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I think a key reason that Apple didn’t announce hypertension earlier is because they didn’t have to. When they release things early, it gives competitive a chance to swoop in with some 60% solution and claim they got there first. @snell.zone sixcolors.com/post/2025/09...
Thinking through Apple’s September 9 announcements
Big day on Tuesday, as iPhone Days usually are. I think Apple’s big event this year was actually more impressive than it’s been for quite a while, and despite the flurry of leaks and ru…
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September 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I think a key reason that Apple didn’t announce hypertension earlier is because they didn’t have to. When they release things early, it gives competitive a chance to swoop in with some 60% solution and claim they got there first. @snell.zone sixcolors.com/post/2025/09...
I don’t buy the cynical take. The lawsuits & settlements were inevitable. It’s been clear since the Reddit deal that AI companies are going to need to spend millions/billions for content. The moat remains the billions in their war chests.
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A Cynical Read on Anthropic’s Book Settlement
Link to: https://spyglass.org/cynical-read-on-anthropics-book-settlement/
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September 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I don’t buy the cynical take. The lawsuits & settlements were inevitable. It’s been clear since the Reddit deal that AI companies are going to need to spend millions/billions for content. The moat remains the billions in their war chests.
daringfireball.net/linked/2025/... @gruber.foo
daringfireball.net/linked/2025/... @gruber.foo
“Hey Google, play that song from this year’s summer blockbuster about race cars”. This all I want from Siri/Apple Intelligence along with “call my wife on speaker”. @gruber.foo @reneritchie.bsky.social www.theverge.com/news/762370/...
Gemini for Home is Google’s biggest smart home play in years
Hey Google, meet Gemini.
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August 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
“Hey Google, play that song from this year’s summer blockbuster about race cars”. This all I want from Siri/Apple Intelligence along with “call my wife on speaker”. @gruber.foo @reneritchie.bsky.social www.theverge.com/news/762370/...
Trump is scum, but if Biden offered a $50B a year incentive (25% tax on iPhones) to build in America, a joint press conference and a thoughtful gift that Biden appreciated wouldn’t be so odd. This is blackmail, but pragmatically it’s the right move. @gruber.foo daringfireball.net/2025/08/gold...
Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon
It is disturbing to think that the leader of a beloved, trusted, and widely believed-to-be-ethical company like Apple has succumbed to avarice. That Tim Cook feels no qualms about — or perhaps even de...
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August 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Trump is scum, but if Biden offered a $50B a year incentive (25% tax on iPhones) to build in America, a joint press conference and a thoughtful gift that Biden appreciated wouldn’t be so odd. This is blackmail, but pragmatically it’s the right move. @gruber.foo daringfireball.net/2025/08/gold...
I’m not convinced to epilogues add much to most stories. I always read them because I’m afraid I’m gonna miss something, but I often feel vaguely disappointed like I reached the end of the book and then burped and unpleasant taste after a good meal. #books #booklovers #romancebooks #writing
July 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I’m not convinced to epilogues add much to most stories. I always read them because I’m afraid I’m gonna miss something, but I often feel vaguely disappointed like I reached the end of the book and then burped and unpleasant taste after a good meal. #books #booklovers #romancebooks #writing
I think @slashdot.org’s rss feed has been hacked. When you click to view it on web it’s a completely different article. #funny
July 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I think @slashdot.org’s rss feed has been hacked. When you click to view it on web it’s a completely different article. #funny
I was curious to compare @gruber.foo ‘s feedback about the iOS7 beta compared to MacOS/iOS26. Worlds apart. “Resounding yes” type comments about iOS7 vs “is a serious problem” for MacOS/iOS26 daringfireball.net/2013/06/ios_...
‘This Is Our Signature’: iOS 7
The software is now of a piece with the hardware. Two sides of the same coin. Not hardware design and software design. Just design.
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July 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I was curious to compare @gruber.foo ‘s feedback about the iOS7 beta compared to MacOS/iOS26. Worlds apart. “Resounding yes” type comments about iOS7 vs “is a serious problem” for MacOS/iOS26 daringfireball.net/2013/06/ios_...
Does #MacOS Tahoe Spotlight integrate with passwords or 1Passwords? I used to use Alfred with 1Password 7 and it was great since I didn’t have to bookmark sites and then also add them to password manager
@sixcolors.com sixcolors.com/post/2025/07...
@sixcolors.com sixcolors.com/post/2025/07...
First Look: macOS Tahoe Public Beta
For many years, Apple’s annual operating-system cycle seemed to be all about the iPhone, with the occasional bone thrown to the Mac or iPad. But Apple’s latest operating-system releases…
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July 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Does #MacOS Tahoe Spotlight integrate with passwords or 1Passwords? I used to use Alfred with 1Password 7 and it was great since I didn’t have to bookmark sites and then also add them to password manager
@sixcolors.com sixcolors.com/post/2025/07...
@sixcolors.com sixcolors.com/post/2025/07...
Dipping my toes into @blender.org again. Our city does crowdsource cinema where everyone gets a two minute snippet of a popular movie to redo and then they stitch it back together. This year is Matilda. Here are my initial character sketches in blender. I’m trying to figure out cloth and hair. #3d
June 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Dipping my toes into @blender.org again. Our city does crowdsource cinema where everyone gets a two minute snippet of a popular movie to redo and then they stitch it back together. This year is Matilda. Here are my initial character sketches in blender. I’m trying to figure out cloth and hair. #3d
Unfortunately #fantastical doesn’t actually put entire message when creating an event from email, it only puts the start of it and a link to apple mail (I use #Mimestream) 😢 @gruber.foo @flexibits.com
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June 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Unfortunately #fantastical doesn’t actually put entire message when creating an event from email, it only puts the start of it and a link to apple mail (I use #Mimestream) 😢 @gruber.foo @flexibits.com
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Working on my garden today definitely helped me remember how much gardening sucks. lol.
