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Sebastiaan de With’s iPhone 16e Camera Review: ‘The Essentials’
Sebastiaan de With: You can speculate what the ‘e’ in ‘16e’ stands for, but in my head it stands for ‘essential’. Some things that I consider particularly essential to the...
Apple Silicon Is Groundbreaking for AI
Alex Cheema is the founder of EXO Labs, an AI company focused on “AI you can trust with your data” by making systems that run locally, on computers you own...
‘Apple Needs to Get Out of the Way With AI’
Gus Mueller: A week or so ago I was grousing to some friends that Apple needs to open up things on the Mac so other LLMs can step in where...
‘A Delightful and Simple User Experience’
Scharon Harding, writing for Ars Technica: Reports of Roku customers seeing video ads automatically play before they could view the OS’ home screen started appearing online this week. A Reddit...
Did TikTok Swing the Election to Trump?
Taegan Goddard, writing at Political Wire regarding pollster David Shor’s appearance on Ezra Klein’s podcast: His surveys indicate a clear causal relationship: People who relied on TikTok for news were...
On Apple Exclaves
Random Augustine has written a splendidly nerdy but very approachable overview of the evolution of Apple’s XNU kernel over the last decade: 2017 — Page Protection Layer With the release...
Firefox Users on iOS Have Doubled in France and Germany, From a Very Small Number to a Slightly Less Small Number
Nick Heer: They are impressive, but my interpretation of statistics like these is that one often finds percentages used like this when neither actual number is very large. Nevertheless, another...
Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro: Closed Studio Headphones
Ten years ago I bought a pair of Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro headphones for use while podcasting. My product research was rigorous and exhaustive: I asked Marco Arment which headphones...
Hyperspace 1.1
New (well, newish) Mac app from John Siracusa: Hyperspace searches for files with identical contents within one or more folders. If it finds any, it can then reclaim the disk...
Saturday Night Live’s Cue Cards
Not new, but new to me, is this delightful 7-minute short with a behind-the-scenes look at SNL’s cue card team, led by longtime main cue card guy Wally Feresten. Sometimes...
Chris Ware on Richard Scarry and the Art of Children’s Literature
As a kid I loved Richard Scarry’s books. As an adult I loved (and love) Chris Ware’s graphic novels. As a parent I loved reading Scarry’s books, again, with my...
Om Malik on Apple Intelligence: ‘FUD, Dud, or Both’
Om Malik: I have my own explanation, something my readers are familiar with, and it is the most obvious one. Just as Google is trapped in the 10-blue-link prison, which...
Tesla’s Share Price Has Been Suspect Since Like Forever
Tesla’s share price has been having a hard time of it lately. The stock has lost about half its value since its all-time high back in December, and, since Musk...
Michael Tsai’s Roundup of Links and Commentary on My ‘Something Is Rotten’ Piece Last Week
I’ve been commenting and expanding upon some of the commentary my piece prompted, and I have a few more coming, but it’s good to have Tsai collect a comprehensive overview. ...
Ray Maker on the Heart Rate Sensor of the Beats PowerBeats 2 Pro
Ray Maker, writing at DC Rainmaker: This would not only be the first time Apple has created a non-watch heart rate sensor, but even more notably, the first time the...
Chance Miller Reviews the Beats Powerbeats Pro 2
I’m a month late linking to it, but Chance Miller wrote a terrific review for 9to5Mac: The last several releases from Beats, such as the Studio Buds Plus and Solo...
Michael Gartenberg on the Lessons Apple Learned (and Hopefully Has Not Forgotten) From MobileMe
Sebastiaan de With, on X, linking to my “Something Is Rotten” piece last week: Ex-MobileMe team here. This was a brutal time. It was so bad that when he presented...
‘Going National: The Drexel Microcomputing Project’
From Drexel’s YouTube channel: But far less recognized is that Drexel made the very bold decision of committing all students to purchase a previously unreleased and untested computer from Apple....
‘40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer — and Apple — History’
Alissa Falcone, in a good piece looking back at (my alma mater) Drexel University’s groundbreaking deal with Apple 40 years ago to provide deeply discounted Macintoshes to all students, and...
My 2015 Interview With ‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ Authors Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
Ten years ago I played two small roles in the release of the aforelinked Becoming Steve Jobs. First, I got to announce the book here at Daring Fireball, after having...