苹果已经发布了下一代大苹果手表和Mac软件更新的公开beta。在Mac上，Big-Sur（操作系统的名称）有很多视觉上的差异，我认为这些差异会在你身上增长——它们让macOS看起来更像iOS。它还用链接做了一件奇怪的新事情——这也让Mac感觉更像iOS。

昨天Twitter上突然出现了这样的链接行为：如果你是Apple News Plus的订阅者，点击订阅包中的出版物链接，你将进入Apple News应用程序，而不是浏览器。iOS 14也会这么做。

如果你为Apple News Plus付费，这可能正是你想要的。打开一个有付费墙的页面，你只需要点击一篇文章。是的，苹果新闻应用程序本身的功能和IE 3差不多，而你的浏览器只有标签之类的功能，但至少你不必经历复制和粘贴的过程。

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我确实觉得这种行为有点奇怪。如果你在Safari中点击一个链接，就会打开Apple新闻。如果你在Chrome中单击一个链接，它将保持在Chrome中。如果你在其他应用程序（如Slack）中单击一个链接，它就会在Apple News中打开——即使你的默认浏览器是Chrome。这很奇怪，因为尚不清楚大苏尔知道它应该重定向一些网站，而不是其他网站。它是否使用预先批准的参与发布者网站列表进行登记（如果是，至少它是离线的）？这个列表是本地存储的还是苹果的？不管答案是什么，关键是当你点击一个链接时会发生什么是不一致的。也许它打开了一个浏览器，也许它打开了苹果新闻。

至少，苹果允许你在苹果新闻应用程序的首选项中取消选中这个选项。苹果也给我发了这样一份声明：

Apple is committed to creating the best experience for Apple News+ subscribers. This change offers subscribers seamless access to the content that is part of their News+ subscription right in the News app or publisher app, as well as providing publishers with increased engagement and revenue opportunities on Apple News. News+ subscribers can set their link preference in their News settings.

我跟进了苹果公司，询问大苏尔公司知道哪些链接应该放在哪里，苹果公司拒绝置评。

托尼·海尔（tonyhaile）是在Twitter上提出这一切的人，他进一步指出，这意味着那些提供直接订阅选择的出版商将失去这个机会，因为人们直接去看苹果新闻，而苹果新闻的报酬要低得多。

你应该知道，海尔是一家名为Scroll的公司的首席执行官，该公司与苹果新闻（Apple News）竞争，与出版商建立合作关系。（我以前在这里写过）所以他不是一个公正的观察者。只要我透露，Vox媒体与苹果新闻和Scroll都有合作关系。这就是网络衰落的原因：突然间，当你点击一个链接时，忽略那些发生的事务就变得困难多了。

不管怎样，你可以把这个奇怪的新链接行为**到更大的故事情节中。人们担心苹果公司正开始以服务收入的名义损害用户体验。有这样一个故事情节：苹果积极地不信任网络，希望更多的活动发生在应用程序内部，而不是浏览器内部。如果浏览器使用较少，那就意味着更少的侵入性广告（win），更少的跟踪（win），以及像Google这样的竞争对手更少的钱（三倍奖金！）。

不过，我不是在找阴谋。有时公司的激励措施与其价值观是一致的。我认为，将其解读为苹果发现其用户在不需要付费的时候却在打付费墙也是公平的，因为他们已经在为Apple News Plus付费了。

现在对我来说，点击前面带有“http”的链接应该会把你带到一个网络浏览器，但这正是我习惯的。没有人说链接是网络的专有领域。我在大苏尔看到这种行为的整体感觉是一个很大的…当然，不管怎样。

但要想让它一路回归：比起正常的链接行为，苹果更喜欢苹果新闻，这使得Mac的工作方式更像iPhone，在iOS14之前，苹果严格控制所有的默认应用程序。即使在iOS 14中，也只能更改电子邮件和浏览器应用程序。

iOS 14上的应用内广告也出现了同样的“价值观和激励”。第三方应用程序需要向用户申请许可，才能逐个应用程序进行跟踪——但苹果自己的广告网络显然有默认的“个性化广告”选项。苹果合法地比其他应用程序广告生态系统少了1000%的令人毛骨悚然，但这并不意味着苹果本身就不会受益。两者都有。

