Daring Fireball

Om died two days ago, after a long battle against a bum heart.
Om and I often sat next to each other at Apple keynotes. This was not at all surprising or odd, insofar as we’d been friends for 20 years. Folks at Apple PR knew that we were close, and would often pair us together in post-keynote media briefings. I...

Apple, in a statement issues to the press yesterday, quoted fully by MacRumors:
The consumer electronics industry is facing an unprecedentedchallenge. The rapid expansion of AI data centers has created anextraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage. We havenever seen a component price increase this much, this quickly. Wehave...

Via MacRumors’s Buyer Guide, the current third-gen Apple TV 4K models were introduced in October 2022, and sport the A15 Bionic chip that debuted with the iPhones 13 in 2021. It’s widely believed that new hardware models are coming this fall. I mentioned...

On the eve of WWDC, in a post arguing that “SwiftUI Only Makes It Easy to Develop Bad Apps”, I wrote about an atrocious bug in Apple’s Journal app:
If you’re running MacOS 26 Tahoe, open Journal and make a newdummy entry. Type something like “The quick brown fox.” Thendouble-click on the word “brown” and delete it. Now invoke Undo....