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gruber, 10 months ago to random

Threads is the most fun, most interesting new product of the year, and no one in the E.U. can use it, or will be able to use it anytime soon, because their own elected officials passed a law that effectively bans it.

Nice job. Have fun over here in the library.

gruber, 11 months ago to random

I spent about 30 minutes using/touring Vision Pro yesterday. Ask me anything.

gruber, 1 year ago to random

Bluesky is going to skyrocket to mainstream popularity and actually replace Twitter, and Mastodon cannot, because Bluesky is being designed to be simple, fun, and — most importantly — easy to understand.

gruber, 4 months ago to random

Had another, more wide-ranging, demo with Apple Vision Pro today. Ask me anything.

Me, sitting on a couch, wearing an Apple Vision Pro, making a pinch gesture with my right hand.

gruber, 10 months ago to random

Welcome to the EU web:

gruber, 11 months ago to random

Anyone else getting noticeably worse battery life with WatchOS 9.5 (including 9.5.1)? I’ve gone from like ~36 hours to under 24.

gruber, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Your favorite iPhone Mastodon client (wish I could list more than 4 options in a poll, feel free to reply if your favorite isn't listed, e.g. the official Mastodon client):

gruber, 7 months ago to random

I’m surprised the setup process for every new iPhone still asks whether you want to use FaceID with a mask when 99+% of people aren’t wearing face masks any more. There are lots of features that a small percentage of people use, but they don’t get asked in the device setup process.

gruber, 1 month ago to random

Electron.

gruber, 7 months ago to random

The ads in Apple News are both high-class and high-resolution.

gruber, 1 year ago to random

Perfect example of one of the dozen or so reasons why Mastodon is doomed to relative obscurity and Bluesky is going to thrive: petulant nannyism:

https://federate.social/@mattblaze/110317006852580015

gruber, 7 months ago to random

Weird bug I’ve never seen with any previous iPhone I’ve owned: my iPhone 15 Pro stopped charging over USB-C. Tried multiple cables, multiple chargers, nothing.

Powered the iPhone off and back on, and it’s back to normal. But I can’t recall ever seeing an iPhone refuse to charge before. (iOS 17.0.3.)

gruber, 5 months ago to random

My prediction is that Apple will make changes—fixing bugs and/or closing loopholes—that break Beeper Mini. It’s untenable that there’s unsanctioned client software for a messaging platform for which privacy and security are a primary feature.

It’s a very nice app, remarkably clever, and for now works like a charm, but if Apple wanted an iMessage client for Android they’d release an iMessage client for Android. Seems irresponsible for Beeper to charge a subscription for an unsupported service.

gruber, 9 months ago to random

Someone tell the people at Google Drive that you don't include punctuation characters like “+” or “-" when showing keyboard shortcuts. Just ⌘V, not ⌘+V. You know, like every menu in every Mac or Windows apps for the last 39 years.

gruber, 9 months ago to random

Always a question when publishing a screenplay as a book: typeset with Courier, per the actual working drafts used in the industry, or with a proper text face like a novel? Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is set in Sabon (my favorite text typeface):

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gruber, 6 months ago to random

For years now, I’ve rarely gotten SMS spam. But about two weeks ago I started getting 5-10 spam SMS texts per day, every day. They’re all crap like this, most of from those 5-digit short code numbers. Did I just stumble onto some sort of list, or is this happening to others suddenly too?

gruber, 11 months ago to random

If I could pick just one feature for Apple to add in iOS 17, it would be a system-wide clipboard history. (Or APIs that would allow third-party apps to implement a system-wide clipboard history, but I think sandboxing would make that impossible. Probably has to be an OS feature.)

gruber, 8 months ago to random

This ad poster for the iMac is utterly perfect. Perfect photo, perfect slogan (the period at the end is key — “Yum” without the period wouldn’t quite play the same way), perfect relative scale and placement of the elements. Even the kerning is perfect — Apple Garamond never looked better or more timeless.

gruber, 8 months ago to random

Does anything in the Apple multiverse sync less reliably than Shortcuts? It just botched all of my folders and organization for the umpteenth time. I can’t even imagine how infuriating this must be for people who are more serious Shortcuts users than me.

gruber, 6 months ago to random

Spitball idea for iOS: When doing a screen recording, automatically turn on Do Not Disturb for the duration of the recording.

So many times when I’m recording my screen, say, to have a video to send a developer with a bug report, the recording gets ruined by an incoming notification.

gruber, 5 months ago to random

I find it fun and very useful to connect my iPhone to a Bluetooth keyboard. Makes for an amazing portable travel setup. But it drives me batty that Cmd-Tab doesn’t work in the iPhone variant of iOS. Feels downright spiteful, to be honest.

(Would be really cool to add iPadOS’s trackpad cursor support to iPhoneOS too. Why not?)

gruber, 11 months ago to random

New bollards at the Walnut Street Apple Store.

gruber, 2 months ago to random

Every few weeks the same thing with Signal for Mac. Same for WhatsApp. Only iMessage gets this right and treats non-phone devices as first-class clients that can actually log in on their own.

gruber, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Will Apple release a new MagSafe Battery Pack with a USB-C port?

gruber, 8 months ago to random

One thing I forget, attending post-2020 Apple keynote events in person, is that everyone watching at home (or watching after the fact) has no idea what garnered applause and what did not. The USB-C announcement got raucous applause from the media section.