Tech Innovations and Industry Collaborations: Settlements, Chips, and USB Advances

The iPhone install base has surpassed the Android install base in the US for the first time basically since Android began. Apple settled with a developer for the first time any of us can remember. Meta signs a VR chip deal with Qualcomm. The really good and really annoying bits of the new USB standard. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

Links:

• Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US (Financial Times)
• Apple settles lawsuit with developer over App Store rejections and scams (TechCrunch)
• Meta, Qualcomm sign pact on custom virtual reality chips (Reuters)
• Next-gen USB promises to be twice as fast, using cables you may already own (The Verge)
• More USB-C speed won't fix users' problems with cables (Apple Insider)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• An Apple Watch for Your 5-Year-Old? More Parents Say Yes. (NYTimes)
• Interview: Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum (Noahpinion)
• Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion’s Image Generator (Waxy.org)
• The Rise of Tech Blogs in the Mid-2000s (Nirit Weiss-Blatt)
• Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit (BuzzFeed)
• AMAZON’S THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER IS SMALL-SCREEN HIGH FANTASY DONE RIGHT (The Verge)

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