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The user interface concessions made for the iPhone Duo completely explain Liquid Glass and its obsession with pill controls and small square icons.

Bryan Cantrill: The Revolt of the Reader In fact, the tells of LLM writing are so grating ("and here’s why that framing matters!")

Apple: Under the new terms: For App Store apps using Apple In-App Purchase, the commission will be 26 percent.

Marcin Wichary: Were Touch Bar's problems software rather than hardware?

John Gruber wrote about Om Malik, who recently passed away after battling heart issues.

Jason Snell, in The Talk Show, as transcribed (and ably commented) by Marcin Wichary: The new features with problems is not a crime.

Kelsey Hightower in The Pragmatic Engineer I have been working with Kubernetes as part of my day job for the last couple of years, first very reluctantly.

The WWDC 2026 keynote was interesting.

WWDC used to be fun.

The two biggest issues facing Apple right now: A software operation in shambles.

Daniel Jalkut: My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against it is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it.

Let's talk about storage.

By all means, Tim Cook was a better choice for Apple CEO than most people you could pick out of a hat; perhaps even of high executives at Apple working at the time.

Tim Cook's letter to the Apple Community You share little pieces of your lives with me and tell me things you want me to know about how Apple has touched you.

Apple Inc turned 50 this week, and it has been illuminating.

9to5Mac: It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued.

Danny Bolella, speaking to Apple Liquid Glass subject matter experts: The rationale usually points to the initial community backlash, the slower adoption rate of iOS 26, and the news that Alan Dye left Apple for Meta.

You know, I wish I had a nickel for every time somebody asked me that.

Cupertino, California — Apple Inc. today introduced the newest members in the MacBook Pro family, MacBook Pro M5 Pro and MacBook Pro M5 Max, extending the range of power-efficient, powerful highend laptop computers made effectively worthless by its ground…

For at least 10 years, every Time Machine set up I have been in charge of, or tasked with maintaining for someone else, has eventually run into an issue where it stops backing up successfully.

Ed Zitron: The Hater's Guide to Oracle Did I mention that Oracle took on $56 billion of debt to build data centers specifically for OpenAI?

Chris Barnatt switches from an Android tablet to an iPad Certainly, there are many things you need to turn off in iOS to maintain security and privacy.

Paul Thurrott: "My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030," Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt writes in a post on LinkedIn.

It feels dark and mean-spirited to talk about wanting someone gone from a job.

Tea (a dating safety app for women): A legacy data storage system was compromised, resulting in unauthorized access to a dataset from prior to February 2024.

Everyone's prognosticating a new iPhone model this year - iPhone Air (this year, iPhone 17 Air), which supposedly slims down the iPhone 16 Pro by about 2 mm, which is around 20-30% slimmer.

I link to things to read all the time.

Eevee: The rise of Whatever A calculator does arithmetic for you — thus automating the tedious, repetitive part — but you still have to know which buttons to press to get the answer you want.

Riccardo Mori: The aesthetics for icon design may have changed dramatically in the intervening years, but I just find it sad that, with the gorgeous displays we have today, Apple recommends simple designs made out of a few boring shapes, and everything is…

Translucent user interfaces is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

John Siracusa: The preponderance of the evidence is undeniable.

MacRumors: The European Commission today announced a long list of changes that Apple is legally required to implement in future iOS 19 and iOS 20 updates. [..]

Michael Tsai: Rotten (Starting off with John Gruber's Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino – which is both right and aptly put – but followed by a crazy quilt of reactions.)

Anders Hejlsberg and Dimitri Mitropoulos on Doom in TypeScript Anders Hejlsberg is the creator of C# and Turbo Pascal and a core developer and early architect on TypeScript.

Humane/HP fever dr—I mean Corporate Press Release: "Humane’s AI platform Cosmos, backed by an incredible group of engineers, will help us create an intelligent ecosystem across all HP devices from AI PCs to smart printers and connected conference rooms.