If Apple releases a foldable, 10 full years after everyone else, and it’s literally the same thing we’ve seen in the decade, but just that there’s no crease, I think that’s a fail.
It should address way more issues than just the crease.
The problem with foldable phones isn’t the crease, and yet everyone is rushing to “solve” it.
The problem is the screens are soft and delicate and even your fingernail will leave a permanent mark.
We don’t talk about big tech and social good anymore but can all the algorithms just hide food content after 10pm
Honestly insane considering you used to be a pro fushigi athlete
Jony Ive made a “not precious” $5000 sailing lamp
I wanna read a real world review from someone who bought one and took it sailing
The display looks really good here. But when I see photos of it showing an ebook, it looks really bad.
Is it a display resolution issue or a text rendering issue?
Honestly shameful that Apple is whipping out every dark pattern in the book to mislead users into upgrading to 26
I guess it will disappear soon 🙃
Instagram became briefly usable this year, when they “experimented” with a following only feed. I could actually keep up with the people I care about it.
Then, they killed the experiment and it’s no longer usable.
What’s your tech wishlist for next year?
Mine are:
- Customizable panels in Figma
- Android-style silent notifications on iOS (an in-between setting between mute and regular notifications)
- Apple Music (desktop) actually becomes usable
- More indie and small tech in general
Summer in December?
See also, plus all the stuff about Apple in China
www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/t...
This is Tim Cook’s superpower.
And none of his rumored successors have demonstrated prowess at this.
www.techmeme.com/251210/p47#a...
The way to write like a human these days is to avoid em dashes
This is coming from people who are usually very careful and precise with their words, saying things like “he’s a fraud” or “he has no taste.”
Of course Dye was ultimately responsible given his role, but putting all the blame on him and using very strong words is going way too far.
The most astounding thing about the Alan Dye saga is that most people aren’t even saying “he’s bad“ or ”I dislike the work under his tenure”
They’re saying “he’s a fraud”
I've never been so scared by a tomato
Very cool that Cloudflare’s outage report had the CEO in the byline as the author.
Sure, I doubt he actually wrote it, but putting his name as ultimately the one responsible is admirable.
In similar incidents, it would just be some engineering lead.
blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
But it was flaky and sometimes slow.
Today’s Cloudflare outage reminded what a good decision it was to not go through with this plan.
A while ago, I had a fun home network project where I would route all my internet traffic through Cloudflare Warp.
The thinking was: I trust Cloudflare more than I trust my ISP and theoretically, web browsing should also be faster since it uses Cloudflare infrastructure instead of public ones.
The one missing thing is Discord support. I wanna play games and talk to my friends at the same time, which is more complicated on SteamOS
Xbox is also changing! They're trying to merge Windows and Xbox so essentially, Xbox is just a different form factor for Windows 🙃
The coolest thing with SteamOS though is it runs Windows games either as well, or sometimes even better. And it's just more elegant.
Yup, so excited
Even the title is a statement: in software, you're building sandcastles.
Incredible recruitment video
Focuses on the humans and barely about the company, only about how the interactions with the other people there make it special.
Then, a ton of discussion about family and life outside work.
The fact that this was made is a statement in itself.
youtu.be/WLlAqA0_vLs
I open Slack these days and all the new “features” are changes for the change’s sake.
Compliance/maintenance aside, they could probably keep the current version of Slack forever, and it’d be fine.
All software is “complete” at some point.
I think Slack was completed in 2024 or so.
Anything after that point is pure bloat.
Think of the homescreen and grid of icons. Sure, we got some pretty nice widgets now, but everything is still based around the grid.
The context of how people use phones these days is much different. Apps and workflows are fluid. And yet we’re still using the same paradigm as 2007, just prettier.
I think Liquid Glass stung because it claimed to be a big reimagining of iOS, but it was just a shiny reskin.
No one is mad that iOS is changing. The gestures in the iPhone X was almost a decade ago and that was game changing.
Yes, iOS needs a big reimagining. But Liquid Glass isn’t it.
