John Gruber
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Starting to get the feeling AirPower might not ship in 2018, you guys.
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What if Hillary Clinton had 5 children with 3 different fathers?
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Let’s play What If:
What if Barack Obama had 5 children with 3 different women?
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New iPad sure does look “Pro” but this font sure as hell does not.
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Democratic senators should say this:
“No president who lost the popular vote should get to fill a SCOTUS vacancy. Let the people decide.”
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AirPower feels like the sort of thing Apple would release on a Friday afternoon.
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I don’t gamble. I don’t drink. My one vice is buying a new iPhone every summer.
Well, that and lying about drinking and gambling.
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I’ve watched this like 23 times. More like this, please.
People who broke into the Capitol Wednesday are now learning they are on No-Fly lists pending the full investigation. They are not happy about this.
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Zoom is effectively admitting here that their software has so many memory leaks that rather than fix the leaks, they’re asking for permission to automatically reboot your Mac once a week.
Here’s something our software will never, ever ask you to do.
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Apple opened up about the future of the Mac Pro. It’s good news. No joke.
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Trump comes back.
Trump at next rally: “Elon Musk, he called me. He said ‘Sir, sir, I need you to come back on Twitter. The company’s ratings have been terrible ever since you left.’ Elon Musk begged me like a dog. Sad! He begged me to come back.”
Musk bans Trump again.
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This is as Steve Jobs-y as any Steve Jobs story gets. I love it. There are books about Steve Jobs that reveal less about him than this tweet.
(4) at one point steve wanted to turn UIKit elements orange. not just any orange, he wanted a particular orange from the button on a certain old sony remote. we got a bunch of remotes from sony with orange buttons to try and find the right one. in the end, steve hated it.
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AirPower must be well and truly fucked. No one at Apple will say a word about it, even off the record. And as a result they didn’t even mention inductive charging during the event, even though the XS and XR both charge faster than the X.
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“Westworld” is a lot like “Lost” except that it makes more sense, not less, as time goes on, and that’s inordinately satisfying as a viewer.
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Pence getting booed at “Hamilton”: a fart in the wind.
Trump settling fraud lawsuit for $25m: legit scandal.
Get serious, people.
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Pete Buttigieg is a stone cold killer as a campaign surrogate for Biden on Fox News.
It's too bad Trump is afraid to debate next week.
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Best moment: Trump says “No one respects women more than me” and audience laughs so long and hard Chris Wallace has to tell them to stop.
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Unpopular opinion but true: Google Docs blows chunks for user experience.
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“Hey Siri, remind me to pick up the dry cleaning Wednesday at three.”
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“40 million songs on your wrist” makes “1000 songs in your pocket” seem like a long time ago.
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These fuckers are just taking a shit on America. On the very ideal of democracy.
If you voted for Trump, you’re one of them.
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As someone who’s set up 5 new devices in the last week, my advice is to restore a new iPhone with the device-to-device transfer, not iCloud. Don’t worry if it says it might take a little longer.
Device-to-device is better IMO because it moves over *all* your login credentials.
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I wish you could delete apps right from the App Store Updates tab. When I see an update is pending for an app I never use, I just want to delete it right there.
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Holy moly the source code leaked for Apple’s App Store user profiles for “personalized” ads:
if currentDay.endsWith('y') {
yourPersonalizedCategory =
"Fuckin’ Casinos";
}
else {
yourPersonalizedCategory =
"More Fuckin’ Casinos";
}
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I’m starting to think this Elon Musk fellow isn’t hooked up right.
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You can see how these idiots lost money running casinos.
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Don’t give me any “Both sides…” bullshit. These are fucking Nazis.
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This should be widely circulated. Don’t let it get lost amidst the Flynn fiasco:
By a vote of 23-15, Republicans just voted to not request President Trump's tax returns from the Treasury Department.
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—Hey Siri how many quarts are in a gallon?
—What would you like me to convert one gallon to?
—Quarts.
—Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework…
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Arial is just as good as Helvetica.
You've been kidnapped. Your kidnappers allow you to keep tweeting to pretend everything is alright. What would you tweet that would alarm your followers without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help?
"And then I put in the exact amount of garlic the recipe called for."
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I mean, holy shit, by this time next year we might be able set multiple timers on HomePod:
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Has anyone ever gotten in any sort of trouble at all for not having one of those stupid fucking cookie disclaimer dickbars on their website?
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Searched for “uber” in my Keychain Access app. Found 880 entries.
First thought: “Holy shit!”
Second thought: “Oh, duh.”
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Trump just gave the most embarrassing concession speech that will ever be delivered.
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The best thing about this copy-paste permission alert that is driving everyone nuts in iOS 16: the apostrophe in “Don’t Allow Paste” is the wrong one. It’s upside down.
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Safari 15: the browser that expects the web to redesign for it.
Just another day being unable to order takeout because iOS 15 Safari’s bottom bar makes this checkout button untappable.
thanks Safari for not letting me have that bruschetta 😢
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Fuck you and your App Store release notes that never say anything more than “The latest version includes bug fixes and performance improvements.”
@Poolsuite
does release notes right.
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A few seconds after I snapped this photo, one of them noticed what I was using to take the photo.
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You would think “100%” is a condition the “chance of rain” complication would be designed to handle.
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The new volume HUD in iOS 13 is delightful. Notice how it is physically aligned with the hardware volume buttons. This position and the animation make hardware and software feel as one.
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Turns out there’s still a limit on the number of iOS Safari tabs.
