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Google I/O: the vibes were off
Casey Newton writing for Platformer: Google’s Broken Link to the Web
Aside from the opening act, the TikTok DJ
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I’ll just say it, I want an iPad that runs macOS (members post)
The more I think about it, the more I’m squarely in the camp of people who want iPad-like hardware that runs macOS, and I’m not sorry for saying it.
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Apple apologizes for crushing ad campaign
Apple VP of marketing to Ad Week (via 9to5Mac):
Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it’s incredibly important to us to design products that empower creatives all over the world. Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad of ways users express themselves and bring their ideas to life through iPad. We
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Settle down about the Apple Pencil, nature is healing
Look, I’m not going to sit here and tell you that Apple selling 4 Apple Pencils is great. It’
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Apple’s “Crush” ad is getting roasted, and I get it, even if it didn’t bother me
Kenneth Shepard writing for Kotaku: Apple’s New iPad Ad Sparks Loud, Immediate Backlash
The intent is obvious. Apple wants
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Marvel Studios is making an immersive, interactive story just for the Vision Pro
Marvel Studios: Marvel Studios and ILM Immersive Announce ‘What If…? – An Immersive Story,’ Coming Exclusively to Apple Vision Pro
Marvel Studios and ILM Immersive announce What If…? – An Immersive Story, the first-ever interactive Disney+ Original story coming exclusively to Apple Vision Pro.
I think that visionOS should get better at doing more traditional computer
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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?
iPad mini
Tim Cook might as well have said, “the iPad mini remains a product in our lineup,” as the mini got a single, minor shout out at the end, and that’s it. $499
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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:
Apple's upcoming OLED iPad Pro will start at $1,500, rising to between $1,800 and $2,000 depending on size and configuration, representing a major increase in prices compared to Apple'
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 users and audiences into a platform. What better way to encourage long term entrapment of users then by locking all their credentials into your platform, and even better, credentials that can't
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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. It’s a simple rule and it goes like this: What students do on-campus is none of my business. Campus politics is a weird and insular business, and it should be the primary
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, it looks cool, so I understand if you want to spend $200 on a thing that will look cool on your shelf, but take away the cool physical design and I feel like you’re
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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 users, but what about normal people?” That’s a good question to ask, but what comes next always bugs me. The “normal person” will always be their mom.
100% of the time, it’s their
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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 to do something like that with your phone, you’re jumping into and out of individual apps; the r1 supposes a future where all your apps connect into a central piece of AI-driven software,
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 and people still like them. Yes, home theaters and high quality headsets like the Vision Pro make the at-home experience better than ever, but there are still major elements that you don’t get