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I don’t actually want Apple to make everything

6 Apr 2024 - 1 min read

I don’t actually want Apple to make everything

I was reading the most recent Club MacSrories and this paragraph got me thinking… The reasons why Apple is so hesitant to compete more directly with a broader segment of the videogame industry are as much a mystery today as ever. However, the rise of handheld gaming on Linux- and

Apple just allowed emulators on iOS! Or did they? Not everyone agrees.

5 Apr 2024 - 1 min read

Apple just allowed emulators on iOS! Or did they? Not everyone agrees.

Apple updated their App Store guidelines this week to allow game emulators for “retro games”. Great news! Right? Samuel Axon of ArsTechnica isn’t so sure: It's a little fuzzy how this will play out, but it may not allow the kind of emulators you see on Android

The many faces of…Godzilla

5 Apr 2024 - 1 min read

The many faces of…Godzilla

Samantha Nelson writing for Polygon: America Made Godzilla a Superhero. In Japan, He’s Still a Monster. Godzilla has evolved considerably from his 1954 Japanese debut to the latest franchise installment, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. And in his most recent incarnations, clear national lines have been drawn between

The social network Substack wants to own more and more of the relationship

4 Apr 2024 - 1 min read

The social network Substack wants to own more and more of the relationship

Home With The Armadillo: Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion Essentially, the “follow” feature allows Substack to hold writers (and readers) hostage on their platform, forcing them to operate in a closed-content ecosystem that predominantly benefits Substack. Readers must use the Substack app or the Substack site

Another Matrix movie, huh?

3 Apr 2024 - 1 min read

Another Matrix movie, huh?

Warner Bros has announced they’re making a fifth Matrix film, not with either of the Wachowskis, but with Drew Goddard writing and directing. He’s best known for writing The Martian’s adaptation and writing/directing Cabin in the Woods. Here’s my top 4 featured movies on my

What I want from immersive video and why that MLS highlight reel was not quite it

29 Mar 2024 - 2 min read

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

Claude tops GPT 4 in blind comparisons

29 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

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

Your quarterly reminder that Substack is not infrastructure, they’re an aspiring social platform

29 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

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

Ina Fried’s Vision Pro review

29 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

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

404 Media adds full-text RSS for subscribers, and I’d love to do the same (if I can figure out how)

27 Mar 2024 - 2 min read

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

Bring back the AirPort!

26 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

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

22 Mar 2024 - 5 min read

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.

First look at what opting a Threads account into the fediverse will look like

20 Mar 2024 - 2 min read

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

Take a breath, save your outrage until WWDC

19 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

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

“AI” as a marketing tool

18 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

“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