Meanwhile, over on HCR’s substack

Trump began the day by posting an advertisement for the fourth “series of Trump digital trading cards,” or NFTs (which are unique digital tokens) featuring heroic images of Trump. People who buy 15 or more of them—at $99 apiece—get a physical trading card as well. Trump said that the physical card has a piece of the suit he wore at the presidential debate, and Trump promises to sign five of them, randomly. Up to 25 people who buy $25,750 worth of the cards with cryptocurrency will be invited to a gala next month at his Jupiter, Florida, golf club.

.. filed in the bucket of shit you can’t make up.

Looks like they are putting the band back together.

There’s more on this to write - and I will - but for now just leaving this here.

I know them all. I worked with them all.

Truly halcyon days.

I wonder if Apple would ever produce something like a Remarkable .. or do they think the use case is covered by the iPad?

Chris Lockhead:

Grabbed some eggs and toast at a local cafe .. lady approaches me and says ‘you look like David Bowie’.

Full disclosure - I don’t. In anyway. Never heard that line.

Thankyou I said - but not sure that’s a complement - smiling as much as I could.

Oh yes she said - exactly like him.

But he’s dead I said. Still smiling.

The lady looks at me oddly and then bursts out laughing

Questions for the cognoscenti

If I buy my new iPhone in the EU and come home to U.S.A. .. what happens to my App Store settings.

What about going home to the UK?

Make.com anyone? Zapier alternative. Easier. Cheaper.

NetNewsWire synching has been getting slower and slower - so reinstalled Reeder.

Wow.

Docking today at The Ferry building in Auckland, I realized that were they to remove the logos and buildings for international consultants, banks and hotels .. not much would be left on the waterfront.

The All Blacks and Lord of the Rings are probably the two most at famous Kiwi exports .. meanwhile, at home …

I received a long email from Apple telling me all about why I can’t sell books in Europe.

You need to enter trader status in iTunes Connect for ebooks on the Apple Books Store in the European Union (EU). This is to comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Starting February 17, 2025, ebooks without trader status will be removed from the Apple Books Store in the EU until trader status is provided and verified.

All good I don’t anyway - I think it all goes back to some experimenting I was doing a few years ago …

That said - I also experimented with Kindle - BUT

Nothing from Amazon.

Are Amazon useless and / or ignoring this

OR

Is this part of the greater ‘fuck Apple’ attitude in Europe - and they don’t care what Amazon does?

Just #AskingForAFriend

This, apparently, constitutes news over on Politico …

Anyone exploring Lex?

How long before the opposition pick this up and start calling it ‘Woke Tech’.