Microsoft’s Edge browser started life as a Microsoft eco-system only browser running on Xbox, Windows 10 and Windows 10 mobile. Today Edge is more than just a Microsoft Windows only web browser, it is now cross-platform with support for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, Android and Linux now in preview. While many features were absent at launch, […]
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In the Land of Trillion Dollar Goliaths | Apple blocks sideloading iOS
When Apple launched their three new Macs powered by M1, one of the interesting things to do was sideload iOS and iPadOS apps onto your M1-powered Mac. Unfortunately, Apple made a server-side change that now blocks owners from sideloading iOS apps outside the Mac App Store. Yes, that’s right. Apple is blocking users from installing […]
Roku announced that it has acquired Quibi’s library of content. Quibi may have chosen the wrong year to debut a new streaming service and according to mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower, the company may have lost about 90% of the 910,000 users that signed up for the free trial. Despite Quibi’s failures to succeed with […]
In the Land of Trillion Dollar Goliaths | 2021 Big Tech Cleanse
2020 was a bad year by any measure. The Big Tech Goliaths moved well beyond their platform status and started editorializing speech that it did not agree with. We had killer hornets; we had massive forests fires. We had some states locking down their residents and forcing small businesses to close for what they said […]
Brave adds native support to ARM-powered Macs, where is the support for
Brave is perhaps the best browser available from a standpoint of privacy, user choice, speed and being platform agnostic. Last year we reported on Brave’s stratospheric growth after its release and many of its feature updates. Despite Jeremy Sinclair a Windows MVP, compiling Brave for Windows 10 on ARM and sharing his work with Brave […]
Zoom, the maker of Apple’s 2020 “App of the year”, may be moving to create a larger suite of productivity software to compete with Microsoft’s Office, Google’s G-Suite and Slack. Zoom had a stellar year in 2020 with its stock price rising more than 500 percent due to the corona lockdown which equally suppressed the […]
Something magical has happened, Microsoft has made Windows 10 on Arm available to Parallels for M1-powered Macs. If you were used to using Parallels on your current or previous Macs, then today’s news is sure to brighten your day. Parallels has launched a Parallels Desktop 16 for M1 Mac Technical Preview Program. Till today Windows […]
Mozilla just released their Firefox browser with support for Apple Silicon CPU’s in version 84. Firefox users had to utilize Rosetta 2 on their M1-powered Macs on Firefox 83, but now in the newest update, Firefox receives full Apple Silicon support. Not only did Firefox 84 receive Apple Silicon support but Firefox 83 was the […]
Microsoft’s xCloud will be coming to iOS devices in spring 2021. Instead of Microsoft launching xCloud via their Xbox app or Xbox Game Pass app, Microsoft will instead launch it with a web app, because of Apple’s app store policies. Microsoft will join Amazon’s Luna and Google’s Stadia in the web browser, thus side-stepping Apple’s […]
In the Land of Trillion Dollar Goliaths | Apple seeks to exert
Apple is perhaps one of the most well-known evil geniuses in the consumer electronics industry. They are the king of “Lock-in economics.” Apple pioneered the App Store business model which resulted in the loss of mobile OS diversity and the mobile OS duopoly we have today. Weather it was their “Lightning Port,” their display name […]