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Not sure Cook should have listed this as a reason for slower than expected iPhone sales. Sure makes it sound like the old way of handling battery degradation was intended to drive people to buy new phones.
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@EWErickson
Really? I don’t think anyone out there really gives a shit about the entire debt limit thing. It’s just “blah blah blah Congress”. I think he ought to do it just to end the whole thing now long before any elections.
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No spoilers:
I loved “The Rise of Skywalker” like no Star Wars movie since the original trilogy.
That palpable sense of camaraderie was there, and it just hit so many great notes. JJ Abrams nailed it.
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The Eagles just won their first Super Bowl ever and Chris Collinsworth can’t shut up about how great the Patriots are.
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This is how you do a movie poster.
Also, wonderful homage to Ralph McQuarrie’s style. This works as well in 2019 as it would have in 1977.
Check out the
@DolbyCinema
exclusive
#StarWars
:
#TheRiseOfSkywalker
poster. See it in theaters December 20. Get tickets now:
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Really starting to look like those Biden “46” hats might be valuable collector’s items. Like misprinted baseball cards or mis-minted coins.
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“Like an obese turtle on his back, flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over.”
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Truth:
In a world where Apple never invented the iPhone, we’d all be carrying smartphones that look like this 😜
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Is Night Shift really deserving of this much real estate in Control Center? Don’t people who use it set it to auto?
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The angle Dems should play is not that Trump’s taxes show that he’s a cheat, but that they reveal him as a LOSER.
Feign surprise. “I knew he exaggerated about his finances but I can’t believe he’s so broke he only had to pay $750 in income tax.”
Ridicule is his kryptonite.
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Did you know there are games for Apple Watch? My favorite: launching any app and seeing if anything other than a spinner appears on screen.
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Literally laughed out loud at this album art gag. Just perfect.
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Where do I donate to O’Rourke’s 2020 presidential campaign? I’m all in.
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Last four iPhone events:
5: Wed 12 Sept 2012
5S: Tue 10 Sept 2013
6: Tue 9 Sept 2014
6S: Wed 9 Sept 2015
I bet this year’s is Wed 7 Sept.
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Not MacBook speeds. MacBook Pro speeds.
iPhone X leaked benchmarks match MacBook speeds and destroy Android phones
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If you’re more outraged over Samantha Bee calling Ivanka Trump a nasty word than you are over the topic of the segment, which included footage of immigrant children forced to sleep inside locked cages, you’re not hooked up right. Grow up.
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Biden should say: “I will fight to protect Social Security for *every* American, even Donald Trump, who we now know will need it.”
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It’s a little weird that the video for today’s House antitrust hearing goes through YouTube, a monopoly owned by one of the companies testifying, right?
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My strong advice to MacOS Big Sur users, if it’s not too late for you already, is NOT to upgrade to Safari 15.
The new tabs are terrible. I’ve tried them, given them a fair shot, but they’re ugly at best, and I find them genuinely confusing. I feel lost.
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I commissioned my favorite artist to put the finishing touches on this new portrait of Trump.
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Batman vs. Superman 2: Bruce Wayne spends millions secretly bankrolling a decade of lawsuits that bankrupt The Daily Planet.
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So is Jerry Falwell Jr. speaking at the RNC to endorse Trump again this year or not?
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You should almost never use “No” and “Yes” for buttons in a confirmation dialog. Seriously, every time you see No/Yes it should be considered a bug.
In this case, I’d suggest “Cancel” and “Unlink Dropbox”. The button labels should be descriptive verbs.
cc/
@primatelabs
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Mobile Safari versions 1–14: no one ever had to explain anything.
Mobile Safari 15: “See, you don’t get the genius of this design, let me explain…”
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What are the odds that we can we can get Trump to come out against “Arabic numerals”? Let’s make this happen.
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Honest question: Why are Trump supporters so numerous, and show up for his rallies, but did not take to the streets in joy like we are now when he won in 2016, and, infamously, didn’t even show up at his inauguration?
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Took me 30 seconds to figure this out, but I got it. Trump just switched from an iPhone 8 with a home button to an iPhone 11 without one, and he doesn’t like it.
To Tim: The Button on the IPhone was FAR better than the Swipe!
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John Siracusa, at the moment he learned the new file system is coming. Historic moment. @ Bill…
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The single worst user experience I hit on a daily basis is YouTube on iPad. I tried to tap (1) to full-screen with the video, but accidentally tap (2) the timeline, which skips me to the very end of the video. Every single time.
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The answer is always more guns with these fuckers. They don’t even wait for the blood to dry anymore. More guns.
This is lunacy.
Trump appears to place blame on Pittsburgh synagogue for lack of security: "They didn't have any protection. They had a maniac walk in, and they didn't have any protection, and that is just so sad to see. So sad to see. The results could have been much better."
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I don’t see how anyone could think this after seeing the new SF Camera font in the iPhone 11 Camera app. You only get this font with the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro.
Nothing shown today really qualifies as meeting high “innovation only” expectations: Apple delivered the smallest Watch update ever, an iPad with a slightly bigger screen and nothing more, and iPhones with cameras equal to or less than many other devices. Apple needs a big 2020.
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Muhammad Ali was so great, this seemed like a fair fight when I was a kid:
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I’d feel a bit more sympathy for women named “Karen” but my name is, somehow, both a synonym for a toilet and a prostitute’s client. So I think you Karens will be just fine.
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How great would it be if the “redacted” DOJ version of the Mueller report is one of those PDFs where the redactions are just black rectangles over the original text and you can just copy and paste the unredacted text?
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