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2026-09-16 21:38:27 GMT

Woz Launches Merch Store
https://x.com/stevewoz/status/2100074363605397658

2026-05-02 01:06:31 GMT

More on Apple’s Logically Elegant Tariff Refund Puzzle Solution
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/01/tim-cooks-clever-solution-to-the-tariff-refund-puzzle

2026-05-01 21:00:36 GMT

Meta Solved Their Problem With Kenyan Contractors Seeing Footage of AI Glasses Wearers on the Toilet
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7yvgy0w6o

2026-05-01 20:30:47 GMT

Tim Cook’s Clever Solution to the Tariff Refund Puzzle
https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/04/apple-results-analysis-net-net-over-the-moon/

2026-05-01 02:58:44 GMT

The Talk Show: ‘Food and Beverage Director’
https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2026/04/30/ep-446

2026-05-01 00:41:20 GMT

Apple Q2 2026 Results
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/

2026-05-01 00:11:15 GMT

★ On the Future of Apple’s Vision Platform
It’s certainly possible that this Vision thing isn’t going to work out and Apple *will* throw in the towel on it. But that hasn’t happened, and if it does, it’s not going to come out of nowhere as a story on MacRumors for the people in VPG working on it.
https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/on_the_future_of_apples_vision_platform

2026-04-30 15:16:12 GMT

I’m Starting to Wonder What They’re Smoking Over There at MacRumors
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/29/apple-questioning-iphone-magsafe/

2026-04-30 14:25:27 GMT

New Banksy in London
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXwf7pis6KT/

2026-04-29 21:24:06 GMT

Oakland’s Airport Is Now Officially ‘Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport’
https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/28/oak-sfo-reach-naming-settlement/

2026-04-29 15:15:29 GMT

‘Elon Musk Appeared More Petty Than Prepared’
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/920191/elon-musk-sam-altman-trial-day-one?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6InBrV1FGdGtlcEEiLCJwIjoiL2FpLWFydGlmaWNpYWwtaW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlLzkyMDE5MS9lbG9uLW11c2stc2FtLWFsdG1hbi10cmlhbC1kYXktb25lIiwiZXhwIjoxNzc3OTA1NDgxLCJpYXQiOjE3Nzc0NzM0ODF9.FkMZ8-YRv8q3d7n6p8q_scJaERWtNumD9pK7kONpTE4

2026-04-29 15:03:21 GMT

‘Sordid and Small’
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/04/openai-trial-elon-musk-sam-altman/686984/?gift=iWa_iB9lkw4UuiWbIbrWGYJmg9p-llxzEAgykQekDFA

2026-04-29 14:35:42 GMT

OpenAI Trial Starts With Two Very Different Tales of a Company’s Early Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/technology/openai-trial-elon-musk-sam-altman.html?unlocked_article_code=1.elA.u75G.-STmUe_pILOO

2026-04-28 00:48:30 GMT

Rec League
https://recleague.com/?lyr_campaign=df

2026-04-27 23:42:25 GMT

Sponsor The Talk Show
https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/

2026-04-27 18:46:32 GMT

Yours Truly on The Vergecast
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917965/apple-ceo-cook-ternus-transition

2026-04-26 19:30:00 GMT

DF Paraphernalia: Last Call for This Round of T-Shirts and Hoodies
https://store.daringfireball.net/

2026-04-26 19:28:59 GMT

★ The New York Times Printed the Wrong Crossword Grid Last Sunday, and I Find That Timing Serendipitous
Software brain says *Go faster; do more; the only mistake you can’t fix is having gone too slow.* Hardware brain says *Slow down; do less; focus; strive for perfection and never settle for less than excellence; mistakes are forever.*
https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/nyt_wrong_crossword_grid

2026-04-26 17:58:25 GMT

DF Paraphernalia: Last Call for This Round of T-Shirts and Hoodies
https://store.daringfireball.net/

2026-04-26 17:39:40 GMT

Report Claims Samsung Might Post Its First-Ever Mobile Division Loss This Year, Blaming RAM Crisis
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/22/samsung-is-increasingly-worried-about-first-ever-mobile-division-loss-in-ram-crisis-report/

2026-04-25 00:56:12 GMT

★ Time to Serve Some Delicious Claim Chowder Regarding the Cook-Ternus CEO Transition
Every single word of the November 2025 Financial Times report, which Mark Gurman derided as “simply false”, was, in fact, exactly correct.
https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/delicious_claim_chowder_regarding_the_cook-ternus_ceo_transition

2026-04-24 16:09:50 GMT

★ Norwegian Boating Licenses and Generational Law
My spitball idea for a generational law to keep more young people from ever starting a tobacco habit — and thus, nicotine addiction — would be through scaled taxation.
https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/norwegian_boating_licenses_and_generational_law

