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Links:

• Christina Warren on Twitter, a website that still exists at this writing.
• Bob Iger returns to Disney as CEO.
• Yours truly: “Twitter Tumult”.
• Elon Musk asks engineers for weekly emails with code screenshots.
• Vice: “Twitter Employees on Visas Can’t Just Quit”.
• Disney books:
  • Disney War, by James B. Stewart — “The dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner—Disney Chairman and CEO—and the scandals that drove America’s best-known entertainment company to civil war.”
  • Walt Disney, by Neal Gabler — “The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history.”
• Speaking of James B. Stewart, his recent epic story on AT&T’s Time Warner acquisition for The New York Times: “Was This $100 Billion Deal the Worst Merger Ever?”.
• Puck — excellent new subscription Hollywood/media/Silicon Valley news site.

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Links:

• “Twitter Tumult” — me, on what’s going on at Twitter.
• Twitter Is Going Great — A rundown of everything during Twitter’s saga under Elon Musk.
• Fedifinder — “Search Twitter names, bios, locations, URLs, and pinned Tweets for fediverse handles and URLs.” Nifty tool for anyone moving from Twitter to Mastodon or just trying Mastodon out.
• Fediverse of Madness — a collection of Glitch apps related to the fediverse.
• Glitch.
• The Obama Foundation Democracy Forum.
• Anil’s prescient Twitter prediction from back in April.
• Anil’s blog.
• Dahlia Lithwick, SCOTUS columnist extraordinaire.

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Links:

• Tell us what you really think, Federico: “Stage Manager in iPadOS 16: At the Intersection of Bugs, Missing Features, and Flawed Design”.
• Chris Lawley on Stage Manager.
• Federico on the new iPads.
• Yours truly on the same new iPads.
• Federico on attending his first Apple media event in person, back in 2015.

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Links:

• Jason’s review of the new iPads.
• Jason’s take on the iPad announcements: “The iPad’s Erratic Odyssey Continues”.
• Yours truly’s take on the announcements last week: “The iPad Lineup Is, Like, Growing Out Its Bangs or Something and Looks a Little Weird Right Now, but Apple TV Has Been Going to the Gym and Looks Great”.
• New $70 Logitech Crayon.
• Apple’s $9 USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter.
• Apple’s growing array of iPad keyboards.
• Apple’s eMac — an iMac-like Mac with a CRT display for education that was introduced in 2002.
• Joe Rosensteel on the new Apple TV 4K hardware.
• Good explainer on Matter from The Verge.
• Steven Troughton-Smith’s ideas for improving Stage Manager on iPadOS.

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Links:

• Stable Diffusion.
  • Diffusion Bee: easily install and run on a Mac.
• Midjourney.
• Merlin’s Wisdom Project.
• Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story on Netflix.
• The Offer on Paramount+.
• Do By Friday — Merlin’s weekly challenge podcast with Alex Cox.
• Reconcilable Differences — Merlin’s podcast with John Siracusa.
• Seki Edge Nail Clippers, made in Japan.

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Links:

• Celebrate Rogue Amoeba’s 20th Anniversary.
  • My link.
• The Design of Audio Hijack 4.
  • My link.
• Rogue Amoeba: “Our Upgrade Philosophy”.
• Custom-engraved AirPods Pro cases show up with the engraving on-screen in iOS.
• Yours truly’s Apple Watch Ultra review.
• Remembering “SportsCenter’s Dick Trickle”

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Links:

• Nilay's iPhone 14 Pro review for The Verge.
• Yours truly's iPhone 14 Pro review.
• Nilay: "Welcome to the New Verge".

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Links:

• Rosemary’s blog.
• Automators — Rosemary’s podcast cohosted with David Sparks.
• Nested Folders — Rosemary’s productivity podcast, cohosted with Scotty Jackson.
• iOS Today at TWiT.
• Author Danny Goodman, whose Complete HyperCard Handbook sold 650,000 copies in the late 1980s.
• “The Right Way to Pop Your AirPods Out of the Case” — yours truly YouTubing back in 2017.
• “Life finds a way” — Ian Malcom in Jurassic Park.
• Pushcut — “Triggers, notifications, and widgets for Shortcuts, Home, and online automation”.
• WidgetPack — “Create your own widgets with Shortcuts.”
• Matthew Cassenelli, Shortcuts expert and author.
• Chris Lawley’s YouTube productivity tips channel.

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Links:

• Kashmir Hill's report for the NYT: "A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal."
  • My take on the implications of that story.
• System Settings in MacOS 13 Ventura:
  • Me, at DF: "The Fit and Finish of the All-New System Settings on MacOS 13 Ventura".
  • Jalkut, at his Bitsplitting blog: "Disciplined Innovation".
• MarsEdit 5 will support Markdown syntax coloring. Finally.
• Red Sweater Software.
• Core Intuition, the podcast Jalkut cohosts with Manton Reece.

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Links:

• Michael Steeber’s homepage.
• The App Store Time Machine.
• Steeber’s first crack at the idea of recreating original Apple Stores virtually, this one using ARKit last year.
• Tabletops, Steeber’s newsletter.
• Steeber’s Apple Store Glossary.
• A 4-minute video from the grand opening of the Glendale Galleria Apple Store on 19 May 2001. Apple opened its first two stores that day — in Glendale, California and Tysons, Virginia. Customers waited for three hours to enter the store and were happy to do so.
• Signage outside the Lincoln Park Apple Store in Chicago, with “Apple Store” anachronistically set in Apple Garamond.
• Apple Marina Bay Sands, in Singapore. Just gorgeous.
• Apple Carnegie Library, in Washington, DC.
• Apple Tower Theatre, in Los Angeles.
• Apple Walnut Street, in always-sunny Philadelphia.
  • Walnut Street ransacked and burned during the George Floyd riots on 30 May 2020.
  • My Instagram photo of the employee-painted mural coming to life on the boarded-up Walnut Street Apple Store, 13 June 2020. (Original JPEG, for posterity after Facebook collapses.)
  • The finished mural.
• Bill Gates’s apparently apocryphal quote that “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”

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Links:

• Hop Wtr.
• Hoplark.
• My review of the new M2 MacBook Air.

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Links:

• Rene’s review of the new M2 13-inch MacBook Pro.
• The M2 MacBook Pro with 256 GB SSD has slower read and write performance than any M1 Mac, but only the 256 GB config.
• Daring Fireball: “How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch ID, and Require a Passcode to Unlock Your iPhone or iPad”.
• Rene’s deep dive on Passkeys.
• Glenn Fleishman’s comprehensive piece on Passkeys for TidBITS.
• Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto.

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Links:

• The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2022. Like and subscribe, baby.
• Twitter thread pondering whether reaction to iPadOS’s M1-or-better requirement for Stage Manager would have gotten a different reaction from owners of older iPads if the feature had debuted with the M1 iPad Pros last year.
• Jason’s review of the new M2 13-inch MacBook Pro.
• Apple’s announcement of its 10-year Major League Soccer streaming deal.

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Links:

• This episode, in video, on YouTube.
• The WWDC 2022 Keynote.
• “Computers Are Fun and Useful”

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Links:

• After Steve.
  • Amazon.
  • Bookshop.
  • Apple Books.
• “How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple” — excerpt from After Steve that ran in The New York Times on May 1.

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Transcript.

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Links

• Knotwords.
• Zach Gage’s portfolio website, with a full list of games.
• Really Bad Chess, which is actually, of course, really good.
• SynthPod, Zach’s first iPhone app.
• HyperStudio — a classic developer tool like HyperCard, but with color support.
• Apple’s original “Cocoa” — Stagecast Creator/KidSim.
• Zach Lieberman’s OpenFrameworks project from 2010.
• Lights Off — the first native iPhone game, nearly a year before the App Store. (I mistakenly called it “Lights Out” during the show.)
• CandyBar — Mac utility for customizing icons, including, back in the day, the icons for the system itself.
• Threes, a great puzzle game of iOS from 2014. (App Store link.)
• 2048, a free Threes knockoff.
• Texas Instruments TI-83 Graphing Calculator, and games written for it.
• PICO-8 fantasy console.
• Playdate Pulp, and Bitsy, Pulp’s inspiration.
• Sol LeWitt, conceptual artist.

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Links:

• Flexibits:
  • Fantastical.
  • Cardhop.
  • Daring Fireball: “Fantastical Adds Web-Based Scheduling Features”.
  • Jason Snell: “Fantastical Update Adds Cloud-Based Scheduling Features”.
• Playdate:
  • Playdate Pulp — fun and surprisingly powerful web-based game IDE.
  • Playdate C and Lua SDKs.
• Pinball Construction Set.

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Links:

• “Take Control of Untangling Connections” — Glenn’s new $10 book that explains everything there is to know about USB-C connectors and ports and adapters.
  • Glenn’s personal website, with a fun new URL.
• Elon Musk is probably going to buy Twitter and take it private.
• Matt Levine’s excellent Money Stuff column/newsletter for Bloomberg.
• Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day, another outstanding email newsletter/column.
• Apple Newsroom: “Apple TV+ Partners With Idris Elba on New Thriller ‘Hijack’”.
  • My quip.
• Tim Cook’s speech stating Apple’s opposition to mandatory sideloading.
  • Sam Biddle (of The Intercept)’s response.
  • Matt Stoller’s response, which is even more deeply cynical than Biddle’s.

