Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon? Immersive content for the Vision Pro—one of the device’s best features—has been frustratingly slow in coming. But Apple just announced a bunch of new stuff: Starting this week, Apple is releasing al…
Lees meerSportswriter Will Carroll joins Jason for an all-Sports Corner edition. We discuss the NBA TV deal, the NFL lawsuit, and the future of sports broadcasting. [Downstream+ members also get: the post-RSN world, Netflix and live sports, and more.]…
Lees meerMy podcast player of choice for the last ten years just celebrated, yep, its 10th anniversary. Here’s Overcast’s sole proprietor, Marco Arment: Today, on the tenth anniversary of Overcast 1.0, I’m happy to launch a complete rewrite and redesign …
Lees meerWhere we primarily do our text entry (smartphone, tablet, or computer), our involvement with user groups either as speakers or attendees, the apps we keep in our iPhone dock and why, and how we use Apple Pay.…
Lees meerIn this episode we reveal whether or not we bought anything.…
Lees meerThe iPadOS 18 Public Beta is here. Dan Moren has his first impressions of all the features it shares with iOS 18, but there are a few that are exclusive to the iPad.…
Lees meermacOS Sequoia, out in public beta now and due to be released this fall, is more of a work in progress than most macOS beta versions come July.…
Lees meerSix takes on one Home Screen: eat your heart out, Andy Warhol. Ultimately the reaction to 18’s initial public beta may be more about what’s not there than what is.…
Lees meerJason and Myke interview the writers of “What If…? An Interactive Story” for Vision Pro about the challenges of writing something that’s not quite a movie and not quite a video game for a brand-new platform.…
Lees meerEuropean Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager has announced that Apple has committed to allowing third-party payment apps use the same NFC features as Apple Pay in Europe.…
Lees meerSlowing that AI roll.…
Lees meerOur interest in the new Amazon Echo Spot, our current charging setup and thoughts on Nomad’s new 65W GaN charger, thoughts on a HomePod with a display, and which dead property we’d like to see AI revive from any medium.…
Lees meerAt this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple gave a little bit of time to its major platforms: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS—even tvOS got some love. But one device was conspicuously absent: the HomePod.…
Lees meerCamilla Hodgson and George Hammond, writing at the Financial Times (paywalled): Apple had also been expected to take an observer role on OpenAI’s board as part of a deal to integrate ChatGPT into the iPhone maker’s devices, but would not do so, a…
Lees meerVia Christina Warren, some jokers called Web Orange Limited have acquired The Unofficial Apple Weblog—a classic player in Apple blogging—and have turned it into a gross AI-generated garbage blog posting as a real one: The Unofficial Apple Weblog …
Lees meerThere’s more news about Apple’s battles with Epic and the EU, and Apple tightens its ties with OpenAI, but all of the controversy gets us thinking about what makes us stay excited about technology during difficult times.…
Lees meerThere’s a joke in one of my favorite movies, “Real Genius,” which feels directly applicable to a lot of AI discussions we’re having today. (It’s an ’80s movie, so it’s not a scene—it’s a montage, set to “I’m Falling” by The Comsat Angels.)…
Lees meerOur app routines, how we feel about smart rings, the smartest other tech gadgets in our homes, and how we stay informed without spiraling into doom.…
Lees meerHello, darkness, my old friend. We’ve come to talk technology again.…
Lees meerFederico Viticci and John Voorhees of MacStories have published an open letter to EU and U.S. officials calling for stricter regulation of how AI models are trained that honors the intellectual property rights of creators: The danger to the Inter…
Lees meerAfter some feedback about the future of the Vision Pro, we discuss Apple’s adventures in the EU, the inevitable fragmentation of Siri, and a curious new AirPods rumor.…
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