The keynote for Apple’s developer conference was held yesterday. Much of it involved Apple executives hyping Apple’s “delightful and elegant new software design”. In short, it’s like Windows Vista, visionOS and the interfaces in Minority Report had a baby. As I explain in a colum … | Continue reading
iCloud Photos sync is a joke. So my Stuff column this week is: All I want from WWDC25 is for iOS 26 and iCloud to finally sync my photos properly. Although after I wrote this, I discovered Apple Music had eaten half of one of my uploaded digital-only albums. And that iCloud Drive … | Continue reading
Apple is reportedly working on an Apple Games app. But we’ve all played this game before, and I’m not sure it warrants an extra life. So over at Stuff, my column this week is ‘What I think the Apple Games app needs to work – and why it won’t’. Arc browser is dead. A blog post out … | Continue reading
“I almost threw out all my old USB cables. This week proved why I never should” is this week’s Stuff column. It was based on (or inspired/horrified by) sagely thoughts from Tom Berry and Ian Dunt, which I duly ignored. For reasons. Judging by the Bluesky discussions, Team Cables … | Continue reading
What should new Apple leadership do? That’s the question posed in Apple Turnaround by John Siracusa, which explores a new deal for developers, better software reliability, and harder paths to growth. It’s a great post, and the developer side of things especially gets me. I rememb … | Continue reading