9to5Mac is reporting that Apple has two new Home products launching soon, a new Apple TV 4K and a new HomePod Mini. The new Apple networking chip, the N1, which recently debuted in the iPhone 17 lineup, is expected to also appear in both these new gizmos. With the iPhone 17 phones shipping to customers in the last week, folks have been testing the new networking silicon and it looks like a winner.| Apple's new N1 networking chip in Home devices
A while ago, I suggested that the best iPad for a developer was the MacBook Air. At WWDC 2025, Apple revealed all sorts of power features for the new iPadOS 26 including a whole new windowing mode and support for long running processes like Final Cut exports. While these are fantastic improvements for some power users, these still don’t give developers what they need to make the iPad a great tool for writing code.| iPadOS 26 and Developers
I cancelled my subscription to Max and upgraded my Disney+/Hulu sub to the bundle that includes Max to save a couple bucks a month. As it turns out, there’s a couple days of overlap where the old Max sub hasn’t expired yet but the new one is in effect. And the Max app is freaking out! Not in a bad way, just lots of warnings - “OMG, you got 2 subs!!!” Honestly, it’s kind of a pleasant surprise they’re so upfront about a customer potentially overpaying. Now if I could just buy this ...| Bugs and Bunnies -- Jay Lyerly
A couple weeks ago, I dropped my AppleTV remote onto the (apparently) very hard hardwood floor. The remote went thud and the power button, newly liberated from the rest of the remote, skittered away to embrace its newfound freedom. Hmmm… After retrieving the power nubbin from behind some furniture and armed with unbridled optimism, I tried to pop it back into place. It sort of worked, but clearly had that loosey-goosey quality that you know deep down inside that it won’t last. Sure enough...| Bugs and Bunnies -- Jay Lyerly
This is one of those ‘note to self’ blog posts. I’ve been working on the next round of features for GlowWorm including a desktop widget. The GlowWidget, like every widget ever, needs to share some data with the main app. Widgets are all sandboxed and locked down, so we need to use an App Group to enable sharing between the extension and the main app. This is where it gets weird.| App Groups, macOS and Extensions