Link to: https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/COVID%20OPEN%20LETTER%20FINAL%20030421%20(1).pdf | Continue reading

Link to: https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/19/apple-cracks-down-on-apps-with-irrationally-high-prices-as-app-store-scams-are-exposed/ | Continue reading

There is no such thing as a “typical tech-sector that you could take over at a single stroke”. That Diess seems to think that’s how the markets where Apple currently competes work — that’s the thing that would worry me if I were at Volkswagen. | Continue reading

A good year across the board for Apple’s products, with one glaring exception. | Continue reading

Link to: https://oblador.github.io/hush/ | Continue reading

Link to: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html | Continue reading

Link to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/18/stanford-hospital-protest-covid-vaccine/ | Continue reading

Link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39iKLwlUqBo&feature | Continue reading

Are we supposed to be surprised, in the least, that it turns out Tim Cook runs Apple and has the final call over everything the company does? | Continue reading

Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/nyregion/coronavirus-peloton-john-foley.html | Continue reading

“Oh, that’s a nice button. It has a good click.”“Is it a $550 click?” I asked.He clicked it a few more times. “It’s not *not* a $550 click.” | Continue reading

The M1 is up *here*, running fast and cool, and all the competing chips from Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Samsung, and whoever else are down *there*, running hot or running slow, looking around for their recently stolen pants. | Continue reading

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

This is making me think I should never join Facebook. | 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

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

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

Game consoles are different because we own a successful game console platform. | 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://twitter.com/FieryFeeds/status/1310553289545658369 | 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

Mapping Apple’s longstanding Sport Band holes to the new Solo Loop sizes. | Continue reading