Becca's spent one year going solo and breaks down her revenue through the year. The biggest thing that stood out to me was that 75% of her revenue came from sponsors on her videos. As someone who can't be bothered to do sponsorships on his channel (which is 1/4| Birchtree
Rebekah Valentine writing for IGN: Pokémon Legends: Z-a Review in Progress If the rest of my adventure holds up (and the Switch 1 performance isn’t a disaster), we could finally have a 3D game worthy of the Pokémon franchise on our hands. It’d be about dang time. This| Birchtree
The iPhone Air has been a bit of a ride for me. I was quite impressed when I briefly held it in hand in an Apple Store when I was picking up my iPhone 17 Pro. It does feel remarkably thin in a way that an iPhone simply never has| Birchtree
Kit Maher writing for CNN: $1 Trump Coin Draft Is ‘Real,’ US Treasurer Says “No fake news here,” US Treasurer Brandon Beach post on X in response to images of the coin on X. “These first drafts honoring America’s 250th Birthday and @POTUS are real. Looking forward to sharing| Birchtree
If you follow similar accounts to me on social media, odds are you saw approximately 432 people post some variant of the title of this post. This comes 6 years after the launch of Apple TV+ and just as many people making the same “watching Apple TV+ in Apple TV| Birchtree
Sora 2 has made creating realistic videos trivially easy. I don’t think this means art is dead.| Birchtree
Not to steal Alec's thunder here, but apparently some of these TV show re-releases are using single-layer DVDs instead of dual-layer DVDs like their original releases, meaning they have less storage space, and meaning they have to be encoded at lower bitrates, ultimately meaning that the video quality is reduced.| Birchtree
Hank Green on the new Sora 2 app: If you are the kind of mother fucker who will create SlopTok, you are not the kind of mother fucker who should be in charge of OpenAI. It's a great, short rant from Hank Green, and it 100% resonates with me. I| Birchtree
Let's get one thing out of the way right up front; I am not an audiophile when it comes to earbuds. I can't tell the difference between a pedestrian-quality MP3 and a lossless FLAC file. And when it comes to AirPods, I cannot tell you the difference in audio quality| Birchtree
We’re well past the era when year-over-year Apple Watch upgrades made any sense at all, and I’d argue that even if you bought the original Apple Watch Ultra three years ago, there’s still no real reason for most people to even entertain an upgrade to the brand| Birchtree
Chris Cameron writing for The New York Times: Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps in Response to Trump Pressure Campaign Apple has removed from its App Store several programs that alert users to sightings of immigration agents after Attorney General Pam Bondi demanded they be taken down. Setting aside how| Birchtree
An early look at my predictions for 2025.| Birchtree
Here's a timeline of the Vision Pro: * June 2023: Apple unveils the product * February 2024: Apple ships the product * RUMOR - the hardware will get a bump to the M5 processor in late-2025 to early-2026, with a cheaper "Vision Air" coming in 2027 * NEW RUMOR - The "Vision Air" project| Birchtree
Microsoft is updating Game Pass again, most notably for many that the price of the Ultimate tier is increasing from $19.99/month to $29.99/month. The $9.99/month and $14.99/month tiers remain the same price, but get new names and the perks somehow change, but| Birchtree
As with all iPhone releases, battery tests began right away, with people trying to figure out how good the iPhone Air's battery performance was. Early results showed about what we'd expect, with the Air lagging behind the other phones, but not by a horrible amount. Then this video crossed my| Birchtree
