13 reasons not to dump your New Yorker sub for Apple News+
The editor of the New Yorker's website rolls his rock up a hill of churn.
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Steven M. Peters
Apple vs. Google: Guess who’s mail client is more popular
From "The World's Most Popular Email Clients" posted Tuesday on Statista.
Surprising Things Countries Are No. 1 At
Every country in the world is best at something. Some superlatives are positive – France is probably proud of the fact it’s the most visited country in the world – and others are not.…
The Most Popular International Flights
Have you ever wondered how many planes are in the air at a given moment? In 2017, airline companies around the world operated 36.8 million flights. They carried 4.1 billion passengers, according to the…
The Most Popular Domestic Flights Around the World
A record number of passengers flew on scheduled airline services in 2017: 4.1 billion, according to the International Air Transport Association. Most of all flights are domestic. In fact, the busiest 15 flight routes…
20 Sandwiches (and Fillings) Americans Can’t Stop Eating
By now everybody has probably heard the familiar story about how John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, invented the ubiquitous food item that bears his earldom’s name. In case not: Reluctant to leave…
What Ming-Chi Kuo says about next fall’s iPhones
Apple's "most reliable analyst" also said we'd have AirPower by now.
Apple closed its March quarter Saturday
The world’s second-most valuable company is set to report fiscal Q2 2019 earnings four weeks from today. Click here for earnings call. My take: It’s all…
Apple unseated as world’s most profitable
All it took was for Mister Bone Saw to open Aramco's books.
Vanity Fair: How Apple tried to woo the WashPo and NYTimes
“We’ll make you the most-read newspaper in the world.” — Eddy Cue’s elevator pitch. From Vanity Fair: “ARE WE AT A PARTY, OR A WAKE?” posted Monday…
The Least Healthy Counties in America
Eating a nutritious and well-balanced diet, exercising regularly, and abstaining from bad habits like smoking — while by no means a guarantee — greatly increase one’s odds of living a long and healthy life.…
WSJ: Apple competes most directly with Comcast
This may say more about Venn diagrams than it does about Apple and Comcast.
Frederic Filloux: Apple will cost mags 50% per reader
Apple News+ isn't to blame for the industry's decline, but it still breaks my heart.
Apple’s Services event: What the indie analysts are saying
Excerpts from some of my favorites. Seen any I missed?
Apple’s AirPower: ‘Well and truly f**ked’
Posted by John Gruber six months before Apple pulled the plug:
Counterpoint: Apple’s AirPods still rule the ears
Even before the release of AirPods2, Apple was killing it.
Horace Dediu: What Apple Watch (and AirPods) have wrought (chart)
In my home town, they still look goofy and strange.
Tim Cook out-clicked Oprah
And other findings from an analysis of 48 hours of Apple chatter.
Apple in Hollywood: Color Buffett skeptical (video)
"Apple should do some things that don't work."
How April Fool’s Is Celebrated in 18 Countries From Around the World
People have two missions on April Fool’s Day — to play a prank on someone else and to not fall victim to one. Gullibility is not a quality to advertise on April 1 of…