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- Dan, stop encouraging it … Dana’s episode is up on the podcast and YouTube now; you can catch up on anywhere RSS works with your podcast app , Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube …
- What does recording even mean?; Do it stupid first … How have you been doing? Best, Dan About Audio Intelligence features on Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 - Apple Support ( archive.is ) ↩ Audio Intelligence Privacy …
- Did you try the app? … From 2014, she was responsible for moulding, evolving and shaping the voice of Slack, and since leaving in 2020, has worked with Apple, Airbnb, Atlassian and a bunch …
- Neal Stephenson is leaking again; When computer isn’t computer … You can catch up on anywhere RSS works with your podcast app , Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube . (78 subscribers on YouTube now! My kids will be super impressed …
- It Was Supposed To Be Different; Reading Material … an Apple Watch Ultra 3, Fitbit Air, Garmin Cirqua (wrists), Oura Ring, Withings BodyScan 2, Body Smart, and Body Fit, a Twin Health scale, a Dexcom G7 continuous …
- Just the Links … He's worked on communications and digital strategies for organisations like Honda, Nike, Microsoft, Apple, the Government Digital Service and the Co-op. He's currently Marketing and …
- The Irritating Aspect of Spiciness; Improving Pharmacies Somewhat … He's worked on communications and digital strategies for organisations like Honda, Nike, Microsoft, Apple, the Government Digital Service and the Co-op. He's currently Marketing and …
- It's (not) the economy stupid; gaining convenience at the expense of agency … I use Apple Maps because it’s honestly good-enough and cleaner than Google Maps. But this September with the next release of iOS, Apple are going to …
- Not About How it Looks … Presumably that means with all the call center and support staff that come with an Apple Store. Presumably that means the kind of Apple Store that has a …
- It’s Not 2006 Anymore; The Useful, Vernacular Institution; What Is Free Our Feeds, Anyway? … the Digital Markets Act, that’s trying to reign in Meta, X, and Apple and so on?” What exactly does data sovereignty mean? If this is predicated on …
- Sure, Fine, Crushed It; Smarts … But to jump on the Oh No, Apple Is Doomed bandwagon, the easy thing to say would be that Apple’s lost its way (again), is doomed (again …
- Doing What’s Important; Hidden Reasons; When They Tell You, Etc... … 1.2 Hidden Reasons So here’s what caught my attention with Sonos, the set of speakers that don’t work well with Apple products: They launched a …
- I Don’t Know, A Skateboard Or Something … One way Apple could distinguish CarPlay and, well, put it in opposition with car manufacturers who are trying to computer their cars is on the privacy angle. Apple …
- Do Not Reply Stickers; Computers were a Bad Idea; Two Things About Startups; and more tidbits … businesses, and how some of the lessons people can learn from being at Apple (i.e. the backing of the world’s largest company by market capitalization) don …
- Pulling the Cord; Do Not Reply; Fast User Switching … 1.3 Fast User Switching Look, all that stuff about streaming music services like Apple Music and Spotify generating batshit trend reports and suggestions because you have the …
- Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different … You could set them per app/context (hey Apple Fitness in particular, stop being such a techbro), you could set them bounded by time, and so on. Apple …
- What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide … And they wouldn’t be wrong! Apple would make the same case. In fact, anyone would. Having everything in one place would totally be “easier”, in the sense …
- Infinite Canvas; A Stand-Up Deployment?; The Omelas Cinematic Universe; Taxonomies and Online Community … 1.1 Infinite Canvas Chuck Jordan wrote about the Apple Vision Pro in the context of what it was like when the Mac came out [1] , and now …
- It’s not a hardware or software problem, dummy … Attention 1.1 It’s not a hardware or software problem, dummy So. Apple’s Vision Pro came out and of course there are a bunch of opinions …
- You don’t want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms … Benedict Evans had kicked off a discussion on Threads [2] about what he thought was the failure of the pen computing paradigm, because Apple have shipped “a technically …
- Personality; A Rule about Designing Games … I compare it to stuff like Apple’s putting out right now, where ever since the M1 iMac I’ve been dying for its other computers to, you …
- Generative People Personalities; Content Distribution Networks (Taylor's Version) … The version I've got downloaded over Apple Music is ~380MB, so naively, if that were streamed and not cached at the client, that's 266 petabytes of …
- Rude; A Financial Services Social Network?; We Should Improve Attribution and Sourcing Somewhat … Carrot Weather, on Apple platforms, is the only software I'm really aware of that is, at the very least, surly. 1.2 A Financial Services Social Network …
- Just Put A Fucking Warning Label On It; A Sort Of Qualified Immunity; Doing a Spreadsheets is Coding; Rotate 75 Degrees Around The Vertical … might suddenly have a change of mind, a sort of opposite action of Apple's complete lack of change of mind. No, what strikes me as perhaps a …
- Mitigation Strategies; The Unbearable Necessity of Portability; Tactical Binding Covenants … monitor? They might ostensibly work better with one kind of headset (i.e. Apple) or monitor (ditto), or the support contract might be better, but the point is …
- Hands, Brains, Eyes … Then there's the "but are Apple actually serious this time?" Last time we thought Apple might have been serious was when they launched Apple Arcade and started …
- It's the Unique Integration of the Hardware, the Silicon, and the Software, Stupid … Third, everyone in games has been burned by Apple before. Apple keep saying things and keep pretending like they have an interesting and relevant games strategy (Apple Arcade …