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Links:

• Audio Hijack 4.
• Audio Hijack 4 Scripting Center — documentation, how-tos, and examples.
• Jason Snell’s first impressions of “Friday Night Baseball”.
• “Friday Night Baseball” commentator Chris Young’s Wikipedia page, with details on the sign-stealing-via-Apple-Watch scheme he devised while playing for the Yankees and Red Sox.

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Links:

• Panzarino’s interview with Apple execs Tom Boger, Shelly Goldberg, and Xander Soren, on the thinking behind the Mac Studio and Studio Display.
• TechMeme roundup of Studio Display and Mac Studio Reviews.
• Vin Diesel’s masterpiece, “xXx”.
  • “I want all that, in here.”

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Links:

• Studio Display:
  • Casey’s summary of the state of external retina displays in December 2021.
  • My Review of the Apple Studio Display.
  • Matthew Panzarino: “Apple Execs on Developing Mac Studio and Studio Display for the Other Pros”.
  • TechMeme roundup of Studio Display and Mac Studio Reviews.
• Apple’s $40 0.8m Thunderbolt 3 cable and $160 3m Thunderbolt 4 cable.
• MaskerAid:
  • Announcing MaskerAid.
  • MaskerAid Follow-Up.
  • MaskerAid on the App Store.
• The Martini FAQ, by Brad Gadberry.

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Links:

• Glass on the web.
• Glass on the App Store: “No ads, no algorithms.”
  • Special link, just for listeners of the show, for one free month on a yearly subscription.
• Tweet thread between Marques Brownlee and Adam Mosseri on the lack of an iPad app for Instagram.
• Image viewing comparison between Glass and Instagram.

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Links:

• Up Spell — Ken’s iOS word game.
• “Wallaby” iPhone prototype hardware.
• Steve Jobs’s quote on the wall outside Town Hall at Infinite Loop: “If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on for it too long. Just figure out what’s next.”
• Kim Scott’s books: Radical Candor and Just Work.
• DF’s 15-year anniversary post, with word counts.
• Stephen King’s On Writing.
• Andy Hertzfeld’s history of the original Mac:
  • Folklore.org
  • Revolution in the Valley
• Humane — The totally secret startup where Ken is now working.
• Job openings at Humane.

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Links:

• Apple Support: “Set up home theater audio with HomePod mini or HomePod and Apple TV 4K”.
• AirTags and Stalking:
  • Kashmir Hill’s NYT story on tracker accuracy, based on using three brands of trackers to follow her husband.
  • Apple Newsroom: “An Update on AirTag and Unwanted Tracking”.
  • My take.
  • Rene’s take.
• 2016 Cult of Mac story on stalking via location embedded in Instagram photos.
• Apple leaks “realityOS” name, again.
• MacRumors: “Reliable Leaker Known as ‘Kang’ Hit With Warning From Apple”.
• Mark Gurman’s February 20 “Power On” column on Apple’s purported March 8 event.
• Rene on M2 MacBook rumors.

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Links:

• Apple in 2021: The Six Colors Report Card.
  • Breaking down the results with charts and graphs, thanks to Kieran Healy.
  • “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction” — Healy’s outstanding introduction to the R programming language and ggplot visualization library.
  • Healy’s also-excellent website.
  • My personal 2021 Apple report card.
• Keychron Q2 mechanical USB keyboard. My son bought this and swapped out the switches for a set of Zealio V2 62g switches.
• Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource and Audio Hijack — two great Mac utilities that can’t exist on iPadOS.
• Clipboard managers (which also can’t exist on iPadOS):
  • Pastebot.
  • Keyboard Maestro.
  • LaunchBar.
• Jason Snell: “Why Does the Apple TV Still Exist?”
• Upgrade: One of Jason’s plethora of podcasts, this one co-hosted with Myke Hurley.
  • Last week’s Upgrade, discussing the 2021 Report Card.
• Floppy Emu: “a floppy and hard disk emulator for classic Apple II, Macintosh, and Lisa computers. It uses an SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive.” Amazing work from Steve Chamberlin.
• Moltz’s “The Terminator” t-shirt design. (It will not be back.)

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Links:

• Apple Quarterly Results:
  • Apple Newsroom.
  • My two cents.
  • “This Is Tim.”
• MacOS 12.3 is dropping kernel extension APIs used by Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive:
  • Stephen Hackett.
  • Dropbox passing the buck.
  • Microsoft says OneDrive will soon be ready.
  • Box has been ready since October.
• New emojis in iOS 15.4 and MacOS 12.3.
• MacRumors: "Hands-On With Universal Control in iPadOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3".
• Other new features in iOS 15.3 and MacOS 12.3, including Face ID while wearing a mask.
• Steve Jobs's backdated stock options.
• Former Apple CFO Fred Anderson.
• East India Company.
  • They are, in fact, still a concern.
• Joe Isuzu.

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Links:

• “Heat 2”:
  • “Heat”.
  • Michael Mann’s tweet announcing “Heat 2”.
  • I almost plotzed.
  • Michael Mann on The Rewatchables in November 2021, talking about “Heat”.
• Roger Ebert in 2010: “Video Games Can Never Be Art”.
  • Me, in 2014: “I really wish [Ebert] had lived to see ‘Firewatch’.”
• “The Making of N64 Goldeneye: A 90s Video Game Masterpiece”.
• Rogue Amoeba: Audio Hijack.
• Yours truly speaking at XOXO 2014, on how Google Reader shutting down gave me the idea that has funded Daring Fireball ever since.
• BeOS screenshots — were those just-wide-enough-for-the-title window title bars a good idea or a gimmick?
• Netflix Chicken Littles.
• “Biff” podcast on The Incomparable — “Dan Moren, John Moltz, and Guy English discuss superhero TV shows and movies in the inimitable style that their loyal readers have come to love.”

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Links:

• “Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone” — the full 30-minute documentary.
  • (That same link has Dieter’s bonus material, too, including his corrected version of Ed Colligan’s infamous December 2006 quip about the then-imminent iPhone.)
• “The Zen of Palm” (PDF) — Palm’s HIG and design philosophy.
• Palm OS’s Graffiti handwriting system, including an illustrated cheatsheet of the gestures.
• PalmOS devices:
  • PalmPilot
    • Jeff Hawkins’s wooden prototype for getting the size right
  • Handspring Visor
  • Sony Clié
  • Harry McCracken’s look back at Palm devices for Fast Company in 2018
• The Palm Pre — Palm’s answer to the iPhone in 2009.
• TreoCentral and VisorCentral — both sites long defunct, but still available online.
• BlackBerry-esque prototype Android devices from before Google saw the iPhone.
• HTC’s G1 — The first commercial Android phone (a real turd).

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Links:

• January:
  • John Ternus becomes SVP of hardware; Dan Riccio takes over VR/AR.
• February:
  • iOS 14.5 and unlocking with Apple Watch while wearing a mask.
• March:
  • HomePod canceled.
  • “Intel Goes Long”.
• April:
  • “Spring Loaded” event.
  • Apple Podcasts changes.
• May:
  • Epic v. Apple court case.
  • App Store: The Schiller Cut.
  • New Apple TV 4K and Siri Remote.
  • M1 iPad Pros.
  • 24-inch M1 iMacs.
• June:
  • WWDC 2021.
  • Safari tabs saga.
• August:
  • Child safety initiatives.
• September:
  • “California Streaming” event.
  • iPhones 13
    • Rene’s review.
    • My review.
  • iPad Mini
    • Rene’s review.
    • My review.
  • iOS 15 and WatchOS 8.
  • Kevin Lynch takes over “TitanOS”.
• October:
  • Apple Watch Series 7
    • Rene’s review.
    • My review.
  • M1 Pro/Max MacBook Pros
    • Rene’s review.
    • My review.
  • MacOS 12 Monterey
  • Shortcuts.
• November:
  • Federighi’s anti-sideloading keynote at Web Summit in Lisbon.
• December:
  • The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience.

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Links:

• Joanna on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last week. (Really fun!)
• Gita Mini by Piaggio — the follow-along robot demoed on The Tonight Show.
• “Stuck in the Metaverse for 24 hours” — Joanna spends 24 hours alone in a hotel room wearing an Oculus Quest 2.
• “E-Ternal: A Tech Quest to Live Forever” — Joanna’s Emmy-winning documentary.
• Joanna’s “new roommate”.
• iOS 15.2’s “Legacy Contact” feature.
• “Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone”.
• “General Magic: The Movie.”
• Joanna Stern interviews Elon Musk at the WSJ CEO Council Summit — video and transcript.

