★ The iPhones XS

A review of the iPhone XS and XS Max. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

★ Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s iPhone XS/XR and Series 4 Apple Watch Introductory Event

Regarding the event itself and the devices announced at it. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

AliveCor CEO Vic Gundotra on Competing with Apple Watch Series 4

Link to: https://www.businessinsider.com/alivecor-ceo-vic-gundotra-apple-watch-series-4-2018-9 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

★ The Curious Case of Adware Doctor and the Mac App Store

A popular utility in the Mac App Store was collecting users’ browser history and sending it to a server in China. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

★ iPhone Naming Rumors

iPhone Naming Rumors: ‘iPhone XS Max’ and ‘iPhone XR’ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

Link to: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003053487-Custom-Domains-service-deprecation | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

The Talk Show: ‘iPhone ’

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@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

Lyft Driver Finds Pixel 3 XL in Car; No One Cares

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/9/3/17814936/google-pixel-3-xl-leak-found-in-lyft | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

9to5Mac Obtained Product Marketing Photos of iPhone XS and Series 4 Apple Watch

Link to: https://9to5mac.com/2018/08/30/2018-iphone-xs-design-larger-version-gold-exclusive/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

The Talk Show: ‘Smallen Up the Bezels’

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@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

★ On ‘Shake to Undo’

The problems with Shake to Undo on iOS. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

★ Let’s Really Think About This ‘New Low-Cost Laptop to Succeed MacBook Air’ Thing

But today we’re three years into the era when the just-plain MacBook is the radically thin and light model, and the Air is the best-selling baseline model that isn’t really any thinner or lighter than the Pro models. Well, so what? We drive on parkways and park on driveways and n … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

Twitter Addresses Why They’ve Broken Twitter for Third-Party Clients

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/16/twitter-company-email-addresses-why-its-breakingmytwitter/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

‘But the Plans Were on Display’

Link to: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/40705-but-the-plans-were-on-display-on-display-i-eventually | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

★ Reuters’s Curious Sourcing on Doug Field Joining Project Titan

Some inside baseball on Reuters seemingly using my sources without attribution or credit. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

★ Doug Field Returns to Apple After Leaving Tesla

Here’s some interesting hiring news I’ve heard through the little birdie grapevine: Doug Field — who left Tesla in May after overseeing Model 3 production — is back at Apple, working in Bob Mansfield’s project Titan group. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

The Talk Show: ‘Little Q&A’

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@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

The Talk Show: ‘Cut That Mustache With Scissors’

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@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

'Free' Podcasting

Link to: https://www.manton.org/2018/07/23/anchor-on-free.html | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

Do You Really Need to Properly Eject a USB Drive Before Yanking It Out?

Link to: https://www.popsci.com/usb-drive-eject | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

★ Apple Updates MacBook Pro Models With TouchBar

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/07/apple-updates-macbook-pro-with-faster-performance-and-new-features-for-pros/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

The Talk Show: ‘Resources Up the Yang’

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@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

★ Google Demos Duplex

Google’s breakthrough isn’t how smart Duplex is, but how human-like it sounds. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

Free Trials from Apple’s Perspective

Link to: https://medium.com/@drewmccormack/free-trials-from-apples-perspective-3d925486bf2 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

The Talk Show: ‘AirPower, What’s That?’

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@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

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 | 6 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 | 6 years ago

What’s the deal with AirPower?

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


@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

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

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@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2018

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@daringfireball.net | 6 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 | 6 years ago

The Talk Show: ‘Pseudorandom Gibberish’

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@daringfireball.net | 6 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 | 6 years ago

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

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


@daringfireball.net | 6 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 | 6 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 | 6 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 | 6 years ago

The Talk Show: ‘Slathered in Incompetence’

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@daringfireball.net | 6 years ago

San Francisco Mayoral Candidate Jane Kim Eviscerates SF Chronicle

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


@daringfireball.net | 6 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 | 6 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 | 6 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 | 6 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