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 | 1 year ago

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@daringfireball.net | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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 | 1 year 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

Epic's 95/5 Split for Fortnite Content Creators

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/23139858/fortnite-creators-creative-studios-branded-worlds | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Facebook is an attack on the open web (2017)

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@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

The Grave Insult of Being Sent the Proper Tools to Perform a Complicated Task

If you could properly replace an iPhone battery with a couple of simple tools, Apple would surely just send you the simple tools. But if that were the case there’d be no need for this program. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Xkcd on Apple Maps

Link to: https://xkcd.com/2617/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

What's the Mood Inside Twitter?

Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/technology/twitter-employees-elon-musk.html | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Apple is culling apps from the App Store that haven’t been updated in two years

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/23/23038870/apple-app-store-widely-remove-outdated-apps-developers | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

The Location Field Is the New Command Line (2004)

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@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Turning off 5G adds hours of battery life to iPhones, iPads

Link to: https://www.wsj.com/articles/5g-drains-your-iphones-battery-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it-11647716969?st=dejaoo8lf1p8v2w&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

The Apple Studio Display

I’ve been waiting years for Apple to release a good desktop display for under $2000, and in every single regard *other* than the camera, the Studio Display meets or exceeds my expectations. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

iPhone SE

There is a profound thoughtfulness and longevity to this design. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Ronco Spray-On Usability

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@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Samsung caught excepting benchmark apps from performance throttling

Link to: https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-gos-throttling-apps-3125885/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

On the Origin on the iPhone

As a product, the original iPhone exemplified Apple’s holistic approach to hardware and software that are designed for each other, yet, at the engineering level, the iPhone hardware and software teams were almost completely siloed, with only Jobs and a mere handful of his most tr … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Microsoft’s ‘Principled Approach to App Stores’ That Doesn’t Apply to Xbox

Link to: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2022/02/09/open-app-store-principles-activision-blizzard/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Going Dutch: The continuing saga of Apple’s conflict with the Netherlands

Rather than decrease regulatory tensions, Apple’s new guidelines seem to intentionally escalate them. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Facebook and Google’s Dependence Upon Advertising

Link to: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-03/facebook-and-google-s-ad-addiction-can-t-last-forever-thanks-to-tiktok-web3 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Daring Fireball: Robin Berjon on ‘Topics’, Google’s Proposed Replacement for FLoC

Link to: https://twitter.com/robinberjon/status/1486008950596194305 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Regarding the Neil Young–Joe Rogan Spotify Saga

But it’s also correct that Neil Young has a right to make clear that he doesn’t want to be associated with a service that is associated with Rogan, and to publicize his stance. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Gruber: The App Store is (well, was) lousy with blatant Wordle rip-offs, but one of them takes the cake

As of today, Apple’s App Store is lousy with Wordle rip-offs. I mean not just the concept — there’s a long history of “guess the word” games, including a defunct game show called “Lingo” that was clearly an inspiration for Wordle — but literally the *name* “Wordle” and its design … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Gruber clarifies that famous Ed Colligan iPhone rollout quote

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22820571/springboard-handspring-documentary-youtube | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution

Link to: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Twitter Acquires Quill; Will Shut Down Service at the End of the Week

Link to: https://quill.chat/updates/2021-12-07-quill-twitter/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Tim Sweeney Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

The solution to an ostensibly problematic duopoly is ... a single universal store? And we’re supposed to take this without laughing? | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

Wirecutter Union Is Striking

Link to: https://www.wirecutterunion.com/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 2 years ago

New Apple repair program allows independent repair shops

Despite the program’s name, I think it’s not so much about individual users repairing their own personal devices. The biggest ramification, I think, will be that the program will allow unofficial independent repair shops to procure genuine OEM Apple replacement parts and service … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 3 years ago

Gruber on Apple’s “Self Service Repair” program

Nice, and perhaps a bit surprising, but a small deal, not a big deal. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 3 years ago

Google Antitrust

Link to: https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/1452066487913664512 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 3 years ago

14-Inch MacBook Pro

The differences between a MacBook Pro and MacBook Air should not be subtle. Let the truck be a truck, true to its purpose. Let the MacBook Pro be unabashedly *pro*. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 3 years ago

Facebook 'Ready to Engage on Substance'

Link to: https://twitter.com/fbnewsroom/status/1450154004730707972 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 3 years ago

The Continuing Bizarre Decline in Science Reporting at the New York Times

Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/health/covid-vaccine-children-dose.html?searchResultPosition=1 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 3 years ago