- Consensual Hallucination; Hospitals; Warm, Statistically Plausible Generic Platitudes … in a size slightly smaller than the labels for the keys on an Apple laptop. (The text is not in braille) After opening the restroom door, it closes …
- I too aspire for my memory to be safe … for them and then die", but not necessarily things like "hey guess what, Apple has 1.8 billion active devices now" and "turns out, if there's a …
- Marks on Flat Planes … 1.0 Some things that caught my attention 1.1 Marks on Flat Planes Yes, I suppose I have thoughts about Apple Vision Pro just like everybody goddamn …
- The Best To-Do List or Project Management Software Is The One That Works For You Right Now … I go through phases of using tools like Asana, Apple's Reminders, a text file, a checklist in Apple's Notes app, Jira (when I'm forced to …
- Hey, Ease Up; A Load-Bearing If-Statement … taking a look at Apple News this morning over breakfast and then skimming an article on Today about young people dying of heart attacks ever since the COVID …
- Concept Art … Recent examples include Amazon Prime Video's adaptation of William Gibson's The Peripheral , and Apple TV+'s adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation .) Back last year, Chadeisson …
- Platform Exclusivity: Microsoft / Activision Blizzard … So would you force Apple to license iOS and macOS to third parties? If Microsoft were licensing software (my 1990s antitrust memory is fuzzy on this), then would …
- The Software-Defined Cost of Doing Business … After a while of nothing happening, EOS Webcam Utility came back as a free/subscription product, complete with new features like being able to run on Apple's …
- Success Criteria; Chat … a) Siri clearly can't do, and most frustratingly, b) is something that Apple Music can't do, and c) is something that iTunes could kind of but …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … For example, we trust that washingtonpost.com is The Washington Post, that whitehouse.gov is The White House, and that Apple.com is that big fruit company that …
- Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices … Migrating to a new Apple Laptop is a pain and that's even with all the wizards. You'll keep thinking you'll have lost something. So it …
- A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More … support.{ apple , microsoft,[ google ](https://support.google.com), playstation }.com. So for certain user-facing services that happen, in these cases, to be served over https, purpose-named …
- Cheap, portable, shareable video has consequences but maybe not what you think … regular tiny Apple Magic mouse, then a Logitech MX Master 3 [1] , and now a Logitech MX Vertical mouse [2] which which is fantastic other than it lacks …
- What it means to be PlayStation with Netflix in the room; What's Simlish for Metaverse? … PlayStation also hasn't shown up in the leisure-anywhere-that-includes-videogames market, which is basically "mobile games" and Apple and Google act as a gatekeeper, and …
- Dying Slowly, and then All At Once; Scrollytelling … Google, by the way, thinks it's fine, and so does Apple, otherwise your browser would be freaking out about now. This domain is the combination Wordpress / static …
- HBO Max is Upside Down; Bits and Pieces … As a periodical, Softalk was a magazine that both challenged the computer hobbyist journalism industry and defined the social terrain of the early Apple II software era — which …
- Business models that make you cry; Long-range microwave networks; Home servers; Twitter, But Angrier And In VR … The money arrived in the form of Xbox Games With Gold and Playstation Plus Games Whatever, and latterly, Apple Good Intentions Arcade And Now Kind Of What Are …
- AQI But For Brain Fungus … do what Netflix has done (and, in a way, Apple appears to be half-heartedly doing with Apple Arcade) and add... whatever games have an NYT-sorta-vibe …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation, Netflix/Everyone Else Edition … You'd think that Apple threw Nike under the bus when Apple went and watched while Nike tried with its Fuel Band wearable, then just launched WATCH …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation: Software Defined Brands; Gerrymandering Autocorrect … Nike is possibly the most consumer interactive brand that Apple has ever partnered with, I think, and I don't see Apple partnering with Microsoft in games. But …
- What Is It Like To Be A PlayStation? … Apple doesn't really have this problem because if it treats it like Apple TV and not, say, Apple Arcade, then it will throw a shit-ton of …
- Google Stadia, or, Winning at Videogames … Xbox and PC games everywhere, for a monthly fee, any device you want, and building up a moat of exclusive content, a la Disney+, Apple TV+ and Netflix …
- Manifest What I Mean, Not What I Say … until I saw this new user interface that's one of those typically Apple melds of hardware-with-software-to-make-something-new. So now I'm in …
- Google Slides is a Feature, not an App; Choices; Here, take one of these … boarding passes out anymore, we display them on our small screens and anyway, Apple made the decision as to what boarding passes look like anyway. One and done …
- Conan, What Is Worst In Life, And Why? … You haven't had a choice, really, in the quality of the in-car dashboard software, until recently when you now have a choice between say Apple or …
- Domestication … First, John Gruber, who has opinions about Apple and Apple products, had an opinion about Amazon and Roombas [1] and in a throwaway comment said: It’s very …
- Rabbit hole … Hey, this new laptop is supposed to have some kind of awesome display with better dynamic range and brightness (so Apple says), so is there a way in …
- There Was No User Need … an Apple Wallet pass, or QR code as an image or PDF you can also have emailed to you. All fine, all good. This is the tiniest nit …
- We choose not to do the harder thing … You get a bit of customization with your case, I guess, but until recently, and only at Apple’s allowance, do you get to show a bit of …
