2015–2016
1,478 posts
2016 758
December 2016
- How China Built ‘iPhone City’
- The ‘K iPhone’
- Prospects for the American Press
- Untraditional Media Companies
- World War Three, by Mistake
- Innovation in Desktop Macs
- Goodbye Mint, Goodbye Fever
- Google Is Adjusting Results to Compensate for Holocaust Denialist Sites
- Redefining ‘Fake News’
- Assorted Year-End Lists
- Countering Consumer Reports’ MacBook Pro Battery Tests
- Consumer Reports Finds Wildly Inconsistent Battery Life With New MacBook Pros
- FCC Republicans Vow to Gut Net Neutrality Rules “As Soon as Possible”
- In Latest Bid to Compete With Facebook, Twitter Unveils Grossly Inflated Video Ad Metrics
- Apple Indefinitely Delays ATS Requirement
- AirPods Latency
- CRTC Declares Broadband Internet Access a Basic Service
- AirPods Post-Launch Round-Up
- Uber’s Losses May Hit $3 Billion by Year’s End
- Twenty Years Ago, Apple Acquired NeXT
- The Mac
- 750,000 L.A. County Residents’ Personal Information Compromised by Phishing Attack
- Facebook Messenger Launches Group Video Chat
- Nine Inch Nails Announce New EP, Vinyl Reissues
- Google and Apple Say They Would Not Help Build a Muslim Registry
- Evernote Decides Not to Let Employees Read Users’ Notes
- ‘It’s Almost Like Recode Was in the Air Duct at Trump Tower’
- FCC Chair Tom Wheeler to Step Down January 20
- Quitting the News
- Facebook Is Going to Try Tackling Fake News With Fact-Checkers
- Trump’s Tech Summit
- Over One Billion Yahoo Accounts Compromised
- Tech Companies and a Muslim Registry
- The Hampered Web
- Apple Releases More OS Updates
- AirPods Are Now Available
- Lawsuit: Uber Retains Location Data, Staff Have Spied on Public Figures
- Apple Releases OS Updates, New TV App
- When Trump Tweets
- Facebook Begins a Series of Press Releases Admitting to Inaccurate Metrics
- AirPods Reportedly Delayed Due to Audio Synchronization Issues
- The Finder GUI Tax
- Live, for the Moment
- Apple Said to Fly Drones to Improve Maps Data
- A History of the ‘Get a Mac’ Campaign
- ‘Very Small Number’
- Tim Cook Says That the Watch Is Having Its Best Quarter Yet
- Joshua Topolsky and Friends Launch the Outline
- Tech Companies Delay Diversity Reports
- Apple’s Support Gap
- Nico Rosberg Announces His Retirement From Formula 1
- FCC Says AT&T and Verizon Are Violating Net Neutrality Rules
- WordPress Will Begin Requiring SSL for Some Features
- Brookings: U.S. Manufacturing Sector Is More Productive Despite Fewer Jobs
- Do the Twist
- George Hotz Releases Open-Source Autonomous Driving Software
- Understanding Uber’s Bleak Operating Economics
- Apple Is Working on a Fix for iCloud Calendar Spam
November 2016
- Tim Cook: AirPods Expected to Ship Within the Next Few Weeks
- The Tenth Anniversary of (Product) Red
- Default Apps on iOS
- New York Times Subscription Growth Soars Tenfold
- Seventy Years of Sony
- Archiving the Internet in Canada
- Protecting Your Web History With HTTPS
- Macs and ARM CPUs
- Twelve People Get Different Jobs
- Power Users and the New MacBook Pro
- Margaret Hamilton Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Preventing iCloud Calendar Spam
- In the MacBook Pros, the Connector to Nowhere Goes Somewhere
- Reddit’s CEO Edited User Comments Directed Towards Him
- Facebook Reportedly Created a Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China
- Speechless
- Billionaires Are a Unique Threat to Journalists
- AppNexus Bans Breitbart From Their Advertising Network
- Meet Trump’s FCC Advisors
- A Case Study of a Viral Fake News Story
- Unexpected Shutdown Problem Affecting Some Early Production iPhone 6S Phones
- Apple Reportedly Abandons Development of Wireless Routers
- Barack Obama on Fake News
- Fact-Checking Facebook
- Mark Zuckerberg Is in Denial
- What.CD Raided, Shuttered
- British ‘Investigatory Powers Bill’ Set to Become Law
- iOS’ Call History Is Being Uploaded to iCloud
- The Popularity of ‘Top Gear’, Fuelled by Piracy
- Having Presumably Solved Relentless Abuse on Their Platform, Twitter Introduces QR Codes
- Apple Has Eliminated Sal Soghoian’s Position
- More of Facebook’s Metrics Found to Be Exaggerated
- Twitter’s New Anti-Harrassment Tools Were Immediately Undermined by Ads
- Onboard Flash Storage vs. ‘Onboard Flash Storage’
- Crazy Talk
- Google to Ban AdSense on Fake News Sites
- Housekeeping
- Google’s Top News Link for ‘Final Election Results’ Goes to a Fake News Site
- A Wish List for the Mac App Store
- Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s Role in Promoting Fake News
- Facebook Questions Its Influence
- The Retina Divide
- Privacy and Data Collection During a Trump Presidency
- Apps for the Apple TV Can Now Be Purchased on Other Devices
- Music Includes User Instructions in iOS 10.2
- Samsung Runs Full-Page Apology Letters in Major U.S. Newspapers
- Fake Apps Masquerading as Popular Retailers Appearing in the App Store
- Some Publishers Are Seeing Significantly Increased Traffic From Apple News
- Explaining Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C
- Some Publishers are Scrapping Scummy ‘Around the Web’ Ads
- On Tuesday, the Guardian Will Push Up-to-the-Moment Election Notifications
- The Curious Case of the Diverging Analysts
- Gawker Settles in Favour of the Man Who Lied About Inventing Email
- Apple Drops Prices on First- and Third-Party USB-C Adapters
- When Mythical Transparent iPhones and Apple Patents Collide
- An Interview With Phil Schiller
- Talkshow App to Shut Down December 1
- The Apple TV
- RIP, Startup Chime
October 2016
- Why the Touch Bar Makes Sense for Professional Users
- Teardown Reveals New MacBook Pro Has Removable SSD
- Apple Discontinues the Non-Retina MacBook Pro
- Twitter Is Broken, Yet Vital
- The Death of Vine Makes the Internet a Worse Place
- CNet’s Interview With Apple Executives About the New MacBook Pros
- The New MacBook Pros
- Log Littering
- Reading Between the Lines of Next-Generation iPhone Rumours
- AirPods Release Delayed
- Apple Reports Q4 Results
- Kara Swisher on Tech’s White Male Problem
- The Wirecutter Acquisition Is Validating for Atypical Business Models
- The New York Times Is Buying the Wirecutter
- Updates Available for MacOS, WatchOS, and iOS
- IDC: Over 50% Decline in Year-Over-Year Smartwatch Sales for Q3
- Regulating the Internet of Things
- AT&T Reaches Deal to Buy Time Warner for More Than $80 Billion
- DDoS on Dyn Impacts Popular Websites, Services
- Google Has Quietly Dropped Their Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
- ‘Anniversaries Are About Getting Old’
- Reported Performance Discrepancies Between Intel and Qualcomm Modems in the iPhone 7
- Computational Photography and the Pixel
- Hello Again
- Two Twitter Offers Rumoured to Have Dissolved Due to Trolls
- Good Design, Inside and Out
- Mac-Focused Apple Event Rumoured to Be Held October 27
- Field Notes: Lunacy
- New MacBooks Still Rumoured for October
- A Profile of Tracy Chou
- Shame on Y Combinator
- Project Titan Reportedly Scaled Back
- ‘Welcome to Macintosh’ Season 3
- Ampholes
- Remembering the SR-71 Rumour Mill
- Well Rounded
- Getting Sirious
- The Environmental Cost of the Galaxy Note 7 Recall
- Walt Mossberg on Siri
- User Fingerprinting Through Social Media Account Login Tokens
- Samsung Ends Production of the Note 7
- An Update on the Dash App Situation
- AnandTech’s iPhone 7 Review
- Samsung Introduces the DP700C6A-X01US ‘ArtPC’
- Control
- Poor Reporting on Yahoo’s Email Snooping
- Purgeable Space in MacOS Sierra
- Samsung Acquires Viv
- Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phone Catches Fire
- iCloud Storage Pricing
