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- Daring Fireball: I’ll Wait
I've had a number of folks ask me what I think about Facebook's new Muse product. I have seen some videos and read some write-ups, but I won't be installing it. I don't use any…
- Daring Fireball: Trackables 1.5
- Daring Fireball: The iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro
- Daring Fireball: Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s First Immersive MLB Broadcast, a Yankees 1-0 Win Over the Red Sox
Not a lot of talk about VR/AR lately but I think these experiments are the right continued path. Immersive sporting experiences feels like it would be a huge opportunity. Biggest…
- Daring Fireball: Tim Cook's Departure Memo on His Last Day as CEO
- ★ Om
- Sweet Jeebus, MacOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons From Menu Items
- Daring Fireball: Another Day Has Come
John Gruber commenting on the CEO transition at Apple. Gruber is my go to for deep Apple insights.
- Daring Fireball: Trump on Tim Apple
Nothing much to add. 😬
- Daring Fireball: 'Community Letter From Tim'
I'll miss Tim Cook being at the helm of Apple. I've got a ton of respect for what he has built and how he has led Apple (with a couple of recent exceptions).
- Daring Fireball: HazeOver — Mac Utility for Highlighting the Frontmost Window
Gruber reviews HazeOver (, App Store/Setapp) — a Mac utility that dims background windows to highlight the active one. Elegant solution to macOS's terrible window focus UI.…
- Daring Fireball: IMAX and Apple Collaborate to Screen F1 Races Live in Theaters
Gruber links the news that Apple TV (which now holds US F1 rights) is partnering with IMAX to screen select 2026 F1 races live in theaters. Gruber's commentary is typically…
- Daring Fireball: Let’s Call a Murder a Murder
George Orwell, in 1984: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
- Daring Fireball: Quinn Nelson on Apple's Executive Shuffling
- Daring Fireball: Apple TV’s New Fanfare
I like this.
- Daring Fireball: Signal Secure Backups Are Now Available on iOS
I love that Signal finally turned this feature on and it was an instant buy for me in part because I do use Signal but also as another way to support a very important piece of…
- Daring Fireball: Tesla Is Working on CarPlay Support
I've been asked many times by people "Does your CarPlay work in your Tesla?" and I chuckle and say "No, and it never will." To allow CarPlay in a Tesla would break so much of the…
- Daring Fireball: Gurman Reports That Apple Is Preparing to Sell Ads in Maps Starting in 2026
I think Apple should stop anything and everything they do with advertising. They aren't any good at it and it is completely damaging to their brand. Just stop. ✋
- Daring Fireball: Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person Ever'
- Daring Fireball: Gurman: Apple Is Going to Re-Version OSes by Year, Starting With iOS 26, MacOS 26, tvOS 26, Etc.
Don't love it but I guess the trend is strong. Maybe I need to embrace that this is still some form of Semantic Versioning using the calendar? 😬
- Daring Fireball: The WSJ Reports on How Elon Musk Manages His 'Legion' of Children and Harem of Mothers
So strange. Reporting by the Wall Street Journal.
- Daring Fireball: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
I've read Gruber for a long time and he is an Apple fan, but that also means when he tears into them it cuts deep. This writeup on the Apple Intelligence blunders in what they…
- Daring Fireball: The iPhone 16e
Gruber is always my go to reviewer to read up on new iPhone models. I think his conclusion is right on this: The iPhone 16e is an iPhone for people who don’t want to think much…
- Daring Fireball: Apple Pulls Advanced Data Protection From the UK, in Defiance of UK Demand for Global Backdoor
Apple responds as many suspected they might to the UK's demand to allow access to encrypted information by removing the capability for that country. Rather than comply, Apple is…
- Daring Fireball: Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 16e Announcement
We have a new letter to attach to iPhone models, e? Overall a good phone but even the lower cost phones are not low cost anymore.
- Daring Fireball: Golfo del Gringo Loco
Gulf of Thingelstad .
- Daring Fireball: Fox’s New Scorebug Graphic Design, and Our Innate Resistance to Change
I enjoy reading Gruber's rare design critiques like this. I noticed the "score bug" was different but I didn’t take it apart like this. Good read.
- Daring Fireball: BrikTok
It is bonkers to me that we lack the fortitude as a country to stand by our law in this case.
