★ Do Wall Street Journal Reporters Read The Wall Street Journal?

In a sense, Apple *does* have one tradition when entering a new product category: they endeavor to make the first one good enough to be criticized.

‘Die of Boils, Mr. Sparky Car’

OpenAI Releases ChatGPT App for iOS

★ Do Wall Street Journal Reporters Read The Wall Street Journal?

In a sense, Apple *does* have one tradition when entering a new product category: they endeavor to make the first one good enough to be criticized.

New EU Cryptocurrency Rules Make Exchanges Liable If They Lose Customers’ Assets

★ Let’s Check in on Supermicro, the Target of Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’

What a nice postscript to a disgraceful story.

CNBC: ‘Google to Save Money on Employee Laptops, Services, and Staplers’

★ Let’s Check in on Supermicro, the Target of Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’

What a nice postscript to a disgraceful story.

macOS 13.4

Juli Clover (release notes, security, full installer, IPSW): There are several bug fixes in the update, with Apple addressing problems with Auto Unlock with Apple Watch, Bluetooth keyboards, Screen Time, and VoiceOver. The update also adds a Sports …

iOS 16.5 and iPadOS 16.5

Juli Clover (missing release notes, security): In iOS 16.5, Apple is adding a new Pride wallpaper, a Sports tab in Apple News, and fixes for issues with Spotlight and Screen Time. Previously: macOS 13.4 iOS 16.4.1 and iPadOS 16.4.1

macOS 12.6.6 and 11.7.7

Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.6.6. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.7.7. See also: Howard Oakley. Previously: macOS 13.4 macOS 12.6.5…

Photomator for Mac

Tim Hardwick: Photomator 3.0 today got its official release on macOS, bringing Pixelmator’s iPhone and iPad photo-editing app to MacBooks and Mac desktops for the first time.With an interface that will be familiar to users of Photomator on iOS and i…

FTC Says Facebook Violated 2020 Consent Decree

FTC: The Federal Trade Commission proposed changes to the agency’s 2020 privacy order with Facebook after alleging that the company has failed to fully comply with the order, misled parents about their ability to control with whom their children com…

CNBC: ‘Google to Save Money on Employee Laptops, Services, and Staplers’

Disney Pulls Plug on $1 Billion Development in Florida

Follow-Up on GM’s ‘Edsel’ Pipe Dream for Tens of Billions in Annual Services Revenue: Apple Makes Most of Its Services Revenue From the App Store

Pew Research Center: ‘Majority of U.S. Twitter Users Say They’ve Taken a Break From the Platform in the Past Year’

★ Proposed Name for GM’s Upcoming In-House Software Platform (You Know, the One That Isn’t Going to Support CarPlay): Edsel

GM’s $20–25 billion target for services revenue by 2030 feels like a Kendall Roy number — plucked out of thin air by someone just making up figures in an Excel spreadsheet until they get the SUM() result they’re looking for.

Ford CEO Jim Farley Seems Very Happy That GM Is Dropping CarPlay

★ Browser and OS Market Share Trends in the Mobile Age

The decline of Windows, and slow and steady rise of Safari and the Mac.

Porsche Adds Support for Apple Maps EV Routing