Oct. 14, 2020
Wed. 10/14 – iPhone 12 Pricing and Availability Surprises
Picking up some odds and ends from yesterday’s iPhone event, including some eyebrow raising clarifications on price and availability. Zoom is indeed trying to be a platform by bringing apps to your calls. You know DeFi is hot when everyone is suddenly rebranding themselves as DeFi. And is Dropbox leading the way to a virtual work future?
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Links:
- The iPhone 12’s mysterious groove is a 5G mmWave antenna window — and it’s exclusive to the US (The Verge)
- iPhone 12 actually costs $829, advertised $799 price includes ‘carrier special offers’ (9to5Mac)
- Snapchat among first to leverage iPhone 12 Pro’s LiDAR Scanner for AR (TechCrunch)
- Zoom launches its events platform and marketplace, brings apps to your calls (TechCrunch)
- ‘DeFi’ Replaces ‘Blockchain’ as the Must-Have Crypto Moniker (Bloomberg)
- Dropbox is the latest San Francisco tech company to make remote work permanent (CNBC)
- Dropbox goes Virtual First (Dropbox Blog)
- WordPress can now turn blog posts into tweetstorms automatically (TechCrunch)
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