Inside Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit: How do trade secrets conflict with expert knowlege, was there a concerted effort to steal secret documents to kickstart OpenAI hardware, and how does Apple’s own vulnerability inform the whole situation?…
Lees meerI had a simple task that involved Apple Home. If you use Apple Home, you know what happened next. Tears, frustration, the arrival of batteries, paperclips pushed into hard-to-reach holes, many online searches, and—if you are lucky, as I was—success…
Lees meerOpenAI has not been shy about teaming with former Apple employees. Back in May, OpenAI was rattling its saber about thinking about talking to lawyers about possibly considering a lawsuit against Apple for not treating it right when it came to ChatGP…
Lees meerIf you’ve ever wondered why your data transfers to external drives aren’t going as fast as you’d like, or a certain peripheral just isn’t working, you could probably use WhatCable, a helpful little app from developer Darryl Morley.…
Lees meerJeremy White of Wired has a great tip that also serves as a reminder that amazing things can be found in accessibility settings: Surely there must be a way to set up an iPhone as the perfect dumb phone for children—one with access to only the app…
Lees meerApple seeks RAM in all the wrong places, Jason has two tangents about FileMaker, and we deal with a large load of somewhat puzzling rumors and legal cases.…
Lees meerMy beloved sister-in-law-in-law (my wife’s brother’s spouse) texted me with an important problem. Her mother had managed to delete the App Store from her Home Screen.…
Lees meerEveryMac is a site with a comprehensive set of specs for Mac models, current and historic, that’s celebrating an anniversary today: On July 2, 1996, EveryMac.com…
Lees meerJoseph Cox at 404Media reports on a hole in Hide My Email’s security: A vulnerability in Apple’s “Hide My Email” tool lets almost anyone discover a person’s real email address that is supposed to be hidden by the feature, and Apple has failed to …
Lees meerOn Monday Apple released 26.5.2 software updates for its platforms that don’t follow the company’s usual pattern, suggesting some interesting things about how it reacts to releasing security fixes.…
Lees meerApple raised prices! Is this a shocking move, or were Apple products just sneakily affordable before? (And can it be both?) We also parse Mark Gurman’s reports on Apple skipping over may M6 chips to go directly to M7.…
Lees meerWe live in a modern, jet-set, hyper-fast world! When we want to buy something online, boom, zoom, we use our fingerprint or face to approve the transaction, so we can grab the next Segway outta here!…
Lees meerAn Apple laptop media event. Perhaps lost a bit amid the Apple price hikes of Thursday was this surprising bit of news from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman regarding the future of Apple silicon Macs: [Apple] plans to debut a base M6 processor as early as…
Lees meerSay this about Tim Cook: he always follows through. After telling the Wall Street Journal last week that Apple would have to raise prices thanks to the ravages of the memory market, the company today did just that.…
Lees meerThe Apple II makes its public debut at a landmark event in the history of personal computers, and Steve Jobs truly comes into his own.…
Lees meerMy first day on the job at Macworld, Apple was perilously close to going out of business. It was the fall of 1997, and Steve Jobs had returned to Apple and engineered the ejection of Gil Amelio as CEO, but there was no iMac yet, no visible turnaroun…
Lees meerOur thoughts on Valve’s Steam Machine pricing, the third-party camera apps we actually use, whether we wait for tech sales before buying, and if being the “tech person” inspires others or just makes them defer to us.…
Lees meerJason returns to John Gruber’s podcast for a look back at WWDC 2026, and a look ahead to Designed in California, Jason and Myke Hurley’s upcoming 50-episode Apple history podcast.…
Lees meerIn the spirit of the Summer of Fun (and Apple history Kickstarters), John Siracusa joins us to discuss when Apple was forced to replace the Classic Mac OS.…
Lees meerI stumbled on this post via Bluesky, in which Jason Hazeley was utterly baffled by this section of a printed book: The movement takes the place of a scherzo and is mainly constructed [of] the welcome datacompordinary major scale with the four low…
Lees meerBasic Apple Guy has a rundown of the new icons in Golden Gate compared to their Tahoe predecessors: The colours are much bolder, several icons have been adjusted, and the refraction in the Liquid Glass effect has changed significantly, especially…
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