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A quick bit on what the iPhone’s market really is
I was recently doing some research on a post that never quite came together in a cohesive thought. However, I did come across this quote from Ben Thompson on how he would define the iPhone’s market:
the high-end smartphone market — that is, the iPhone market — is saturated. Apple still has the advantage in
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MKBHD’s real responsibility
Ben Thompson on Stratechery: MKBHDs for Everything
Surely the responsibility for the Humane AI Pin lies with Humane; the people
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You used to need 1,000 true fans. In the social media age you need at least 1 million randos (members post)
How the world of social media made it so you could reach more people than ever, but that 1,000 true fans concept hasn't really changed.
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Apple clarifies its stance on retro game emulators on iOS
Joe Rossignol for MacRumors: Apple Further Explains Why Game Boy Emulator iGBA Was Removed From App Store
While it did not explicitly name GBA4iOS, Apple told us it removed iGBA from the App Store after learning that it was a knockoff app that copied another developer's work and attempted to pass it off
What if password managers were never allowed on iOS?
I have found myself writing about myths and what I find to be unfounded fears about allowing companies to compete with Apple’s apps a lot recently. One of the concerns a few people brought up with my last post about competition was that even if it might make Apple’s Wallet app better, people
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An app that’s good enough for most people still benefits from competition
Francesco on his blog: Wishing for a Better Apple Notes
It’s fair to say that Notes has received substantial updates in the last few years. […]
The app is almost perfect, I can scan and edit PDFs, write or draw with the Apple Pencil, organise notes with folder and tags and summon a new quick
Just Some Tips Anyone Can Use to Level Up Their Design Game
Below is a cleaned up transcript of a talk I recently gave at work to an audience of mostly developers.
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X-Men ’97 is an absolute stunner
Alex Abad-Santos for Vox: What if an Animated X-Men Series Is the X-Men’s Best Future?
The stuff in between the lightning bolts, telekinesis, and super strength is what matters.
It’s hard for me to overstate how good X-Men ’97 really is. This week’s episode was absolutely stunning, but
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Apple opens up more iPhone repair options, which raises an interesting question
Jason Koebler for 404 Media: Apple Announces Half Measure to Make iPhones More Repairable Immediately After Law Banned Its Repair Practices
What this means, practically, is that Apple will let you swap the screen of one iPhone with the screen of another iPhone, something that was impossible for a consumer or independent shop to do
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It was 23 years from Macintosh to iPhone. It’s been 17 years since the iPhone.
Jason Snell for MacWorld: Call Apple Vision Pro a flop at your own risk
Today, we are so tech-savvy
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Incomplete thought: the problem with the Humane AI Pin (members post)
In this new series, I’m working out thoughts before I’ve figured out what I really think. Today is about the fundamental issue holding back the Humane Pin (despite the AI silliness).
Being the wallet is isn't cool. You know what's cool? Being the card people use in a ton of wallets.
Forgive the lengthy quotes in this post. These are from a podcast, and people are more verbose when speaking than when writing. I've chosen not to edit them down to make sure you get the full answer.
I was listening to The Vergecast this week and a caller sent in this question in
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A trifecta of Elon Musk garbage
What a day! We’ve got 3 links I’m pushing through as an omnibus post.
Benj Edwards for ArsTechnica: Elon Musk: AI will be smarter than any human around the end of next year
On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted the imminent rise in AI superintelligence during a live interview streamed on the
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How to effectively design a user modal (members post)
Today we're diving into how to design an effective modal interface, why button text really matters, and a few cool links with data that might surprise you.
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Athletic Minimal Wallpapers
It’s been almost exactly a year since my last wallpaper pack. I’m not really in the wallpaper game
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The only search engine I think goes toe-to-toe with Google
Jason Koebler writing for 404Media: Friendship Ended With GOOGLE Now KAGI Is My Best Friend
In all of these cases except for a blissful few years where Opera was easily better than Chrome, using a Google alternative felt like I was making a personal sacrifice by using an inferior product simply to avoid using the
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I don’t actually want Apple to make everything
I was reading the most recent Club MacSrories and this paragraph got me thinking…
The reasons why Apple is so hesitant to compete more directly with a broader segment of the videogame industry are as much a mystery today as ever. However, the rise of handheld gaming on Linux- and Windows-based hardware presents new
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Apple just allowed emulators on iOS! Or did they? Not everyone agrees.
Apple updated their App Store guidelines this week to allow game emulators for “retro games”. Great news! Right?
Samuel Axon of ArsTechnica isn’t so sure:
It's a little fuzzy how this will play out, but it may not allow the kind of emulators you see on Android and desktop, which let you
