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Apple Announces, With Little Surprise, M4 MacBook Airs
Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors: Let’s start with the surprises. Both M4 MacBook Air models are priced $100 less than their predecessors: $1199 for the 15-inch model and $999...
Who Cares About Getting News That’s True When You’re Getting It Fast With a $32,000/Year Bloomberg Terminal Subscription?
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg on 6 December 2024, regarding Apple’s first in-house cellular modem, “Apple Plans Three-Year Modem Rollout in Bid to Top Qualcomm”: For now, the modem won’t...
Mark Gurman, Ace Reporter, on the New Regular iPads
Mark Gurman, in his Power On column for Bloomberg, on January 12: The new entry-level iPads — J481 and J482 — will get faster processors and Apple Intelligence. The current...
Tapbots Releases Ivory 2.3 — and Announces That Phoenix, a Bluesky Client, Is Coming
Tapbots: v2.3 is now available on the App Store for Mac and iOS/iPadOS! What’s new? Grouped Notifications (Mention and Notification tabs are now merged) Support for AlphaNumeric Post IDs (Can...
Your Source for Scoops Half a Day Before They’re Announced Publicly
Mark Gurman, yesterday at noon ET: It’s not an “Air” — but the new Mac Studio, codenamed J575, appears to be imminent. It could be announced as early as this...
Trump 2.0 Is More Idiocracy Than Kakistocracy
Ron Filipkowski: Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard. No exaggeration....
Taska Is Now Part of Leitmotif (Developers of Kaleidoscope)
Zac Hall, writing at 9to5Mac: Leitmotif, the team behind the awesome diff and merge Mac app Kaleidoscope, is expanding its portfolio of native Mac apps for developers. The company has...
‘When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works’
Funny piece — if your surname isn’t “Null” — by Oyin Adedoyin for The Wall Street Journal (News+ link): Even those without the last name Null are finding themselves caught...
‘Money Job’
Ben Stiller, in a delightful piece for The New York Times on working up the gumption to tell Gene Hackman — with whom he was working in Wes Anderson’s excellent...
Apple Updates iPad Air (M2→M3) and Regular iPad (A14→A16), and Revamps Magic Keyboard for iPad Air
Dan Moren, writing at Six Colors: The most consequential part of the Air’s update — perhaps the only real update — is the M3 processor, which brings with it GPU-based...
Apple Hasn’t Updated Its US Government Transparency Report Since June 2023, 20 Months Ago
Apple: Apple is committed to being transparent about government requests for customer data and how we respond. We publish a Transparency Report twice a year disclosing the number of government...
iFixit’s iPhone 16e Teardown
Elizabeth Chamberlain, writing for iFixit: But it’s still missing MagSafe, for no obvious reason other than making the phone less appealing to consumers than the rest of the 16 lineup....
The Free Speech Will Continue Until Trump’s Morale Improves
President Donald Trump, on his very popular bespoke social network (random capitalization and various typos sic): All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal...
Claim Chowder: October 2022 Rumors Regarding the iPhone 16e (a.k.a. ‘SE 4’)
Hartley Charlton, writing for MacRumors in October 2022: The fourth-generation iPhone SE will feature a 6.1-inch LCD display and a “notch” cutout at the top of the display, according to...
Framous 1.0
Chance Miller, writing last week at 9to5Mac: Dark Noise developer Charlie Chapman is out with a new Mac utility called “Framous.” The app aims to be the best way to...
Another Tim Cook Product Announcement Teaser on X: ‘There’s Something in the Air’
Basic Apple Guy (with screenshot): The same tagline from Apple’s 2008 announcement for the original MacBook Air. On the cusp of that announcement at Macworld Expo, AppleInsider photographed a bunch...
Apple Details Upcoming Changes and Improvements to Child Accounts, App Store Age Restrictions, and More
Dan Moren, writing at Six Colors: In a whitepaper posted to Apple’s developer site entitled “Helping Protect Kids Online”, the company details several improvements it’s rolling out in upcoming software...
Jeremy Keith on the Web on Mobile
Jeremy Keith, writing at Adactio: Ask anyone about their experience of using websites on their mobile device. They’ll tell you plenty of stories of how badly it sucks. It doesn’t...
The Size of the US Federal Workforce Has Not Grown in the Last 50 Years
John Cassidy, writing for The New Yorker (requires a free account to read, annoyingly): Of course, these calculations can’t be taken literally. Even Musk has said that he wants to...
VisionOS 2.4, Now in Beta, Will Add New ‘Spatial Gallery’ App and Support for Apple Intelligence, Along With a ‘Vision Pro’ App for iPhones
Jason Snell, writing last week at Six Colors: While a lot of us have gotten excited about the potential of Apple’s immersive video format, the truth is that the Vision...