当我们谈论iOS的时候，它已经成为另一个争议的焦点。苹果重申，xCloud和Stadia等云游戏服务违反了App Store的规定。它重复了去年3月给马克·古尔曼（Mark Gurman）的一份声明，称“游戏服务完全可以在App Store上推出，只要它们遵循适用于所有开发者的同一套指导原则，包括单独提交游戏供审查，以及出现在图表和搜索中。”

微软和Facebook发表了激烈的反驳声明，但我预计苹果会立场坚定。它过于看重审查应用程序的内容和安全性，而苹果街机的激励措施恰好符合这些价值观。当然，我可能错了：这一切可能只是一堆谈判姿态，就像亚马逊那样。

一句话：苹果短期内不会允许在iPhone或iPad上安装Stadia或xCloud。

我已经做到了这一点，没有使用明显的陈词滥调：“有围墙的花园。”尽管如此。陈词滥调的一点是它们来自某个地方。这是一个很好的提醒，即使是陈词滥调仍然可以解释的力量。墙之所以存在是因为人们建造了它们——我只是希望他们也能在建造一些门上投入更多的精力。

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回顾和第一眼

┏Acer Chromebook Spin 713：购买Chromebook。如果我今天买的是Chromebook，我会听从Monica Chin的建议买这本。宏碁继续主导Chromebooks。

If you’re deciding between the Spin 713 and the $1,000 Galaxy Chromebook or the $849 i5 model of the Pixelbook Go, I would say you need a pretty good reason not to choose the Spin.

┏三星Galaxy Buds直播点评：酷豆。克里斯·韦尔奇：

To be very clear, these earbuds let in a significant amount of outside noise at all times. That’s intentional and where I think the “Live” part of the name comes from. These aren’t going to drown out your co-workers when we get back to the office someday, nor are they going to be your preferred airplane compani***. Samsung says it designed the Buds Live to eliminate very low frequencies — think the persistent hum of an air conditioner or the rumbling of an Amtrak — and you can hear some of that ambient sound get sliced off when you turn on active noise cancellation.

┏索尼WH-1000XM4评论：最好的降噪耳机变得更好。克里斯·韦尔奇在耳机评论上有两个特点：

But to fend off its rivals, Sony has returned with the new $349.99 1000XM4 headphones, available for preorder today and shipping later this month. They address the two main downsides of the previous product: you can now pair to two devices simultaneously, and updated mics should make for clearer calls.

┏三星Galaxy Tab S7 Plus最棒的部分就是它的屏幕。Dan Seifert谈到这款平板电脑的优点（当然，最糟糕的是Android在平板电脑上并不好）：

Unsurprisingly, the absolute best thing by far about the Tab S7 Plus is its display. This 12.4-inch OLED panel is bright, vibrant, and pixel-dense. Colors practically jump off the screen, and the blacks are as inky and deep as they are on the LG OLED TV hanging in my living room. Topping it off is the 120Hz refresh rate, which makes every interaction buttery **ooth. Yes, the iPad Pro has had this feature for three years, but it’s just as much of a delight here as it is on Apple’s tablet. In fact, given that this is an OLED panel, I might even argue that this is the nicest screen I’ve ever seen on a mobile device.

┏新款27英寸iMac网络摄像头不仅更好，而且更智能。下面是我对新的2020 iMac的看法。

科技新闻

┏东芝正式退出笔记本电脑业务。裂开。

┏微软新推出的Xbox s系列游戏机在泄露的控制器包装中得到证实。

┏E Ink演示了一款折叠电子阅读器，它还可以记笔记。我见过很多来自E-Ink的原型，E-Ink是一家官方生产屏幕的公司，这些屏幕都是合适的E-Ink，而不仅仅是“E-paper”之类的。还有一个棒球内幕：如果你是一个科技博客，把上面的任何一个都搞砸了，eink肯定会让你知道的。这家公司的整个袋子毕竟是为了推广电子墨水。不管怎样！我希望看到这样的东西在一个较小的形式因素。我喜欢从一个角度打开一本书；这是一个普通电子阅读器不会感到痒的地方。

