★ Disney and Apple, Sitting in a Tree

Kim Masters and Alex Weprin, writing for The Hollywood Reporter under the headline “A Disney Sale to Apple? Don’t Count It Out This Time”: There clearly is no buyer like Apple, which is sitting on $62 billion in cash and cash equivalents and has a $2.8 trillion market cap. And … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 7 months ago

★ Holy Hell, Trump Did Use Twitter Direct Messages, There Were ‘Many’ of Them, and the Special Counsel Now Has Them

I am slightly surprised that Trump – famously averse not just to using email and text messages, but even to his own lawyers taking written notes in meetings, so as not to leave a chain of evidence for his lifelong criminal activity – would use, of all things, the infamously unenc … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 7 months ago

★ Now Apollo Faces the Cliff

When Twitter unceremoniously pulled the plug on third-party clients earlier this year, commercial Twitter clients like Tweetbot and Twitterrific were left in a perilous position. I wrote: Twitter’s kneecapping of third-party clients didn’t just mean that their future revenue wa … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 8 months ago

★ Proposed Name for GM’s Upcoming In-House Software Platform (You Know, the One That Isn’t Going to Support CarPlay): Edsel

Michael Wayland, reporting last week for CNBC: General Motors has hired former Apple executive Mike Abbott to lead a newly created software unit for the Detroit automaker. Abbott, former vice president of engineering for Apple’s cloud services division, will join GM as executiv … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 10 months ago

Daring Fireball: Wavelength. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

★ Making Our Hearts Sing

Matt Birchler, “The Shocking State of Enthusiast Apps on Android”: I recently commented on Mastodon that I thought when it comes to third party apps, iOS is remarkably far ahead of Android. My feeling is that you can take the best app in a category on Android, and that would be … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

The Talk Show: ‘Tweeter and the Monkey Man’

Special guest Dan Moren joins the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis, and the triumphant return of the full-sized HomePod. Brought to you by: Kolide: The cross-platform endpoint security solution for teams that value privacy and transparency. Squarespace: M … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

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@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

We’re now on the cusp of a new frontier with Mastodon, and it’s Apple’s utterly clueless bureaucratic App Store reviewers who are doing their best to lock the new playground’s gates before they even open. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

If You Needed Any More Confirmation, Internal Slack Messages at Twitter Show That Cutting Off Third-Party Clients Was 'Intentional'

Some reporter, writing for one very expensive paywalled blog: The reason for the suspension couldn't be learned. Speculation on one blog this week raised the possibility that Twitter might have turned off access to the apps deliberately because they don't help drive ad revenue. A … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

There are tough sells, and there are tough sells. Selling shares of Twitter at $54.20 today could be grist for a sequel to *Glengarry Glen Ross*. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

★ If a Third-Party App Store Falls in the Forest and No One Uses It, Does It Make a Sound?

Mark Gurman dropped a seemingly-explosive report yesterday at Bloomberg, now under the headline “Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws”. I say now because the original headline was a little less assertive: “Will Apple Allow Users to Install Third-Party … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

Two weeks later and it seems they *can* run Twitter without that team. Or, perhaps, it’s just been luck and collapse is imminent. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

The Fit and Finish of the All-New System Settings on macOS 13 Ventura

Link to: https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1557357661171204098 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

20 Years of Daring Fireball

Link to: https://daringfireball.net/2002/08/baby_needs_a_new_pair_of_processors | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

Is App Tracking Transparency Doing Anything Truly Significant?

