One more from Jason Snell, from his analysis of Apple’s quarterly results:
During a complicated question from J.P. Morgan analyst Samik
Chatterjee about product margins, Parekh unusually half-answered
the question and then stopped and “turned it over to Tim” so that
Cook...
MG Siegler returns to the show to discuss Apple’s announcement that Tim Cook is stepping aside (into the role of executive chairman) and John Ternus will become CEO.
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Uwa Ede-Osifo, reporting for The Guardian:
On any given day, Los Angeles’s Hollywood Boulevard teems with
tourists and street performers clustered near the area’s many
landmarks. But in recent months, the strip has been set abuzz for
a new reason.
Throngs of mostly adol...
Apple Newsroom:
“Today Apple is proud to report our best March quarter ever, with
revenue of $111.2 billion and double-digit growth across every
geographic segment,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “iPhone achieved
a March quarter revenue record, fueled by such extraordinary...
Juli Clover, writing at MacRumors under the rather incendiary headline “Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop”:
Apple has all but given up on the Vision Pro after the M5 model
failed to revitalize interest in the device, MacRumors has
learned. Apple ...
600 words from Hartley Charlton at MacRumors expounding upon a wacko post on Weibo suggesting that Apple is debating dropping MagSafe from all iPhones (which post, translated to English, is only 70-some words). Given that last year’s 16e didn’t have MagSafe and this year’s 17e does, you don’t need a pseudonymous Chinese weatherman to know which way the MagSafe wind is blowing in Cupertino.
Max Harrison-Caldwell, reporting for The San Francisco Standard:
In 2024, the port — which manages the Oakland airport — changed
the name from Oakland International Airport to San Francisco Bay
Oakland International Airport, hoping to entice travelers by
emphasizing the ...
Elizabeth Lopatto, reporting on Musk v. Altman from the courtroom in Oakland (gift link):
Today the first witness was sworn in in Musk v. Altman: Elon
Musk. I was surprised by how flat he seemed.
This is not the first time I’ve seen Musk in court. During his
defamation ...
Matteo Wong, covering Musk v. Altman for The Atlantic (gift link):
Musk is asking that Altman be removed from OpenAI’s board, that
the company convert back to a nonprofit, and for the return of
allegedly “ill-gotten gains” — some $150 billion — which Musk
says would go t...
Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times from the Ronald V. Dellums U.S. Courthouse in Oakland (gift link):
On the first day of testimony in a landmark trial between Elon
Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, two notably different tales were
offered of how Open...
Jer Crane, in an article earlier this week posted on Twitter/X:
I’m Jer Crane, founder of PocketOS. We build software that
rental businesses — primarily car rental operators — use to
run their entire operations: reservations, payments, customer
management, vehicle tracki...
Every B2B company hits the same inflection point — enterprise customers show up and they need SSO, directory sync, audit logs, and role-based access before they’ll move forward. Most teams lose months building that infrastructure. It doesn’t have to be that way.
With WorkOS you get all of it. One platform for auth, identity, and security. Infrastructure for teams that ship fast and stay fast.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Perplexity already chose WorkOS over building it themselves.
My thanks to Rec League for sponsoring last week at DF. Rec League is a new app/social network for sharing what you’re into. (Get it? The “rec” in “Rec League” is for recommendations. It’s a damn clever name, and sometimes a clever name is half the battle.) It’s really well ...
Weekly “sponsor the whole week at DF” spots are sold out until August 24. That’s a great sign that sponsorships here work. But it’s not so great if you have a product or service that you’d like to promote now, or soon, to the DF audience — savvy listeners and readers obsessed with high quality and good design.
The good news on that front is that the sponsorship schedule for The Talk Show has openings, including for the next few episodes, starting this week and into next month. The general rule of thumb is that sponsorship spots on The Talk Show cost one-third the rate for the weekly spots on DF. I’m happy to work out deals a little lower than that for first-time sponsors. If you’ve got a product or service you’d like to hear pitched on America’s favorite three-star podcast, get in touch.
