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.zonesixcolors.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. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...@gruber.foo
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.foodaringfireball.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
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.comsixcolors.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
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
@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…
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
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)
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
