Navigating Audience Engagement in a Fragmented Social Media Landscape

With Federico away, Stephen and Myke talk about video games.

Nah, just kidding. Instead, they ponder the future of Google and of social media, consider what maple syrup can do to an iPhone, and discuss Apple's AI summarization features.

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"If you wanna know how my day is going, I just knocked over an open, full thing of maple syrup onto my phone." – Stephen on Threads

M4 Macs can't run virtual machines with older versions of macOS – 9to5mac

Give the Gift of Relay

The Eeeend d of an Eraa – 512 Pixels

Upgrade #277: Who Killed the Butterfly Keyboard? - Relay FM

Myke Hurley (@myke.social) — Bluesky

Stephen Hackett (@ismh86.net) — Bluesky

Connected #164: My Mother Has a Bunch of Keyboards - Relay FM

Google’s Chrome Worth Up to $20 Billion If Judge Orders Sale - Bloomberg

Chrome Alone – Spyglass

The government has a breakup plan for Google – Platformer

DOJ Proposes Google Remedy, Search Data, EU Fines Meta – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Google workers to DOJ: we need protections to make your breakup effective - The Verge

Beyond HomeKit: Will Apple Make a Smart Home Camera? - MacSparky

Overcast adds new listening stats and 48-hour undo features - 9to5Mac

Joanna Stern's Notification Summary – Threads

Myke Hurley: "🥴" — Bluesky

David Smith: "It was around this time last year that Apple flipped the “roll out iOS 17 to everyone bit”, before that it was hovering around 30%." - Mastodon