For those of you who do follow the @daringfireball Twitter account, I apologize for the erratic posting schedule these last three months. It should be back to normal now, and for the foreseeable future. | Continue reading
This year 65 voters (hand-selected by Snell) graded Apple in 12 areas. I was one of them, and, like last year, thought it only fair to publish my grades and remarks here at Daring Fireball. | Continue reading
Link to: https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_pro/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://techreflect.net/2019/12/10/aperture-senior-qa-2004-2005/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Workshop | Continue reading
Link to: https://benpackard.github.io/ | Continue reading
To reach its potential, Apple needs to recognize they have made profound conceptual mistakes in the iPad user interface, mistakes that need to be scrapped and replaced, not polished and refined. I worry that iPadOS 13 suggests the opposite — that Apple is steering the iPad full s … | Continue reading
I take it back, this is not the pitch for a movie. It’s the pitch for a season-long TV series. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazons-video-library-has-grown-big-on-amateur-content-11579792605 | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/gadgets/apple-chef-tim-cook-interview-ueber-verschluesselung-recycling-und-app-store-a-1234607.html | Continue reading
This isn’t about Apple foiling law enforcement. It isn’t about Apple helping criminals. It’s about Apple enabling its customers to own and control their own data. | Continue reading
Now I can wildly stab at ⌘W to close tabs without a care in the world. | Continue reading
Concepts allow designers to ignore real-world constraints: engineering, pricing, manufacturing, legal regulations, sometimes even physics. But dealing with real-world constraints is the hard work of true design. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/fbi-asks-apple-for-help-cracking-pensacola-gunmans-iphones/2020/01/07/b829ac72-3178-11ea-91fd-82d4e04a3fac_story.html?outputType=amp | Continue reading
In short, I remain unconvinced that *standard* UIKit iPad apps are a good starting point for good Mac apps. But it’s pretty obvious — and should have been right from the start — that *nonstandard* not-really-using-UIKit iPad apps make for a terrible starting point for a good Mac … | Continue reading
So now the narrative is not “Away fires woman CEO and co-founder, replaces her with a man”. Instead, the narrative is “Away fires CEO who created ‘toxic culture’, brings in fresh leadership” — a narrative that wouldn’t be possible without The Verge’s story last Thursday. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apples-ad-targeting-crackdown-shakes-up-ad-market | Continue reading
Link to: http://blog.google/inside-google/alphabet/letter-from-larry-and-sergey/ | Continue reading
Link to: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tim-cook-talks-vision-apple-breaks-ground-facility/story?id=67165042 | Continue reading
A low moment in Apple’s proud history, and a sadly iconic moment for Tim Cook. I hope avoiding those tariffs is worth it. | Continue reading
Link to: https://rambo.codes/personal/2019/11/20/apple-has-locked-me-out-of-my-developer-account.html | Continue reading
We shouldn’t be celebrating the return of longstanding features we never should have lost in the first place. But Apple’s willingness to revisit these decisions — their explicit acknowledgment that, yes, keyboards are meant to by typed upon, not gazed upon — is, if not cause for … | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-eyes-2022-release-for-ar-headset-2023-for-glasses | Continue reading
Link to: https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/1189899504562122752 | Continue reading
Link to: https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/1189696239543181322 | Continue reading
Apple invited a few dozen media folks to New York today for a briefing and early access to the new AirPods Pro. My initial impression: I like them. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/25/apple-united-airlines-sfo-terminal-upgrades/ | Continue reading
I fully expect more Apple hardware before the end of the year, but not another keynote event. | Continue reading
Photoshop for iPad is *real* because it is using the same code base that’s been running on the desktop for decades. That’s an amazing technical accomplishment. Photoshop for iPad is not *full* — and the initial release was never planned to be — because it only exposes a subset of … | Continue reading
Maybe it’s not so easy. | Continue reading
Link to: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1182348757360234497 | Continue reading
As soon as I read this, I was nearly certain my email correspondent had made exactly this mistake, conflating Stallman with Raymond, and that I had passed the error along. I sincerely and deeply regret the error. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/07/apple-releases-macos-catalina/ | Continue reading
Everything related to the App Store approval process that might be perceived as kowtowing to China should receive the utmost scrutiny. | Continue reading
Everything related to the App Store approval process that might be perceived as kowtowing to China should receive the utmost scrutiny. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/17/bloomberg-reporter-challenged-big-hack-story-gets-promoted/ | Continue reading
Stallman’s harassment of women — compounded greatly by his esteemed position at MIT and the world at large — should have been the main story. His rankness should have been the postscript. | Continue reading
Anecdotally, at least, iOS 13 autocorrect is making inexplicable mistakes. | Continue reading
It’s an impressive year-over-year camera improvement one year after an impressive year-over-year camera improvement. | Continue reading
What Warzel has written — not on his personal blog, mind you, but in a column in the goddamn New York Times — has nothing to do with Apple, nothing to do with iPhone users, and nothing to do with society or culture at large. It is not an honest attempt to persuade anyone about an … | Continue reading
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/kramer-capital-researchs-hilary-kramer-212848057.html | Continue reading
Link to: https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1172200578207772672 | Continue reading
Apple Arcade, TV+, Apple Watch Series 5, and the iPhones 11. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-05/apple-working-on-in-display-fingerprint-id-for-future-iphones | Continue reading
My prediction for new iPhone names next week: iPhone 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro Max. | Continue reading
Link to: https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1168986962704982016 | Continue reading