2026-04-24 14:18:03 GMT

★ ‘We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here’
I think about this scene more and more lately.
https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/we_dont_serve_their_kind_here

2026-04-24 13:28:41 GMT

XOXO Explore
https://xoxofest.com/blog/2026-launching-xoxo-explore/

2026-04-22 19:38:55 GMT

DF T-Shirts and Hoodies: Get Them While the Getting Is Good
https://store.daringfireball.net/

2026-04-22 18:16:30 GMT

There Are Corrections, and There Are Corrections
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/nyregion/mets-mamdani-curse.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c1A.iLO0.Kqdo8aBhNAY1

2026-04-22 16:35:37 GMT

Ben Thompson on Tim Cook’s Legacy
https://stratechery.com/2026/tim-cooks-impeccable-timing/

2026-04-22 03:03:18 GMT

[Sponsor] Rec League
https://recleague.com/?lyr_campaign=df

2026-04-21 19:17:34 GMT

Trump on Tim Apple
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116442276577696798

2026-04-21 03:59:41 GMT

★ Another Day Has Come
If you agree that Apple itself was Jobs’s greatest product, Cook really is a product person after all.
https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/another_day_has_come

2026-04-20 21:37:22 GMT

‘Community Letter From Tim’
https://www.apple.com/community-letter-from-tim/

2026-04-20 21:08:46 GMT

DF Paraphernalia: T-Shirts and Hoodies Are Back
https://store.daringfireball.net/

2026-04-20 20:44:58 GMT

Apple: ‘Tim Cook to Become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to Become Apple CEO’
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/

2026-04-19 18:51:43 GMT

Jessica Chastain Says Apple TV Will Finally Release ‘The Savant’
https://variety.com/2026/tv/columns/jessica-chastain-apple-tv-finally-release-the-savant-after-postponement-charlie-kirk-assassination-1236725384/

2026-04-18 16:48:37 GMT

Apple’s Mac Mini Went Viral. Why Can’t You Buy One Right Now? - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/apple-mac-mini-supply-3e7a7509?st=fKpr4Q

2026-04-18 00:43:35 GMT

Apple’s Developer Guidelines for Ratings and Review Prompts
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/ratings-and-reviews#Best-practices

2026-04-18 00:31:16 GMT

Follow-Up Regarding App Store Reviews, Which Are Definitely Busted
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/16/app-store-reviews-are-busted

2026-04-17 01:00:26 GMT

App Store Reviews Are Busted
https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/04/13/app-store-reviews-are-busted.html

2026-04-17 00:10:09 GMT

Freecash Was More Like Scamcash
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/how-the-rewards-app-freecash-scammed-its-way-to-the-top-of-the-app-stores/

2026-04-16 20:39:05 GMT

Colliding With Reality, Indeed
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bVA.EB30.mygpleorcQhg&smid=url-share

2026-04-16 19:27:00 GMT

Chance Miller: ‘Netflix Ruined Its Apple TV App by Switching to a Custom Video Player’
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/15/netflix-ruined-its-apple-tv-app-by-switching-to-a-custom-video-player/

2026-04-16 15:26:03 GMT

Bonus Thought Regarding the Name ‘iPhone Ultra’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/14/name-of-foldable-iphone

2026-04-16 15:00:49 GMT

Rory Goss’s Accessibility Story
https://www.apple.com/education/college-students/success-stories/goss/

2026-04-16 01:00:35 GMT

So Close to Getting It
https://www.theverge.com/tech/906873/sofa-app-track-tv-movies-installer

2026-04-15 19:54:17 GMT

Lisa Melton: ‘Memories of Steve’ (and Memories of Safari’s Unique Page-Loading Indicator in Particular)
https://lisamelton.net/2023/10/05/memories-of-steve/

2026-04-15 15:40:02 GMT

★ David Pierce Tried a Bunch of Android Phones and Then Bought an iPhone Again
The real goldmine isn’t that Apple gets a cut of every App Store transaction. It’s that Apple’s platforms have the best apps, and users who are drawn to the best apps are thus drawn to the iPhone, Mac, and iPad.
https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/piece_android_iphone_apps

2026-04-15 14:34:44 GMT

Screen Zooming on iOS
https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116404958539831051

2026-04-14 21:46:17 GMT

On the Name of Apple’s Foldable iPhone
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/07/foldable-iphone-fold-iphone-ultra/

2026-03-07 22:53:37 GMT

‘npx workos’
https://workos.com/docs/authkit/cli-installer?utm_source=tldrdev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q12026

2026-03-06 15:22:21 GMT

Another Steve Jobs Quote on Lower-Priced Macs
https://technologizer.com/2008/10/22/the-case-for-a-mac-netbook/index.html