- Snowglobes … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention Snowglobes (Not Boring) Habits was a winner at this year's Apple Design Awards in the Delight and Fun category …
- What's more profitable than...? … Under what conditions would it make sense? Some of those conditions might also include "Apple isn't really Apple anymore", but here we are with consumer credit financing …
- Things that I wish existed; HIG but not Hygge; Stages of Digital Transformation, Again; Good Enough Digital Transformation … HIG but not Hygge At WWDC Apple also launched a new Human Interface Guidelines resource, via Design Evangelist Linda Dong [1] . For comparison, here's the 1987 Apple …
- ... for the mind? … Pixels Apple's WWDC is having a one-bit pixel icon challenge and it is very cute and also, you know, Apple kind of relaxing a bit? Of …
- Groupware … Compare to the recent revelation that the Core- prefix in Apple's libraries e.g. CoreImage, CoreAudio is also a pun on... Apples, despite me very reasonably believing …
- Dan Hon is Away … I think we see traces of this kind of behavior at Apple where it's incredibly difficult to resist the gravitational attraction of something like the iPhone. Nothing …
- Eukaryotes … Steve Jobs, Still, Again In the regular "here's some more stuff about Apple" segment, Tony Fadell has a new book [1] . Fast Company has an excerpt of …
- Didn't Organize, Only Moved; Context Collapse … Turns out you can just have an Apple Watch reminder to... tell you to breathe. Even so! Yet another technological intervention to join the pile of stuff! ↩︎ “Announcing …
- Form Factors, Link Better … The Interiors of the Apple Macintosh circuit board assembly facility, Apple fitness center, and Apple Advanced Computer Center (originally from the April 1989 issue of Interiors Magazine) on …
- Oxo Grips for Software and Vexatious Litigation … I do want to remember for myself that Apple's definition of accommodations included Literacy and Learning, like this: Literacy and learning challenges include difficulty speaking and reading …
- A Method for Efficient Exploration of Search Space … s and Google is happy because you use more Google Cloud TPUs and Apple is happy because... something something Neural Engine/Bionic? I do not know where Microsoft …
- Do Not Recommend … 1.2 Aaaarrrgh parental controls Yesterday, a friend asked about Apple's Apple TV 4K [1] and what its parental controls are like and I just about exploded …
- Team Calculating Monster meets Team Wild Yak … They've got their special Testing Apple Orchard, right? Yeah, says TCM. The thing about your Testing Apple Orchard, says TWY, is that it's only so big …
- s11hiatus03/05: Challenge / Response (3) … On this work trip, and every work trip since his birth, I have become a parody of the Apple Facetime advert, I can't get enough of seeing …
- "Gestures futilely at late-stage capitalism dystopia" … There's no CPU in the sense that there's an Intel Core chip or AMD Ryzen/Threadripper or Apple Silicon M1 in there: it's a bunch …
- Words and how to use them to achieve and convey your intended effect and meaning? … Hi! How have you been? Best, Dan California Dreamin, Freischwimmer, Apple Music and Spotify ↩︎ Shuttles still don’t have cup holders . Terry Matalas, Twitter, March 1, 2022 ↩︎ Iain …
- Stop doing that, it's making you look silly … Wearable devices, before the Apple Watch came out Social software, the difference between followers and friends, ambient presence Surfaces versus infrastructure, scale Government digital services and service design …
- The Games Google Plays … Knowing that still feels a bit magical, even if Dark Sky feels like it's less reliable and has been subsumed into the Apple mothership. On the docket …
- Eight Short Pieces In Fifteen Minutes Or Less … 1.0 Some things that caught my attention Dark Patterns by Apple Via Michael Tsai, here's a list of Apple applying or in effect promoting dark patterns …
- How Much Should You Own, Anyway? … But, absent Apple TV and Apple Arcade (and less so the latter), Apple aren't going in for content exclusives, at least not in the app space. I …
- A certain weariness … 1.0 Some things that caught my attention 1.1 A certain weariness So I use Apple Music because I never got into paying for Spotify for my …
- For want of a screenless MP3 player … MP3 players still exist, they didn’t suddenly disappear when Apple stopped making the iPod as a dedicated music player in 2019 (the iPod Touch doesn’t count …
- "We Really Didn't Expect This To Work" … Last year, Apple finally came out with its own processor, with an architecture called Apple Silicon. This is, like, the fourth time Apple have changed CPU architectures, and …
- IT'S SIGGRAPH TECHNICAL PAPERS PREVIEW TRAILER TIME, BABY! … The Game Boy Printer, in 1998 , via Luca Hammer The 1993-era Canon NoteJet , a portable computer that had a built-in printer ! Apple's Portable StyleWriter Although …
- Absurdity, net-native journalism, Promising No Solutions, Talking and Snow Crashing, chapter 16 … Print ads for absurd products Dana Sibera produces photoshops of absurd, fictional Apple products (I’m somewhat sad that I’m spoiling the surprise). Here’s a PDF …
- Cats; Writing on the Internet; the Moon; OpenDoc and Componentized Software … This isn't to say that Apple doesn't develop technology like that in-house! But that feels like me to be the answer to "but Apple do …
- Vestigial; Unions; Weird; and Snow Crashing - Chapter 15, part 2 … not bookmark in time, so now it is forever lost) pointing out that Apple’s Mac Mini is still roughly the same form factor as when it launched …
- Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15 … Hey, did you know that Apple released iOS 14.5 today, and that it gives users more of a choice about whether their activity is tracked? [ Apple ]. Next …
- The Device Becomes The App? … I see — and Apple likes to show this — that the iPad Pro is good for Pro Apps and Pro Users and sometimes it can feel like: hang on …
- Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things … API wasn't turned off? I mean, that's the kind of thing Apple does, and their track record on security is... oh, wait. We're not even …
- Get a cozy Data Tiny House, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive People … Associates' dBFAST , this 1989 ad for Windows , or this 1992 ad for an Apple Macintosh computer . Actually, you can tell that I'm just geeking out over nostalgic …
- The One Where I Don't Want To Talk About Substack Just As Much As You Do, And Yet … well, self, you know how Apple product imagery looks a bit weird and like it’s rendered? It’s not. It’s focus-stacked. So anyway , what my …
- Three Things … 2017, Google Maps’s Moat , comparing how far Google Maps was ahead of Apple’s maps. The analogy here is that Netflix is building (er, digging) a moat …
- How can I help you? … Organizational seams Apple I said part of this is because of organization seams. Here’s an example from Apple: Apple has a whole tangle of accounts that include …
- No Such Thing As A Blank Slate … Just a few months later, Apple would announce the cylindrical Mac Pro (yes, the trashcan one) at WWDC, and if memory serves, the teaser site was one of …
- On The Precipice, supporter edition … audio as an interface , for which I’d start paying attention to things like Apple’s Spatial Audio for Airpods [sic] Pro as a likely ah, the pieces …
- On The Precipice … a bunch of bureaucracy to deal with in getting something out on to Apple’s App Store, which, you know. That’s true. But then: The entire internet …
- What's the EGOT for Technology and Arts? … commonly come from researchers working at private companies like Facebook, or startups. (Interestingly, Apple had to deal with this issue in hiring machine learning talent by coming up …
- The Location-based Pokemon Game Company … I’m disappointed in what’s being reported as the direction Apple is taking Apple Arcade in; I think there are other ways to improve subscriber growth and …
- They Write Software That Kills People, Don't They? … Apple are successful because they integrate vertically, or Apple are successful because they care about design, or Apple are successful because of their supply chain, or Apple are …
- An Institution at the Intersection of Technology and Society … This move to Apple Silicon, though, and the sessions showing that all Apple Silicon Macs will have an Apple Silicon GPU (on the SOC, it appears?) with a …
- This Is Your Regular Reminder … racist? , 2009] This is your regular reminder that speech recognition used by Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft on average misidentified words around 35% of the time for …
- Aren't we all just so tired … product/strategy/creative roles in organizations like Apple, like for Apple Health and Watch or Arcade health technology public interest and government technology And yes, I know that …
- Take your time reading this one … product/strategy/creative roles in organizations like Apple, like for Apple Health and Watch or Arcade health technology public interest and government technology And yes, I know that …
- Titles, am I right? … In practice, this means that anyone in our house who can use the Apple TV remote (insert your own opinion about the Apple TV remote) can head over …
- *gestures at the world* … It is kind of ridiculous that Microsoft are doing this and that games consoles are honestly the closest thing to Apple’s Macs right now (well, this had …
- Back on the wagon … When The Verge reviews a phone like Apple’s iPhone 11 , they’re now calling attention to the terms of service that apply, in a section called Agree …
- The ATCR Boundary … Nike and the Fuelband, the latter case somewhat complicated by their relationship with Apple. Related to this, is… … Buzzfeed’s editor Ben Smith moving over to the New …
- Software from trauma, or, fingers crossed the only blockchain episode of 2020 … Anyway, let’s try and see if it doesn’t make feel too much like a shill: 🎧 On some Apple phones, iOS 13 will let you share your …
- Tattletales, or, OK Google, what do you have on me? … and that time you got to write about the wrist EKG on the Apple Watch and find out what this particular nurse and doctor think about it. The …
- Little things; Snow Crashing Ch 14 part 1 … I knew about the Atari Jaguar but not the Apple Jaguar , of which there’s a photograph of a concept hardware design, which would’ve been a Motorola …
- What Kind of Day Has It Been … I have no idea if Apple, for example, even briefed *any* emergency services responders on what to expect about a feature like automatic 911 calling beyond fulfilling any …
- Cynical, me?; Snow Crashing Ch 13, part 3 … The only real connection we have to cards right now, I think, are in design systems like Google’s Material Design or Apple’s latest HIG, where cards …
- Personal Data Gossip Networks … of why this is stuck in my head is the news about how Apple’s credit card has its credit decisions outsourced to Goldman Sachs, and that Goldmans …
- Yet another extra bit … All of that's to say that this is being aggressively typed on an old Apple keyboard into Microsoft Word 5.1a, which I'm reliably informed is …
- Do you have WiFi? / Liars are bad … are you freaking dumb? The reason why there is outrage over Breitbart’s inclusion in Facebook News as opposed to Apple News is that a) Apple News is …
- An extra bit … And there’s the now disappeared breathing/sleeping light that used to be on Apple laptops, now replaced by no visible indicator whatsoever that your laptop is charging …
- Dunbar’s Goose and the Pump Handle … thing that will tie together all of those monetized devices (if you’re Apple) or that will tie together all the data you have about everything, everywhere (if …
- No, not a mid-life crisis; Snow Crashing … So it’s not that Apple Card *has* a Disaster Relief Program, and it wasn’t even that Apple Card moved relatively quickly. What was interesting to me …
- The extra bit … My mental model of forced obsolescence was more like the “ugh, Apple doesn’t let you replace the battery in your phone so you have to buy a …
