Daring Fireball

MacBreak Weekly:
John Gruber of Daring Fireball joins the MacBreak Weekly panelthis week! A deep dive into Apple’s new Siri following WWDC. WhyApple Intelligence & the new Siri are not coming to the EUinitially later this year. And could the iPhone Ultra’s launch...

David Pierce, host of The Vergecast:
So where did Markdown come from? It came from John Gruber. Johnjoins the show, along with Anil Dash, to tell the story of whereMarkdown came from and how it took over the world.
Markdown has been growing steadily for years, but it’s seen a step change in popularity now that it’s been embraced as the lingua franca of LLM agentic systems. I had an interesting all-too-brief chat last week in Cupertino with some people from Apple...

Yours truly, in September 2024, expressing skepticism that “European iPhones are more fun now”:
Meanwhile no one in the EU will get Apple Intelligence or iPhoneMirroring, both of which features are very useful, and, dare Isay, quite fun. Should we judge how much fun each side of thecontinental divide is having by how much fun they theoreticallycould...

Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch:
This week, Apple announced a series of discovery featuresthat will personalize app recommendations based on users’interests and behavior, providing a new way for developers to havetheir app discovered.
At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the iPhonemaker introduced Personalized Collections in the App Store, whichwill showcase recommendations tailored to the individual. Thesewill also include new “App Notes” that explain why the specificapps...