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October 2026
- Sponsorship Openings for Daring Fireball (Including The Talk Show)
- ★ MacBook Pro Pricing and Configurations for M6, M5 Pro, and M5 Max
- The Only Good Easter Eggs Are Whole-Assed Easter Eggs
- GM to Pay $220 Million After Betraying Their Own Drivers’ Privacy
- Patrick Stewart Dies at 86
- Apple Drops App Store Commission by a Whopping 4 Percentage Points in Taiwan
- A Health Update From Craig Hockenberry
- Rolfe Winkler at The WSJ: ‘The Beleaguered Chip Sellers Getting Their Revenge on Apple’
- The Space Shuttle Discovery’s Starboard Side ‘s’ Is Upside Down
- Steven Levy on the New MacBook Pro, With, Yes, a Touchscreen
- Guessing the Name: MacBook Studio?
- Siri AI Expands to More Languages in OS 27.2
- Apple Creator Studio Updated With a Slew of AI Features, Along With a New Open JSON File Format for Keynote
- ★ Prestructured WYSIWYG
- What’s Left for ‘Pro and Tell’ Week: Touch-Enabled OLED MacBooks
- Apple Also Announces iMac With M6
- [Sponsor] WorkOS: Let Agents Sign Up for Your App Without a Browser
- Apple Introduces New Base MacBook Pro With M6, 14-Inch-Only
- The NYT Seemingly Does Marissa Mayer Dirty
- Apple Issues Statement on iPhone Duo’s Crack Problem
- Glenn Fleishman on Apple Notes and Markdown
- ★ Apple Announces New A20 Pro iPad Mini
- A Simple Two-Step Shortcuts Shortcut Lets You Lock the iPhone Duo When You Close It
- Tiny Computers for iPhone Duo
- Duo Users Are Registering the Base of Their Index Finger as a Touch ID Coping Strategy
- The Talk Show: ‘Lubricate the Inside of the Hinge’
- iPhone Portrait Mode, 10 Years In
- Nicole Nguyen’s Duo Review for the WSJ
- Reuters and the WSJ on the Duo Launch
- Marion Barry Meets the iPhone Duo
- MKBHD’s Duo Review
- Tim Pan’s iPhone Duo Review
- Apple Built a Photo-Realistic Functional Original iPod for Apple Music’s 404 Page
- Chan Karunamuni on the Duo’s Open/Close Translucent Transition
- The Verge’s Duo Review: ‘Apple’s Folding Phone Is a Messy, Expensive Good Time’
- Joanna Stern Reviews the Duo: ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Buggy’
- Apple Highlights 50+ iPhone Apps That Have Already Been Optimized for the Duo
- ★ The iPhone Duo
- Barack Obama on the Trump Administration’s Intimidation Campaign Against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
- From the DF Archive: Should a CEO Be a Nerd About Their Company’s Products?
- Apple Event, in Los Angeles, Next Week: ‘Pro and Tell’
- ★ Estimated Arrival Dates for DF Readers’ Pre-Ordered iPhone Duos
- Netflix Shitcanned Film Chief Dan Lin Too
- Ex-Apple Employee Fred Potter on HomeView
- Netflix Lays Off 6 Percent of Staff
- Time Magazine Profiles John Ternus
- But Donald Trump turned the Republican Party into one that celebrates stupidity and ignorance
- Obama omar
- Ternus cook product nerds
- Apple event pro and tell
- Netflix dan line
- Potter homeview
- Netflix layoffs
- Time magazine profiles john ternus
- Tom the Dancing Bug’s Inner Hive, and Harvey Richards, the Greatest Lawyer in the History of Fiction
- WorkOS AuthKit
- Verizon Is Going to Charge $10/Month for iPhone Handoff
- Gurman on HomeView: ‘Finished Units Have Been Sitting Boxed Up in Warehouses for the Better Part of a Year’
- Claim Chowder: The Information on HomeView Having a ‘Robotic Swiveling Base’
- Apple Issues Statement on Duo Demand Far Outstripping Supply
- Manton Reece’s Spitball Theory on Why the Wall-Mounted HomeView Costs the Same as the Version With the Subwoofer Base
- Michigan Democratic Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed on His Allegiances
- Whatever You Say Bounces Off Me and Sticks to You
- Apple duo shortage statement
- the world renowned lawyer for children
- Workos authkit
- Verizon handoff
- Gurman homeview better part of a year
- Claim chowder the information on homeview
- Reece homeview
- El sayed tommy
- ★ HomeView Thoughts and Observations
- Apple TV Price History, Charted
- The Late Charlie Munger on Elon Musk and Tesla
- Apple: ‘Strengthening App Review Guidelines Against Nonconsensual Intimate Imagery and Bait-And-Switch Apps’
- Apple TV Started at $69 in 2015
- Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you
- when Mark Gurman is wrong
- Strange Times Make for Strange Bedfellows
- How They Got Duo Support in NetNewsWire
- ★ Real Artists Ship, Tesla Edition
- Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir, Says AI Researchers Have Started Smoking Because They’re Convinced AI (Claude, Probably) Is Going to Cure Cancer
- iPhone Duo Pre-Orders Launched, and Three Hours Later It’s Sold Out Through the End of January
- ★ Initial Thoughts on This Week’s New Apple TV 4K (4th Generation) and HomePod Mini 2
- Munger on musk
- App store guidelines nudification
- Apple tv 69
- Strange times make for strange bedfellows
- How they got duo support in netnewswire
- Sankar ai researchers smoking
- Duo preorders sellout
- Secret Documents Reveal Donors Behind $330 Million for Trump’s Ballroom — Apple and Nvidia Top the List at $25 Million Each
- that T-Mobile is charging $5/month
- Trump ballroom donor list
- The FBI Arrested a Saudi National OpenAI Employee for Planting a Recording Device in the Company’s Executive Conference Room
- Fbi saudi arrested openai
- Apple HomeView
- Apple tv price history charted
- Homeview
- Mark Stephens, a.k.a. Robert X. Cringely, Died at 73
- Cringely rip
- ★ X Once Again Marks the Spot
- Apple Only Started Suggesting iOS 26 Users Upgrade to 27 Three Days Ago
- a decades-long fan of Lunatic Fringe
- Apple only started suggesting ios 26 users upgrade to 27 three days ago
- Sunnny
- ‘Proof-of-Human’
- no longer touch the bottom
- Sunnny
- Proof of human
- Let’s Check In on Trump’s Blog
- Apple Is Slow-Rolling iOS 27 Adoption, So Far
- Joz Announces ‘Welcome Home’ Keynote Coming Tuesday, 13 October
- awarded to Humane’s AI Pin in 2023
- Apple is slow rolling ios 27 adoption so far
- Lets check in on trumps blog
- Joz welcome home
- Jaguar Type 01
- Gurman Strikes Again: ‘Apple’s Smart Home Push Includes Doorbell, Lock, Thermostat Codeveloped With LG’
- Netflix Has Peaked
- Jaguar type 01
- Gurman apple lg smart home
- Unofficial Command-Line Tool Removes Apple Intelligence From MacOS 27
- Steve Jobs, Walking Through a Mockup for Apple Park in 2010
- Cli tool removes apple intelligence from macos 27
- OpenAI Announces Their Text Watermarking Plans
- Ternus and Cook Tweet Brief Remembrances on the 15th Anniversary of Steve Jobs’s Death
- Ternus cook jobs 15th anniversary
- Jobs walking through mockup
- Openai announces their text watermarking plans
- ★ Apple Is Going to Further Tighten the Screws on Full Disk Access on MacOS, in Response to Agentic AI Apps Running Amok
September 2026
- Spitballing Predictions for Apple’s October
- I’ll Wait
- The Talk Show
- AppZapper 3000
- The iPhone 4 ‘Antennagate’ Press Conference Q&A — Finally
- The iPhones 18 Pro
- Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s ‘Surprise and Shine’ Event; the Announcements of the iPhones 18 Pro, AirPods 5, Apple Watches Series 12 and Ultra 4, and the iPhone Duo; and the Dawn of the Ternus, John Ternus Era at Apple
- SuperDuper 4
- The iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro
- And It’s True That I Stole Your Lighter, and It’s Also True That I Lost the Map
- almost no one has bought those things
- Writing With Unnatural Constraints
August 2026
- Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s First Immersive MLB Broadcast, a Yankees 1-0 Win Over the Red Sox
- Memory and Storage Configurations and Pricing for the New Mac Minis (M6/M5 Pro) and Mac Studios (M5 Max/M5 Ultra)
- What Is the Point of the DMA?
