Apple sucked at innovating Safari for years. Yet, to stop rivals from winning over iPhone users, it forced them to use the same foundation as Safari. That finally changes with some arm-twisting from the EU.
Play console games on an iPhone, they said. It will be fun, they said. Welp, it’s an awe-inspiring shitshow of disappoints and untapped potential!
It's a good way to summon your nostalgia without giving up on the beloved blue bubbles in iMessage.
"Democracies allied to the United States" have also been forcing Google and Apple to cough up information on push notifications an average Joe gets on their phone.
Apple says the government rule would derail its local iPhone production plans. Or, it would need at least 18 months to process the shift away and put USB-C on older iPhones.
A Carnegie Mellon University study reveals starting your brainstorming process with Google can be detrimental to the group's creativity.
Teams relying much on search engines often produced inundatingly same, less original ideas due to a cognitive bias called "fixation effect," where seeing popular answers converges our thought process instead of diverging it.
While individuals weren't necessarily dumber with Google, groups of Google users seemed to get stuck in a rut, often coming up with the same common ideas, sometimes even in the same order! Talk about a copy-and-paste creativity crisis.
"This appears to be due to the fact that Google users came up with the same common answers, often in the same order, as they relied on Google, while non-Google users came up with more distinct answers," explained lead author Danny Oppenheimer.
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