Previously, on Daring Fireball

January 2026

Politics and the English Language, January 2026 Edition 28 Jan 2026

The Names They Call Themselves 27 Jan 2026

App Store 2025 Top iPhone Apps in the U.S. 26 Jan 2026

The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years 24 Jan 2026

Tahoe Added a Finder Option to Resize Columns to Fit Filenames 23 Jan 2026

Crazy People Do Crazy Things 19 Jan 2026

Thoughts and Observations Regarding Apple Creator Studio 17 Jan 2026

MacPaw Pulls the Plug on SetApp Mobile App Marketplace 16 Jan 2026

Why It's Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe 12 Jan 2026

'Fuck You, Make Me' Without Saying the Words 10 Jan 2026

Let's Call a Murder a Murder 8 Jan 2026

Pickle Smells Like a Cult 5 Jan 2026

Clicks Communicator and Clicks Power Keyboard 2 Jan 2026

December 2025

'Do a Better Job on the Wings' 30 Dec 2025

Slop Is Slop 29 Dec 2025

Apple Announces Changes to iOS in Japan for Compliance With the Mobile Software Competition Act 20 Dec 2025

A Request Regarding 'Magic Link' Sign-Ins and Apple's Passwords App 19 Dec 2025

Apple TV's New Fanfare 16 Dec 2025

The Full Text of Marco Rubio's Directive on State Department Typography, Re-Establishing Times New Roman 10 Dec 2025

iMessage's Delivery Architecture Makes It Hard to Block Without Blocking All iOS Push Notifications 9 Dec 2025

Meta Says Fuck That Metaverse Shit 7 Dec 2025

2025 App Store Award Winners: Tiimo, Essayist, and Detail 5 Dec 2025

Alan Dye Was in Tim Cook's Blind Spot 4 Dec 2025

Bad Dye Job 3 Dec 2025

Signal Secure Backups Are Now Available on iOS 1 Dec 2025

November 2025

Exploring, in Detail, Apple's Compliance With the EU's DMA Mandate Regarding Apple Watch, Third-Party Accessories, and the Syncing of Saved Wi-Fi Networks From iPhones to Which They're Paired 23 Nov 2025

Meta Replaced the Native Windows WhatsApp App With a Shitty Web App 15 Nov 2025

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.1, Along With Renamed and New Personalities 12 Nov 2025

The Software Update UI for Upgrading to MacOS 26 Tahoe Is Needlessly Confusing 10 Nov 2025

Apple and Google, Sitting in a Tree 6 Nov 2025

October 2025

Thoughts, Observations, and Links Regarding ChatGPT Atlas 28 Oct 2025

Apple Loses Landmark U.K. Lawsuit Over App Store Commissions 27 Oct 2025

Two Excellent New iPhone Camera Apps: Not Boring's !Camera and Adobe's Project Indigo 21 Oct 2025

The Just Plain M5 Chip Launches in Three Updated Products: 14-Inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro (Both Sizes), and Some Sort of Headset Thingamajig Called Vision Pro 15 Oct 2025

Complying With 'Demand' From Trump Administration, Apple Removes ICEBlock From App Store 3 Oct 2025

September 2025

Apple on the Digital Markets Act 26 Sep 2025

Personal Note 19 Sep 2025

August 2025

MacOS 26 Tahoe's Dead-Canary Utility App Icons 25 Aug 2025

MSNBC, Spinning Out of NBCUniversal, Rebrands as 'MS NOW' With a Godawful Backronym and Even Worse Logo 20 Aug 2025

How to Use iPhone Mirroring With More Than One iPhone 19 Aug 2025

Joe Caroff, Designer of the James Bond 007 Logo, Dies at 103 18 Aug 2025

Apple Issues a Workaround for the Blood Oxygen Sensor Ban for U.S. Apple Watches 14 Aug 2025

Max Read's 'A Literary History of Fake Texts in Apple's Marketing Materials' 13 Aug 2025

OpenAI Brings Back Legacy ChatGPT 4o Model in Response to Outcry From Users Who Find GPT-5 Emotionally Unsatisfying 11 Aug 2025

Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon 8 Aug 2025

Substack Raised Another $100 Million, Which, I Bet, Is Already Being Flushed Down the Same Toilet as Their First $100 Million 3 Aug 2025

The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap 2 Aug 2025

July 2025

Tea, the Women's Dating Gossip App Riddled With Security Vulnerabilities, Remains #3 on the US iPhone App Store 30 Jul 2025

ICEBlock, an iOS Exclusive 24 Jul 2025

Curse Not the King 18 Jul 2025

Save Yourself Some Dough on Apple Kit and Make Me Rich on Amazon Prime Day 9 Jul 2025

Jeff Williams, 62, Is Retiring as Apple's COO 8 Jul 2025

Full-Screen Ad for 'F1 The Movie' in Apple's TV App Linked Directly to the Web, and Nothing Bad Seemed to Happen 7 Jul 2025

June 2025

Apple Announces Sweeping but Complicated Policy Changes for Apps in the EU, Attempting to Comply With the Latest Dictums Regarding the DMA 28 Jun 2025

More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 The Movie' Wallet Ad 27 Jun 2025

One Week Out, Some Brief Thoughts and Observations on WWDC 2025 19 Jun 2025

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2025 14 Jun 2025

Apple's Spin on the Personalized Siri Apple Intelligence Reset 12 Jun 2025

Gurman Says New UI Is Named 'Liquid Glass' (and Makes a Terrible Analogy Regarding Apple's Risk With Falling Behind on AI) 8 Jun 2025

Truth Social Is Just Trump's Blog 6 Jun 2025

Apple Appeals EU's March Ruling on 'Interoperability' Requirements Under the DMA 2 Jun 2025

May 2025

Idiocy or Jackassery, You Make the Call: Tripp Mickle on Whether Trump's 'Made in America' iPhone Is a Fantasy 24 May 2025

More Insight and Not-Negativity 19 May 2025

15 Years Later: 'Very Insightful and Not Negative' 15 May 2025

That EU App Store Warning About External Purchases Is Not New, and Apple Proposed Improving It Nine Months Ago 15 May 2025

