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Apple posts OS X El Capitan Developer Beta 5⇢
An off-cycle release pushed at the end of the day? My guess is Beta 4 had something nasty going on somewhere. I wonder if the Public Beta will get revved tomorrow, or if this was an issue just with the development branch.
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Talking space⇢
Earlier this afternoon, Jason Snell and I sat down to talk about New Horizon’s Pluto discoveries, a newly-discovered Earth-like planet and why space is back in the news.
Breathing new life into an iPod classic⇢
I’ve thought about doing this with mine, and Jason may have just talked me into it.
The Amiga turns 30⇢
Ars Technica has an eight-part series on the platform.
NASA’s Kepler mission discovers Earth-like planet⇢
Huge news from the Kepler mission:
NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another “Earth.”
The newly discovered Kepler-452b is the smallest planet to date discovered orbiting in the habitable zone – the area around a star where liquid water could pool on the surface of an orbiting planet – of a G2-type star, like our sun. The confirmation of Kepler-452b brings the total number of confirmed planets to 1,030.
The push and pull of iPad
There’s no way around it: iPad sales continue to slow. That’s not to say the numbers aren’t incredible and that many companies would kill for a product that performed at the level of Apple’s tablet, but the graph doesn’t lie.
iPad sales by quarter
Here’s what Tim Cook said about the device on yesterday’s earning call.
I am still bullish on iPad, with iOS 9 there’s some incredible productivity enhancements coming in with Split View and Slide Over and Picture in Picture, these things are incredible features. The enterprise business is picking up and more and more companies are either contracting for or writing apps themselves.
E.W. Scripps buys Midroll podcast ad network⇢
Natalie Jarvey:
Midroll Media, which operates an advertising network for podcasts including WTF with Marc Maron and Nerdist, has been acquired for an undisclosed price by E.W. Scripps Co.
Old media making a grab in the new world.
Kbase Article of the Week: Xserve RAID - Technical Specifications⇢
In hindsight, this is one of the weirder hardware projects Apple’s done in the modern era, but it sure was a pretty rig.
Apple posts Q3 2015 results⇢
As usual, Federico Viticci has the best coverage in town. The iPhone and Mac are up, but the iPad continues to slow down. Continuing with recent trends, Apple is still killing it in China, with the country making up 26% of the company’s revenue for the quarter — more than all of Europe.
Apple must defend anti-shrinkage retail policy⇢
David Kravets at Ars Technica:
A federal judge has ruled that Apple must defend a class-action trial, to begin in January, representing thousands of Apple store workers. The employees claim they had to spend as much as 20 minutes off the clock having their bags searched to combat employee theft—known as “shrinkage”—every time they left the premises.
A version of this policy reaches back to my time as an Apple retail employee from 2006-2008. Pre-iPhone, we weren’t allowed to bring in any portable Apple products, and cell phones had to remain locked in the break room. Once the iPhone was out, we had to still lock them up, but had to register our devices with the store. While it certainly was a pain to look for a manager before being able to leave, I don’t remember having them need to do cross-reference the serial numbers with our personal technology cards. As this entire process had to take place after clocking out, it could very often eat into a break.