The Talk Show: ‘The Dynamic Paradox’

Nilay Patel returns to the show to consider the iPhones 16. Sponsored by: Tiptop: A new way to pay that combines Instant Trade-In and Pay-in-4 at checkout. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. ★ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 months ago

★ A Few Brief Thoughts on Meta Connect 2024

I’ll link first to The Verge’s “Everything Announced at Meta Connect 2024” roundup because Meta still hasn’t posted today’s keynote address on YouTube; best I’ve found is this recording of the livestream, starting around the 43m:20s mark. I watched the most of the keynote live an … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 months ago

★ Panels, a New Wallpaper App From Marques Brownlee

A swing-and-a-miss from MKBHD. Criticism of the app is on two separate levels, but they’re being conflated. Level 1: the app is not good. Level 2: a paid wallpaper app? — LOL, wallpapers are free on Reddit. That second form of criticism — that there shouldn’t even exist a paid wa … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 months ago

★ The iPhones 16

One of the many memorable moments in Steve Jobs’s 2007 introduction of the original iPhone was this slide showing four of the then-leading smartphones on the market. Jobs explained: Now, why do we need a revolutionary user interface? Here’s four smartphones, right? Motorola Q, th … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 months ago

★ The Things They Carried

Thoughts and Observations in the Wake of Apple’s ‘It’s Glowtime’ Keynote Back in July 2007, I contributed this photo to a Flickr group called, self-describingly, “The Items We Carry”: 17 years later, I’ve consolidated. 2007 was so long ago that Field Notes hadn’t yet been created … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 months ago

★ Thoughts and Observations in the Wake of Apple’s ‘It’s Glowtime’ Keynote

Back in July 2007, I contributed this photo to a Flickr group called, self-describingly, “The Items We Carry”: 17 years later, I’ve consolidated. 2007 was so long ago that Field Notes hadn’t yet been created; my back-pocket notebooks are much slimmer now than that hardcover Moles … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 4 months ago

★ The iOS Continental Drift Fun Gap

There’s a scene in Martin Scorsese’s Casino. Gangster Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) and two of his goon friends are in a nightclub in the Tangiers casino resort (a fictionalized version of the old Stardust), which is run by Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro). Santoro and Rothstein, who’d … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 months ago

★ The iOS Continental Drift Widens

At the end of August, Apple announced several more DMA compliance changes. They are worth examining in detail. Changes to the Mandatory Browser Choice Screen Developers of browsers offered in the browser choice screen in the EU will have additional information about their browser … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 months ago

The Talk Show: ‘Good Enough to Be Pesky’

Special guest Taegan Goddard, longtime writer and founder of Political Wire, joins the show to talk about the past, present, and future of independent media. Sponsored by: WorkOS: The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million MAUs. Squarespace: Make your next m … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 months ago

The Talk Show: ‘Pinkie Swear’

Chance Miller, ace reporter for 9to5Mac, joins the show to talk about the latest changes to Apple’s DMA compliance plans with iOS, expectations for the September Apple event, and more. Sponsored by: WorkOS: The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million MAUs. Sq … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 months ago

★ The Mac Is a Power Tool

Back in the day, on classic Mac OS, there were no “privileges” for software. If you launched an app, or installed a system extension, that software just did what it wanted. Something as (seemingly) innocuous as a game or as necessarily powerful as a disk formatting utility just . … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 months ago

★ Apple’s Profits From Services Are on the Cusp of Surpassing Its Profits From Device Sales

Jason Snell, “Existential Thoughts About Apple’s Reliance on Services Revenue”: The intersection of hardware and software has been Apple’s home address since the 1970s. And yet, a few years ago, Apple updated its marketing language and began to refer to Apple’s secret sauce as th … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 months ago

The Talk Show: ‘Hock TUAW’

Christina Warren (a.k.a. “Mary Brown”) returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new iOS 18.1 and MacOS 15.1 betas (featuring Apple Intelligence), a little reminiscing about Gil Amelio and Steve Jobs, and the bizarre saga of TUAW, resurrected as a zombie AI slopsite. Sponsored … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 months ago