- Dash App Removed From Mac App Store
- Not OK, Google
- Treating Data Like Waste
- Other Tech Companies Respond to Yahoo’s Snooping
- Yahoo’s Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year Gets Worse
- Dropbox’s Finder Toolbar
- In the DRC, Mining Cobalt for Lithium Ion Batteries
- What the Twitter Sale Reveals About Twitter
September 2016
- An In-Depth Look at Depth
- Customers Respond to an Apparent Hardware Defect Affecting iPhone 6 Plus Models
- The Scorpion Express
- Security Firm Claims Yahoo’s Hackers Weren’t State-Sponsored
- BlackBerry Stops Making Phones
- Features vs. Apple’s Hardline Stance on Privacy
- Faith in Data and Algorithms
- “For Some Reason”
- Buzzfeed’s Profile of Apple Music’s 2016 Updates
- Disney Rumoured to Be Working on a Twitter Bid
- Opt-in for Differential Privacy Features Is Unclear in iOS 10
- Chris Ziegler Took a Job at Apple While Working for the Verge, and Then Things Got Weird
- Safari and Chrome Updated to Autoplay Muted Videos on Mobile
- Apple Responds to Allegations of Toxic Work Environment
- Yahoo’s Three Hacks
- Yahoo Confirms Breach of Over Half a Billion User Accounts
- As Google Launches Allo, It Retreats on Privacy Protections
- Apple Previews iOS 10.1 With ‘Portrait’ Camera Mode
- Novelty and Legacy
- Transit Hits 4.0
- Siri Is Better, but Not Yet Brilliant
- MacOS Sierra
- Photos of Google’s Upcoming Pixel Phones
- New Apple Music, iPhone, and Apple Watch Ads
- DisplayMate Assesses the iPhone 7
- Pulitzers, Pardons, and the Post
- A Day at the Races With the iPhone 7
- Big Advertisers Form ‘Coalition for Better Ads’
- Vince Staples Reviews the More Diverse Emoji in iOS 10
- Stepping in It
- A Thousand Days
- Benchmarking the A10 Fusion
- Mic: ‘Leaked Apple Emails Reveal Employees’ Complaints About Sexist, Toxic Work Environment’
- iPad Pro Optimizations in the Latest Version of iWork
- Panic Pals
- How RAW Capture Makes for Better iPhone Photography
- Shooting Photos With the iPhones 7 in Rwanda
- Emoji Remix
- Matt Birchler Reviews WatchOS 3
- iOS 10: The Pixel Envy Review
- iOS 10 Improves Targeting Restrictions
- Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 Recall Is a Nightmare So Far
- Facebook’s Trending Topics Algorithm Is a ‘Truther’
- Facebook Censored One of the Most Well-Known Photos of War
- Apple Won’t Publicize First-Weekend iPhone Sales
- Galaxy Note 7 Gets FAA Warning
- Thoughts on Today’s Apple Event
- Get a Mop and Call a Plumber
- App Store Name Lengths
- Various Trademarks Revealed in Advance of Tomorrow’s iPhone Event
- Amazon Is Working Towards Ownership of Its Entire Shipping Chain
- Tim Bajarin: Apple’s Control Over Its Supply Chain Is the Key to Its Success
- Samsung Initiates Worldwide Recall for Galaxy Note 7
- A Short History of Project Ara in Press Coverage Excerpts
- Google Shelves Project Ara
- Analysis of Last.fm’s 2012 Hack
- Managing Expectations for the Demise of the Headphone Jack
- Apple to Clean Up App Store Spam and Old Apps
August 2016
- Google Rumoured to Be Dropping ‘Nexus’ Brand With New, More Proprietary Phones
- Washio’s Legacy
- Joe Sutter, Dead at 95
- Final Nestination
- 68 Million Dropbox Users’ Account Details Were Stolen in 2012
- An Interview With a Former Facebook Trending Stories Curator
- E.U. Tightens Net Neutrality Guidelines
- Apple Ordered to Pay €13 Billion in Back Taxes
- Refreshed Macs Rumoured to Launch Later This Year
- Facebook’s Trending Stories Versus Clickbait
- Facebook Trending Stories Are Now Guided Programmatically, Obviously
- Spotify Is Allegedly ‘Burying’ Musicians That Also Have Exclusives on Competing Platforms
- Twitter Rumoured to Be Working on Keyword Filtering to Combat Harassment
- Keystroke Recognition via WiFi
- Dropbox Is Resetting Passwords That Haven’t Been Changed Since Mid-2012
- Shorting Lives
- The Trident Exploit
- Spotify Renegotiating Licensing Contracts
- Exclusives
- Google Search Will Penalize Mobile Sites With Interstitial Ads
- The Best Photo Editing App for Your iPhone
- Pinstapaper
- Apple Mart
- Bandcamp Is the People’s Online Music Store
- Blonde Bombshell
- Every Joke From ‘Airplane!’ Ranked
- The Final Vesper
- Net Nanny, Anew
- Opaque Transparency
- NSA Hacking Tools Leaked
- Taking CarPlay for a Spin
- Facebook’s Struggle to Build a More Diverse Workforce
- A Pre-Post-Mortem for Gawker
- Gawked
- NYT Now to Be Discontinued August 29
- Twitter to Roll Out Quality Filter to All Users
- Generated Maps of Fantasy Worlds
- NPR to Drop Comments on Their Website
- Verizon Has Offered to Force Apps Onto Users’ New Android Phones
- Apple’s Presentation at Black Hat
- WordPress Version 4.6
- Intel to Produce 10nm ARM Processors
- Google Is Discontinuing Google Plus’ Hangouts on Air
- Sportsball Is Rumoured to Be Coming to the Apple TV via Twitter
- VBR MP3s and AVFoundation
- Breadth and Depth
- Google Plus Continues Its Slow March Towards the Sunset
- Maybe an OLED Strip Could Bring QuickType to the Mac
- Cat and Mouse
- Apple Rumoured to Be Working on a MacBook Pro Overhaul
- John Oliver Isn’t Responsible for Saving Journalism
- ‘A Honeypot for Assholes’
- Creepy Email Spam From Criteo
- Snapchat Releases, Then Pulls, ‘Yellowface’ Selfie Filter
- Diversity of Tech Companies by the Numbers: 2016 Edition
- Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish
- Facebook Says That It Will Override Ad Blockers
- Slides From Apple’s Presentation at Black Hat USA (PDF)
- Google Debuts New Photos Commercial
- Tweaked First-Generation Apple Watch Rumoured to Release Alongside New Model
- A Rough Week for Twitter Communications
- Don’t Mention the Games
- A Minimum Expectation of Privacy
- Amicus Curiæ of Designers Submits a Brief in Favour of Apple (PDF)
- Samsung Files for a Design Patent Using Drawings of an Apple Watch
- The Audacity of Copying Well
- Comcast Exploring Plans to Sell Customers’ Web Browsing Data to Advertisers
- Yahoo Is Investigating a Possible Leak of 200M Accounts
- Apple Releases Its 2016 Corporate Diversity Stats
- The Outline of Joshua Topolsky
- Glow App Exposed Women to Privacy Threats
- Google to Automatically Link to AMP Results When Available
- Over 100 Redesigned and More Diverse Emoji Coming With iOS 10
- Boys Don’t Cry
- The Most Popular Product of All Time
July 2016
- The Dirty Thirties
- Intuition and iOS
- The Amazon-to-eBay Arbitrage Scheme
- Microsoft to Lay Off Nearly Three Thousand Nokia Employees
- Another Analyst Offers Tim Cook Some Advice
- Don’t Cry for Yahoo
- You Know What’s Cool?
- Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
- Illegally Downloading Music Like It’s 1999
- Transit Cartography
- An Interview With Kara Swisher
- Koenigsegg’s Analysis of Their Nurburgring Accident
- A Short History of Yahoo Acquisition Attempts
- PonoMusic Goes Dark for Several Weeks as the Company Switches Providers
- Verizon Said to Announce $4.8 Billion Yahoo Takeover Tomorrow
- Stellar.io Has Officially Shut Down
- Verizon Is Close to Acquiring Yahoo
- Make America Colbert Again
- Homeland Security Tried to Confiscate a WSJ Reporter’s Phones
- Pixellating or Blurring Text in Photoshop Creates Identifiable Patterns
- Limiting Harassment, Not Speech
- Apple and Formula 1
- Leslie Jones and Harassment on Twitter
- iTunes Match Audio Fingerprinting Is Coming to Apple Music
- Tech Companies and Diversity Hiring
- Windows 10 to Miss Billion-Device Goal Deadline
- Diversity Is a Broken Product
- Excuse Season Rapidly Approaches
- The Playlist Makers
- U.S. Federal Court Rules That Home Computer Users Have No Expectation of Privacy
- Remember the Halcyon Days of Facebook Bots?
