Daring Fireball

My thanks to Vivid for sponsoring this week at DF. The latest MacBook Pros have displays that can reach 1,600 nits of brightness. Out of the box, you only see this brightness when viewing HDR videos or photos. Vivid is a utility that unlocks the full…

Wayne Ma, reporting for The Information (MacRumors summary):…

I believe Apple must have answers to the question of why we will want to buy it, carry it, and use it in addition to and alongside all the devices we already buy, carry, and use. Why else bring it to market? But damned if I can imagine those answers.

This brief report was remarkably well-done. I love everything about it, including their choice of games: Pac-Man and Defender. Includes a great shot of Midway’s Pac-Man factory floor in Chicago, where they were manufacturing 350 cabinets a day.  ★ 

John Hudson and Annabelle Timsit, reporting last week for The Washington Post:…

Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta:…

The latest MacBook Pro has a display that can reach 1600 nits of brightness. This brightness could only be reached when watching HDR videos, so we made Vivid!…

Speaking of The Iconfactory’s Ged Maheux, Steven Aquino has a brief interview with him regarding Twitterrific’s long-excellent accessibility support, and the whole Twitter shitshow:…

Ged Maheux at The Iconfactory:…

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AnnaMaria Andriotis, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (News+, Archive.is):…

Still “early access”, but as a decade-long Tweetbot user, it feels like home. $2/month or $15/year — prices that better reflect the value of this extraordinary app than Tweetbot’s did. And how great is this?  ★ 

Dave Winer:…

Ben Norton, writing for Geopolitical Economy Report:…

David Frum, on Twitter:…

Hansen Hsu, writing for the Computer History Museum:…

Ana Diaz, writing for Polygon:…

Jez Corden, reporting for Windows Central:…

Q1 openings for weekly sponsorships and The Talk Show.

We’ll have to wait for actual reviews of the new HomePod to drop before we know whether audio quality is as good or better, and whether Siri responsiveness and accuracy are actually improved, but just knowing that HomePod is back makes me happy.

Nice goodbye to one of the very best apps I’ve ever used, and a splendid illustration.  ★ 

My thanks to Meh for sponsoring DF last week. Here’s Meh’s deal: they put up a new deal every day, and it’s not boring stuff. As they say, “It’s actual, real, weird shit you didn’t know existed for half the price you would’ve guessed.”…

Aaron Tilley, reporting yesterday for The Wall Street Journal (News+):…

Sundar Pichai, in a company-wide memo:…

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show to talk about the demise of third-party Twitter clients, the overall Twitter shitshow, touchscreens on the Mac, and the perils of autocorrect when you have a clever username.…

The Iconfactory:…

Karissa Bell, reporting for Engadget:…

How can a site whose only ads are at Daring Fireball, and largely consist of middle finger emojis, Fuck Amazon trolling, and other idiotic and useless drivel still be in business? (You might think this is the start of a clever promo, but no really, seriously,…

We’re now on the cusp of a new frontier with Mastodon, and it’s Apple’s utterly clueless bureaucratic App Store reviewers who are doing their best to lock the new playground’s gates before they even open.

Rich Johnston, reporting at Bleeding Cool:…