Riccardo Mori

The email Back in July, I received an email from a long-time reader of this weblog (allow me to use the old-school spelling, which I always loved), and there was a specific bit that made me go, Hold that thought — I will get back to it.

A few days ago, like everybody else with a modicum of interest in tech, I saw the Apple event Surprise and Shine where they introduced the new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, the new iteration of AirPods, Apple Watch, and then the One More Thing — the iPhone D…

In the past two months, for no apparent reason, I’ve noticed a surge in emails from Mac OS and iOS developers, offering me the opportunity to test their apps, with no obligations to subsequently write a review; they just ask an honest opinion.

I enjoyed this blog post by Michael Harley, titled My perfect laptop, which I discovered via Mike Rockwell.

I’m not subscribed to The Atlantic, so I can only refer to this article by Damon Beres — The New iPhone Underclass — Apple’s rental program is a trap — via the parts that John Gruber quoted for his commentary.

In a short novel I wrote about 20 years ago, there’s a scene where Eric K.

Apple’s WWDC26 keynote last Monday felt… weird.

Among the working titles for this post were Good riddance and Stop the praises, and I haven’t chosen them not because I thought they were somehow mean-spirited, but because they sounded like coming from a place of deep care.

The yeahs It is a well-built machine.

Nick Heer has published another very good piece, The Window Chrome of Our Discontent, analysing how Apple over the years has progressively done away with the chrome in application windows, in an attempt to prioritise content over the rest of an applicatio…

On Software Quality is a very fine article by Nick Heer I suggest you read.

Welcome to the thirteenth instalment of my annual overview of my most interesting discoveries made during the previous year.