- Daring Fireball: 'TikTok Is Just the Beginning'
- Daring Fireball: After Years of Moderation-Heavy Zagging, Zuckerberg Announces That Meta Is Going Back to Moderation-Light Zigging Across Its Platforms
- Daring Fireball: Journalism Requires Owners Committed to the Cause
- Daring Fireball: Andy Grove Was Right
Gruber's take on Intel downfall is a good read and he invokes one of my very favorite quotes from former Intel CEO Andy Grove "Only the paranoid survive". He goes on to highlight…
- Daring Fireball: The End of the Line for Delicious Library
Sad to see Delicious Library go end-of-life. I haven't used the app for a while. It was my primary tool for tracking my DVD, Laser Disc, and CD collection back in the day. I…
- Daring Fireball: Vision Pro Bites Dog
There is a defensiveness to Gruber's tone in this article about Vision Pro sales volumes, but he is also right. As a Vision Pro owner I don't regret the purchase as I wanted to…
- Daring Fireball: Chinese Government Hackers Compromise 'Back Door for the Good Guys' in U.S. Communication Networks
Great summery from Gruber highlighting why "back doors" around encryption or security measures are a terrible idea. There is no way to limit their use to only the intended…
- Daring Fireball: X Blocks Links to Stolen J.D. Vance Dossier
Yep. And Michael Tsai goes deeper . 🙄
- Daring Fireball: The iPhones 16
Gruber is my go to for reading about new Apple hardware, particularly new iPhones. He goes on a long time in this review about removing buttons and how big of a deal it is that a…
- Daring Fireball: What to Do With Unwanted Political Spam Texts
I share Gruber's disdain for all of these automated text messages. I’m happy to report though that for years I've been doing the simple "STOP" reply to these and in my experience…
- Daring Fireball: ‘The Insane Engineering of the Gameboy’
- Daring Fireball: Google Is Shutting Down Its URL Shortener, Breaking All Links
- Daring Fireball: AT&T Only Learned of Massive 2022 Data Breach This April; Delayed Revealing It at the Request of U.S. Law Enforcement
- Daring Fireball: Massive Data Breach at AT&T Exposed Six Months of Call and SMS Records of Nearly All Customers
- Daring Fireball: WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence
- Daring Fireball: The M4 iPad Pros
I am sort of in the market for a new iPad so I read this review with a little more anticipation. I always prefer Gruber's write-ups on new Apple hardware. He's got decades of…
- Daring Fireball: Boring News: Vision Pro Sales Are Going Just About as Expected
There is constant YouTuber speculation on the fate of the Vision Pro. This is a new platform that will take years to develop. Similar to the first Apple Watches that were…
- Daring Fireball: Apple Sports
Interesting commentary on the approach Apple took with the new Sports app and similarities to Journal. It makes sense that there is now a default Sports app for iOS, similar to…
- Daring Fireball: The Vision Pro
I always go to Gruber for reviews of new Apple hardware, particularly iPhones. His review of the Apple Vision Pro is detailed and hits on all the key components. I agree with his…
- Daring Fireball: CNBC Gets an Inside Look at an Apple Chip Lab
Video has a good overview of Apple's shift to making their own chips — where it started, and how it has evolved. This was a brilliant strategy shift that wasn't really noted at…
- Daring Fireball: Vision Pro, Spatial Video, and Panoramic Photos
Gruber with his usual detail on experiencing Spatial Video taken with an iPhone 15 and viewed on a Vision Pro. First, it seems obvious when I read this but I didn’t realize the…
- Daring Fireball: Apple and AI
It has been odd that the most valuable tech company in the world really hasn't picked up on the Generative AI tidal wave. Also, Apple is not seen as a leader in this area. The…
- Daring Fireball: The iPhones 15 Pro (and iPhones 15)
Gruber is my go to reviewer for new Apple hardware so of course I was curious to see what he had to say about the new iPhone 15 Pro. Titanium, Cameras, Action Button, USB-C. A…
- Daring Fireball: Thoughts and Observations on This Week’s ‘Wonderlust’ Apple Event
Detailed overview and recap of last weeks Apple event from Gruber covering all the major sections and announcements.
- Daring Fireball: First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS
When it comes to new Apple products my go to reviewer is John Gruber of Daring Fireball. Gruber knows the Apple world better than anyone else. He is also demanding of details, and…
- Daring Fireball: You Can Register Domain Names in iOS's iCloud Settings
Making it easier for people to buy domain names in the places they would use them is a good thing.