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Links:

• Who’s who in “Get Back”? A guide to the non-Beatles in Peter Jackson’s documentary.
  • “And Your Bird Can Sing” (Take 2) April 20, 1966.
• Amazon.com: iSi Classic MeshSodamaker for Making Carbonating Beverages, 1 Quart, Stainless Steel: Industrial & Scientific.
• American Giant.
  • Farhad Manjoo: “This Is The Greatest Hoodie Ever Made”.
  • YKK Zippers.
• Bern’s Steak House in Tampa.
• Jamie Zawinski.
  • DNA Lounge.
  • “Now you have two problems.”
• The Sharper Image’s Bacon Express Toaster.
• Helen Rosner in The New Yorker: “Pellet Ice Is the Good Ice”.
• Hal’s New York Seltzer Water.
• “What makes Ringo a Great Drummer”.
• “World’s Great Drummers Salute Ringo Starr”.
• ‎David Sims, Letterboxd one-sentence reviewer extraordinaire.
  • “Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle”.
  • “Free Solo”.
  • “A Quiet Place”.
• RoboCop: Blank Check with Griffin & David.
• Amanda Hess in the NYT: “The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles”.
• “Futura and Wes Anderson: A Love Story”.
• Atkinson Hyperlegible — an accessibility typeface.
• Hop Sing Laundromat:
  • Hop Sing on Twitter.
  • Lê on Twitter.
  • Rare photos from inside.

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Links:

• MacCentral circa November 1996, as cached by the Internet Archive. Among the news of the week: the release of BBEdit 4.0.2 and Cyberdog 1.2 beta 2. One of those had a longer shelf life than the other.

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• David's post about wildcamping in Scotland with Apple Watch Series 7.
• David's excellent apps: Widgetsmith, Watchsmith, Pedometer++, Sleep++, and more.
• Problematic Forbes story: "Apple Quietly Buying Ads Via Google For High-Value Subscription Apps To Capture App Publisher Revenue".
• Apple sues NSO Group.
• NYT: "Apple Sues Israeli Spyware Maker, Seeking to Block Its Access to iPhones".
• Skyfall Road Pin on Google Maps.
• Under the Radar.

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Links:

• Ben’s piece at Stratechery on the metaverse and the enterprise.
• Ben’s interview with Mark Zuckerberg.
• Facebook’s 2021 Connect keynote.
• Steven Levy’s interview with Niantic Labs founder and CEO John Hanke: “AR Is Where the Real Metaverse Is Going to Happen”.
• WALL-E’s dystopian vision of compulsive VR/AR addiction.
• Dithering: Two episodes per week, 15 minutes per episode. Not a minute less, not a minute more.

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Links:

• Core Intuition.
• Red Sweater Software.
• Docker.

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Links:

• Apple's $19 polishing cloth.
• Whoosh.
• The bizarro 16-pack of SIM card removal tools I bought at Amazon for $7.
• Paprika.
• Text Sniper.

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Links:

• Business Insider feature suggesting Apple’s health initiatives are unfocused. (News+ link.)
• Monica Chin at The Verge: “File Not Found” — how kids today don’t understand computer file systems.
• Float — Aundre Larrow’s beautiful short film, shot using iPhone 13’s Cinematic Mode.
• Nilay’s excellent interview podcast, Decoder.
• My review of the Apple Watch Series 7.

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Links:

• Garmin Adventure Watches.
• Daring Fireball: “Why Does the iPhone Still Use Lightning?”
• Jason's iPad Mini review.
• My iPad Mini review.
• Steve Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think”.
• Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things”, which I conflated with Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think” during the show, but about which Jason promptly corrected me.
• “Downstream” — Jason’s new podcast with Julia Alexander.
• “This is Dave from Basketball Digest.”
• “My Next Guest Needs no Introduction”.
• “The PosCast” with Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur.
• New Orleans Pelicans.
• Charlotte Hornets.
• Utah Jazz.
• Giants and Dodgers.

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Links:

• Panzarino’s iPhone 13 review.
• My iPhone 13 review.
• Panzarino’s follow-up feature on Cinematic mode, interviewing Apple’s Kaiann Drance and Johnnie Manzari, and my comments thereupon.
• A typical good dedicated macro lens: Canon’s $1,300 100mm ƒ/2.8 USM.
• ‘Float’ — Aundre Larrow’s beautiful short film, shot on an iPhone 13 Pro using Cinematic mode.
• Austin Mann’s iPhone 13 Pro camera review, from a safari in Tanzania, and my comments, from my home office in Philadelphia.
• From the DF Archive 2007: “iPhone First Impressions”.

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Links:

• Apple’s event page for “California Streaming”.
• Yours truly’s thoughts and observations.
• Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’s decision in the Apple v. Epic case.
• Stephen Warwick’s humorous summary of the decision.

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Links:

• Apple’s masterful press release that got them just the headlines they were hoping to get.
• Techmeme’s roundup of Big Press headlines regarding Apple’s settlement proposal for the class action lawsuit regarding the App Store in the U.S.
• Bloomberg got it right: “Apple Settles With App Developers Without Making Major Concessions”.
• Ryan Jones’s excellent Twitter thread that accurately depicts the actual nature of Apple’s settlement proposal.
• Jack Nicas’s column for the NYT: “Why Apple Won Its Legal Settlement With Developers”.
• MG on Apple’s press release: “Thank You, Apple! May We Have Another?”.
• And MG’s follow-up, “Apple Accentuates the Positive”.
• Apple’s earlier-on-Thursday announcement regarding the News Partner Program.
• Phil Schiller’s 2011 memo asking “Do we think our 70/30 split will last forever?”.
• Mark Gurman’s latest column, speculating on who might succeed Tim Cook as CEO.
• The Peter Principle — “a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their ‘maximum level of incompetence’”. (I blew it and said “Pareto Principle” on air, which is an entirely different thing, but also interesting.)
• Randy Johnson hits a bird with a pitch during a 2001 preseason MLB game.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• Monotype Helvetica Now Variable.
• Quinn Nelson's skewering of Apple's MagSafe Battery Pack.
• Anker's superior $55 MagSafe-compatible battery pack.
• Yours truly on Apple's child safety initiatives.

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Links:

• Apple’s masterful press release that got them just the headlines they were hoping to get.
• Techmeme’s roundup of Big Press headlines regarding Apple’s settlement proposal for the class action lawsuit regarding the App Store in the U.S.
• Bloomberg got it right: “Apple Settles With App Developers Without Making Major Concessions”.
• Ryan Jones’s excellent Twitter thread that accurately depicts the actual nature of Apple’s settlement proposal.
• Jack Nicas’s column for the NYT: “Why Apple Won Its Legal Settlement With Developers”.
• MG on Apple’s press release: “Thank You, Apple! May We Have Another?”.
• And MG’s follow-up, “Apple Accentuates the Positive”.
• Apple’s earlier-on-Thursday announcement regarding the News Partner Program.
• Phil Schiller’s 2011 memo asking “Do we think our 70/30 split will last forever?”.
• Mark Gurman’s latest column, speculating on who might succeed Tim Cook as CEO.
• The Peter Principle — “a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their ‘maximum level of incompetence’”. (I blew it and said “Pareto Principle” on air, which is an entirely different thing, but also interesting.)
• Another post-show correction: there is one MLB team with a friendly bird mascot. (I mistakenly thought they had been relegated to AAA, and regret the error.)
• Randy Johnson hits a bird with a pitch during a 2001 preseason MLB game.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• Battery Packs:
  • Apple’s $99 MagSafe Battery Pack
  • Anker’s $46 PowerCore Magnetic 5K MagSafe-compatible battery pack
  • Rene Ritchie’s first-look at Apple’s new battery pack
• The Amnesty-International-led exposé of NSO Group’s Pegasus phone-hacking capabilities and abuse:
  • Amnesty’s report
  • Tweet thread from Citizen Lab’s Bill Marczak
  • The Washington Post’s report with a clickbait headline
  • The Guardian’s report
  • Google’s Project Zero on Apple’s “BlastDoor” sandboxing protection for iMessage introduced in iOS 14
• Safari 15’s much-criticized new UIs and Apple’s seeming “we’re listening” reaction:
  • My take on Safari 15 for iOS and Mac
  • And a follow-up
  • Me, on Rene Ritchie’s YouTube show
  • Jason Snell’s take for Macworld: “a self-inflicted wound but first aid may be on the way”
• Miscellaneous:
  • Valve’s upcoming Steam Deck, a Switch-inspired handheld gaming PC
  • Brian Heater on Steam Deck for TechCrunch
  • Moft’s $29 MagSafe credit-card-sized foldable iPhone stand
  • Ooni gas pizza ovens
  • Una Pizza Napoletana — the heavenly formerly-in-San-Francisco pizza restaurant where every single pie was made by owner Anthony Mangieri
  • Una Pizza is now in New Jersey and Mangieri now makes pepperoni pies that sound amazing

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• The NOC List (Mission Impossible).
• Rene’s WWDC interview with Kevin Lynch and Deidre Caldbeck from Apple.
• The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2021, with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak.
• Rene on sideloading.
• Yours truly on sideloading.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• Previous episodes of The Talk Show Live (or Remote) From WWDC: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.
• Apple’s WWDC 2021 keynote and Platforms State of the Union.
• iOS 15
• iPadOS 15
• MacOS 12 Monterey
• WatchOS 8
• Shared Health data
• Privacy
• Developer tools

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Links:

• Function101 Remote Control for Apple TV.
• Robert G. Reeves's tweet thread about getting Twitter ads for the brand of toothpaste his mother uses after spending a week at her house.
• "Apple declined to comment on if this is just an elaborate troll at this point.".
• Joanna's latest: "Stop With the Video Chats Already. Just Make a Voice Call.".
• Joanna Stern Interviews Craig Federighi About ATT and 'Superman'.
• Joanna on AirTags vs. Tile.
• Nicole Nguyen for the WSJ: "Apple’s New iPad Pro vs. MacBook Air".
• Apple Platform Security Guide: "Secure Intent and Connections to the Secure Enclave".