- Registration for XOXO 2016 Is Now Open
- IDC Estimates That Macintosh Sales Slipped at Nearly Twice the Market Rate
- Seeking Theresa May’s Web Browsing History
- Facebook Starts Testing End-to-End Encryption in Messenger
- Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Fails Water Resistance Test
- Facebook Explains Censorship Policy for Live Video
- Facebook, Life’s New Gatekeeper
- This Is the Year the Home Screen Dies, Again
- A Golden Clause for Mozilla
- Grey Group Returns Award, Is Kind of a Dick About It
- BBEdit 11.6
- E.U. Approves Network Security Law
- The Danger of Dependencies
- Google to Stop Running Flash Ads in January 2017
- ‘Unnecessary BS’
- ‘No Longer Available’ in iCloud Music Library
- The Hidden Price of Convenience
- LinkedIn Shopped Itself to Microsoft, Salesforce, Google, and Others
- Whither the Webpage
- Apple Replies to Spotify’s Claims, Says They’re Full of Shit
- A Sociological Perspective on the Moral Economy of Tech
- Facebook to Discontinue Paper July 29
- Apple Reportedly Exploring a Tidal Acquisition
June 2016
- Apple Is Reportedly Not Approving a Spotify App Update
- Facebook Is Updating Their Feed Rankings to Prioritize Friends
- The Tenth Anniversary of the Switch to Intel
- MFi Specifications for Lightning Headphones
- The Moral Economy of Tech
- Facebook Admits, Then Denies, Using Location Data to Suggest Friends
- Chris Vickery Has a Copy of the World-Check Crime Watchlist
- Twitter’s Temporary Following Feature
- Homescreen App Rejected by Apple for ‘Intellectual Property’ Violation
- On Using Google Trends for Statistical Research
- New in Notifications
- U.S. Customs Proposes Collecting Social Media Handles of Foreign Travellers
- Grey Group Childishly Defends ‘I Sea’ App
- Michael Flarup’s Thoughts on the Official Apple App Icon Template
- Differential Privacy Features Will Be Opt-In in iOS 10
- Apple Discontinues the Thunderbolt Display
- The Path of Least Resistance
- Reporters Imprisoned
- C-SPAN Is Now Broadcasting via Periscope and Facebook Live
- Snapchat Has a History of Copying Artists
- Apple Understands Photography, I’m Pretty Sure
- The Sound of Lightning
- Big, Bold, and Beautiful
- Facebook Votes to Keep Peter Thiel on Their Board
- A Translation of Tronc’s Internal Brand Introductory Video
- Apple Pulls ‘I Sea’ From the App Store
- iOS 10 and the iPad
- The Talk Show at WWDC
- Unlockable swift
- Fumblr
- That iMessage-on-Android Rumour, Post-WWDC
- Apple Is Allowing App Store Ad Bids on Competitors’ Names
- Backchannel Is Moving to Condé Nast
- Digging Into the Dev Documentation for APFS
- All LinkedIn With Nowhere to Go
- Next Steps for Legacy Plug-Ins
- Billboard Interviews the Executive Team Behind Apple Music
- Peter Thiel’s Lawyer v. Gawker — Again
- U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds Classification of ISPs as Utilities
- Differential Privacy
- More on Deleting Default Apps in iOS 10
- Remove Default Apps in iOS 10
- RNI Films
- Gawker Files for Bankruptcy
- Ruin Your Google Search History
- Picking and Choosing
- (Kind Of) Clarifying App Store Subscriptions
- VSCO Updated With New Interface
- More on App Subscriptions
- Lumia 650 Photo Samples
- One Week With the Microsoft Lumia 650
- Major Changes Coming to the App Store Ahead of WWDC
- U.K. House of Commons Passes Mass Surveillance Bill
- The Alexa Opportunity
- How Might a Siri API Work?
- The Rise of the Guilt-Ridden ‘No’
- Wired Magazine, 1993-1995
- Waze Against the Machine
- Cartography Differences in Apple Maps and Google Maps
- Fixing App Store Discovery
- Icons vs. Textual Labels in UI Design
- A Look at Twitter After Nearly a Year Under Jack Dorsey
- LinkedIn’s Sloppiness Hurts Us All
- Tony Fadell is Leaving Nest
- New York Above 800 Feet
- Christmas in June
- Outages Across iCloud Services
- Apple Releases Updated Version of iOS 9.3.2 for 9.7-Inch iPad Pro
- Police Are Now Filing Warrants for Android’s Stored Location Data
- All Major Canadian Banks Now Support Apple Pay
- Apple Reportedly Prepping a 5K Thunderbolt Display
- Mark Gurman No Longer at 9to5Mac
May 2016
- Facebook Reportedly Planning to Add Encryption to Messenger
- Microsoft’s Upgrade Deceptions Are Undermining Windows 10
- Seven Hundred Million
- Every Default OS X Desktop Picture
- Facebook Begins Allowing Advertisers to Target Non-Users
- Motorola Is on Its Way Out at Lenovo
- The Similarity of Differences
- Adobe Addresses ProRes Support on Windows
- TD Canada Training Employees on Apple Pay
- A Nineteenth-Century ASCII Mystery
- Microsoft to Stop Making Smartphones
- Meet VocalIQ
- Apple Reportedly Working on Siri API, Hardware Companion
- Twitter Officially Announces Changes to Character Counting in Tweets
- Machine Learning Bias
- Streaming Apps
- Illegal Numbers
- Allo and Duo
- New Union Square Apple Store Opening on Saturday
- Apple Is Promoting Auxiliary WWDC Events
- A 1-Million-Site Measurement and Analysis of Online Tracking
- Google Assistant
- On the Female Gendering of Bots
- A Collection of iTunes 12.4-Related Links
- The Ironic Loss of the Postmodern Best Store Facades
- ‘You Were Born Here; You Bought This; You Made This; You Posted These’
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being Yourself
- MCX Postpones Rollout of CurrentC
- AnandTech’s iPhone SE Review
- ‘Shrink It and Pink It’ Done Right
- Even Neil Young Isn’t Using Pono
- Dark Patterns
- Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in Character Limit
- Apple Releases OS X 10.11.5, iTunes 12.4
- Apple Releases iOS 9.3.2
- Jason Scott Is Archiving Thousands of Hip-Hop Mixtapes
- When Worse Is Better
- Apple Has Dramatically Reduced App Review Time
- Apple Invests $1B in Didi Chuxing, China’s Uber
- Automattic to Offer .blog TLD
- On Using Digital Music News as a Source
- Mistrust of Facebook’s Trending Topics
- The Natural History of Palatino
- Emoji, Racism, and Entitlement
- The Panic Sign
- Instagram’s New Icon
- Criteo and AdRoll, the Web’s Cookie Monsters
- All Five Major Canadian Banks to Support Apple Pay
- Siri Creators Debut Viv
- The Future of Food, According to Silicon Valley
- 3D Printing the Void
- What’s the Yams?