- When New DF Posts Drop in a Forest and No One Is There to Read Them
- without arguments
- Apple and European Commission Reach Agreement on App Payment Terms Under DMA, With Apple Conceding Very Little
- Apple Screwed Up the TestFlight App’s Sort Order a Month Ago, and It’s Still Screwed Up, but the More I Think About It, the More Clear It Is They Started Screwing This Up 15 Years Ago
- Follow-Up Thoughts on Watermarking Schemes for AI-Generated Text
- Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
- You Don’t Need to Worry About Scratching Your iPhone Camera Lenses
- Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection
- OpenAI Responds to Apple’s Lawsuit and Motion for Preliminary Injunction: ‘Apple Is Getting This Wrong’
- Why Apple Requires a Cellular Account Through a Big Three Carrier to Lease an iPhone
July 2026
- Temu Is a Comically Bad App
- Ads in Software Are Like Stickers on Laptops
- Regarding Ad Blockers and Daring Fireball
- The Ads on Apple News Continue to Suck, but at Least There Are a Lot of Them
- European Commission: ‘Guidance to Google for AI Interoperability on Android & Sharing of Google Search’
- Mornings in Cupertino Have the Aroma of Napalm Once Again
- Exactly Like Om Malik
- John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope
- What’s Good for the iOS Goose Is Often Not Good for the MacOS Gander
- Apple Should Eliminate the App Icon ‘Squircle Jail’
- Claude’s Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job
- A Tale of Two Modems
June 2026
- The Supreme Court Rules That Law Enforcement’s Use of ‘Geofence Warrant’ Was a ‘Search’ (But May Be Moot, Technically, Since 2024)
- Bernie Sanders: Ideologue and Economic Ignoramus
- Om
- Spensive Thoughts
- The Talk Show: Live From WWDC 2026
- Sweet Jeebus, MacOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons From Menu Items
- SwiftUI Only Makes It Easy to Develop Bad Apps
May 2026
- What Is a Dickover?
- The Fonts of the U.S. Federal Courts
- AI Is Technology, Not a Product
- Nextpad++
- Software as the Product of Obsession Times Voice
- Y Combinator’s Stake in OpenAI
- Crimes Against Decency Need as Much Cover-Up as Crimes Against the Law
April 2026
- On the Future of Apple’s Vision Platform
- The New York Times Printed the Wrong Crossword Grid Last Sunday, and I Find That Timing Serendipitous
- ‘We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here’
- Norwegian Boating Licenses and Generational Law
- Time to Serve Some Delicious Claim Chowder Regarding the Cook-Ternus CEO Transition
- Another Day Has Come
- ‘A Reading Room on Wheels, a Lover’s Lane, and, After 11 PM, a Flophouse’
- David Pierce Tried a Bunch of Android Phones and Then Bought an iPhone Again
- Let Us Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After He Is Dead
- OpenAI Announces $122 Billion Additional ‘Committed Capital’, and Announces Their ‘Superapp’ Plan for the Future
- David Pogue’s ‘Apple: The First 50 Years’
March 2026
- Apple Giveth, Apple Taketh Away
- What to Do About Those Menu Item Icons in MacOS 26 Tahoe
- screws are so loose
- AppleScript: ‘Save MarsEdit Document to Text File’
- ‘Your Frustration Is the Product’
- Squashing
- Apple Exclaves and the Secure Design of the MacBook Neo’s On-Screen Camera Indicator
- Modifier Key Order for Keyboard Shortcuts
- The MacBook Neo
- The iPhone 17e
- Thoughts and Observations on the MacBook Neo
- HazeOver — Mac Utility for Highlighting the Frontmost Window
February 2026
- A Sometimes-Hidden Setting Controls What Happens When You Tap a Call in the iOS 26 Phone App
- My 2025 Apple Report Card
- Apple Releases iOS 26 Adoption Rates, and They’re Pretty Much in Line With the Last Few Years
January 2026
- Politics and the English Language, January 2026 Edition
- The Names They Call Themselves
- perpetrator of AI-generated non-consensual nudification
- App Store 2025 Top iPhone Apps in the U.S.
- The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
- Tahoe Added a Finder Option to Resize Columns to Fit Filenames
- Crazy People Do Crazy Things
- Thoughts and Observations Regarding Apple Creator Studio
- MacPaw Pulls the Plug on SetApp Mobile App Marketplace
- Why It’s Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe
- ‘Fuck You, Make Me’ Without Saying the Words
- Let’s Call a Murder a Murder
- Pickle Smells Like a Cult
- Clicks Communicator and Clicks Power Keyboard
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December 2025
- ‘Do a Better Job on the Wings’
- Slop Is Slop
- Apple Announces Changes to iOS in Japan for Compliance With the Mobile Software Competition Act
- A Request Regarding ‘Magic Link’ Sign-Ins and Apple’s Passwords App
- Apple TV’s New Fanfare
- The Full Text of Marco Rubio’s Directive on State Department Typography, Re-Establishing Times New Roman
- iMessage’s Delivery Architecture Makes It Hard to Block Without Blocking All iOS Push Notifications
- Meta Says Fuck That Metaverse Shit
- 2025 App Store Award Winners: Tiimo, Essayist, and Detail
- Alan Dye Was in Tim Cook’s Blind Spot
- Bad Dye Job
- Signal Secure Backups Are Now Available on iOS
November 2025
- Exploring, in Detail, Apple’s Compliance With the EU’s DMA Mandate Regarding Apple Watch, Third-Party Accessories, and the Syncing of Saved Wi-Fi Networks From iPhones to Which They’re Paired
- Meta Replaced the Native Windows WhatsApp App With a Shitty Web App
- OpenAI Releases GPT-5.1, Along With Renamed and New Personalities
- The Software Update UI for Upgrading to MacOS 26 Tahoe Is Needlessly Confusing
- Apple and Google, Sitting in a Tree
October 2025
- Thoughts, Observations, and Links Regarding ChatGPT Atlas
- Apple Loses Landmark U.K. Lawsuit Over App Store Commissions
- Two Excellent New iPhone Camera Apps: Not Boring’s !Camera and Adobe’s Project Indigo
- The Just Plain M5 Chip Launches in Three Updated Products: 14-Inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro (Both Sizes), and Some Sort of Headset Thingamajig Called Vision Pro
- Complying With ‘Demand’ From Trump Administration, Apple Removes ICEBlock From App Store
September 2025
August 2025
- MacOS 26 Tahoe’s Dead-Canary Utility App Icons
- MSNBC, Spinning Out of NBCUniversal, Rebrands as ‘MS NOW’ With a Godawful Backronym and Even Worse Logo
- How to Use iPhone Mirroring With More Than One iPhone
- Joe Caroff, Designer of the James Bond 007 Logo, Dies at 103
- Apple Issues a Workaround for the Blood Oxygen Sensor Ban for U.S. Apple Watches
- Max Read’s ‘A Literary History of Fake Texts in Apple’s Marketing Materials’
- OpenAI Brings Back Legacy ChatGPT 4o Model in Response to Outcry From Users Who Find GPT-5 Emotionally Unsatisfying
- Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon
- Substack Raised Another $100 Million, Which, I Bet, Is Already Being Flushed Down the Same Toilet as Their First $100 Million
- The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap
July 2025
- Tea, the Women’s Dating Gossip App Riddled With Security Vulnerabilities, Remains #3 on the US iPhone App Store
- ICEBlock, an iOS Exclusive
- Curse Not the King
- Save Yourself Some Dough on Apple Kit and Make Me Rich on Amazon Prime Day
- Jeff Williams, 62, Is Retiring as Apple’s COO
- Full-Screen Ad for ‘F1 The Movie’ in Apple’s TV App Linked Directly to the Web, and Nothing Bad Seemed to Happen
June 2025
- Apple Announces Sweeping but Complicated Policy Changes for Apps in the EU, Attempting to Comply With the Latest Dictums Regarding the DMA
- More on Apple’s Trust-Eroding ‘F1 The Movie’ Wallet Ad
- One Week Out, Some Brief Thoughts and Observations on WWDC 2025
- The Talk Show: Live From WWDC 2025
- Apple’s Spin on the Personalized Siri Apple Intelligence Reset
- Gurman Says New UI Is Named ‘Liquid Glass’ (and Makes a Terrible Analogy Regarding Apple’s Risk With Falling Behind on AI)
- Truth Social Is Just Trump’s Blog
- 9to5Mac Reports Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, You’ll Be Unsurprised to Know, I Have Thoughts
- Apple Appeals EU’s March Ruling on ‘Interoperability’ Requirements Under the DMA
May 2025
- Idiocy or Jackassery, You Make the Call: Tripp Mickle on Whether Trump’s ‘Made in America’ iPhone Is a Fantasy
- More Insight and Not-Negativity
- That EU App Store Warning About External Purchases Is Not New, and Apple Proposed Improving It Nine Months Ago
- 15 Years Later: ‘Very Insightful and Not Negative’
- Single-Story a’s in Very Early Versions of Macintosh System 1
April 2025
- Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers Rules, in Excoriating Decision, That Apple Violated Her 2021 Court Order Regarding App Store Anti-Steering Provisions
- Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search
- Is Chrome Even a Sellable Asset?
- How Many New iPhones Can Fit on a Freight Plane?
