Unauthoritative Pronouncements

Write once, run anywhere.

One of the things that I think about from time to time is Apple’s collection of apps.

General Motors CEO Mary Barra and Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson were on The Verge’s Decoder podcast with Nilay Patel.

The release of the Sora slop-feed monstrosity has really done some shock and awe on the general public and on the press.

This is a great video —and it has Todd Vaziri!

As I have written about previously, I have been trying to read more often to avoid filling my time entirely with social media, or entirely with the deluge of awful news that makes my anxiety spike.

Stephen Robles has a good run through of all the new features in tvOS 26 on YouTube.

I had a thought while I was watching the latest iPhone launch event—other than, “This is what I’m doing with my free time?”

I appreciate what Adobe is doing with Project Indigo.

Apple Maps navigation might be on par with Google’s these days, but Apple’s location data is not.

I acknowledge this is a pretty strange complaint when you think about all the other ways that Shortcuts could be improved (so, so many) but allow me to walk you through my thinking: I want to do something with Shortcuts because it is Apple’s only cross-pl…

Joanna Stern might be the best person to interview Apple executives.

I wasn’t satisfied with Apple, and Tim Cook, going into WWDC this year, and I remain dissatisfied after the fact.

Unlike Reel 2 Real, I do not like to move it, move it.

Here’s the problem with CarPlay Ultra: It’s still CarPlay.

Jess Weatherbed at The Verge writes: The leaked call also gave some insight into what the device likely won’t be — Altman said that it isn’t a pair of glasses, and that Ive wasn’t keen to make something you’d need to wear on the body, having recently slam…

Apple released a new Apple Watch band for Pride, like they always do.

9to5 Mac noticed that Apple had an Apple Snapshots page up.

Last week, Roku held a press event in New York where they unveiled their latest streaming devices, wireless cameras, and minor adjustments to their existing, content-driven interface.

Scharon Harding’s post for ArsTechnica starts with the UK, but it gets around the globe.

Adobe has a new blog post up outlining their vision for “agentic AI” in Adobe’s products.

My blog is made by a rube, if you will.

Jason Snell wrote about how he rejoined Netflix on the ad-supported tier, and it was a poor experience for him.

Here’s another “Joe complains about Shortcuts” post for you.

I know, linking to myself is very Obama-awards-Obama meme.

A while ago Jason Snell said that he would do a streamer box/dongle shoot-out on an episode of Upgrade, and today’s the day he hit publish.

It certainly took me by surprise when Apple contacted me, of all people, to be the sole news outlet to run the story about the fifth MacBook Air color being added to the recently updated line-up.

Today I needed to scan a document I received in the mail and email it to someone.

Apple’s statement to John Gruber last week that they are delaying “More Personalized Siri” has certainly sparked some conversation.

I hate Shortcuts.

Since my previous blog posts on this subject, where I found out that all the streaming services are either bad because of how they treat artists, or bad because how they treat the world, I tried some far less desirable options.

David Pierce apparently ran a parallel music app project while I was doing my own.

I wrote about my dissatisfaction with Apple, and Tim Cook, a few weeks ago and said that I would be looking for ways to reduce what I’m spending with Apple.

Netflix deeply regrets accidentally making Netflix a better product for its customers.

I was recently in New York City and that meant I was juggling Google Maps and Apple Maps to get around.

Jason Snell released his annual Apple Report Card!

I know this is a rather dramatic headline and that some people might incorrectly assume that I’m mad about some particular piece of hardware or software, but it should come as no surprise that I’m hopping mad at Tim Cook for how he’s ingratiating himself…

Chance Millar at 9to5Mac wrote up the new changes to notification summaries that are in the iOS 18.3 developer beta released today.

I’ve been very conscious of how much I use Instagram.

I’ve been doing a little blog post series on travel that’s mainly focused on the technology side of things.

I wrote about my building frustrations with Mail for Six Colors.

Jason Koebler at 404 Media went a TCL event and published his coverage of it today.

Yesterday marked the “public release” of Sora, OpenAI’s video generator.

OK?

I really like this column that Jason Snell wrote for Macworld, though I did grab the title from his own Six Colors site instead of the Macworld one.

My post for Six Colors yesterday is a video demo of Clean Up and other photo retouching tools for iOS.

This isn’t always a “tech” blog, but it’s not always a personal blog.

Good evening, and welcome to the pre-taped iOS call-in show where we tape all our shows about iOS releases, one release in advance.

There are many features of Apple’s Health app that I don’t have a reason to use, or to use frequently.

For a long time there was the Siri face, and now there’s this Smart Stack face which is basically the same thing.