- Scaling Bureaucracy … thousands of workers and drop in something that looks like a bunch of Apple Stores. But similarly, you need good examples. You need Known Goods and you need …
- Tireless five year olds … This TouchID bug that still exists in iOS 13.1.2 is a fucking disaster and Apple should be ashamed . The general observation that if CNN and other …
- Snow Crashing … I am reminded that Apple Watches with Walkie Talkie are practically combadges and if I have tap-to-Siri on an Airpod, it is also practically a combadge …
- Safer Routes Home? … All of which is to say, you could work backwards from a Safer Routes Home on Apple Watch product that could give you turn-by-turn directions without …
- Breaking the rules … This is in spite of the fact that What The Golf is an Apple Arcade game, which you can only play on iOS 13 or above, and oh …
- The Inevitable And Possibly Ill-Advised Reboot … time I had a piece published in the MIT Tech Review about the Apple Watch and EKGs on your wrist. Did I mention I’d been published in …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … That was another long, inadvertent digression. * I am sitting here on a plane to Toronto typing this into Apple Notes. All I have open is Safari, iTunes, Slack …
- Firebreak Protocol … Your John Deere tractor and Apple Pro laptop are increasingly closed systems. The thing is, Apple have trotted out, on occassion the “trucks versus cars” argument, where on …
- Change your organization, or change your organization … founding a startup so Apple will acquire billion-dollar rights to the Sorkin-scripted story of your failure as content for the as-yet non-existant Apple TV …
- You're The Mayor of Terminal B Airside at SMF Airport! … This is not news - Apple has been designing computers for ages - but again, the news is that Apple isn’t just buying Intel’s chips - they’re designing …
- As at Batman, I want a Batcomputer so that I can remain unchallenged as The World’s Greatest Detective … Snow’s Two Cultures and I know I agree with Snow’s position very much indeed. * Just over 25 years ago Apple introduced the Newton and a bit …
- Platforms Corrupt … I think we see traces of this kind of behavior at Apple where it's *incredibly* difficult to resist the gravitational attraction of something like the iPhone. Nothing …
- At Any Cost … But! Some of the secondary effects (like the almost (blackly) comical pile-on happening to what I think is now approaching Apple-levels of "embattled, beleagured" corporate descriptions …
- Acquisition and ingest mode, dial for a wide spread … At least, I can wait until Labo comes out, which I think is wonderful for a bunch of reasons. * Consensus is that Apple's Homepod, while not a …
- Filtered for wide spread, low accuracy … Apple investors had published an open letter asking Apple to study the health effects of its products and to make it easier for parents to limit their children …
- Nobody expects the hiatus newsletter … Until recently, although some Apple devices had NFC hardware (used to implement Apple Pay), Apple didn’t provide access through an API. That led to a workaround where …
- Division by Infinity … I mean, you can circle-jerk what-ifs, like imagine if Apple's Ping was the dominant social network (always good for a laugh), but of all possible …
- Criticality … Rumor is that we borrowed the NDA dance from Apple; anyone who’s inclined to spend the time or paid attention will see that our lawyers have drifted …
- DNS Fan Fiction; 100-watt-hour-Trucks … To go Apple kremlinology right now, the issue is that Apple's 100 watt-hour+ performance envelope computers are *no longer competitive* and don't make the most …
- Random Walk; Black Design … 1.0 Random Walk The Apple thing (sorry, we'll have to reset the Days Since I've Written About Apple Counter to zero again) that caught my …
- It Looks Like You're Trying To Write A Newsletter … so (ad agency voice) what if we turned on that front camera while you were using Google Maps or Apple Maps or whatever? What would we see? Would …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … Speaking of which! The LSTMS that Google and Apple use now to help us write "simple" replies to people are *totally* the types of things we thought we …
- Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it … I draw an analogy here with where Ben Thompson has recently been talking about Apple's organizational crossroads[5]. The argument that Thompson makes is that Apple is …
- First Rule In Government Spending … the worm, the swoosh one) because it turns out that when you get Apple to replace the screen on your laptop, they replace *the entire screen* which I …
- OK TO GO … AskEngineers (sorry, Reddit link) [4] Thermographic camera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [5] Inside Apple's Broken Sapphire Factory - WSJ 2.0 Oh, I Don't Know, Other Stuff …
- They Should Have Sent A Poet … At places like Apple, I'm reasonably sure that writers for Siri are kind-of in MarComm and less in the product side, and fall more under Schiller …
- Of Course I Still Love You … if you have a new Apple TV, open up Apple Maps on your mobile device and mirror the display over to your TV, turn on 3D mode and …
- The Surface Area of Being Consulted … remember? We used to make jokes about useless computers being paperweights? Pretty soon Apple's obsession with thinness and lightness will make computers being paperweights pretty obsolete) if …
- Portions Of This Consciousness Are Copyright … You've got Google's cloud machine learning products[3], IBM's Watson Services[4] and, as ever, absolutely nothing that you can plug Apple or Siri services …
- Unordered List … BB-8 Bot Help People Cope With Anxiety? | Motherboard [7] Headspace [8] Can Apple Change The Face Of Postpartum Depression [9] The Navy's Newest Linux-Powered Command …
- GUT; Sixteen Theses … End result? I managed to get some work done and I also have a very mean opinion about the 4th Generation Apple TV that mainly has things to …