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Links:

• Accidental Tech Podcast.
• Casey Liss, who really does do a good job as de facto host of ATP, and to whom I probably owe a beer now.
• Overcast — the app you’re probably using to listen to this show.
• My reviews of the new 24-inch M1 iMac, M1 iPad Pro, and Apple TV remote and the hardware set-top box it optionally comes with.
• Marco’s Ratio coffee maker.
• “Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire” — excellent 1996 video game for Nintendo 64.

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Links:

• My roundup of the “Spring Loaded” Apple event.
• Podswap: independent repair shop that offers to swap out AirPods for refurbished buds with fresh batteries for $60.
• Jeff Carlson on Podswap for TidBITS.
• Battery Monitor: Battery diagnostic utility for the Mac. $5, cheap!
• Joe Steel on the Siri Remote: “This remote was an abomination that should have never made it out of the design lab it was drafted in.”
• MacOS User Guide: Content Caching on MacOS and the list of supported content types.
• Apple Platform Security Guide.
• Glenn’s “Take Control of Your M-Series Mac” book.
• “Take Control of Securing Your Mac”, also by Glenn.
• Tiny Type Museum — only a few remaining!
• Howard Oakley’s excellent The Eclectic Light Company — a copiously detailed resource for Mac and iOS platform troubleshooting.
• “Some Cafe Owners Pull the Plug on Lingering Wi-Fi Users” — Glenn’s June 2005 story for The New York Times, which he believes to be the first story of its kind.
• That scene from “The Naked Gun”, exquisitely synced to my remarks about it, thanks to Todd Vaziri.

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Links:

• Craig’s annual essays about running a subscription:

  • Year one.
  • Year two.

• “Kissa by Kissa” — Craig’s book documenting, in words and photos, “walking 1,000+km of the countryside of Japan along the ancient Nakasendō highway, the culture of toast (toast!), and mid-twentieth century Japanese cafés called kissaten.”

• “Pizza Toast & Coffee” — Craig’s new short film.

• Craigstarter — Craig’s open source project to host your own Kickstarter-like projects.

• Craig’s recent essay for Wired on the pleasure of programming, or as he calls it, “coding”.

• “Fast Software, the Best Software” — Craig’s 2019 essay on the feel of software tools.

• Kevin Kelly’s seminal “1,000 True Fans” essay.

• Author Karl Ove Knausgård, who calls his editors each day to read that day’s work to them.

• Software tools mentioned:

  • Ulyssses.
  • Final Cut Pro, which no longer has an “X”.
  • Lightroom Classic, the “Classic” part of which feels ominous.
  • Robin Sloan’s tweet deleting script.
  • Plausible Analytics.
  • Fathom Analytics.
  • fzf — Command-line fuzzy finder search tool.

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Links:

• WWDC starts June 7.
• Gurman rumor of a rugged Apple Watch.
• Rene’s YouTube channel.
• Rene’s first year as an indie video maker, by the numbers.
• MacBreak Weekly, which Rene now co-hosts..

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Links:

• The 20 Macs for 2020 podcast project, now with all three bonus content episodes with yours truly.
• [Apple’s March 21, 2001 press release announcing Mac OS X 10.0’s release, including where to buy it (it came in a box and cost $129)](. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2001/03/21Mac-OS-X-Hits-Stores-This-Weekend/).
• Jason in August 2000: “Mac OS X: The Full Story”.
• Jason’s 10.1 story for Macworld.
• Steve Jobs claiming in 2005 — announcing the Mac’s Intel transition — that Mac OS X had set up Apple “for the next 20 years”.
• Jason: “Can Apple Explain Its Home Strategy?”.
• iMac Pro canceled in Friday night announcement.
• HomePod canceled the next Friday night.
• Dan Frakes’s review of the iPod Hi-Fi in 2006.
• Yours truly on Intel’s new “Go PC” campaign with Justin Long: “Intel Goes Long” and “Going Longer”.
• Stickergate.

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Links:

• Siracusa’s Mac OS X reviews:
• OS X 10.10 Yosemite
• OS X 10.9 Mavericks
• OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
• Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
• Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
• Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
• Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
• Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
• Mac OS X 10.1
• Mac OS X 10.0
• Mac OS X DP4
• Mac OS X DP3
• Mac OS X DP2
• Siracusa’s entire archive at Ars Technica
• Hypercritical — Siracusa’s seldom-updated website

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Links:

• Daring Fireball posts on Bloomberg’s “Big Hack” update.
• “Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media” by Seth Mnookin.
• Zeynep Tucekci: “Critical Thinking Isn’t Just a Process” — interesting post about reading through the lines of authoritarian doublespeak.
• Marc Newson’s Ikepod watches, ideas which carried through to Apple Watch.
• Rocket — Christina’s podcast with Brianna Wu and Simone De Rochefort.

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Links:

• Ming-Chi Kuo and Mark Gurman reports on 2021 Macs.
• Mimeographs.
• San Antonio 10 year old who got 10 shares of GameStop stock as a gift from his mom and made $3000.
• Titanium G4 PowerBook.
• Robinhood overview by NYT.
• Robinhood summary from Felix Salmon.
• Philly COVID vaccination fiasco.

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Links:

• Jack Dorsey’s strange, rambling thread on Twitter’s decision to permanently ban Donald Trump.
• Sheryl Sandberg says Capitol riot planning didn’t happen on Facebook.
• Washington Post story on the travails of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s Secret Service trying to find a toilet.
• Sarah Kendzior’s “Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America”.
• “The Collected Angers” — Mike’s new book of essays.
• Bayard — the wonderful pitch-perfect typeface on the cover of “The Collected Angers”, from Vocal Type.

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Links:

• Reuters ignites long simmering Project Titan talk.
• My take on this Apple car rumor.
• Elon Musk off-handedly quips that he tried to sell Tesla to Apple a few years ago and Tim Cook wouldn’t take the meeting.
• Loren Brichter’s “Chome Is Bad” single-serving website.
• Pitch Meeting: “Tenet” (the best review of “Tenet” you’ll see).
• Rene and yours truly debating whether Macs will and/or should support touchscreens on Rene’s YouTube channel, with the full-length version available on Nebula.

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Links:

• Panzarino: “This Is Not a Review of Apple’s New AirPods Max Headphones”.
• Yours truly: “Heavy Is the Head That Wears the AirPods Max”.
• Panzarino’s M1 MacBook Pro review, with jaw-dropping speed and battery life results from Xcode.
• James Mangold to direct fifth Indiana Jones movie.
• Todd Vaziri on a fun audio Easter egg in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• Steve Martin’s “autograph” cards.

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Links:

• Decoder — new/relaunched interview podcast hosted by Nilay. (Overcast link.)
• “The Pandemic Work Diary of a Podcasting Tech Editor” — nice feature in the NYT on Nilay’s workday.
• The Verge’s reviews for the M1 MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac Mini.
• Yours truly’s review of the M1 MacBook Pro.
• Patrick Moorhead’s “last honest man” style review of the M1 MacBook Air for Forbes, which, just one week later, is not aging well.
• The Verge’s reviews for the iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone 12 Mini. And from a few weeks prior: the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro.
• Yours truly’s reviews of the iPhone 12/12 Pro and 12 Mini/12 Pro Max.
• “Verizon and AT&T Have Vastly Different Ideas About Phone Cases” — Ashley Carman’s 2018 profile for The Verge of Helena Elicerio, Verizon’s phone case product manager.

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Links:

• Joanna Stern in the WSJ: “Apple’s M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Review: The Laptop’s Biggest Leap in Years”.
• And on YouTube: “Goodbye, Fan Noise”.
• My review of the M1 MacBook Pro.
• Joanna’s and my joint appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Alley, which started the webcam-gate scandal.
• Joanna’s epic breakdown of the best available USB-C chargers.
• Aukey’s adorable $50 90-watt 3-port charger, and their even smaller $45 65-watt 2-port charger.
• Joanna, back in July: “Quit Chrome. Safari and Edge Are Just Better Browsers for You and Your Computer.”
• Camo — excellent app that lets you use your iPhone or iPad as a Mac webcam.

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Links:

• Holiday Party (2016).

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Links:

• The 20 Macs for 2020 podcast project.
• Jason’s chart-based speculation on what we might expect from Apple Silicon Macs.
• My review of the new iPad Air.
• Jason’s review of the new iPad Air.
• Jason’s review of the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro.
• My iPhone 12 review, and my event wrap-up with analysis of pricing.
• Dave Itzkoff’s profile of David Letterman for The New York Times, regarding season 3 of his Netflix show “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction”.

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Links:

• MG on Apple Watch Series 6, and why he swapped Graphite stainless steel for blue aluminum.
• MG on App Clips and the Clip demo of the game Phoenix 2.
• “Apple, Influence, and Ive” — Ben Clymer’s 2018 profile of Jony Ive for Hodinkee.
• The seminal 2018 town hall meeting led by John Stankey, the longtime AT&T executive who now oversees HBO, that foreshadowed HBO’s decline.
• Christopher Nolan’s work on the 2018 50th anniversary “unrestored” print of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• Nolan’s ill-advised decision to force Tenet into theaters amidst the COVID pandemic.
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol — perhaps the best film in a great series, directed by Brad Bird.
• Cary Joji Fukunaga — director of the astounding first season of True Detective and the upcoming No Time to Die James Bond film.
• Michael Clayton — quietly great movie by Tony Gilroy, starring George Clooney.
• DisneyQuest, the aborted urban entertainment center in Philly that Disney never built in the late 1990s.
• United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. — 1948 Supreme Court antitrust case that resulted in movie studios being banned from owning theaters.

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Underscore’s apps:

• Widgetsmith
• Watchsmith
• Sleep++
• Pedometer++
• And a lot more. Seriously, he makes a lot of apps.

Other links:

• Under the Radar — Underscore’s weekly podcast with Marco Arment.
• Daring Fireball: “‎Widgetsmith and The Case of the Missing App Store Bunco Squad”.
• National Weather Service.
• Weatherline.
• Michael Ward’s classic 2004 piece for McSweeney’s: “E-Mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone”.

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Links:

• Fantastical’s iOS 14 update with customizable widgets galore.
• Apple gave developers less than 24 hours notice that iOS 14 was about to ship, despite spending all summer encouraging developers to be ready with iOS 14 features at launch.
• Nova — Panic’s new code editor/IDE for Mac.
• Sketch — excellent Mac design and prototyping tool.
• Agenda — excellent notes/planning app for Mac and iOS.
• @mcharo on Twitter customized all his apps with icons of their company CEOs (or indie creators).
• IEEE Spectrum: “Why You Should Be Very Skeptical of Ring’s Indoor Security Drone”.

Mac desktop customization memory lane with Greg Landweber’s utilities:

• Greg’s Browser — NeXT-style column view file manager for classic Mac, worked wonderfully alongside the classic Finder.
• Greg’s Buttons — Control Panel to customize the interface of System 7, turned flat black-and-white buttons into cool 3D buttons. Now we’ve turned all our cool 3D buttons into boring monochromatic flat buttons.
• Aaron — brought the then-future Platinum appearance to System 7.
• BeView — made your Mac look like BeOS.
• Kaleidoscope — the masterpiece of the genre, from Landweber and Arlo Rose. A full-on custom theme engine for an OS that was not designed with system-wide theming as a feature. The golden age of interface customization hacks.
• Appearance Manager — Apple’s officially supported theming engine that wound up shipping with just one theme.
• Info on Apple’s Hi-Tech, Gizmo, and Drawing Board themes.
• August 2000 ATPM story by Christopher Turner on Kaleidoscope and Appearance Manager.

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Links:

• “Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets” — Mark Singer’s wondrous profile for The New Yorker in 1993. I just burst out laughing when I re-read this snippet I quoted from that piece for DF.
• The complete Ricky Jay archives at DF.
• Spotify’s statement griping that Apple One constitutes anticompetive behavior.
• The latest episode of Peter’s own podcast, Recode Media, with special guest Ben Thompson.
• Apple’s “Time Flies” event video.
• My thoughts and observations on the event and announcements.
• “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” — Apple’s new retro style commercial for Apple Watch Family Setup.

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Links:

• How to Solve the “Code 43” Nvidia GTX10xx or RTX20xx GPU Problem.
• Me on pricing the “Apple One” services bundle.
• “Ted Lasso” renewed for second season.
• Cabel Sasser’s tweet on kids and software pricing.
• WinToUSB — $30 utility for installing Windows on an external USB drive.
• Avery — the printer label company whose name I couldn’t think of.

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Links:

• Anil on Windows 95.
• Jason Snell with the Mac user’s (and MacUser’s) take on Windows 95.
• My take on Snell’s take.
• Microsoft’s Windows 95 “Start Me Up” commercial.
• Francisco Tolmasky’s observation on Apple’s control over iOS stifling innovation.
• Glitch.
• Boscov’s.
• How 728,000 “E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial” Atari 2600 cartridges wound up in a landfill.
• Vectrex, the vector-display home video game system I nearly pissed my pants to play.
• Classic Mac OS’s curiously-named built-in text editor TeachText and its successor, SimpleText.
• OS/2 Warp.
• OS/2 Frequently Launched Criticisms.
• Michael Sippey demoing TypePad for iPhone at WWDC 2008.

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Links:

• Beats 1 is now Apple Music 1 (and the Beats brand is probably not long for this world).
• Apple Newsroom: Phil Schiller advances to Apple Fellow.
• The Curious Editing of 'Artemis Fowl'.
• John August’s Arlo Finch series, which is unrelated to Artemis Fowl but very cool nonetheless.
• Rene on Apple’s decision not to allow Xbox game streaming on iOS.
• Epic goes to war with Apple over the App Store.

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Links:

• Full 5.5-hour video of the hearing.
• Casey Newton at The Verge: “Overdue, messy, and unsatisfying — but also a necessary part of a hugely important conversation”.
• Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and famed character actor M. Emmet Walsh, who was born to play him.
• Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) grilling Jeff Bezos on anti-competitive business practices at Amazon.
• Lina M. Khan: “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox”. Seminal paper published in The Yale Law Journal in 2017.
• The Verge on the 2010 emails between Phil Schiller, Eddy Cue, and Steve Jobs that set the rules that keep Amazon from selling Kindle books in their iOS app.
• Tim Wu’s The Curse of Bigness.

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Links:

• Steven Levy on the G4 Cube’s 20th anniversary.
• Me on the Cube and lessons learned.
• Report commissioned by Apple comparing the App Store to other “digital marketplaces”.
• Rolling Stone TV Critic Alan Sepinwall: “Who Loses Big in the Great Streaming Wars? The User”.
• Jason Snell pointing out that even the playback UIs stink for a lot of streaming apps.
• Jonathan Mann on Apple (Steve Jobs) deciding to use his “Antennagate Song” to open their emergency press conference.
• From the DF Archive: “Antennagate Bottom Line”.
• “The Innocence Files” — outstanding series on Netflix documenting the work of the Innocence Project, which works to free those convicted of crimes they didn’t commit.
• Rocket — Weekly podcast hosted by Christina, Simone de Rochefort, and Brianna Wu.
• Christina on Twitter.

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Links:

• Big Sur alerts.
• Big Sur system sounds.
• Prank with a loud computer startup chime in a crowded library.
• Sandwich’s conceived/shot/produced in quarantine video for Slack — working from home to make a video about working from home.
• The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020.
• Apple’s video with Craig Federighi introducing the iPad Magic Keyboard back in March, a precursor to the WWDC video style.
• My eve-of-keynote guess that WWDC’s keynote would look like that Magic Keyboard intro video.
• Apple’s old iTunes “Rip Mix Burn” commercial set in an empty theater.
• Steve Jobs introducing the G4 Cube at Macworld New York in 2000.
• Adam’s delightfully thoughtful thread on face masks.
• John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight on coronavirus conspiracy theories.
• Mat Honan back in 2012 on how and why he got hacked.
• California King — the reboot of You Look Nice Today.

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Links:

• Dan at The New Consumer: “Why Apple’s New ‘App Clips’ Matter”.
• WWDC 2020 sessions on App Clips.

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Links:

• Panzarino's interview with Phil Schiller on Hey's rejection from the App Store.
• “The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak”.
• Apple’s WWDC 2020 keynote.

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Links:

• The WWDC 2020 Keynote.
• Apple announces Mac transition to Apple silicon.
• MacOS 11 Big Sur — new UI and all-new Catalyst-based version of Messages.
• iOS 14 — home screen widgets and app clips. And, finally, incoming phone call notifications don’t take over your entire screen.
• iPadOS 14 — new handwriting features with Apple Pencil.
• WatchOS 7 — watch face sharing, sleep tracking, and hand-washing detection.

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Links:

• Dithering.
• Ben at Stratechery: “Dithering and Open Versus Free.”
• Me at DF: “Dithering” and “More on Dithering”.
• Me at Macworld back in 2010: “It’s the heaviness of the Mac that allows iOS to remain light.”

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Links:

• Adam Engst: “TidBITS Marks Its 30th Anniversary in a Time of Pandemic”.
• “Info-Mac is a discussion forum for Apple users as well as an archive of online content dating back to 1984.”
• The Mac compression wars: Raymond Lau’s StuffIt vs. Bill Goodman’s Compact Pro. I was a Compact Pro man, myself.
• The official Compact Pro website is, amazingly, still up.
• TidBITS issue 42, 11 February 1991: “Compression Wars”. That’s right, 1991.
• TidBITS’s coverage of MacHack over the years.
• My 1994 letter to Andy Ihnatko’s Help Desk column in MacUser magazine.

