Apple
Apple 2023 report cards: iPad
This is the second in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s major product lines in 2023. Here’s my look at the iPhone.
How the year started
Apple updated 4 of their 5 iPad models in 2022 (everything but the iPad Mini) and added a new model to the lineup.
1. The iPad Pro
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The future of LLMs is local
I saw this post over on json.blog, OpenAI Is Just Uber, which sounds like it makes sense, but I think is drawing the wrong conclusions on a couple fronts.
A decade later, ride-sharing hasn’t evolved significantly since its launch. Costs have risen as consumers now pay the actual marginal cost of their
Apple
Apple 2023 report cards: iPhone 📱
This is the first in a 4-part series of posts I’m writing to close out the year where I can get my thoughts out about Apple’s biggest product lines. I won’t be giving a score, but I will share my thoughts on the state of each product line, as well as
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Walking away and feeling great about it
Ben Werdmuller: Leaving the Nazi Bar
If I find that the owner of the living room allows people who make me or my friends feel unsafe — or, as is true in this case, pays them to hang out there, and makes money from their presence — I can use the law of two feet to leave.
Are movies actually getting longer?
Are movies getting longer than they used to be? It’s something I think a lot of us feel is
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2023 was a big year for the fediverse. 2024 could be even bigger
David Pierce for The Verge, 2023 in Social Media: The Case for the Fediverse
It doesn’t make sense that we have a dozen usernames, a dozen profiles, a dozen sets of fans and friends. All that stuff should belong to me, and I should be able to access it and interact with it anywhere
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Swing back to the blog
Chris McLeod, Blogging is where it's at, again
Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but stumbling into such a trove of active blogs has enthused me about blogging as a medium again. It’s sparked a thought that through a combination of increased blogging activity, declining platforms, and increasing adoption of
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That time Microsoft blew it with Xbox
Steven Asarch for Kotaku, Xbox’s Biggest Flop Was a Decade Ahead of Its Time
Microsoft’s follow-up was the Xbox One, the always-online console bundled with the much-maligned motion control accessory known as the Kinect. To be blunt, the console’s introduction was a bit of a clusterfuck.
It may be
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It’s not a problem, it’s an opportunity!
I wrote a little about this already, but I also wanted to link to Ken White’s Substack Has a Nazi Opportunity because it makes a few points very well and is worth a read.
I dislike McKenzie’s apologia for Substack’s policy and for Richard Hanania because it has a sort of detached,
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I’m always happy I use Ghost and not Substack, but I’m extra happy today
Hamish McKenzie in a note on Substack:
We believe that supporting individual rights and civil liberties while subjecting ideas to open discourse is the best way to strip bad ideas of their power. We are committed to upholding and protecting freedom of expression, even when it hurts.
Here’s what I’ll say for myself,
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The surprising challenge to run the best web apps locally
Tim Bradshaw for the Financial Times: Apple Wants AI to Run Directly on Its Hardware Instead of in the Cloud
While Microsoft and Google have largely focused on delivering chatbots and other generative AI services over the Internet from their vast cloud computing platforms, Apple’s research suggests that it will instead focus on AI
Make good shit
Do you subscribe to MKBHD on YouTube? If you follow this blog, then there's a very high chance you do. If you don't, then swap in whoever you like here, but I wanted to ask a simple series of questions.
Do you subscribe to MKBHD because he has great thumbnails?
Do
Game
Some games just have the juice
I put about 70 hours of game time in Forza Horizon 4 back in 2020. I was naturally excited to
My favorite little Mac tips (or, how to make a better computer 👀)
Today I wanted to take a few minutes to share some of my favorite little things you can do in
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Pedestrian deaths have been rising for a decade. Mostly in America, and mostly at night. Why?
Emily Badger, Ben Blatt, Josh Katz for the New York Times: Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night?
What’s even more perplexing: Nothing resembling this pattern has occurred in other comparably wealthy countries. In places like Canada and Australia, a much lower share of pedestrian fatalities occurs at night, and those fatalities
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The Beeper Mini saga
Beeper: Beeper Mini Is Back
In the first 48 hours, it was downloaded by more than 100,000 people. The reason for its success is clear: Android and iPhone customers desperately want to be able to chat together with high quality images/video, encryption, emojis, typing status, read receipts, and all modern chat features. We
