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Thank you for everything @tim_cook, you've saved my life and millions more! Below is an open letter I sent you, that I also wanted to share with the world: it explains why I'll personally forever be grateful to you. Dear Tim, You once told us the world needs us in the arena. For 15 years, you’ve fought in that arena. As you step away to the sidelines today, just remember the immense impact you had while you were in it. We've never met, but I wanted to send you a note to say thank you. Why? For many reasons, but chiefly for the Apple Watch. In 20 years of covering technology, this is the product that will forever resonate with me as truly game-changing in ways other consumer technology products cannot be. 6 years ago, I had a heart attack after Thanksgiving, and the Apple Watch saved my life several times, and then proved to be an incredibly powerful companion in getting me back to good health. I've often said to people that Apple has done many great things, but the greatest is the Apple Watch. As you said, it's the biggest impact Apple has ever had on humanity, and the millions of lives saved would not have been possible with any other product. The current focus on health, both as an industry and as humanity, would also not have been possible without the industry you and your team kickstarted, and I will forever be grateful that you chose to bring this product to market. 40 years from now, when I'm hopefully still alive, I'll still forever be an Apple Watch fan. Money comes and goes, market cap fluctuates, and political winds blow in multiple directions, but this is a legacy that no one can ever deny. Congratulations on 15 incredible years you deserve to be lauded for, and for doing what few thought possible: picking up the mantle from Steve Jobs and leading Apple from strength to strength. I wish you the best in your new role. Thank you again! If there's ever a doubt that it was worth everything, I hope this email and the many others remind you of just how many lives you helped save.
Sending lots of love to the Apple community on my last day as CEO. My title changes tomorrow, but the love I have for the Apple community never will. Thank you for being a constant source of inspiration. My gratitude is endless, and I’m excited for the next chapter!
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As ridiculous as this is, at least these brands think it and they make it happen. One might call it innovation or something like that
You've never seen this on a car before.
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The stupidest Man City charges arguments of the day wrapped up in one tweet 👏
“City can’t be relegated”
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Oh damn this looks great #moto
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Replying to @FT_Durk
United didn’t get investigated because there was nothing to investigate. Keane was 1993. Ferdinand was 2002. FFP didn’t even exist until 2009. You don’t get charged for breaking a rule that hadn’t been written yet. That’s not a stitch-up. That’s just time. And they weren’t some random club throwing oil money at the market. They were already the biggest club in the country, selling out Old Trafford, winning leagues, raking in Champions League cash and commercial deals. They spent what they were earning. Van Nistelrooy, Verón and Rio in a year and a half looks mad now, but it came off the back of a club that was already loaded because it had been successful for a decade. City’s problem was never “they bought good players.” Lots of clubs do that. The row is whether the money they said they earned was actually earned, or whether it was the owner dressing up his own cash as sponsorship. That’s a different argument. Pretending it’s the same as Ferguson buying Rio from a broke Leeds is just lazy. And no, the rules did not suddenly appear the day City won the league. Everton got docked points. Forest got docked points. Chelsea have been fined. None of that is a title-winning plot. If this was only about punishing City for winning, those other cases wouldn’t exist. United spent big before the rules. City spent big after them. One is history. The other is why there’s a case.
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This is silly. Don’t give AI info you don’t want AI to have. I highly doubt that Muse has the ability to infiltrate anything on the device containing the user’s address, unless the user put it in the Muse environment or connected a service exposing it. I’m not blaming the user. And certainly, Meta should have better controls or guardrails to prevent this from happening, if the user DID expose the data while NOT giving explicit permission for Muse to divulge it. But if you don’t want nudes of yourself online, don’t upload them to the internet. That’s a good rule of thumb here.
Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door Dangerous and creepy This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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I never knew this, Apple Health had a time in daylight metric that’s done via the lux sensor in the Apple Watch
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Google replaced the Search button with AI Mode and pushed Search to the bottom. This is worse than shoving AI Overviews down our throats.
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Duo-Man offers the complete walkman experience on the iPhone Duo. Open the Duo to pick and 'insert' the cassette, Close the Duo to start listening. Yes, I actually recorded the button clicks and static noise from a real Walkman! It was fun making this at @bitrig hacks today.
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Dude you have got to be kidding me
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Huawei users in China are living in 2050
✨🇨🇳In Huawei's car, the HarmonyOS multi-device collaboration is incredibly convenient! Just tap, and content seamlessly transfers between your phone, laptop, and car screen—it’s like magic. Experience this cool black tech from Huawei.
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This is what the @premierleague needs to do to solve the @ManCity affair imo. This is if proven ofc.
Replying to @AliceTalksFooty
25 points per season deduction for 5 years, a reduction in allowed expenses forcing a sale of some players no doubt and a 10 window transfer ban. They'll probably still stay up and that's fine but this will have a longer lasting effect.
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Large corporate businesses do as it's part of 365. My sister and brother in law work for 10k+ employee orgs in the UK and rave about what @MSFTCopilot can do. Smart move by @satyanadella and team. They couldn't tell you what model is in use, but they will tell you it's CoPilot.
Replying to @satyanadella
Serious question: does ANYONE use copilot?
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Bad take. Ask any normal person and they love it, especially color point mode on every @SamsungMobileUS phone.
The most overrated smartphone feature: portrait mode.
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I keep forgetting the score when playing football So in 3 minutes generated an app on the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max that lets me keep track One of the few actually useful AI features I’ve used 👍
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So damn wrong. Displays on the back can be super useful
Displays on the back of a phone will never be it
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Every iPhone Pro Max by weight, plus Duo 📈
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Up close with the @Snapdragon × @surface × @ManUtd limited-edition device. 🔥 Beyond the branding, it is yet another signal of how Snapdragon is pushing the PC category toward premium design, ecosystem integration and differentiated AI experiences. #SnapdragonSummit
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These look even better IRL
Excited to share this Microsoft @surface Laptop powered by @Snapdragon @ManUtd Exclusive. Limited edition and giving them away to the fans. Link below to enter. #SnapdragonSummit manutd.com/SnapdragonSurface…
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