- Daring Fireball: Browser and OS Market Share Trends in the Mobile Age
The graphs tell amazing stories of how much computing has changed.
- Daring Fireball: Wavelength
This is about the closest thing I've ever seen to Gruber writing an advertisement for a service, but it isn't. I’m not sure I have a need to explore a chat app, but he highlighted…
- Daring Fireball: It’s Game Over on Vocal Deepfakes
Gruber on the rapid development and improvement of fake voice technology. The examples in this Twitter thread are incredible. The audio is spot on for Steve Jobs. There is even…
- Daring Fireball: Phony Stark Picks on the Wrong Guy, Attempting (and of Course Botching) an HR Exit Interview Live on Twitter
🤦♂️
- I Wish I Could Tell You This One Is Not All About Twitter
- Daring Fireball: Apple Watch Ultra
When it comes to Apple hardware Gruber is my go to person. HIs review of the Apple Watch Ultra is solid, and given that I have a pretty big wrist I’m intrigued to try one out.…
- Daring Fireball: The iPhones 14 Pro (and iPhones 14)
Gruber going into great detail on the new iPhone 14. I love how much attention he pays to the details. I’m not due for an upgrade yet, but I like everything I see here. I have to…
- The Information: ‘Inside Tim Cook’s Secret $275 Billion Deal with Chinese Authorities’
Pointing to Gruber's writeup and not to the entire article as it is quite long. It seems increasingly obvious that the deep connections Apple has in China are an engine of it’s…
- Daring Fireball: The 2021 14-Inch MacBook Pro
I have a feeling that these new MacBook Pro's will go down as epic machines that are local maximal in the long arc of Macintosh computers. The Macintosh platform is 37 years old.…
- Daring Fireball: Apple Watch Series 7
I have a Series 6, but if I had something further back I would be very tempted to upgrade. The knock on Series 7 is that there’s nothing new but a bigger display. But it’s a much…
- Daring Fireball: The iPhones 13
When it comes to reviews of new iPhones I typically rely on John Gruber's take.
- Initial Details on Using Driver’s Licenses and State ID’s in Apple Wallet — Daring Fireball
I've been wondering when more secure forms of identification will be integrated into digital wallets. I wish Minnesota was one of the early adopters. The implementation is…
- Daring Fireball: The 2021 M1 iPad Pros
I always read Gruber's reviews of new Apple hardware. I think he's right about the hardware aspects of the new M1-based iPad Pros. Now more than ever it feels like we may need to…
- Daring Fireball: The 24-Inch M1 iMac
These new M1 iMac's set my heart aflutter the instant I saw them. I even went online and figured out trade-in pricing to get a couple. My brain overruled though as I want to wait…
- Daring Fireball: 'That's What Makes Bill Very, Very Dangerous'
I love this story about Bill Gates and how he would think hard on a topic. Not many people are that focused and thorough. Makes me think about the book I’m reading right now,…
- Daring Fireball: Apple Mail and Hidden Tracking Images
Apple deserves some criticism here and I hope they take the same privacy focus they have brought to Safari and extend it to Mail. I love the my Pi-hole protects me no matter what…
- Daring Fireball: M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness
Gruber with a wide ranging view of the new M1 Macs and how they perform. The efficiency of these chips are pretty mind blowing.
- Daring Fireball: Facebook Still Ruled by Sociopaths, News at 11
I chose to point to the Gruber writeup on this article instead of directly to The NY Times piece. Gruber nails it. Facebook shouldn’t need to inject emergency doses of truth and…
- Daring Fireball: The M1 Macs
If you read just one article about the new M1 Apple Silicon Macs this is the one to read. Gruber has a long history in the Apple world, and focuses on the things that matter. I…
- Daring Fireball: One More Thing: The M1 Macs
We are now officially on the path to the new Apple Silicon and off of Intel chips. It is interesting how much of this is about computing power per watt. These are, by all accounts…
- Daring Fireball: The iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max
I tend to prefer Gruber's iPhone reviews. If you are curious to know more about the new Mini and Max, here you go.
- Daring Fireball: The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
Gruber's reviews of new iPhones are must reads. I wasn't at all expecting Magsafe on the iPhone 12, and it look pretty cool. 5G is less exciting. The new camera is again one of…
- Daring Fireball: Facebook and the Group That Planned to Kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
Gruber essentially suggesting that Facebook is a sort of honeypot to highlight this a activity in society and allow it to be reckoned with. I highly doubt that will be the case.