- WebKit Adds Support for ‘text-wrap: pretty’, Now Shipping in Safari Technology Preview
- Tired: Irresistable Force vs. Immovable Object — Wired: Unchanging Prices vs. Nonsensical Tariffs
March 2025
- France Fines Apple $162M for App Tracking Transparency, Taking the Side of Surveillance Advertisers Over Users
- ‘The Studio’ Is Fantastic So Far
- The Website That Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss (You’re Reading It)
- It Might Be Time for Me to Collect Some Being Right Points for My 2023 Bluesky Prediction
- Keyboard Maestro Hack of the Week: Don’t Paste Images
- A Postscript on the Singular Nature of Mark Gurman’s Reporting
- Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
- A New System-Wide UI Look for iOS — Let Alone MacOS, Too — Would Be a Huge Deal
- Apple Is Delaying the ‘More Personalized Siri’ Apple Intelligence Features
- ABC Shuts Down FiveThirtyEight, and Pulls the Plug on Its Website
- Why Can’t We Screenshot Frames From DRM-Protected Video on Apple Devices?
February 2025
- The iPhone 16e
- Apple Pulls Advanced Data Protection From the UK, in Defiance of UK Demand for Global Backdoor
- Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 16e Announcement
- Golfo del Gringo Loco
- Nike’s ‘So Win’ Won the Super Bowl
- Fox’s New Scorebug Graphic Design, and Our Innate Resistance to Change
- My 2024 Apple Report Card
- Bootable Mac Startup Drive Backups, and Another Ode to SuperDuper
- ‘Hot Tub’, a Hardcore Porn App for iOS, Hits AltStore in the E.U.
- As if Anyone Needed Further Proof, Patrick Soon-Shiong’s Los Angeles Times Is Now a Propaganda Rag (and They’re Bad at HTML)
January 2025
- Pebble Founder Eric Migicovsky Is Bringing It Back
- Openvibe, a Multi-Social-Network App for Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads (Supposedly), and Nostr
- My Spitball Theory on TikTok’s Current Semi-Reprieve in the U.S.
- Thin Is In
- ICE Raids Are an Escalation of Our Long-Simmering De Facto Cold Civil War
- Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber
- Let’s Not Mince Words Regarding Trump’s Executive Order to Pause Enforcement of the TikTok Law and Provide Supposed Immunity to Companies That Are in Clear Violation of It
- BrikTok
- Nokia’s Next-Day Internal Competitive Analysis of the Original iPhone Largely Got It Right
- One Bit of Anecdata That the Web Is Languishing Vis-à-Vis Native Mobile Apps
- Nvidia, the New King of Keynotes
- After Years of Moderation-Heavy Zagging, Zuckerberg Announces That Meta Is Going Back to Moderation-Light Zigging Across Its Platforms
- Apple Claims It Will Soon ‘Further Clarify’ Which Notifications Are AI-Generated Summaries, Following Embarrassing BBC News Summarization Mistakes
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December 2024
- OpenAI’s Board, Paraphrased: ‘To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of Money’
- Journalism Requires Owners Committed to the Cause
- On the Accountability of Unnamed Public Relations Spokespeople
- Federico Viticci on Apple Intelligence, With ChatGPT, as a Breakthrough Automation Tool
- The Information Suggests, in an Aside, That Apple Scrapped Work on a Quad-Max/Double-Ultra M-Series Chip
- Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Generative AI Bullshit Bathwater
- Andy Grove Was Right
November 2024
- Apple Tends to Do Right by Apps It Acquires
- Regarding — and, Well, Against — Substack
- Dr. Oz
- Disambiguating iPhone Model Names That Have the ‘S’ Suffix
- It Doesn’t End
- How It Went
- I Wonder
- Kottke on the Art and Power of Hypertextual Writing
October 2024
- In Defense, I Swear, of the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port Placement
- Profiles in Cowardice: Owner Jeff Bezos and Publisher William Lewis of The Washington Post
- Vision Pro Bites Dog
- The Sordid Tale of Rudy Giuliani’s Yankees World Series Rings
- Consider the Plight of the VC-Backed Privacy Burglars
September 2024
- Panels, a New Wallpaper App From Marques Brownlee
- A Few Brief Thoughts on Meta Connect 2024
- The iPhones 16
- The Things They Carried
- The iOS Continental Fun-Gap Drift
- The iOS Continental Drift Widens
August 2024
- The Mac Is a Power Tool
- Apple’s Profits From Services Are on the Cusp of Surpassing Its Profits From Device Sales
July 2024
- Apple Strikes Deal With Taboola to Sell Ads for Apple News
- The AT&T Data Breach Shows Why RCS Can’t Be Trusted and the Downside of Apple Adding Support for It in iOS 18
- It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns
June 2024
- Apple Disables WebKit’s JIT in Lockdown Mode, Offering a Hint Why BrowserEngineKit Is Complex and Restricted
- WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence
- The EU Is Reaping What It Sows With the DMA: Uncertainty
- By My Count Trump Is Batting .900 on the Ten Commandments
- Training Large Language Models on the Public Web
- The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2024
- Gurman’s Epic Pre-WWDC Leak Report
- Now Qualcomm Went Long
May 2024
- Spotify’s Car Things to Be Rebranded as Car Bricks
- Follow-Up on Apple No Longer Including Stickers With New Products
- The M4 iPad Pros
- Brief Thoughts and Observations on Yesterday’s ‘Let Loose’ iPad Keynote
April 2024
- Base-Model RAM in Apple Devices
- Making a Mountain Out of Molehill-Sized M4 News
- Face the Critic: Ian Betteridge Edition
- European Data Protection Board Goes There, Rules Against Meta’s ‘Pay or OK’ Model
- From the Department of Spending Tim Cook’s Money: Online Photo Storage Is Surely Expensive to Offer, but Apple Should Offer More
March 2024
- More on the EU’s Market Might
- The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue
- European Commission Opens DMA Non-Compliance Investigations Against Google, Apple, and Meta
- My 2023 Apple Report Card
- Quickly Toggling Closed Captions on Apple TV (But Not in Netflix)
- Apple Adjusts DMA Plan to Offer Direct Downloading of Apps From the Web (With a Big Asterisk), Custom Link-Out Screens, and Marketplaces Solely for the Distribution of a Developer’s Own Apps
- Once More Unto the Apple / Epic / European-Commission Breach, Dear Friends, Once More
- Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball and The Talk Show, Early 2024 Edition
- Apple Reinstates Epic’s EU Developer Account
- Apple Terminated Epic’s EU Developer Account
February 2024
- Poll Results on Apple’s FineWoven iPhone Cases
- Apple Sports
- The European Commission Had Nothing to Do With Apple’s Reversal on Supporting RCS
- Phil Spencer Puts Apple’s Money Where His Mouth Is
- Simple Tricks and Nonsense
January 2024
- The Vision Pro
- Apple’s Plans for the DMA in the European Union
- ‘Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand’
- Coming to Grips With Apple’s Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement to Its Commissions From Third-Party iOS Apps
- Margrethe Vestager Met With Tim Cook Yesterday, But I Doubt Anything Happened
- Al Gore, Mac Nerd and Internet Pioneer
- Heyja Vu: App Store Rejects 37signals’s New Hey Calendar App
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December 2023
- Beep Beep
- App Store Rankings as a Proxy for Social Network Momentum
- iOS 17.3, Now in Beta, Includes New ‘Stolen Device Protection’ Feature
- Beeper Mini Is Back, But Without Phone Number Registration
- Beeper? I Hardly Knew Her.
November 2023
- Qualcomm’s Awkward Boasting Regarding Its Forthcoming X Elite Platform
- More on Sam Altman’s Ouster From OpenAI
- Vision Pro, Spatial Video, and Panoramic Photos
- The 2023 M3 MacBook Pros
October 2023
- The Best Leather Cases for iPhone 15 Pro
- Apple Again Hikes Prices for Its Media Services
- Apple to Broadcast ‘Scary Fast’ Event Next Monday Night
- Apple and AI
- There’s a New Apple Pencil With a USB-C Port, and My Thoughts Turn to the Complexity of the Overall iPad Lineup
- Google’s Pixel 8 Launch Event
- iPhone 15 OverheatGate Seems to Be a Nothingburger
September 2023
- Craptacular Is More Like It
- The iPhones 15 Pro (and iPhones 15)
- AirPods Pro 2, Now With USB-C Charging Case
- Thoughts and Observations on This Week’s ‘Wonderlust’ Apple Event
- Apple’s Two-Pronged Annual iPhone Strategy
- The China-Apple Cold War Heats Up
August 2023
- Idle Speculation on the Widely-Assumed Switch to USB-C Ports on the Upcoming iPhones 15
- ‘Changes to U.K. Surveillance Regime May Violate International Law’
- Walt Disney’s Mid-Century Business Strategy Charts
- Disney and Apple, Sitting in a Tree
- Holy Hell, Trump Did Use Twitter Direct Messages, There Were ‘Many’ of Them, and the Special Counsel Now Has Them
- Was Trump Using Twitter Direct Messages? (Please Let the Answer Be Yes.)
- What’s the Deal With Sensor Tower?