On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay are
joined by Daring Fireball’s John Gruber to talk about their
reactions to the news, the (mostly) smooth transition Apple
seems to have pulled off, and what we should really make of Tim
Cook’s legacy as a product person. Really, the question is:
Do we blame Cook for the Touch Bar, or do we blame him for not
trying hard enough to make the Touch Bar great?
I know that sounds like a joke but I really do think the biggest problem with the Touch Bar wasn’t that the first crack at it wasn’t good enough, but that they never took a second crack at it. Going back to dumb fiddly F-keys with functional icons printed on them was uncharacteristically lazy for Apple.
The New York Times PR account, on Twitter/X a week ago:
Sunday’s crossword puzzle in the print edition of The New York
Times Magazine contains a grid that does not match the clues. The
correct version of the puzzle can be found in the news section of
Sunday’s print editi...
[Update: The store is now closed. Thanks to everyone who ordered — you should start getting shipping notices very soon.]
It’s really just a coincidence, but it was 20 years ago this week that I went full-time writing Daring Fireball (after writing the site in my spare time ...
Ben Schoon, 9to5Google:
In March, a report revealed some of the internal cuts
Samsung has been making for its mobile division, with the company
initially concerned it could post an operating loss for the first
time ever. It’s a big deal, as Samsung’s mobile (MX) division...
In May 2024, Bloomberg ran a feature story by Mark Gurman under the headline, “Tim Cook Can’t Run Apple Forever. Who’s Next?” The subhead: “John Ternus, the head of hardware engineering, is emerging as a potential successor to the CEO.” The nut grafs from that piece:
The...
The Norwegian Maritime Authority:
If you were born in 1980 or later and plan to operate a
recreational craft of more than 8 metres in length or with an
engine power of more than 25 hp, you need a boating licence. The
boating licence is a certificate permitting you to ope...
George Lucas got so many nuances right in Star Wars. Little touches that said so much. One of the most overlooked is a moment that I vividly remember from first seeing it, on the big screen, as a kindergartener or thereabouts. It’s during the scene where Luke enters the Mos ...
Andy McMillan and Andy Baio:
Today, over 10 years later, and almost two full years after we
retired the festival for good, we’re finally launching that
website. Named after what we thought would be a throwaway title
for a short-lived GitHub repo, allow us to introduce XO...
Eva Corlett, reporting for The Guardian in 2023:
New Zealand’s new government will scrap the country’s
world-leading law to ban smoking for future generations to help
pay for tax cuts — a move that public health officials believe
will cost thousands of lives and be “cata...
Ephrat Livni, reporting for The New York Times (gift link):
Britain aims to raise a “smoke-free generation” by permanently
banning the sale or supply of tobacco to anyone born in 2009 or
after, with a bill that was approved by Parliament on Tuesday.
The bill applies to ...
Russ Choma, reporting for Mother Jones:
Devin Nunes was not an obvious choice to run a fledgling social
media network, but after $1.1 billion in losses, the former dairy
farmer and congressman is out as the head of Truth Social.
Donald Trump Jr., a board member at Trump...
Nilay Patel, in a terrific essay (and Decoder one-sider) at The Verge:
In fact, the polling on this is so strong, I think it’s fair to
say that a lot of people hate AI, and that Gen Z in particular
seems to hate AI more and more as they encounter it. There’s
that NBC New...
On September 1 I’ll join the elite club (members Steve Wozniak,
Steve Jobs, Mike Markkula, and Bill Fernandez) who have worked
under a number of Apple CEOs ≥ our employee number:
Tom Warren, The Verge (gift link):
“Many of these employees have spent years, and in some cases,
decades, shaping Microsoft into what it is today,” says
Microsoft’s HR chief Amy Coleman in a memo seen by The Verge. “For
those who may be considering their next chapter, we...
Rachel Metz, reporting for Bloomberg:
A small group of unauthorized users have accessed Anthropic PBC’s
new Mythos AI model, a technology that the company says is so
powerful it can enable dangerous cyberattacks, according to a
person familiar with the matter and documen...
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