★ Is Chrome Even a Sellable Asset?

It’s hard to come up with a buyer who could afford to pay a high price for Chrome and who would pass regulatory muster as its new owner. And if Chrome is not worth a high price, or simply isn’t sellable at one, then why is the DOJ trying to force Go…

★ Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search

Paying for Kagi today feels a *lot* like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday.

The Actual Reason Facebook Renamed Itself

Synology Hard Drive Locking

Patrick Kennedy (via Hacker News): According to HardwareLuxx, Synology is on a rough course with generations-old sub-par NAS hardware and now appears to be locking its NAS units to its own branded hard drives in its upcoming 2025 Plus models. This i…

Revisiting ZFS for Mac

Hacker News is highlighting Adam Leventhal’s 2016 post (2016 comments) about Apple’s Leopard-era support for ZFS: A few weeks before WWDC 2007 nerds like me started to lose their minds: Apple really was going to port ZFS to Mac OS X.[…]ZFS was to br…

★ Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search

Paying for Kagi today feels a *lot* like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday.

Meta Laid Off Over 100 Employees in Reality Labs

★ Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search

Paying for Kagi today feels a *lot* paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday.

60 Minutes on Executive Producer Bill Owens’s Resignation and Paramount’s Editorial Interference

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on What ‘Founder Mode’ Really Means (and How It Might Apply to Apple)

TechFan 523 – Idiotic Tariffs

David has a car deal go sideways and Tim explains what the dealership was actually doing. Plus, time to buy before massive price hikes The post TechFan 523 – Idiotic Tariffs appeared first on MyMac.com.

MyMac Podcast 1012: What to see at WWDC

About a month and a half before WWDC and what will Apple bring to the table? Naturally Apple isn’t saying anything, but that hasn’t The post MyMac Podcast 1012: What to see at WWDC appeared first on MyMac.com.

Rumor Suggests iPadOS 19 to Get Some Mac-Like Tweaks, Like a Menu Bar

Rumor Suggests iPadOS 19 to Get Some Mac-Like Tweaks, Like a Menu Bar

Wayne Ma Reports That Political Tensions Are Making It Difficult for Apple to Shift More iPhone Production From China to India

Financial Times Reports That Apple Wants to Produce All U.S. Phones in India by the End of Next Year

Henry Blodget’s Illustrated 2013 Travelogue of Flying in Coach on a Long International Flight

Henry Blodget Creates Imaginary Staff of AI Personalities for His New Website and Hits on One of Them

Virus Protection for Phone

Jeff Johnson: The app in question is Virus Protection for Phone, which claims to be “Trusted by millions of users worldwide”. I don’t know whether that’s true, but for what it’s worth, the app is currently ranked #88 in the free utilities category o…

The Subjective Charms of Objective-C

Gabriel Nicholas: To argue that Objective-C resembles a metaphysically divine language, or even a good language, is like saying Shakespeare is best appreciated in pig latin. Objective-C is, at best, polarizing. Ridiculed for its unrelenting verbosit…

Is Electron Really That Bad?

Federico Viticci (Mastodon): I’ve been thinking about this video by Theo Browne for the past few days, especially in the aftermath of my story about working on the iPad and realizing its best apps are actually web apps.I think Theo did a great job c…