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Taking orders on these items through the end of the week, and we’ll start sending them out after they’re printed this weekend. I’m wearing a print test of the hoodie as I write this — lightweight but very warm.  ★ 

Stefan Etienne, writing for The Verge:…

Hardcore quality clothing. Obsessively sourced raw materials. Built for performance, durability and movement. Do more and own less. www.outlier.nyc.  ★ 

Peter Cohan, founder of Peter S. Cohan and Associates, writing for Inc under the jacktastic headline “Apple Is Offering a 40 Percent Discount on iPhones. Here’s Why Steve Jobs Would Hate It”:…

Owen Williams, writing for Motherboard:…

My thanks to Doxie for sponsoring Daring Fireball this week to promote their lineup of excellent scanners. If you want to go paperless in 2019, Doxie is the way to do it. Doxie quickly and reliably scans all your documents, receipts, and photographs with ease.…

Ken White, writing for The Atlantic:…

The biggest threat to the Mac isn’t iPads, Chromebooks, or Windows 2-in-1’s — it’s apathy towards what makes great Mac apps great.

Kashmir Hill, in an excellent piece for Gizmodo:…

Joe Belfiore, VP of Windows at Microsoft:…

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/1070699684665192449

Almost unbelievable that Google still can’t get a messaging platform off the ground.  ★ 

Imagine going back in time to tell a MacPaint user in 1985 that they’d have to learn how to use Undo in an Apple-award-winning paint app in 2018. That’s where we are.

Finally. I’ve got one coming — will report on it once I have it. Also available today: Apple’s 18W USB-C charger that’s included with iPad Pro, for $29.  ★ 

Doug Russell:…

Slogan: “Be a hole”, which caused me to read it twice. (Via the App Store’s Game of the Year story, which, I shit you not, you can’t read on a Mac.)  ★ 

Clever new update to The Iconfactory’s iOS drawing app:…

Dunja Djudjic, writing at DIY Photography:…

David Barnard:…

Designed with all your paper in mind, Doxie quickly and reliably scans all your documents, receipts, and detailed photographs with ease.…

10 percent is a pretty great deal — worth sharing this with any friends or family who qualify.  ★ 

New episode of the podcast: Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about Google’s new Pixel Slate Chrome OS tablet/laptop, the Pixel 3, Google’s fascinating new Night Sight camera mode, speculation on how Apple might move the Mac to ARM chips, and more.…

Don’t let the sensational headline scare you off from this video — it’s a really fair and interesting comparison between the 12-inch MacBook, new MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar. His conclusion, basically, is that if you want…

Nick Heer, writing at Pixel Envy:…

Marques Brownlee spots another case of a Samsung promotional tweet being posted from an iPhone. How this can still be happening, given how much attention these gaffes get, is beyond me. According to Luca Hammer, this Samsung account tweeted from iPhone over…

My thanks to iFixit for sponsoring this week at Daring Fireball. You probably know them best for their detailed teardowns of new gadgets, but they also have an extensive library of over 40,000 free repair guides. And they sell precision tools and parts.…

Adam Nagourney, The New York Times:…

I don’t recommend games often because I don’t often find games I enjoy, but here’s one I like a lot. Super minimalistic both in gameplay and visual style, but that’s what I tend to like on iOS. What graphics there are are animated joyfully. It works…

Still no first-party cases for the iPhone XR though. That’s just baffling to me. I know most iPhone owners buy third-party cases, but it seems like Apple is leaving money on the table by not offering their own.…

Amie Tsang and Adam Satariano, reporting for The New York Times:…