2023 Six Colors Apple in the Enterprise Report Card

Jason Snell (tweet): In most categories, our panel’s view of Apple in the enterprise was on an upswing. The company made large gains in the categories of enterprise service and support and in macOS identity management (its 3.3 average was still fair…

SVG to SwiftUI Converter

Antoni Silvestrovic (via Dave Verwer): Tool to convert SVG to SwiftUI’s Shape structure. This approach is much more memory efficient than introducing a SVG library for rendering.[…]This repository is just a front-end wrapper over our svg-to-swiftui-…

Recovery on Apple Silicon Macs Has Changed Again

Howard Oakley: Recovery modes on Apple silicon Macs have also changed. In Big Sur, the primary Recovery system is stored in a hidden container on the internal SSD, and a fallback Recovery system in a volume alongside the boot volume group. Monterey …

News Is Not a Normal Mac App

Jeff Johnson on the News app’s Share menu: This doesn’t open in Safari but rather in my default web browser, which is Link Unshortener.Any normal Mac app — including Link Unshortener — can call the API to determine which app is your default web brow…

Microsoft Now Supports Windows 11 on Apple Silicon Macs, but Only Through Parallels

‘Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words’

Microsoft Now Supports Windows 11 on Apple Silicon Macs, but Only Through Parallels

‘Katie Knows Everything’

Kara Swisher on Katie Cotton

★ GM, CarPlay, and iPhones

In many ways our phones are our new digital hubs, and CarPlay exemplifies that role.

Kara Swisher on Katie Cotton

Katie Cotton, Rest in Peace

Ostensibly Private Twitter Circle Tweets Are Being Shown Publicly

★ GM, CarPlay, and iPhones

In many ways our phones are our new digital hubs, and CarPlay exemplifies that role.

CGP Grey Grades America’s State Flags

‘The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin’

★ The Case of the iPhone Case Poll

A poll about iPhone case usage, and my own iPhone 14 case recommendations.

Twitter Restricts Substack Links

Timothy B. Lee (Hacker News): Twitter users on Friday began noticing that they could not retweet or reply to tweets containing links to the Substack.com domain. This behavior seems to have started less than 48 hours after the popular newsletter plat…

Microsoft Teams Rewrite

Jeff Teper (via Ben Sandofsky, Slashdot): We have been listening to your feedback which has culminated in a reimagining of Teams from the ground up. The new app is built on a foundation of speed, performance, flexibility, and intelligence—delivering…

Substack Pricing Experiment

Gergely Orosz: Wow. @SubstackInc experimented with pricing, reducing it by 1 cent, so e.g. instead of $10/month, do $9.99/month. The result? A significant decrease for the pricing ending with .99. Which goes against conventional pricing wisdom!! Pad…

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