- Podcasts; Other Things; Hue … Presumably because someone (Apple? Gruber?) decided it was *important* that people who *don't listen to podcasts* would be able to hear (ha!) what, say, a person whose …
- Previously … And you, Apple, advertising new iPhones to people who're accessing the App Store. What happened, hmm? -- OK. We'll see if I get to do another one …
- The Product Wars; Emergency _________ Hologram … I swear if Apple do ever launch a holographic assistant one of the demos *will* be Phil Schiller checking out his portfolio on it. (An aside: I went …
- Hello babies; Post-Apocalyptic Duolingo; Recreational Capitalism … being confronted with the types of culture that currently deliver, well, Amazon and Apple and Wal-Mart rates of return. That's why we western, educated, industrialized, rich …
- Dreaming of writing; Just some notes … The one in my laptop is an Intel Iris, the second generation of which Apple saw fit to put in a Retina-class 13in laptop. (The 15in and …
- Sequencing; Spectrum … To the right, there is a silver Apple MacBook Pro. > examine black Gateway laptop The black Gateway laptop looks like it is running Windows 7. It is covered …
- On Advertising. Again. … These silicon valley companies with their Facebooks and their Googles and their Apples who, a few years back, started scaring the shit out of formerly unassailable companies that …
- Bob Rife Is Real; Digital Secure Confusion … No! The answer is actually "HSBC Mobile Banking supports iOS and Android devices. Apple iOS v6.0 and above. Android 2.3 and up." So, you know. Not …
- 2015 (1); A Manifesto Walks Into A Website; Stuff About The Web And Post Capitalism Again … Meanwhile, my Apple TV feels like it's getting alzheimer's and I'm having to reboot it more and more often. [0] Apple - iPhone - Why there’s …
- Everything … the best of advertising? | Media Network | The Guardian [11] Every Inappropriate Time My Apple Watch Told Me to Stand Up [12] Nicholas de Monchaux [13] Instagram - Spacesuits and …
- Typing, Continued … Via Hacker News[1] comes news of STREAKS[2], a new to-do/habit-forming app for iOS (and the developer's first using Swift, Apple's latest …
- Sending Signals; So We Solved Publishing; 2015 (1) … Someone get on that. [1] Apple doesn't want to talk about the real use for the Apple Watch | The Verge [2] The YotaPhone 2 has two faces …
- Episode Two Hundred and Eight: … Layout [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com,_Inc . [3] Apple Watch Apps Begin Showing Up in the App Store Ahead of Apple Watch …
- Use Google Docs, They Said; Digital Media; Force Touch; Product + Practice … 3.0 Force Touch Feels like - without having played with it in an Apple Store on one of those new Macbook/Retina Macbook Pros that has it - it …
- Compiling Consciousness.dat; No Apple TV; Negging, but for A.I.s … I don't think there's going to be a new Apple TV for a while. Or, at least, I don't think it's worth Apple's …
- What Apple Is … 1.0 What Apple Is For what it's worth, I think I finally have an unsolicited opinion about all this business about whether Apple is making a …
- Episode One Hundred and Ninety Five: … One is that it's getting impossible (not really, but you know what I mean) to avoid hearing about the imminent launch of the Apple WATCH. The second …
- Internet of Capitalism; Internet of Things Winter; Transmogrify … an Apple object is “manufactured in a way that makes it harder to copy,” Paola Antonelli said. “That’s the genius. It’s not only the formal effect …
- When Things Listen; An Unproductive Argument; Process; Until It Turns Into Writing … correctly, Nuance also powers the speech recognition portion of Siri's architecture for Apple) to provide the interpreted data it needs to run commands when you use the …
- Our Crap Connected Future; Oh My God More Advertising; Echo … it's about par for the course for tech advertising that isn't Apple's stuff, or maybe Google's more recent stuff: ie, pretty terrible. Amazon doesn …
- Web Directions South; A Thousand Songs In Your Pocket; Odds … But Apple didn't do user research apart from Steve who was the user and then you remember, well, of course, Steve was a human, a person, too …
- It's The Money … empathy for users, solving user needs (I can see that you probably need to dig a bit to see the user need for Apple Pay, but you need …
- How Are You?; Built It And They Will...; In The Gaps … now that Apple are bringing down the inevitable axe on Aperture, should I just buy Lightroom outright, or should I now account for my monthly Adobe tithe? Best …
- WATCH; BERG … Previous Apple innovations have been given names like Thunderbolt, Lightning, Retina Display, Magic Mouse, MagSafe, FireWire and so on - but now we have names like Digital Crown which …
- She Who Wears The Digital Crown; Designing Community … And yes, it's a bit like Apple-watching is a certain kind of Kremlinology, or the new kind of Kremlinology, but so. Apple is only just a …
- The Mezzanine; Doing The Job; Minimum Viable Whimsy … No Destiny on pre-order. And, of course, the elephant in the room: Apple Keynote Day tomorrow, 10am PST. Oh, and the one sobering thought, when I saw …
- The Networked Lens; Twitch; Sufficient Density … You can see Apple's dilemma: they want to make things that are simple to understand, easy to use and that more often than not, do the Right …
- Not Doing A Nick Bilton; Counterexamples; echofuckingpraxia … Whyever not? Apple, after all, pride themselves on their hardware and software integration. [1] Oh, What Big Eyes You Have! - Suw Charman-Anderson [2] https://twitter.com/sarahjeong …
- Here In My Car … fact, I'd argue that Car2go feels as much an experiment as Apple's Apple TV experiment - knowledge that the market may well be heading in a direction …
- Not All...; Now Wear This; Uber … Back in mid-2013, Tim Cooke reckoned that Apple had sold around 6 million units of the $99 Rev 3 Apple TV in the preceding twelve months. The …
- Relentless; Tech And Media, Not Or; 2014 … fields, but there's only really *one* other playing field and it's Apple's. It's not exactly a diverse ecosystem). The point being of course that …
