On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware

Link to: https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2018/06/14/on-the-sad-state-of-macintosh-hardware/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Not Only Is the Mac Mini Outdated, It's No Longer Mini

Link to: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/03/its-not-quite-a-mac-mini-but-its-my-server/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

What’s the deal with AirPower?

Link to: https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/22/airpower-pricing-release-date/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

From the DF Archive: ‘What if the iPad Smart Keyboard Had a Trackpad?’

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@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2018

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@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Safari Technology Preview 58 Includes Support for Favicons in Tabs

Link to: https://webkit.org/blog/8327/safari-technology-preview-58-with-safari-12-features-is-now-available/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

The Talk Show: ‘Pseudorandom Gibberish’

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@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

★ 10 Strikes and You’re Out — the iOS Feature You’re Probably Not Using But Should

iOS’s “Erase all data on this iPhone after 10 failed passcode attempts” feature is far more clever than I realized, and it’s highly unlikely that your kids or jackass drinking buddies could ever trigger it. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

★ Yammering on One More Time Regarding Google’s Duplex Recordings

A recording is *not* a demo. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

★ The Restaurant Where Google Claims to Have Booked an Actual Meal Via Duplex

The fact that I had an answer to my question in just 22 minutes shows that having a large follower count on Twitter is a bit of a super power. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

★ The End of Third-Party Twitter Clients?

Twitter may not care about a native Mac client, but the users of these apps, and the developers who make them, certainly do. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

A Little Duplex Skepticism

Link to: https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

The Talk Show: ‘Slathered in Incompetence’

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@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

San Francisco Mayoral Candidate Jane Kim Eviscerates SF Chronicle

Link to: https://medium.com/@JaneKimCA/no-filter-6f4247335455 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

★ Lobe

Lobe is to CoreML what Illustrator was to PostScript — a profoundly powerful tool that exposes the underlying technology to non-experts through an intuitive visual interface. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Sounds Like It’s Samsung’s Flexible OLED Phones Whose Sales Are Weak

Link to: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-26/samsung-sees-slow-demand-for-oleds-used-for-apple-s-iphone-x | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

★ Scuttlebutt Regarding Apple’s Cross-Platform UI Project

It’s no longer called “Marzipan”, almost certainly isn’t coming this year, and is probably a declarative user interface API. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

The Talk Show: ‘$270 Worth of Unneeded Keyboards’

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@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

Daring Fireball Sponsorship Openings

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@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

★ Design Plagiarism

There’s a difference between copying an idea and copying an implementation of that idea. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

★ On Normalizing Rip-Offs

Everyone does not do it, and the companies who do original design work are not ripped off in equal measure. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

★ Company-Wide Apple Memo on ‘The Impact of Leaks’ Leaks

Apple is not fucking around regarding leaks. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

★ Regarding Mark Zuckerberg’s Unused Talking Points on Tim Cook and Apple

Zuckerberg should stick to the “some companies work hard to charge you more, other work hard to charge you less” angle. Trying to say that Apple is in the same boat as Facebook on the privacy front is simply laughable. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

★ A Really Dumb Wall Street Journal Story on Apple Pay That Almost Makes a Good Point at the Very Beginning

A three-act train wreck of a story. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

★ Users and Customers

The linguistic trick Zuckerberg pulls here is that nowhere in the entire interview does he mention the words *user* or *customer*. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago