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Fairlinked/Browsergate: The problem with BrowserGate is not only that it affects millions of individuals. It is what LinkedIn can do with the data once it has it. LinkedIn is not Reddit. It is not Twitter. It is not an anonymous forum where people use pseudonyms and joke about their cats. LinkedIn is the world’s largest […]

“Whenever I purchase a new Mac with the money I have made from selling things on the App Store, it does at least make me think how ridiculously circular these things are. A disturbing amount my lifespan has consisted of moving money slowly back and forth between Apple and myself, whether I’m working for them […]

I've been trying to keep up with posts and celebrations related to Apple's fiftieth birthday and it's been a fun trip down memory lane. I had been planning on writing something encapsulating all of this, but chances are, someone somewhere has covered Apple's history more in-depth and better than I can in a single post. Instead, I thought about what Apple means to me...

Ernie Smith for Tedium (via Stephen Hackett): Jobs didn’t like that answer—but it likely led to the inevitable follow-up where he told Wayne about Woz. But there is a timeline where Ronald Wayne and Steve Jobs became slot-machine entrepreneurs, leaning on Wayne’s technical knowledge of the devices. What are the odds that these three men […]

Although it's still propagating through various services, I wanted to share some exciting news—I'm re-adding a companion podcast to this site, Magical & Revolutionary. Rather than following the now-common format of two or three people discussing recent tech news, I wanted to try something different, something lasting. Instead, it will be a mix of interviews about the people who talk about tech, historical deep dives, and anything else I think of...

One of the common complaints as old as the iPhone itself is the lack of removable storage. Thanks to numerous cloud options, AirDrop, and iPhones starting at large enough capacities for most people, this is less of a concern today, but what if you need to transfer something from a digital camera or even another device? iOS supports removable storage and in the age of USB-C-equipped iPhones, just about any flash drive or card reader will work in the Files app. Even so, Anker released a card re...

The Verge has put together a fun little web page where you’re randomly offered up two different Apple products and as you make selections, it sorts them in a top 50 list. While I question the methodology a little bit, it’s still a fun little exercise to celebrate Apple’s 50th birthday. It seems there might […]

Chance Miller for 9to5Mac: It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has been removed from Apple’s website as of Thursday afternoon. The “buy” page on Apple’s website for the Mac Pro now redirects to the Mac’s homepage, where all references have been removed. […]

Speaking of pasting things in the Terminal, Stephen Hackett shares a discovery by Steve Troughton-Smith: I really dislike Apple’s choice to clutter macOS Tahoe’s menus with icons. It makes menus hard to scan, and a bunch of the icons Apple has chosen make no sense and are inconsistent between system applications. […] Here’s one for […]

Joe Rossignol for MacRumors: macOS Tahoe 26.4 introduces a new security feature that warns Mac users if they paste certain commands in the Terminal app that may be harmful. For those unaware, the Terminal app allows you to enter text commands to perform tasks on your Mac. Terminal is primarily intended for advanced users and […]

Alex Potenza: So what’s going on here? Why isn’t the incredible hardware meaningfully moving the needle? As far as I can tell, the issues are mostly software problems in two forms: hardware-compatibility failures, and parts of macOS that still lag behind competitors. At scale, these small mismatches become policy problems. They turn into rollout issues, […]

Salma Alam-Naylor (via Robb Knight): You simply cannot breathe without seeing, hearing, or engaging in any kind of technical conversation about AI. AI has dominated the Zeitgeist so catastrophically that the only way to escape is to turn off the WiFi and delete all the apps. Every single piece of fucking software has some kind […]

Horace Dediu for Asymco: Almost 10 years ago I said “Managing the Mac product line must be one of the most challenging problems at Apple. That may not be obvious given the product’s success.” I pointed out that although the company grew the Mac into a redeemed and prosperous platform, “The big change in computing […]