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Links:

• Dieter’s review of the iPad Magic Keyboard.
• My review of the iPad Magic Keyboard.
• Dieter’s review of the iPhone SE.
• My review of the new iPhone SE.
• Dieter’s review of the OnePlus 8 Pro.
• Samsung Galaxy S20 and S20 Ultra reviews.
• Federico Vittici’s Shortcuts shortcut for jumping to the Hardware Keyboard section of Settings.
• Dr. Drang’s pre-shipping estimates of the iPad Magic Keyboard weights.

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Links:

• Joanna’s “How to Make an iPad Stand” video.
• Joanna’s review of the new Macbook Air, and her video on the state of laptop webcams.
• My review of the new MacBook Air.
• Joanna’s column (and video) on Face ID’s inability to recognize us while wearing face masks.
• Joanna’s iPhone X review from 2017, wherein she tried to fool Face ID with 3D-printed faces.
• Yours truly back in August 2017: “Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs”.
• WWDC 2018: Apple announces favicons in Safari tabs.
• Walt Mossberg on Chrome as a resource hog on MacOS.
• The Verge: “Webcams Have Become Impossible to Find, and Prices Are Skyrocketing”.

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Links:

• Rene’s new YouTube channel.
• And his new website. (Great logo.)
• “The Best Is Last”: 2016 piece by Benedict Evans arguing that “a technology often produces its best results just when it’s ready to be replaced — it’s the best it’s ever been, but it’s also the best it could ever be”, using the specific example of propeller-based passenger planes.

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Links:

• My dumb handwashing tweet from back in 2009.
• Daniel Jalkut’s beautiful song inspired by that dumb tweet.
• Ronny Chieng’s hilarious Netflix standup special.
• My take on the new MacBook Air.
• My take on the new iPad Pros.
• Panzarino’s take on the new iPad Pros and relying on one as his only travel computer for the last 18 months.
• Also from Panzarino: “Half-Life: Alyx Delivers the Watershed Moment VR Gaming Needs”.
• “Do Not Drink”.

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Links:

• Don Schaffner’s thread on the safety of takeout.
• From the DF archive back in 2004: “Dashboard vs. Konfabulator”.
• Google pays Apple a fortune to remain the default search engine in Safari.
• MacRumors: Some Apple Employees Say Company’s Culture of Secrecy Makes Working From Home Challenging.
• “Be fast, have no regrets” — pandemic response advice from Dr. Michael J Ryan.
• Panic’s Audion Story
• Panic Podcast: “Audion and On”
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Links:

• The Information: “Apple Planning iPad Keyboard with Trackpad”.
• Jason Snell: “Nine Questions About the Rumored iPad Smart Keyboard With Trackpad”.
• Brydge Pro+ — upcoming iPad Pro keyboard with integrated trackpad.
• MacStories-commissioned “iOS 10: Wishes and Concept Video” back in 2016.
• Ryan Christoffel’s contextual-menu-based proposal for iPad multitasking.
• Tommy Walton’s deceptively simple concept for a direct manipulation-based iPad multitasking UI.
• iPad apps with excellent keyboard navigation: Agenda, Things, and Unread 2.

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Links:

• Larry Tesler:
  • Tesler’s website.
  • Chris Espinosa on Tesler’s heuristic for smart paste.
  • John Markoff’s NYT obituary.
• Malwarebytes’s “State of Mac Malware in 2020” report:
  • Michael Tsai.
  • Jason Snell.
  • Dan Goodin’s report last month for Ars Technica on scam “Adobe Flash” installers.
• Mark Gurman claims Apple is considering third-party default apps for iOS 14.
• How to enable the startup chime on new Mac hardware.
• On Apple’s attempts to stiff retail employees for time spent waiting in bag-check lines.
• The Keychron K2 mechanical Bluetooth keyboard Jason Snell convinced me to buy. (I got brown switches.)

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Links:

• DF: “The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10”.
• Ben: “The Tragic iPad”.
• Tweetie for iPad: Loren Brichter’s iPad masterpiece from 2010.
• Ben in 2013: “What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong”.
• Average times to brute-force crack iOS device passcodes.
• The feds got Paul Manafort’s encrypted WhatsApp texts from his iCloud backup.
• Ben’s and my favorite iPad drawing app: The Iconfactory’s Linea.
• Obsessive Astros fan upset by scandal logged 8,200 pitches from 2017.
• Randy Johnson tipped his pitches his entire career.
• Randy Johnson faces John Kruk in the 1993 All-Star game and Kruk wants nothing to do with him.
• Kobe scores 62 in 3 quarters in 2005.
• Kobe scores 81 in 2006.
• Kobe scores 60 in his final game in 2016.

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Links:

This is Jeopardy:

• Jeopardy’s Greatest of All Time Tournament.
• Glenn’s analysis of matches 1–3 for Motherboard.
• Glenn’s archive of articles regarding Jeopardy.
• Prisoner of Trebekistan, by Bob Harris.
• Ken Jennings’s excellent Twitter account.

iPhone encryption:

• Jack Nicas’s New York Times column on how iPhone encryption works.
• My link to Nicas’s column, with a few additional thoughts.

Algorithmically-generated faces:

• The Washington Post: “Dating Apps Need Women. Advertisers Need Diversity. AI Companies Offer a Solution: Fake People”.
• Glenn on deep fake faces, last year for Fast Company .
• Facebook removes profiles with fake pics.

Facial recognition search:

• Kashmir Hill’s stunning report for The Times on Clearview AI, a Peter-Thiel-backed company that supplies law enforcement with facial recognition search, built using a library of billions of photos uploaded to the web.
• Nelson Minar on Yandex’s reverse image search for faces, which is startlingly accurate, and available to anyone.
• Screenshot of Yandex search results for my own face.

Miscellaneous:

• Tiny Type Museum.
• Election Ride Home podcast.
• The intense concentration required by grandmaster-level chess burns thousands of calories per day.
• YubiKey 5Ci — 2FA dongle with Lightning and USB-C jacks ($70 though).
• Loyola Maramount’s 1990 high-scoring men’s basketball team.
• Have I Been Pwned? — Fantastic resource where you can search to see if you have an account that was compromised in a data breach. Spoiler: you probably do.
• Kashmir Hill, writing for Gizmodo last year: “I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell”.
• The New York Times: “One Nation, Tracked”.

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Links:

• Trump’s tweet (what else) excoriating Apple for “refus[ing] to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements”.
• Scaring people into supporting backdoors.
• Wired: “Encrypted Messaging Is Essential, But It Isn’t Magic”.
• Merlin on Back to Work, speculating on how many Apple employees today have grown up more on iOS than MacOS, and how that might be starting to shape MacOS:.
• Great video from the always-great CGP Grey: “Should all locks have keys? Phones, Castles, Encryption, and You.”.
• Mack Weldon’s One-Mile Slipper.
• Professional-Grade Crocs.
• Something pretty similar to the coffee filter cone I’ve been using for 20 years (but I only paid like $4-5 for mine).

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Links:

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Links:

• My “Uses This” interview from 10 years ago.
• Andy Baio’s ten-years-delayed “Uses This” interview.
• Rich Siegel on Twitter.
• BBEdit’s public debut in April 1992.
• BBEdit’s 20th anniversary — nine years ago.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• Jason at Macworld: “The Mac Pro Is an Important Symbol, but You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It”.
• Greg Joswiak and Craig Federighi on stage at this year’s The Talk Show Live From WWDC, on the price of the Mac Pro’s optional wheels.
• The new Mac Pro has unique keyboard, trackpad, and mouse — black keys/glass and silver aluminum bottoms. It even comes with a black USB-C to Lightning cable and black power cable.
• Marques Brownlee’s Mac Pro review on YouTube. Also: Pro Display XDR.
• Justine Ezarik’s Mac Pro review on YouTube. Also: Behind the scenes.
• MacStories’ roundup of other Mac Pro / Pro Display XDR reviews and first impressions.
• Ming Chi Kuo’s 2020 iPhone roadmap.
• New iPhone “SE” to be called iPhone 9?
• Upgrade 275: “Remove All of the Holes”.
• The Mac IIfx debuted in March 1990 at a price of $9,900. Inflation adjusted, that’s $19,400 — give or take — in today’s dollars.
• Spectre, the greatest Mac game of all time (come at me).
• The language formerly known as “Perl 6” — first announced in July 2000 (!) — is now Raku. And Perl 5 — the one true Perl — is up to version 30.
• “Kotoba: The Best iOS Dictionary App You’ve Never Heard Of”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• Tim Cook interview with Brian Williams in 2012 announcing Mac Pro would be assembled in USA.
• Tesla Cybertruck.
• New iPhone 11 battery cases.
• Weeds Podcast.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

Links:

• Casey Johnston on Twitter.
• “Ask a Swole Woman” — Casey’s column for women on fitness and health, now at Vice.
• Marco Arment’s first-look review of the 16-inch MacBook Pro, with a nifty graph illustrating the differences in key travel and spacing of various keyboards.
• Dr. Drang’s gentle improvement of Marco’s graph.

