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Make Your Own Thing - AT Protocol
John Gruber has been writing Daring Fireball for nearly a quarter of a century, analyzing and cataloging a distinct array of internet ephemera, designer nerdery, and, of course, the meteoric rise of Apple. He joins Jim to talk about what the pre-platform internet felt like, the oppressive sameness of contemporary web publishing, the creation of Markdown, and covering Apple for half of the company’s life.
!Boring Software
Apple Design Award Winner—(Not Boring) Weather, Habits, Timer, Calculator—better everyday apps, built like a game, 3D interface, customizable with skins, supported by members.
!Boring Software
Apple Design Award Winner—(Not Boring) Weather, Habits, Timer, Calculator—better everyday apps, built like a game, 3D interface, customizable with skins, supported by members.
Latest News - Apple Developer
Learn about the latest technologies, events, and policies for developers.
Steve Jobs
"FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values"--
Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation
Tim Cook enthusiastically supported global authoritarian policies while turning Apple Computer into a dull simulacrum of an interesting company.
What Anthropic’s Mythos and Project Glasswing Mean for Your Apple Devices - TidBITS
AI is accelerating the discovery of security vulnerabilities, transforming the landscape of digital security. But Apple users are in a good spot, thanks to Apple’s focus on security and control over the entire ecosystem. TidBITS Security Editor Rich Mogull explains Anthropic’s Mythos and Project Glasswing.
WWDC25: Apple’s Playing a Different Game
The strategy makes sense. The narrative is missing. Let’s examine Apple’s AI approach from first principles and assess whether WWDC delivered.
Alexander Obenauer
Exploring new and renewed ideas for how personal computing and the interfaces we think with can better serve people’s lives – expanding opportunity, agency, curiosity, and creativity.
The most brilliant move in corporate history?
In a bold departure from its Big Tech peers, Apple sidestepped the $650 billion AI infrastructure spending frenzy, a move likened to opting out of purchasing the US Navy annually. While Amazon, Goo…
Column: Apple takes its eye off the ball: Why Apple fans are really coming to hate Apple software
There always have been two great virtues in Apple's policy of keeping the development of hardware and core software in-house: their seamless integration with each other and their quality.