┏谷歌地图最终与CarPlay出色的仪表盘模式配合使用。

┏谷歌已经停止使用Pixel 4和4 XL。

┏谷歌的Pixel 5和Pixel 4A 5G将于10月8日预购。

┏微软最近进行了改组，表明人们对Windows重新产生了兴趣。汤姆·沃伦：

Now, Microsoft is moving parts of Windows development back under Panos Panay’s control. Specifically, that means the Windows fundamentals and developer experience teams have been returned to what we traditionally call the Windows team. It’s an admission that the big Windows split didn’t work quite as planned. We’ve seen plenty of evidence of that with a messy development experience for Windows 10, delayed Windows updates, a lack of major new features, and lots of Windows update issues recently.

蒂克托克与中国

┏美国对蒂克托克宣战是因为它无法处理真相。Sarah Jeong从前后的新闻故事中缩小，谈论更大的背景。必须阅读：

I call this ideology information-nationali**. Here’s how I would describe its assumpti***: 1. When your country acknowledges human rights abuses, you are made weak 2. You can weaken rival nation-states by exposing their human rights abuses

┏特朗普TikTok和微信禁令背后的重大法律问题。艾迪·罗伯逊：

There’s at least one major wrinkle in both cases: while sancti*** are nothing new, the ByteDance and Tencent orders ban Americans from accessing a piece of software and (at least in theory) the content on its network. This is unusual and could raise First Amendment questi*** that don’t apply in other IEEPA cases — including arguments that apps like TikTok are protected speech, or that banning them would infringe on users’ ability to engage in it.

┏比尔·盖茨称微软的TikTok交易是一个有毒的圣杯。

┏特朗普的微信禁令将如何摧毁苹果的中国业务。Chaim Gartenberg公司：

An iPhone without WeChat is effectively not a phone at all for the hundreds of milli*** of Chinese users that rely on the service — customers on which Apple’s entire iPhone business model relies. If Apple can’t offer WeChat on the iPhone due to Trump’s ban, then much of its Chinese business will almost certainly evaporate overnight.

┏华为表示，由于美国的制裁，它的智能**芯片已经用完。金·莱昂斯：

[Trump’s order] prevented foreign manufacturers of semiconductors who use American software and technology in their operati*** from shipping their products to Huawei unless they first obtained a license from the US. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world, reportedly halted orders for Huawei’s HiSilicon unit in May following the new US rule.

更多来自边缘

┏科学家重新命名人类基因，以防止微软Excel将其误读为日期。詹姆斯·文森特的难以置信的故事：

There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA and RNA that combine to express all of the traits and characteristics that make each of us unique. Each gene is given a name and alphanumeric code, known as a symbol, which scientists use to coordinate research. But over the past year or so, some 27 human genes have been renamed, all because Microsoft Excel kept misreading their symbols as dates.

┏计算机科学家弗朗西斯·艾伦（Frances Allen）因从事编译工作而闻名，享年88岁。金·莱昂斯：

Allen helped build an experimental compiler for IBM’s Advanced Computing system, and from 1980 to the mid-1990s, she headed a research team at IBM working on the new concept of parallel computing, which became widely used in personal computers. She also helped develop software for IBM’s Blue Gene supercomputer project.

┏Galaxy Z Fold 2是三星的一大承诺，它可以修复其可折叠的未来。Chaim Gartenberg公司：

It’s a message focused on selling customers a phone based on the things that it isn’t — too **all, too awkward, too prone to breaking — rather than the things that it is. It also puts a lot of pressure on the upcoming Z Fold 2.

┏微软和三星现在比以往任何时候都更需要对方。乔恩·波特：

It’s not a new partnership, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella even personally appeared at Samsung’s Note 10 event last year. But it’s more important than ever before, as the industry hurtles toward the next big ecosystem battle between iOS and Android. It’s no longer just about the phones themselves but about how these phones interact with the other computers in your life, whether they’re laptops, desktops, or even game c***oles. And Samsung’s deepening partnership with Microsoft is essential to its approach.

更新，美国东部时间8月11日下午12:10：补充说明大苏尔检查苹果新闻加重定向似乎没有ping苹果的服务器，根据杰夫约翰逊。