Michael Tsai: I don’t think the problem is really Tim Cook or whoever at Apple made the ICEBlock decision last week. The current situation is just the symptom of a decision made long ago: for Apple to be a choke point for app distribution. If your solution to government overreach is to depend on the […]⌥ Permalink| Pixel Envy
Adam Engst, TidBits, had some very kind things to say about my Liquid Glass piece, which I do appreciate. I liked Engst’s attempt to answer the question of “why?”: Why now? The answer may partly lie in available processing power. The balance between usability and aesthetics has always been informed by technical capabilities. Consider a […]⌥ Permalink| Pixel Envy
Anna Gross and Tim Bradshaw, Financial Times: The UK government has issued a new order to Apple to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time targeting only British users’ data, despite US claims that Britain had abandoned all attempts to break the tech giant’s encryption. […] Apple made a complaint to the […]| pxlnv.com
Robert Graham, clarifying the bad reporting of the big SIM farm bust in New York: The Secret Service is lying to the press. They know it’s just a normal criminal SIM farm and are hyping it into some sort of national security or espionage threat. We know this because they are using the correct technical […]| pxlnv.com
Something I missed in posting about Apple’s critical appraisal of the Digital Markets Act is its timing. Why now? Well, it turns out the European Commission sought feedback beginning in July, and with a deadline of just before midnight on 24 September. That is why it published that statement, and why Google did the same. […]| pxlnv.com
In 2023 Lina Khan, then-chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, sued Amazon over using (PDF) “manipulative, coercive, or deceptive user-interface designs known as ‘dark patterns’ to trick consumers into enrolling in automatically-renewing Prime subscriptions” and “knowingly complicat[ing] the cancellation process”. Some people thought this case was a long-shot, or attempted to use Khan’s scholarship […]⌥ Permalink| Pixel Envy
CRM integrations seem like a no-brainer — why wouldn’t you want your CRM to work with every app and website you use? But what if I told you that some CRM integrations are going to waste more time than they save? Especially for small businesses, you should integrate apps with your CRM only where it […] The post CRM Integrations: Sometimes Less Is More appeared first on FollowUp.cc Blog.| FollowUp.cc Blog
How much sales experience you need to get hired is greatly dependent on your transferrable skills, the job you’re after, and the size of the company you’re applying to. So we’re going to break all that down into helpful bites to aid you in finding the sales job that’s right for your level of experience. […] The post How Much Sales Experience Do You Need to Get Hired? appeared first on FollowUp.cc Blog.| FollowUp.cc Blog
Thomas Germain, BBC News, covered the Pew report about the relationship between Google’s A.I. Overviews and click-through traffic: Pew says it’s confident in its research. “Our findings are broadly consistent with independent studies conducted by web analytics firms,” [Pew’s Aaron] Smith says. Dozens of reports show AI Overviews cut search traffic as much as 30% […]| pxlnv.com
Mike Masnick, Techdirt, reacting to Grok’s Nazi turn: We need to take back control over the tools that we use. Especially these days, as so many people have started (dangerously) treating AI tools as “objective” sources of truth, people need to understand that they are all subject to biases. Some of these biases are in […]| pxlnv.com
Zoe Kleinman, Liv McMahon, and Natalie Sherman, BBC News: “Apple Intelligence features are in beta and we are continuously making improvements with the help of user feedback,” the company said in a statement on Monday, adding that receiving the summaries is optional. “A software update in the coming weeks will further clarify when the text […]| pxlnv.com