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John Gruber now has to cope with U.S. v Apple (daringfireball.net)

After so much seething over the EU and the DMA, how will he continue to defend his favorite megacorp?...

Threads Has Begun Federating Via ActivityPub (daringfireball.net)

Adam Mosseri:...

App Store Rankings as a Proxy for Social Network Momentum (daringfireball.net)

‘But What Do We Do if Google Is Legitimately Just a Better Search Engine?’ (daringfireball.net)

Snopes Shows the Folly of X’s New Link Presentation (daringfireball.net)

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/db5c8331-bffb-4bb3-961b-8db8bc06382d.png...

What’s the deal with Sensor Tower? (daringfireball.net)

Apple Tries to Explain to U.K. Legislators That You Can’t Add Back Doors to Secure Protocols (daringfireball.net)

Link to: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66256081

Counterpoint: Flip Phones Are a Dumb Idea (daringfireball.net)

“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable. But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free,” said Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit. (daringfireball.net)

Is there any question?

Daring Fireball: Reddit’s Hoped-For IPO and Pipe Dream of Cashing in on OpenAI’s Hype (daringfireball.net)

Link to: https://sixcolors.com/link/2023/06/apollo-to-shut-down-developer-has-receipts/

Reddit’s Hoped-For IPO and Pipe Dream of Cashing in on OpenAI’s Hype (daringfireball.net)

It seems pretty clear that all of Huffman’s recent decisions are driven by Reddit’s hoped-for IPO. On one front is the ugly fact that Reddit’s valuation is sinking.

Apollo Is a Work of Art (daringfireball.net)

Apollo has been one of my most used apps the past couple years... it'll be sad saying goodbye.

Apollo Is a Work of Art (daringfireball.net)

Found this on r/apple on Reddit. Also a nice exposition: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/09/apollo-reddit-demise.

First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS (daringfireball.net)

In the same way that the introduction of multitouch with the iPhone removed a layer of conceptual abstraction — instead of touching a mouse or trackpad to move an on-screen pointer to an object on screen, you simply touch the object on screen — VisionOS removes a layer of abstraction spatially.