Vivid
Sat 1:26pm By John GruberMy 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: ‘Apple Devising Software to Help Anyone Build AR Apps’ Using Siri, Not Code
Fri 6:55pm By John GruberWayne Ma, reporting for The Information (MacRumors summary):…★ The Billions-Dollar VR/AR Headset Question
Thu 9:03pm By John GruberI 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.1982 TV News Report on Arcade Video Games
Thu 3:41pm By John GruberThis 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. ★U.S. State Department Is Phasing Out Times New Roman, Adopting Calibri
Thu 3:29pm By John GruberJohn Hudson and Annabelle Timsit, reporting last week for The Washington Post:…Facebook Reinstates Trump’s Accounts
Thu 2:56pm By John GruberNick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta:…[Sponsor] Double the Brightness of Your MacBook Pro With Vivid
Wed 5:04pm By Daring Fireball Department of CommerceThe 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!…Twitter(rific) and Accessibility
Wed 4:26pm By John GruberSpeaking 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:…Linea Sketch 4.2
Wed 4:15pm By John GruberGed Maheux at The Iconfactory:…LastPass Breach Is Looking Worse
Jan 24, 2023, 8:24 pm By John GruberCarly Page, reporting for TechCrunch:…WSJ: ‘Banks Plan Payment Wallet to Compete With PayPal, Apple Pay’
Jan 24, 2023, 4:19 pm By John GruberAnnaMaria Andriotis, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (News+, Archive.is):…Ivory 1.0 for iOS
Jan 24, 2023, 1:31 pm By John GruberStill “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? ★ChatGPT: The First True Threat to Google Search?
Jan 24, 2023, 12:41 pm By John GruberDave Winer:…Chartjunk of the Week
Jan 23, 2023, 10:50 pm By John GruberBen Norton, writing for Geopolitical Economy Report:…Twitter’s Infrastructure Continues to Crumble, Silently
Jan 23, 2023, 10:31 pm By John GruberDavid Frum, on Twitter:…The Lisa Turns 40
Jan 23, 2023, 5:44 pm By John GruberHansen Hsu, writing for the Computer History Museum:…Polygon: ‘Timothée Chalamet Even Makes Stumping for Apple Seem Cool’
Jan 23, 2023, 5:23 pm By John GruberAna Diaz, writing for Polygon:…Windows Central: ‘Microsoft Has Laid Off Entire Teams Behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens’
Jan 23, 2023, 4:55 pm By John GruberJez Corden, reporting for Windows Central:…★ Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball and The Talk Show, Early 2023 Edition
Jan 23, 2023, 4:39 pm By John GruberQ1 openings for weekly sponsorships and The Talk Show.★ HomePod Lives
Jan 23, 2023, 4:18 pm By John GruberWe’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.Tweetbot Is Dead; Long Live Ivory
Jan 23, 2023, 3:49 pm By John GruberNice goodbye to one of the very best apps I’ve ever used, and a splendid illustration. ★Meh
Jan 22, 2023, 1:45 pm By John GruberMy 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.”…WSJ: ‘How Apple Has So Far Avoided Layoffs: Lean Hiring, No Free Lunches’
Jan 22, 2023, 1:42 pm By John GruberAaron Tilley, reporting yesterday for The Wall Street Journal (News+):…Google Is Laying Off 12,000 Employees (6 Percent of Workforce)
Jan 20, 2023, 4:22 pm By John GruberSundar Pichai, in a company-wide memo:…The Talk Show: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’
Jan 19, 2023, 11:59 pm By John GruberCraig 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.…Twitterrific: End of an Era
Jan 19, 2023, 9:18 pm By John GruberThe Iconfactory:…Twitter Officially Bans Third-Party Clients
Jan 19, 2023, 9:11 pm By John GruberKarissa Bell, reporting for Engadget:…[Sponsor] Meh
Jan 19, 2023, 6:43 pm By Daring Fireball Department of CommerceHow 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,…★ App Store Rejection of the Week: Ice Cubes, a Splendid New Mastodon Client
Jan 19, 2023, 1:08 pm By John GruberWe’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.Amazon Lays Off ‘Up to 50 Percent’ of Staff at ComiXology
Jan 18, 2023, 3:47 pm By John GruberRich Johnston, reporting at Bleeding Cool:…
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