If you returned from exile on a desert island and took a look at X today for first time in a year, you might reasonably guess that Elon Musk got bored and sold it while you were away. | Continue reading
Hopefully Apple has in mind a solution to this situation that will still enable knowledgeable power users to confirm agreement to a sufficiently scary warning and put their Macs in a state similar to what we have today. I worry. | Continue reading
Apple, in my experience, sticks to a very predictable schedule for review units. | Continue reading
Andru Edwards returns to the show to discuss Apple’s big September event and their new products: the iPhones 18 Pro and Duo, AirPods 5, and Apple Watch Series 12/Ultra 4. Sponsored by: Factor: Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off and one free breakfast item per box for one ye … | Continue reading
I wouldn’t grant a stranger access to my email. So why would I grant a robot? | Continue reading
I don’t know what truck this video fell off the back of, why it took 16 years, or how it came into the hands of “Sir Mix-A-Lot Rare Music”, but I’m sure glad it did. | Continue reading
Is it absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary to make an uninstall utility with an exquisitely detailed 3D laser gun as its UI? Fuckin’-A right it is. | Continue reading
A next-day addition to my iPhones 18 Pro review. | Continue reading
It’s the best version of the most successful product ever made. And yet by nature of *how* the iPhone 18 Pro improved in the last year, it’s not exciting at all. | Continue reading
The keynote, the products, and a new era. | Continue reading
One year later and it feels like both the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air could be announced tomorrow, not a year ago, and would seem fresh and exciting. | Continue reading
SuperDuper feels like impossibly good software. | Continue reading
What we want is a system where geographic names are determined democratically, by voting. And that is the system we in fact have. | Continue reading
It’s sophistry to argue that one can write within a constraint without the constraint affecting the quality of the writing. | Continue reading
It felt like something new and different. Something at least as different from watching on TV as watching on TV is different from merely listening on radio. It’s profound. | Continue reading
I mentioned earlier that for anyone going along with the ruse that Lake Ontario is now named Lake America, the HOMES mnemonic no longer holds, the only two valid words in English with the new five letters are hames and shame, and that hames is rather too obscure. But it’s not so … | Continue reading
If you already read my “What Is the Point of the DMA?” piece yesterday, this morning I added a lengthy footnote regarding the DMA’s predecessor, the GDPR. Click through to read the entire note, but here’s the kicker: The GPDR went into effect 10 years ago. By their inaction, … | Continue reading
Here’s my attempt to put all of the RAM/SSD configurations into condensed tables, so you can see which storage and memory options are available for each chip, and how much they cost. | Continue reading
If you believed that the point of the DMA was to open up competition, choice, and freedom for developers, yeah, I bet it does seem bonkers that the European Commission has signed off on compliance where Apple charges 15 percent commissions on links to the web from apps distribute … | Continue reading
https://daringfireball.net/ | Continue reading
Thanks to the DMA’s sprawling scope, complexity, and overreach, Apple came out of this conceding only 4 percent of the App Store’s 30 percent commission, and no reduction at all to the 15 percent for subscriptions after the first year. | Continue reading
Zac Hall at 9to5Mac, a month ago: Sometimes a small change can make a big impact. That’s especially true for Apple’s latest TestFlight update for users with a lot of pre-release software. Apple just updated TestFlight for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more. The new version, 4.3, intro … | Continue reading
I want the answers that I read to be cogent, lucid, accurate, blessedly terse — and ideally to strike a consistent tone that is pleasant to my reading ear. The genie is not going back in the bottle. | Continue reading
The Savant is a political thriller series starring Jessica Chastain that was supposed to debut a year ago. Apple “postponed” it, apparently out of fear of upsetting extremist right-wing nut jobs because the show is about an undercover investigator (Chastain) hunting down extremis … | Continue reading
The exposed lens covers are made of sapphire, not glass, and are thus incredibly scratch resistant. And even if, somehow, do you pick up a scratch on a lens cover, it almost certainly won’t affect image quality at all. | Continue reading
Chance Miller returns to the show. Topics include iOS 27’s progress over summer, live baseball in Vision Pro, the RAM crisis, Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI and io, and the EU/DMA situation. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a websit … | Continue reading
My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustration that an astrology … | Continue reading
https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/07/browsers-have-standards-the-app.html | Continue reading
A blog post is an unusual way to respond to a high-stakes lawsuit, but OpenAI is an unusual company. A few snippets from their post, and some commentary. | Continue reading
For many years now, part of the co-marketing agreements between Apple and the Big Three is Apple agreeing to require a postpaid account with a Big Three carrier for all “special” iPhone financing deals, including the old iPhone Upgrade Program and the new Apple Upgrade leasing. | Continue reading
Louie Mantia returns to the show to talk about the state of UI and icon design on Apple’s platforms, and some speculation on Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI. Sponsored by: Notion: The collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents work side by side, with a Dev … | Continue reading
Shop like a billionaire. | Continue reading
Putting themselves in customers’ shoes today, how many ads do Apple’s executives want stuck in the results when they search for an app in the App Store? | Continue reading
Ultimately, when you install a content blocker extension, you take responsibility for any overzealousness in what they block. | Continue reading
Quinn Nelson returns to the show to discuss OpenAI’s ChatGPT/Codex “native” app migration fiasco, Siri AI in Apple’s OS 27 betas, MacOS 27 Golden Gate, and the hottest new cell phone of year, the Trump T1. Sponsored by: Notion: Try the powerful, all-in-one Notion AI today. F … | Continue reading
Kirk McElhearn, back in February: I use Apple News to keep up on topics that I don’t find in sources I pay for (The Guardian and The New York Times). But there’s no way I’m going to pay the exorbitant price Apple wants for Apple News+ — £13 — because, while you get more publica … | Continue reading
What the EC is dictating to Google is just breathtaking in scope. | Continue reading
I think maybe John Ternus is more of a “*Hey, what* would *Steve have done here?*” kind of guy. What would Steve Jobs do with this OpenAI situation? He’d go to war. | Continue reading
Remembrances, tributes, and stories. | Continue reading
What gave Tim Cook’s privacy letter heft in 2014 wasn’t just the clarity of its plain language, but the fact that you didn’t have to take his word for it that the ads Apple showed you respected your privacy, because Apple didn’t show you ads in 2014. | Continue reading
App icons in MacOS are not mere buttons. You can drag them, move them, and drop things on them. You click them to select, and double-click to launch. They are richer objects that deserve a richer visual vocabulary. | Continue reading
Shape was often the most iconic thing about an icon. Now it’s no part at all. | Continue reading
Felix Rieseberg, quite obviously, is the answer to the question why Claude is an Electron app. It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out that the guy who oversaw construction founded and co-owns the world’s biggest ham … | Continue reading
Cellular download speed and reception is nearly a solved problem for my needs. Battery life is not. | Continue reading
Following up on my earlier post on Valve’s righteous objection to selling game console hardware at a loss, I should have noted that PlayStation Plus starts at $11/month (and goes up to $20/month) and Xbox Game Pass starts at $10/month (and goes up to $23/month). One draw of these … | Continue reading
The great John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s hardware price hikes in response to the global RAM/SSD shortage, and some spitballing on what we like about the UI changes in the MacOS 27 Golden Gate beta. Sponsored by: Coax: Defeat the tyranny of choice. Cha … | Continue reading
Google no longer collects this information in a way that is susceptible to geofence warrants, and, more importantly, Apple never did. | Continue reading
Sanders’s tweet is better punctuated and capitalized, but it’s the same argument as Trump’s. Zero economic sense, 100 percent ideological wishful thinking. | Continue reading