Old and new through the liquid glass.| www.macstories.net
Apple’s iPhone announcement was impressive, but no one was impressed, because Apple is increasingly peripheral to what is changing the world.| Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Retreating to Safety| marco.org
Retreating to Safety| marco.org
I think it’s a good start, and I couldn’t be happier that the WebKit team is even tackling the problem at all. As Simmons notes, line-wrapping layout in web browsers has, until now, been very crude — and the web has been around a long time.| Daring Fireball
Apple’s WWDC was a retreat from not just last year’s WWDC, but potentially a broader reset for the company. That’s why it was a great presentation.| Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Auf der WWDC wird erneut deutlich: Apple Intelligence hinkt hinterher. Der KI-Wettlauf ist aber noch lange nicht entschieden.| SMWB
Retreating to Safety| marco.org
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/02/apple-eu-interoperability-appeal/| Daring Fireball
Over the course of my career, I’ve had three distinct moments in which I saw a brand-new app and immediately felt it was going to change how I used my computer – and they were all about empowering people to do more with their devices. I had that feeling the first time I tried Editorial,| www.macstories.net
This month made me really think deeply about big tech’s push to combine voice and AI, and how this can put your privacy at serious risk.| Building the Open Home
How bad naming blocks good technology| carly.substack.com
(Starting off with John Gruber's Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino – which is both right and aptly put – but followed by a crazy quilt of reactions.)| Take
John Gruber: The fiasco here is not that Apple is late on AI. It’s also not that they had to...| SchwarzTech
“Enshittification” is a termed coined by Cory Doctorow in 2023 to describe a pattern of decreasing quality observed in online services and products. Since Doctorow’s post, there’s been no shortage of think pieces on enshittification and its role in our society and to a large extent I agree with them all. I think it’s an inevitable problem that shows the splitting seams of Capitalism. If you will allow, I’d like to add a tangential thought – one slight embellishment – to this t...| daverupert.com
Rotten| Michael Tsai
John Gruber is not mincing his words. What Apple showed regarding the upcoming “personalized Siri” at WWDC was not a demo. It was a concept video. Concept videos are bullshit, and a sign of a compa…| On my Om
When things are going well, managers can fool themselves into thinking that people trying their best is all that matters. Poor outcomes are just another opportunity for learning! But that delusion stops working when the wheels finally start coming off — like they have now for Apple and its AI unit. Then you need someone who cares about...| world.hey.com
New streaming TV shows ask for a 20-30 hour time commitment. Unlike network TV, you will often be binge-ing alone and may never even get a pay-off (or the pay-off will suck).| www.readtrung.com