A Whimsical Journey Through Tech Culture and Entertainment

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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