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The Original ‘Something’s Rotten in Cupertino’ — Brent Schlender’s 1997 Story for Fortune
During Friday’s episode of Dithering — a free listen — Ben Thompson reminded me that my headline reference last week, alluding to the well-known line from Hamlet, had been used,...
Dithering: ‘Being Real Points’
A new feature in our membership CMS (Passport — check it out) lets us make individual episodes of Dithering free for everyone to listen to (on the web). I can’t...
★ A Postscript on the Singular Nature of Mark Gurman’s Reporting
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 reported on, by...
How to Generate a Report of Apple Intelligence Requests Sent to Private Cloud Compute
From Apple’s support documentation: You can generate a report of requests your iPhone has sent to Private Cloud Compute. Go to Settings, then tap Privacy & Security. Tap Apple Intelligence...
New RCS Spec From GSM Association Adds E2EE; Both Apple and Google to Support It
Jess Weatherbed, reporting for The Verge: iPhone and Android users will be able to exchange end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages in the near future thanks to newly updated RCS specifications....
Apple Did Demo Swift Assist at WWDC Last Year, and Has Shown It, Under NDA, Since Then
In an item earlier this week observing that Swift Assist, the most ambitious Xcode-related Apple Intelligence feature shown at WWDC last year, not only hasn’t yet shipped but still is...
Imagine How Powerful Meta Might Be Today If Their PR Wasn’t Run by Sycophantic Morons
Katie Notopoulos, writing at Business Insider (Apple News+ link): It’s possible that this strident defense is backfiring — creating a “Streisand Effect” that’s publicizing the book even more. Notopoulos isn’t...
‘Ted Lasso’ Renewed for a Fourth Season
Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter: After more than a year of speculation, Apple TV+ has ordered a fourth season of its Emmy-winning comedy Ted Lasso. The pickup comes after co-creator...
Best vs. First
CNBC story from 2016: At a recent public appearance at the Utah Tech Tour, in a conversation moderated by Utah’s Senator Orrin Hatch, Apple CEO Tim Cook pointed out that...
A Suggested Demo for Google I/O 2025 (May 20–21)
Jay Peters, last month for The Verge: Google’s next I/O developer conference will take place on May 20th and May 21st, the company announced today. The event will be “open...
All-Hands Siri Team Meeting Leaks to Bloomberg
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg today: Apple Inc.’s top executive overseeing its Siri virtual assistant told staff that delays to key features have been ugly and embarrassing, and a decision...
I Imagined It and Genmoji’d It
As a postscript to that last item, it occurred to me that because we’re close friends, I have a lot of photos of Paul Kafasis in my library. Here’s one...
The Legend of Larry Owl
Paul Kafasis, on a seemingly local-to-Boston Genmoji billboard from Apple: Eventually, though, the penny dropped. After my umpteenth time passing the billboard, while trying to distract myself from the single-digit...
U.S. Lawmakers Urge U.K. Secretive Investigatory Powers Tribunal to Hold Public Hearing Regarding Demand for Secret iCloud Backdoor
Zack Whittaker, reporting for TechCrunch: A group of bipartisan U.S. lawmakers are urging the head of the U.K.’s surveillance court to hold an open hearing into Apple’s anticipated challenge of...
Swift Assist Hasn’t Shipped, and Isn’t Yet in Beta
Michael Tsai: Swift Assist was supposed to arrive in 2024, but it never even appeared in a beta. Apple hasn’t announced that it’s postponed or cancelled. It’s not even mentioned...
★ Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an...
Brazilian Court Gives Apple 90 Days to Allow Sideloading on iOS
Filipe Espósito, reporting last week for 9to5Mac: As reported by Brazilian newspaper Valor Econômico (via O Globo), a federal judge in Brazil ruled on Wednesday that Apple will have to...
Apple Adds Disclaimers Regarding Delayed AI Siri Features
Benjamin Mayo 9to5Mac: Apple is still reeling from the last-week’s news that the most compelling new Apple Intelligence features for Siri have been indefinitely delayed. Over the weekend, it pulled...
Google Changes Chrome Extension Policies Following the Honey Link Scandal
Jay Peters, The Verge: Google has updated its affiliate ads policy for Chrome extensions after creators accused PayPal’s popular Honey browser extension of being a “scam.” Honey was accused of...
★ A New System-Wide UI Look for iOS — Let Alone MacOS, Too — Would Be a Huge Deal
You either have taste or you don’t, and most people don’t, at least for judging something new and unfamiliar.