- Ten Months of Apple Music
- Apple Music Isn’t Wiping Your Library
- Sebastiaan De With Reviews the Leica M
- An Interview With Matt Haughey
- Thoughts on the Apple TV After Six Months
- Apple Pay and the Future of Wallets
- Five-Finger Education Discount
- Still Probably Not Wright
- A Mindset for Change
- Historical iPhone Screen Sizes
- Man Alive Again
April 2016
- Intel’s Smartphone SoCs Officially Cancelled
- The Convergence of Emoji
- ‘Sorry, You Don’t Understand’
- Apple Announces New Apple Music API
- Google Hires Motorola CEO Rick Osterloh as SVP for New Unified Hardware Division
- iPhone SE Demand Is ‘Overwhelming’
- Americans Are Keeping Their Phones Longer
- Not ‘For Me’
- Picking Apart Apple’s Q2 2016 Numbers
- ‘Your Problem Is That You Make Shit’
- Uncanny Valley
- The Amazingly Underwhelming Apple Watch
- Pegatron Allowed Bloomberg Access to a Factory
- Fail Whale
- MacOS and the ‘It Just Works’ Mantra
- All Apple Watch Apps Must Be Native Apps Starting on June 1
- Personal Information From 90 Million Mexican Voters Was Left Online, Unsecured
- FTC to Crack Down on Cross-Browser Tracking
- Android Attack
- Prince: Technologist and Luddite
- Search in the App Store
- Looking at the Future
- Ad Tech Is Completely Broken
- San Francisco Mono
- Red Lights
- A Blast From the Past
- European Commission Sends Statement of Objections to Google
- Option to Log in With iCloud Password Removed in OS X 10.11.4
- Apple Starts Rolling Out Web Previews for tvOS App Links
- Helena, the Mysterious Startup
- Minor MacBook Improvements
- MapKit.js
- WWDC 2016 Officially Announced
- NASA’s Fabled 1970s Graphics Manual Reprinted
- Media Websites Battle Faltering Traffic
- Facebook’s Messenger Bots Are Frustrating
- WWDC 2016 To Be Held June 13 – 17
- The App Effect
- QuickTime for Windows Has Reached End-of-Life
- Researchers Brute-Force Shortened Links
- Motor Trend’s Fake Apple Car
- Apple Reportedly Pursuing Search Improvements in the App Store
- The RCMP Has the Master Encryption Key for Every BlackBerry
- Microsoft Sues for Right to Tell Customers When Government Requests Emails
- Ben Brooks on Consolidating 3D Touch and the Long Press
- Good News for Electronic Privacy, for Once
- FBI Reportedly Paid a Security Research Team for Vulnerability
- Earnest
- The Layer Between You and the Future
- Semi-Automated Podcast Transcription
- The Mac Product Grid
- (F)utility
- An IP Mapping Glitch Turned a Kansas Farm Into a Digital Hell
- Now You Can Never Leave Facebook
- Airports Designed for Everyone but the Passenger
- On 3D Touch
- ‘Ludicrous, Dangerous, and Technically Illiterate’
- Publishers React to the Brave Browser’s Ad Manipulation
- Personal Data Leaked From 100 Million Citizens of Turkey and the Philippines
- Improving the Apple Watch Through Better Software
- White House Reportedly Declines to Support Encryption Legislation
- iTunes Metadata Suggests Forthcoming Ability to Hide Stock Apps on iOS
- Yahoo’s Financials Reveal a Meltdown
- Medium-Sized Publications to Move to Medium
- HP Has a New Logo Maybe
- Nestitute
- The Making of Amazon’s Echo
- Alphabet’s Nest to Brick Revolv Products
- The Macs Apple Was Selling in 1996
- Dillan’s Voice
- AP to Lowercase “Internet”
- John Moltz’s Review of the iPhone SE
- IFTTT Reaches Out to Pinboard
- John Gruber’s Review of the iPhone SE
- Checks and Balances
- 40 Years of Apple
- Google’s Tasteless April Fools’ Day Gag
March 2016
- Mac OS X, Which Became OS X, Might Become macOS
- FBI Agrees to Help Arkansas Prosecutors Open iPhone
- WebKit’s New Feature Status Page
- Introducing Safari Technology Preview
- F u nest
- Heroically Lazy
- Tidal Says It Has Three Million Paying Users
- FBI Successfully Unlocks iPhone
- The App Store’s Golden Opportunity
- Instagram Users Prompting Followers to Turn on Notifications in Preparation for an Algorithmic Feed
- Kanye West’s Technological Gamble
- Recode: Apple Pay for Mobile Websites Coming Later This Year
- Apple Is Selling Microsoft Office as an iPad Pro Accessory
- Aapl.De.App
- Apple’s Privacy Czars
- Garry Shandling, Dead at 66
- Rottenest
- About the iPad Pro’s Embedded Apple SIM
- Apple’s Naming Conventions
- Really Sad
- Camera.app Pauses Audio Playback
- Biggie Smalls
- The Past, Present, and Future of Twitter
- The DOJ Cancels Their Genius Bar Appointment
- New Apple Watch Bands
- Apple Releases iOS 9.3, watchOS 2.2, tvOS 9.2, and OS X 10.11.4
- The Art of an Apple Event
- Microsoft Hired ‘Erotic Schoolgirl’-Themed Dancers for an Xbox Event
- Apple Engineers Could Refuse to Comply With the FBI’s Requests
- Six Months Later, and Game Centre is Still Broken
- Confessions of a Sponsored Content Writer
- Strange Bedfellows
- Apple Files Their Final Response to the DOJ
- NYT Strengthens Rules Governing Anonymous Sourcing
- Apple Releases Its Proprietary Apple News Format
- ‘It’s No One’s Business but Yours’
- John Oliver’s Take on the Apple-FBI Encryption Case
- The U.S. Government Is Very Afraid of Smartphones They Can’t Access
- Bruce Sewell on a Media Conference Call
- The DOJ Threatens to Seize the iOS Source Code
- NSA Data Will Soon Be Used for U.S. Domestic Policing
- Sir Ken Adam, Dead at 95
- The Force Quit Fallacy
- ‘Let Us Loop You In’
- Eric Schmidt, iPhone User
- Wired’s Tired Flickr Article
- Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colours
- ‘Polaris’ Framework Loads Web Pages One-Third Faster
- Aperture Migration Plan
- How FOIA Reform Was Killed
- Someone With Tiny Hands
- Apple Approves, Then Pulls FlexBright Display Adjustment App
- The Verge Reviews the New Samsung Galaxy Models
- The Spaceship Rises
- Federighi: The FBI Wants to Roll Back Security
- Verizon Fined for ‘Supercookie’ Privacy Violation
- New OS X Ransomware KeRanger Infected Transmission BitTorrent Client
- Ray Tomlinson Dies
- 11 Across: “Crib”
- Test Case, Please Ignore
- On Dormant Cyber Pathogens and Unicorns
- Amazon Drops Encryption Support From Its Fire Products
- All These Straws and So Few People to Grasp at Them
- Older OS X Installers Are Affected by App Store Certificate Expiration
- The Mickey Mouse Club
- The FBI’s Tragic Mistakes in San Bernardino
- More on Digital Textbooks
- Textbooks on the iPad
- Eric Schmidt Goes to the Pentagon
- Apple and the FBI Testify Before Congress
- Developers Review Apple’s App Review Process
- Digital Maps Are Inaccurate in China by Design
- “It Also Comes Standard With Apple CarPlay”
- New York Judge Rules Against Justice Department’s Use of All Writs Act
February 2016
- Still Disconnected
- The 2015 Barvd Roundup
- Apple Event on March 21
- Apple Blacklists Its Own Ethernet Driver
- Prioritize Wi-Fi Networks on Your iOS Device
- Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That NSA Intercepts
- Diversity Is Critical in Company Culture
- Here Come the Reinforcements
- Motion to Vacate
- Apple to Improve iCloud Encryption
- Updating Netflix’s Recommendations for Near-Worldwide Support
- Lock It All Down
- Extending Your Smartphone Battery Life
- Ample Concern
- The Propaganda of Pantone
- Exploring the Secure Enclave
- DOJ Seeking Data From Twelve More iPhones
- An Adjustment of FBI Director James Comey’s Blog Post for Candour
- Twitter Hires Natalie Kerris for PR
- The iPad-Only Life
- Sony Announces the New Xperia X Series
- Apple, China, the FBI, and the NYT
- Strategy Analytics Estimates Decent Apple Watch Sales Figures for 2015
- LG’s Next Phone Rumoured to Feature Expansion Slots
- More Links About the Apple-FBI Story
- NYT Pulls Mentions of China From Article About Apple’s Encryption Case
- A Profile of Apple SVP of Hardware Technologies Johny Srouji
- RIP, Error 53
- Apple’s Privacy Stance Draws Weak-Ass Copycat Peer Responses
- Health and Privacy at Work
- Spying on Apple
- Establishing Precedent
- Tim Cook Responds to the Court’s Order
- Notes on Apple’s Ordered Intrusion of the San Bernardino iPhone
- Judge Rules That Apple Must Help Decrypt Terrorist’s iPhone
- Craig Mod Reviews the Leica Q
- Proper Support for Apple Pay in Canada Is Getting Closer
- The Kanye Effect
- The Shirt and Hair Show
- Twitter Addressing the Dot-Reply Convention
- Inside the Kanye West Think Tank
- Here Comes the Algorithmic Timeline
- Twitter Links to Be Fixed in Next Major Version of Safari
- Google Deprecated Security Questions
- The Apple Watch and Mechanical Watches
- Press Coverage of Twitter’s Announcements From Today
- Zero Rating and Net Neutrality
- Apple TV to Gain Dictation, Siri App Store Search
- Trusty Support
- Google Cracking Down on Ad Blockers in the Play Store
- Tim Cook Holds Town Hall
- Brown Note
- Walt Mossberg: Apple’s Apps Need Work
- Apple Event Rumoured for March 15
- Firewatch Is Now Available for Preorder
- Uber Is Paying Some of Its Workforce Less Than Minimum Wage
- Apple Relaunches “Shot on iPhone” Campaign for the 6S
January 2016
- Unbundled
- The Long Goodbye for Windows Phone
- USB 3 Interferes With 2.4 GHz WiFi and Bluetooth Signals
- Apple Recalls Non-US, Non-UK AC Adapters
- Facebook is Shutting Down Parse
- Anywhere But Medium
- Respectfully Requested Default Options for the New “Schedule to Publish” Feature on Medium, Because Time Is a Construct
- Oracle Discontinuing Their Java Web Browser Plugin
- Drone Voyeur
- The 2015 Panic Report
- Apple’s Q1 2016
- Hi, I’m Nick, and I’m a Very Unimportant Twitter Person
- iPhone 5SE Rumours
- Collector Edition iPods
- An Unusual Commission, Indeed
- Localized Hardware
- Anandtech’s iPad Pro Review
- Google Reportedly Employs Over a Thousand People to Fight “Bad” Ads
- AT&T CEO Says U.S. Congress Should Determine Encryption Policies
- Billion Dollar Baby
- “Kind of Unwelcoming”
- Apple Releases iOS GarageBand Update and New Music Memos App
- Extending the Life of an iPod Mini
- What Three Words
- DRC Cobalt Linked to Battery Suppliers for Major Companies
- Apple Releases Latest EEO-1 Diversity Report
- Videos From the Layers Design Conference
- App Store Prices to Increase in Many Countries
- Wikipedia Turns 15
- Apple’s Diversity Distraction
- The New Way of Bypassing Gatekeeper: The Same as the Old Way
- Next Year Is Perpetually the Year of Linux on the Desktop
- A Fix for Malfunctioning Twitter URLs in El Capitan Is in the Works
- Political TV Ad Archive
- No Backdoors
- Jon Ronson on Monocle
- Josh Topolsky Rumoured to Be Launching a Media Startup
- Apple Rumoured to Be Stepping Back From In-House iAds
- Twitter’s Brainstorming Notes for Potential New Features
- Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker
- Today’s Popular Websites on the Original iPhone
- iCloud Sync Outside of the App Store
- Fifteen Years of iTunes
- Apple Previews iOS 9.3
- The Speed of Life
- There Sure Is a Lot of Smoke Coming From This Headphone Jack Rumour
- Remember Jelly?