The saga of Casey’s writing regarding MacBook keyboards:

• Oct 2017: “The New MacBook Keyboard Is Ruining My Life”.
• Apr 2018: “Don’t Buy the MacBook Pros Even on Sale, in My Opinion” — Casey sold her MacBook back to Apple.
  • (My link to that article.)
• May 2018: “Apple Knew Its Computers Were “Defective,” Sold Them Anyway, Suit Alleges”.
• June 2018: “Apple Admits Its Computers Are Broken” — the beginning of the Keyboard Service Program.
  • Apple’s Keyboard Service Program.
  • My quip: “I can’t recall any Apple related story that one writer has owned the way Johnston has owned this MacBook keyboard story.”.
• March 2019: Joanna Stern: “Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm”.
• April 2019: “Apple Owes Everyone an Apology and It Should Start With Me, Specifically” — Casey bought a 2018 MacBook Air.
• May 2019: third-generation butterfly design with “material” change.
• Apple’s support document on how to use compressed air to maybe hopefully fix a butterfly-switch MacBook keyboard.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• My first impressions using AirPods Pro.
• iFixit’s AirPods Pro teardown.
• $4.99/month Apple Music student subscription now bundles Apple TV+ for free.
• Bullshit interference call against Trea Turner of the Nationals.

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Links:

• AirPods Pro.
• Old-school wired remote controls.
• Initial reviews of the first batch of TV+ shows: lukewarm at best.
• UHF TV stations.
• The Fat Nano.
• “A Purple Heart for Gruber”.

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Links:

• Dieter Bohn’s Pixel 4 review.
• Joanna Stern’s Pixel 4 review.
• Catalyst’s shaky debut.

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Links:

• The Seattle Times: “Whistleblower: Boeing Rejected 737 Max Safety Upgrades Before Fatal Crashes”.
• Matt Stoller on the disastrous leadership at Boeing after merging with McDonnell-Douglas.
• The biggest announcements from Microsoft’s 2019 Surface event.
• Yours Truly: “Apple and Hong Kong”.
• Ben Thompson: “The China Cultural Clash”.
• Microsoft’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard.
• The old Microsoft Courier prototype.
• iPhone “8S” rumors (a.k.a. the new iPhone SE).
• Luna Display — use your iPad as a second Mac display without upgrading to MacOS 10.15 Catalina.
• MacBook Pro displays, circa 2015, with bad anti-reflective coating.
• Steve Jobs making peace with Bill Gates and Microsoft at Macworld Expo New York 1997: “We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win Microsoft has to lose.”.
• Microsoft’s 2010 “funeral” for the iPhone on the streets of Redmond.

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Links:

• Joanna’s review of the iPhones 11.
• Joanna’s second review: “An iPhone 11 Review for Owners of Aging iPhones”.
• My reviews of the iPhones 11 and Apple Watch Series 5
• Steve Jobs on stage in 2010, angrily demanding the press turn off their mobile Wi-Fi hotspots.
• What it’s like to demo a game live on stage at an Apple event.
• “Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm” — Joanna’s incredible column on the MacBook butterfly keyboard saga.
• “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” — classic commercial for LifeCall.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• The New Consumer — Dan’s new subscription newsletter.
• “What to Do When SIM-Swapping Happens to You”.
• Gruber and Merlin: Obsession Times Voice at SXSW 2009.
• The Athletic — great subscription site for sports fans.
• Jon Ostrower’s The Air Current.
• The Points Guy.
• Ben Thompson’s Stratechery.
• Neil Cybart’s Above Avalon.
• The “iPhone Math” rumor.

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Links:

• NetNewsWire 5.0.
• Using Apple Cash to pay your Apple Card balance.
• Don West selling baseball cards on Home Shopping Network.
• Will Ferrell as Don West on SNL.

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Links:

• Snap Kitchen Red Pepper Egg Bites.
• NetNewsWire 5.
• Mark Gurman on Apple’s fall products.
• 2005 iPod Nano that scratched easily.

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Links:

• “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Holiday Spectacular, With Special Guests Guy English and John Siracusa.
• The Guardian: “Apple Contractors ‘Regularly Hear Confidential Details’ on Siri Recordings”.
• TechCrunch: “Apple Suspends Siri Response Grading in Response to Privacy Concerns”.
• The Verge: “Apple Stops Letting Contractors Listen to Siri Voice Recordings and Will Offer Opt-Out Later”.
• Amazon’s Alexa FAQ.
• Steve Jobs on privacy at the D8 conference in 2010.
• Apple is now cryptographically verifying battery replacements.
• Apple posts ASMR videos to YouTube.
• David Pogue column on software Easter eggs.
• John talks to Merlin Mann about buying a new refrigerator on their podcast, Reconcilable Differences.
• QuarkXPress Easter egg.
• James Thompson’s Easter egg talk.
• Tovolo King Cube ice cube tray.

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Links:

• Jason Snell on the rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro.
• Mr. T breakfast cereal.
• Craig Mod: ‘Fast Software, the Best Software’.
• Rolls MS111 silence switch.
• Bloomberg report on Apple getting into subscription-based original podcasts.

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Links:

• Merlin Mann interviewing Jason Snell and yours truly from Macworld Expo 2007.

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Links:

• Yours truly: “Superhuman and Email Privacy”.
• Jalkut: “A Real Gatekeeper”.
• Core Intuition — Jalkut’s podcast with Manton Reese.
• MarsEdit.
• Black Ink.

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Links:

• Yours truly on Ive’s departure.
• Thompson’s take on Ive’s departure.

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Links:

• The Talk Show Live
  • The Talk Show: Live From WWDC 2019 With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak
  • “The Nerds Apple Listens To”
• SwiftUI and Catalyst
  • Jason’s interview with Apple’s Wiley Hodges and Josh Shaffer regarding Catalyst and SwiftUI
  • Jason in Macworld: “Apple executes its invisible transition strategy”.
  • Ferrite developer thread on how porting via Catalyst won’t be all that easy or quick.
  • Federighi on CNET, claiming Apple’s own Catalyst apps will improve.
• Spectre.

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Links:

• Apple’s WWDC 2019 Keynote
• Crazy Apple Rumors, from 2002: “Mac OS 9 Resuscitated By Quick-Thinking Developers”.

Audio editing by Caleb Sexton. Cover photo by John Siracusa.

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Links

• The Macalope: “AirPods Are the Bane of All Existence”.
• On the Recyclability of AirPods
• “Understanding Bitcode for iOS Applications”.
• A few leaked iOS 13 screenshots.

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Links

• Playdate’s fun WebGL-backed website.
• The Playdate media site, with ARKit models for iPhone and iPad.
• Edge Magazine’s cover story on Playdate, written by Jen Simpkins and chock full of gorgeous photography.
• Cabel Sasser’s inspiring talk at XOXO 2013.
• Firewatch.
• Untitled Goose Game.
• Faux-retro ’90s website for Captain Marvel.
• Space Jam’s true retro website, still going.

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Links

• Sleep-tracking Apple Watch apps:
  • Sleep++
  • SleepWatch
  • AutoSleep
• Apple’s list of standard Mac keyboard shortcuts.
• Vox: “How golf explains Donald Trump”.
• Commander-in-Cheat — Rick Reilly’s new book on Trump.
• Gino’s Burgers and Chicken — a fast food chain from the 1970s that served Kentucky Fried Chicken but was not a Kentucky Fried Chicken.
• 1984 NYT story on Massachussetts’s then-new — and still in place — law banning bars and restaurants from offering “Happy Hours”.
• Philadelphia is incinerating half its recycling.
• 99% Invisible episode on where U.S. recycling often went: to China.
• “The Banana Window” — 2011 episode of the old incarnation of The Talk Show where Merlin joined me as co-host while Dan was on paternity leave.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links

• 500ish Words — MG’s blog.
• Oprah Winfrey talks Apple with The Hollywood Reporter.
• SteelSeries Nimbus game controller for Apple TV ($50).
• “Talk the Thrones” — The Ringer’s post-Game of Thrones livecast.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links

• AirPods battery replacement from Apple.
• ToothFairy — Michael Tsai’s $3 app for easily connecting AirPods to your Mac with a click.
• AirBuddy — Guilherme Rambo’s $5 utility for connecting AirPods to your Mac with a slick iOS-style “just open the case near the Mac” interface.
• The cheap piece of plastic Mark Gurman inadvertently peeled off his Galaxy Fold.
• The peeling plastic layer on Joanna Stern’s Galaxy Fold review unit.
• Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes.

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Links

• Kafka: "Apple’s Plan for Its New TV Service: Sell Other People’s TV Services".
• Kafka's take on the event.
• My brief thoughts on the event.
• Designer Wyatt Mitchell's exquisite white jumpsuit.
• "Joker" teaser, from director Todd Phillips.
• Yours truly on Kafka’s Recode Media podcast back in 2016.

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Links

• Mac Sound Sorcery
• One Foot Tsunami
• Encore Boston Harbor
• Colonel Sanders: "It was finger-licking bad."
• AirPod long-term battery life
• Profile of long-time Apple executive Shaan Pruden.

