Nicole Nguyen (also with a 5-minute video), writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link):
Every time I used the Duo in phone mode, one-handed, I felt its
heft. It’s wider and thicker than a Pro iPhone — and heavier,
even compared with competing foldables. My hand actu...
Aditya Soni, Christine Chen, and Will Russell, reporting Friday for Reuters:
CEO Ternus played greeter at a store in Austin, Texas, throwing
open the doors and high-fiving customers as they streamed in, a
video posted on X by CBS Austin showed. A known car enthusiast,
T...
Jay Peters, The Verge:
The iPhone Duo officially goes on sale today, but a few units
already have broken screens. According to posts on Reddit about
the affected units, the issue appears to be happening at a similar
spot on all of them: Some kind of problem shows up on the inner
screen along the hinge and a strange bright line (or lines) across
the right side of the display.
This crack problem doesn’t seem to be widespread, but it’s seemingly more than a handful.
Marques Brownlee thinks the lack of Face ID will be the biggest gripe. I agree. And I love his central framing for the review: that the Duo is extremely polished around the edges (figuratively, but also true literally) but rough in the middle.
But he spends more time gripin...
I hadn’t heard of Tim Pan or Mediastorm until running across his 24-minute video review of the Duo. It’s a good and fair review, but what struck me are the rather astonishing production values. Amongst other things, they stress-tested the hinge with an industrial robot by op...
It seems like this amazing Easter egg only launched yesterday, to celebrate the original iPod’s 25th anniversary. Exquisitely well done. More like this, please.
Chan Karunamuni, human interface designer at Apple, on X:
iPhone Duo is here! Excited to have worked on the design of our
open/close transition. It’s designed to make the two displays feel
like one seamless experience by perceptually bending the focal
plane, not the cont...
Nilay Patel and Allison Johnson (also: 26-minute video review on YouTube):
This means almost every time you open the phone you instinctively
rotate it, and while it will work no matter how it’s rotated, it’s
better to rotate it counterclockwise so the cameras are on top ...
Joanna Stern’s video review packs a ton into 16 minutes. She commissioned a custom robot to fold/unfold the thing over 32,000 times in a week, to see if it loosened the hinge. (I won’t spoil the answer.) She took it on a yacht on the Hudson. She took it to a dark bar to test the cameras. And she really, really missed Face ID. I don’t know how she makes these videos in just a week, along with all the actual testing. So good.
We rank our complaints (and praise) in different order, but overall her take jibes with mine on every single point. You can read a version of her review, too, if you’re a subscriber to The New Things, which you should be.
Apple Newsroom:
New editorial collections for iPhone Duo apps and games will go
live on the App Store this Friday, with additional app updates
rolling out throughout the year. Apps optimized for iPhone Duo are
easy to identify with a Made for iPhone Duo badge on product ...
Nothing major, but since publishing at 7:00pm last night, I’ve made a few additions and changes to my iPhone Duo review. I’m calling them out here, so that if you’ve already read it, you can see the changes. If I make more, I’ll add them to the top.
Regarding the camera, ad...
It’s been a lot of fun trying the Duo out for a week, but it feels like I’ve gotten to use an extraordinarily polished prototype — not a finished product that I’d want to buy and carry.
All your B2B customer data. In that nice California sunnn. Early access now!
Barack Obama, in a 430-word essay:
It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government
can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their
political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the
Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoma...
Back in 2022, I quoted from an interesting post by Ben Schlappig at One Mile at a Time, where he wrote:
I’ve had the opportunity to interact with quite a few senior
airline executives over the years, and I find that their knowledge
about competitors is typically one extr...
Greg Joswiak, on X:
Can’t wait to pro and tell next week.
Juli Clover, MacRumors:
Rumors suggest Apple is planning to debut the new MacBook Pro with
an OLED touchscreen display, an M6 entry-level MacBook Pro, an M6
iMac, an iPad mini with an OLED display.
No one should mistake my audience as representative of the general public in any poll, but I bet my audience is at least ballpark representative of the general public when it comes to something like pre-ordering, at the crack of dawn, a new iPhone form factor that costs $2000 to $3200.
Anthony D’Alessandro, reporting for Deadline:
Dan Lin is out as film boss at Netflix in a move that has been
largely speculated for weeks. Insiders at the streamer have denied
that Lin and even Bela Bajaria were on the chopping block, but
here we are.
Lin is meeting wit...
Fred Potter, on LinkedIn:
So if you ever meet someone who tells you, “At Apple, I’m the one
who did this,” take it with a grain of salt. They were probably
part of the team that made it happen, and that’s already something
to be proud of.
Sometimes, when the final product finally comes out, you can
recognize a few of the personal touches you contributed along the
way. And that, in itself, is immensely rewarding.
Wishing HomeView every success!
Potter’s LinkedIn bio lists his time at Apple as July 2021 through June 2024, and describes it only as “Worked on HomeView”. (Via Christophe Laporte at iGeneration.)
Joe Flint and Jessica Toonkel, reporting for The Wall Street Journal last week:
Netflix is cutting 6% of its staff, or roughly 1,000 positions
globally, its biggest round of layoffs since 2022, as it struggles
with slowing growth and customer engagement. Co-Chief Executi...
Andrew Chow, writing for Time:
Just below the broad smile he’s been wearing all morning, John
Ternus’ hands are shaking.
On this September day in Silicon Valley, Apple’s new CEO is
surrounded by celebrities, tech enthusiasts, and reporters who
have flocked to Apple Park...
Ruben Bolling’s long-running Tom the Dancing Bug is one of my favorite comic strips. I’ve been a huge fan since the early 1990s, when I started reading it in alternative newspapers. (Newspapers were sort of like websites, excepted they were printed daily or weekly. I swear.)...
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Verizon, in a post headlined “Switch to Verizon and Get the New iPhone Duo Now. No Trade-In Needed.”:
Verizon will support iPhone Handoff, giving customers the
flexibility to use a single Verizon phone number seamlessly
across two compatible iPhone models. Whether using ...
Mark Gurman, today, in his weekly Power On column for Bloomberg (gift link):
Without a serviceable version of the new assistant, Apple couldn’t
deliver the experience it had envisioned. That left the hardware
ready to go, but the software nowhere near finished.
So Apple...
Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, reporting, wrongly, for The Information in January this year (paywalled; here’s MacRumors’s summary)
Apple’s pin joins a growing portfolio of AI-powered products the
tech giant has under development, including AirPods equipped with
enhanced senso...
The Financial Times:
Apple had originally promised delivery of the Duo by October 23,
but within hours of orders opening, delivery times through Apple’s
website had slipped into late January. US mobile carriers also saw
delivery times for new orders pushed back.
“The pr...
Manton Reece:
All I can come up with is that Apple doesn’t want you to buy the
wall-mounted version unless you’re really sure that’s what you
need. If the wall-mounted version was cheaper, some people might
buy it based on price, then be unhappy because it’s too much
trouble to install.
Oh, that clicks for me.
I do see some political content in my feed on X. For example, this extraordinary video posted by Abdul El-Sayed, who seems poised to become the next junior senator from Michigan. You should watch it. It’s so good you might suspect the questioner was a plant, but in fact, he ...
Stephen Nellis and Deepa Seetharaman, reporting Wednesday for Reuters:
An OpenAI employee who left the ChatGPT maker for Apple sent
more than 100 files about an unreleased product to a personal
account and later made a presentation about the unreleased product
to senior...
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