Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up

Link to: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1182348757360234497 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Correction: Regarding an Erroneous Allegation in ‘Richard Stallman’s Disgrace’

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


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Apple Releases macOS 10.15 'Catalina'

Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/07/apple-releases-macos-catalina/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Newspaper.com

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@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Apple and Hong Kong

Everything related to the App Store approval process that might be perceived as kowtowing to China should receive the utmost scrutiny. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Gruber: Apple and Hong Kong

Everything related to the App Store approval process that might be perceived as kowtowing to China should receive the utmost scrutiny. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Bloomberg Promotes Michael Riley, Co-Reporter of Last Year’s the Big Hack Story

Link to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/17/bloomberg-reporter-challenged-big-hack-story-gets-promoted/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Richard Stallman’s Disgrace

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


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

iOS 13 Autocorrect Is Drunk

Anecdotally, at least, iOS 13 autocorrect is making inexplicable mistakes. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

The iPhone 11 and iPhones 11 Pro

It’s an impressive year-over-year camera improvement one year after an impressive year-over-year camera improvement. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Let’s Go Further and Hope for All the Joy to Be Drained from the World

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


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

‘It’s Over. It’s over for Apple.’

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/kramer-capital-researchs-hilary-kramer-212848057.html | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Google-Owned Crashlytics Is Using Custom Fonts to Track Users

Link to: https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1172200578207772672 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Brief Thoughts and Observations on Yesterday’s Apple Event

Apple Arcade, TV+, Apple Watch Series 5, and the iPhones 11. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

On the rumored follow-on to the iPhone SE

Link to: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-05/apple-working-on-in-display-fingerprint-id-for-future-iphones | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

On Apple Using 'Pro' Moniker on iPhone

My prediction for new iPhone names next week: iPhone 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro Max. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Basecamp Didn't Want to Run This Ad

Link to: https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1168986962704982016 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

NetNewsWire 5.0

Link to: https://inessential.com/2019/08/26/netnewswire_5_0_now_available | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Filmmaker Mode (a.k.a. Death to Motion Smoothing)

Link to: https://www.experienceuhd.com/filmmakermode | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

The Talk Show with John Gruber

Link to: https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2019/08/28/ep-261 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

John Gruber on Apple Card “aimed at keeping you locked into your iPhone”

Link to: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/nicolenguyen/apple-card-with-lost-misplaced-or-stolen-iphone | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Siri, Privacy, and Trust

We should expect Apple to lead the industry on this front, but in fact, they’re far behind. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

‘Fast Software, the Best Software’

Link to: https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Superhuman and Email Privacy

Read receipts should be under the control of the recipient, not the sender. Full stop. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

John Gruber: On Bill Gates’s ‘Greatest Mistake Ever’

If losing the mobile market to Android was Gates’s biggest mistake, you can argue it started when he agreed to support Apple and the Mac in 1997. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Ben Thompson (Stratechery) Talks about Jony Ive’s Departure from Apple. [audio]

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@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

FTC Approves Roughly $5B Facebook Settlement

Link to: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftc-approves-roughly-5-billion-facebook-settlement-11562960538 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Gruber on Zoom

Link to: https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/zoom-zero-day-4-million-webcams-maybe-an-rce-just-get-them-to-visit-your-website-ac75c83f4ef5 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Xiaomi uses Apple video to advertise its rip-off ‘mimoji’ phone

Link to: https://www.caixinglobal.com/2019-07-05/xiaomi-accidentally-uses-apple-video-to-advertise-controversial-mimoji-phone-101436026.html | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple

I don’t worry that Apple is in trouble because Jony Ive is leaving; I worry that Apple is in trouble because he’s not being replaced. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple

I don’t worry that Apple is in trouble because Jony Ive is leaving; I worry that Apple is in trouble because he’s not being replaced. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

The Talk Show: 'Zap the PRAM' ↦

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@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

The Future of the Mac in an iOS World

It’s the heaviness of the Mac that allows iOS to remain light. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Guardian Firewall for iOS

Link to: https://guardianapp.com/blog/2019/06/introducing-guardian-firewall-for-ios/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Genius Catches Google Copying Song Lyrics

Link to: https://www.wsj.com/articles/lyrics-site-genius-com-accuses-google-of-lifting-its-content-11560677400 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

The New Dropbox Sucks

Link to: https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product-tips/new-dropbox | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

The Talk Show Live from WWDC 2019, with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak

Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theater in San Jose on Tuesday 4 June 2019, John Gruber is joined by Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak to discuss the news from WWDC 2019. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

The Talk Show: Cabel Sasser, Steven Frank, and Greg Maletic from Panic

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@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

$99 is not nothing

Link to: https://www.apple.com/ios/app-store/principles-practices/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Playdate

“We wanted this thing to come out of nowhere, fully formed, and just blow everybody’s minds.” — Cabel Sasser | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Speed Bumps for the MacBook Pro Lineup, and a Tweak to the Butterfly Keyboard

Regular speed bumps are a very strong sign that their eye is back on the ball, especially in the pro market, where artists, video pros, developers, and scientists really can use every CPU and GPU cycle they can get. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Facebook’s Creepy Data Sharing with Phone Carriers

Link to: https://theintercept.com/2019/05/20/facebook-data-phone-carriers-ads-credit-score/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Bloomberg Shits the Bed Again on Cybersecurity

It boggles the mind that this was written and edited by sentient humans, and that they’ve spent two days slowly decreasing the asininity of the headline instead of just doing what obviously ought to be done and retracting the whole piece. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

I’d rather retire from using computers than use Windows 10 —John Gruber

Link to: https://twitter.com/catovitch/status/1079489087680086016 | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

Tim Cook and Luca Maestri on Intel

Link to: https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/04/this-is-tim-transcript-of-apples-q2-2019-call-with-analysts/ | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

John Gruber – “These keyboards are the biggest mistake in Apple’s history”

Link to: https://theoutline.com/post/7315/apple-keyboards-still-suck-insanely-bad | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

All Podcasts Are Shows; Not All Shows Are Podcasts

So is a podcast a “podcast” if it only works in one app? I’m going to say no. | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago

The Drumbeat of Impeachment

If Democrats impeach, make their case solemnly, soberly, and honestly, and Trump survives in the Senate, then it’s all on one party, the Republicans. If they do not impeach, history will judge that Trump survived due to the cowardice and corruption of Congress as a whole, Democra … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 5 years ago