June 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Working on my garden today definitely helped me remember how much gardening sucks. lol.
The one that gets me is how the word wretched turned into ratchet. I was teaching high school and I actually made a slide on our TV screen that explained the difference because it was driving me crazy that all of our kids were used to birds interchangeably @brandon.insertcredit.com
May 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The one that gets me is how the word wretched turned into ratchet. I was teaching high school and I actually made a slide on our TV screen that explained the difference because it was driving me crazy that all of our kids were used to birds interchangeably @brandon.insertcredit.com
I feel like this is what many people feel that Apple should do. devclass.com/2025/05/19/m... @gruber.foo
MCP will be built into Windows to make an 'agentic OS' but security will be a key concern • DEVCLASS
Microsoft’s Build developer conference is under way in Seattle, where the company has revealed plans to make the […]
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May 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I feel like this is what many people feel that Apple should do. devclass.com/2025/05/19/m... @gruber.foo
@aftermath.site Heard about ya’ll from Gruber. I use RSS and your RSS streams never have enough info for me to want to click more… have you considered putting the first couple of paragraphs into the RSS feed to entice ppl to read and click for more? Seems like what most sites do…
May 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
@aftermath.site Heard about ya’ll from Gruber. I use RSS and your RSS streams never have enough info for me to want to click more… have you considered putting the first couple of paragraphs into the RSS feed to entice ppl to read and click for more? Seems like what most sites do…
Feelings sick. Just want to eat junk food and feel better, and I know that won’t make me feel better… :(
April 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Feelings sick. Just want to eat junk food and feel better, and I know that won’t make me feel better… :(
Agree MSFT event isn’t the right place, but “doing business in a state that is sexist” is NOT the same as “actively supplying AI software used to incorrectly target and kill people”. They’re both bad, but very different orders of magnitude. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/... @gruber.foo
Microsoft’s 50th Birthday Was Interrupted, Twice, by Employees Protesting Against Israel
Link to: https://www.theverge.com/news/644027/microsoft-50th-anniversary-protest
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April 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Agree MSFT event isn’t the right place, but “doing business in a state that is sexist” is NOT the same as “actively supplying AI software used to incorrectly target and kill people”. They’re both bad, but very different orders of magnitude. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/... @gruber.foo
When your company is well and truly screwed… it’s time for a new slogan or logo. (It won’t help you but at least the C-suite will feel like they’re doing something) www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... @gruber.foo #marketingfail
Intel Refreshes Iconic Brand - Slashdot
Intel has unveiled a refresh of its iconic brand identity, introducing the slogan "That's the power of Intel Inside" to reconnect with consumers and highlight the chipmaker's role in modern computing....
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April 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
When your company is well and truly screwed… it’s time for a new slogan or logo. (It won’t help you but at least the C-suite will feel like they’re doing something) www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... @gruber.foo #marketingfail
I think OpenAI might be exaggerating my muscles and jawline… lol. I see how it came up with Christine’s picture (tats are a nice addition)… but I think it confused me with #Thor… #openAI #AI #Marvel (I know AI is evil and I'm probably a bad person for even playing around with it)
March 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
It’s cool to hate apple. I think that’s it. I’m on other sites where if ANYTHING even slightly positive about apple is posted it gets downvoted to the trash bin. Linux and Android can add the most minor feature and get a million upvotes.
daringfireball.net/linked/2025/... @gruber.foo
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You’ll Never Guess Which Recent DF Article Was ‘Flagged’ at Hacker News
Link to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489058
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March 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
It’s cool to hate apple. I think that’s it. I’m on other sites where if ANYTHING even slightly positive about apple is posted it gets downvoted to the trash bin. Linux and Android can add the most minor feature and get a million upvotes.
daringfireball.net/linked/2025/... @gruber.foo
daringfireball.net/linked/2025/... @gruber.foo
I wonder if Giannadrea was already “out” at the time of Gurman’s last post, which could be why Walker was listed as “top executive overseeing Siri”? www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @gruber.foo #apple
Apple Shakes Up AI Executive Ranks in Bid to Turn Around Siri
Apple Inc. is undergoing a rare shake-up of its executive ranks, aiming to get its artificial intelligence efforts back on track after months of delays and stumbles, according to people familiar with ...
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March 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I wonder if Giannadrea was already “out” at the time of Gurman’s last post, which could be why Walker was listed as “top executive overseeing Siri”? www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @gruber.foo #apple
@macworld.com I think there’s a bug on your site. I’m trying to read an article and every three seconds this head pops up
March 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
@macworld.com I think there’s a bug on your site. I’m trying to read an article and every three seconds this head pops up
My latest watercolor postcard. Inspired by some unattributed art I saw on Pinterest. #watercolor #art #painting
March 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
My latest watercolor postcard. Inspired by some unattributed art I saw on Pinterest. #watercolor #art #painting
Ian (17) recorded another song while Christine and I were out of town for the day… :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5lD...
Circle Around
YouTube video by Dreams4Rest
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March 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Ian (17) recorded another song while Christine and I were out of town for the day… :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5lD...