8 May 2024 - 1 min read

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

8 May 2024 - 3 min read

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 that a remarkable presentation. Steve Jobs so clearly presents the current state of the world, explains the problems with the current state, and then proceeds to explain how they’re

7 May 2024 - 1 min read

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?

7 May 2024 - 3 min read

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,

7 May 2024 - 1 min read

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

6 May 2024 - 2 min read

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 minutes playing chess, checkers, and battleship, in the Game Room app. Over those 30 minutes, it did genuinely feel like I was sharing the same space as my friend. I

6 May 2024 - 2 min read

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

6 May 2024 - 1 min read

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

5 May 2024 - 1 min read

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

2 May 2024 - 4 min read

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.

1 May 2024 - 1 min read

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

30 Apr 2024 - 1 min read

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

28 Apr 2024 - 2 min read

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

28 Apr 2024 - 1 min read

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

26 Apr 2024 - 3 min read

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