The Verge on why Google I/O was interrupted by two protesters:

Both protesters were part of local tenants’ rights activist groups, Eviction Free San Francisco and the Anti Eviction Mapping Project.

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“You need to develop a conscience, Google,” [3rd grade teacher Claudia] Tirado yelled while holding up a T-shirt urging people to stop Google’s lawyer Jack Halprin. Halprin owns the seven-unit Victoria building where Tirado and her family live, and is reportedly trying to evict them using a controversial piece of California legislation called the Ellis Act to take the entire building off the rental market and evict rent-controlled tenants.

San Francisco’s housing problem is not, of course, entirely Google’s fault. High-paid employees of Apple and many other companies are also driving prices up. Although, this lawyer kind of helps seal the deal for Google as the poster child. And then the “don’t be evil” jokes just write themselves.

Episode 24 of Turning This Car Around looks at Father’s Day.

I only briefly touched on privacy in my piece on Apple earlier in the week but Rich Mogull goes into the details in a piece that nicely dovetails with mine.

If you couldn’t sit through all 48 hours and 28 protests of Google I/O (slight exaggeration), the Verge sums up the top 17 things you need to know.

Macworld:

Under the hood, the price-versus-power choices become apparent. In fact, the new low-end iMac’s internal specifications have more in common with the latest MacBook Airs than with the rest of the iMac family.

This is how you sell a lower-priced iMac without cannibalizing your existing products. This isn’t a device I’d want. That’s actually the idea. It’s not for me.

Mary Jo Foley describes the strategy behind Microsoft’s introduction of the second-generation Nokia Android phone:

Microsoft is making Windows available for zero dollars (a k a free) on phones and tablets with screen sizes of under nine inches. That means the company is counting less and less on the Windows operating system as a revenue source. Instead, services and applications are where Microsoft management are looking to earn money — through ads, subscriptions, premium upgrades, etc. — in the future.

So, an Android phone that hopes to make money based on services and therefore ships with Microsoft’s services installed instead of Google’s. Looking forward to hearing how this is really a threat to Apple.

For the next month,

Over at Macworld I look at how the relative end-user experiences compare on different platforms and how they help explain Apple’s high customer satisfaction ratings.

Blackberry still exists. Which is kind of where their bar for success is right now.

Mary Jo Foley notes that references to the Surface Mini are sprinkled throughout Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 User Guide. So the question is was this a pause to retool it or has it been summarily canceled?