- NYPL Puts 180,000 Public Domain Images Online
- Tinkering and Repairing
- Meanwhile, on Apple’s Other App Stores…
- Five Years of the Mac App Store
- Twitter Reportedly Considering Much Longer Character Limit in Tweets
- Picking Apples
2015 720
December 2015
- The New Twitter for Mac Doesn’t Support Twitter’s Latest Features
- AVG Exposes Chrome User Data With “Security” Plugin
- “Placebo-Based Demand Is Still Demand”
- Apple Watch Revisited
- On Juniper’s Backdoor and the NSA’s Role
- The New iPod
- China Passes Far-Reaching Surveillance Bill
- An Exploration of the Revised Multitasking UI in iOS 9
- Netflix’s New Video Compression Scheme
- Audio Files
- Lossless Files Rumoured to Be Coming to Apple Music
- Unwrapping the Mast Brothers
- GeoGuessr App Now Available for iOS
- Apple’s In-House Chip Edge
- Clones and Licensing
- The Evolution of Autoplay
- Apple Promotes Jeff Williams, Adds App Stores to Phil Schiller’s Responsibilities
- iCloud Music Library’s Metadata Isn’t Getting Better
- The Roaring ’20’s
- More Responsive Taps in WebKit on iOS
- HIV-Positive Dating App Leaked User Data
- Reference Design
- On Intersectionality in Tech
- Being a Better Ally to Women and People of Colour in Tech
- Apple Is Placing Popup Ads for the iPhone 6S in the App Store
- Probably Not Wright
- The Website Obesity Crisis
- Young ‘Digital Natives’ Naïve About Internet Advertising
- Slide Camera
- A New Remote App Is Coming
- U.S. Senator Pursues Legislation to Cripple Encryption
- Apple Releases iOS 9.2, OS X 10.11.2, tvOS 9.1, and watchOS 2.1
- Confidential and Proprietary
- Apple Says That Its Maps App Is Used Three Times as Often as Google’s on iPhones
- Apple Introduces iPhone 6S Smart Battery Case
- Low-Hanging Fruit
- Apple Begins Rolling Out 100,000-Song iTunes Match Limit
- Facebook Shutters Creative Labs
- Dropbox to Shut Down Mailbox, Carousel
- Apple Sneaks a USB 3.0-Compatible Lightning Port Into the iPad Pro
- Zack Shapiro: “Mailbox Has Been Abandoned”
- Bohemian Coding Removes Sketch From the Mac App Store
- Swift Goes Open Source
- “The VSCO of Live Photos”
- The Sweet Setup’s iPhone 6S Case Roundup
- Thoughts on Flash
- Raising the Bar
- Abuse Tourism
- Thoughts on the Inevitable Demise of the 3.5mm Audio Jack on the iPhone
November 2015
- Can a MacBook Pro Replace Your iPad?
- Fitness and the Apple TV
- The Samantha Bielefeld Fraud Matters
- MacBook Charger Teardown
- Blogs by Women
- Living in a Different World
- Google Buries Yelp and TripAdvisor Results, Claims Its’s a Bug
- Workflow Gets WordPress Actions
- Unjust paris attacks
- Baffle Web Trackers by Obfuscating Your Behaviour
- Whatever Happened to Midori?
- Excerpts From Apple’s 1993 Brand Guidelines
- Jimmy Iovine’s Vaguely Misogynistic Comments
- Travelling Indonesia With an iPhone 6S
- Limiting the iPad’s Software Potential
- Calvin and Hobbes Turns Thirty
- Reinventing the Pencil
- The Space Doctor’s Big Idea
- A Trip Through iOS 5.1.1
- Instagram to Disable Full-Feed API
- A Smarter App Store Search Engine
- Not on the Mac App Store
- Google Redesigns and Pivots Google+ Again
- Apple Pay (Kind Of) Launches in Canada
- Rdio Bites the Dust
- The Imagined Apple
- The Advertising Bubble
- Advertisers Using Inaudible Sound to Connect Ad Profiles on Different Devices
- Vizio Sells “Highly-Specific Viewing Data” to Advertisers
- Apple Patches Mac App Store Certificate Bug
- On the iPad Pro’s Unchanged Springboard
- No One Minding the Store
- The Apple Pencil
- The Smart Keyboard
- Federico Viticci’s iPad Pro Review
- Visiting Amazon’s New Bookstore
- Belgian Court Tells Facebook to Stop Tracking Non-Users
- Comcast’s Memo on Their New Data Caps
- The Guilded Age
- The New Favicon
- Full Text of TPP Released
- Proposed Bill to Require Record of U.K. ISP Customers’ Access for One Year
- Red Hearts
- Ununlimited, Again
- Fuzziness and Friction
- “Secure Empty Trash” is No Longer Available In El Capitan
- Pew’s Technology Device Ownership Survey
- New apple tv features
October 2015
- Stop Doubting
- Apple TV’s Siri Search to Include Apple Music Early Next Year
- Apple TV Review Roundup
- Inside Apple’s Perfectionism Machine
- Apple’s Q4 2015 Results
- European Parliament Votes Against Net Neutrality
- Microsoft Opens Flagship Store on Fifth Avenue
- An Imagined Conversation Between Airbus and a China Airlines Representative
- Facebook Says They’ve Partially Fixed the iOS App’s Egregious Battery Drain
- 1989–1993 in Kmart Background Music
- White Should Not Be the Default
- An Analysis of San Francisco
- CISA Moves Forward
- RedTube
- Apple Music Has 6.5 Million Paying Subscribers
- Remember Tidal?
- The Magic Keyboard
- Apple Isn’t in the Business of Decrypting iPhones
- Aaron Sorkin Versus the Internet
- The HTC One A9
- Apple to Replace Defective Retina Macbook Pro Displays
- Rumble in the Jungle
- Fuzzy User Interfaces
- On the Positioning of the Lightning Port on the Magic Mouse 2
- IAB: ‘We Messed Up’
- Apple Updates iWork for iOS and OS X
- What Do We Really Know About Osama Bin Laden’s Death?
- The Drone Papers
- Facebook Says They’re Aware of Egregious Battery Drain in Their iOS App
- Gary Allen of IFO Apple Store Has Passed Away
- The Accelerated Mobile Pages Project
- Apple Explains How Wi-Fi Assist Works
- Apple’s Insurmountable Platform Advantage
- The Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook’s iOS App
- Twitter Announces Layoffs
- Behind the Scenes of the New iMac and ‘Magic’ Accessories
- Apple Accounting Games Games
- “What Do You Think?”
