Fake Steve Jobs and Letters from BILL G

Matt Sephton: On 9th August 2006, “Fake Steve (Jobs)” started blogging at The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. The blog featured scathing criticism of Silicon Valley and the tech industry at large, a pinch of political satire, along with many in-jokes an…

Twitter to Remove Block Feature

Juli Clover: Twitter or “X” owner Elon Musk today said that the option to block people on Twitter is going to be “deleted as a feature” in the future, as it “makes no sense.”Musk made the comment in response to a tweet asking whether there was a rea…

Essential Apple Podcast 275: This and that, and other stuff…

Late again but there we go – apologies for that. Anyway Simon and Nick got together as usual to chat about the news stories

Rewatch

25th Anniversary of the iMac

Amazon Pulls the Rug on ‘The Peripheral’ Season 2

Changing Its Name Tanked X’s Downloads in App Store and Play Store

Little Musk Who Cries ‘Wolf’ Daily Claims X Will ‘Delete’ the Block Feature, But No One Knows What That Even Means

Trump Thinks Fox News Makes Him Look Fat and Orange

★ Walt Disney’s Mid-Century Business Strategy Charts

Disney was, and should remain, a serious engineering company.

‘All His Life Has He Looked Away, to the Future, to the Horizon. Never His Mind on Where He Was. What He Was Doing. What’s Coming Out Just Next Month.’

‘All His Life Has He Looked Away, to the Future, to the Horizon. Never His Mind on Where He Was.’

Watch Bands Get Dirty, Headlines Get Clickbaity

★ Walt Disney’s Mid-Century Business Strategy Charts

Disney was, and should remain, a serious engineering company.

★ Disney and Apple, Sitting in a Tree

I don’t think Apple has any such interest or appetite. Nor do I think Disney envisions its own future as anything but the independent company it has been since Walt and Roy Disney founded The Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio 100 years ago.

iOS 17 Moves “End Call” Button

Chance Miller: In iOS 16 and earlier, the iPhone’s end call button was located at the very bottom of the in-call interface. Above it were two separate rows of buttons for things like mute, the keyboard, FaceTime, audio controls, and more. In iOS 17,…

Dash 7

Kapeli: Dash 7 includes a completely rewritten fuzzy search engine, which makes it easier to find the page you need, fast. […] Dash 7 will now search disabled docsets when you start your search query with the docset name or keyword (e.g. searching f…

macOS 13.5.1

Juli Clover (release notes, full installer, IPSW): macOS Ventura 13.5.1 addresses a bug that impacts location services settings on the Mac. Mac users have complained since July of an issue with the location privacy settings, with the bug preventing …

Post-Exploit Fake Airplane Mode

Jamf Threat Labs: Jamf Threat Labs developed a post-exploit persistence technique on iOS 16 that falsely shows a functional Airplane Mode. In reality, after successful device exploit the attacker plants an artifical Airplane Mode that edits the UI t…

‘Number Go Up’

★ Walt Disney’s Mid-Century Business Strategy Charts

Disney was, and should remain, a serious engineering company.