I miss having an iPad
They say you don't know what you have until it's gone, and I gotta be honest, that's how I'm feeling about the iPad right now. I sold my iPad Pro to help pay for my Vision Pro. Part of my rationale was that the Vision Pro would
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What I want from immersive video and why that MLS highlight reel was not quite it
Jason Snell on Six Colors: Apple’s Immersive Video Problem
Now, having seen the video, I have a few more observations. The first is that I don’t think the new video is very good. Oh, sure, the individual shots can be impressive. […]
The problem is that, based on how Apple and MLS built the
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Claude tops GPT 4 in blind comparisons
Benj Edwards writing for ArsTechnica: “The King Is Dead”—Claude 3 Surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the First Time
On Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus large language model (LLM) surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 (which powers ChatGPT) for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a popular crowdsourced leaderboard used by
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Your quarterly reminder that Substack is not infrastructure, they’re an aspiring social platform
Jeanna Kadlec on Threads
Substack is completely gutting their business right now. Every writer I know is seeing our subscriptions plummet as our “follower” count rises. The whole value proposition of Substack is that it’s a newsletter and writer hub. This latest intervention is indicative of their efforts to transition to a social media
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Ina Fried’s Vision Pro review
Ina Fried: Axios Review: Using Apple’s Vision Pro in Real Life
The Vision Pro quickly feels heavy on your face, as others have noted. But using it is also cognitively more complex than just watching TV while doing some work on a phone or laptop.
I spent a lot of time in my review
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The internet disrupts everything (members post)
A short story of a broken furnace, a wealth of information, and the need for experts to save the day. Oh, and the most badass portfolio site I've ever seen.
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404 Media adds full-text RSS for subscribers, and I’d love to do the same (if I can figure out how)
404 Media: 404 Media Now Has a Full Text RSS Feed
Since we launched 404 Media in August, the most common request we’ve gotten from our subscribers is for an RSS feed that contains the full text of all of our articles. We are proud and excited to announce that today, we have finally
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Bring back the AirPort!
Joe Rosensteel: It’s Time for a New AirPort
networking underpins everything that Apple does care about. Every Mac, iPad, Apple TV, HomePod, Vision Pro, and most importantly every iPhone. The iPhone is a cellular device, but when you’re at home, you’re on your Wi-Fi network. If your iPhone and your wireless
Let’s talk about that 3% number
Well, it seems like transaction info is something people are more interested in than I expected, so I wanted to tackle one more thing. So often in App Store discussions, we talk about Apple’s 30% cut of each in-app purchase on iPhones and how that’s so much higher than the “3% merchants
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Digital wallets and the “only Apple Pay does this” mythology
Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works.
A few thoughts on the DOJ’s antitrust case against Apple
I’m no lawyer, and I’m not going to pretend I’m one, so don’t expect me to make any confident legal clams here. That said, I did read the 88-page suit (PDF) against Apple and I have some thoughts.
Oh, I also haven’t really looked at any other posts about
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Love of the game (members post)
Some thoughts about my side projects and (if you'll forgive me) how much joy they currently spark.
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First look at what opting a Threads account into the fediverse will look like
This (shockingly low res) view went up yesterday and shows what the user experience will be like for Threads users when they want to opt into the fediverse.
There are so many interesting details here, and honestly I think Meta is doing a fantastic job with how this is being implemented. That said, there are
A common bug in web apps (and how to fix it)
I think Claude is an underrated contender in the chatbot wars we're currently living through, but they don&
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Take a breath, save your outrage until WWDC
Abner Li writing for 9to5Google: Apple Might Use Google Gemini to Power Some AI Features on the iPhone
According to Bloomberg, there are “active negotiations to let Apple license Gemini, Google’s set of generative AI models, to power some new features coming to the iPhone software this year.” Apple has also talked with OpenAI,
My tried and true way of sticking with things
I used to change the monospaced font I use everywhere on my Mac constantly. New ones seem to come out every few months, and I was a moth to a flame with them, but I haven't changed the monospaced font I use on my Mac in a couple years now. Why? I spent
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“AI” as a marketing tool
Yunqi Li writing for Wired: The Tech Behind Taylor Swift Concert Wristbands
It’s funny because oftentimes people think there’s GPS in each of the devices, or there’s a lot of advanced AI technology,” says Vincent Leclerc, co-founder and CEO of PixMob in an interview with WSJ. “But we are really like,
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If you want your movie to have any cultural significance, put it in theaters
Tatiana Siegel writing for Variety: Apple’s Blockbuster Gamble
On March 10, the tech giant has 13 shots to take home an Oscar via two historical epics, “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Napoleon,” which nabbed 10 and three nominations, respectively. That’s given Apple the second-biggest haul among the major studios and streamers,