2026-03-03 21:25:07 GMT

Apple Announces Updated Studio Display and All-New Studio Display XDR
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-unveils-new-studio-display-and-all-new-studio-display-xdr/

2026-02-27 01:30:25 GMT

Apple Announces F1 Broadcast Details, and a Surprising Netflix Partnership
https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/02/apple-announces-f1-details-and-a-surprising-netflix-partnership/

2026-02-25 23:47:07 GMT

‘H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright Typographic Mystery’
https://www.inconspicuous.info/p/h-bomb-a-frank-lloyd-wright-typographic

2026-02-25 23:38:45 GMT

Bill Gates Apologizes to Foundation Staff Over Epstein Ties
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bill-gates-apologizes-to-foundation-staff-over-epstein-ties-67f39ef5

2026-02-24 18:01:28 GMT

An OpenClaw AI Agent Wrote and Published a Hit Piece on a Software Library Maintainer Who Rejected Its Code Submission
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

2026-02-24 00:31:00 GMT

The Pants-Shitting Saga of Resizing Windows on MacOS 26 Tahoe Continues
https://noheger.at/blog/2026/02/12/resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe-the-saga-continues/

2026-02-19 04:41:38 GMT

One More Spitball Idea for Apple’s March 4 Media Event ‘Experience’: Immersive F1 on Vision Pro?
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/official-grand-prix-start-times-for-2026-f1-season-confirmed.2UgPfArqH76tzlOYh21jSG

2026-02-18 00:08:45 GMT

Apple Invites Media to Special ‘Experience’ in New York, London, and Shanghai on March 4
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/16/apple-announces-special-event-in-new-york/

2026-02-15 23:39:14 GMT

WorkOS Pipes
https://workos.com/docs/pipes?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q12026&utm_content=no_rebuild

2026-02-15 23:37:04 GMT

Joanna Stern Signs Off From The Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/12-years-consumer-tech-phones-ev-ai-74107804?st=YtTDdM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

2026-02-10 01:43:40 GMT

[Sponsor] WorkOS Pipes: Ship Third-Party Integrations Without Rebuilding OAuth
https://workos.com/docs/pipes?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q12026&utm_content=no_rebuild

2026-02-04 01:40:24 GMT

OpenAI’s Codex
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/2/introducing-the-codex-app/

2026-01-28 00:17:02 GMT

Court Filing Claims Zuckerberg Blocked Curbs at Meta on Sex-Talking Chatbots for Minors
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/meta-ceo-zuckerberg-blocked-curbs-sex-talking-chatbots-minors-court-filing-2026-01-27/

2026-01-27 01:32:03 GMT

The Talk Show: ‘A Mitigated Disaster’
https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2026/01/26/ep-439

2026-01-26 22:40:54 GMT

[Sponsor] WorkOS Pipes: Ship Third-Party Integrations Without Rebuilding OAuth
https://workos.com/docs/pipes?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q12026&utm_content=no_rebuild

2026-01-25 17:04:18 GMT

Meh
https://meh.com/go/df

2026-01-25 00:14:52 GMT

★ The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
A change to how Safari reports the OS it is running on led many in the media to lose their minds.
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/ios_26_adoption_rate_is_not_bizarrely_low

2026-01-24 03:38:53 GMT

★ Tahoe Added a Finder Option to Resize Columns to Fit Filenames
The unpolished version of the feature we have today only reiterates my belief that Tahoe is a mistake to be avoided. It’s a good idea though, and there aren’t even many of those in Tahoe.
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/resize_columns_to_fit_filenames

2026-01-24 00:59:23 GMT

OmniOutliner 6
https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/introducing-omnioutliner-6

2026-01-21 22:18:57 GMT

Gurman Scoops ‘Campos’, Apple’s Codename for a Chatbot-Based Siri in Next Year’s Version 27 OSes
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21/ios-27-apple-to-revamp-siri-as-built-in-iphone-mac-chatbot-to-fend-off-openai?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2OTAyNDk2NywiZXhwIjoxNzY5NjI5NzY3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUOFRXOVlLR0NURlUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.awOoIDGdEkCAvho8waoXR6VVVojI3jGvQHJeDjwcyrs

2026-01-10 21:04:26 GMT

★ ‘Fuck You, Make Me’ Without Saying the Words
Make the Trump administration object. Make them defend the indefensible — in public. Make clear why the apps were removed from the app stores and force Musk — and Trump, if he chooses — to argue that those things are A-OK by them. In court.
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/fuck_you_make_me_without_saying_the_words

2026-01-09 04:14:38 GMT

The New York Times Profiles John Ternus
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/technology/apple-ceo-tim-cook-john-ternus.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DFA.Qm0v.SxztBxvFrAF-&smid=url-share