Single-Story a's in Very Early Versions of Macintosh System 1 14 May 2025

April 2025

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers Rules, in Excoriating Decision, That Apple Violated Her 2021 Court Order Regarding App Store Anti-Steering Provisions 30 Apr 2025

Is Chrome Even a Sellable Asset? 28 Apr 2025

Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search 28 Apr 2025

WebKit Adds Support for 'text-wrap: pretty', Now Shipping in Safari Technology Preview 9 Apr 2025

How Many New iPhones Can Fit on a Freight Plane? 9 Apr 2025

Tired: Irresistable Force vs. Immovable Object -- Wired: Unchanging Prices vs. Nonsensical Tariffs 4 Apr 2025

March 2025

France Fines Apple $162M for App Tracking Transparency, Taking the Side of Surveillance Advertisers Over Users 31 Mar 2025

'The Studio' Is Fantastic So Far 30 Mar 2025

The Website That Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss (You're Reading It) 26 Mar 2025

It Might Be Time for Me to Collect Some Being Right Points for My 2023 Bluesky Prediction 25 Mar 2025

Keyboard Maestro Hack of the Week: Don't Paste Images 21 Mar 2025

A Postscript on the Singular Nature of Mark Gurman's Reporting 16 Mar 2025

Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino 12 Mar 2025

A New System-Wide UI Look for iOS -- Let Alone MacOS, Too -- Would Be a Huge Deal 11 Mar 2025

Apple Is Delaying the 'More Personalized Siri' Apple Intelligence Features 7 Mar 2025

ABC Shuts Down FiveThirtyEight, and Pulls the Plug on Its Website 6 Mar 2025

Why Can't We Screenshot Frames From DRM-Protected Video on Apple Devices? 1 Mar 2025

February 2025

The iPhone 16e 26 Feb 2025

Apple Pulls Advanced Data Protection From the UK, in Defiance of UK Demand for Global Backdoor 21 Feb 2025

Thoughts and Observations on Today's iPhone 16e Announcement 19 Feb 2025

Golfo del Gringo Loco 17 Feb 2025

Fox's New Scorebug Graphic Design, and Our Innate Resistance to Change 10 Feb 2025

Nike's 'So Win' Won the Super Bowl 10 Feb 2025

My 2024 Apple Report Card 7 Feb 2025

Bootable Mac Startup Drive Backups, and Another Ode to SuperDuper 6 Feb 2025

'Hot Tub', a Hardcore Porn App for iOS, Hits AltStore in the E.U. 4 Feb 2025

As if Anyone Needed Further Proof, Patrick Soon-Shiong's Los Angeles Times Is Now a Propaganda Rag (and They're Bad at HTML) 1 Feb 2025

January 2025

Pebble Founder Eric Migicovsky Is Bringing It Back 29 Jan 2025

My Spitball Theory on TikTok's Current Semi-Reprieve in the U.S. 28 Jan 2025

Openvibe, a Multi-Social-Network App for Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads (Supposedly), and Nostr 28 Jan 2025

Thin Is In 25 Jan 2025

ICE Raids Are an Escalation of Our Long-Simmering De Facto Cold Civil War 24 Jan 2025

Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber 23 Jan 2025

Let's Not Mince Words Regarding Trump's Executive Order to Pause Enforcement of the TikTok Law and Provide Supposed Immunity to Companies That Are in Clear Violation of It 21 Jan 2025

BrikTok 19 Jan 2025

Nokia's Next-Day Internal Competitive Analysis of the Original iPhone Largely Got It Right 18 Jan 2025

One Bit of Anecdata That the Web Is Languishing Vis-a-Vis Native Mobile Apps 13 Jan 2025

Nvidia, the New King of Keynotes 11 Jan 2025

After Years of Moderation-Heavy Zagging, Zuckerberg Announces That Meta Is Going Back to Moderation-Light Zigging Across Its Platforms 7 Jan 2025

Apple Claims It Will Soon 'Further Clarify' Which Notifications Are AI-Generated Summaries, Following Embarrassing BBC News Summarization Mistakes 6 Jan 2025

December 2024

OpenAI's Board, Paraphrased: 'To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of Money' 29 Dec 2024

Journalism Requires Owners Committed to the Cause 20 Dec 2024

On the Accountability of Unnamed Public Relations Spokespeople 14 Dec 2024

Federico Viticci on Apple Intelligence, With ChatGPT, as a Breakthrough Automation Tool 13 Dec 2024

The Information Suggests, in an Aside, That Apple Scrapped Work on a Quad-Max/Double-Ultra M-Series Chip 11 Dec 2024

Don't Throw the Baby Out With the Generative AI Bullshit Bathwater 6 Dec 2024

Andy Grove Was Right 3 Dec 2024

November 2024

Apple Tends to Do Right by Apps It Acquires 24 Nov 2024

Regarding -- and, Well, Against -- Substack 20 Nov 2024

Dr. Oz 19 Nov 2024

Disambiguating iPhone Model Names That Have the 'S' Suffix 12 Nov 2024

How It Went 8 Nov 2024

It Doesn't End 8 Nov 2024

I Wonder 7 Nov 2024

Kottke on the Art and Power of Hypertextual Writing 5 Nov 2024

October 2024

In Defense, I Swear, of the Magic Mouse's Charging Port Placement 28 Oct 2024

Profiles in Cowardice: Owner Jeff Bezos and Publisher William Lewis of The Washington Post 26 Oct 2024

Vision Pro Bites Dog 25 Oct 2024

The Sordid Tale of Rudy Giuliani's Yankees World Series Rings 22 Oct 2024

Consider the Plight of the VC-Backed Privacy Burglars 10 Oct 2024

September 2024

A Few Brief Thoughts on Meta Connect 2024 25 Sep 2024

Panels, a New Wallpaper App From Marques Brownlee 25 Sep 2024

The iPhones 16 18 Sep 2024

The Things They Carried 16 Sep 2024

The iOS Continental Drift Fun Gap 8 Sep 2024

The iOS Continental Drift Widens 6 Sep 2024

August 2024

The Mac Is a Power Tool 10 Aug 2024

Apple's Profits From Services Are on the Cusp of Surpassing Its Profits From Device Sales 5 Aug 2024

