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
Link to: https://twitter.com/FieryFeeds/status/1310553289545658369 | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.techmeme.com/200909/p22#a200909p22 | Continue reading
If Apple ran a food court like they run the App Store they’d let a McDowell’s open up two stores down from McDonald’s. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.polygon.com/2020/9/24/21454568/amazon-luna-cloud-gaming-service-channels-price-release-date | Continue reading
Mapping Apple’s longstanding Sport Band holes to the new Solo Loop sizes. | Continue reading
Apple Watch Series 6 and SE, new non-Pro iPads, and the Apple One bundle. | Continue reading
Link to: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/13/microsoft-statement-on-tiktok/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/11/instagram-pushes-back-on-apples-ios-ad-tracking-change.html | Continue reading
Link to: https://tinysubversions.com/notes/twitter-usernames/ | Continue reading
Apple’s tracking permission dialog is something no sane person would agree to because this sort of tracking *is* something no sane person would agree to. | Continue reading
Link to: https://twitter.com/hprange/status/1291366907271151616?s=21 | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/17/21373108/apple-response-epic-app-store-fortnite-lawsuit | Continue reading
It tastes like weak sauce even by the standards of sauce obtained from The Weak Sauce Store. | Continue reading
Epic, in a very savvy way, is waging this war as much or more in the court of public opinion as they are in any court of law. And, ultimately, Apple stands to lose more in brand equity than in dollars, no matter how this turns out. | Continue reading
Running this statement through my Applespeak-to-English decoder ring, what I hear is not that they won’t allow Xbox Game Pass because they can’t review each game separately. What I hear is that game streaming services are not allowed in the iOS App Store. Period, full stop. | Continue reading
It is prima facie wrong that one of the rules is that an app is not allowed to explain the rules. | Continue reading
A New York Times mini crossword clue over the weekend was based on the notion that “Enter” is just a synonym for the Return key. It’s not. They’re two different keys that usually perform the same action, but not always. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/portland-protests.html | Continue reading
When the waiter arrives with your appetizers, before giving you your food, he asks you again if you’d like to take a referral card for a friend or perhaps family member. You decline again. Same thing with your entrees. And again with your dessert or after-dinner drinks. And then … | Continue reading
You can’t pack every last ounce of joy, beauty, and elegance *into* something while simultaneously trying to squeeze every last dollar *out* of it. | Continue reading
What we both missed is that messages aren’t between phone numbers or email addresses or specific devices — they’re between *people*. Phone numbers and email addresses are just identifiers used to address those people. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linkedin-says-ios-clipboard-snooping-after-every-key-press-is-a-bug-will-fix/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.inputmag.com/tech/after-ios-14-theres-almost-no-reason-to-buy-an-android-phone-anymore | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/graham-cotton-blackburn-introduce-balanced-solution-to-bolster-national-security-end-use-of-warrant-proof-encryption-that-shields-criminal-activity | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/opinion/apple-app-store-hey.html | Continue reading
I’m not trying to be coy, but what is the iPhone itself? A business device or a consumer product? Using *or* instead of *and* as the conjunction there is clearly laughable. | Continue reading
I’m not trying to be coy, but what is the iPhone itself? A business device or a consumer product? Using *or* instead of *and* as the conjunction there is clearly laughable. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.protocol.com/hey-email-app-store-rejection | Continue reading
Link to: https://twitter.com/KurtWagner8/status/1271493543299698688 | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/bowser-black-lives-matter-street/2020/06/05/eb44ff4a-a733-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html | Continue reading
Link to: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/06/01/unhelpful-amazon-order-confirmation-e-mails/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/technology/facebook-employee-protest-trump.html | Continue reading
“No one will remember us or anything we’ve done — unless Netflix makes one of those documentaries like the Fyre Festival one.” | Continue reading