The Galaxy Fold saga is not a funny story about a $2,000 gadget that didn’t work. It’s a sign of deep disfunction within Samsung, one of the biggest companies in the world. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.businessinsider.in/Facebook-says-it-unintentionally-uploaded-1-5-million-peoples-email-contacts-without-their-consent/articleshow/68930320.cms | Continue reading
Now is the time that fundamental early decisions for those 2020 iPhones need to be made, and it seems painfully clear that Apple determined they could not count on Intel. | Continue reading
Link to: https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-modem-statement/ | Continue reading
If this sheet were part of a student’s assignment in an intro to Mac programming class, a good teacher would send it back and explain how to make a sheet resizable, how to make text selectable (and thus copy-able), and how to make URLs clickable. | Continue reading
Link to: https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-macbook-keyboard-fiasco-is-surely-worse-than-apple-thinks/ | Continue reading
The whole TV Plus segment felt like a presentation from another company, like Google or Amazon, not Apple. | Continue reading
If Apple’s going to spend billions on exclusive TV and movie content, why not spend money on exclusive games as well? | Continue reading
If you want a device that is bigger than a phone, but smaller and more holdable than a laptop-screen-sized thing for reading and just walking around with, the iPad Mini is it. | Continue reading
The new iPad Air isn’t based on the old iPad Air — it’s an update to the 10.5-inch iPad Pro. And the new Mini is really just a smaller version of the new iPad Air. | Continue reading
There is something fundamentally wrong with a platform that — while operating exactly as designed — requires thousands of employees to crush their own souls. | Continue reading
Samsung introduced five new phones today at a big show at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco (in addition to the gimmicky Galaxy Fold): the S10 (6.1"), S10 Plus (6.4"), S10E (5.8"), and S10 5G (a whopping 6.7") — and the Galaxy Fold. | Continue reading
My grades and comments on Apple’s 2018. | Continue reading
The problem isn’t your camera, it’s malware. Don’t install any software from unknown or sketchy sources, keep your OS up to date, and you should be fine. And if you do have malware on your Mac, the webcam is likely the least of your problems. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/21/apple-tv-dongle-possible/ | Continue reading
Third-party extensions could be exasperating, yes, but they could also be amazing and just plain fun in ways that aren’t possible today. | Continue reading
Link to: http://time.com/collection/davos-2019/5502591/tim-cook-data-privacy/ | Continue reading
I think what has Cook spooked is not the drop in iPhone sales, but the fact that the iPhone sales drop in China might be a *symptom* of a bigger problem. An effect, not the cause. | Continue reading
Link to: https://slackhq.com/say-hello-new-logo | Continue reading
If I worked on Slack’s marketing team and Pentagram showed me these proposals, I’d look around the room for hidden cameras, presuming that I was being pranked. | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.wsj.com/articles/polaroid-walkman-palm-pilot-iphone-11547208002 | Continue reading
Link to: https://mondaynote.com/apple-q1-numbers-missing-explanations-4909d5e1f721 | Continue reading
Link to: https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure-skin-cancer-science | Continue reading
Don’t fear the regex. | Continue reading
Something like this is desperately needed as a standard interface element on iPad, and I think could work on iPhone too. | Continue reading
Link to: https://twitter.com/cremnob/status/1080700390713278464 | Continue reading
Apple can make the rules — it’s their platform. But it’s just wrong that one of the rules is that apps aren’t allowed to explain the rules to users. | Continue reading
What people took away from his letter and TV appearance today is that the iPhone laid a turd last quarter. Properly delivered, the takeaway should have been that China is crazy but the iPhone is still kicking the shit out of the entire rest of the handset industry and is only pul … | Continue reading
The last time Apple issued an earnings warning was in July 2002 — which is so long ago that it predates the launch of Daring Fireball by a few weeks. | Continue reading
The last time Apple issued an earnings warning was in July 2002 — which is so long ago that it predates the launch of Daring Fireball by a few weeks. | Continue reading
Using AppleScript get new tabs to open next to the current tab in Safari for Mac. | Continue reading
The biggest threat to the Mac isn’t iPads, Chromebooks, or Windows 2-in-1’s — it’s apathy towards what makes great Mac apps great. | Continue reading
Link to: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/microsoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-collaboration/ | Continue reading
https://twitter.com/gruber/status/1070699684665192449 | Continue reading
Imagine going back in time to tell a MacPaint user in 1985 that they’d have to learn how to use Undo in an Apple-award-winning paint app in 2018. That’s where we are. | Continue reading
If it’s true that iPhone XR sales are slower than Apple expected — a big “if” at this point, given that only Apple has hard data — I think some part of it could be explained by Apple underestimating, even if only to a relatively small degree, how many iPhone owners are turned off … | Continue reading
It’s small consolation to those of us looking for high-quality third-party USB-C to Lightning cables today, but it does sound like they’ll start appearing in the second quarter of 2019. | Continue reading