Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

Tag: apple

  • Is there a FedEx iPhone trade-in theft ring?

    Is there a FedEx iPhone trade-in theft ring?

    UPDATE: October 25, 2023 24 hours after my last phone call to FedEx my trade-in was received at Apple’s partner’s facility. I don’t think it would have been delivered at all if I didn’t call and press them. The only time the packaged moved was shortly after I made one of my calls to customer…

  • Apple creates a strap-on… for your head. No… not that head.

    Apple creates a strap-on… for your head. No… not that head.

    Apple today announced the Apple Vision Pro. Another giant set of goggles to strap-on over your eyes all for the low low price of $3,500.00. I thought the failure of Google Glass, Microsoft Hololens, and Meta’s Oculus (now Quest I guess) should have shown Apple that no normal person wants to wear giant goggles around…

  • Exclusivity of inclusiveness

    You have to love the era we live in. Apple “parts ways” with a person they just hired because of something he wrote in a book in 2018. Was he fired? Did he leave voluntarily? The WSJ doesn’t say. But the following is the best part. At Apple, we have always strived to create an…

  • Tech behemoths battle to wall off podcasting

    Aside from the news up in Minnesota other things are happening in the world and what happened today that has implications for free speech. Apple announced Apple Podcast Subscriptions. The purpose is to compete with Spotify and some of the latest upstarts in the podcast space. This has free speech implications because Apple controls the…

  • Intel pulls a T-Mobile

    This smacks of desperation. I’m not an Apple user. I’m an old school Apple hater. I don’t like their locked down ecosystem and can’t stand their operating systems. But I am a fan of some of their hardware and I wish I could use it with other software. Intel must really be feeling the pressure…

  • Survey on podcasts

    Do you listen to podcasts? If you do I’m interested to know how you consume this content. Please take this short survey. Thanks! Loading…