- Oh to Be a Fly on the Wall During the Conversation Where Elon Musk Asks Tim Cook to Help X Corp Replace iOS as the Bedrock Everything Platform
July 2023
- Nobody Uses Threads Anymore, It’s Too Crowded
- Jackasses of the Week: TechRadar (Foldable Phones Edition)
- Translation From Hostage Code to English of X Corp CEO Linda Yaccarino’s Company-Wide Memo
- Aptos, Microsoft’s New Default Font for Office Documents
- Nerding Out With Maestral, LaunchControl, and Keyboard Maestro
- Of Course Apple Has an LLM AI in the Works, and of Course the Bloomberg Report Revealing Its Code Name Mentions How the Story Moved the Company’s Stock Price
- Now Apollo Faces the Cliff
- Threads
June 2023
- Ahead of Season 1 Finale, Apple Has Made the Entire First Episode of ‘Silo’ Free — on Twitter
- FTC Sues Amazon, Claiming ‘Deceptive’ Prime Sign-Up and Cancellation Process
- More on Preemptively Blocking Facebook’s Imminent ActivityPub Entry
- The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2023
- First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS
May 2023
- On Apple Fitting a Headset Announcement Into the Always-Packed WWDC Keynote
- Let’s Check in on Supermicro, the Target of Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’
- Do Wall Street Journal Reporters Read The Wall Street Journal?
- Proposed Name for GM’s Upcoming In-House Software Platform (You Know, the One That Isn’t Going to Support CarPlay): Edsel
- Browser and OS Market Share Trends in the Mobile Age
- Follow-Up on ‘Adware for Apple Services in iOS’
April 2023
- If You Come at the King
- Adware for Apple Services in iOS
- Warner Bros. Discovery Is Really Going to Drop the ‘HBO’ Brand and Just Call Its Streaming Service ‘Max’
- GM, CarPlay, and iPhones
- A Bit of Follow-Up on Wavelength
- The Case of the iPhone Case Poll
March 2023
- Wavelength
- It’s Game Over on Vocal Deepfakes
- To Ship or Not to Ship, Headset Edition
- Phony Stark Picks on the Wrong Guy, Attempting (and of Course Botching) an HR Exit Interview Live on Twitter
- Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff
February 2023
- Warren Beatty and Warren Beatty as Dick Tracy Debate Warren’s Beatty’s ‘Dick Tracy’
- Bing, the Most Exciting Product in Tech
- My 2022 Apple Report Card
- Making Our Hearts Sing
January 2023
- Meanwhile, Over in Androidtown
- The Billions-Dollar VR/AR Headset Question
- HomePod Lives
- Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball and The Talk Show, Early 2023 Edition
- App Store Rejection of the Week: Ice Cubes, a Splendid New Mastodon Client
- If a Tree That Was Never Announced Falls in a Forest Does It Make a Sound?
- Knee-Jerk Reactions and Thoughts Regarding The Information’s Latest Report on Apple’s Upcoming Headset
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December 2022
- I Wish I Could Tell You This One Is Not All About Twitter
- If a Third-Party App Store Falls in the Forest and No One Uses It, Does It Make a Sound?
- Two Weeks Later and Twitter Is Still Up
November 2022
October 2022
- App Store Ads Gone Wild
- The 2022 iPad (and a Wee Note About the 2022 iPad Pros)
- The iPad Lineup Is, Like, Growing Out Its Bangs or Something and Looks a Little Weird Right Now, but Apple TV Has Been Going to the Gym and Looks Great
- Everything
September 2022
- Apple Watch Ultra
- The iPhones 14 Pro (and iPhones 14)
- Thoughts and Observations on Last Week’s ‘Far Out’ Apple Event
- A Quick Run-Through of Rumors and Speculation Ahead of This Wednesday’s ‘Far Out’ Event for the iPhones 14, New Apple Watch Models, and Who Knows What Else
August 2022
- Facebook’s Problems
- The Financial Times on the Effects of App Tracking Transparency on Small Businesses
- Is App Tracking Transparency Actually Doing Anything Truly Significant?
- Dropbox Branding and App Store SEO Shenanigans
- Vin Scully
- iMessage Editing and Un-Sending in the Fourth iOS 16 and MacOS 13 Developer Betas
July 2022
June 2022
- The New Prohibition
- How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch ID, and Require a Passcode to Unlock Your iPhone or iPad
- Two New Apps I Wanted to Flag for You
- German Regulators Open Investigation Into Apple’s App Tracking Transparency
- The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2022, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak
- Basic Apple Guy’s Prescient Reimagining of System Preferences on MacOS
May 2022
- Wonder Twin Powers
- The Grave Insult of Being Sent the Proper Tools to Perform a Complicated Task
- A Touching Goodbye for iPod
- Noted Interaction Design and Security Expert Margrethe Vestager Redesigns the iPhone’s NFC Support
April 2022
- More Rumors on Apple Obtaining the Rights to NFL Sunday Ticket
- 30 Years of BBEdit Not Sucking
- Studio Display, One Month In
- Play Ball: Apple Announces More Details About ‘Friday Night Baseball’ on Opening Day
- Apple’s Dance With the Netherlands ACM Continues
March 2022
- The D.O.J. Goes After Google’s ‘Communicate With Care’ Program
- The Apple Studio Display
- The 2022 iPad Air
- The 2022 iPhone SE
- Twitter’s Confusing New, but Hopefully Now Abandoned, ‘Home/Latest’ Timeline
February 2022
January 2022
- A Tale of Attempted Censorship in Three Acts
- An Assortment of Links and Observations Regarding the Neil Young –Joe Rogan Spotify Saga
- Leaker Sinks Peloton Stock With Confidential Information
- Follow-Up on Yesterday’s 1Password Item
- A Five-Letter Word for ‘Rip-Off’
- Seeing Green
- The App Store Is (Well, Was) Lousy With Blatant Wordle Rip-Offs, but One of Them Takes the Cake
- The Algorithmic Ad Monster Cometh for Podcasts
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December 2021
November 2021
- Tim Sweeney Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
- A Few Follow-Up Points on Apple’s Self Service Repair Program
- Apple’s New Self Service Repair Program
- Craig Federighi’s Sideloading Keynote at Web Summit
October 2021
- The 2021 14-Inch MacBook Pro
- Last-Minutes Guesses for Today’s ‘Unleashed’ Event
- Apple Watch Series 7
- The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’
September 2021
- Why Does the iPhone Still Use Lightning?
- The 2021 iPad Mini
- Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account, but Epic’s Other Developer Accounts Remain Active
- The iPhones 13
- Various Single-Paragraph Thoughts and Observations Regarding Yesterday’s ‘California Streaming’ Apple Event for the iPhones 13, Apple Watch Series 7, and New iPads
- Why iPhone Names Have Numbers and Most Other Apple Product Names Don’t
- Initial Details on Using Driver’s Licenses and State ID’s in Apple Wallet
August 2021
- Let’s Consider Some of the Implications of Third-Party Payment Processing for In-App Purchasing on iOS and Android
- Charlie Watts
- Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope
July 2021
- Document Proxy Icons in MacOS 11 and 12 as a — Ahem — Proxy for Apple’s Current UI Design Sensibilities
- If You Guys Are Really Us, What Number Are We Thinking Of?
- Regarding the Safari 15 Public Betas for Mac and iOS
June 2021
- Annotating Apple’s Anti-Sideloading White Paper
- The New York Times: ‘Sundar Pichai Faces Internal Criticism at Google’
- The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2021, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak
- App Store: The Schiller Cut
- ‘Secure Intent’ on Apple Devices
May 2021
- The New Siri Remote (and Updated Apple TV 4K)
- The 2021 M1 iPad Pros
- The 24-Inch M1 iMac
- New York Times Report on Apple’s iCloud ‘Hard Bargain’ in China
- 70/30 Is Fine for Me, but Not for Thee
- Apple and the Built-In Advantage
April 2021
- Thoughts and Observations on This Week’s ‘Spring Loaded’ Apple Event
- Et tu, Procter & Gamble?
- Actually, Two of the Third-Party ‘Find My’ Products Announced Yesterday Are Months Away From Availability
- In Russia, iPhone Apps Install You
March 2021
- Apple Holds Up ProtonVPN App Update for Two Days Over the Phrase ‘Challenging Governments’
- Going Longer on Intel’s Ad Spat With the Mac
- Intel Goes Long
- How to Enable ‘Your Watch Is Fully Charged’ Notifications in WatchOS 7 and iOS 14
- iA Writer
- Google’s Outsized Share of Advertising Money
- Apple’s App Store Privacy Nutrition Labels Depend on the Honor Policy, and, Surprising No One, Some Developers Are Dishonest
- Adoption Is Low for COVID-19 Exposure Apps, Rendering Them Effectively Useless
February 2021
- Apple Mail and Hidden Tracking Images
- How ‘Unlock With Apple Watch’ While Wearing a Face Mask Works in iOS 14.5
- Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess on Apple’s Purported Interest in Making Cars
- The Two-Day Saga of the Apple Silicon DTK Exchange Program
- 2020 Quote of the Year: ‘What’s the Downside for Humoring Him?’
