Link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE8ZikfrpFU | Continue reading
It’s quite a thing that Russia’s “law against Apple” allows for more transparency to users than Apple’s own App Store rules. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/03/apples-worldwide-developers-conference-is-back-in-its-all-online-format/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/sports/ncaabasketball/mens-womens-tournament-gap.html | Continue reading
The truly weird thing is that Justin Long was always pitching for Intel-based computers, at least indirectly, in the “Get a Mac” campaign, the introduction of which coincided with the start of the Intel Mac era: 2006-2009. | Continue reading
Link to: https://techreflect.net/2021/02/22/origin-on-macos-cloud-poof-animation/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/COVID%20OPEN%20LETTER%20FINAL%20030421%20(1).pdf | Continue reading
If you use one of these apps and are exposed to someone who later tests positive, the odds that that person both uses the app *and* will report their positive test result seem not just low but downright infinitesimal. | Continue reading
Apple should offer defenses against email tracking just as robust as Safari’s defenses against web tracking. | Continue reading
Link to: https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/19/apple-cracks-down-on-apps-with-irrationally-high-prices-as-app-store-scams-are-exposed/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/18/you-watch-tv-your-tv-watches-back/ | Continue reading
There is no such thing as a “typical tech-sector that you could take over at a single stroke”. That Diess seems to think that’s how the markets where Apple currently competes work — that’s the thing that would worry me if I were at Volkswagen. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/email-from-jeff-bezos-to-employees | Continue reading
A good year across the board for Apple’s products, with one glaring exception. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/01/dan-riccio-begins-a-new-chapter-at-apple/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://oblador.github.io/hush/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1348219824506368000 | Continue reading
Link to: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html | Continue reading
Beware Apple’s lookalike 18W/20W and 29W/30W power adapters. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/18/stanford-hospital-protest-covid-vaccine/ | Continue reading
This whole ad reads more like an ad *for* Apple’s privacy initiatives than against. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39iKLwlUqBo&feature | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/16/facebook-takes-out-full-page-ads-to-attack-apple/ | Continue reading
Are we supposed to be surprised, in the least, that it turns out Tim Cook runs Apple and has the final call over everything the company does? | Continue reading
Link to: https://youtu.be/08IC1AZTxls?t=2940 | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/nyregion/coronavirus-peloton-john-foley.html | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/10/cydia-apple-lawsuit/ | Continue reading
“Oh, that’s a nice button. It has a good click.”“Is it a $550 click?” I asked.He clicked it a few more times. “It’s not *not* a $550 click.” | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/qualcomm-is-a-little-too-unbothered-by-apples-m1-macs | Continue reading
The M1 is up *here*, running fast and cool, and all the competing chips from Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Samsung, and whoever else are down *there*, running hot or running slow, looking around for their recently stolen pants. | Continue reading
Link to: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491 | Continue reading
The bottom line is that for over a decade, iPhones and iPads have had Apple-designed chips the competition could not and still cannot match. Now the Mac does too. | Continue reading
12 Mini: It’s like Apple is just handing small-iPhone fans a $100 bill along with the no-compromise smaller iPhone they’ve been waiting for. 12 Pro Max: I’m not going to say it feels like a steel and glass brick. | Continue reading
This is making me think I should never join Facebook. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/business/media/jon-stewart-apple-tv.html | Continue reading
If you plan to never or seldom use your iPad with a hardware keyboard and trackpad, I don’t think you’re missing that much with Touch ID instead of Face ID. If you do plan to use a keyboard and trackpad, however, you’re missing a lot. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/airbnb-taps-jony-ive-for-design-help | Continue reading
So when you see that the new iPhone 12 and 12 Pro have 6.1-inch displays, 12 years of iPhone experience are going to make you think these are iPhone XR/11-sized devices. They’re not. In hand, in pocket, and to the eye, they feel and look like iPhone X/XS/11 Pro-sized devices. | Continue reading
The 2020 iPhone lineup. | Continue reading
I’ve said it before and will adamantly say it again: it is *prima facie* wrong that one of the rules of the App Store is that an app is not allowed to explain the rules of the App Store. | Continue reading
Link to: https://songshift.com/blog/spotify_transfers | Continue reading
Game consoles are different because we own a successful game console platform. | Continue reading
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/opinion/facebook-gretchen-whitmer.html | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqy8x/most-of-scottish-wikipedia-written-by-american-in-mangled-english | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/9/29/21492351/amazon-one-hand-scan-payments-palm-checkout-whole-foods?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4 | Continue reading