I Don’t Think People Really Want Another Twitter
I know the most likely outcome that we all keep using Twitter the same as we always have, but there is definitely an energy about Twitter lately that has people thinking, “do I even like doing this?”
Yes, Mastodon seems the most viable direct alternative now, but I don’t see much there (“oh you’
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When to Tell Someone You Hate a Movie/Book/Game/Show They Love
Almost never.
Truly, what are you expecting to accomplish? Will your day be brightened by someone else hating something they used to love?
If someone says, "I love this thing!" and you hate it, don't feel compelled to reply that "actually, it sucked."
I'm not saying to
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The "USB-C is Too New" Argument Crumbles
Chris Hannah: The iPhone Will Switch To USB-C
When I list all the devices I use, Macs, ThinkPad, Nintendo Switch, iPad, Pixel 6, work phone (it's some Motorola Android phone), and iPhone 13, only one of them uses a port that's not USB-C. I didn't realise it
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Don't Miss Out on Your Golden Trump Award
Nick Heer: Republicans Ignore Door Opened for Them and Sue Google
Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee has continued to send out emails promising subscribers the “GOLDEN TRUMP” award if they donate money within the hour. They really sent that email. And they also sent one with the subject line “READ THIS MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY”. And they
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Full Season Drops or Weekly Releases?
Netflix had a good quarter in Q3, and in their results (PDF), they committed themselves to releasing shows all at
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macOS Updates Just Don't Really Matter to Me
I was reading John Voorhees' excellent macOS Ventura review today and something dawned on me: none of this matters to me.
Truly, I've been using Ventura on my personal Mac all summer and Monterey on my work Mac, and I use them both exactly the same. Literally the biggest difference in my
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Pocket Casts, Open Source, and My Hope for a Second Good Podcast Player on Android
Paul Sawers: Podcast app Pocket Casts goes open source
By making Pocket Casts open source, this means that anyone can access the code, fix bugs, create new features, and even fork it to build their own competing service on top of the Pocket Cast codebase.
This is great, and speaking as someone who thinks Pocket
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A Trifecta of Bozos
Charlie Warzel: The Big Tech Whiplash Is Here
Soon, we may enter an era where mercurial celebrity landlords dictate the terms of service on their own social networks—ones that are explicitly positioned against content moderation and in favor of a facile understanding of free-speech maximalism.
And:
None of these men has signaled any
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“The Algorithm” Loves Conservative Content
Katyanna Quach: YouTube more likely to recommend conservative vidoes to all
YouTube's recommendation algorithm not only gently traps viewers in mild echo chambers, it is more likely to suggest conservative-leaning videos regardless of your political alignment.
As a scummy politician once said, it’s not about what’s actually happening, it’s
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The iPad is Awesome, Actually
I recently wrote an article that had a pretty negative tone, which was only partially intended. Some people took this
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The iPad is a Landscape-First Device in 2022
John Gruber: The iPad Lineup Is, Like, Growing Out Its Bangs or Something and Looks a Little Weird Right Now, but Apple TV Has Been Going to the Gym and Looks Great
The front-facing cameras ought to all be on the long side. Whatever debate there was over this 10 years ago when the
An Impossible Game
Apple currently sells 10 distinct Macs and 6 distinct iPads, which is way more than they did when Steve Jobs
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The Awkward iPad Lineup for Holiday 2022
Jason Snell: The iPad’s erratic odyssey continues
Overall, Tuesday’s announcements left me with mixed emotions. The individual products look fine, and I look forward to trying them out. But zoom out to the iPad line as a whole, and it’s kind of a mess. From the old ninth-generation iPad all the
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Alright, You Wore Me Down, Give Me macOS on an iPad*
For many years I've argued that macOS and iPadOS should remain separate, and that you don't
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Even VR for Work Enthusiasts Don't Use VR for Work
I shared a clip from this week's Sharp Tech (a show I'm enjoying with hosts I like), and Ben Thompson's explanation for why he thinks VR is actually "anti-tech" really blew me away. Read my short thread for more on this specific point.
The counterargument is
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Google Pixel Watch
Ben Schoon: Google Pixel Watch
The bezels around the Pixel Watch’s display are not small, that’s true, but they’re not noticeable unless you’re looking for them. Google’s software does a great job of blending the content on the screen into the edge of the display.
This makes total sense, and
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Ye Unhinged
Michelle Goldberg: Kanye Shows Where the Right’s Troll Politics Lead
What’s striking about Ye’s naked antisemitism isn’t that he crossed a line but that, for some of his powerful allies, he didn’t. The tweet from the House Judiciary Republicans has not, as of this writing, been taken down. On Monday
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Who Needs a Peer Review?!
Beth Mole: That Florida “analysis” on COVID vaccines is-you guessed it-total garbage
Experts roundly dubbed the analysis "utter rubbish," "extremely misleading," and "comically bad." Some called the analysis method "terrible," and one epidemiologist called it "the absolute most batshit study design & analysis plan