July 2024

Apple Strikes Deal With Taboola to Sell Ads for Apple News 19 Jul 2024

The AT&T Data Breach Shows Why RCS Can't Be Trusted and the Downside of Apple Adding Support for It in iOS 18 17 Jul 2024

It's the Guns, It's the Guns, It's the Guns 14 Jul 2024

June 2024

Apple Disables WebKit's JIT in Lockdown Mode, Offering a Hint Why BrowserEngineKit Is Complex and Restricted 24 Jun 2024

WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence 23 Jun 2024

Training Large Language Models on the Public Web 21 Jun 2024

By My Count Trump Is Batting .900 on the Ten Commandments 21 Jun 2024

The EU Is Reaping What It Sows With the DMA: Uncertainty 21 Jun 2024

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2024 14 Jun 2024

Gurman's Epic Pre-WWDC Leak Report 7 Jun 2024

Now Qualcomm Went Long 4 Jun 2024

May 2024

Spotify's Car Things to Be Rebranded as Car Bricks 24 May 2024

Follow-Up on Apple No Longer Including Stickers With New Products 15 May 2024

The M4 iPad Pros 14 May 2024

Brief Thoughts and Observations on Yesterday's 'Let Loose' iPad Keynote 8 May 2024

April 2024

Base-Model RAM in Apple Devices 25 Apr 2024

Making a Mountain Out of Molehill-Sized M4 News 21 Apr 2024

Face the Critic: Ian Betteridge Edition 19 Apr 2024

European Data Protection Board Goes There, Rules Against Meta's 'Pay or OK' Model 17 Apr 2024

From the Department of Spending Tim Cook's Money: Online Photo Storage Is Surely Expensive to Offer, but Apple Should Offer More 9 Apr 2024

March 2024

More on the EU's Market Might 29 Mar 2024

The EU's Share of Apple's Global Revenue 26 Mar 2024

European Commission Opens DMA Non-Compliance Investigations Against Google, Apple, and Meta 25 Mar 2024

My 2023 Apple Report Card 18 Mar 2024

Quickly Toggling Closed Captions on Apple TV (But Not in Netflix) 15 Mar 2024

Apple Adjusts DMA Plan to Offer Direct Downloading of Apps From the Web (With a Big Asterisk), Custom Link-Out Screens, and Marketplaces Solely for the Distribution of a Developer's Own Apps 13 Mar 2024

Once More Unto the Apple / Epic / European-Commission Breach, Dear Friends, Once More 11 Mar 2024

Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball and The Talk Show, Early 2024 Edition 9 Mar 2024

Apple Reinstates Epic's EU Developer Account 8 Mar 2024

Apple Terminated Epic's EU Developer Account 6 Mar 2024

February 2024

Poll Results on Apple's FineWoven iPhone Cases 28 Feb 2024

Apple Sports 21 Feb 2024

The European Commission Had Nothing to Do With Apple's Reversal on Supporting RCS 16 Feb 2024

Phil Spencer Puts Apple's Money Where His Mouth Is 15 Feb 2024

Simple Tricks and Nonsense 2 Feb 2024

January 2024

The Vision Pro 30 Jan 2024

Apple's Plans for the DMA in the European Union 26 Jan 2024

'Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand' 18 Jan 2024

Coming to Grips With Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement to Its Commissions From Third-Party iOS Apps 17 Jan 2024

Margrethe Vestager Met With Tim Cook Yesterday, But I Doubt Anything Happened 13 Jan 2024

Al Gore, Mac Nerd and Internet Pioneer 12 Jan 2024

Heyja Vu: App Store Rejects 37signals's New Hey Calendar App 8 Jan 2024

December 2023

Beep Beep 28 Dec 2023

App Store Rankings as a Proxy for Social Network Momentum 14 Dec 2023

iOS 17.3, Now in Beta, Includes New 'Stolen Device Protection' Feature 12 Dec 2023

Beeper Mini Is Back, But Without Phone Number Registration 11 Dec 2023

Beeper? I Hardly Knew Her. 10 Dec 2023

November 2023

More on Sam Altman's Ouster From OpenAI 18 Nov 2023

Qualcomm's Awkward Boasting Regarding Its Forthcoming X Elite Platform 18 Nov 2023

Vision Pro, Spatial Video, and Panoramic Photos 10 Nov 2023

The 2023 M3 MacBook Pros 6 Nov 2023

October 2023

The Best Leather Cases for iPhone 15 Pro 30 Oct 2023

Apple Again Hikes Prices for Its Media Services 25 Oct 2023

Apple to Broadcast 'Scary Fast' Event Next Monday Night 24 Oct 2023

Apple and AI 23 Oct 2023

There's a New Apple Pencil With a USB-C Port, and My Thoughts Turn to the Complexity of the Overall iPad Lineup 18 Oct 2023

Google's Pixel 8 Launch Event 5 Oct 2023

iPhone 15 OverheatGate Seems to Be a Nothingburger 1 Oct 2023

September 2023

Craptacular Is More Like It 21 Sep 2023

The iPhones 15 Pro (and iPhones 15) 19 Sep 2023

AirPods Pro 2, Now With USB-C Charging Case 18 Sep 2023

Thoughts and Observations on This Week's 'Wonderlust' Apple Event 15 Sep 2023

Apple's Two-Pronged Annual iPhone Strategy 11 Sep 2023

The China-Apple Cold War Heats Up 10 Sep 2023

August 2023

Idle Speculation on the Widely-Assumed Switch to USB-C Ports on the Upcoming iPhones 15 29 Aug 2023

'Changes to U.K. Surveillance Regime May Violate International Law' 23 Aug 2023

Walt Disney's Mid-Century Business Strategy Charts 17 Aug 2023

Disney and Apple, Sitting in a Tree 16 Aug 2023

Holy Hell, Trump Did Use Twitter Direct Messages, There Were 'Many' of Them, and the Special Counsel Now Has Them 15 Aug 2023

Was Trump Using Twitter Direct Messages? (Please Let the Answer Be Yes.) 10 Aug 2023

What's the Deal With Sensor Tower? 5 Aug 2023

Oh to Be a Fly on the Wall During the Conversation Where Elon Musk Asks Tim Cook to Help X Corp Replace iOS as the Bedrock Everything Platform 3 Aug 2023

