Articles Published in 2023

December 2023

Beep Beep     28 Dec 2023

App Store Rankings as a Proxy for Social Network Momentum     14 Dec 2023

iOS 17.3, Now in Beta, Includes New ‘Stolen Device Protection’ Feature     12 Dec 2023

Beeper Mini Is Back, But Without Phone Number Registration     11 Dec 2023

Beeper? I Hardly Knew Her.     10 Dec 2023

November 2023

More on Sam Altman’s Ouster From OpenAI     18 Nov 2023

Qualcomm’s Awkward Boasting Regarding Its Forthcoming X Elite Platform     18 Nov 2023

Vision Pro, Spatial Video, and Panoramic Photos     10 Nov 2023

The 2023 M3 MacBook Pros      6 Nov 2023

October 2023

The Best Leather Cases for iPhone 15 Pro     30 Oct 2023

Apple Again Hikes Prices for Its Media Services     25 Oct 2023

Apple to Broadcast ‘Scary Fast’ Event Next Monday Night     24 Oct 2023

Apple and AI     23 Oct 2023

There’s a New Apple Pencil With a USB-C Port, and My Thoughts Turn to the Complexity of the Overall iPad Lineup     18 Oct 2023

Google’s Pixel 8 Launch Event      5 Oct 2023

iPhone 15 OverheatGate Seems to Be a Nothingburger      1 Oct 2023

September 2023

Craptacular Is More Like It     21 Sep 2023

The iPhones 15 Pro (and iPhones 15)     19 Sep 2023

AirPods Pro 2, Now With USB-C Charging Case     18 Sep 2023

Thoughts and Observations on This Week’s ‘Wonderlust’ Apple Event     15 Sep 2023

Apple’s Two-Pronged Annual iPhone Strategy     11 Sep 2023

The China-Apple Cold War Heats Up     10 Sep 2023

August 2023

Idle Speculation on the Widely-Assumed Switch to USB-C Ports on the Upcoming iPhones 15     29 Aug 2023

‘Changes to U.K. Surveillance Regime May Violate International Law’     23 Aug 2023

Walt Disney’s Mid-Century Business Strategy Charts     17 Aug 2023

Disney and Apple, Sitting in a Tree     16 Aug 2023

Holy Hell, Trump Did Use Twitter Direct Messages, There Were ‘Many’ of Them, and the Special Counsel Now Has Them     15 Aug 2023

Was Trump Using Twitter Direct Messages? (Please Let the Answer Be Yes.)     10 Aug 2023

What’s the Deal With Sensor Tower?      5 Aug 2023

Oh to Be a Fly on the Wall During the Conversation Where Elon Musk Asks Tim Cook to Help X Corp Replace iOS as the Bedrock Everything Platform      3 Aug 2023

July 2023

Nobody Uses Threads Anymore, It’s Too Crowded     31 Jul 2023

Jackasses of the Week: TechRadar (Foldable Phones Edition)     29 Jul 2023

Translation From Hostage Code to English of X Corp CEO Linda Yaccarino’s Company-Wide Memo     26 Jul 2023

Aptos, Microsoft’s New Default Font for Office Documents     21 Jul 2023

Of Course Apple Has an LLM AI in the Works, and of Course the Bloomberg Report Revealing Its Code Name Mentions How the Story Moved the Company’s Stock Price     19 Jul 2023

Nerding Out With Maestral, LaunchControl, and Keyboard Maestro     19 Jul 2023

Now Apollo Faces the Cliff      7 Jul 2023

Threads      5 Jul 2023

June 2023

Ahead of Season 1 Finale, Apple Has Made the Entire First Episode of ‘Silo’ Free — on Twitter     28 Jun 2023

FTC Sues Amazon, Claiming ‘Deceptive’ Prime Sign-Up and Cancellation Process     26 Jun 2023

More on Preemptively Blocking Facebook’s Imminent ActivityPub Entry     20 Jun 2023

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2023     10 Jun 2023

First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS      7 Jun 2023

May 2023

On Apple Fitting a Headset Announcement Into the Always-Packed WWDC Keynote     19 May 2023

Do Wall Street Journal Reporters Read The Wall Street Journal?     18 May 2023

Let’s Check in on Supermicro, the Target of Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’     18 May 2023

Proposed Name for GM’s Upcoming In-House Software Platform (You Know, the One That Isn’t Going to Support CarPlay): Edsel     16 May 2023

Browser and OS Market Share Trends in the Mobile Age      2 May 2023

Follow-Up on ‘Adware for Apple Services in iOS’      1 May 2023

April 2023

If You Come at the King     21 Apr 2023

Adware for Apple Services in iOS     20 Apr 2023

Warner Bros. Discovery Is Really Going to Drop the ‘HBO’ Brand and Just Call Its Streaming Service ‘Max’     12 Apr 2023

GM, CarPlay, and iPhones     10 Apr 2023

A Bit of Follow-Up on Wavelength      4 Apr 2023

The Case of the iPhone Case Poll      3 Apr 2023

March 2023

Wavelength     27 Mar 2023

It’s Game Over on Vocal Deepfakes     21 Mar 2023

To Ship or Not to Ship, Headset Edition     13 Mar 2023

Phony Stark Picks on the Wrong Guy, Attempting (and of Course Botching) an HR Exit Interview Live on Twitter      7 Mar 2023

Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff      1 Mar 2023

February 2023

Warren Beatty and Warren Beatty as Dick Tracy Debate Warren’s Beatty’s ‘Dick Tracy’     26 Feb 2023

Bing, the Most Exciting Product in Tech     17 Feb 2023

My 2022 Apple Report Card     10 Feb 2023

Making Our Hearts Sing      1 Feb 2023

January 2023

Meanwhile, Over in Androidtown     31 Jan 2023

The Billions-Dollar VR/AR Headset Question     26 Jan 2023

Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball and The Talk Show, Early 2023 Edition     23 Jan 2023

HomePod Lives     23 Jan 2023

App Store Rejection of the Week: Ice Cubes, a Splendid New Mastodon Client     19 Jan 2023

If a Tree That Was Never Announced Falls in a Forest Does It Make a Sound?     18 Jan 2023

Knee-Jerk Reactions and Thoughts Regarding The Information’s Latest Report on Apple’s Upcoming Headset      3 Jan 2023