As a no-longer-practicing attorney and someone who generally digs Apple, I reviewed the DOJ complaint filed today and have a few takeaways. A taxpayer-funded lawsuit against a trillion-dollar company is not going away anytime soon. It will take on a life of its own. Trust me…
Continue reading →The Problem with Vision Pro App Store
Lately, I’ve been challenged when using App Store for Vision Pro. Specifically, there’s no easy way to find the most recently released visionOS applications. While Apple does have a “new” category, a lot of apps in it were available on launch day. As somebody…
Continue reading →On Apple Getting AI Help
Bloomberg reports that Apple is in talks with Google (and possibly OpenAI) about a deal to run iPhone AI features through these third-party providers. It’s all sketchy at this point but it doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility. Capacity is one of…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 736: Maintaining & Caring For Your Apple Hardware
Join Stephen and me on this episode of Mac Power Users as we offer advice on how to best care for Macs, iPhones, iPads, and more, from cleaning to battery management and beyond. Then, we reflect on recent news, including the new MacBook Air…
Listen & read notes →M3 MacBook Air has Faster SSD Speeds
A bit of good news from iFixit on the teardown of the new M3 MacBook Air: they have now switched to two 128 GB storage modules. You may know that in the first two iterations of the Apple silicon MacBook Air, the base storage models…
Continue reading →Focused 199: Repotting and Retirement, with Jim Eagar
Jim Eagar joins Mike and me on this episode of Focused to talk about how to navigate the four phases of retirement with meaning and purpose. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Vitally: A new era for customer success productivity. Get a free pair of…
Listen & read notes →Who’s Responsible For Age Verification?
There seems to be a lot of finger-pointing going on about age verification between software and hardware developers. Facebook (and now Tinder) argue that it’s up to the hardware seller to verify a user’s age. (Ben Lovejoy covers this over at 9to5Mac.) In a lot…
Continue reading →The New M3 MacBook Air
Recently, Apple released new M3-based MacBook Air computers in 13- and 15-inch sizes. In addition to the faster processors, the new machines can run two monitors simultaneously. Specifically, they can run one 6k and one 5k monitor, provided the lid on the MacBook Air is…
Continue reading →Apple Takes a Patent on a Tiltable iMac Similar to the Microsoft Surface Studio
I know it’s just a patent, but be still my heart.
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