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What iOS 14 grabbed from Android, Apple Silicon, and more tech news today
August 17, 2025
1. WWDC: Wow
Whew, Apple’s keynote from its WWDC 2020 event yesterday tore through about 1 hour 47 minutes of new features and information, in a pre-recorded set filmed in Apple’s campus in California. That stream worked well, easily the best presentation in this COVID-19 era. It was also breakneck speed, and from the notes I took and thekeynote summaries doing the rounds, and having slept on it all, parsing what matters and what it means is all in the execution and delivery.
First, abunch of the stuff that will mattermost across all the announcements made:
And Big Sur led toApple Silicon.
Apple Silicon: What we know:
Apple Silicon: What we don’t know:
Need new Apple gear? What should you do?
Finally, no new hardware. We didn’t see anything you can buy: no new Macs or new HomePod or new headphones (AirPods Studio) or AirTags, etc. It is a developer conference, after all.
More Apple bits:
The speedy-soundingASUS ROG Phone 3 will launch in July(Android Authority).
realme hashilariously copy/pasted HUAWEI’s product strategy, slides and all (Android Authority).
Your regular reminder:More phone cameras does not equal better quality photos(Android Authority).
5.10 best new Android gamesfrom June 2020! (Android Authority). Also, interestingly:Nintendo is backing away from mobile gamesas Animal Crossing blows up and its own mobile games often whiffed (Bloomberg).
- “A Japanese supercomputer has been crowned the world’s fastest, and it’s fighting coronavirus (NY Times). Also, it is ARM-based, like Apple’s new chips…
7.Google employees demand companystop selling tech to police (TechCrunch).
8.Microsoft quietly revealed it is giving up on Mixer, despite paying a fortune to Ninja. The news was released right while WWDC was happening to try and hide it. How did Microsoft get this so wrong? (Wired).
- South Koreans can nowstore their driving license on their smartphones(Engadget).
10.19% of Earth’s ocean floor is now mapped, up from 15% last year (BBC).
- “We see videos of meteors falling, burning bright, etc. However they appear to always travel at a steep angle.Is there a reason why meteors can not fall to the earth at a perfect perpendicular to the earth’s surface?” (r/askscience).
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