- The Slow Death of Comments
- Bunkmarks
- A Year of Apple Pay
- I’ve Stopped Using Piwik
- Charts in Tweetbot 4
- Apple’s Dual-Sourced A9 SoC
- Apps Removed From Sale Are Un-Unavailable From Both App Stores
- A Look at What Hermès Means to Watch Lovers
- “Makes You Wonder”
- Vice’s “Motherboard” Switches Off Comments
- Ars Technica’s Android 6 Review
- American Apparel Files for Bankruptcy Protection
- An Analysis of OS X Releases
- Nihilistic Password Security Questions
- iFixIt Violates Apple NDA, Gets Punished, Complains
- Amazon to Ban Sale of Apple TV and Google Chromecast
- Tweetbot 4
September 2015
- Microsoft to Open First Flagship Retail Stores
- The iPhone 6S and Water Resistance, Again
- Apple Music, iTunes Movies, and iBookstore Now Available in China
- Ads That Follow
- Day One Free Trials of Apple Music End Today
- Privacy as a Product
- The Biggest Startup in the World
- Ars Technica’s El Capitan Review
- If It Ain’t Fixed, Break It
- Previously-Purchased, Discontinued Software Unavailable for Download in Both App Stores
- The Artist Visualizing the Surveillance State
- On the Supposed Water Resistance of the iPhones 6S
- iPhone 6S Water Resistance
- Facebook Notes Gets Some Love
- Rule Britannia
- Post-Privacy
- Toll, Please
- The Transcript of ‘What Happens Next Will Amaze You’
- Solitude in Solidarity
- Ignore This Post, Samantha Will Be Fine
- The Apple Bias Is Real
- John Gruber’s iPhones 6S Review
- Shut Up for iOS
- White House Report Says Broadband Is a “Core Utility”
- Generative E-Book Covers
- Take Two
- iOS 9 Already Reportedly at 50% Adoption
- The iPad Pro Potential
- Ticked
- On Content Blockers
- Sonya Mann’s Journalism Spend
- The Evolution of the Apple Store
- Just Enough Memory
- A Rolling List of iOS 9 Content Blockers
- iOS 9: The Pixel Envy Review
- Apple TV Games Must Not Require External Controller
- A Present-Day Library of Alexandria
- EA Pulled a Bunch of Classic Games From the App Store
- Adrian Frutiger Has Died
- Rosy Glasses
- Execution Matters
- The Apple Pencil
- The 16 GB iPhone Creates a Bad User Experience
- iOS 9.1 Will Finally Include the Raised Middle Finger Emoji
- Behind the Scenes of Today’s Apple Announcements
- “Hey Siri, Are You Feeling Stereotypical?”
- Amazon Discontinues the Fire Phone
- John Gruber’s Prelude to Tomorrow’s “Hey Siri” Event
- GigaOm’s Terrible Reporting of the New AdBlock Plus Browser
- iMessage Encryption Faces Its First Known Legal Test
- Upgrading Your iPhone With a Paired Apple Watch
- SiriScript
- Face It
- The Ad Industry Plots Their Revenge
- Majority of Streamed Pay TV Is Reportedly Viewed on Apple Devices
- On NetNewsWire for iPhone
- NetNewsWire “Lite”
- NetNewsWire Returns
- S. Kumar: “How the New iPhone Could Save Apple”
- Verizzzzz…
- All Aboard the Ghost Train
- Google to Demote Websites That Display Modal App Download Prompts
- Don’t Say “Bubble”
- Eleven and a Half Seconds
- Google Has a New Logo
- Android Wear Won’t Be Integrated With HealthKit on iOS
- Google Abandons Location-Sensitive “Here” Service
- A Meta Review of the Google OnHub
August 2015
- Malware Infecting Jailbroken iPhones Stole 225,000 Apple Account Logins
- Android Wear Now (Kind Of) Works With iOS
- Doom and Gloom
- On the Twelfth Month of Android, Samsung Sent to Me…
- Updated Figures From Twitter Added to My 2015 Diversity in Tech Survey
- Recode’s Lame Reporting on Google’s Anti-Security Recommendation
- Apple Is About to Lay Down Its TV Cards
- Reading the Apple Event Tea Leaves
- A Historical Apple Tour of San Francisco
- Pulling a Daisuke Wakabayashi
- It Is No Longer Hip to Be Square
- Google Advises iOS App Developers to Compromise the Security of Their Apps in Order to Serve Ads
- Amazon Scales Back Lab126 and Fire Phone Efforts
- What Happens When You Cross the Legendary Customer Service and Monopolistic Business Practices of an Airline With the Legendary Customer Service and Monopolistic Business Practices of a Cellular Company?
- Apple’s Next Media Event Rumoured to Be Held at the Bill Graham Auditorium
- Yahoo Data Shows Mobile Browser Usage Decreasing as Overall Mobile Time Increases
- A Newborn, Cancer, and Employment at Amazon
- Samsung on Galaxy Note 5’s Broken Stylus Slot
- Best Buy Sales Are Up With Apparent Help From Apple
- Google Now’s Staff Exodus
- Advertising Malware Rates Have Reportedly Tripled in the Last Year
- Uber Lame
- Twitter Kills Project That Saved Politicians’ Deleted Tweets
- Keep It Steady…
- Write Better Markdown
- An Excerpt From “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed”
- Beautiful Pixels Picks Their Favourite Apple Watch Apps
- iOS 9 Content Blocker Benchmarks
- MarketWatch: “Don’t Expect iPhone 6S to Save Apple”
- Spotify Says “SORRY.” (Sic)
- Deciding Between Spotify and Apple Music Just Got Easier
- Wrapping It Right
- Amazon Will No Longer Accept Flash Ads
- Jeff Bezos Assures Amazon Employees That HR Working 100 Hours a Week to Address Their Complaints
- Ashley madison dumped
- Please Don’t Buy a Digital SLR
- Google’s Modular Ara Phone Delayed
- Google OnHub
- Manton Reece Will Return to Twitter When They Bring Back RSS
- Let’s Keep Talking About Amazon’s Corporate Culture, Shall We?
- New Media’s Old Diversity Problem
- Inside the Sadomasochistic Hellscape That Is Amazon
- NSA and AT&T Sittin’ in a Tree
- Planes, “Planes”, and Automated Fare Pricing
- Zane Lowe Talks to Billboard About Beats 1
- Apple Is Reportedly Seeking Testing Space for a Vehicle
- Diversity of Tech Companies by the Numbers: 2015 Edition
- Windows 10’s New Licensing Scheme
- An Interview With Marc Newson
- A Month of Beats 1 Songs
- CurrentC Needs More Development Time Before People Can Begin to Not Use It
- Designing Wildcard 2.0
- The Ethics of Modern Web Ad-Blocking
- L Is for Legal
- Alphabet Buys Google
- Improved Typographic Feature Support Coming to WebKit
- 200 Million People Worldwide Reportedly Use Ad Blockers
- HTC Trading Below Cash Leaves Smartphone Brand With No Value
- Apple’s iPhone and iPad Event Rumoured to Be Held on September 9
- Jon Voyage
- Traditional Watch Sales Reportedly Plunge in U.S.
- Apple Redesigns Website, Integrates with Store Pages
- The Week of Big Android Security Flaws Continues
- “We Don’t Want to Be a Digital Colony of the U.S. Internet Giants”
- Ripping CDs Is Illegal (Again) in the UK
- Reddit Updates Their Content Policy
- Wall Street Bails on Big Media Stocks
- Android Security Fixes to Be Pushed to Nexus Devices Monthly
- Apple Is Reportedly Not Building an MVNO Service
- Apple Pay to the Rescue
- Windows 10 Quietly Includes Opt-Out Ad Targeting
- Why Do Apple Music’s Own Curated Playlists Have Songs That No One Can Play?
- Privilege-Escalation Bug Lets Attackers Infect Macs Sans Password
- This Is What an Engineer Looks Like
- The Utopian UI Architect
- A Peek Into the Making of OS X’s Icons
- Inside the Failure of Google+
- Court Tells U.S. Government to Get a Warrant if It Wants Cellphone Location Info
- LinkedIn Starts Building a Syndicated Content Network
July 2015
- Apple Music Matches Based on Metadata, Not Audio “Fingerprint”
- New Apple TV Reportedly Coming in September With Subscription Service to Follow
- The Apple Watch’s Effect on the Health of Its Users
- Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Says Goodbye to Android
- More Stagefright Vulnerabilities
- Windows 10 Is Out Today
- How Will the Next Generation Tinker?
