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 be quick to praise the things we enjoy, but take our time before criticizing what we don’t.
I was thinking about this over the past week as The Internet dealt with a new album
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 back in my life is wonderful.
I ended up getting the 64GB M1 model on a steep discount ($200 off)…clearly Best Buy was clearing out their inventory for the upcoming iPad line, and apparently
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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 running into stuff the R1 just can’t do. It can’t send emails or make spreadsheets, though Lyu has been demoing both for months.
And:
Rabbit’s roadmap is ambitious: Lyu has spent
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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 more general punditry, and honestly it feels like things are off the rails enough that I find it hard to take his data seriously without looking into it further.
The most recent example is
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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 while simultaneously improving the lives of the people who work there.
I love this, and it’s good to be reminded that there are many companies out there that don’t have pressure to grow
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How I fell in love with LEGO (members post)
Today we dive into why LEGO has unexpectedly become my go-to hobby over the past couple years.
Digital wallets on iOS already exist and here’s how they compete today
I see more people than I’d expect suggesting that enabling digital wallets for payments on the iPhone is massively dangerous and would lead to widespread fraud and I’ve even seen suggestions that these wallets would charge users a service fee to run all transactions.
I’m not here to tell you that every
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Incomplete thought: I looked at ChatGPT’s energy use and it doesn’t seem that bad…
I looked at how much electricity ChatGPT is supposed to use and compared it to some other items. From that perspective, it doesn't seem that crazy.
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Emulators aren’t new; here’s the great ones on the Mac
The first few emulators hit the App Store this week and while two of them were promptly removed (for different
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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
