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If the future is more agents and fewer traditional apps, it’s a threat to the App Store business, so Apple will resist it. The company that was willing to obsolete its own product (the iPod) to make a great phone… That company doesn’t exist anymore.

Ben Thompson writing about how the future will be on-demand UIs and agents that bypass needing an app at all:

…no one wants to use apps because they are apps, apps were just the vehicle for people to accomplish something or entertain themselves; once people realize they can get straight to the job to be done it will seem odd they did it any other way.

This is why Muse’s mission statement marks a pivotal moment. It might even be dangerous for the web, handing more centralized power to Meta.

The iPad update to Epilogue that I blogged about this weekend is now available. Apple review time: 22 hours. Not bad, except… Google review: 30 minutes.

Whichever way you cut it, you cannot be an AI artist.

Lex Friedman has a blog post about how broken the App Store review process is. He summarizes a few of the long-standing issues and a potential solution to at least whitelist trusted apps:

Apple’s “guilty until proven innocent” policy is offensive to the developers it claims to embrace.

Over the past few years, I spent way more time than I probably should have thinking about my life. And the way I usually look at it is by asking two fundamental questions. The first question is “do I want to have a life?”. You might think this is a silly question to even ask...

The radiant red leaves, the yellow and brown leaves, the feeling of the cold in my hands and in my cheeks.

Leaf-coated pavements. The world, painted with colour.

Music plays. Air breathes. Momentum dances.

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red, amber, green; leaves, lights.

When I opened the window this morning, I was greeted by a white and grey disk, the grey blending into the light blue of the surrounding skies. Clear as Day, and full, the morning moon made me feel a little bit of awe. Wow. When I went to bed last night, the moonlight cast be...

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John Gruber followed up about Alexandr Wang’s Muse post on X:

Wang wrote that Muse “Clears the way and solves all the problems it can until the human part, the wanting and the dreaming, is all that’s left.” That’s dystopic, not utopic. It’s the actual creation and doing of things that makes life worthwhile — not just wanting and dreaming about it.

I read Alexandr’s post as wanting to give people more time to do the work that matters, not the busywork. That vision for AI sounds good, but it doesn’t convince me to use Muse specifically. I’m worried about delegating so much power to Meta.

Crazy last few minutes of Ravens / Cowboys. 1 second! Sigh. 🏈

The bottom line is that tech companies have rarely understood that developers can be major influencers. We give a platform new meaning. It's a good deal to invest in the people doing the work, who often are doing it for love more than money. That grew into the blogosphere. There was no telling where Frontier would take us, and it would have cost them so little to help insure it had a future, but the did the opposite.

When I published Sunset this evening, I saw the post in my web reader, Artemis, and realised that the title was not what I expected. I clicked through to the blog post and realised I had put the title in the “category” field rather than the “title” field. This meant there wa...

Glistening over the hills in the immediate distance, the rainbow made me first pause for breath, then pause for thought.This is the first time in months I have seen a rainbow. I am looking at the spectrum of every visible colour. I followed the rainbow for as long as I could...

Dario Amodei will have a private dinner with Trump tonight, according to Axios:

Months ago, when Anthropic first started talking about having a one-on-one with Trump, some advised against it because “Dario’s a little too weird” for Trump, one senior official told Axios.

This is gonna be awkward.

As I go through porting Frontier, there's a sad note. What if Apple had made it a goal that Frontier move along with their OS. That it was a unique advantage of the Mac and should be promoted as such. Don't laugh, because Apple did do that for ThinkTank and MORE. We spent a ...