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#165 Apr 22, 2019 No One's Ever Really Gone... – Warning 1: Some old Star Wars spoilers below, but if you're at all up-to-date, they won't be. Mostly
#164 Apr 17, 2019 You're Folding It Wrong – The latest Samsung fiasco is incredible for a few reasons. First and foremost, it's a disaster where,
#163 Apr 16, 2019 A Game of Screens – Alongside 17.4 million or so of you, last night, I watched the season premiere of Game of Thrones. Th
#162 Apr 12, 2019 Plus, Indeed – A funny thing happened on the way to the end of cable: we’re now all about to be paying just as much
#161 Apr 8, 2019 Game Change – At the risk of sounding like a broken cartridge, I think it’s time for Apple to seriously look at buy
#160 Apr 4, 2019 A New York State of Mind – Just got back from a quick trip to New York. I had to go see about a deal. Which has happened a few t
#159 Mar 28, 2019 It Wasn't Showtime – First off, huge shout-out to Shawn Topp, a reader of this newsletter who was kind enough to send alon
#158 Mar 25, 2019 Apple Unveils the iFawn – I believe I've seen every single Apple event over the past decade-plus. Today's was without question
#157 Mar 18, 2019 A Rekindled iPad Mini – The iPad mini is a weird device. While it was released to much fanfare in 2012, the world has changed
#156 Mar 5, 2019 It Was Not TV. It Was HBO. – Earlier this week, I wrote about the news that HBO head Richard Plepler would be stepping down from h
#155 Feb 26, 2019 The Headless Oscars – A funny thing happened on the way to this year's Oscars being a disaster -- they were... fine? Despit
#154 Feb 21, 2019 The Apple Bank – I'm fascinated by today's scoop in The Wall Street Journal by Tripp Mickle, Liz Hoffman, and Peter Ru
#153 Feb 14, 2019 All Your Subscriber Base Are Belong To Us – We seem on the verge of Apple launching the next phase of Operation: Services. The latest salvo is li
#152 Feb 10, 2019 Do Not Pass Amazon Go – Last week, I shoplifted. Not intentionally, mind you. Still. What a moment! My crime? Taking a bag wi
#151 Feb 7, 2019 Bezos Bomb – I had this whole preamble written -- and about Amazon, no less -- when all hell broke loose and Jeff
#150 Jan 23, 2019 Tumblr Too – With each new year, I try to come up with a content gameplan for the year. With an ever-increasing nu
#149 Jan 16, 2019 Links & Takes – As we approach issue 150 (this is 149!), trying something slightly different. Well, really a combinat