January 2021
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December 2020
- Charger Nerdery
- Facebook’s Unknowable Megascale
- Facebook: Free as in Bullshit
- Facebook Takes Out Full-Page Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple’s Changes Strengthening iOS Privacy
- I Suppose a Roman à Clef About a Design-Obsessed California Computer Maker With a Charismatic but Mercurial Founder Whose Youthful Arrogance Leads to His Ignominious Ouster and Exile, Only to Return a Decade Later to Not Only Save the Company From Seemingly Certain Ruin but Lead Them to Theretofore
- Heavy Is the Head That Wears the AirPods Max
- M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness
November 2020
- The M1 Macs
- The HomePod Mini
- One More Thing: The M1 Macs
- Sketch, and the Joy of Mac-App Mac Apps
- The iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max
- The Daring Fireball Election Desk Is Calling It: Biden Wins
- Disclosing a Few Thoughts on Facebook’s UI Design
October 2020
- Sean Connery
- The 2020 iPad Air
- The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
- Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s ‘Hi, Speed’ iPhone 12 Event
- Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating ‘Irrelevance’ With ‘Inconvenience’
- Translation From Adorable Bullshit to English of Microsoft’s ‘10 Principles for the Microsoft Store on Windows’
- Facebook and the Group That Planned to Kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
September 2020
- Widgetsmith and The Case of the Missing App Store Bunco Squad
- More Adventures in Solo Loop Sizing
- Adventures in Solo Loop Sizing
- Apple Watch Series 6: Graphite Is the New Black
- Brief Thoughts and Observations on Today’s ‘Time Flies’ Apple Event
- Apple Leadership Bubblegum Cards
- Apple Announces Virtual ‘Time Flies’ Event Next Tuesday
- Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy
August 2020
- On TikTok as a Security Threat
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney’s Hand-Waving Explanation for How Game Consoles Deserve 30 Percent of Fortnite Revenue but Apple and Google’s App Stores Do Not
- Thoughts on an ‘Apple One’ Subscription Bundle
- Epic Goes to War With Apple Over the App Store
- Dithering Preview
- Decoding Apple’s Statement to Business Insider Regarding Xbox Game Pass
July 2020
- Trump Floats Delaying Election
- Parsing Tim Cook’s Opening Statement From Today’s Congressional Antitrust Hearing
- Good Sudoku by Zach Gage
- Return and Enter Are Two Different Keys
- Refer This
- A Moment of Clarity Regarding the Raison d’Etre for the App Store
- A Bit of Self-Served Claim Chowder Regarding iMessage and Phone Numbers as Identifiers
- How We Shot The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020
June 2020
- Working the Refs Worked: ‘How Facebook Wrote Its Rules to Accommodate Trump’
- The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak
- Sponsorship Openings and The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020
- The Flimsiness of ‘Business vs. Consumer’ as a Justification for Apple’s Rejection of Hey From the App Store for Not Using In-App Purchases
- On Apple Announcing the ARM Mac Transition at WWDC This Month
May 2020
- Translation From VC-Backed PR Jargon to English of Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz’s Statement That He’s ‘Stepping Down’
- ‘What Time Is It in London?’
- No Mask, No Dice
- Department of Justice Reopens Spat With Apple Over iPhone Encryption
- A Spectacularly Bad Washington Post Story on Apple and Google’s Exposure Notification Project
- More on Dithering
- Bloomberg Publishes Clickbait in Break From Rivals
- Let’s Check In on the State of iPhone and Android CPU Performance
- Dithering
April 2020
- The 2020 iPhone SE
- The iPad Magic Keyboard
- The Quadrennial iPhone SE Schedule
- COBOL, Programming, and Coding
- Amazon and Apple Strike Deal for Prime Video In-App Purchases and Subscriptions
March 2020
February 2020
- Tot
- What You See in the Finder Should Always Be Correct
- Locations of Media Files in MacOS 10.15 Catalina
- The DF Tootbot Is Once Again Fully Operational
- My 2019 Apple Report Card
January 2020
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December 2019
- Catalyst, Two Months In
- Bluesky: Twitter Announces Effort to Build ‘Decentralized Standard for Social Media’
- The Other Shoe Drops: Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement
November 2019
- Tim Cook Appears Alongside Trump in Re-Election Campaign Ad Shot in Mac Pro Plant in Austin
- L’Affaire Vaperware
- 16-Inch MacBook Pro First Impressions: Great Keyboard, Outstanding Speakers
- Getting Started With Apple TV+ Is Easy and Obvious and Only the Very Last Step, Which Isn’t Related to the Apple TV+ Signup Process in Particular, Made Me Want to Throw My iPhone Against a Wall
October 2019
- AirPods Pro First Impressions
- The Curious Design of Mail’s Message Action Toolbar in iOS 13
- Idle Speculation on Whether Apple Is Going to Hold Another Keynote Event This Year
- On the Upcoming Photoshop for iPad
- Gurman on Catalyst’s Shaky Debut
- Correction: Regarding an Erroneous Allegation in ‘Richard Stallman’s Disgrace’
- Apple and Hong Kong
- Turns Out the Telephoto Camera on the iPhone 11 Pro Does Not Support Night Mode
September 2019
- Richard Stallman’s Disgrace
- iOS 13 Autocorrect Is Drunk
- iPhones 11 and Apple Watch Series 5 Q&A
- ‘You Could Always Just Use Flash’
- Apple Watch Series 5
- The iPhone 11 and iPhones 11 Pro
- Let’s Go Further and Hope for Every Last Drop of Joy to Be Drained From the World
- About That Washington Post Story on Apple Copying Features From Top Apps in the App Store
- ‘It’s Over. It’s Over for Apple.’
- Malice or Incompetence: On the Rankings of Apple’s Own Apps in App Store Results
- Brief Thoughts and Observations on Yesterday’s Apple Event, Roughly, if Not in Fact Exactly, in the Order in Which They Were Announced
- Going Pro
August 2019
July 2019
- Superhuman and Email Privacy
- Apple Is Sending Out Another Silent Update To Fix the Webcam Flaw in Zoom’s Partner Apps
- On Bill Gates’s ‘Greatest Mistake Ever’
- On the Post-Ive Future of Design at Apple
June 2019
May 2019
- An iOS 13 Wish: A Return of Vibrant Tapdown States
- Playdate
- Some Good Old-Fashioned Speed Bumps for the MacBook Pro Lineup, and a Tweak to the Butterfly Key Mechanism
- Bloomberg Shits the Bed Again on Cybersecurity
April 2019
- All Podcasts Are Shows; Not All Shows Are Podcasts
- The Drumbeat of Impeachment
- Know When to Fold ’Em
- Why Apple Settled With Qualcomm
- Disney+ Details: $7/Month, No Commercials, Tons of Old and New Content
- Bad UI: MacOS 10.14’s Software Update Release Notes
March 2019
- Very Brief Thoughts and Observations on Today’s ‘Show Time’ Apple Event
- Apple Games
- The New iPad Mini
- Apple Releases New A12-Based iPad Air and iPad Mini
- On Spotify’s Complaints About the App Store
- Life as a Facebook Moderator
February 2019
- Brief Thoughts and Observations on Samsung’s Unpacked Event
- My 2018 Apple Report Card
- On Covering Webcams
January 2019
- 25 Years Ago: RAM Doubler
- The R-Word
- Pentagram’s ‘Range of Possibilities’ for Slack
- On Getting Started With Regular Expressions
- Codea’s iOS Menu Bar
- On Netflix Pulling Out of iTunes Billing for New Users
- Apple’s Terrible No Good Very Bad Earnings Warning
- Steve Jobs and Apple’s Last Previous Earnings Warning
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December 2018
- Opening New Tabs Next to the Current Tab in Safari
- Electron and the Decline of Native Apps
- The World’s Shortest Review of Apple’s $40 iPhone XR Clear Case
- Proof That iOS Still Hasn’t Gotten Undo Right
November 2018
- An Alternative Theory on Purportedly Weak iPhone XR Demand
- Third-Party USB-C to Lightning Cables Might Come in Mid-2019 (Which Is Good, Because I Still Don’t Think iPhone Is Ever Going to Switch to USB-C)
- The 2018 Retina MacBook Air
- Apple’s Q4 2018 Results
- The 2018 iPad Pros
October 2018
- iPhone XR Review Roundup
- The iPhone XR
- Sometimes It’s Better to Just Start Over With iCloud Photo Library Syncing
- Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’
September 2018
- The Great DF Random Slowdown Should Be Over
- Apple Watch Series 4
- The iPhones XS
- Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s iPhone XS/XR and Series 4 Apple Watch Introductory Event
- The Curious Case of Adware Doctor and the Mac App Store
- iPhone Naming Rumors, 2018 Edition
August 2018
- On ‘Shake to Undo’
- Let’s Really Think About This ‘New Low-Cost Laptop to Succeed MacBook Air’ Thing
- Twitter Addresses Why They’ve Broken Twitter for Third-Party Clients
- Reuters’s Curious Sourcing on Doug Field Joining Project Titan
- Doug Field Returns to Apple After Leaving Tesla
July 2018
June 2018
May 2018
- 10 Strikes and You’re Out — the iOS Feature You’re Probably Not Using But Should
- Yammering on One More Time Regarding Google’s Duplex Recordings
- The Restaurant Where Google Claims to Have Booked an Actual Meal Via Duplex
- The End of Third-Party Twitter Clients?