July 2023

Nobody Uses Threads Anymore, It's Too Crowded 31 Jul 2023

Jackasses of the Week: TechRadar (Foldable Phones Edition) 29 Jul 2023

Translation From Hostage Code to English of X Corp CEO Linda Yaccarino's Company-Wide Memo 26 Jul 2023

Aptos, Microsoft's New Default Font for Office Documents 21 Jul 2023

Of Course Apple Has an LLM AI in the Works, and of Course the Bloomberg Report Revealing Its Code Name Mentions How the Story Moved the Company's Stock Price 19 Jul 2023

Nerding Out With Maestral, LaunchControl, and Keyboard Maestro 19 Jul 2023

Now Apollo Faces the Cliff 7 Jul 2023

Threads 5 Jul 2023

June 2023

Ahead of Season 1 Finale, Apple Has Made the Entire First Episode of 'Silo' Free -- on Twitter 28 Jun 2023

FTC Sues Amazon, Claiming 'Deceptive' Prime Sign-Up and Cancellation Process 26 Jun 2023

More on Preemptively Blocking Facebook's Imminent ActivityPub Entry 20 Jun 2023

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2023 10 Jun 2023

First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS 7 Jun 2023

May 2023

On Apple Fitting a Headset Announcement Into the Always-Packed WWDC Keynote 19 May 2023

Do Wall Street Journal Reporters Read The Wall Street Journal? 18 May 2023

Let's Check in on Supermicro, the Target of Bloomberg's 'The Big Hack' 18 May 2023

Proposed Name for GM's Upcoming In-House Software Platform (You Know, the One That Isn't Going to Support CarPlay): Edsel 16 May 2023

Browser and OS Market Share Trends in the Mobile Age 2 May 2023

Follow-Up on 'Adware for Apple Services in iOS' 1 May 2023

April 2023

If You Come at the King 21 Apr 2023

Adware for Apple Services in iOS 20 Apr 2023

Warner Bros. Discovery Is Really Going to Drop the 'HBO' Brand and Just Call Its Streaming Service 'Max' 12 Apr 2023

GM, CarPlay, and iPhones 10 Apr 2023

A Bit of Follow-Up on Wavelength 4 Apr 2023

The Case of the iPhone Case Poll 3 Apr 2023

March 2023

Wavelength 27 Mar 2023

It's Game Over on Vocal Deepfakes 21 Mar 2023

To Ship or Not to Ship, Headset Edition 13 Mar 2023

Phony Stark Picks on the Wrong Guy, Attempting (and of Course Botching) an HR Exit Interview Live on Twitter 7 Mar 2023

Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff 1 Mar 2023

February 2023

Warren Beatty and Warren Beatty as Dick Tracy Debate Warren's Beatty's 'Dick Tracy' 26 Feb 2023

Bing, the Most Exciting Product in Tech 17 Feb 2023

My 2022 Apple Report Card 10 Feb 2023

Making Our Hearts Sing 1 Feb 2023

January 2023

Meanwhile, Over in Androidtown 31 Jan 2023

The Billions-Dollar VR/AR Headset Question 26 Jan 2023

Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball and The Talk Show, Early 2023 Edition 23 Jan 2023

HomePod Lives 23 Jan 2023

App Store Rejection of the Week: Ice Cubes, a Splendid New Mastodon Client 19 Jan 2023

If a Tree That Was Never Announced Falls in a Forest Does It Make a Sound? 18 Jan 2023

Knee-Jerk Reactions and Thoughts Regarding The Information's Latest Report on Apple's Upcoming Headset 3 Jan 2023

December 2022

I Wish I Could Tell You This One Is Not All About Twitter 16 Dec 2022

If a Third-Party App Store Falls in the Forest and No One Uses It, Does It Make a Sound? 14 Dec 2022

Two Weeks Later and Twitter Is Still Up 2 Dec 2022

November 2022

Twitter Tumult 18 Nov 2022

October 2022

App Store Ads Gone Wild 31 Oct 2022

The 2022 iPad (and a Wee Note About the 2022 iPad Pros) 26 Oct 2022

The iPad Lineup Is, Like, Growing Out Its Bangs or Something and Looks a Little Weird Right Now, but Apple TV Has Been Going to the Gym and Looks Great 21 Oct 2022

Everything 6 Oct 2022

September 2022

Apple Watch Ultra 21 Sep 2022

The iPhones 14 Pro (and iPhones 14) 15 Sep 2022

Thoughts and Observations on Last Week's 'Far Out' Apple Event 13 Sep 2022

A Quick Run-Through of Rumors and Speculation Ahead of This Wednesday's 'Far Out' Event for the iPhones 14, New Apple Watch Models, and Who Knows What Else 6 Sep 2022

August 2022

Facebook's Problems 31 Aug 2022

The Financial Times on the Effects of App Tracking Transparency on Small Businesses 12 Aug 2022

Is App Tracking Transparency Actually Doing Anything Truly Significant? 11 Aug 2022

Dropbox Branding and App Store SEO Shenanigans 5 Aug 2022

Vin Scully 3 Aug 2022

iMessage Editing and Un-Sending in the Fourth iOS 16 and MacOS 13 Developer Betas 1 Aug 2022

July 2022

The 2022 13-Inch MacBook Air 15 Jul 2022

June 2022

The New Prohibition 28 Jun 2022

How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch ID, and Require a Passcode to Unlock Your iPhone or iPad 27 Jun 2022

Two New Apps I Wanted to Flag for You 23 Jun 2022

German Regulators Open Investigation Into Apple's App Tracking Transparency 14 Jun 2022

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2022, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak 10 Jun 2022

Basic Apple Guy's Prescient Reimagining of System Preferences on MacOS 9 Jun 2022

May 2022

Wonder Twin Powers 27 May 2022

The Grave Insult of Being Sent the Proper Tools to Perform a Complicated Task 26 May 2022

A Touching Goodbye for iPod 10 May 2022

Noted Interaction Design and Security Expert Margrethe Vestager Redesigns the iPhone's NFC Support 4 May 2022

