Apple And Not Much Else -- October 5, 2020

Apple:

• Bruce Springsteen documentary, Apple TV+, October 23;
• I don't know if folks have been tracking this but Apple has announced, almost non-stop, movies and other content starring icons in the music and film industry; just under the radar but it's huge;
• Apple to stop selling third-party speakers and headphones;
• sayonara: Bose, Sonos, and Logitech
• I think most folks were waiting for this to happen eventually
  

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Sports Page

How low can the ratings go? Link here: https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/10/05/nba-finals-ratings-crash-again-reaching-back-to-back-historic-lows/.

From the link:

Instead of a methodical seven game march towards an NBA championship, the 2020 NBA Finals have turned into a methodical march to the historic depths of television watching futility. 

Game 1 of the Finals brought with it the lowest viewership since 1994, and Game 2 was the lowest ever on record. 

But wait! That was before Game 3, which beat out Game 2 by becoming the least watched Finals game in NBA history. 

Game 2 earned a paltry 4.5 million viewers, while Game 3 submarined that number by peaking at 4.395 million. Mind you, this is a nearly 70% decline from last year’s Finals numbers which included a team from Canada. 

Not only that, unlike this year’s audience, last year’s audience was not on lockdown and did not include the game’s best player, LeBron James.

Analysis at the link. 

Now we see why China matters.

BLM: not playing tonight. Next game day: tomorrow, Tuesday, October 6, 2020.

NFL: two games tonight. I think the Chiefs won the first game; Green Bay will win the second game tonight. I quit watching after the third consecutive BLM commercial.

MLB: NY Yankess lead some other team, 4 - 3, middle of the 6th; 

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Love The Color Code

Burleigh County (Bismarck -- 653); Cass (Fargo -- 554); Stark (Dickinson -- 305) -- all in same color code category as Pembina (32); Barnes (31); McHenry (35).

After Fargo, Mandan&Bismarck, most surprising is Dickinson with 305 active cases, 18 total deaths -- more deaths than Grand Forks.

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Television Tonight!

Wow, wow, wow! Graham Greene's The End Of The Affair on TCM tonight!! A most incredible story. No, not the movie. The life of Graham Greene. I've disposed of most of my library but have kept a few biographies including Norman Sherry's 3-volume biography of Graham Greene, Norma Sherry wrote it while living in San Antonio, of all places. I found the volumes while living in San Antonio some years ago at Half-Price Bookstore, and read the biography while living there. 

I have read much of it twice, and some of it several times. The biography reads like that of a fictional character. Graham was a war journalist of sorts, living through WWI, WWII, Vietnam, and Korea.

The scenes in the London churches take me back to the Sunday evenings I spent in churches in Yorkshire in 2002 - 2004, or thereabouts.

I am tempted to start reading it again tonight. Volume II.