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Matt Richman, back in 2012: In 2009, Apple sold more iPhones than it did in 2007 and 2008 combined.…Meta Shutters Three VR Studios
Jan 14, 2026, 6:17 pm By John Gruber
Karissa Bell, Engadget: Several of Meta’s VR studios have been affected by the company’s…Google Launches Beta of ‘Personal Intelligence’, Connecting Gemini to Google Apps
Jan 14, 2026, 4:53 pm By John Gruber
Josh Woodward, VP of Gemini and AI Studio, on the Google blog: The best assistants don’t just know…Verizon’s Cell Network Is Down, and AT&T and T-Mobile Are Sassing Them About It
Jan 14, 2026, 3:28 pm By John Gruber
Jacob Krol, reporting for Techradar: While Verizon had a good few months, with the last major…Meta, a Completely Trustworthy Company, Leaks That Demand for Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Is Surging
Jan 14, 2026, 11:40 am By John GruberDaniele Lepido and Antonio Vanuzzo, reporting for Bloomberg (paywalled, alas): Meta Platforms Inc.…Sarah Perez on Core Devices, the Sequel to Pebble
Jan 12, 2026, 7:00 pm By John Gruber
Sarah Perez, writing at TechCrunch: “We’ve structured this entire business around being a…Apple, Rather Quietly and With No Details, Announces Partnership With Google to Use Gemini Technology for Apple Foundation Models, and Presumably, the Year-Overdue More Personalized Siri
Jan 12, 2026, 1:35 pm By John Gruber
CNBC: The multi-year partnership will lean on Google’s Gemini and cloud technology for future Apple…★ Why It Is Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe
Jan 12, 2026, 11:27 am By John Gruber
Norbert Heger, with a perfectly illustrated post, “The Struggle of Resizing Windows on macOS…Statement From Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
Jan 11, 2026, 9:52 pm By John Gruber
Shit’s getting real, folks. ★U.S. Senators Ask Cook and Pichai to Remove X and Grok From App Store and Play Store
Jan 11, 2026, 4:24 pm By John GruberU.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D, Oregon), Ed Markey (D, Massachussetts), and Ben Ray Luján (D, New…The New York Times Profiles John Ternus
Jan 8, 2026, 11:14 pm By John Gruber
Kalley Huang and Tripp Mickle, writing for The New York Times (gift link): Threading the needle…Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
Jan 8, 2026, 6:02 pm By John Gruber
Caroline Haskins, writing for Wired (News+ link, in case Wired’s paywall blocks you): Elon Musk’s…The Gold Trump Phone Still Hasn’t Shipped
Jan 8, 2026, 5:20 pm By John Gruber
Maybe “next year” meant “next next year”? ★The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible
Jan 7, 2026, 6:41 pm By John Gruber
This 2021 post from Jason Fried is a good chaser to his “The Big Regression” this week (which I…Howard Oakley on the MacOS 26 Tahoe UI
Jan 6, 2026, 6:31 pm By John Gruber
Howard Oakley, writing at The Eclectic Light Company macOS Tahoe’s visual interface: Fits largely…‘Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help’
Jan 6, 2026, 5:09 pm By John Gruber
Jim Nielsen: It’s extra noise to me. It’s not that I think menu items should never have icons. I…‘The Big Regression’
Jan 6, 2026, 4:41 pm By John Gruber
Jason Fried: My folks are in town visiting us for a couple months so we rented them a house nearby.…‘Who’s Who at X, the Deepfake Porn Site Formerly Known as Twitter’
Jan 6, 2026, 3:49 pm By John Gruber
The Financial Times has a nice illustrated guide to the leadership team at Twitter/X, where things…Don Mattingly Joins Phillies as Bench Coach
Jan 6, 2026, 11:51 am By John Gruber
Welcome to Philadelphia, Donnie Baseball. ★‘It’s Hard to Justify Tahoe Icons’
Jan 5, 2026, 10:24 pm By John Gruber
This essay from UI critic Nikita Prokopov is just devastatingly good. If you’ve looked at MacOS 26…
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