- Lobe
April 2018
- Scuttlebutt Regarding Apple’s Cross-Platform UI Project
- On Normalizing Rip-Offs
- Design Plagiarism
- Company-Wide Apple Memo on ‘The Impact of Leaks’ Leaks
- Regarding Mark Zuckerberg’s Unused Talking Points on Tim Cook and Apple
- A Really Dumb Wall Street Journal Story on Apple Pay That Almost Makes a Good Point at the Very Beginning
- Users and Customers
March 2018
- Why Hasn’t Samsung Ditched the Headphone Jack Yet?
- Open and Shut, Revisited
- Max Krieger’s Twitter Threads on Design
February 2018
- iOS Messages and Smart Punctuation
- Sponsoring Daring Fireball, Early 2018 Edition
- The Threat to the Mac: The Growing Popularity of Non-Native Apps
- HomePod
January 2018
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December 2017
- Apple Responds to Controversy on iPhone Batteries and Performance
- Pressing the Side Button to Confirm Payments on iPhone X
- The iPhone X
- Marzipan
- Apple Addresses Why Some iPhones With Older Batteries Are Benchmarking Slower
- First Impressions of the New iMac Pro
November 2017
- High Sierra Root Login Bug Was Mentioned on Apple’s Support Forums Two Weeks Ago
- Twitter’s 280-Character Own Goal
October 2017
September 2017
- Cultural Insularity and Apple TV
- iPhone X Supply Is Going to Be Tight
- Google and Levi’s ‘Commuter Trucker Jacket with Jacquard’
- Thoughts on Apple TV 4K
- Apple Watch Series 3
- The iPhones 8
- Thoughts and Observations on the Products Announced at This Week’s iPhone X Introductory Event
- Welcome to the Steve Jobs Theater
- X Man
- Serfing on the Giants’ Farms
August 2017
- Wading Through AccuWeather’s Bullshit Response
- Some Comments Regarding The New York Times’s Report on Apple’s Titan Project
- Daring Fireball Turns 15
- Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs
- Conjecture Regarding the Precise Details of the iPhone D22 Display Resolution
July 2017
- On Apple Removing VPN Apps From the App Store in China
- Unordered Lists in Markdown
- Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS
- iPhone Prelude
- iPhone Silly Season
- New on Daring Fireball: Display Ads
- Speculation Regarding the Pricing of and Strategy Behind This Year’s New iPhones
June 2017
- Munster’s Model
- Perfect Ten
- ‘Your’ vs. ‘My’
- ‘Inferior to a Laptop in Almost Every Way, Unless You Like to Draw’
- Medium and the Scourge of Persistent Sharing Dickbars
- The Knives Come Out for Phil Schiller in Brian Merchant’s ‘The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone’
- iPad Pro Review Roundup
- The 2017 iPad Pros
- In-App Purchase Scams in the App Store
- Update on The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2017
- Fuck Facebook
May 2017
- What If the iPad Smart Keyboard Had a Trackpad?
- When the Scoops Run Dry
- Halide
- Safari vs. Chrome on the Mac
- ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’
- Dropping Tech Giants
- Apple’s China Problem: WeChat
April 2017
- Judging Apple Watch’s Success
- On Uber’s ‘Identifying and Tagging’ of iPhones
- The Swiss Watch Industry Should Double Down on Mechanical Watches
- ‘So-Called’
- The Mac Pro Lives
March 2017
February 2017
- On Today’s Curious Wall Street Journal Report Claiming the Next iPhone Will Replace Lightning Port With USB-C
- The World’s Worst Cocktail: The Alexa Martini
- Apple Moves WWDC Back to San Jose
- Investment Bankers Urge Apple to Spend Money Hiring Investment Bankers, News at 11
- On Apple’s Capital Return Program
- Comparing the First Seven Years of the iPad and Mac
- Lg fix
January 2017
- Hall lg 5k
- On the Likelihood of Losing Your AirPods
- Additional Details on the New App Store Review Features
- Apple’s Continuing Need for Worthy Rivals
- The Right Way to Pop Your AirPods Out of the Case
- On Chuq Von Rospach’s ‘Apple’s 2016 in Review’, and the AirPort and Mac Pro Lineups in Particular
- Craig Hockenberry’s ‘Making Sense of Color Management’
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December 2016
November 2016
October 2016
- On Hiding vs. Encapsulating Complexity, in the Context of Twitter’s Experimental Reply Interface
- On iMessage’s Stickiness
- Why Do Websites Publish AMP Pages?
- Don’t Hold Your Breath for an iPhone Edition
- Walt Mossberg: ‘Why Does Siri Seem So Dumb?’
- Apple Responds to Dash Controversy
September 2016
- Design as Branding
- All Work and No Headphone Jack Makes Nilay a Dull Boy
- Why A-Series Benchmark Scores Matter
- Apple Watch Series 2 and WatchOS 3
- The iPhones 7
- Melanie Ehrenkranz and Apple’s Response to Her Criticism Over the Paucity of Women Onstage at Last Week’s Event
- Thoughts and Observations on This Week’s iPhone 7 / Apple Watch Series 2 Special Event
- iPhone 7: Jet Black vs. Black
- ‘Courage’
August 2016
- Vesper, Adieu
- Bloomberg’s Report on Apple Watch 2
- Uber to Begin Testing Self-Driving Cars in Pittsburgh
- Is Donald Trump Actually Trying to Win?
- Apple and the Pistol Emoji
July 2016
June 2016
- Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives
- Brief Thoughts and Observations Regarding Today’s WWDC 2016 Keynote
- The New App Store: Subscription Pricing, Faster Approvals, and Search Ads
- App Store Subscription Uncertainty
- Headlines Matter
May 2016
- Peter Thiel, Gawker, and Freedom of Speech
- Translation From Corporate Jargon Doublespeak to English of MCX CEO Brian Mooney’s Statement on the Future of CurrentC
- Gboard
- Instagram’s New Look
- Apple Music and Coherent Product Design and Marketing
April 2016
- Apple and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Drop in iPhone Sales
- The App Store and Retail Co-op
March 2016
February 2016
January 2016
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December 2015
November 2015
September 2015
- The iPhones 6S
- De Facto Veto Power
- How to Turn iOS 9’s Keyboard Back to All Caps
- Brief Thoughts and Observations Regarding Today’s ‘Hey Siri’ Apple Event
- Prelude to Tomorrow’s ‘Hey Siri’ Apple Event in San Francisco
August 2015
July 2015
May 2015
- On Jony Ive’s Promotion to Chief Design Officer
- On the Apple Watch Interaction Model and the Digital Crown
- Facebook Introduces Instant Articles
- On the Long-Term Viability of Apple’s Customer-First Strategy
April 2015
- Watch, Apple Watch
- Android Wear’s Low-Power Ambient Mode
- Custom Watch Faces
- The Apple Watch
- Reach for the Sky, Pando
March 2015
February 2015
- On the Pricing of Apple Watch
- The Artful Dodge
- Thinking About the Split in Apple Watch Sales by Model
- 60 Frames Per Second and the Web
- Dazzling Results
January 2015
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December 2014
November 2014
- iPhone 6 vs. 6 Plus Split Among Daring Fireball Readers
- Native Apps Are Part of the Web
- Google’s App Aesthetic
October 2014
- Retailers Are Disabling NFC to Block Apple Pay
- The iPad Air 2 (And a Few Cursory Words Regarding the iPad Mini 3)
- Note to Self: It’s the Storage Space, Stupid
September 2014
- Now Batting for the Yankees, Number 2
- On Switching and Lock-In
- The iPhones 6
- Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations
- Prelude to Tomorrow’s Big-Ass iPhone Apple Event
- Security Trade-Offs
August 2014
July 2014
June 2014
May 2014
April 2014
March 2014
- Wouldn’t Have Happened If Tim Cook Had Been in Charge
- The Truthiness of Apple’s Decline
- The Ecosystem Chess Game
February 2014
- From the Department of Fitting Facts to the Narrative
- Working Backwards to the Technology
- Just Do Something
- On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple’s ‘Addition’ to the NSA’s PRISM Program
- Microsoft, Past and Future
January 2014
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December 2013
- Thoughts on Google Glass
- 2013: The Year in Apple and Technology at Large
- Lightning, the Epitome of Apple
November 2013
- The Retina iPad Mini
- Rockstar, Patent-Holding Firm Partially Owned by Apple and Microsoft, Sues Google and Android Handset Makers
October 2013
- The iPad Air
- Thoughts and Observations Regarding This Week’s Apple Event Introducing the iPad Air and Retina iPad Mini
- iMessage End-to-End Encryption: We Have to Take Apple’s Word for It
- Apple and China
- Design Quality and Customer Delight as Sustainable Advantages
- Apple’s Stock Price After Product Announcements
September 2013
- Vesper: What’s New and What’s Next
- The iPhone 5S and 5C
- Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 5C and 5S Introduction
- More on Nintendo and Handheld Gaming
- Nintendo in Motion
August 2013
July 2013
June 2013
- It’s Been a While Since I’ve Done the Thing Where I Quote the Entirety (or Nearly So) of an Article and Then Dissect/Comment Upon It Line-by-Line, but I Do Still Have a Taste for It, Even Though in This Particular Case It’s a Month Late
- ‘This Is Our Signature’: iOS 7
- WWDC 2013 Expectations
May 2013
April 2013
- Web Apps vs. Native Apps Is Still a Thing
- If Not for Android, Where Would the iPhone Be?
