Linked List: March 28, 2019

Thursday, 28 March 2019

Taegan Goddard’s Electoral Vote Map ★

Worth a bookmark as the 2020 US election gears up — a fully interactive electoral map, based on consensus polling data from good sources. And here’s a smart post on Goddard’s blog on the winner-takes-all approach most states take when awarding their votes.

Jeremy Burge: ‘Macs Bought in China Can No Longer Display the Taiwan Flag Emoji, No Matter Which Region Is Set in System Prefs’ ★

Worth reading the entire thread, including the section on China pressuring airlines to refer to Taiwan as “China Taiwan”.

I’m curious how this works technically — is it all Macs, or only the models with the T2 system on a chip (and thus a built-in iOS computer subsystem).

Update: Looks like it might just be a bug. And even if it’s not a bug, you can get around this “feature” by manually editing the plist file where the device region is specified.

‘A Billion Pockets, Y’all’ ★

In-depth analysis of Apple’s entire “Show Time” event from MG Siegler:

Two things stood out in the demo of the new TV app: the inclusion of both Hulu and Amazon Prime Video. Will these be fully baked in, including buying a subscription in the TV app without having to download those respective apps? Totally unclear. Cool if that’s the case though. Trailers also now seem to autoplay inline, just like on Netflix, which many people — including people I’m married to — hate with a passion. Good luck with that, Apple.