2026-01-07 23:41:39 GMT

The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible
https://world.hey.com/jason/the-obvious-the-easy-and-the-possible-2e11a3fb

2026-01-06 03:24:21 GMT

‘It’s Hard to Justify Tahoe Icons’
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

2026-01-04 17:09:24 GMT

NFL Playoff Scenarios
https://nflplayoffscenarios.com/

2026-01-03 23:05:53 GMT

Listen Later
https://www.listenlater.net/?referrer=df

2026-01-03 00:03:33 GMT

★ Clicks Communicator and Clicks Power Keyboard
I just love the chutzpah of these guys. They started with a good minimal launch product and are back two years later with what looks like a *much* better idea for a phone keyboard accessory. But they’re also now making their own whole goddamn phone.
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/clicks_communicator_and_clicks_power_keyboard

2025-12-31 21:41:25 GMT

The Talk Show: ‘2025 Year in Review’
https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/12/31/ep-438

2025-12-30 23:46:27 GMT

The U.S. Conservative Aggrieved Mindset, Explained
https://knowyourmeme.com/videos/433740-just-coffee-black

2025-12-30 00:45:42 GMT

★ Slop Is Slop
The image Tim Cook posted on Twitter/X (and which the Apple TV account retweeted) is ugly and awkward. It either *is* AI-generated slop or it looks like AI-generated slop for no artistic or thematic reason whatsoever.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/slop_is_slop

2025-12-28 19:55:51 GMT

Copilot Money
https://copilot.money/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=daringfireball_122225_web25&utm_term=DARING

2025-12-25 01:31:53 GMT

The Talk Show: ‘A Naughty Citizen’
https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/12/24/ep-437

2025-12-24 02:16:45 GMT

I Guess Nothing Is Foolproof
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/28/23777298/sony-ftc-microsoft-confidential-documents-marker-pen-scanner-oops

2025-12-23 02:03:20 GMT

[Sponsor] Copilot Money
https://copilot.money/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=daringfireball_122225_web25&utm_term=DARING

2025-12-23 00:55:46 GMT

The ‘60 Minutes’ Report on CECOT That Bari Weiss Censored Is Now Internet Contraband
https://www.theverge.com/policy/849432/60-minutes-cecot-censored-canada-leak

2025-12-23 00:48:51 GMT

CBS News Chief Bari Weiss Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Story on Trump’s CECOT Gulag in El Salvador
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g-s1-103282/cbs-chief-bari-weiss-pulls-60-minutes-story

2025-12-20 22:43:34 GMT

★ Apple Announces Changes to iOS in Japan for Compliance With the Mobile Software Competition Act
It’s the practical results of legislation and regulation that matter, not the intentions. The Japanese government seemingly gets that, and acts accordingly.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/apple_japan_msca_compliance

2025-12-19 01:09:27 GMT

Condensed Serif Typefaces, à la Apple Garamond, Are Back in Vogue
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/serif-instrument-skinny-font-e22b8054

2025-12-16 02:52:31 GMT

[Sponsor] Finalist Daily Planner for iOS
https://finalist.works/df

2025-12-16 01:03:17 GMT

‘A Brief History of Times New Roman’
https://typographyforlawyers.com/a-brief-history-of-times-new-roman.html

2025-12-15 23:43:16 GMT

‘The Scourge of Arial’
https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-scourge-of-arial/

2025-12-15 03:50:02 GMT

Rob Reiner and Wife Found Stabbed to Death at Home
https://deadline.com/2025/12/rob-reiner-two-reported-dead-at-home-lapd-1236648185/

2025-12-13 22:59:22 GMT

‘Pluribus’ Becomes Apple TV’s Most Watched Show Ever
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/12/pluribus-most-watched-show-ever-on-apple-tv/

2025-12-13 20:38:18 GMT

Lucas de Groot, Designer of Calibri, on the State Department’s Switch Back to Times New Roman
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46229533

2025-12-12 23:22:39 GMT

Apple at the AWS re:Invent 2025 Keynote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O46695Y7ab8

2025-12-09 00:43:00 GMT

[Sponsor] Jaho Coffee Roaster
https://www.jaho.com/s/df

2025-12-08 23:13:43 GMT

EU Court Rules That Apple Must Face Dutch Antitrust Lawsuit Regarding App Store Commission Rates
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/02/dutch-app-store-antitrust-case-proceeds/

2025-12-07 21:24:01 GMT

WorkOS Radar
https://workos.com/radar?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=q12025

2025-12-07 20:38:16 GMT

One Last Note on Tiimo: What’s the Deal With That Icon?
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/2025_app_store_award_winners

2025-12-05 22:37:35 GMT

Lisa Jackson on The Talk Show Back in 2017
https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2017/04/21/ep-188