- “3D XPoint” Is a New Memory Technology That’s Way Faster Than Flash Memory
- Cecil
- Using the System Font in Web Content
- MPAA Emails Reveal Plan to Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign
- Apple Music’s Edge May Be Unfair, but Potentially Isn’t Illegal
- NSA to Purge Mass-Surveillance Phone Records Database
- Google Minus
- “The Mobile World’s Equivalent to Heartbleed”
- Now Testing Piwik on Pixel Envy
- Jim Dalrymple Got Most of His Assumed-Gone Music Back
- Nothing like the iphone
- AnandTech Reviews the Apple Watch
- The US Government Must Lose Cryptowars 2.0
- Stupid and Misleading Company Gains $9 Million Investment
- FTC Reportedly Subpoenas Streaming Music Services Regarding Apple Music
- Jim Dalrymple Has Had It Up to Here With Apple Music
- The Gawker Tax
- Beta Testers Can No Longer Post App Reviews in Prerelease iOS Versions
- Web Design: The First Hundred Years
- Salvaging Flash
- UI Prototyping With iAd Producer
- The Internet Is Awful
- The Mythical Golden Key
- The Mobile Web Sucks, but You Can Do Something About It, Nilay Patel
- A More Diverse Comp Sci Student Base Is Graduating Than Is Being Hired by Leading Companies
- Glenn Greenwald on Max Read’s Justification for Gawker’s Vile Article
- The “Coontown” Breakdown
- Coda for iOS
- Apple Watch Sales Are Great or Crappy Depending on Which Analyst You Ask
- Paying for an Underground Fare With an Apple Watch
- Apple Introduces Its First 4-Inch A8-Powered iOS Device
- Left and Leaving
- The World’s Biggest Startups Are Growing Up
- It’s Time for Flash to Die
- News Sites Are Fatter and Slower Than Ever
- A Watch Expert Reviews All of the Apple Watch Bands
- iTunes 12.2.1
- Authors and Booksellers Accuse Amazon of Antitrust Violations
- FTC Looking Into Apple’s Cut of Competitors’ Music Streaming Subscriptions Sold Through the App Store
- Reddit Is Not the Front Page of the Internet
- On Negative App Store Reviews During Betas of iOS and OS X
- The Tidal Lie
- Using San Francisco in HTML and CSS
- Photos 1.1
- Joshua Topolsky Fired From Bloomberg
- Unnatracktive
- Talking About Diversity, as a White Dude
- Several People Are Emojiïng
- Bad Ads and Content Blockers
- Reading Tea Leaves
- “A Technical Glitch”
- Apple Watch Sales Coverage Plunges 90% in Accuracy
- Apple Music Is Integrated, but Not Intertwined
- Humans Curating Apps
- Disable Auto-Following Artists on Apple Music
- Third-Party Accessories Sold in Apple Stores to Have Apple-Designed Packaging
- Comment Out
- Instagram Images Are Now 1080 Pixels Square
- Clarifying the Apple Music DRM Situation
- iTunes Disconnect
- Shining a New Spotlight on Spotlight
- EU Plans to Ruin Net Neutrality
- iCloud Music Library Woe
- DRM Is the Difference Between iTunes Match and iCloud Music Library
- Assorted Thoughts and Observations About Apple Music
- Apple Releases OS X 10.10.4
June 2015
- A Familiar Taste
- iOS 9, El Capitan, Safari Content Blockers, and Shit-Ass Websites
- Facebook Hired Seven Black People in 2013
- The Apple Watch Will Never Have a Killer App
- We Need Detailed App Release Notes
- It’s About Time
- A Significant AppleCare+ Improvement for Mobile Devices
- Our Half-a-Week Long National Nightmare Is Over
- Microsoft Has a New Vapid Mission Statement to Replace Its Old Vapid Mission Statement
- A Disaster Foretold and Ignored
- “Bravely Default”
- Instagram Has a New ‘Explore’ Tab
- Google Launches Play Music
- I Knew You Were Trouble
- iCloud Photo Library Can Consume a Lot of Data Over a Cellular Connection
- To Apple, Love Taylor Swift
- Apple Pulls First-Generation iPad Mini From Store
- When Google’s Legal Team Becomes Your Legal Team
- Mike Ash Does Not Agree to Apple’s Terms
- On Euphemistic Press Release Titles
- FCC Reminds AT&T It Was Insane to Offer Unlimited Data
- “On a Long Enough Time Scale, Everything Is a Fad”
- Bug Writing Season
- Ignoring Apple’s Fundamental Thinking
- Spotify Rewind
- Apple’s Increasing Localization for China
- An Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers
- San Francisco UI and Compact
- Apple’s Latest Product Is Privacy
- Live with Phil
- Really Big Twitter News
- iOS 9 Is the iPad’s Graduation
- Apple Music’s Streaming Audio Quality
- Twitter Announced Shared Block Lists
- Abuses of canOpenURL to Be Blocked in iOS 9
- Stephen Hackett Reviews the WWDC Keynote
- Apple Music
- Apple Merges Developer Tiers
- The State of iOS: Addendum
- A List of Questions for Apple Regarding the Upcoming Watch SDK
- The State of iOS
- Saying “No” to Surveillance
- NSA Secretly Expands Cross-Border Internet Spying
- On Privacy and Service Offering Quality
- Managing Expectations
- PayPal Is Opting Into Being a Dick
- U.S. Congress Begins Retooling Surveillance Powers
- Tracking FBI Spy Planes
- Tim Cook Speaks on Encryption and Privacy
- Thunderbolt 3 Uses the USB-C Connector
- Speaking of Business Insider and Respect
- Respect Metrics
- New on Netflix: Ads
- The Reporting Around Asus’ ZenWatch 2 Has Been Appalling
May 2015
- Diversity and Visibility at Google I/O
- Readdle’s Spark
- Apple Operations Chief Jeff Williams at Code Conference
- Google Photos
- Proactive
- Un-discoveryd
- Vox Media Acquiring Recode
- Charter Acquiring Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks
- “Let’s Get the Calories as Quickly as We Can”
- When Stephen Fry Met Jony Ive
- Google I/O 2015 Preview
- Just Smart Enough
- Uber Gets Dirtier
- The Best Calendar App for Mac
- You Do Not Have to Make a Watch App
- Times Advertisers to Pay Print-Equivalent Rates
- Spotify Adds Video and Pace-Matched Running Playlists
- From Switzerland to San Francisco
- A Letter to Mark Zuckerberg Regarding Internet.org
- Refreshed 15-Inch MacBook Pro and Retina iMac Available Today
- Hearst Magazines Update Newsstand Apps
- Apple Has Reportedly Shelved Their TV Plans
- How Richard Stallman Does His Computing
- Apple Working on Watch Updates
- Testing the New MacBook with Windows 10
- The Rise and Fall of Silk Road
- Tools Don’t Solve the Web’s Problems
- Don’t Wash Tennis Balls
- Snooping on Facebook Instant Articles
- Big, Dumb Pipes
- The Future of Digital Advertising
- A Different Take on the Liveliness of the Mac App Store
- Google Confirms That Hangouts Doesn’t Use End-to-End Encryption
- From Reading List to Pinboard
- NYT Now What?
- “My Dad, My Mentor”
- Redesigning Overcast for the Apple Watch
- The Numbers
- More on the Mac App Store
- Ain’t Nobody Using the Mac App Store
- Rage Against the Espresso Machine
- Another Rule of Thumb for “Getting” Apple
- Something’s Cooking
- An iPad Campaign for Normals
- Leapfrog
- Clusterfuck (4) (5) (8)
- Apple Reportedly Pressuring Labels to Discontinue Free Streaming Tiers with Spotify and YouTube
- The New Droplr
- Cupertino, Start Your Photocopiers
- Layers Conference
- Us watch ad
- Neven Mrgan’s First Week Without an Apple Watch
- Expansive Surveillance Reform Takes Backseat to Politics
- Molly Watt’s Experience With the Apple Watch
- Margin of Error
April 2015
- Apple Watch S1 Uncloaked
- “The Internet Is a Place Where People Cry About Bullshit”
- Lessons in Burying the Lede: Human Kidnapping Edition
- Nobody Knows
- It’s Clickbait All the Way Down
- This is Tim
- Painting the Back of the Fence
- The New Photos Paradigm
- Three New Apple Watch Ads
- The Apple Watch Teardown
- Samsung’s Next Gear Will Not Look Like an Apple Watch Clone
- Watch App Store Goes Live
- Craft at Scale
- Apple Watch and Durability
- Comcast and Time Warner Call Off Their Engagement
- Delayed Apple Watch Preorders Shipping Earlier Than Expected
- Bloomberg’s Crappy Reporting on Bulletproof Coffee
- Google Fi
- So You’re Saying There’s a Chance
- WatchKit Developer Mistakes
- Automakers Want to Use the DMCA to Prevent Unauthorized Servicing or Modification
- How the Apple Watch’s Heart Rate Monitor Works
- In a Galaxy, Some Galaxy, Any Galaxy
- A Glimpse Into a Non-Neutral Future
- Apple Pay Reportedly Launching in Canada This Autumn
- Logic monopoly
- Dark Web Buyer Bot Returned to Swiss Artists
- John Siracusa Has Earned His Aqua Stripes
- The New WWDC Ticket Policy
- “Google Doesn’t Have Any Friends”
- Statement of Objections
- WWDC 2015: June 8–12
- Europe to Accuse Google of Illegally Abusing Its Dominance
- iOS 8.4 Beta Brings a Music App Overhaul
- Apple Acquires LinX Computational Imaging
- Google Fiber Plans Expansion, Then TWC Makes Speeds Six Times Faster
- Apple Says “Don’t Use Palmrest or Keycap Covers” on the Retina MacBook Pro
- “The Rarest Shipping Apple Product”
- Cloud-Based OS X Accounts
- Google’s Snapseed Photo App Gets Its First Major Update in Two Years
- Apple Fixes Its Felony Hiring Policy
- Future Present
- Point Three
- Felony Convictions and Construction of Apple HQ
- Apple Maps Now Includes Hotel Reviews From TripAdvisor and Booking.com
- Apple Watch Packaging
- A Close Watch
- Samsung Hoping to Bounce Back
- Artist Exclusivity Means That Tidal Might Have a Chance
- Google Glass Is Literally on Life Support
- EU Regulators to Look Into iTunes Streaming Agreements
- The History of the Apple Watch
- Unintended Consequences
- China’s Man-on-the-Side Attack on GitHub
- Twitter Is Now Placing Ads Within User Profiles
- Tidal
- Tim Cook Puts His Dent in the Universe
- The Times Rolls Out One-Sentence Stories on Apple Watch
March 2015
- Retina MacBook Pro Display Staining
- AT&T Is Watching You Browse the Web
- Making Blu-Ray Relevant Again
- “This Isn’t a Political Issue. It Isn’t a Religious Issue.”