- Digital Watches; Stay In Control; Unreasonable Empathy; Odds … I say ecosystem, but it's the corporate route - whether it's with an ad agency or with a Google or Apple or whatever incumbent, it's building …
- To Serve; Odds … have entered everyday language as "a computer program that does a thing." An Apple TV software update that requires yet more Cable Company authentication, and no open standard …
- Transparency Through Bot; Mundane Fictional Spytech; The Horizontal Arcology … Whether it's product placement or something else - more likely the former than the latter - there's a lot of Apple kit in the movie, and it's …
- A Continued Error; Nadella; Hypermedia … For every Apple coming out with a (more or less) considered product "when it's ready" - for certain values of ready that include a nigh-unusable shift key …
- A Real Hunger; Will The Real Blue Ant; A Category Error … But I wouldn't call queueing up around the block for the opening of an Apple store a connection on a meaningful level . Well, I might. And I …
- Mundane Blue Ant; Press Square To Hack … bespoke collaboration app built by a world-famous iOS developer recruited away from Apple"), an address book full of email addresses that people actually answer, public and private …
- The Material (4); More Ways Of Seeing … It feels like part of where this is illustrated is in an emerging philosophical difference between the way certain Google and Apple services have been designed. Google's …
- The Material (3); Odds … The fact that Apple's M7 has been incorporated into the iPhone 5S is a red herring from my point of view. They thought they wouldn't be …
- Manifest Destiny; A Little Bit Desensitized; The Material (2) … This is part of the annoying thing about Apple and by extension, the annoying thing about Steve Jobs. I wrote back in episode five that that iPod Shuffle …
- The Material (1) … There's this visual programming dream that we keep seeing in things like Scratch and the interfaces to Apple's Automator[2] and, in a grosser way, the …
- Calm Down. Breathe; Making Visible; Wearables … We're talking about how I think they're terrible right now, a downright failure, how I'm not confident that Apple will have an iPod moment, and …
- Clarity; The Customer … For Apple, they append it to the end of every press release (and it's interesting to note how they describe themselves has changed over time): "Apple designs …
- What You Want; Messiahs; The List … The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products by Leander Kahney Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses …
- The New Jobs; Disrupting Bitcoin; Protect Us; The Full Stack Is Better?; Dumb Screens … One thing that's struck me about screens - and it looks like the idea might be coming back with Apple's iOS 8 and Yosemite through something they …
- Recurring; Better, But Not Best … I pay for extra iCloud storage because I'm really annoyed at Apple that something that *should* be free for their devices (and arguably would increase lock-in …
- Dangerous; Not Trying Is A Signal (2); What's Mine; Laundry … YouTube didn't stream In The Night Garden to the Apple TV because I don't know, spinning wheel of buffering. But hey, none of that really matters …
- Taking Stock; And The New … Again, this should be a differentiating moment for Apple and Google: I would expect (but given the recent WWDC, am prepared to be proven wrong) that Apple are …
- Health; Smart Cars; Odds … On the one hand I've seen claims that if Apple saves even one life thanks to an emergency health record that's carried inside the Health app …
- Email Is Still A Killer App; Dubya Dubya Dee Cee … 2.0 Dubya Dubya Dee Cee Apple kicked off their WorldWide Developer's Conference today, in case you hadn't noticed. I've got two short reckons here …
- Yet More Smarts; The Continued Tyranny; A Different Kind Of Overload … If anything, I hope Apple figures out what the "missed" part of Notification Centre means, because it's pretty much a joke. Anway. The corollary of attention being …
- Smarts; The Real Internet … 1.0 Smarts I woke up this morning to the news - or rumour, rather - that Apple was preparing an entrance into the internet of things, namely that there …
- Robots; Smart Things; College; Wintermute … in military-esque robots) in the same way that the Apple TV is a hobby to Apple? This might just be me with my consumer marketing hat on …
- Board-Level Algorithms; You Speak GIF, Right?; Intent; Odds … Morgan contends that no other company makes intentional design decisions like Apple, and it should be clear that Apple only occasionally holds itself up to that particular high …
- The Internet of Safety; Invisible Technology; Like A Dog Whistle; Odds … Sure, the creativity in Apple's origins in terms of the Mac and Apple ][ would still be in the top two parts of Maslow's pyramid of self …
- But It Keeps Going … Right now, I don't really care about what Apple's plans are for Beats music. Or that they might be wasting about three billion dollars. Or how …
- The Book and The Library; More Responsive OS … https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/mr.-penumbras-24-hour-bookstore/id513340579?mt=11&uo=4&at=11ly9m (hey, iTunes, your affiliate program sucks because it doesn't …
- The iPad; The Difficulty; Tools; Silly … I genuinely wonder that the single-screen application mode is a sort of Apple-esque enforcement-on-high that is *not* equivalent to the single-button mouse decision …
- The Difficulty; Listless Interestingness … For Pixar, Apple and Wieden+Kennedy, they're all founded by idealistic yet capitalistic hippies. They share, roughly, the same notion that money is important, because it's …
- Apple and Nike; Critiquing Everyone Deserves Great Design; Odds … With all due respect, I don't think he understands what Apple does and what Apple stands for. Apple exists in the world, and it's not necessarily …
- On Design; New Aesthetic Zeitgeist Bingo; Odds … I'm going to be at fbf8 next week, so if you're a) at it, say hi, b) in the area, say hi. [1] https://itunes.apple …
