| This quarter's tech earnings calls have mostly passed without much hullabaloo and it looks like my prediction that we'd get another week of press release hardware announcements from Apple has not panned out. It also seems clear that there won't be any more hardware keynotes from Apple -- or anybody else. I'm relieved? There's enough tech news happening that we don't need more of it. There are a bunch of pieces of news I could write a thousand words about, but I ended up restraining myself to just a hundred or so for a few of them. As it's Halloween today, I'll leave you with a very spooky thought before we get into the links: the Consumer Electronics Show is a mere two months away. That wail you hear isn't a banshee: it's me. - Dieter And you thought Tesla had drama + Faraday Cage: Can an electric car startup save itself from its founder? Great, in-depth reporting from Sean O'Kane. The fact that some of the shenanigans this electric car company has been involved with might stem from visa problems is a real mood. But an even bigger mood is the description of this self-indulgent music video. These lyrics! "We firmly believe that the 1 percenters can make history," he says in Chinese, according to a translation of the lyrics. Then, the music video, which was distributed internally at LeEco amid the company's collapse in 2017, cuts to footage of Jia wearing black over-the-ear headphones. Standing in a recording studio, the billionaire tries to croon his thanks to "all the cold, indifferent people" for "looking at him dismissively." Their criticisms have roused him to life, he wails. Later, Jia turns directly to the camera and says he'd "like to share this song to encourage all the entrepreneurs." A couple of folding phone reviews + Samsung Galaxy Fold re-review: here we go again Here's my review of the Galaxy Fold. With the first one, before it broke, I was intrigued by the possibility of a device that might let you have a healthier relationship with your phone. Now that I've used this "fixed" one for about a month, I have decided that the compromises just aren't worth it. Surprisingly, the biggest problem isn't the delicate display, it's how awkward the thing is physically when it's closed up. Notable, though: a few people have tweeted at me to say they bought one and are quite happy. Which is great! I would be very sad if somebody spend $2000 on this gadget and was unhappy. And as I wrote in the review, I don't think anybody why buys this doesn't know what they're getting into. + LG G8X Dual Screen review: better than you might ThinQ This is a phone that comes with a case that has a second screen on it, so putting them together is like having two phones in a little book — but it's just the one phone. Also it's surprisingly inexpensive and it is one of the most LG examples of LG LGing that ever LGed. Exhibit A of LG LGing it up: it is a real shame that LG didn't do a better job with the software. Or maybe a better way to think about it that it's a real shame that Google didn't do more to support LG. Google went all-out with support for folding displays ahead of the Galaxy Fold and seems to be collaborating with Microsoft for the Surface Duo, too. Despite being just a little ahead of the curve and having the right idea, LG just duffed the final steps in making it feel cohesive and necessary. The same thing happened with wide angle lenses on phones. LG just can't catch a break, which is the quintessence of LGness. Here's how Sam Byford put it: But it feels like the G8X's two displays aren't really aware of each other, which turns out to be awkward in practice. Why is there no option, for example, for a shared home screen? Why do I have to deal with LG's notoriously fiddly method for arranging apps in a drawer twice? Most of the time, the only thing you can do to control what's on each screen is to press a little floating shortcut button and swap the content. LG's built-in apps do have some neat features, like the ability to send a photo thumbnail to the other screen at full size, but third-party support is non-existent and there's very little sense that this is a device running software designed for its form factor. Drones + US Interior Department is grounding its drone fleet due to risks of Chinese spying This seems like a fine and cautious thing for our government to do, especially if all these drones were put into service willy-nilly without any security vetting. IoT devices are always a tempting and especially vulnerable target — they have been since printers got IP addresses. But, well, after the US government provided such thin information about why Huawei was a security threat, it lost some trust. There was enough smoke around those concerns to give the government the benefit of the doubt about the existence of fire. But then the Trump administration suggested that resolving trade dispute issues could change the calculus on those security issues — thereby leading us all to wonder how much of the embargo was based on security worries and how much was based on the trade war. What I'm saying is that this drone grounding seems totally reasonable and at the same time I can't help but wonder if there is some other, unspoken reason. Maybe the Interior Department just realized that everybody impulse purchased a bunch of inexpensive drones and wanted to pump the brakes. I am just bummed that the trade war makes me second guess those motivations. + The Mavic Mini is DJI's first drone that doesn't need FAA registration Speaking of impulse purchases of inexpensive Chinese drones: I am a city dweller and my most frequent outdoor activity is sitting in the shade and reading a book, so I do not need this nor any drone. So it's a good thing this is a (probably justified) $399, because if it were any cheaper I'd probably just up and buy one and tell myself I'll get into BMX or something. Apple News + Apple's Mac Pro clears FCC, hinting at imminent launch There's some kerfuffle about the FCC sticker saying "Assembled in China" even though Apple has previously said the Mac Pro would be made in Texas. I wouldn't make much of that until we see what's on the bottom of actual, shipping units. Which are due this "Fall," which technically ends December 21st, which really is fine because if you were thinking of buying one of these as a holiday present you can probably afford to just settle for a yacht this year instead. + Slow iPhone sales didn't stop Apple from its best Q4 revenue ever As per usual, my interest in Apple's earnings isn't its record revenue, but what that means for the future of the products it will make. This quarter's lesson: services services services. That's not new information, but in some small way it's confirming information. I think deep down Apple turn to services feels uncomfortable because nobody loves the things they pay for every month like clockwork. You don't buy an iPhone or AirPods that often, but when you do they become things you own, things that fit into your daily life without costing you money on a daily basis. You get some distance from the hole in your checking account and you get a physical thing to admire and use. A monthly bill is a regular reminder and what you get in exchange is much less tangible. + Apple will soon let you tack an iPhone onto your monthly Apple Card bill You load sixteen apps, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Tim Apple don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to Apple Credit Card + Software's Fall of Fail may soon be ending.: It might be safe to update your Apple HomePod now + Apple's 5G iPhones will reportedly be powered by its first 5-nanometer chips Today in totally shocking AT&T service plan news + AT&T updates its unlimited plans again, now with more data and less free TV I am SHOCKED that AT&T even bothers to publish its data plans at this point. They change so often, are so opaque, and are so clearly designed to confound customers. In what other domain are prices so hard to figure out and change so often? + Here's who's eligible for free HBO Max I am SHOCKED that AT&T, a company that currently currently offers like 5ish overlapping and confusing TV services, has also managed to make getting its next service confusing. The only conclusion I can reach anymore is that making services confusing is part of AT&T's business model, both in wireless and on TV. | 
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