From a small garage in Los Altos to billions of pockets, wrists, ears, faces, desks, and living rooms. Happy 49th birthday Apple. Next year is the big one.

A Sneak Peek At My First App

It is not quite ready yet, but I wanted to share a first-look at the app that I have been working on over the past several weeks. I still need to squash a few bugs and complete some business-related tasks, but I expect to submit it to the App Store in the near future after a small TestFlight group …

Apple Adds the Lumon Terminal its Mac Lineup

Apple’s marketing campaign for Severance has been top notch. Between the Grand Central pop up, live events with the cast, a marching band, dedicated websites to generate art, a Tim Cook commercial, and a giant balloon in London, they have kept their foot on the gas even with the second season having …

Finally, ChatGPT Can Accurately Generate Images with Text

OpenAI dropped an all-new image generation system for ChatGPT today and man is it good. One of the biggest problems with artificially generated images has been the inability to generate accurate text within them. There have historically been problems with inaccurate characters, spelling, or even …

Fill the Severance-sized Hole in Your Heart with The Studio

The ridiculously good new Seth Rogen series, The Studio, just hit Apple TV+. A few weeks ago I got to watch the first two episodes premiere at SXSW and I walked away from the theater beyond excited for the rest of the series. Both of those episodes are now available to stream and they are as …

Gemini, Siri, and Default Assistants on iOS

I do not want to harp on the Siri situation, but I do have one suggestion that I think Apple should listen to. Because I suspect it is going to take quite some time for the company to get the new Siri out the door properly, they should do what was previously unthinkable. That is, open up iOS to …

Very Good News: Mike Rockwell, No Fan of Siri, is Here to Save It

Mark Gurman has just reported that Apple is reshuffling the Siri team’s leadership in light of the recent Apple Intelligence controversy. They are putting Mike Rockwell, the man behind Vision Pro, in charge of the effort and taking AI chief John Gianndrea off the project. While you can lament …

It's Time for WWDC 2025 to Return to Traditions Broken by COVID

This is a weird time. Everybody knows it, even if they do not want to acknowledge it. Apple’s trust with its customers is on the line and today’s news from Mark Gurman about internal conversations proves that they know they are in a complicated position. The company is staying quiet …

Sky Blue Really is Blue

The new sky blue MacBook Air really is blue. I know that there has been much debate about just how blue it really is. But now that I own one and have seen it in quite a few different lighting conditions, I can say for certain that this is more blue than silver to my eyes. I fully understand that …

Hands-On With the Vision Pro Metallica Experience at SXSW

This past weekend, I spent some time in Austin with some very cool Apple folks and a Vision Pro. The company invited me to come and watch the latest immersive video experience at SXSW, and my word is it quite something. I loved Submerged and Parkour, but neither compares to the newest entrant: an …

‘The Studio’ is Probably Apple TV+’s Next Big Hit

Apple TV+ has had quite the ride since it launched in 2019. It took a few months to really begin to hit its stride with the first season of Ted Lasso, which helped keep us all feeling just a little sane during COVID. More recently, Severance has been a huge hit. It is one of the best shows I have …

Can Apple Even Pull This Off?

I guess I should not be surprised, but I am still furious. Apple shared with John Gruber earlier today that they are delaying the launch of the flagship new personalized Siri features for Apple Intelligence that were unveiled last summer at WWDC. We have been waiting what already feels like forever …

Phoenix Rises From the Ashes of Tweetbot to Join Ivory

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the surprisingly small amount of third-party Bluesky clients for iOS. After countless Twitter ones and now plenty of Mastodon options, it felt inevitable. Except very few developers seemed to be working on anything. For months, users (including me) had been …

There Was Something in the Air After All

For the first time in 24 years, since the introduction of the first white iBook, Apple has a blue laptop again. While the new MacBook Airs are most certainly a “spec bump,” they make for a pretty good one. The new Air features the M4 (as expected), but also gets a massively upgraded FaceTime camera …

These Might Just be the Prettiest Clock Widgets

Just a few days ago, a new iPhone app was released by designer Rasmus Nielsen. The app, while simple, is one of my favorites in a long time. It is called Tinker and it features some of the most beautiful clock widgets I have ever seen. Tinker is a super cool concept. You can build your own clock …

There's Nothing in the Air

Apple device spec bumps are nothing new. Steve’s Apple did them all the time. He just didn’t tease them with iconic taglines that carry historical weight. Yesterday Tim Cook tweeted a teaser that said “there’s something in the Air” hearkening back to the 2008 unveiling …

First Impressions of the Insanely Beautiful but Baffling iPhone 16e

I’ve only had the iPhone 16e for a few hours, but I figured it was worth writing something out. Particularly because I am surprised by the device now that I have seen it in-person. It is no secret that I have been awfully skeptical of the value proposition and frankly I still am. But this …

On Recent Apple Commercials and Billboards

Apple’s advertising has been hit or miss in recent years. They have run the gamut from controversies like the hydraulic press crushing beloved artistic tools to misses like the early Apple Intelligence ads to delightful surprises like recent heartwarming holiday ones. There has been a lot of …

A Comet Approaches Planet Browser Company

If you have followed me for a bit, you know that I really love the work that The Browser Company has done with Arc. They built a browser that is ridiculously powerful, infinitely customizable, and even extended their ambitions to mobile with one of the nicest AI search tools. But something happened …

A Pretty Siri Can't Hide the Ugly Truth

We’ve been waiting for Siri to get good for quite a long time. Before the emergence of ChatGPT, Siri sort of languished. Outside of the addition of Shortcuts in 2018, it has generally remained at the same level of intelligence since 2015 when they added proactive functionality. Last summer, …

Gemini Integration Could be a Huge Upgrade Over ChatGPT in Siri

A few weeks ago Federico Viticci wrote a great piece on MacStories about how one of Gemini’s greatest strengths in the LLM competition is that it’s the only one with Google app extensions. On Friday, Apple released the first beta of iOS 18.4 and while many of the AI updates that we were …

Apple News+ Food and Designing Concepts While Trying to Think Like Apple

Apparently, I’m on a roll with predicting new Apple services. Last year, when Apple introduced the Sports app I was tremendously excited. Two years earlier I had nailed the logo, the name, the color scheme, and the overall concept. While my imagined Apple Sports app was much more ambitious, we still …

There’s No More Budget iPhone, Only a No-Frills One

Apple just unveiled their latest low-end iPhone and it’s… confusing! The iPhone 16e doesn’t replace the iPhone SE as many of us had expected. In fact the iPhone SE is gone entirely. There’s no longer a “budget” iPhone in the lineup. By “budget” I generally mean an iPhone under $500, whether that has …

Pebble Was More Than a Smartwatch Pioneer – Exploring Core, the Original AI Gadget

With Pebble returning to the smartwatch fray, I thought it would be fun to revisit their only non-watch product: Pebble Core. While Core never ended up shipping, looking back it gave us a glimpse of something that’s been happening over the past year or two. AI-centric gadgets like the Humane AI Pin, …

The Most Exciting Year for iPhone Upgrades in Ages Kicks Off Next Week

This year’s iPhone lineup sounds like it is going to be the best one yet. It starts with the iPhone SE or what is now largely expect to be called the iPhone 16E. Apple announced that a new member of the family will be joining the fray next Wednesday and it is almost certainly the new …