- Pricing and Profit Consistency and the Halo Effect
March 2013
February 2013
- When All You Have Is an ‘Apple Is Doomed Without Steve Jobs’ Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail
- The Rise of Bounding Asterisks in Lieu of Italicization for Styling Text
- The C Word
January 2013
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December 2012
November 2012
October 2012
- The iPad Mini
- Forstall Out; Ive Up
- Thoughts on the Display, Price, and Name of the Impending Smaller iPad
- Kindle Paperwhite
- Snappli and Claims of iOS Maps App Usage Plummeting
September 2012
- Get the Fainting Chair
- On the Timing of Apple’s Map Switch
- The iPhone 5
- Thoughts and Observations Regarding Yesterday’s iPhone 5 and Music Event
- Amazon’s Play
- Homage vs. Rip-Off
August 2012
July 2012
- Inspired by Sony
- Mountain Lion
- Let’s Try to Think This iPad Mini Thing All the Way Through
- The iPhone and Disruption: Five Years In
June 2012
May 2012
- Let’s Have Some Fun Reading Way Too Much Into the Preliminary Schedule for WWDC 2012
- A Few Words About The Talk Show
- More on Apple’s Removal of Airfoil Speakers Touch From the App Store
- How Apple Could Play the Bigger-Display iPhone Thing at WWDC, Which I Swear, I’m Still Not Convinced Is for Real But We’re Getting to the Point Where There’s an Awful Lot of Smoke for There Not to Be a Fire So Let’s Run With It
- iOS Low-Hanging Fruit
- Connect the Dots
April 2012
March 2012
February 2012
- Cookies and Privacy
- Mountain Lion
- Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’
- The ‘Apple Should Be Worried If Anyone Else Has Any Success Whatsoever’ School of Thought
January 2012
- I’ma Set It Straight, This Watergate
- On the Proprietary Nature of the iBooks Author File Format
- Regarding the Scope of Apple’s Education Initiative
- Why Are Android Smartphones Bigger Than the iPhone?
- On the Behavior of the iPhone Mute Switch
- The Church of Market Share
- Spaghetti Against the Wall
- You Do Not Need to Manually Manage iOS Multitasking
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December 2011
- Seeing It
- Merry
- The New Twitter (R.I.P. Tweetie)
- Translation From Corporate Jargon Doublespeak to English of Carrier IQ’s ‘Media Alert’
- Rootkit, Eh?
November 2011
October 2011
- Apps Are the New Channels
- The Just-Buy-Our-Devices Model
- Font Hipsters
- The iPhone 4S
- Thoughts and Observations Regarding This Week’s iPhone 4S Event, Written Almost Entirely Before Wednesday’s Sad News, But Which the Time Has Come to Publish Because Life Goes On
- Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot
September 2011
- Not So Fast on That ‘Samsung Official’
- Teardrop Skepticism
- Amazon’s New Kindles
- The Fall Event
- The Case for Going Metro-Only on ARM
- Metro
- All His Life Has He Looked Away, to the Future, to the Horizon. Never His Mind on Where He Was. What He Was Doing.
- Winning
- The New Apple Advantage
- Compromise
August 2011
- Resigned
- A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm and Is Getting Out of the PC Business
- Claim Chowder: Anders Bylund
- Balls
- More on Google and Patents
- Google: Patently Absurd
July 2011
- On Succeeding Steve Jobs
- The iPad’s Dominance of the Tablet Market
- Doesn’t Sound ‘Sober’ to Me
- On Attribution and Credit
June 2011
- On the N9 and MeeGo
- The Final Cut Pro X Backlash
- It’s All Software
- Demoted
- WWDC 2011 Prelude
- Ice Water Enthusiast
- The Future of NetNewsWire: An Interview With Brent Simmons and Black Pixel’s Daniel Pasco
- Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad
May 2011
April 2011
March 2011
- A Rule of Thumb: Pricing Should Be Simple
- The Evolution of SXSW Interactive
- Why the Nitro JavaScript Engine Isn’t Available to Apps Outside Mobile Safari in iOS 4.3
- Bending Over Backwards
- The iPad 2
- The Chair
- Dirty Percent
February 2011
- The Eleventh Hour
- The Next Six Months
- The Daily Wait
- The Verizon iPhone 4
- Oceania: We Have Always Required Books From the Eurasian E-Bookstore to Be Sold Through Our In-App Purchasing System
- Push Pop Press
January 2011
- Cold Water on the iPad 2 Retina Display Hype
- The Leave
- The Practical vs. Idealistic Scenarios for the Near-Term Future of Online Video
- Too Late
- Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping of H.264
- Bull’s-Eyes and Crosshairs
- Uniformity vs. Individuality in Mac UI Design
- Why Next Week’s Event Is Hosted by Verizon, Not Apple
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December 2010
- Emotional Rescue
- Title Junk
- The Best Laid Plans
- The iOS and Android App Economies
- The Future of the Mac in an iOS World
- Viber
November 2010
- News Corp’s Upcoming iPad App ‘The Daily’ to Pioneer New Recurring Subscription Billing
- Video Support for AirPlay Is Limited in iOS 4.2
- Where Are the Android Killer Apps?
- Masquerading as Mobile Safari to Get Websites to Serve HTML5 Video to Safari on Mac OS X
- Apple’s Pricing Advantage
- Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It
- Regarding the Idea of iPad Apps Running on Mac OS X
October 2010
- An Anthropomorphized White iPhone 4 Is Confronted Regarding Its Inability to Be Shipped
- The Air’s Spot in the Lineup
- Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X
September 2010
- Star-Struck
- A Facebook Phone?
- Regarding Ashok Kumar’s Track Record on Apple
- Then Welcome to Android
- What’s Next for Nokia?
- A Taste of What’s New in the Updated App Store License Agreement and New Review Guidelines
- Miscellaneous Observations Regarding the Gadgets That Were (and Were Not) Announced at Last Week’s Apple Event
- How Ping Might Grow
August 2010
- Getting There From Here, Where by ‘There’ I Mean a Web Where Flash Is Not a De Facto Standard Technology
- How to Judge the Battle Between Apple and Adobe Regarding Flash
- Creep Executive Officer
- January Jones
- N92
- Papermaster and That Damn Antenna
- Service: Open URLs in Safari Tabs
July 2010
- An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
- Sorry, No, I’m Not Going to Write a Piece Arguing That Dan Lyons Is a Jackass
- Antennagate Addendum
- Antennagate Bottom Line
- Translation From Apple’s Unique Dialect of PR-Speak to English of the ‘Letter From Apple Regarding iPhone 4’
- iPhone 4 3G Data Performance
June 2010
- 4
- FaceTime and the iPod Touch
- Marble Mystery Solved
- Apple’s System Apps
- WWDC 2010 Wrap-Up
- ‘First to Do It’ vs. ‘First to Do It Right’
- I’ll Tell You What’s Fair
- One Year
- iPhone 4 Impressions and Observations
- Countering the Perception That the iPhone OS Is Too Closed
- The Good and the Bad Regarding AT&T’s New Data Plans
May 2010
- Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks
- Post-I/O Thoughts
- iPad and Android Web Traffic Share
- John Paczkowski’s Interview With Adobe Co-Founder Chuck Geschke
- Where in the World Is Jesus Diaz?