April 2022

More Rumors on Apple Obtaining the Rights to NFL Sunday Ticket 18 Apr 2022

30 Years of BBEdit Not Sucking 15 Apr 2022

Studio Display, One Month In 13 Apr 2022

Play Ball: Apple Announces More Details About 'Friday Night Baseball' on Opening Day 8 Apr 2022

Apple's Dance With the Netherlands ACM Continues 6 Apr 2022

March 2022

The D.O.J. Goes After Google's 'Communicate With Care' Program 24 Mar 2022

The Apple Studio Display 17 Mar 2022

The 2022 iPad Air 16 Mar 2022

The 2022 iPhone SE 15 Mar 2022

Twitter's Confusing New, but Hopefully Now Abandoned, 'Home/Latest' Timeline 14 Mar 2022

February 2022

On the Origin of the iPhone 25 Feb 2022

My 2021 Apple Report Card 15 Feb 2022

Going Dutch 7 Feb 2022

January 2022

A Tale of Attempted Censorship in Three Acts 31 Jan 2022

An Assortment of Links and Observations Regarding the Neil Young -Joe Rogan Spotify Saga 29 Jan 2022

Leaker Sinks Peloton Stock With Confidential Information 21 Jan 2022

Follow-Up on Yesterday's 1Password Item 20 Jan 2022

A Five-Letter Word for 'Rip-Off' 18 Jan 2022

Seeing Green 14 Jan 2022

The App Store Is (Well, Was) Lousy With Blatant Wordle Rip-Offs, but One of Them Takes the Cake 11 Jan 2022

The Algorithmic Ad Monster Cometh for Podcasts 6 Jan 2022

December 2021

Appeals Court Grants Apple a Delay on Injunction Mandating Changes to App Store in Epic Case 8 Dec 2021

November 2021

Tim Sweeney Says the Quiet Part Out Loud 24 Nov 2021

A Few Follow-Up Points on Apple's Self Service Repair Program 18 Nov 2021

Apple's New Self Service Repair Program 17 Nov 2021

Craig Federighi's Sideloading Keynote at Web Summit 16 Nov 2021

October 2021

The 2021 14-Inch MacBook Pro 25 Oct 2021

Last-Minutes Guesses for Today's 'Unleashed' Event 18 Oct 2021

Apple Watch Series 7 13 Oct 2021

The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac's 'Tabs' 1 Oct 2021

September 2021

Why Does the iPhone Still Use Lightning? 27 Sep 2021

Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic's Fortnite Developer Account, but Epic's Other Developer Accounts Remain Active 22 Sep 2021

The 2021 iPad Mini 22 Sep 2021

The iPhones 13 21 Sep 2021

Various Single-Paragraph Thoughts and Observations Regarding Yesterday's 'California Streaming' Apple Event for the iPhones 13, Apple Watch Series 7, and New iPads 15 Sep 2021

Why iPhone Names Have Numbers and Most Other Apple Product Names Don't 9 Sep 2021

Initial Details on Using Driver's Licenses and State ID's in Apple Wallet 1 Sep 2021

August 2021

Let's Consider Some of the Implications of Third-Party Payment Processing for In-App Purchasing on iOS and Android 31 Aug 2021

Charlie Watts 28 Aug 2021

Apple's New 'Child Safety' Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope 6 Aug 2021

July 2021

Document Proxy Icons in MacOS 11 and 12 as a -- Ahem -- Proxy for Apple's Current UI Design Sensibilities 19 Jul 2021

If You Guys Are Really Us, What Number Are We Thinking Of? 13 Jul 2021

Regarding the Safari 15 Public Betas for Mac and iOS 2 Jul 2021

June 2021

Annotating Apple's Anti-Sideloading White Paper 23 Jun 2021

The New York Times: 'Sundar Pichai Faces Internal Criticism at Google' 21 Jun 2021

The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2021, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak 11 Jun 2021

App Store: The Schiller Cut 7 Jun 2021

'Secure Intent' on Apple Devices 2 Jun 2021

May 2021

The New Siri Remote (and Updated Apple TV 4K) 20 May 2021

The 2021 M1 iPad Pros 19 May 2021

The 24-Inch M1 iMac 18 May 2021

New York Times Report on Apple's iCloud 'Hard Bargain' in China 17 May 2021

70/30 Is Fine for Me, but Not for Thee 7 May 2021

Apple and the Built-In Advantage 4 May 2021

April 2021

Thoughts and Observations on This Week's 'Spring Loaded' Apple Event 23 Apr 2021

Et tu, Procter & Gamble? 9 Apr 2021

Actually, Two of the Third-Party 'Find My' Products Announced Yesterday Are Months Away From Availability 8 Apr 2021

In Russia, iPhone Apps Install You 2 Apr 2021

March 2021

Apple Holds Up ProtonVPN App Update for Two Days Over the Phrase 'Challenging Governments' 23 Mar 2021

Going Longer on Intel's Ad Spat With the Mac 18 Mar 2021

Intel Goes Long 17 Mar 2021

How to Enable 'Your Watch Is Fully Charged' Notifications in WatchOS 7 and iOS 14 8 Mar 2021

iA Writer 5 Mar 2021

Apple's App Store Privacy Nutrition Labels Depend on the Honor Policy, and, Surprising No One, Some Developers Are Dishonest 4 Mar 2021

Google's Outsized Share of Advertising Money 4 Mar 2021

Adoption Is Low for COVID-19 Exposure Apps, Rendering Them Effectively Useless 3 Mar 2021

February 2021

Apple Mail and Hidden Tracking Images 24 Feb 2021

How 'Unlock With Apple Watch' While Wearing a Face Mask Works in iOS 14.5 21 Feb 2021

Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess on Apple's Purported Interest in Making Cars 16 Feb 2021

The Two-Day Saga of the Apple Silicon DTK Exchange Program 11 Feb 2021

2020 Quote of the Year: 'What's the Downside for Humoring Him?' 2 Feb 2021

January 2021

My 2020 Apple Report Card 30 Jan 2021

Mac Mini Power Consumption and Thermal Output Specs 27 Jan 2021

Gus Mueller and Ken Kocienda on Brad Cox and Objective-C 25 Jan 2021

Incoming CEO of a Sand-Polishing Company in Oregon Makes Curious Remark 21 Jan 2021

