Prominent Apple blogger John Gruber kicked off a firestorm on Twitter when he suggested recently that web developers “should not be trying to create a ‘native like app’ in a web browser.” Gruber said

Our long national iOS 15 Safari nightmare ended last month , praise be, but the lesser of the two bad Safari designs unveiled at WWDC persists and actually shipped : the new tabs in Safari 15 for Mac.

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DuckDuckGo is now carbon negative dating back to our founding in 2008 through 2020, and is committed to being carbon negative in perpetuity. We've pioneered new estimation techniques, given our distri

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The vast majority of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers decision in Epic v. Apple is both straight-forward and predictable; I wrote that the iPhone company would likely win when the lawsuit was filed , and

What does the future of email look like? How can you be a better digital citizen? And, why is online privacy so important? We answered all these questions and more when we sat down with Ricardo Signes

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As we await the beginning of Apple’s latest WWDC keynote and all of the new software products it will unveil, let’s talk about metaphors. Specifically, the meta

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Apple has announced impending changes to its operating systems that include new “protections for children” features in iCloud and iMessage. If you’ve spent any time following the Crypto Wars , you kno

There's been a lot of discussion recently about how "Safari is the new IE" ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ). I don't want to rehash the basics of that, but I have seen some interesting rebuttals, most commonly:

Published in Monday Note · 5 min read · Jul 25, 2021 -- by Jean-Louis Gassée In recent years, Apple has put great and generally well received emphasis on its Services business. Does this come at a cos

It was the monoculture all along. Marvel ’s WandaVision debuted on Disney+ on January 15th, timed perfectly for a pandemic-pummeled nation fresh from an assault on its Capitol so outlandish it could’v

Culture from the time-for-a-rethink dept Tue, Jul 20th 2021 10:49am - For many reasons, it seems we’re deep in the mire of the techlash: everywhere you look, there are stories about the evils of techn

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If I had a nickel for every time someone said they wished the M1 iPad Pro ran macOS instead of iPadOS, I’d be going into space with Jeff Bezos . The story of the M1 iPad Pro (and all iPads for that ma

The email evidence 1 in the Epic v. Apple trial has offered a cornucopia of insight into Apple’s internal deliberations over the last 14 years. Juicy stuff always comes to light in a big-money trial l

Embrace the Grind There’s this card trick I saw that I still think about all the time. It’s a simple presentation (which I’ve further simplified here for clarity): a volunteer chooses a card and seals

Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here . Or just read on… Last week, the Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine filed an a

It would be fair to say I'm pretty skeptical about Safari's new design. There are issues across all platforms that I hope Apple addresses before the app launches to the public this fall, but today I w

iOS and iPadOS 15. For the past three weeks, I’ve been running the developer beta of iOS and iPadOS 15 on my iPhone 12 Pro Max and M1 iPad Pro, respectively. Common wisdom says you’re not supposed to

This is a speech by John Gardner delivered in 1990 to McKinsey & Company : I’m going to talk about “Self-Renewal.” One of your most fundamental tasks is the renewal of the organizations you serve, and

5 minutes With WWDC this past week, I've spent some time sitting – stewing, somewhat – about the iPadOS 15 announcements and the subsequent sessions that have highlighted everything coming in the fall

For the third year in a row, Apple held an impressive WWDC (worldwide developers conference). The breadth of announcements across various product categories speaks to how Apple is successfully pulling

Safari is Apple’s web browser that was released back in 2003 with Mac OS 10.3 Panther. But you might be wondering, “what web browser did the Mac use before Safari was created?” Well they used Netscape

Stephen Hackett , Six Colors : Apple seems to be unhappy with the traditional browser design that includes navigation tools at the top, with websites being forced to live in their own view down below,

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Nations, like indiv

The Reflective Leader and Learning Organization Guide 9 min read · Sep 19, 2018 -- In search of better feedbacking As a coach and mentor, challenging people is a natural part of my work, and sometimes

Note : This story has not been updated since 2021. I bet there’s nothing you like more than dealing with passwords. Coming up with strong passwords, remembering them, saving them to password managers,

This is impressive, but it won’t help me get around town. During the iOS portion of Apple’s WWDC keynote , it showed some amazing demos of 3D cities and AR transit directions, but amid all the beautif

It’s Apple’s world. We all just have to try and live in it. Published in OneZero · 5 min read · Jun 10, 2021 -- Privacy segment of Apple’s WWDC keynote Apple’s glitzy developer conference this June, W

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference kicked off today. As with last year, the company opted to hold the event remotely due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But that didn’t stop Apple from

This morning at Apple’s second fully-remote WWDC keynote address, Craig Federighi introduced iOS and iPadOS 15. This year’s updates include significant improvements to core first-party apps, new contr