Blogs about Apple

This week on the podcast: With Federico away, Stephen and Myke talk about video games. Nah, just kidding. Instead, they ponder the future of Google and of social media, consider what maple syrup can do …

Apple’s manufacturing investments in India are translating into significant additional investments elsewhere across India’s manufacturing economy and wider transport ecosystem. Apple is making waves India is rising, and Apple’s iPhone economy is helping that rise …

Mike Masnick, writing for MSNBC: Turns out for the “Twitter Files” crew, “creeping authoritarianism” isn’t so creepy when it’s your team doing the creeping. Before, we were told that White House officials’ merely reaching out …

This past weekend I was fortunate to be a participant in the “Relay FM 10th Anniversary Extravaganza”, a live show in London celebrating Relay’s decade of podcasting. Relay is the home of Under the Radar. …

The recent Beeper controversy briefly brought the “blue bubbles vs. green bubbles” topic back into the mainstream. Here’s a brief review for those of you who are (blessedly) unaware of this issue. Messages sent using …

An extension for assigning applications to specific workspaces in Gnome. I had been using the Auto Move Windows extension for this purpose, but I had a few applications that it just didn’t work with for …

Robb Knight in My Computing Origin Story and Kev Quirk in My computing History have both written posts about their computing history as part of WeblogPoMo2024. I thought I’d write about mine. I didn’t have …

Belkin last month voluntarily recalled the BoostCharge Pro Fast Wireless Charger for Apple Watch + Power Bank 10K (model BPD005). The company said it will be offering a full refund to all customers who purchased …

Riley Walz has created a marvelous couch potato project that peeks into a different era of the iPhone and YouTube. The idea behind Walz’s project, which I stumbled upon thanks to a story written by …

Today, on the tenth anniversary of Overcast 1.0, I’m happy to launch a complete rewrite and redesign of most of the iOS app, built to carry Overcast into the next decade — and hopefully beyond. …

EagleFiler 1.9.16 is a maintenance release of my Mac files/notes/e-mail manager. This version improves the formatting of community notes and quote tweets when importing from X/Twitter and includes a bunch of other fixes (e.g. for …

by Jean-Louis GasséeYes, with help gratefully acknowledged below, my book is finally available at Amazon in print and Kindle formats. It was harder than I presumptuously expected. I hope to do better in a future …

Amazon has started their early Black Friday Deals on many Apple products, so if you’ve been planning on shopping this holiday season for some great deals on Apple gear, this is a great place to …

Today the U.S. Patent Office published a patent application of Apple's that relates to managing one or more displays. In particular, methods for moving an indicator between displays, moving an indicator based on body movement …

M.G. Siegler: Part of this is a Netflix problem – a big part. The service famously refuses to play nicely with other streaming services, and even just would-be streaming service aggregators, when it comes to …

Axios: Apple is selling Apple News ads directly for the first time. Apple has started selling its own advertising inventory for Apple News, two sources familiar with the effort told Axios. It's pitching new ad …

Apple’s spent a lot of time investigating alternative ways of interacting with its devices, but one of my favorite is one of the newest: head gestures with AirPods. If you’re not familiar with this feature, …

This is nice. As someone who lives mostly inside Remote Desktop regardless of what actual physical machine I’m using, I’d be OK with getting one of these for work. The price point feels a little …

Last month, I analyzed the programming languages and UI frameworks used to create iOS 17. This month, let’s analyze macOS from OS X El Capitan 10.11 to the latest macOS Sonoma 14 and answer a …