Last week Apple updated the Magic Keyboard, replacing text key labels with glyphs, which is kind of nice. I have a similar keyboard on my laptop, and I like it. However, I was hoping they would fix a different injustice that’s been around for…
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A Truce on App Store Fees, Still No Siri AI in Europe
We got news that Apple has settled the App Store fee dispute with the European Union, which is good. If Apple can get out of this mess with a negotiated deal instead of years of litigation and penalties, they should consider themselves ahead of…
Continue reading →The Vision Pro’s Uncertain Future
For some time now, I’ve believed that while the Vision Pro is on a slow burn at Apple, its future was certain. The incoming CEO, John Ternus, has said several times that he believes this is part of Apple’s future. We’ve heard lots of…
Continue reading →New M5 Mac Studio and M6 Mac mini
We got a nice surprise from Apple this morning with some new Macs. Those of you waiting for that M5 Ultra Mac Studio are finally going to get your wish. You can get the M5 Ultra with up to 36 CPU cores and up…
Continue reading →Bitrig, An AI Development Assistant from SwiftUl Team Members
Four members of the SwiftUI team at Apple left the company, and now they’ve started a company that writes SwiftUI for you. The product is Bitrig. You describe an app in plain English, and it generates real Swift and SwiftUI code. What comes out…
Continue reading →Susan Kare Revisits the Original Mac Icons
Marcus Mendes at 9to5Mac points to Susan Kare’s talk at this year’s Startup School, where she goes back through the icons and graphics she made for the original Macintosh. Y Combinator has the video up on YouTube. Kare drew bitmaps on a grid, one…
Continue reading →TerminalWidget by Brett Terpstra
Brett Terpstra recently shipped TerminalWidget, a useful, nerdy little utility right in line with that we’ve all come to love from Brett. TerminalWidget takes the output from a shell script, a Shortcut, an AppleScript, or a plain URL, and turns it into a widget…
Continue reading →Looming Supply Shortages
During its earnings call, Apple advised that it is bracing for growing supply pressure on its products. I know some of this stems from Ramageddon and the massive build-out of AI server farms, but it feels like it runs deeper than that. As Apple…
Continue reading →Apple Should Just Do One Big Thing a Year
I’ve been running Apple’s beta software this year and I keep forgetting it’s there. And that got me thinking. This is the smoothest beta cycle in years. Apple shipped one genuinely big new thing, Siri AI, the one we’ve all been waiting on, and…
Continue reading →Turn Any iPhone Into a Dumb Phone
There’s a trend of people buying intentionally dumb phones. Sometimes it’s for a kid who needs a way to call home but not a portal to the whole internet. Sometimes it’s an adult trying to claw back their own attention. I understand the impulse.…
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