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Links:

• Panzarino: “How Disney Built Star Wars in Real Life”
• Web browser recreation of Tim Berners-Lee’s original browser — WorldWideWeb on NeXTStep.
• Apple’s new privacy ad.
• Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol recall in 1982.
• “It’s Time to Break Up Amazon, Google, and Facebook”.
• “Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break Up Apple, Too”.
• Spotify’s “Time to Play Fair” campaign against Apple.
• Movies:
  • Hackers
  • Sneakers

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Links:

• These Apps Are Stealing Your Most Private Data and It Should Be a Crime.
• Objective Development’s Internet Access Policy.
• The Secret Lives of Facebook Moderators in America.
• Samsung Galaxy Fold vs. Huawei Mate X.
• Shot on iPhone Challenge winners.
• Should Apple Remove Google as Default Search?.
• Twitter thread on new MacBooks with keyboard problems.
• Adam Lashinsky on Steve Jobs’s parable of the difference between a janitor and a VP.
• LG’s answer to the foldable mania is a second screen.
• Google Blames Bug for Apple Music Appearing on Home Speakers.
• Teleprompt+.
• Panasonic GH5.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links

• Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule — Glenn’s latest project on Kickstarter.
• “The Old Guard of Mac Indie Apps Has Thrived for More Than 25 Years”.
• WSJ report on Apple teaming With Goldman Sachs to issue a credit card.
• Costco’s remarkable low-fee exclusivity deal with Visa.
• “Gurman on WWDC 2019: Marzipan Marches Forward and the New Mac Pro”.
• “Are Russian Trolls Saving Measles From Extinction?”
• Glenn’s story on Erik Spiekermann marrying digital design with letterpress printing.
• Jack Dorsey on The Bill Simmons Podcast.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links

• Securosis — Rich’s security consultancy and blog.
• Enterprise apps as de facto sideloading.
• Daring Fireball: “On Covering Webcams”.
• Micro Snitch: Objective Development’s utility for notifying you of access to your Mac’s camera or microphone.
• Patrick Wardle’s Oversight.
• The 2005 TJX data breach.
• Cliff Sims’s Team of Vipers tell-all on working in the Trump administration.

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Links:

• Bugs in Group FaceTime Allow Callers to See and Hear Recipients’ End Without Them Answering.
• TechCrunch: Facebook Pays Teenagers to Install VPN That Spies on Them.
• Google Was Doing Something Similar.
• Apple’s Q1 2019 Financial Results.
• Lisa Brennan-Jobs on Craig Mod’s “On Margins” podcast.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• New York Magazine in 2016: “Is ‘Friends’ Still the Most Popular Show on TV?”.
• Last Month: “Netflix Will Keep ‘Friends’ Through Next Year in a $100 Million Agreement”.
• Joanna’s iPhone XR review.
• Joanna’s MacBook Air review — from a hot air balloon.
• “Apple Watch Series 4 Fall Detection Tested by a Hollywood Stunt Double” .

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Links:

• “Apple’s Errors” — Ben’s take on Apple’s earnings warning.
• “Apple’s Terrible No Good Very Bad Earnings Warning” — my take.
• Steven Sinofsky and Apple’s “next big thing”.
• “Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple”.
• Exponent — Ben’s podcast cohosted by James Allworth — is back.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• The C64 Mini.
• Raspberry Pi.
• Vortex Race 3 mechanical keyboard.
• The other “Vortex”.
• The MacBook ARM — video from Rene laying out the similarities between Apple’s 2005 transition from PowerPC to Intel and the seemingly inevitable coming transition from Intel to in-house ARM chips.
• Apple Watch Series 4 detects man’s potentially deadly heart condition.
• John Giannandrea, Siri, and AI/ML.

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Links:

• Take Control of Photos by Jason Snell.
• Jason’s current keyboard: the Vortex Race 3.
• Apple hardware SVP Dan Riccio on reports of bent iPad Pros.
• Studio Neat’s Canopy case/iPad stand for Apple’s Magic Keyboard.
• Fintie Carry Case for Apple Magic Keyboard.
• Jason’s favorite iPad stand.
• John’s favorite iPad stand.
• Microsoft’s Rick Schaut on the saga of Word 6 for Mac.
• My recent take on the Word 6 saga, in the context of the rise of Electron apps.
• Federico Viticci’s top iOS apps of the year.
• HomeBridge — open source utility for connecting non-HomeKit devices to HomeKit.
• BBEdit 25th anniversary merchandise and amusing press release.

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Links:

• Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie’s PSA on the evils of motion smoothing.
• Walt Hickey: “Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg Might Be the Best Collaboration in Hollywood”.
• Comcast Xfinity mobile service.
• My review of Apple’s $39 iPhone XR clear case.
• Guilherme Rambo finds clues suggesting new Smart Battery Cases from Apple.

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Links:

• The late great 12-inch PowerBook G4.
• Dieter's rather scathing review of the Pixel Slate.
• The Verge's review of Google's Night Sight camera feature.

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Links:

• Yours truly on the lack of third-party USB-C to Lightning cables and the future of Lightning.
• Rene’s Vector video on Apple Pencil, drawn with Apple Pencil.
• “Eat Up Martha”.
• Logitech’s $70 squishy AF “Keys-to-Go” slim keyboard for iPad and iPhone.
• Studio Neat’s excellent Canopy case for Apple’s Magic Keyboard.
• “Thoroughly Considered” — monthly podcast with Studio Neat co-founders Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt.
• Steve Jobs introducing original MacBook Air.
• Bending iPads — fun video from Snazzy Labs.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• Affinity Designer for iPad.
• Matthew Cassinelli — former Workflow/Shortcuts engineer now posting great Shortcuts stuff.
• Cassinelli’s Twitter account.
• Jason Snell’s setup for writing on an iPad.
• Deliveries — great iOS and Mac app for tracking deliveries.
• Reconcilable Differences.
• Do By Friday.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• Apple’s “There’s More in the Making” event video.
• RetroPie.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• My iPhone XR review and follow-up.
• Strategic Conquest.
• Bolo — networked Mac game from 1987.
• The Secret History of Mac Gaming, by Richard Moss.
• Joanna Stern: “Ugh, Green Bubbles! Apple’s iMessage Makes Switching to Android Hard”.
• Vlad Savov on Google’s imminent Night Sight feature for Pixel phones.
• Research paper and video showing Night-Sight-like results.
• Sam Byford on Chinese phone OSes based on Android.
• Totallee super thin iPhone cases.
• Jason Snell on building a Hackintosh (or as Moltz put it, a Macinstein).

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton, who insists he’s going to the grave with a tiny phone.

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Links:

• Points Party — Dan’s email newsletter on credit card and airline rewards programs.
• Bloomberg’s disputed “The Big Hack”.
  • Daring Fireball items on the story.
  • Supermicro’s old-school website (even uses a .cfm file extension).
  • Supermicro’s stock dive in the wake.
• Custom watch faces by Steven Troughton-Smith.
• David “Underscore” Smith’s retro watch face.
• The Verge hands-on with on Photoshop for iPad.
• The new “Palm” phone.
• Punkt’s minimal MP02 phone.
• Panic’s late great Status Board app for iPad.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• Nilay’s iPhone XS review.
• My iPhone XS review.
• Apple’s video from the iPhone XS and Series 4 watch event.
• Twitter thread on Steve Jobs’s amazing (in hindsight) introduction of the iPhone 3G in 2008.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• 9to5Mac: “This Is iPhone XS”.
• 9to5Mac: “Apple Watch Series 4 Revealed”.
• 9to5Mac back in 2007, with a pre-release product marketing image of the fat iPad Nano.
• Away’s free pop-out assembly for the battery in older versions of their carry-ons.
• Edward Tufte’s extraordinary books on information design.
• Phil Schiller introducing the iPhone 3GS in 2009 while Steve Jobs was on leave.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• Yours truly asking Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, and Bob Mansfield whether they used the bumper cases at the Antennagate press conference.
• Matias Laptop Pro Wireless Keyboard.
• Das Keyboard.
• WASD keyboards.
  • WASD’s 6-key switch tester — great desk toy.
• My favorite iPad (and iPhone) stand: Anker’s $11 Multi-Angle Stand.
• Keyboard Maestro.
• Jason writing for Macworld back in March: “MacBook Air: Why Won’t It Die?”.
• Phil Schiller deftly shows how the 13-inch MacBook Pro is smaller than the 13-inch MacBook Air in October 2016.
• Daring Fireball: “Let’s Really Think About This ‘New Low-Cost Laptop to Succeed MacBook Air’ Thing”.
• Iconic photo of Missouri Journalism School lecture hall filled with students with MacBooks.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• Gaffer tape.
• The silicon membrane on the new third-generation butterfly keyboards apparently is designed specifically to keep debris out.
• YouTuber John Morrison on real-world performance of the Core i9 15-inch MacBook Pro.
• ATP on "ThrottleGate" last week.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Marco Arment.

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Links:

• Panzarino’s exclusive on the new Apple Maps.
• Apple’s keyboard service program for MacBooks.
• Yours truly on Duplex.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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Links:

• “Serenity, did you really roller skate around WWDC? You were in dress clothes!”
• Agenda interview with Serenity and Rene Ritchie.
• Steven Aquino’s “Accessibility” podcast interview with members of Apple’s accessibility team.
• Louie Mantia’s Memoji take on “Inside Out”.
• Federico Viticci on iOS 12’s Shortcuts.
• Gross iOS-style dialog boxes in Mojave’s UIKit apps: exhibits A and B.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.