Justin Long is back again, this time for Qualcomm. Tom Warren, reporting for The Verge: Apple’s former “I’m a Mac” actor Justin Long defected to Intel a few years ago, and now he’s looking to switch to a Qualcomm-powered Windows PC. Which is worse? Being the butt of a joke that is only effective because […]
Author Archives: Jack Wellborn
In my last post, I likened hypothetical macOS virtualization in iPadOS to Mac OS X’s classic mode. The more I’ve thought about it however, the more I think classic mode isn’t the right analogy. Classic mode was for anyone migrating to Mac OS X, which was practically every Mac user at the time. I don’t […]
With the most recent round of “holy shit these new iPad Pros are really powerful” naturally came “I just really wish iPadOS weren’t so limited”. One idea that is currently making the rounds to make iPadOS less limited is to have some sort of virtualized Mac mode a la Mac OS X’s Classic Environment wherein […]
If you told people that Meta would start licensing their headset platform less than three months after Apple released the Vision Pro, most would assume that Apple’s headset must of sold like gangbusters. Not only has that not happened, it couldn’t happen based on supply chain constraints. So why license now? I have two thoughts: […]
I recently connected my AirPods Pro to our Apple TV, something I usually do on the occasion that my wife wants to sleep rather than unwind with some show. The resulting sound is always exceptionally good, even when it’s not immersive. In this particular case, the AirPods didn’t try to envelop me in sound because […]
Someone tried to pull a “shoebox” scam on me while I was traveling in NYC this week for work. By “shoebox” scam, I am referring to Charlotte Cowle’s The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger. If you haven’t done so already, I implore you to read it. […]
The Mac turns 40 today, so I figured I’d use the occasion to write about my first Macintosh. Before he retired, my Dad was a consultant at a firm. What he did was niche, but he was top three in his field. While I was in elementary school, my dad threatened to go independent and […]
Since June, I have been thinking of Vision as being more Mac-like, in part because both were built for multitasking1. The more I think about it however, the more I think that Vision is really a rethinking of how multitasking iPad apps should work. Almost a year ago, I argued that multitasking on iPad suffered […]
Products and features need to resonate with an audience in order to succeed. People feel, sometimes immediately, when a feature resonates with them, and it’s that feeling that gives them a sense of whether a related product is revolutionary and not the other way around. The iPhone was almost immediately and universally recognized as a […]
Joe Rossignol, at MacRumors: When the feature is turned on, iPhone users are required to authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID for additional actions, including viewing passwords or passkeys stored in iCloud Keychain, applying for a new Apple Card, turning off Lost Mode, erasing all content and settings, using payment methods saved in Safari, […]