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A bit more on Steve Ballmer’s recent comments regarding DRM and iPods.

If Apple wanted to ship the second generation Apple Watch this year, it was essential that they be able to begin shipments in October, perhaps as late as the...

Link to: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/apple-introduces-new-airtag-with-expanded-range-and-improved-findability/

Link to: https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/08/welcome-to-ollies-arcade/

A “pro” device that goes pro by getting thinner and lighter, not heavier and thicker, is not a non sequitur.

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Apparently the iPhone is hindering innovation because it’s innovative.

Link to: https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-apologizes-for-error-that-flooded-instagram-with-violent-content-c207d5f5

Regarding Tog’s famous explanation of why, contrary to perception, using the mouse is faster than keyboard shortcuts.

The question on many readers’ minds is how Engadget’s Ryan Block could have known, or even suspected, that the “iPhone is delayed” email was fake. Easy:...

Tim Cook’s call for “deescalation” is meaningless without specifying which side he’s calling upon to change course, and there’s no weaker sauce than the weak...

Link to: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/force-restart-iphone-iph8903c3ee6/ios

Reminds me of someone else.

The only apps in the top 10 not from Google or Meta are ChatGPT (#1) and TikTok (#4).

Link to: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/1/4.html

You either have taste or you don’t, and most people don’t, at least for judging something new and unfamiliar.

Link to: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/02/xcode-26-point-3-unlocks-the-power-of-agentic-coding/

The bottom line is that for over a decade, iPhones and iPads have had Apple-designed chips the competition could not and still cannot match. Now the Mac does...

Link to: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/seven-things-to-know-about-how-apples-creator-studio-subscriptions-work/

The most obvious shortcoming: You can’t use AirPlay to play videos shot on your iPhone.

Link to: https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2026/january/the-lego-group-and-crocs-enter-multi-year-global-partnership?locale=en-us

One phone in two sizes. It’s all about the camera.

Yet another round of Apple-is-switching-the-Mac-to-Intel rumors.

Link to: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-11/apple-s-ios-26-4-siri-update-runs-into-snags-in-internal-testing-ios-26-5-27

A scene from last week’s all-too-brief vacation to the Jersey shore.

More on kernel panics and installers.

Link to: https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2026/01/26/ep-439

Regarding the event itself and the devices announced at it.

Link to: https://om.co/2026/01/27/a-ceo-captured/

Link to: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/2/4.html

They can’t move Christmas.

More and more, I get the feeling that if there’s a rift between the old “Don’t be evil” Google and the new “Let’s do whatever we want” Google, that it’s a rift...

Link to: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/2/introducing-the-codex-app/

On the differences between how Mac OS and Windows handle replacing one folder with another.

Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/26/airtag-2-airlines-lost-bags/

Italic and bold emphasis are information-density additives. But as Kottke observes, used deftly, hypertext links are an information-density *multiplier*.

So I’ve put together a little command-line tool called BBColors that lets you save, load, and share text color preference schemes for BBEdit and TextWrangler.

Apple had amazing product introductions before the iPhone, and it’s had a few good ones after. But the iPhone was the only product introduction that felt...

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Link to: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/grok-sexualized-image-xai-elon-musk-women-1235501436/

But I’d feel a lot better about our collective conventional wisdom regarding the nature of this particular all-hands Siri meeting if it had leaked to, and been...

A review of the iPhone 4.

The point should be to make the question “*Which iPad should I buy?*” as easy to answer as possible.

SXSW Interactive is a hard conference to peg. As in, *What exactly is it about?*

Web browsers should only buffer HTML5 media content when the `autobuffer` attribute has been explicitly turned on in the markup.

An extensive interview with Michael Tsai, author of the amazing email spam filtering utility SpamSieve.

So when you see that the new iPhone 12 and 12 Pro have 6.1-inch displays, 12 years of iPhone experience are going to make you think these are iPhone...

If Trump declares that the U.S. is laying claim to all of the green cheese on the moon — say, to lower the price of dairy groceries — the news media should not...

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