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Jess Weatherbed: Apple’s Future MacBook Pro Might Have a Touchscreen
I’m curious to see if future touchscreen MacBook Pro models will adopt Apple Pencil support or if that’s a step too far.
My one ask for people talking about touch-enabled Macs is to stop thinking about Apple trying their absolute least.
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How the iPhone 17 Pro zoom lens compares to the Galaxy S25 and iPhone 16 Pro
God, comparing smartphone cameras these days is tough. I'd argue that the overall experience and ecosystem, as well
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Kimmel is returning as Republicans wonder, “are we the baddies?”
Emma Roth: Jimmy Kimmel’s show will return after censorship outrage
Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show is returning on Tuesday after Disney pulled it off the air over comments made about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In a statement on Monday, Disney said it planned to resume production after having “thoughtful conversations” with
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This console generation is freaking weird (and expensive)
Tom Warren writing for The Verge: Microsoft Is Raising Prices on Xbox Consoles in the US Again
Microsoft is raising the prices of its Xbox Series S / X consoles in the US next month. The Xbox Series X will be priced at $649.99 in the US starting October 3rd, up from its existing $599.
Introducing Quick Subtitles
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Quick Subtitles is a new app that I built that runs on macOS, iOS, and iPadOS 26. It uses
Introducing Best-o-Masto
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Best-o-Masto is an alternative Mastodon client that does very little, but on purpose. When you open the
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Jimmy Kimmel said the most shocking thing you've ever heard on television
Less than 2 months ago, CBS ended Stephen Colbert's show out of the blue. At the time, I didn't comment on the possible political nature of the decision, which surely pleased the Trump administration as Colbert was one of the most prominent anti-Trump voices in American media. I thought it
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The fundamental shift in Apple's software strategy
David Pierce: The Unbearable Sameness of Liquid Glass
It’s all part of a trend within Apple right now toward a total collapse of the gaps between devices, in an attempt to make everything be everything to everyone all the time. This fall, your new software will also bring a full-featured Phone app to
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Jason Snell's macOS review resonates with me
Jason Snell: macOS 26 Tahoe Review: Power Under Glass
I’ll cut to the chase: If you’re worried about upgrading to macOS 26 Tahoe because of Apple’s “liquid glass” design, don’t be—it’s mostly a minor reskinning that doesn’t really change how the Mac works, and after a few weeks,
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"It's just a phone"
MacPsych on his blog: What is a phone anyway...?
I’ve not had any groundbreaking epiphanies, but I have read lots of differing perspective online, from fanboy exclamations of ‘the best phone everrrrrr!’ through to the much more realistic ‘it’s just a fucking phone’.
As time passes, I find myself moving much more towards
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Boiling over
It's iPhone week and I should be thinking mostly about iPhone specs and Apple Watch quirks, but here I am reacting to the news of the day, Charlie Kirk's murder. Of course, mindless partisans like Elon Musk will say this is proof that only the left is violent, but that'
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This was the best iPhone event in years
I've had a little time to sleep on it, and I think yesterday's iPhone update is set to be the best year-on-year upgrade to the iPhone line in many years. This stands in contrast to previous years where, for example, the iPhone 16 lineup was basically a spec bump
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iPhone event blind reactions
For the first time in well over a decade, I wasn't able to watch the Apple iPhone announcement live, and I just finished watching it now. I haven't been online all day, so I have no idea what other people have said, which is a great way to write a blog
Introducing Cozy Zone!
Today, I'm happy to announce the next era of the Comfort Zone podcast: Cozy Zone.
Cozy Zone is
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+ Let's talk about Atlasian buying The Browser Company
Let's get through my feelings on the most corporate of corporate companies buying the browser company who said they didn't care about corporate power users.
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Samsung stole this from Apple who stole it from Google
Back in 2021, Google released the Pixel 6 with a unique camera bar.
Then 3 years later they adjusted it to being a bar with rounded ends in the Pixel 9.
Then Apple was rumored to have a new design where they adopt a bar (with the Air apparently going to look very much like