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A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store

The Epic Games v. Apple judge banned Apple from collecting commissions on purchases made outside its App Store, finding the company in contempt of a 2021 ruling over its anticompetitive behavior. #Apple

2025-04-30T15:58:56-0700 The Verge Jay Peters 500 words

Rated 2025-05-01T09:41:50-0700 - sethherr

TinyLetter had a big moment

On February 29th, 2024, Mailchimp shuttered TinyLetter, a simple email service that attracted a number of personal and experimental writers in the mid-‘10s.

2024-02-29T06:00:00-0800 The Verge Kevin Nguyen 3,000 words

Rated 2024-03-19T22:27:14-0700 - sethherr

How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk is a strangely incurious book. Its shallow reporting and bizarre skew left me with more questions than I had before I read it.

2023-10-01T05:30:00-0700 The Verge Elizabeth Lopatto 3,000 words

Rated 2023-10-08T18:16:30-0700 - sethherr

Behind Pornhub’s decade-old moderation problems

The Verge

Rated 2023-04-26T22:56:57-0700 - sethherr