- Disbanded; The Responsive OS … Nike and Apple have always been close, from the very first Nike+/iPod collaboration to the announcement of the iPhone 5S' M7 motion co-processor and demo of …
- Kill Hollywood, Still; Sandwiches; Apple and Samsung, Still; A Weak Signal … Fueled by recent disclosures thanks to the latest round of the Apple vs. Samsung spat the opportunity for journalists to write more Beleaguered[2] Apple articles is hitting …
- Critical Infrastructural Vulnerability; Cultural Adaptation; The Bitcoin Moment; Carousel … On the one hand, there's the worshipping of Apple and their products and their design, and I guess some conversation about their advertising and the strategy behind …
- a16z Strikes Again; Xbawks; Inside Baseball; The Continuity Field … who's the person at Apple who has the taste reins for their advertising? [1] http://kensegall.com/2014/04/apples-little-advertising-crisis/ 4.0 The Continuity …
- Kill Hollywood; Not That Worried; Healthbook; Webring! … So will Apple have to pre-announce a pseudo EHR at WWDC in advance of FDA approval? Maybe. The mocks that we've seen on sites like MacRumors …
- Disintermediation & Externalisation; Housing; Odds … This is perhaps the difference with a retailer like Apple where I believe their store employees are taught to listen to user needs (there's that phrase again …
- Internet of Poor People; Re-introductions; Odds … I need answers to are things like "where is the Apple Remote?" and "when is the replacement Apple Remote we ordered through Amazon Prime arriving?" or "what place …
- Cities; Snow Crashing 5; More Television … Not that I've got something going for Apple, but at least they had the taste to name their assistant Siri, at least something androgynous sounding. And that …
- Living In An Immaterial World; Snow Crashing 4; Odds … how rich an ecosystem can one build with an integrated software/hardware stack? If we look elsewhere than Twitter, another answer is Apple, with its hardware/software iOS …
- Not Yet A Phyle; Ready Player One; Fantasy Acquisitions … Is Apple going to *invent* more computing devices, or is Apple going to *add* computing to more things. I reckon the answer's the latter - in which case …
- Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face … of the most stupendously fucked up things ever that if you thought even Apple could get it right, you'd be so deadly wrong. I mean, you're …
- Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift … A featureless aluminium wedge maybe, one softly glowing with a stylised Apple with a chunk bitten out of it, and just about doing without a power cord. But …
- Wearable Reckons; Mirror Neurons; More Google … Google just released/announced an Android SDK[1] for them, and apparently if Apple doesn't release an iWatch in the next 60 days, the end will be …
- When You're Part Of A Team; The Dabbler … behaviour is very easy to mistake for cult-like behaviour from the outside. Apple frequently gets described as a cult - not only are its employees members of the …
- IP and the Federation; A Thousand Digital Hubs In Your Pocket; Your Server Recommends … I mean: "Apple reignited the computing revolution with the Skaffen-Amtiskaw series of combat drones," doesn't really have the same ring of believability to it than "Apple …
- Challenge / Response (3) … On this work trip, and every work trip since his birth, I have become a parody of the Apple Facetime advert, I can't get enough of seeing …
- The Machine; Route Around Failure; The Most Expensive Selfie … all. "So what," you say, isn't this the kind of thing that Apple has been doing for ages? And isn't this exactly what happened when Will …
- Numbers; Performance and Practice; The Kessler Run In Over 12 Billion … In comparison, Apple's iTunes App Store has distributed around fifteen billion dollars to date. All of this serves to show how digital distribution has created new ways …
- Shorts; Code as Law; The Real Revolution; The Flip … The smartest thing a company like Apple ever did was to decide to make things for 'the rest of us' and for Jobs to be such an outsider …
- An Alternative; Washing; Users … The thing about the GDS, and tying this all together with the recent zeitgeist and fetishisation for all things Apple and Jobs and design with a capital D …
- Structure; Humble, Direct and Curiously Cautious; The Scale Of Things, Risks … lives rely on software that can barely lay claim to the term 'engineering'. Apple's iOS and OS X SSL bug brought these two lists to the fore …
- The Difficulty … problem of natural language processing as it does will (how many writers does Apple employ for Siri, anyway?) Indeed Siri's personality has come under fire for having …
- The Job To Be Done, The Ethics, The Good and The Practice … The Job To Be Done Benedict Evans posted the other day[1] that the number of Apple Computers-With-An-Asterisk (ie iOS and OS X devices that …
- The Inevitable Apple TV Episode and Algorithmically Induced Sadness … The Inevitable Apple TV Episode So, a couple of things that actually prompt a reckon about Apple and televisions, as opposed to the usual breathless wanking over them …
- The Auto Show, Learning to Code and Niggling Thoughts … Two Niggling Thoughts 3.1 What's the video-on-demand equivalent of Google getting better at design faster than Apple's getting better at software? The perception …
- The Cult of Making, Shooting Fish In Jean Michel Jarre's Barrel … And imagining Steve Jobs' reaction to the proposition that Apple's innovation in the iPhone is "$100" is amusing in my head. But perhaps Mr. Jarre should let …
- Rate All The Things … Nests and Nest-type things don't fit in Apple's iOS/OS X/iTunes ecosystem (at least, not yet), because: where would Apple stop? Revolutionising the world …
- Dreaming Invisible Dreams … So again, this is the thing that I'd say about anyone watching Apple and expecting an iWatch: they said they were interested in wearables. From my point …
- Happy Birthday and Connections … Happy Birthday, Macintosh In case you missed it, Friday 24th January was the 30th Anniversary[1] of the Apple Mac. Apple celebrated with more of a new direction …