This week:
- It’s been over a year since Apple has updated virtually any of their Macs. Just what in the heck in going on?
- Why all your online purchases will soon be taxed
- Instagram takes on YouTube with new IGTV app
- MoviePass is about to change for the worse. AGAIN.
- America’s largest theater chain just put the final nails in the MoviePass coffin
- And things get weird in an all-new what we’re into!
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On the show this week
Supreme Court Kills Quill, Gives States More Authority To Collect Sales Tax
- It’s a sad day for US. It’s the end of an era. The end of tax-free shopping online.
- In 1992 the supreme court that a state couldn’t force an online retailer to collect sales tax for them if the retailer didn’t have a physical presence in that state.
- Today, they reversed that decision
- What does that mean?
- Well, it means that you state will undoubtedly begin forcing online retailers to charge you sales tax on all your online orders.
- If you have a big purchase to make, I’d do it this summer.
On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware
- Rogue Amoeba developer Quentin Carnicelli posted this week on the company’s blog about his frustration with Apple’s continued neglect of the Mac.
- "At the time of the writing, with the exception of the $5,000 iMac Pro, no Macintosh has been updated at all in the past year.”
Instagram takes on YouTube with new IGTV app
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