I looked at how much electricity ChatGPT is supposed to use and compared it to some other items. From that perspective, it doesn't seem that crazy.
The first few emulators hit the App Store this week and while two of them were promptly removed (for different reasons, neither of which were because emulation is wrong), Delta seems to be quite good (I’m still using it for the first time so too early to say for
I was recently doing some research on a post that never quite came together in a cohesive thought. However, I did come across this quote from Ben Thompson on how he would define the iPhone’s market: the high-end smartphone market — that is, the iPhone market — is saturated. Apple still
Ben Thompson on Stratechery: MKBHDs for Everything Surely the responsibility for the Humane AI Pin lies with Humane; the people who benefited from Brownlee’s honesty were his viewers, the only people to whom Brownlee owes anything. To think of this review — or even just the title — as “distasteful” or
How the world of social media made it so you could reach more people than ever, but that 1,000 true fans concept hasn't really changed.
Joe Rossignol for MacRumors: Apple Further Explains Why Game Boy Emulator iGBA Was Removed From App Store While it did not explicitly name GBA4iOS, Apple told us it removed iGBA from the App Store after learning that it was a knockoff app that copied another developer's work and
I have found myself writing about myths and what I find to be unfounded fears about allowing companies to compete with Apple’s apps a lot recently. One of the concerns a few people brought up with my last post about competition was that even if it might make Apple’
Francesco on his blog: Wishing for a Better Apple Notes It’s fair to say that Notes has received substantial updates in the last few years. […] The app is almost perfect, I can scan and edit PDFs, write or draw with the Apple Pencil, organise notes with folder and tags
Below is a cleaned up transcript of a talk I recently gave at work to an audience of mostly developers. I used Claude (Opus) to clean up the transcript and have edited out some sections due to discussions of our internal systems. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the very succinctly titled,
Alex Abad-Santos for Vox: What if an Animated X-Men Series Is the X-Men’s Best Future? The stuff in between the lightning bolts, telekinesis, and super strength is what matters. It’s hard for me to overstate how good X-Men ’97 really is. This week’s episode was absolutely stunning,
Jason Koebler for 404 Media: Apple Announces Half Measure to Make iPhones More Repairable Immediately After Law Banned Its Repair Practices What this means, practically, is that Apple will let you swap the screen of one iPhone with the screen of another iPhone, something that was impossible for a consumer
Jason Snell for MacWorld: Call Apple Vision Pro a flop at your own risk Today, we are so tech-savvy as a society that we’ve forgotten what it’s like to be on the ground floor of a barely feasible product category. And yet, that’s just where we are
In this new series, I’m working out thoughts before I’ve figured out what I really think. Today is about the fundamental issue holding back the Humane Pin (despite the AI silliness).
Forgive the lengthy quotes in this post. These are from a podcast, and people are more verbose when speaking than when writing. I've chosen not to edit them down to make sure you get the full answer. I was listening to The Vergecast this week and a caller
What a day! We’ve got 3 links I’m pushing through as an omnibus post. Benj Edwards for ArsTechnica: Elon Musk: AI will be smarter than any human around the end of next year On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted the imminent rise in AI superintelligence during a