★ Apple Strikes Deal With Taboola to Sell Ads for Apple News

Sara Fischer, reporting this week for Axios: Ad tech giant Taboola has struck a deal with Apple to power native advertising within the Apple News and Apple Stocks apps, Taboola founder and CEO Adam Singolda told Axios. The deal provides new validation for Taboola’s business, whic … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 months ago

★ The AT&T Data Breach Shows Why RCS Can’t Be Trusted and the Downside of Apple Adding Support for It in iOS 18

Here’s a hot take: last week’s news of a massive AT&T breach revealing the phone call and text messaging records of all AT&T customers for six months in 2022 exemplifies why RCS is a terrible protocol that ought not exist, and why it’s a mistake that Apple is adding support for i … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 months ago

★ It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns

Josh Marshall, writing at Talking Points Memo: Political violence and especially electoral violence strike at the heart of the open, free and democratic choice-making upon which our civic democratic system and the legitimacy of its choices are based. We must condemn it in every i … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 6 months ago

The Talk Show: ‘Curiously Short Episodes’

John Moltz returns to the show for a holiday-week look at the best of recent prestige streaming content, particularly Apple TV+. And, yes, a bit on the latest Apple/EU/DMA drama. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order. ★ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 7 months ago

Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball and the Talk Show, Summer 2024 Edition

Yours truly back in March: After being sold out for months, the upcoming sponsorship schedule at DF is unusually open at the moment — including this upcoming week. Weekly sponsorships have been the top source of revenue for Daring Fireball ever since I started selling them back i … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 7 months ago

The Talk Show: ‘150 Million Calculator Apps’

Quinn Nelson, esteemed host of Snazzy Labs, returns to the show to recap the highlights of WWDC: Apple Intelligence, platform updates, and the latest salvos from the EC regarding Apple’s compliance with the DMA. Sponsored by: Trade Coffee: Enjoy 30% off your first month of coffee … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 7 months ago

★ Apple Disables WebKit’s JIT in Lockdown Mode, Offering a Hint Why BrowserEngineKit Is Complex and Restricted

Last week I mentioned Apple’s prohibition on JITs — just-in-time compilers — in the context of their rejection of UTM SE, an open source PC emulator. Apple’s prohibition on JITs, on security grounds, is a side issue regarding UTM SE, because UTM SE is the version of UTM that does … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 7 months ago

★ WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence

An oft-told story is that back in 2009 — two years after Dropbox debuted, two years before Apple unveiled iCloud — Steve Jobs invited Dropbox cofounders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi to Cupertino to pitch them on selling the company to Apple. Dropbox, Jobs told them, was “a fea … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 7 months ago

★ Training Large Language Models on the Public Web

Yesterday, quoting Anthropic’s announcement of their impressive new model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, I wrote: Also, from the bottom of the post, this interesting nugget: One of the core constitutional principles that guides our AI model development is privacy. We do not train our genera … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 7 months ago

★ By My Count Trump Is Batting .900 on the Ten Commandments

Sara Cline, reporting for the AP: The legislation that Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law on Wednesday requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities. “If y … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 7 months ago

★ The EU Is Reaping What It Sows With the DMA: Uncertainty

Ian Betteridge: So, Apple, which bits of the DMA does Apple Intelligence violate? Because unless you can actually tell us — which case we clearly have a bit of a problem with some of the claims you’ve made about how it works — or you’re talking bullshit, and just trying to get so … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 7 months ago

★ Disney and Apple, Sitting in a Tree

Kim Masters and Alex Weprin, writing for The Hollywood Reporter under the headline “A Disney Sale to Apple? Don’t Count It Out This Time”: There clearly is no buyer like Apple, which is sitting on $62 billion in cash and cash equivalents and has a $2.8 trillion market cap. And … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

★ Holy Hell, Trump Did Use Twitter Direct Messages, There Were ‘Many’ of Them, and the Special Counsel Now Has Them