- Daring Fireball: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri
I seriously cannot add anything to Gruber's commentary on this positioning from Facebook and Instagram with Apple. Let's be clear, nobody deserves pity here. It is in Apple's…
- Daring Fireball: Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy
This ad, and Gruber's writeup, reflect in part why I so actively defend myself against all these trackers. Just because there is now a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the…
- No Mask, No Dice
Gruber pulling from Talking Points Memo . I'll be wearing a mask when indoors for sure. Not wearing a mask seems at best statistically silly, or some form of political or culture…
- Daring Fireball: The 2020 iPad Pros
The new iteration of iPad Pros look incredible, as usual. This is the new computer. Oh, and it has lidar? How cool is that!
- Daring Fireball: Super Wednesday
In a regular world this would be huge news, but given the pandemic this is a simple press release. The new MacBook Airs look really great. I do most of my work on one and I love…
- Daring Fireball: The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
Gruber doesn't pull punches when he thinks Apple has it wrong, but I felt this write-up was overly focused on the admittedly poor multitasking interface in iPadOS. The iPad at 10…
- ★ L’Affaire Vaperware —Daring Fireball
App Store bans are super complicated and cause frustration all over the place. The easy answer here is to suggest nothing should be blocked, allowing anything to be published.…
- Daring Fireball: AirPods Pro First Impressions
I would agree with most everything in Gruber's writeup on the new AirPods Pro. I would highlight the comfort in the ear. These AirPods Pro fit in the ear very differently than any…
- Daring Fireball: Richard Stallman’s Disgrace
More on Stallman's interactions and behavior.
- Daring Fireball: Apple Watch Series 5
That always on display is a big deal. To me, the always-on display is the Apple Watch’s retina display moment — once you see it, you can’t go back. 👍
- Daring Fireball: The iPhone 11 and iPhones 11 Pro
Tons of details and very good review of the new iPhone 11 and 11 Pro. It’s amazing how much modern smart phones are focusing on the camera system.
- Daring Fireball: Superhuman and Email Privacy
I’m not a fan of read receipts. I disable them in the Weekly Thing, and I really wish that email software did a better job of protecting users from this form of surveillance.
- ★ Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple — Daring Fireball
Wow! 💥 John Gruber is probably the best person in the world to write about this news release and what it means. While I think Ive has been pretty disconnected for a while now, I…
- Daring Fireball: Disney+ Details: $7/Month, No Commercials, Tons of Old and New Content
This offering has some definite potential. Disney has an amazing catalog of content, and I have a high degree of confidence they will execute this well.
- Daring Fireball: The 2018 iPad Pros
These 2018 iPad Pros look utterly amazing. I can’t wait to get mine.
- Daring Fireball: Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’
This Bloomberg report on rogue chips from Supermicro infiltrating Amazon and Apple is pretty amazing. Gruber’s take on it is a good summary. I see no way around it: either…
- Daring Fireball: Apple Watch Series 4
Gruber gives a compelling review of the new Series 4 watch. It looks very well done, and while the size changes are in the millimeters I can see how the Series 4 will be very…
- Daring Fireball: The iPhones XS
Gruber with a very focused review of the iPhone XS and the massive changes in the camera. This goes into some great detail, and I can’t wait to see my own results with the new XS.…
- Daring Fireball: Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s iPhone XS/XR and Series 4 Apple Watch Introductory Event
John Gruber's take on Apple's fall announcement of the new iPhones and Apple Watch.
- Daring Fireball: 10 Strikes and You’re Out — the iOS Feature You’re Probably Not Using But Should
I've always been scared of this feature for exactly the reason Gruber highlights -- kids putting the wrong code in. Now that I understand the delays I've enabled it on my phone.
- Daring Fireball: Apple Hires Google’s A.I. Chief, John Giannandrea
This seems like a huge talent move by Apple.
- Daring Fireball: Are There Any Tetris Games for Mac?
I’m with Gruber on this. Quinn was a fabulous, simple and very elegant Tetris game for the Mac. There is currently no Tetris for the Mac. How is that better for Tetris?
