Articles Published in 2025

October 2025

Complying With ‘Demand’ From Trump Administration, Apple Removes ICEBlock From App Store 3 Oct 2025

September 2025

Apple on the Digital Markets Act 26 Sep 2025

Personal Note 19 Sep 2025

August 2025

MacOS 26 Tahoe’s Dead-Canary Utility App Icons 25 Aug 2025

MSNBC, Spinning Out of NBCUniversal, Rebrands as ‘MS NOW’ With a Godawful Backronym and Even Worse Logo 20 Aug 2025

How to Use iPhone Mirroring With More Than One iPhone 19 Aug 2025

Joe Caroff, Designer of the James Bond 007 Logo, Dies at 103 18 Aug 2025

Apple Issues a Workaround for the Blood Oxygen Sensor Ban for U.S. Apple Watches 14 Aug 2025

Max Read’s ‘A Literary History of Fake Texts in Apple’s Marketing Materials’ 13 Aug 2025

OpenAI Brings Back Legacy ChatGPT 4o Model in Response to Outcry From Users Who Find GPT-5 Emotionally Unsatisfying 11 Aug 2025

Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon 8 Aug 2025

Substack Raised Another $100 Million, Which, I Bet, Is Already Being Flushed Down the Same Toilet as Their First $100 Million 3 Aug 2025

The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap 2 Aug 2025

July 2025

Tea, the Women’s Dating Gossip App Riddled With Security Vulnerabilities, Remains #3 on the US iPhone App Store 30 Jul 2025

ICEBlock, an iOS Exclusive 24 Jul 2025

Curse Not the King 18 Jul 2025

Save Yourself Some Dough on Apple Kit and Make Me Rich on Amazon Prime Day 9 Jul 2025

Jeff Williams, 62, Is Retiring as Apple’s COO 8 Jul 2025

Full-Screen Ad for ‘F1 The Movie’ in Apple’s TV App Linked Directly to the Web, and Nothing Bad Seemed to Happen 7 Jul 2025

June 2025

Apple Announces Sweeping but Complicated Policy Changes for Apps in the EU, Attempting to Comply With the Latest Dictums Regarding the DMA 28 Jun 2025

More on Apple’s Trust-Eroding ‘F1 The Movie’ Wallet Ad 27 Jun 2025

One Week Out, Some Brief Thoughts and Observations on WWDC 2025 19 Jun 2025

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2025 14 Jun 2025

Apple’s Spin on the Personalized Siri Apple Intelligence Reset 12 Jun 2025

Gurman Says New UI Is Named ‘Liquid Glass’ (and Makes a Terrible Analogy Regarding Apple’s Risk With Falling Behind on AI) 8 Jun 2025

Truth Social Is Just Trump’s Blog 6 Jun 2025

Apple Appeals EU’s March Ruling on ‘Interoperability’ Requirements Under the DMA 2 Jun 2025

May 2025

Idiocy or Jackassery, You Make the Call: Tripp Mickle on Whether Trump’s ‘Made in America’ iPhone Is a Fantasy 24 May 2025

More Insight and Not-Negativity 19 May 2025

15 Years Later: ‘Very Insightful and Not Negative’ 15 May 2025

That EU App Store Warning About External Purchases Is Not New, and Apple Proposed Improving It Nine Months Ago 15 May 2025

Single-Story a’s in Very Early Versions of Macintosh System 1 14 May 2025

April 2025

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers Rules, in Excoriating Decision, That Apple Violated Her 2021 Court Order Regarding App Store Anti-Steering Provisions 30 Apr 2025

Is Chrome Even a Sellable Asset? 28 Apr 2025

Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search 28 Apr 2025

WebKit Adds Support for ‘text-wrap: pretty’, Now Shipping in Safari Technology Preview 9 Apr 2025

How Many New iPhones Can Fit on a Freight Plane? 9 Apr 2025

Tired: Irresistable Force vs. Immovable Object — Wired: Unchanging Prices vs. Nonsensical Tariffs 4 Apr 2025

March 2025

France Fines Apple $162M for App Tracking Transparency, Taking the Side of Surveillance Advertisers Over Users 31 Mar 2025

‘The Studio’ Is Fantastic So Far 30 Mar 2025

The Website That Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss (You’re Reading It) 26 Mar 2025

It Might Be Time for Me to Collect Some Being Right Points for My 2023 Bluesky Prediction 25 Mar 2025

Keyboard Maestro Hack of the Week: Don’t Paste Images 21 Mar 2025

A Postscript on the Singular Nature of Mark Gurman’s Reporting 16 Mar 2025

Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino 12 Mar 2025

A New System-Wide UI Look for iOS — Let Alone MacOS, Too — Would Be a Huge Deal 11 Mar 2025

Apple Is Delaying the ‘More Personalized Siri’ Apple Intelligence Features 7 Mar 2025

ABC Shuts Down FiveThirtyEight, and Pulls the Plug on Its Website 6 Mar 2025

Why Can’t We Screenshot Frames From DRM-Protected Video on Apple Devices? 1 Mar 2025

February 2025

The iPhone 16e 26 Feb 2025

Apple Pulls Advanced Data Protection From the UK, in Defiance of UK Demand for Global Backdoor 21 Feb 2025

Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 16e Announcement 19 Feb 2025

Golfo del Gringo Loco 17 Feb 2025

Fox’s New Scorebug Graphic Design, and Our Innate Resistance to Change 10 Feb 2025

Nike’s ‘So Win’ Won the Super Bowl 10 Feb 2025

My 2024 Apple Report Card 7 Feb 2025

Bootable Mac Startup Drive Backups, and Another Ode to SuperDuper 6 Feb 2025

‘Hot Tub’, a Hardcore Porn App for iOS, Hits AltStore in the E.U. 4 Feb 2025

As if Anyone Needed Further Proof, Patrick Soon-Shiong’s Los Angeles Times Is Now a Propaganda Rag (and They’re Bad at HTML) 1 Feb 2025

January 2025

Pebble Founder Eric Migicovsky Is Bringing It Back 29 Jan 2025

My Spitball Theory on TikTok’s Current Semi-Reprieve in the U.S. 28 Jan 2025

Openvibe, a Multi-Social-Network App for Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads (Supposedly), and Nostr 28 Jan 2025

Thin Is In 25 Jan 2025

ICE Raids Are an Escalation of Our Long-Simmering De Facto Cold Civil War 24 Jan 2025

Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber 23 Jan 2025

Let’s Not Mince Words Regarding Trump’s Executive Order to Pause Enforcement of the TikTok Law and Provide Supposed Immunity to Companies That Are in Clear Violation of It 21 Jan 2025

BrikTok 19 Jan 2025

Nokia’s Next-Day Internal Competitive Analysis of the Original iPhone Largely Got It Right 18 Jan 2025

One Bit of Anecdata That the Web Is Languishing Vis-à-Vis Native Mobile Apps 13 Jan 2025

Nvidia, the New King of Keynotes 11 Jan 2025

After Years of Moderation-Heavy Zagging, Zuckerberg Announces That Meta Is Going Back to Moderation-Light Zigging Across Its Platforms 7 Jan 2025

Apple Claims It Will Soon ‘Further Clarify’ Which Notifications Are AI-Generated Summaries, Following Embarrassing BBC News Summarization Mistakes 6 Jan 2025