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The Apple Studio Display and Realistic Expectations
The new Studio Display reviews are out, and the general consensus seems to be that it's a pretty damn good display with great speakers and a decent-to-terrible webcam that's getting fixed with a software update rolling out as we speak.
A few reviewers have criticized the product for having
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So You're Tempted by the Mac Studio…
The Mac Studio looks great, and as a computer lover, I want one just because, but I thought this mental exercise was a good way to determine if it's right for you.
Consider an alternate reality where the Mac Studio was released in October 2021, and the new MacBook Pros were just revealed
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Is the M1 Ultra an RTX 3090 Killer?
Apple used their now-famous vague performance charts to show how their new M1 Ultra system on a chip smoked
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My 2021 Report Card for Apple
Jason Snell does his excellent Apple report card every year, and while I wasn’t invited (Jason, call me 😊), the report card has been rattling around in my head since it came out and I wanted to add my takes, so consider this a write-in ballot.
As a reminder to those unfamiliar, the report
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A Notch in Your Fanboy Belt
The Moto 360 has a cutout at the bottom. Apple fanboys: OMG it’s a flat tire, what trash!
The Pixel 3 XL has a big old bathtub notch. Apple fanboys: man, what an ugly notch, Google sucks.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra has a tiny notch. Apple fanboys: ugh, why even have a
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What if Apple's 27% Deal Goes Worldwide?
Apple's "best I can do is 27%" deal for merchants selling dating apps in the Netherlands is a bit of a laugh, but what would it look like if Apple made this available to everyone?
Like let's just say that at WWDC this June Apple announces that later this
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So, About the MacBook Pro Notch…
I’m here to say that yes, I notice the notch on the 2021 MacBook Pro every single time I
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Fitness+ is Adding the One Feature That Could Bring Me Back!
Apple Newsroom:
Time to Run on Fitness+ is a new audio running experience designed to help users become more consistent
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Apple Finally Made a Thicker Device, They Never Do That!
Something I've heard again and again in the new MacBook Pro reviews is something like:
Apple actually made their device thicker, they never do that!
I get the instinct to say that, but I think it rang odd to me this time because I felt this was like the 10th time that this
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I Reviewed the Last 100 Apple Podcasts App Reviews and They’re Hilarious
Recently the Podcasts app had a sub-2 star rating on the App Store. That seemed reasonable to many (I
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Apple’s Self Service Repair Program is Unabashedly Good
Yesterday Apple announced their Self Service Repair program, and I commented that I was waiting to see what others would
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The Mac is Exciting Again
On Thanksgiving 2018 I bought the 12.9” iPad Pro and sold my MacBook Pro to pay for it. I was all in on the iPad because I loved it and in retrospect, because it was where all the excitement was in new Apple computers.
The iPad Pro was where Apple was flexing its design
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Thoughts on the New MacBook Pros
Oh man, do I wish I had $3,000 to throw at a computer right now…
These machines look insanely good and I’m jealous of every Mac user who’s been waiting to get a new Mac until now because you just got yourself a doozy of an update.
3x CPU performance from one
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The Culmination of Years of Arguments
For years people have been telling me that SD cards are a legacy feature, they’re just for a niche
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How I'd Redesign Alarm and Timer Notifications on iOS
Apologies for the iPhone 13 screenshots on an iPhone 12 body, my mock ups haven't been updated for
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Organizing a Web Browser's UI
File this under, "am I taking crazy pills?" but I've been quite confused by one specific part of the Safari 15 complaints I've seen over the summer. The complaint is basically that Safari 15 gets the order wrong of it's main 3 rows of chrome: address bar,
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Addressing 4 Misconceptions About Payments I Typically Hear from Apple Enthusiasts
I’ve posted a lot both here and on Twitter about payments over the past year for two main reasons:
1. The App Store rules around payments have been in question, so now payments are just another Apple-related subject.
2. Lots of people commenting on this stuff have incomplete understandings on how this stuff
