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The Get-Your-Own-Audience Edition Saturday, May 17, 2025

Q&A: Steven Levy On AI And The Evolving Relationship Between Tech Companies And The Press, by Camille Bromley, Columbia Journalism Review

"I think it’s up to us in the media to figure out how to evolve to continue to serve a real need. I think the need for what we do will always be there—it just gets tougher to figure out how to deliver it and reach our audience and get paid for it. I think things are actually, in a way, better than they used to be. More people are paying for the actual content. The media industry has learned that it’s a fool’s errand to depend on these companies to deliver an audience—you’ve got to get your own audience."

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Default Folder X 6.1.6, by Agen Schmitz, TidBITS

St. Clair Software has released Default Folder X 6.1.6 with a new Focus Filter feature that automatically switches to a specific folder set when you enter a macOS Focus mode.

My Evening With The App That Finds The Best Pubs To Catch The Sun, by Georgina Roberts, The Times

SunSeekr’s interactive map shows which pubs, cafes and restaurants near you are in the sun or shade, in real time. It features sunny places to eat and drink across the UK, as well as in Europe and the States — everywhere from Barcelona to Boston.

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After Adding Its Own Billing Option On iOS, Apple Asks Patreon To Move It To An External Browser, by Sarah Perez, TechCrunch

The company says that its own web-based checkout option is now the default for U.S. fans, but it has to update its app so that this checkout option opens in an external browser instead, per Apple’s instruction.

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Because of this new flexibility, Patreon’s deadline to switch creators to subscription billing is no longer in effect, it says.

Apple Says Fortnite For iOS Isn't Blocked Worldwide, Just The U.S., by Juli Clover, MacRumors

In a statement to Bloomberg, Apple said that ‌Epic Games‌ tied its U.S. ‌App Store‌ submission to the update that was also being submitted to the ‌Epic Games‌ Store for iOS in the European Union. Apple told ‌Epic Games‌ to resubmit the update without the U.S. component.

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What I don't want to see is Apple returning back to the USD1K annual fee for their developer programme; the rest of us will either have to use Steve Jobs' sweet solution instead.

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