Matt Richman, back in 2012:
In 2009, Apple sold more iPhones than it did in 2007 and 2008
combined. In 2010, Apple sold more iPhones than it did in 2007,
2008, and 2009 combined. Last year, Apple sold 93.1 million
iPhones, slightly more than it did in 2007, 2008, 2009, a...
Karissa Bell, Engadget:
Several of Meta’s VR studios have been affected by the company’s
metaverse-focused layoffs. The company has shuttered three of its
VR studios, including Armature, Sanzaru and Twisted Pixel. VR
fitness app Supernatural will no longer be updated wit...
Josh Woodward, VP of Gemini and AI Studio, on the Google blog:
The best assistants don’t just know the world; they know you and
help you navigate it. Today, we’re answering a top user request:
you can now personalize Gemini by connecting Google apps with a
single tap. La...
Jacob Krol, reporting for Techradar:
While Verizon had a good few months, with the last major outage
occurring in October 2024, it seems that the popular
United States wireless carrier is having some issues. So, if
you’re on Verizon and seeing ‘SOS’ in place of network b...
The letter speaks for itself, and is very much worth reading in full. I’ll quote only from the conclusion, which rhetorically feels very Bill:
Continue to mislead Americans about what is truly at stake, and
you will learn that Americans are better at finding the truth th...
Daniele Lepido and Antonio Vanuzzo, reporting for Bloomberg (paywalled, alas):
Meta Platforms Inc. and EssilorLuxottica SA are discussing
potentially doubling production capacity for AI-powered smart
glasses by the end of this year, in a bid to capture growing
demand and...
Apple Newsroom:
Apple today unveiled Apple Creator Studio, a groundbreaking
collection of powerful creative apps designed to put studio-grade
power into the hands of everyone, building on the essential role
Mac, iPad, and iPhone play in the lives of millions of creators
...
Sarah Perez, writing at TechCrunch:
“We’ve structured this entire business around being a sustainable,
profitable, and hopefully, long-running enterprise, but not a
startup,” Migicovsky told TechCrunch on the sidelines of the
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last w...
Here’s an illustrated follow-up regarding the absurdity of MacOS 26’s “looks like they’re rounded off like a child’s toy but actually they’re still rectangles with corners” windows. If you turn on always-visible scroll bars (which you should) and scroll to the bottom, they look like this:
(That’s Safari, which I think is a somewhat popular app.)
It would make more sense if we found out that the team behind redesigning the UI for MacOS 26 Tahoe was hired by Meta a year ago and deliberately sabotaged their work to make the Mac look clownish and amateur.
Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks.
WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect services like GitHub, Slack, Google, Salesforce, and other supported providers through a drop-in widget. Your backend requests a valid access token from the Pipes API when needed, while Pipes handles credential storage and token refresh.
Eddy Cue, in a rare bylined post on Apple Newsroom:
The numbers reflect the incredible enthusiasm of our customers,
whether it’s downloading an exciting new app or game, watching the
hottest new show with family and friends, listening to their
favorite songs, or shopping...
CNBC:
The multi-year partnership will lean on Google’s Gemini and cloud
technology for future Apple foundational models, according to a
joint statement obtained by CNBC’s Jim Cramer.
“After careful evaluation, we determined that Google’s technology
provides the most cap...
Norbert Heger, with a perfectly illustrated post, “The Struggle of Resizing Windows on macOS Tahoe”:
Since upgrading to macOS Tahoe, I’ve noticed that quite often
my attempts to resize a window are failing. This never happened
to me before in almost 40 years of using com...
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts), and Ben Ray Luján (D-New Mexico), in a letter addressed to Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai:
Your app stores’ policies are clear. Google’s terms of service
require apps to “prohibit users from creating, uploading...
My thanks to Copilot Money for sponsoring last week at DF. Copilot is a personal finance app for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and they’ve always deeply believed in the value of embracing the design idioms and technical features of truly native apps for Apple platforms. Apple h...
Elizabeth Lopatto, writing at The Verge, “Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards”:
Since X’s users started using Grok to undress women and
children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for
what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple’s
and Google...
Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic (gift link), on the fifth anniversary of the January 6 insurrection and the first year of the second Trump presidency:
We have been watching indecency triumph in the public sphere on
and off for more than 10 years now, since the moment Trump
insulted John McCain’s war record. For reasons that are quite
possibly too unbearable to contemplate, a large group of American
voters was not repulsed by such slander — they were actually
aroused by it — and our politics have not been the same. Much has
been said, including by me, about Trump’s narcissism, his
autocratic inclinations, his disconnection from reality, but not
nearly enough has been said about his fundamental indecency, the
characteristic that undergirds everything he says and does.
Ben Cohen, writing last week for The Wall Street Journal (gift link):
One rainy day 40 years ago, Moylan was headed to a meeting across
Ford’s campus and hopped in a company car. When he saw the fuel
tank was nearly empty, he stopped at a gas pump. What happened
next is ...
Kalley Huang and Tripp Mickle, writing for The New York Times (gift link):
Threading the needle between adding new bells and whistles to
Apple’s products while watching the bottom line has defined the
careful, low-profile style of Mr. Ternus, who joined Apple in
2001. He...
Apple Newsroom:
Today, Apple and Chase announced that Chase will become the new
issuer of Apple Card, with an expected transition in approximately
24 months.
Apple Card users can continue to enjoy the award-winning
experience of Apple Card, which includes up to 3 percen...
Taking photographs and video of things that are plainly visible in
public spaces is a constitutional right — and that includes
police and other government officials carrying out their duties.
However, there is a widespread, continuing pattern of law
enforcement officers ordering people to stop taking photographs or
video in public places and harassing, detaining, and arresting
those who fail to comply.
Here’s their advice on what to say and do if you are stopped or detained for taking photographs or video.
Also, as good a time as ever for one of my periodic reminders to remember how to hard-lock your iPhone to temporarily disable Face ID: press and hold the side button and either one of the volume buttons at the same time for a few seconds.
Caroline Haskins, writing for Wired (News+ link, in case Wired’s paywall blocks you):
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is being used to flood X with
thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent
minors wearing minimal clothing. Some of this content appears to
not only...
The New York Times has frame-by-frame analysis, from three angles, of the murder of 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis yesterday. She was shot to death by a still-unnamed mask-wearing ICE agent Jonathan Ross, with what was obviously no justification. The shooting is, just...
This 2021 post from Jason Fried is a good chaser to his “The Big Regression” this week (which I linked to yesterday):
Much of the tension in product development and interface design
comes from trying to balance the obvious, the easy, and the
possible. Figuring out which ...
Howard Oakley, writing at The Eclectic Light Company
macOS Tahoe’s visual interface:
Fits largely rectangular contents into windows with excessively
rounded corners.
Enlarges controls without any functional benefit.
Results in app icons being more uniform, thus less
di...
Jim Nielsen:
It’s extra noise to me. It’s not that I think menu items should
never have icons. I think they can be incredibly useful (more on
that below). It’s more that I don’t like the idea of “give each
menu item an icon” being the default approach.
This posture lend...
Jason Fried:
My folks are in town visiting us for a couple months so we rented
them a house nearby.
It’s new construction. No one has lived in it yet. It’s amped up
with state of the art systems. You know, the ones with
touchscreens of various sizes, IoT appliances, and...
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