- Daring Fireball: Apple Previews iOS 11.3
Some pretty big features coming in iOS 11.3. When I first saw Apple Pay Cash shown my head went right away to that being a great way to buy items from small merchants. The…
- Daring Fireball: The iPhone X
Gruber's writeup on the platform transition that the iPhone X represents is interesting. When Apple introduced the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X I told a number of folks this is the…
- Daring Fireball: Facebook 'Messenger Kids'
Gruber's take on this is so spot on: This is like Philip Morris introducing officially licensed candy cigarettes. You’re nuts if you sign your kids up for this.
- ★ Apple Watch Series 3 —Daring Fireball
With the addition of cellular networking in Series 3, Apple Watch gains something essential: independence. It’s not just a cool feature. It’s aimed smack dab in the middle of the…
- ★ The iPhones 8 —Daring Fireball
These are solid year-over-year updates — at least as impressive as the iPhone 7 was over the iPhone 6S. If they hadn’t debuted alongside the iPhone X we’d be arguing about whether…
- Thoughts and Observations on the Products Announced at This Week’s iPhone X Introductory Event —Daring Fireball
At one time John Siracusa was known for his meticulous reviews of Mac OS X . Now Frederico Viticci is known for his similar reviews of iOS . In my opinion, nobody writes about an…
- Daring Fireball: Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS
I have been known to interrupt people while using their phones and explain to them that they do not need to force quit applications. This will be my new URL to send people to…
- ★ Perfect Ten —Daring Fireball
Gruber writeup going back and reflecting on the iPhone 10 years after it’s launch. I think he's right that the iPhone is the most impactful device that the technology industry has…
- ★ The 2017 iPad Pros —Daring Fireball
The new iPad Pro's sound amazing. I love what Apple is working on in display technology. They are pushing this to a place where we won't think about it as a display because there…
- Daring Fireball: Fuck Facebook
You might think it’s hyperbole for Winer to say that Facebook is trying to kill the open web. But they are. I complain about Google AMP, but AMP is just a dangerous step toward a…
- ★ Halide —Daring Fireball
- Daring Fireball: ‘So-Called’
There is only one White House. It is in Washington D.C., and it is owned by the U.S. federal government. It is sometimes and rightly called “The People’s House”, because we the…
- Is Donald Trump Actually Trying to Win?
Nate Silver,
- The Talk Show ✪: Live From WWDC 2016, With Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi
- The Website Obesity Crisis
Great commentary on this talk.
- The iPad Pro
First impressions last a lifetime, goes the adage. You
- ★ The iPhones 6S
The pattern is pretty clear. In even-numbered years (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014) Apple releases all-new iPhone form factors: 3G, 4, 5, 6/6 Plus. In the subsequent years, they release…
- WatchOS 2.0 Delayed, Will Not Ship Today
- ★ Safari Content Blocker, Before and After
It’s not just the download size, long initial page load time, and the ads that cover valuable screen real estate as fixed elements. The fact that these JavaScript trackers hit the…
- Daring Fireball: Watch, Apple Watch
Half the fun of the gadgets like Roger Moore’s Bond’s watches was imagining that we — regular folks in the real world — would have them in the future, alongside jetpacks and…
- Daring Fireball: Merry
- Google’s App Aesthetic
- Daring Fireball: Opting Out of Dropbox's Arbitration Clause
- ★ Amazon’s New Kindles
- Simple Inbox Archiving Script for Apple Mail
- ★ News Corp’s Upcoming iPad App ‘The Daily’ to Pioneer New Recurring Subscription Billing
- ★ A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
A common programming problem: identify the URLs in an arbitrary string of text, where by “arbitrary” let’s agree we mean something unstructured such as an email message or a…
- Speaking of Regrets
Unix co-creator Ken Thompson, asked what he’d do differently if had it do all over again, replied that he’d include the trailing “e” in the creat() system call.
- URL Shortener tr.im to Discontinue Service
They plan to keep redirecting existing tr.im URLs through the end of the year, but after that, they’re all dead. And people ask me why I wrote my own URL shortener for DF’s…
- ★ Ninjawords: iPhone Dictionary, Censored by Apple
Two years ago I linked to a web site called Ninjawords — a fast, simple online dictionary backed by a good data source (Wiktionary).
- ★ Putting What Little We Actually Know About Chrome OS Into Context
It has seemed obvious for some time that Google would someday release a PC OS. I became convinced after they released Android: if they’re creating and giving away a free OS for…
- ★ WWDC 2009 Wrap-Up
Across the street from Moscone West on the first day of WWDC, there remained banners from Sun’s JavaOne conference the week prior — a touching reminder that times and fortunes…