day Two
CNBC: Markets plunged the day after President Donald Trump imposed a far-reaching “reciprocal tariff” policy, including a 10% baseline tariff on almost every country on earth. The plan slaps much...
Nintendo Switch 2 Details
Great roundup from The Verge: While Nintendo told us very little in the official reveal of the console in January, now we know when the Switch 2 is coming and...
Steve Kornacki Exits MSNBC for New Deal With NBC News and NBC Sports
Stephen Battaglio, reporting for the LA Times: MSNBC viewers have seen the last of Steve Kornacki’s big board. The popular data maven has signed a deal with NBC that will...
‘What Makes an App Feel “Right” on the Mac?’
Watts Martin: If we hold things to this list, programs like Nova, MarsEdit, and Apple Pages — canonical Mac-assed Mac apps — all do unsurprisingly smashingly. But Obsidian, the Electron-based...
Jason Snell’s Unsuccessful Journey Into Netflix’s Ad Tier
Jason Snell: While the ads played on, I began creating a thought experiment: There’s a $10 difference between the ad and ad-free plans. If Mr. Netflix (he wears a top...
[Sponsor] Democracy
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and...
★ France Fines Apple $162M for App Tracking Transparency, Taking the Side of Surveillance Advertisers Over Users
It’s like a consortium of sketchy pawn shops complaining to the authorities after a retailer successfully cracked down on an organized shoplifting/pickpocketing ring, and the authorities then fining the retailer...