I suspect most people talking about the DOJ complaint against Apple don’t understand the issues with using a dominant position in one market to advantage you in a different market but I don’t have the time to read the complaint and write a proper blog post.
After upgrading to iOS 17.4, Siri (which I have set to Australian English) will now switch to Japanese to read out iMessages that are in Japanese. This is really cool but seemingly restricted to iMessage for some reason. I really hope this works in all apps as part of iOS 18.
I’m sure I’m not the first to notice this about Tenet but one way you could invert Daniel Craig’s James Bond movies would be to make a spy film about a black, American secret agent whose sidekick is a white, British secret agent.
I remain of the opinion that the EU’s Digital Markets Act should have required OS gatekeepers to permit sideloading of apps notarised by the OS owner. I understand this comes with trade-offs but those trade-offs are better than the status quo.
I’ve recently got back into doing the NYT’s Spelling Bee after some time away and I’m surprised how bad they are at making shareable messages for when you get to Genius. Don’t the same people work on this that work on Wordle and Connections?
I’ve been trying to remember a picture book from the 80s that I read in Australia as a child. My sister finally worked out what it was: Don’t Get Burnt! by Jack Bedson and Peter Gouldthorpe.
So I’ve finally started using Signal and now have to work out if I want to run the Electron app on my Mac or just go without messaging there.
So if you’re using an iPad with an external keyboard and you tab away from Mail, Mail will reset the focus to the message list when you tab back. I don’t know if this is Mail’s fault or iPadOS’s but I’m tempted to blame iPadOS.
Allow me to be the 5,467th person to point out how silly it is that Apple Music’s Replay feature kicks you over to Safari.
I’ve been using computers for a little over 30 years and I don’t think I’m ever going to remember that Excel hijacks the scroll wheel as long as it’s the active window.
And then I was back to one Linode.
Chris Eidhof and Nicholas Christowitz’s SwiftUI Field Guide is excellent. I wish SwiftUI were open source so work like this didn’t have to be reverse-engineered from scratch.
Has anyone worked out when iMessage will show previews of Bluesky posts and when it won’t? There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason.
Why doesn’t Safari have a shortcut that allows you to open a URL in a Tab Group?