- Adobe Flash: Almost as Open as Microsoft Office
- This Is How Apple Rolls
- Regarding John Nack on Apple’s Control Over Native iPhone OS Software
- Apple-Verizon Political Calculus, 2010 Edition
April 2010
- Middleware and Section 3.3.1
- Gizmodo and the Prototype iPhone
- Why 960 × 640
- Engadget Posts Pictures of Purported Next-Gen iPhone
- It’s Not the Control, It’s the Secrecy
- Mobile Multitasking
- A Brief Review of Opera Mini for iPhone
- Reading Between the iPhone OS 4.0 Lines
- New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler
- Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1
- The iPad
- The Kids Are All Right
March 2010
- Generals’ War
- On Submarine Patents vis-à-vis H.264 and Ogg Theora
- GIF, H.264, and Patents
- Hope You Enjoy the Smell of Napalm in the Morning
- Mozilla, Video, and Mobile Computing
- An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox
- iPhone Apps on the iPad
- Attention Is the Real Resource
- A Thought Regarding the Old Apple-v.-Microsoft ‘Look and Feel’ Lawsuit
- This Apple-HTC Patent Thing
- Assorted Brief Observations and Thoughts Regarding Windows Phone 7
February 2010
- Yet More on the Unfolding Future-of-Flash-and-the-Web Saga
- Tits and Apps
- The Whole Thing About Adobe’s Flash Player Not Having Access to H.264 Hardware Acceleration on Mac OS X
- Macworld Expo Prelude
- What if Flash Were an Open Standard?
January 2010
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December 2009
- The Tablet
- Why the HTML5 ‘Video’ Element Is Effectively Unusable, Even in Browsers Which Support It
- More on PastryKit
- PastryKit
- Who Do You Believe, Randall Stross or Your Own Lying Eyes?
November 2009
- A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
- iPhone Web Apps as an Alternative to the App Store
- Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle
- The OS Opportunity
- Oh Joe You Didn’t
- The Airfoil Speakers Touch Situation
- The Yankees
- Pinching and the Droid
October 2009
- Regarding Apple TV
- Regarding Joe Wilcox’s ‘iPhone Cannot Win the Smartphone Wars’ Piece
- Pound the Quality
- Herd Mentality
- Apple Netbook Claim Chowder
- Microsoft’s Competition for Windows 7
- C:\ONGRTLNS.OSX
September 2009
- Snow Leopard Adoption Rate
- How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed?
- Snow Leopard Compatibility Tweaks for That Thing I Wrote in January About Writing AppleScripts That Dynamically Target Either Safari or WebKit
- iTunes and Cocoa
- It’s Only Rock and Roll Event Prelude
- Regarding WordPress and Security
- More on the Snow Leopard/Old Version of Flash Brouhaha
- Regarding the Brouhaha Over the Version of Flash in Snow Leopard
August 2009
- So Dan Lyons Called
- How I Got the Google Voice/App Store Story Wrong
- Regarding the Lack of Consistency in the Age Ratings for Wikipedia-Based iPhone Apps
- Choice Nuggets From Apple’s Response to the FCC’s Inquiry Regarding the Rejection and Removal of Google Voice Apps From the App Store
- Android Opportunity Addenda
- The Android Opportunity
- Zune Apps
- Phil Schiller Responds Regarding Ninjawords and the App Store
- Ninjawords: iPhone Dictionary, Censored by Apple
July 2009
- Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline
- Apple Rejects Google Voice Apps From App Store
- Pay Walls
- Charging for Access to News Sites
- Simplenote
- Putting What Little We Actually Know About Chrome OS Into Context
- Mobile Phone Keyboards
- Creating Ogg Theora Files on Mac OS X With ffmpeg2theora
June 2009
- Copy and Paste
- Apple’s Secrecy
- Regarding the WSJ’s Report That Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant
- WWDC 2009 Wrap-Up
- WWDC 2009 Predictions
- Palm Saturday
- More on Palm’s WebOS ‘Media Sync’
- Why Palm’s WebOS ‘Media Sync’ iTunes Integration Can’t Be Legit
May 2009
- Excerpts From the Diary of an App Store Reviewer
- The Next iPhone
- Regarding the Verizon and ‘iPhone Lite’ Rumors
April 2009
- Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground
- How to Block the DiggBar
- New Daring Fireball T-Shirts
- Complex
March 2009
- Obsession Times Voice
- Observations, Complaints, Quibbles, and Suggestions Regarding the Safari 4 Public Beta Released One Week Ago, Roughly in Order of Importance
February 2009
- Lost in the Shuffle
- Best Picture
- Untitled Document Syndrome
- Apple on the Mind at MWC
- Copying the Wrong Thing
- Anti-Bootlegging Measures and the iPhone App Store
- Apple, Google, and Palm
- ‘Do Shell Script’ and Premature Optimization
January 2009
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December 2008
- E.T.
- Private
- That He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying
- Apple ‘Netbooks’, Eh?
- Bang
- Deep Green
- Regarding the John Does in Apple’s Amended Complaint Against Ersatz Mac Cloner Psystar
- DF Paraphernalia
November 2008
- The Richard Solo 1800 iPhone/iPod Backup Battery
- Treating URL Protocol Schemes as Cruft
- Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs
- iPhone-Optimized Google Search Results
- Flagging Messages From iPhone Mail
- Executive Scuttlebutt
- More Notes on Notes
- Tangled Up in White
- A Fantastic Monument
- iPhone-Likeness
- Regarding Opera Mini and the App Store
October 2008
- The Richard Solo iPhone/iPod Backup Battery
- Good RAM Prices From Apple on New MacBooks
- The Phone Company
- Translation From Weasel-Speak to English of the Entirety of Duncan Riley’s Second Post-MacBook-Introduction-Event Update to His Widely-Cited Week-Ago Report That Apple Was Going to Announce an ‘$800 Laptop’
- Listen to Tim Cook
- Contains Spoilers
- Today’s Claim Chowder
- The iPhone 3G
- In the Background
- The Fear
September 2008
- Regarding Apple’s Direct Sales of Unlocked, Contract-Free iPhones in Hong Kong
- Adobe Speaks of Flash Player for iPhone
- Are App Store Rejections Really Covered by the NDA?
- Digging Deeper
- There’s Nothing There
- W/r/t DFW
- Things That Podcaster’s Rejection From the App Store Is Not About
- The App Store’s Exclusionary Policies
- Greatly Exaggerated
- Notes and Observations Regarding Yesterday’s ‘Let’s Rock’ Apple Special Event
August 2008
- Raining on the OpenClip Parade
- Title Case Update
- Memoranda
- It’s a Core Location Blacklist
- Is the iPhone NDA About Patents?
- iPhone, iCal, and CalDAV
- iPhone Calendar Syncing
July 2008
- Not Yet Squirrelly
- WebKit Performance on iPhone OS 2.0
- Distant and Remote
- Copy and Paste
- iPhone Display Color Temperature, and the Difference Between Builds 5A345 and 5A347 of the iPhone OS
- The App Store, Day One
June 2008
- Trade-Offs
- Android Expectations
- New Linked List Permalinks
- WWDC 2008 Miscellany
- Up Flash Creek Without a Paddle
- The iPhone 3G Upgrade Question
- Twice as Fast, Half the Price
- The Ins and Outs of Snow Leopard
- ‘Snow Leopard’ at WWDC
- me.com
May 2008
- Mobile Me?
- Spaces in 10.5.3
- Sixty-Six
- Title Case
- Why Apple Won’t Buy Adobe
- BlackBerry vs. iPhone
- Is This Microsoft-NBC ‘Copyright Cop’ Thing Bullshit or What?
- Regarding the iPhone Keyboard
- Subsidize This
April 2008
- Big Fan
- Stopped Clock
- The Unsatisfying State of Twitter Web Clients for the iPhone
- The Invisible Bit
- How Much Money Does Apple Get From Google?
- Mac OS X’s ‘Search in Google’ Safari Tie-In
- Safari’s Tab Dragging Modes
- Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3 Addenda
- Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3
- The $64,000 Question
March 2008
- Get Your Helmet On
- Quoting Attribution Bug in Apple Mail After Upgrading to Safari 3.1
- T-Shirts and Memberships, 2008
- Update
- How Leander Kahney Got Everything Wrong by Being an Irredeemable Jackass
- Regarding That Fucking Headline
- Apple Mail and the Control Key
- So Who’s In Already?
- Foot, Meet Bullet
- One App at a Time
- Confusion Regarding iPhone Developer Beta Program
- The Flip Side of the Multitasking Argument
- More Questions
- iPhone Enterprise and SDK: First Impressions and Questions
- ExpanDrive
- iPhone SDK Rumors and Speculation
February 2008
- Just the Internet
- Flim-Flash
- Leopard Details: Anchored Row Selection in NSTableView
- The Appeal of the MacBook Air
- Flash on iPhone Political Calculus
- News Flash: No Flash
- Using FastScripts as a Lightweight Alternative to Growl
- Devil’s Advocate
- Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid
- Some of the Tweets All of the Time vs. All of the Tweets Some of the Time
- Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo
January 2008
- My Favorite CARS Moment
- Apple First Quarter 2008 Results
- Why the Mac Doesn’t Seem Viable for For-Profit Malware
- The Talk Show, or at Least Half of It, Live at Macworld
- Keynote Roundup
- iTunes Terms of Service Update for Movie Rentals
- The MacBook Air
- Macworld Expo Predictions
- Macworld Expo Prelude
- Advertising on Daring Fireball
- Where Keyboard Shortcuts Win
- The Way the Camera Follows Us in Slo-Mo