December 2020

Charger Nerdery 31 Dec 2020

Facebook's Unknowable Megascale 29 Dec 2020

Facebook: Free as in Bullshit 18 Dec 2020

Facebook Takes Out Full-Page Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Changes Strengthening iOS Privacy 16 Dec 2020

I Suppose a Roman a Clef About a Design-Obsessed California Computer Maker With a Charismatic but Mercurial Founder Whose Youthful Arrogance Leads to His Ignominious Ouster and Exile, Only to Return a Decade Later to Not Only Save the Company From Seemingly Certain Ruin but Lead Them to Theretofore Unimaginable Triumph and Renown, Is Off the Table Too 15 Dec 2020

Heavy Is the Head That Wears the AirPods Max 10 Dec 2020

M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness 2 Dec 2020

November 2020

The M1 Macs 17 Nov 2020

The HomePod Mini 13 Nov 2020

One More Thing: The M1 Macs 11 Nov 2020

The iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max 9 Nov 2020

Sketch, and the Joy of Mac-App Mac Apps 9 Nov 2020

The Daring Fireball Election Desk Is Calling It: Biden Wins 4 Nov 2020

Disclosing a Few Thoughts on Facebook's UI Design 2 Nov 2020

October 2020

Sean Connery 31 Oct 2020

The 2020 iPad Air 22 Oct 2020

The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro 20 Oct 2020

Thoughts and Observations on Apple's 'Hi, Speed' iPhone 12 Event 16 Oct 2020

Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating 'Irrelevance' With 'Inconvenience' 14 Oct 2020

Translation From Adorable Bullshit to English of Microsoft's '10 Principles for the Microsoft Store on Windows' 11 Oct 2020

Facebook and the Group That Planned to Kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer 9 Oct 2020

September 2020

Widgetsmith and The Case of the Missing App Store Bunco Squad 26 Sep 2020

More Adventures in Solo Loop Sizing 23 Sep 2020

Adventures in Solo Loop Sizing 22 Sep 2020

Apple Watch Series 6: Graphite Is the New Black 17 Sep 2020

Brief Thoughts and Observations on Today's 'Time Flies' Apple Event 15 Sep 2020

Apple Leadership Bubblegum Cards 14 Sep 2020

Apple Announces Virtual 'Time Flies' Event Next Tuesday 8 Sep 2020

Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy 3 Sep 2020

August 2020

On TikTok as a Security Threat 18 Aug 2020

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney's Hand-Waving Explanation for How Game Consoles Deserve 30 Percent of Fortnite Revenue but Apple and Google's App Stores Do Not 17 Aug 2020

Thoughts on an 'Apple One' Subscription Bundle 14 Aug 2020

Epic Goes to War With Apple Over the App Store 13 Aug 2020

Dithering Preview 10 Aug 2020

Decoding Apple's Statement to Business Insider Regarding Xbox Game Pass 7 Aug 2020

July 2020

Trump Floats Delaying Election 30 Jul 2020

Parsing Tim Cook's Opening Statement From Today's Congressional Antitrust Hearing 29 Jul 2020

Good Sudoku by Zach Gage 23 Jul 2020

Return and Enter Are Two Different Keys 20 Jul 2020

Refer This 13 Jul 2020

A Moment of Clarity Regarding the Raison d'Etre for the App Store 9 Jul 2020

A Bit of Self-Served Claim Chowder Regarding iMessage and Phone Numbers as Identifiers 7 Jul 2020

How We Shot The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020 6 Jul 2020

June 2020

Working the Refs Worked: 'How Facebook Wrote Its Rules to Accommodate Trump' 29 Jun 2020

The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak 24 Jun 2020

Sponsorship Openings and The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020 19 Jun 2020

The Flimsiness of 'Business vs. Consumer' as a Justification for Apple's Rejection of Hey From the App Store for Not Using In-App Purchases 16 Jun 2020

On Apple Announcing the ARM Mac Transition at WWDC This Month 9 Jun 2020

May 2020

Translation From VC-Backed PR Jargon to English of Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz's Statement That He's 'Stepping Down' 29 May 2020

'What Time Is It in London?' 22 May 2020

No Mask, No Dice 21 May 2020

Department of Justice Reopens Spat With Apple Over iPhone Encryption 19 May 2020

A Spectacularly Bad Washington Post Story on Apple and Google's Exposure Notification Project 15 May 2020

More on Dithering 14 May 2020

Bloomberg Publishes Clickbait in Break From Rivals 13 May 2020

Let's Check In on the State of iPhone and Android CPU Performance 11 May 2020

Dithering 7 May 2020

April 2020

The 2020 iPhone SE 22 Apr 2020

The iPad Magic Keyboard 20 Apr 2020

The Quadrennial iPhone SE Schedule 16 Apr 2020

COBOL, Programming, and Coding 14 Apr 2020

Amazon and Apple Strike Deal for Prime Video In-App Purchases and Subscriptions 2 Apr 2020

March 2020

Regarding Zoom 30 Mar 2020

Curse Words 28 Mar 2020

The 2020 iPad Pros 24 Mar 2020

The 2020 MacBook Air 20 Mar 2020

Super Wednesday 18 Mar 2020

February 2020

Tot 27 Feb 2020

What You See in the Finder Should Always Be Correct 25 Feb 2020

Locations of Media Files in MacOS 10.15 Catalina 24 Feb 2020

The DF Tootbot Is Once Again Fully Operational 6 Feb 2020

My 2019 Apple Report Card 5 Feb 2020

January 2020

It's Not About Intuitiveness 30 Jan 2020

The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 27 Jan 2020

Hacked to Bits 26 Jan 2020

Regarding Reuters's Report That Apple Dropped Plan for Encrypting iCloud Backups 21 Jan 2020

Quit Confirmation for Safari on MacOS 10 Jan 2020

Front and Center 9 Jan 2020

The Concept Electronics Show 8 Jan 2020

David Ruddock on the State of Chrome OS 4 Jan 2020

December 2019

Catalyst, Two Months In 19 Dec 2019

Bluesky: Twitter Announces Effort to Build 'Decentralized Standard for Social Media' 11 Dec 2019

The Other Shoe Drops: Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement 9 Dec 2019

