iPhone pre-orders might be tighter than normal this year 🔗
Ming-Chi Kuo: A recent media report claims that tight DRAM suppl... My industry checks suggest that Apple has indeed scaled back its hardware shipment [...]
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How cooked is Gemini? 🔗
Max Kan: Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking For all intents and purposes, we believe DeepMind is no longer a frontier lab. I think this is being a bi [...]
+ Galaxy Z Fold8 Impressions 🔗
Samsung's new foldable is an early look at what Apple will be announcing next month. [...]
Quick Reviews 3 is out now! 🔗
Quick Reviews 3 is out now and is an update about giving the people what they've wanted. iCloud sync This was going to be in v2, but I never really go [...]
Chapterize 2.1: iCloud sync, enhance audio, and more 🔗
Chapterize 2.1 is out today, and I know 2.0 just came out, but there are a couple things here I really wanted to get out. iCloud sync iCloud sync is t [...]
Quick Reads 1.0.4 is a beefy iPad update 🔗
Quick Reads for iPhone and iPad 1.0.4 is rolling out on the App Store now, and I didn't bump the version that much, but this is the biggest update yet [...]
Quick Reads has been getting better all summer 🔗
I've been shipping a steady stream of updates to Quick Reads over the past couple months, and while each one got a line in the changelog, I figured it [...]
Native app propaganda is working 🔗
No One's Happy: Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible Most native apps collect far more data than their website equivalents ever could. They [...]
Not all "vibe coding" is created equal 🔗
Sean Goedecke: LLMs reward expertise the idea here — that domain knowledge makes you better at using LLMs — is something I’ve also experienced in my o [...]
I was on Hacker News yesterday and didn't even notice 🔗
I don't obsessively check the metrics on this blog, but I do every now and again just to see how things are generally going. I don't run ads anymore, [...]
Linus Torvalds lays into anti-AI developers 🔗
Linus Torvalds (the creator or Linux) was spitting fire in a post to the Linux kernel mailing list just a few weeks ago: Linux is not one of those ant [...]
Benchmarking all the Macs I have around for fun 🔗
Just for fun, I've use quicksubs' benchmark mode to see how fast the 4 Macs I have access to are and how they heat up when under load. M2 Mac mini A1 [...]
The best watch band for the Apple Watch Ultra 🔗
Josh Ginter: The Titanium Milanese Loop Apple Watch Band Review: The Best Apple Watch Band Ever Made At $200 USD it's expensive for a band, but it's a [...]
The rules change when you become top dog 🔗
M.G. Siegler: What if Anthropic is Right? Certainly part of it is just the shift from underdog to presumed leader in AI. But a lot of it has to do wit [...]