Count on good old Tom Warren to come up with the take that the MacBook Neo is actually good news for Microsoft in an article titled, and I shit you not, The MacBook Neo is the best thing to happen to Windows in years. In the article, Warren argues that Microsoft has always responded well […]
Author Archives: Jack Wellborn
In light of Apple’s recent 50th anniversary, I have been thinking about what the world would look like had the company never existed. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about Ridley Scott’s famous 1984 commercial. While absurdly melodramatic, the ad points to a future antithetical to the one both Steves at Apple were trying to create, one […]
Gruber, on whether Apple’s upcoming March “experience” might have something to do with F1: A reader pointed out that the 2026 Formula 1 season starts in Australia on March 8. You will recall from October that Apple TV is now the exclusive broadcast partner for F1 in the U.S. Apple is already dabbling with live […]
John Gruber made an excellent and compelling argument for avoiding certain terms when describing the hateful, nationalist, far right party running the United States currently, and instead suggests we all do what we can to ensure the names they call themselves end up just as stigmatized. Our goal should not be to make fascist or […]
My wife and I are big fans of the series Columbo, starring Peter Falk. The show had two separate runs. The first and much better original series aired on NBC in the 1970s while the latter still-sort-of-good revival aired on ABC about a decade later. Like every other program made for television before the age […]
Nathan Edwards, in a Verge article titled “I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great1“, writes: First challenge: My mouse buttons don’t work. I can move the cursor, but can’t click on anything. I try plugging in a mouse (without unplugging the first one), same deal. Not a major issue; I can get around […]
Anil Dash recently made an observation on Mastodon that included a screenshot of an iPadOS 26 setup screen with a prompt showing three options: Full Screen Apps, Windowed Apps, and Stage Manager. While each option had a description, Stage Manager curiously was the only one that ended with “more…” As someone who has written quite […]
Matt Birchler recently did a nice YouTube video praising the open source tile manager AeroSpace. There is a lot to love about AeroSpace right from the get-go. While I definitely wouldn’t call it Mac-assed, since AeroSpace is for very advanced users and developers who are comfortable with text configuration files, my sense is that AeroSpace […]
In olden days computers had just two emotions. They either happily worked as expected or were too sad to boot. Computers today have a range of emotions, but tragically have no way to express them. That’s why our scientists developed MacMoji using the latest in sticker technology, so your favorite computers can finally convey exactly […]
There are two arguments some use to try and diminish Steve Jobs contribution to the Macintosh, and by extension all of desktop computing. The first and by far most common is to say that Jobs merely copied what he saw at Xerox Parc. While there is absolutely no doubt both the Macintosh and NeXT grew […]