November 2019

Tim Cook Appears Alongside Trump in Re-Election Campaign Ad Shot in Mac Pro Plant in Austin 21 Nov 2019

L'Affaire Vaperware 20 Nov 2019

16-Inch MacBook Pro First Impressions: Great Keyboard, Outstanding Speakers 13 Nov 2019

Getting Started With Apple TV+ Is Easy and Obvious and Only the Very Last Step, Which Isn't Related to the Apple TV+ Signup Process in Particular, Made Me Want to Throw My iPhone Against a Wall 1 Nov 2019

October 2019

AirPods Pro First Impressions 29 Oct 2019

The Curious Design of Mail's Message Action Toolbar in iOS 13 25 Oct 2019

Idle Speculation on Whether Apple Is Going to Hold Another Keynote Event This Year 22 Oct 2019

On the Upcoming Photoshop for iPad 21 Oct 2019

Gurman on Catalyst's Shaky Debut 11 Oct 2019

Correction: Regarding an Erroneous Allegation in 'Richard Stallman's Disgrace' 7 Oct 2019

Apple and Hong Kong 4 Oct 2019

Turns Out the Telephoto Camera on the iPhone 11 Pro Does Not Support Night Mode 1 Oct 2019

September 2019

Richard Stallman's Disgrace 27 Sep 2019

iOS 13 Autocorrect Is Drunk 26 Sep 2019

iPhones 11 and Apple Watch Series 5 Q&A 20 Sep 2019

'You Could Always Just Use Flash' 19 Sep 2019

Apple Watch Series 5 18 Sep 2019

The iPhone 11 and iPhones 11 Pro 17 Sep 2019

Let's Go Further and Hope for Every Last Drop of Joy to Be Drained From the World 16 Sep 2019

About That Washington Post Story on Apple Copying Features From Top Apps in the App Store 13 Sep 2019

Malice or Incompetence: On the Rankings of Apple's Own Apps in App Store Results 12 Sep 2019

'It's Over. It's Over for Apple.' 12 Sep 2019

Brief Thoughts and Observations on Yesterday's Apple Event, Roughly, if Not in Fact Exactly, in the Order in Which They Were Announced 11 Sep 2019

Going Pro 4 Sep 2019

August 2019

Apple Addresses Siri Privacy Protections 28 Aug 2019

Siri, Privacy, and Trust 16 Aug 2019

July 2019

Superhuman and Email Privacy 23 Jul 2019

Apple Is Sending Out Another Silent Update To Fix the Webcam Flaw in Zoom's Partner Apps 16 Jul 2019

On Bill Gates's 'Greatest Mistake Ever' 15 Jul 2019

On the Post-Ive Future of Design at Apple 3 Jul 2019

June 2019

Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple 27 Jun 2019

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2019, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak 5 Jun 2019

May 2019

An iOS 13 Wish: A Return of Vibrant Tapdown States 24 May 2019

Playdate 22 May 2019

Some Good Old-Fashioned Speed Bumps for the MacBook Pro Lineup, and a Tweak to the Butterfly Key Mechanism 21 May 2019

Bloomberg Shits the Bed Again on Cybersecurity 16 May 2019

April 2019

All Podcasts Are Shows; Not All Shows Are Podcasts 25 Apr 2019

The Drumbeat of Impeachment 24 Apr 2019

Know When to Fold 'Em 23 Apr 2019

Why Apple Settled With Qualcomm 17 Apr 2019

Disney+ Details: $7/Month, No Commercials, Tons of Old and New Content 11 Apr 2019

Bad UI: MacOS 10.14's Software Update Release Notes 3 Apr 2019

March 2019

Very Brief Thoughts and Observations on Today's 'Show Time' Apple Event 25 Mar 2019

Apple Games 24 Mar 2019

The New iPad Mini 21 Mar 2019

Apple Releases New A12-Based iPad Air and iPad Mini 18 Mar 2019

On Spotify's Complaints About the App Store 15 Mar 2019

Life as a Facebook Moderator 1 Mar 2019

February 2019

Brief Thoughts and Observations on Samsung's Unpacked Event 20 Feb 2019

My 2018 Apple Report Card 15 Feb 2019

On Covering Webcams 8 Feb 2019

January 2019

25 Years Ago: RAM Doubler 28 Jan 2019

The R-Word 18 Jan 2019

Pentagram's 'Range of Possibilities' for Slack 16 Jan 2019

On Getting Started With Regular Expressions 11 Jan 2019

Codea's iOS Menu Bar 10 Jan 2019

On Netflix Pulling Out of iTunes Billing for New Users 3 Jan 2019

Steve Jobs and Apple's Last Previous Earnings Warning 2 Jan 2019

Apple's Terrible No Good Very Bad Earnings Warning 2 Jan 2019

December 2018

Opening New Tabs Next to the Current Tab in Safari 11 Dec 2018

Electron and the Decline of Native Apps 7 Dec 2018

The World's Shortest Review of Apple's $40 iPhone XR Clear Case 6 Dec 2018

Proof That iOS Still Hasn't Gotten Undo Right 5 Dec 2018

November 2018

An Alternative Theory on Purportedly Weak iPhone XR Demand 26 Nov 2018

Third-Party USB-C to Lightning Cables Might Come in Mid-2019 (Which Is Good, Because I Still Don't Think iPhone Is Ever Going to Switch to USB-C) 15 Nov 2018

Apple's Q4 2018 Results 6 Nov 2018

The 2018 Retina MacBook Air 6 Nov 2018

The 2018 iPad Pros 5 Nov 2018

October 2018

iPhone XR Review Roundup 26 Oct 2018

The iPhone XR 23 Oct 2018

Sometimes It's Better to Just Start Over With iCloud Photo Library Syncing 12 Oct 2018

Bloomberg's 'The Big Hack' 4 Oct 2018

September 2018

The Great DF Random Slowdown Should Be Over 20 Sep 2018

Apple Watch Series 4 19 Sep 2018

The iPhones XS 18 Sep 2018

Thoughts and Observations on Apple's iPhone XS/XR and Series 4 Apple Watch Introductory Event 15 Sep 2018