- Why Force Touch Matters for Accessibility
- Goodbye, IFO Apple Store
- Meerkat and Periscope
- Making Instapaper’s Tweet Shots
- On Goodwill With Apple, as Currency
- Beats Gets Even Deeper
- Instapaper 6.2 Is Out Now
- The Full FTC Report on Google
- The Tragedy Tag
- Fantastical 2 for Mac Is Now Available
- Hagiography, My Ass
- Ted cruz 33733
- A New Way to Display
- Twitter Teams Up With Foursquare for Location Tagging
- “He Could Be a Jerk, but Never an Asshole”
- With Great Power Comes Great Assholery
- Russell Brandom Is Contradictory and He Should Feel Bad or Maybe Good Probably
- An Extensive Interview With Tim Cook
- Unscrupulous Website Adverts Again Redirecting Some Users to App Store From Safari
- Force Touch
- Welcome to Macintosh
- New NYT Style Guide Now Available
- Google Has Added Human Reviewers for Apps
- Bumpy Pixels
- To Pimp a Butterfly
- Weekend Reads
- How Apple Makes the Watch
- The FCC’s Rules for Net Neutrality Are Now Public
- The Transit App on Apple Watch
- Beginning the Conversation
- The Mandatory Apple Watch App in iOS 8.2
- Assorted Additional Thoughts on Monday’s “Spring Forward” Event
- It’s All Broken
- A Hard Case to Make
- The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple’s Secrets
- A Very Limited Edition
- Spring Forward, Indeed
- Gigaom Has Run Out of Money, Is Shutting Down
- The Apple Watch Is Time, Saved
- Press Junk
- Java for Mac Now Includes Adware
- The Cartoonist Has No Idea How Net Neutrality Works
- Matthew Haughey is Leaving MetaFilter
- Kirk McElhearn’s Apple Watch Pricing Guesses
- Try
- Kanye West at Oxford
- Life and Technology After Cancer
- Edward Snowden in Talks to Return to the United States
- Perplexing Choice
February 2015
- Google, Our Patron Saint of the Closed Web
- There’s Optimism and Then There’s Delusional
- Samsung’s Ebb and Flow
- Apple Announces Media Event for March 9
- Net Neutrality Is Now the Law
- The Apple Watch Edition’s Upgrade Dilemma
- Permalinks
- Gemalto Has No Clue Whether It Was Hacked by the NSA
- Reddit Blocks Non-Consensual Sharing of Nude Photos and Video
- New Emoji and Paul Kafasis’ Favourite Radar
- Test-Driving Amazon Prime Now
- “It’s Just This Feeling I Have That This Person Will Be Able to Get Stuff Done Faster Than You”
- Behind the Relaunch of The New York Times Magazine
- New Oakridge Apple Store
- Confessions of an iPhone 6
- Crazy Apple Rumours
- iOS Rumoured to Receive Public Beta Program
- Apple Watch Configurations
- SuperPhish
- Thursday, Creepy Thursday
- The Artful Dodge
- Facebook Is Working on Virtual Reality Versions of Its Apps
- Barack Obama Speaks With Kara Swisher
- My Favourite Records of 2014
- Dan Lyons Continues to Be an Insufferable Jackass
- Stop, Collaborate, and Listen
- Debating the Rules and Ethics of Digital Photojournalism
- Goodbye, Mini Stores
- Apple Watch’s First Quarter
- Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple
- The Fantastic Apple Car
- Meek Stances
- The Requirement of Perpetually Lowered Standards
- Google Has Made Its Internet Archive Impossible to Search
- Workflow 1.1
- David Carr: Your Best Friend
- Goodbye, David Carr
- Apple’s 2015 Supplier Responsibility Report
- Now It’s Google’s Turn to Face the Wrath of Shitty Journalism
- Foxy Lady
- Introducing Darkroom
- Risking Her Life Standing Up to Gamergate
- Disguising Ads as Stories
- Genius Bar Logos Are Being Removed From Apple Stores
- Rich People Want You to Work For Free
- Dangerous Thought of the Day
- Samsung Smart TVs, Now With Interstit—Nothing Beats the Refreshing Taste of Pepsi—ial Ads
- Jon Stewart Is Leaving the Daily Show
- Here Comes the Sun
- Samsung Smart TVs Are a Little Creepy
- A Curated Collection of ’Casts
- Patreon’s “Rather Creative Interpretation of the VATMOSS Rules”
- iOS in 2015
- Swift 1.2
- Blame Game
- Uxkit
- Photos for OS X
- Bloomberg Business’ New Site
- There Are Only So Many Ways to Design a Phone So It Looks Like an iPhone
- Placeholder for All of the Laughable Statements That Will Soon Be Released by ISPs in Response to Tom Wheeler’s Proposal
- This Is How the FCC Will Ensure Net Neutrality
- Stupid Tricks With Promoted Tweets
- iOS 8 Adoption Now 72%
- ARM’s A72 Chip Design Makes Big Efficiency Strides
- Google Is Developing an Uber Competitor
- The Emperor Has No Clothes
- Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Pay to Get Around AdBlock
January 2015
- “No Fast Lanes and Slow Lanes”
- “Ha Ha”
- Nothing Can Stop Apple Doom
- The Blame Game
- Ketchapp, the Knockoff Developer, Strikes Again
- White House Preps Expansive Online Privacy Bill
- iTunes Connect Roulette
- Bad Assumptions
- Apple Made So Much Money in Q1 2015 That They Could Buy Richard Branson, Tie His Legs Together, and Hang Him Upside Down in the Atrium of 1 Infinite Loop While Being Forced to Sing “A Milli” on Loop Day and Night
- OS X 10.10.2 Released
- iOS 8.1.3 Released
- Reporters Vulnerable to Misreporting Macintosh Security Problems
- A Human Centipede of Public Relations
- Microsoft, Apple, and Disappointment
- Organ Banked
- Fear China
- Marissa Mayer’s Plan for Yahoo Takes Hold
- Large-Capacity Hard Drive Failure Rates
- If You See a Stylus, Oh Really, Is That Your Argument?
- The Difference Between Microsoft and Apple
- BlackBerry Has Gone Bananas
- Other Stuff From Microsoft Today
- Microsoft HoloLens
- You Want Me to Whine and Complain?
- The Verge Has a Super Bowl Ad
- John Moltz Bought a PC
- Audio Hijack 3
- What the Web Said Yesterday
- Apple Pay Enrolment Trends
- Something Slightly Less Terrible
- Valleywag’s Dan Lyons Is Mad He Can’t Call Women “Shrill Harpies” or Witches Any More
- The Siri Standard
- Nobody Likes David Cameron’s Plan to Decrypt the Internet
- Google Glass’ Current Form Is Dead
- Apple May Shun Intel for Custom A-Series Chips in New Macs
- Be Yourself, as Long as It’s Your Best Self
- Apple Maps, Revisited
- Apple’s Software Quality
- Radio Isn’t Dead
- British Prime Minister Pledges to Ban Encrypted Messaging Services
- From the “Too Much Encryption Will Kill Apple in India” File
- The Software and Services Apple Needs to Fix
- Skeuomorphism Is Like a Classic Car
- Minimum iOS App Store Prices Rise Internationally
- Eight Years Ago, Apple Introduced an “Innovative Cellphone”
- Je Suis Charlie
- Back to Basics
- The Monopolist
- At CES, Plenty of Snake Oil to Go Around
- PonoPlayer Available Next Week; PonoMusic Store Live Now
- “Let Us Pause to Honor the Disrupted”
- A History of Apple News and Rumors During CES
- USB Type-C Hands-On
- The 12-Inch MacBook Air
- Under Fire
- Must-Have Gadgets You Don’t Need Will Glimmer at CES
- Balancing the Functional High Ground
- TapSense Attempts to Sour the Apple Watch
- The State of Panic, 2014
- So Much for That “Year of Android”
- Functional High Ground