Articles Published in 2024

December 2024

OpenAI’s Board, Paraphrased: ‘To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of Money’     29 Dec 2024

Journalism Requires Owners Committed to the Cause     20 Dec 2024

On the Accountability of Unnamed Public Relations Spokespeople     14 Dec 2024

Federico Viticci on Apple Intelligence, With ChatGPT, as a Breakthrough Automation Tool     13 Dec 2024

The Information Suggests, in an Aside, That Apple Scrapped Work on a Quad-Max/Double-Ultra M-Series Chip     11 Dec 2024

Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Generative AI Bullshit Bathwater      6 Dec 2024

Andy Grove Was Right      3 Dec 2024

November 2024

Apple Tends to Do Right by Apps It Acquires     24 Nov 2024

Regarding — and, Well, Against — Substack     20 Nov 2024

Dr. Oz     19 Nov 2024

Disambiguating iPhone Model Names That Have the ‘S’ Suffix     12 Nov 2024

How It Went      8 Nov 2024

It Doesn’t End      8 Nov 2024

I Wonder      7 Nov 2024

Kottke on the Art and Power of Hypertextual Writing      5 Nov 2024

October 2024

In Defense, I Swear, of the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port Placement     28 Oct 2024

Profiles in Cowardice: Owner Jeff Bezos and Publisher William Lewis of The Washington Post     26 Oct 2024

Vision Pro Bites Dog     25 Oct 2024

The Sordid Tale of Rudy Giuliani’s Yankees World Series Rings     22 Oct 2024

Consider the Plight of the VC-Backed Privacy Burglars     10 Oct 2024

September 2024

A Few Brief Thoughts on Meta Connect 2024     25 Sep 2024

Panels, a New Wallpaper App From Marques Brownlee     25 Sep 2024

The iPhones 16     18 Sep 2024

The Things They Carried     16 Sep 2024

The iOS Continental Drift Fun Gap      8 Sep 2024

The iOS Continental Drift Widens      6 Sep 2024

August 2024

The Mac Is a Power Tool     10 Aug 2024

Apple’s Profits From Services Are on the Cusp of Surpassing Its Profits From Device Sales      5 Aug 2024

July 2024

Apple Strikes Deal With Taboola to Sell Ads for Apple News     19 Jul 2024

The AT&T Data Breach Shows Why RCS Can’t Be Trusted and the Downside of Apple Adding Support for It in iOS 18     17 Jul 2024

It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns     14 Jul 2024

June 2024

Apple Disables WebKit’s JIT in Lockdown Mode, Offering a Hint Why BrowserEngineKit Is Complex and Restricted     24 Jun 2024

WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence     23 Jun 2024

Training Large Language Models on the Public Web     21 Jun 2024

By My Count Trump Is Batting .900 on the Ten Commandments     21 Jun 2024

The EU Is Reaping What It Sows With the DMA: Uncertainty     21 Jun 2024

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2024     14 Jun 2024

Gurman’s Epic Pre-WWDC Leak Report      7 Jun 2024

Now Qualcomm Went Long      4 Jun 2024

May 2024

Spotify’s Car Things to Be Rebranded as Car Bricks     24 May 2024

Follow-Up on Apple No Longer Including Stickers With New Products     15 May 2024

The M4 iPad Pros     14 May 2024

Brief Thoughts and Observations on Yesterday’s ‘Let Loose’ iPad Keynote      8 May 2024

April 2024

Base-Model RAM in Apple Devices     25 Apr 2024

Making a Mountain Out of Molehill-Sized M4 News     21 Apr 2024

Face the Critic: Ian Betteridge Edition     19 Apr 2024

European Data Protection Board Goes There, Rules Against Meta’s ‘Pay or OK’ Model     17 Apr 2024

From the Department of Spending Tim Cook’s Money: Online Photo Storage Is Surely Expensive to Offer, but Apple Should Offer More      9 Apr 2024

March 2024

More on the EU’s Market Might     29 Mar 2024

The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue     26 Mar 2024

European Commission Opens DMA Non-Compliance Investigations Against Google, Apple, and Meta     25 Mar 2024

My 2023 Apple Report Card     18 Mar 2024

Quickly Toggling Closed Captions on Apple TV (But Not in Netflix)     15 Mar 2024

Apple Adjusts DMA Plan to Offer Direct Downloading of Apps From the Web (With a Big Asterisk), Custom Link-Out Screens, and Marketplaces Solely for the Distribution of a Developer’s Own Apps     13 Mar 2024

Once More Unto the Apple / Epic / European-Commission Breach, Dear Friends, Once More     11 Mar 2024

Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball and The Talk Show, Early 2024 Edition      9 Mar 2024

Apple Reinstates Epic’s EU Developer Account      8 Mar 2024

Apple Terminated Epic’s EU Developer Account      6 Mar 2024

February 2024

Poll Results on Apple’s FineWoven iPhone Cases     28 Feb 2024

Apple Sports     21 Feb 2024

The European Commission Had Nothing to Do With Apple’s Reversal on Supporting RCS     16 Feb 2024

Phil Spencer Puts Apple’s Money Where His Mouth Is     15 Feb 2024

Simple Tricks and Nonsense      2 Feb 2024

January 2024

The Vision Pro     30 Jan 2024

Apple’s Plans for the DMA in the European Union     26 Jan 2024

‘Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand’     18 Jan 2024

Coming to Grips With Apple’s Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement to Its Commissions From Third-Party iOS Apps     17 Jan 2024

Margrethe Vestager Met With Tim Cook Yesterday, But I Doubt Anything Happened     13 Jan 2024

Al Gore, Mac Nerd and Internet Pioneer     12 Jan 2024

Heyja Vu: App Store Rejects 37signals’s New Hey Calendar App      8 Jan 2024