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WikiTok — Web App With TikTok-Style Interface for Exploring Random Wikipedia Articles
WikiTok is the creation of Isaac Gemal. The premise is that it’s a TikTok-style interface for random articles from Wikipedia. One thing at a time on screen, swipe up to...
Allison Johnson Reviews the Samsung Galaxy S25 and S25 Plus: ‘Incredibly Iterative’
Allison Johnson, writing at The Verge: Samsung’s Galaxy S-series is in its software era. Maybe the whole smartphone industry is, too, save for a few phones with hinges (Samsung’s included)....
The Information: Apple Chooses Alibaba as AI Partner in China
Qianer Liu and Jing Yang, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas — MacRumors summary): Apple has recently started working with Chinese internet and e-commerce giant Alibaba Group to roll out...
iTools, Apple’s Original ‘Internet Strategy’, From January 2000
From the Apple Newsroom archive, dateline “Macworld Expo, San Francisco — January 5, 2000”: Apple today took the wraps off its highly anticipated Internet strategy, introducing a new category of...
Apple Completes Pixelmator Acquisition
Juli Clover, reporting for MacRumors: Pixelmator last year announced that it was being acquired by Apple, and today the company confirmed that the acquisition has been completed after Apple received...
Apple Support: ‘About Migrating Apple Account Purchases Between Accounts’
New Apple support document dropped today: You can choose to migrate apps, music, and other content you’ve purchased from Apple on a secondary Apple Account to a primary Apple Account....
‘The Wild True Story Behind Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show’
Angela Watercutter, with a great behind-the-scenes look at the Apple-Music-sponsored halftime show by Kendrick Lamar: While “making it work” means one thing when you’re putting on a Madonna concert or...
★ Fox’s New Scorebug Graphic Design, and Our Innate Resistance to Change
Different doesn’t always mean better. But better necessarily implies different.
★ Nike’s ‘So Win’ Won the Super Bowl
My favorite (and least favorite) ads from Super Bowl 59.
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Integrate authentication and user management services with applications made for the Apple ecosystem with Clerk’s iOS SDK. Built with Swift, the SDK adheres to modern standards, delivering the idiomatic and...
Eddy and Tim’s Excellent Super Bowl Adventure
Looks like more of an Eddy scene than a Tim scene, but everyone’s having fun. There’s a reason this is the 11th Super Bowl held in New Orleans. Should be...
The Internet Archive Unveils Marble Bust of Aaron Swartz
Zara Stone, reporting for The Standard: “There’s a renaissance happening now in Aaron Swartz-land,” said Lisa Rein, the co-founder of Creative Commons, a nonprofit devoted to expanding public access to...
TikTok Is Now Distributing Its Android App for Installation via Sideloading
TikTok, on X: We’re enhancing ways for our community to continue using TikTok by making Android Package Kits available at http://TikTok.com/download so that our U.S. Android users can download our...
Jason Snell Went There, Calls for iOS to Follow the Mac Model for Software Distribution
Jason Snell, in a column for Macworld back in November (same column at Six Colors, for members): This is an important moment. Apple has built two separate models for running...
‘Torrenting From a Corporate Laptop Doesn’t Feel Right’
Ashley Belanger, reporting for Ars Technica on new details from an authors group lawsuit alleging Meta trained its AI models on a trove of pirated books: Last month, Meta admitted...
★ My 2024 Apple Report Card
While there are several areas where Apple maintained consistent excellence in 2024, I can’t think of a single area where Apple levelled up. Not one. That feels like a problem.
Apple Settles Lawsuit Against Former Employee Who Leaked to The Information and WSJ
Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors: Last year, we reported that Apple sued its former software engineer Andrew Aude for providing journalists with confidential information about the company’s future plans, including...
★ Bootable Mac Startup Drive Backups, and Another Ode to SuperDuper
I know how different storage is today — abundant, cheap, reliable — but I still have feelings about my data that are rooted in the distant past.
Tim Sweeney on the Apps With Porn in Apple’s App Store
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, on X: Apple is being extremely disingenuous in attacking the European Union here. The iOS App Store hosts the Reddit app, which provides access to massive...
AltStore PAL Is Free of Charge, Thanks to ‘MegaGrant’ From Epic Games
Apple, in its media statement re: Hot Tub (the you-have-to-admit-it’s-a-fun-name hardcore porn app now available in the AltStore PAL alternative app marketplace in the EU), closed its statement with the...