The ongoing war between Elon Musk’s Twitter and Substack seems to have taken another turn. You’ll recall that Elon was effectively blocking Tweets that contained links to Substack, and the way he explained it was at best dubious. That now appears to be resolved:
However, Elon is still suppressing Substack on Twitter. If you search for “Substack” using the Twitter app or the Twitter web page, this is what you will find. Or rather won’t find:
- You won’t find Tweets from the official Substack Twitter account. Nor will you find any Tweets referring to Substack.
- You won’t find Substack in the people tab.
- The only way to find anything Substack related is to search for “Substack Newsletter”
This is a pretty scumbag level move by Elon. It’s pretty clear that Elon is doing this because he sees Substack as some sort of threat. After all, Twitter is very likely bleeding cash like a gunshot victim because of Elon’s inability to run the company. And Substack threatens to take more of it via Notes which is their Twitter competitor. So I can see Elon reacting in this way. Though it’s a pretty dumb move by him as all it does is generate even more negative press about him, which is not what I would expect that he wants. Not to mention that it pretty much puts to bed the theory that he’s any sort of free speech absolutist as the only free speech that he wants is the free speech that fits his world view.
Is Apple Is About To Terminate Access To Some Apple Services By Older Apple OSes?
Posted in Commentary with tags Apple on April 10, 2023 by itnerdLet’s get to the key point of this article. If you believe this rumour, Apple will disable iCloud, Music, TV, Siri, Maps and other cloud services on older versions of the OSes. Specifically these versions:
This comes from “Stella Fudge” on Twitter who has proven to be a reliable source of this sort of information in the past:
Now it makes sense why Apple would do this. Simply put, they don’t have to take into account an OS that was current 5 or 6 years ago that may not have the functionality to support any changes that they make in their back end. Nor do they have to do any “bodges” to make something on their back end work on an older OS. Which means that the back end becomes a whole lot more stable.
Let’s assume that this is true for a moment. It means that users in the best case should upgrade to the most recent OS that their device supports. Or if the iDevice in question is simply too old to get a newer update, then you’ll have to buy a new iDevice. Hopefully, Apple has some sort of official notification that this is happening in the form of a prompt on your iDevice urging you to upgrade, or a support document of some sort. In the meantime, I’ll be keeping an eye on this to see if is fiction or fact.
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