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Light Touch
Sam Henri Gold has made something wild: a full iPhone and iPod touch emulator for the Mac.
Black Ink 3
My thanks to Red Sweater for sponsoring the site this week. Black Ink 3 is the next version of their crossword app for both iOS and the Mac, and it’s premium features are free for all during its beta cycle!
Connected 627: The First Touch
This week on the podcast: Federico is back from the MacBook Pro event in LA, just in time to explain what’s going on with Siri AI in iOS 27.3. Meanwhile, Myke thinks the new iPad mini is fake, and Stephen interrupts with a good word from Sweden.
The Right Amount of Change
David Pierce at The Verge: I keep forgetting the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display has a touchscreen. I’ve been testing this new laptop, one of the most impressive Apple has ever created, for the better part of a week. I can’t stop noticing some of its other features: the slimmer design, the …
Comparing Touch on Windows to macOS
The crew over at ShortCircuit have a video up featuring the new MacBook Pro, and how touch on macOS stacks up to touch on Windows 11. LTT is primarily a Windows shop, but I was surprised at how many times they said Apple had done things in an easier and more obvious way.
Adaptive Dark Mode Coming to Safari 27.3
None of the lights, none of the lights.
I Fixed My iPhone Duo with This One Weird Trick
One of the most satisfying things about having a flip phone back in the day was being able to snap it shut when you were done with a call. You didn’t even have to be hanging up in anger — it was just a cool move.1 One aspect of the iPhone Duo that I am enjoying is akin to this. If I’m working on…
Sponsor: Black Ink 3
Black Ink 3, the next version of Red Sweater’s app for crossword connoisseurs, is coming soon for both iOS and Mac. A preview beta is now available with one of the most anticipated features: iCloud Sync. Now you can start solving a puzzle on your Mac in the morning, put a little time in during the …
Revolutionary Isn’t Always the Point
Mark Gurman, in his Power On newsletter, writing about the new MacBook Pro and how Apple launched it: Adding touch to that should have been treated as the biggest change to the Mac in more than half a decade. Instead, Apple presented it as more of a routine upgrade — rather than an opportunity to …
Inside HomeView Software
The HomeView’s OS — which doesn’t really seem to have a name — was explored over the weekend by several folks. It looks like an interesting mashup of iOS and watchOS, complete with a bunch of fun wallpapers. I’m partial to this one:
Mardo
My thanks to Mardo for sponsoring the site this week. It is the best Markdown viewer ever made. Press Space on a Markdown file and watch it render beautifully, live, in Quick Look. Free to read. Save 20% on Pro with code 512MARDO.
Connected 626: Droid Does
I am back on the podcast, and just in time: MacBook Pros can be touched, iPad mini chips can be binned, and John Ternus can change the world.
A Mac for the iPad World
Federico Viticci, in the smartest article I’ve read about the new MacBook Pro: I’d argue that the Mac’s lack of touch is a liability at this point. Its omission has turned from a deliberate design decision that made sense for its time to a choice dictated by inertia and, perhaps, an unwillingness…
On Bringing Touch to the Mac
Steve Levy got to speak to Apple’s CEO (and others) about the new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display for Wired (Apple News): I ask if Apple is about to break a long-imposed taboo and introduce a Macintosh with a touch screen. Ternus beams. “Who knew?” We are referring to the new MacBook Pro with …
MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display
Touch comes to the Mac.
A Forgotten Apple Network Server Prototype
Thanks to Cameron Kaiser’s excellent blog Old Vintage Computing Research, I have a growing interest in the Apple Network Server line of computers. One of Kaiser’s posts mentions the ANS 300, a model I wasn’t familiar with at the time. Turns out, it is wild. Tom Owad wrote about it back in …
MacBreak Weekly 1048: The Cupertino Coffin
I joined Jason Snell, Andy Ihnatko, and Shelly Brisbin on this week’s show to talk about our iPhone Duo impressions, reports of cracking phones, and Apple’s busy week of releases.
Duo Walk-In Purchases May Work After All
If you are looking for a Duo, you may get lucky at your local Apple Store. I was at mine half an hour before opening, was the first person in line, and one of just three folks who were able to buy one. I have like 90 minutes of use with it, but uhhhh this phone is weird.
The M6 Rolls into the iMac, Entry-Level MacBook Pro
Same designs as before, now just a good bit faster.
Sponsor: Mardo, the Best Markdown Viewer Ever Made
Do you read Markdown on your Mac? Plans, notes, READMEs, the files your AI writes for you all day? Then why not make every one of them a pleasure to read? Mardo is the best Markdown viewer ever made. Select any Markdown file in the Finder, press Space, and Quick Look shows it beautifully rendered…
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