In my spitball theory here, App Track Transparency is not the cause of Facebook’s troubles, but just an extra kick in the pants as they stumble downhill toward legacy media irrelevance. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

Google Keeps Beating the RCS Dead Horse

Link to: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/googles-fed-up-with-apple-not-using-rcs/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

Banish: New Safari Extension to Block ‘Open in App’ Dickpanels

Link to: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/banish-for-safari/id1632848430 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

Solving a problem people don't want solved

Link to: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/10/11/wp7-ad | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

Apple Silicon is an inconvenient truth

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/07/23/apple-silicon-inconvenient-truth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32208698 Points: 55 # Comments: 66 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

13-Inch MacBook Air

It’s taken decades of iterative refinement to get to this point — a nearly perfect laptop for nearly everyone. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

Republicans working the refs, Gmail edition

Link to: https://www.axios.com/2022/06/29/gops-gmail-feud-escalates | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch ID in iOS

Press and hold the power button and either volume button to hard-lock an iPhone or iPad. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

Epic's 95/5 Split for Fortnite Content Creators

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/23139858/fortnite-creators-creative-studios-branded-worlds | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

Facebook is an attack on the open web (2017)

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@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

The Grave Insult of Being Sent the Proper Tools to Perform a Complicated Task

If you could properly replace an iPhone battery with a couple of simple tools, Apple would surely just send you the simple tools. But if that were the case there’d be no need for this program. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

Xkcd on Apple Maps

Link to: https://xkcd.com/2617/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

What's the Mood Inside Twitter?

Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/technology/twitter-employees-elon-musk.html | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

Apple is culling apps from the App Store that haven’t been updated in two years

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/23/23038870/apple-app-store-widely-remove-outdated-apps-developers | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

The Location Field Is the New Command Line (2004)

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@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Turning off 5G adds hours of battery life to iPhones, iPads

Link to: https://www.wsj.com/articles/5g-drains-your-iphones-battery-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it-11647716969?st=dejaoo8lf1p8v2w&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

The Apple Studio Display

I’ve been waiting years for Apple to release a good desktop display for under $2000, and in every single regard *other* than the camera, the Studio Display meets or exceeds my expectations. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

iPhone SE

There is a profound thoughtfulness and longevity to this design. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Ronco Spray-On Usability

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@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Samsung caught excepting benchmark apps from performance throttling

Link to: https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-gos-throttling-apps-3125885/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

On the Origin on the iPhone

As a product, the original iPhone exemplified Apple’s holistic approach to hardware and software that are designed for each other, yet, at the engineering level, the iPhone hardware and software teams were almost completely siloed, with only Jobs and a mere handful of his most tr … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Microsoft’s ‘Principled Approach to App Stores’ That Doesn’t Apply to Xbox

Link to: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2022/02/09/open-app-store-principles-activision-blizzard/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Going Dutch: The continuing saga of Apple’s conflict with the Netherlands

Rather than decrease regulatory tensions, Apple’s new guidelines seem to intentionally escalate them. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Facebook and Google’s Dependence Upon Advertising

Link to: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-03/facebook-and-google-s-ad-addiction-can-t-last-forever-thanks-to-tiktok-web3 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Daring Fireball: Robin Berjon on ‘Topics’, Google’s Proposed Replacement for FLoC

Link to: https://twitter.com/robinberjon/status/1486008950596194305 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Regarding the Neil Young–Joe Rogan Spotify Saga

But it’s also correct that Neil Young has a right to make clear that he doesn’t want to be associated with a service that is associated with Rogan, and to publicize his stance. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Gruber: The App Store is (well, was) lousy with blatant Wordle rip-offs, but one of them takes the cake

As of today, Apple’s App Store is lousy with Wordle rip-offs. I mean not just the concept — there’s a long history of “guess the word” games, including a defunct game show called “Lingo” that was clearly an inspiration for Wordle — but literally the *name* “Wordle” and its design … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Gruber clarifies that famous Ed Colligan iPhone rollout quote

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22820571/springboard-handspring-documentary-youtube | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution

Link to: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Twitter Acquires Quill; Will Shut Down Service at the End of the Week

Link to: https://quill.chat/updates/2021-12-07-quill-twitter/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Tim Sweeney Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

The solution to an ostensibly problematic duopoly is ... a single universal store? And we’re supposed to take this without laughing? | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Wirecutter Union Is Striking

Link to: https://www.wirecutterunion.com/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago