Intro

Picking up some odds and ends from yesterday’s iPhone event, including some eyebrow raising clarifications on price and availability. Zoom is indeed trying to be a platform by bringing apps to your calls. You know DeFi is hot when everyone is suddenly rebranding themselves as DeFi. And is Dropbox leading the way to a virtual work future?

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Links:

• The iPhone 12’s mysterious groove is a 5G mmWave antenna window — and it’s exclusive to the US (The Verge)
• iPhone 12 actually costs $829, advertised $799 price includes ‘carrier special offers’ (9to5Mac)
• Snapchat among first to leverage iPhone 12 Pro’s LiDAR Scanner for AR (TechCrunch)
• Zoom launches its events platform and marketplace, brings apps to your calls (TechCrunch)
• ‘DeFi’ Replaces ‘Blockchain’ as the Must-Have Crypto Moniker (Bloomberg)
• Dropbox is the latest San Francisco tech company to make remote work permanent (CNBC)
• Dropbox goes Virtual First (Dropbox Blog)
• WordPress can now turn blog posts into tweetstorms automatically (TechCrunch)

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