Apple
What Steve Jobs said about styli (styli really doesn’t seem like a real word, but Birchtree’s stringent style guide requires I use it)
I found myself watching the original iPhone announcement today, and I know it’s cliche to say, but damn is
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Incomplete thought: why do iPads and Windows computers earn such different responses from Mac fans? (members post)
Why do iPads bring out a very specific reaction while other products don’t?
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Quick thoughts on the new iPads
Check out the event if you missed it, but let’s go from least updated to most updated, shall we?
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On those expensive as hell iPad Pro rumors…
Maybe the first Apple rumor of 2024 was that the upcoming iPad Pros would be extraordinarily expensive. Quoting that piece:
Ok, spatial personas are fuckin’ rad
I finally had my first spatial persona experience, and it was pretty rad. A friend and I spent about 30
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Praying for passkeys to get better
William writing at Firstyear's blog-a-log: Passkeys: A Shattered Dream
Passkeys are now seen as a way to capture
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The kids are figuring it out
Justin Ling writing for Bug-eyed and Shameless: Leave Those Kids Alone
I’ve had a rule for a long time.
The Rabbit R1 perplexes me
If I’m being totally honest, I don’t understand the Rabbit R1 at all. As a piece of hardware,
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My Vision Pro spends most of its time in a drawer, and how that relates to cognitive bias (members post)
I reckon with why I'm generous with the Vision Pro falling short of my hopes while I'm happy to drag other products for doing the same thing. Also the best improvised version of Blur's Song 2 I've ever seen.
Think of literally anyone else
In software discussions, there’s a relatively healthy trope of saying something like, “sure this would be fine for power
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What’s old is new and what’s new maybe isn’t what we want
Joshua Topolsky: Rabbit’s R1 AI Companion Is Not the Future You Were Promised
Right now, every time you want
A few of my tech-related hot takes
Let’s have some fun and rattle through some relatively spicy takes I have about tech!
Movie theaters are awesome
Be quick to praise, but slow to criticize
I think when it comes to most things in life, especially someone else’s art, we should all strive to
64GB iPads need to go extinct
Well, I recently got an iPad Air. It turns out I really did miss having an iPad, and having one
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Logitech (accidentally?) commits a cardinal sin of Mac software
Stephen Hackett first reported this yesterday and it was so wild I almost didn't believe it at first.
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A.I. tools are constantly “6 months” from really getting awesome
David Pierce for The Verge: Rabbit R1 Hands-On: Early Tests With the $199 AI Gadget
Almost immediately, though, I started
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Wait, how many Vision Pros are selling?
Ming-Chi Kuo used to just provide supply chain data and he was remarkably reliable at that. Then he moved into
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Calm companies are underrated
Justin Jackson: We Need More Calm Companies
A calm company's purpose is to provide exceptional service to customers
