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Digital Foundry has gone indie
Just over one year after IGN acquired Digital Foundry, the team has gone indie for the first time since their debut in 2007. I'm so happy for the team as I really appreciate what they do for the industry that I love so much. Check out their YouTube channel if you want to
More Birchtree, less money
Hello! I've been running More Birchtree for a year and a half now, it's been pretty
Apple
"No" part 2
Yesterday I wrote about how macOS and iPadOS apps are really merging into one unified experience. That was a quick post, but I wanted to hit on this again with some specific examples. The message was basically that while Apple hasn't technically "merged" the operating system, they have merged the experience
Politics
"These people do it naturally"
I've been thinking quite a bit recently about how the current state of the United States compares to other times in our history, and I came across this quote from a politician in the lead up to the Civil War discussing the virtues of black people and how they're fundamentally different
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"No"
Steve Troughton-Smith on Mastodon:
"Are you merging iOS and macOS?" "…No! Of course not"
Yet seven years later it is incredibly clear that there is a point of convergence coming in the very near future where iPadOS and macOS look effectively identical and run basically the same apps — and at
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How the best Mac stacks up against the best gaming PCs
Apple's gaming ambitions have apparently brought them to the place where they've sent review hardware to the lads at Digital Foundry, including a maxed out Mac Studio with the M3 Ultra. Watch the whole video to get all the juicy details, but the gist is that the Mac massively over-performs
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Back to the future when tech was fun
Lee Peterson writing I miss the time when technology was fun:
I really miss the days when I enjoyed catching up with the technology news. When we got excited for leaks of new hardware or the hundreds of apps pouring onto the store in the early days of the App Store. Nowadays I see posts
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OpenAI releases their open source models (and they're really impressive)
OpenAI: Introducing GPT-Oss
The gpt-oss-120b model achieves near-parity with OpenAI o4-mini on core reasoning benchmarks, while running efficiently on a single 80 GB GPU. The gpt-oss-20b model delivers similar results to OpenAI o3‑mini on common benchmarks and can run on edge devices with just 16 GB of
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Wavelengths is one of the good ones
Brendon Bigley: Wavelengths 2.0: A Podcast and a Patreon
Wavelengths is video game news for the people who want to break away from the grifters and the freaks who follow them and haven’t touched grass in way too long.
Brendon is a fellow MacStories contributor, and for whatever reason, I hadn't
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I got this wrong about LLMs
Vidit Bhargava: Beyond Sparkles and Chat
AI is not a feature, it's one of the many technologies that empower people to fulfill their wants and needs. It doesn't always have to be the center-stage, it doesn't always have to be in your face. The focus should always be
Death Stranding 2 is a whole new ballgame
This post contains zero story spoilers, but does discuss gameplay elements from all of Death Stranding and the first third
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Ollama's New App
Ollama's New App:
Ollama’s new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
This is awesome! Ollama is the go-to source for getting and using open source, local LLMs. Previously, there was a terminal interface for chatting with these models and apps like ChatWise could tap into those local models installed
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5,090 days
Nick Heer: The Tim Cook Era Is Fully Cemented
On 16 September 1997, Steve Jobs became interim CEO of Apple. 5,090 days later, he handed the reins to Tim Cook, weeks before he died.
5,090 days after 24 August 2011 is today. The Cook era is now as long as the Jobs renaissance
Castro for Android is in the works
I was over here minding my own business, asking people how many of their home screen apps were available on
Network tokens, the payment tech you've never heard of
I very rarely talk about payments on this blog, but every once in a while I get to talk about something I think might be interesting: network tokens!
Who has my card number?
Many years ago, merchants selling products online and in person were handling your card details directly. That meant that if they didn&
Quick Reviews 2.0 is out now
I'm happy to announce Quick Reviews 2.0 is out now for the iPhone and iPad. Here'
Jeans? Genes. Wait, what?
If you're online at all, you've probably at least heard of the American Eagle controversy around
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