I am slightly surprised that Trump – famously averse not just to using email and text messages, but even to his own lawyers taking written notes in meetings, so as not to leave a chain of evidence for his lifelong criminal activity – would use, of all things, the infamously unenc … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

★ Now Apollo Faces the Cliff

When Twitter unceremoniously pulled the plug on third-party clients earlier this year, commercial Twitter clients like Tweetbot and Twitterrific were left in a perilous position. I wrote: Twitter’s kneecapping of third-party clients didn’t just mean that their future revenue wa … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

★ Proposed Name for GM’s Upcoming In-House Software Platform (You Know, the One That Isn’t Going to Support CarPlay): Edsel

Michael Wayland, reporting last week for CNBC: General Motors has hired former Apple executive Mike Abbott to lead a newly created software unit for the Detroit automaker. Abbott, former vice president of engineering for Apple’s cloud services division, will join GM as executiv … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

Daring Fireball: Wavelength. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 1 year ago

★ Making Our Hearts Sing

Matt Birchler, “The Shocking State of Enthusiast Apps on Android”: I recently commented on Mastodon that I thought when it comes to third party apps, iOS is remarkably far ahead of Android. My feeling is that you can take the best app in a category on Android, and that would be … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

The Talk Show: ‘Tweeter and the Monkey Man’

Special guest Dan Moren joins the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis, and the triumphant return of the full-sized HomePod. Brought to you by: Kolide: The cross-platform endpoint security solution for teams that value privacy and transparency. Squarespace: M … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Link to: http://scripting.com/2023/01/23.html#a150251 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

We’re now on the cusp of a new frontier with Mastodon, and it’s Apple’s utterly clueless bureaucratic App Store reviewers who are doing their best to lock the new playground’s gates before they even open. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

If You Needed Any More Confirmation, Internal Slack Messages at Twitter Show That Cutting Off Third-Party Clients Was 'Intentional'

Some reporter, writing for one very expensive paywalled blog: The reason for the suspension couldn't be learned. Speculation on one blog this week raised the possibility that Twitter might have turned off access to the apps deliberately because they don't help drive ad revenue. A … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

There are tough sells, and there are tough sells. Selling shares of Twitter at $54.20 today could be grist for a sequel to *Glengarry Glen Ross*. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

★ If a Third-Party App Store Falls in the Forest and No One Uses It, Does It Make a Sound?

Mark Gurman dropped a seemingly-explosive report yesterday at Bloomberg, now under the headline “Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws”. I say now because the original headline was a little less assertive: “Will Apple Allow Users to Install Third-Party … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Two weeks later and it seems they *can* run Twitter without that team. Or, perhaps, it’s just been luck and collapse is imminent. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

The Fit and Finish of the All-New System Settings on macOS 13 Ventura

Link to: https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1557357661171204098 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

20 Years of Daring Fireball

Link to: https://daringfireball.net/2002/08/baby_needs_a_new_pair_of_processors | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Is App Tracking Transparency Doing Anything Truly Significant?

In my spitball theory here, App Track Transparency is not the cause of Facebook’s troubles, but just an extra kick in the pants as they stumble downhill toward legacy media irrelevance. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Google Keeps Beating the RCS Dead Horse

Link to: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/googles-fed-up-with-apple-not-using-rcs/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Banish: New Safari Extension to Block ‘Open in App’ Dickpanels

Link to: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/banish-for-safari/id1632848430 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Solving a problem people don't want solved

Link to: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/10/11/wp7-ad | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Apple Silicon is an inconvenient truth

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/07/23/apple-silicon-inconvenient-truth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32208698 Points: 55 # Comments: 66 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

13-Inch MacBook Air

It’s taken decades of iterative refinement to get to this point — a nearly perfect laptop for nearly everyone. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Republicans working the refs, Gmail edition

Link to: https://www.axios.com/2022/06/29/gops-gmail-feud-escalates | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch ID in iOS

Press and hold the power button and either volume button to hard-lock an iPhone or iPad. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago