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WWDC 2020: Apple, ARM, together in Macs at last, plus more tech news today
August 09, 2025
1. Apple+Arm!
Back inApril, Mark Gurman at Bloomberg strongly suggested Apple is planning to switch to 12-core ARM-based processors by 2021. And, to ensure developers have enough time and understanding of what they need to do,Gurman has a new report outthat says Apple will announce the 2021 hardware switch atWWDC 2020, on June 22. Huge!
WWDC 2020! June 22!
Simplifying:
One moreApple rumor/leakvia Sonny Dickson: “New iMac incoming at WWDC” (Twitter)
- Despite disappointing Pixel 4,2019 was Google’s best year for phone sales yet. Model-by-model data wasn’t released, but surely the Pixel 3a and 3a XL did volumes? (Android Authority).
3.HUAWEI P40 Pro Plus reviews are out: True innovation in a stunted ecosystem, or as David’s video is titled, ‘unfortunately fantastic’. On sale June 25, just without Google (Android Authority).
- Report:Chinese-made OLEDs fail Samsung’s quality tests for Galaxy S30. In some universe, Samsung not using its own Samsung Display production makes sense (Android Authority).
5.Razer Kishi review: The ultimate Switch-style smartphone controller, well worth the price tag if you mobile game (Android Authority).
6.Quibi adds Chromecast supportfor watching shows on a big screen (The Verge).
5nm fab process is great and allbut now TSMC is working on 3nm: volume production by 2022 (DigiTimes).
Zynn is the next hot new video app topping charts. Out of China, it is paying people to download the app, join, and refer their friends for cash.It’s also full of stolen content(Wired).
9.Itch.io offers 700 indie gamesin a pay-what-you-want racial justice bundle (itch.io).
10. SpaceX’s next Starlink launchwill help improve satellite imagery of the Earth(Engadget).
- This story has many bad and worsening layers:Microsoft’s robot editor confuses mixed-race Little Mix singers on MSN, which is a problem especially as AI bias increasingly defines people’s lives, as discussed yesterday. But it’s so much worse because the robot is automatically publishing stories about its mistake: “the remaining human staff have been told to stay alert and delete a version of this article if the robot decides it is of interest and automatically publishes it on MSN.com. They have also been warned that even if they delete it, the robot editor may overrule them…”(The Guardian).And the robot editor has been doing exactly that!(Twitter).
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