Daring Fireball

Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner:…

Erich Schwartzel and Jessica Toonkel, reporting for The Wall Street Journal back on December 19, under the headline “Where Is James Bond? Trapped in an Ugly Stalemate With Amazon” (News+ link):…

Didn’t take them long to start having an impact inside HP. (Direct link to image, for those who can’t or don’t want to see the original on X.)  ★ 

Alex Ritman, with blockbuster news at Variety:…

The iPhone 16e is arguably just plain a better phone than the iPhone 15, and I think it’s almost inarguably a better value at $100 less.

MG Siegler:…

From Humane’s “AI Pin Consumers FAQ”, which they link to with one of the best euphemisms of the year thus far — “We understand this transition may be difficult, and you may have questions”:…

Brody Ford, reporting for Bloomberg:…

I cracked wise in a footnote yesterday about MapQuest still being around, but it turns out they’re not only still around, and they’re not only still labelling the Gulf of Mexico by its world-recognized not-stupid name, but they’ve actually built an…

Much serious thought and consideration, from very smart people in Mountain View and Cupertino, went into determining how to respond to a profoundly silly and thoughtless executive order. Yet that response is disturbing.

Extraordinary illustrated essay by Marcin Wichary, documenting a typeface — and its long, fascinating, splintered history — that exemplifies the difference between beautiful and pretty. The beauty in Gorton isn’t just in its plainness and…

My thanks to Clerk for sponsoring last week at DF. Integrate authentication and user management services with applications made for the Apple ecosystem with Clerk’s iOS SDK. Built with Swift, Clerk’s SDK adheres to modern standards, delivering the…

Alan Siegel at The Ringer:…

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg:…

New research published from Apple machine learning researchers Yuhan Hu, Peide Huang, Mouli Sivapurapu, Jian Zhang:…

Sad news, posted to his Mastodon account:…

Joe Rosensteel:…

Guy Chazan, Amanda Chu, and Joshua Franklin, reporting for the Financial Times (left-wing anti-capitalist fake-news ideologues):…

Many Tricks:…

I’m a sucker for anything Cookie Monster, but this one really slaps.  ★ 

Jay Peters and Alex Heath, reporting for The Verge:…

Jack Ewing, reporting for The New York Times:…

Tim Cook, on X:…

Sean Heber, of The Iconfactory:…

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors:…

Apple Newsroom:…

Benj Edwards, writing at Ars Technica:…

WikiTok is the creation of Isaac Gemal. The premise is that it’s a TikTok-style interface for random articles from Wikipedia. One thing at a time on screen, swipe up to scroll down to the next item whenever you’re ready, and you can keep going forever if…

Allison Johnson, writing at The Verge:…

Qianer Liu and Jing Yang, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas — MacRumors summary):…