Linked List: June 11, 2016

Saturday, 11 June 2016

MacStadium: Mac Hosting and Colocation 

My thanks to MacStadium for once again sponsoring the DF RSS feed. Trusted by thousands around the world, MacStadium provides dedicated Mac hardware and infrastructure as a service. MacStadium rents Mac servers with a free trial and has a ton of experience with CI and iOS testing solutions.

Remember Macminicolo? MacStadium is the company they merged with earlier this year. They still provide the same great customer service, but now have way more capacity. Big companies like Uber, Travis CI, Unity, and more have huge installations in multiple data centers with MacStadium.

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The Talk Show: ‘A Nokia Phone and Some Pills’ 

A special prelude-to-WWDC episode of my podcast, The Talk Show, with special guest Dan Frommer. Topics include Jeff Bezos’s and Elon Musk’s appearances at last week’s Code 2016 conference, Apple’s changes to the App Store (subscriptions for all app categories, search ads, and huge improvements to app review approval times), and, of course, our expectations for WWDC 2016 next week.

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MacDailyNews: ‘Apple to Deliver iMessage to Android at WWDC’ 

From whoever the hell it is who writes MacDailyNews:

Apple will announce that iMessage encrypted text messaging is coming to Android users at WWDC next Monday at WWDC 2016, according to a source familiar with the company’s thinking.

A lot of people are skeptical about this, but I’m not. It’s a little surprising if true, but remember that Apple is now boasting about its prowess as a services company. Messaging is a service. And it makes even more sense if, as rumored, there’s a payments component coming to iMessage.