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Is the war on RCS actually an argument that texting Android users *should* suck?
Wesley Hilliard is a cool guy who I often agree with, but his latest for AppleInsider is begging for a response: RCS & encryption haven't fixed the green bubble problem
In Messages on iPhone, you can now use SMS, RCS, end-to-end encrypted RCS, and iMessage. Sure, sending media to Android is
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How many MacBook Neo buyers would have bought an Air before?
Tim Culpan: Apple Doubles MacBook Neo Production, Orders Fresh Batch of Chips
As a result, it’s now asking suppliers to prepare capacity for 10 million units of the debut version of the Neo, up from an initial estimate of 5 million to 6 million, my sources tell me. Delivery times for the laptop have
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The midification of smartphone cameras
This feels like the sort of post that can get some people to go, "well actually…", but screw it, I think there's something here. As Marques points out, in good light, the iPhone 11 and iPhone 17 are very hard to tell apart. But once you introduce more challenging lighting (night,
Apple uses WebP images in the App Store
I was checking out the App Store page for the new iRacing Connect App for the Vision Pro on the web, and I noticed that one of their first promo images was a setup screen with blatant display bugs in it (connect to my computer running on the sa…what???).
I saved the image to
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Encrypted RCS is going wide, starting today
John Voorhees: iOS 26.5 Adds RCS Encryption in Beta Starting Today
Apple announced that beginning today, users on iOS 26.5 will be able to send encrypted RCS messages to Google Messages users who are on the latest version of that app. Apple says that means a message that is intercepted in transit is
Community mods are giving us the remasters companies can't deliver
A few years ago, a passion project from a few Zelda fans gave us a decompilation of The Legend of
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Micro app 17: The Cooldown
One of the cool things about the agentic coding era is how quick it is to iterate on an idea
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The Trump admin suddenly wants to regulate AI models
The New York Times had a story a few days ago about the Trump administration prepping an executive order regulating AI models:
The administration is discussing an executive order to create an A.I. working group that would bring together tech executives and government officials to examine potential oversight procedures, according to U.S. officials,
My new screenshots folder
Ever since I was a child, my Mac screenshots have saved to my desktop. This is how macOS works by
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Big spending, big profits
M.G. Siegler: Apple's Binary Bet
It's just such a wild break from their peer group. And it keeps getting more wild. It seems like the most binary bet imaginable. Either Apple is right and the rest of Big Tech will have lit hundreds of billions – perhaps trillions when all is
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The Constitution is more of a suggestion
Here is the exact text of the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was
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Micro app 16: Quick Reads Backstage
This is a quickie, but I made a simple app called Backstage that lets me view my Quick Reads analytics
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The iPhone Air is for enthusiasts
Hartley Charlton: iPhone Air's Poor Sales Spook Rivals Into Ditching Ultra-Thin Phone Plans
A Weibo leaker today suggested that Apple's iPhone Air 2 may be the only next-generation ultra-thin flagship smartphone from a major brand, after the original model's poor sales performance appears to have led
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Speeed
The Speeed YouTube channel has been around for about a year, but I discovered them a few months ago when they had a decently viral video that told you how to do things no one teaches you. This is the sort of "male influencer content" I can get behind.
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Micro app 15: Railway Dashboard for iOS
I use Railway to host a few of my projects, and while they have a nice desktop interface in the
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