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Apple's Tim Cook

Things That Stood Out At Apple’s Earnings Call

Apple announced it’s Q1 -2019 quarterly results today. After making an announcement a few weeks ago about Apple having to adjust Apple’s revenue guidance, many were worried about what would come out of this investor call. I listened to a bit of the Q&A section today (full discloser, I’m a small-time Apple investor) and reviewing […]

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Subscription Fatigue – Getting Worse Than Cable

Last week, there were a few new announcements about streaming TV that have me worried. Number one, Netflix announced that they would be raising the subscription price again. Number two, NBC announced that they would be launching a streaming service which would be ad-supported to cable subscribers or about $12 a month to those that

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Best Running App Challenge: Run 6 – Runkeeper

I’m six runs and three apps into my best Running App Challenge. This week, I’m taking a look at RunKeeper. (Check out my opinions on the other apps so far – Workout App, Nike Run Club, and Strava). Runkeeper is actually one of my oldest used running apps. When I first started trying to run

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There is no privacy. Your data for sale

Digital Lives For Sale – Please Save Our Privacy

This month, it was discovered that Ring – an Amazon-owned company- has allowed unfettered access to the videos that its doorbell cameras were recording. No user had ever given access to something like this. Combined Ring’s news with the news that our cell phone carriers were selling our locations to bounty hunters and other entities without

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Running Diary – Run 3 – Nike Run Club’s Popular App

Well, I’ve stayed with it heading into week 2 of the year. I’ve now completed 3 runs, which I’ve tracked on my Apple Watch. The first two runs were completed using the standard Workout App on the Apple watch. For my last run, I used the Nike Run Club app. The Nike Run Club app

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Outdoor Run

The Rock Solid Workout App – Running App – Diary Day 1

Update: I updated this after my second run.  Check out the pace alerts and other new tidbits So I managed to get my first run of 2019 yesterday. I’m off to a great start if I do say so myself. As I mentioned yesterday in my first post about using tech to get healthy I recorded my first run of the year. To start with I’m using the Workout App

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