The Curious Case of Adware Doctor and the Mac App Store 7 Sep 2018

iPhone Naming Rumors, 2018 Edition 5 Sep 2018

August 2018

On 'Shake to Undo' 23 Aug 2018

Let's Really Think About This 'New Low-Cost Laptop to Succeed MacBook Air' Thing 22 Aug 2018

Twitter Addresses Why They've Broken Twitter for Third-Party Clients 16 Aug 2018

Reuters's Curious Sourcing on Doug Field Joining Project Titan 10 Aug 2018

Doug Field Returns to Apple After Leaving Tesla 9 Aug 2018

July 2018

Apple Updates MacBook Pro Models With Touch Bar 12 Jul 2018

June 2018

Google Demos Duplex 27 Jun 2018

May 2018

10 Strikes and You're Out -- the iOS Feature You're Probably Not Using But Should 31 May 2018

Yammering on One More Time Regarding Google's Duplex Recordings 22 May 2018

The Restaurant Where Google Claims to Have Booked an Actual Meal Via Duplex 17 May 2018

The End of Third-Party Twitter Clients? 16 May 2018

Lobe 2 May 2018

April 2018

Scuttlebutt Regarding Apple's Cross-Platform UI Project 30 Apr 2018

Design Plagiarism 17 Apr 2018

On Normalizing Rip-Offs 17 Apr 2018

Company-Wide Apple Memo on 'The Impact of Leaks' Leaks 13 Apr 2018

Regarding Mark Zuckerberg's Unused Talking Points on Tim Cook and Apple 11 Apr 2018

A Really Dumb Wall Street Journal Story on Apple Pay That Almost Makes a Good Point at the Very Beginning 3 Apr 2018

Users and Customers 2 Apr 2018

March 2018

Why Hasn't Samsung Ditched the Headphone Jack Yet? 14 Mar 2018

Open and Shut, Revisited 2 Mar 2018

Max Krieger's Twitter Threads on Design 1 Mar 2018

February 2018

iOS Messages and Smart Punctuation 20 Feb 2018

Sponsoring Daring Fireball, Early 2018 Edition 14 Feb 2018

The Threat to the Mac: The Growing Popularity of Non-Native Apps 12 Feb 2018

HomePod 6 Feb 2018

January 2018

HomePod's Priorities 26 Jan 2018

Apple Previews iOS 11.3 25 Jan 2018

The Scourge of Clickbait 23 Jan 2018

On Rumors of the iPhone X Being Produced for Only One Year 22 Jan 2018

Dean Allen 18 Jan 2018

ScreenShield -- a Third-Party SDK That Somehow Allows iOS Apps to Prevent Screenshots 10 Jan 2018

December 2017

Pressing the Side Button to Confirm Payments on iPhone X 28 Dec 2017

Apple Responds to Controversy on iPhone Batteries and Performance 28 Dec 2017

The iPhone X 26 Dec 2017

Marzipan 23 Dec 2017

Apple Addresses Why Some iPhones With Older Batteries Are Benchmarking Slower 20 Dec 2017

First Impressions of the New iMac Pro 14 Dec 2017

November 2017

High Sierra Root Login Bug Was Mentioned on Apple's Support Forums Two Weeks Ago 29 Nov 2017

Twitter's 280-Character Own Goal 9 Nov 2017

October 2017

iPhone X Review Roundup 31 Oct 2017

Face ID FUD 25 Oct 2017

September 2017

Cultural Insularity and Apple TV 28 Sep 2017

iPhone X Supply Is Going to Be Tight 27 Sep 2017

Google and Levi's 'Commuter Trucker Jacket with Jacquard' 25 Sep 2017

Thoughts on Apple TV 4K 21 Sep 2017

Apple Watch Series 3 20 Sep 2017

The iPhones 8 19 Sep 2017

Thoughts and Observations on the Products Announced at This Week's iPhone X Introductory Event 14 Sep 2017

Welcome to the Steve Jobs Theater 13 Sep 2017

X Man 12 Sep 2017

Serfing on the Giants' Farms 1 Sep 2017

August 2017

Wading Through AccuWeather's Bullshit Response 23 Aug 2017

Some Comments Regarding The New York Times's Report on Apple's Titan Project 22 Aug 2017

Daring Fireball Turns 15 18 Aug 2017

Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs 10 Aug 2017

Conjecture Regarding the Precise Details of the iPhone D22 Display Resolution 5 Aug 2017

July 2017

On Apple Removing VPN Apps From the App Store in China 31 Jul 2017

Unordered Lists in Markdown 26 Jul 2017

Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS 19 Jul 2017

iPhone Prelude 18 Jul 2017

iPhone Silly Season 13 Jul 2017

New on Daring Fireball: Display Ads 12 Jul 2017

Speculation Regarding the Pricing of and Strategy Behind This Year's New iPhones 7 Jul 2017

June 2017

Perfect Ten 29 Jun 2017

Munster's Model 29 Jun 2017

'Your' vs. 'My' 28 Jun 2017

'Inferior to a Laptop in Almost Every Way, Unless You Like to Draw' 27 Jun 2017

Medium and the Scourge of Persistent Sharing Dickbars 19 Jun 2017

iPad Pro Review Roundup 13 Jun 2017

The Knives Come Out for Phil Schiller in Brian Merchant's 'The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone' 13 Jun 2017

The 2017 iPad Pros 12 Jun 2017

In-App Purchase Scams in the App Store 10 Jun 2017

Update on The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2017 2 Jun 2017

Fuck Facebook 1 Jun 2017

May 2017

When the Scoops Run Dry 31 May 2017

What If the iPad Smart Keyboard Had a Trackpad? 31 May 2017

Halide 30 May 2017

Safari vs. Chrome on the Mac 24 May 2017

'The Spy Who Loved Me' 23 May 2017

Dropping Tech Giants 12 May 2017

Apple's China Problem: WeChat 5 May 2017

April 2017

Judging Apple Watch's Success 24 Apr 2017

On Uber's 'Identifying and Tagging' of iPhones 23 Apr 2017

The Swiss Watch Industry Should Double Down on Mechanical Watches 10 Apr 2017

'So-Called' 6 Apr 2017

The Mac Pro Lives 4 Apr 2017

March 2017

The Deck, