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Daily Authority: 📈 PC sales
August 25, 2025
👋 Good morning! Is gm reserved for the crypto people now?
Computer sales keep rising
Big 3 (plus 1):
2022 outlook:
More than one PC:
📁Google’s Pixel Fold, presumed to not launch, still has details emerging: The latest Android 12L beta suggests a stubbier design than its main competition(Android Authority).
👍2015 NVIDIA Shield TV getting Android 11 now, which is pretty great: the 27th upgrade for the box(Android Authority).
🤦♂️ Meanwhile, the realme Pad is less than 6 months old, butwon’t be getting OS updates, just security fixes(Android Authority).
👉 Windows Defender isapparently coming to Android, iOS, and Mac(Windows Latest).
🔉 Windows 11 is finallygetting a new volumeindicator(The Verge).
🍎 “Apple execs:Let’s take a 30% cutof Uber and Lyft’s membership programs” (Twitter).
📈TSMC sees multi-year growth ahead, to boost chip spending in 2022 by billions more(Reuters).
📈The daily use of smartphones continues to increase worldwide: up to 4.8 hours a day on average. Users in Brazil, Indonesia, and South Korea surpassed five hours per day.(BBC).
📉Dutch athletes warned to keep personal phones and laptops out of China: “Dutch team members will be equipped with unused devices in China, to protect their personal data from Chinese surveillance, the sources toldDe Volkskrant.”(Reuters).
🚗 Here’swhy modern cars feel so lifelessto drive(Ars Technica).
🎮 “Cozy Grove saved mewhile stuck on a train for 35 hours”(Wired).
👴Reducing air pollution lowers dementia risk, study finds(E&T).
🤔 “ELI5: Why does the same temperaturefeel warmer outdoors than indoors?” (r/explainlikeimfive)
Throwback Thursday
Yes, it’s been 15 years since the iPhone was first announced, something pretty well looked back on for the past week or two. January 9 was the date back in 2007, when Steve Jobs took the wraps off, with the words: “An iPod, a phone, an internet communicator…are you getting it?”
I didn’t see much new come out of the 15th anniversary: lots of books and interviews have exhausted much of the “…this is what I did working for Steve Jobs” insider stuff. But what is already out there shouldn’t be missed:
Some quotes:
Tristan Rayner, Senior Editor.
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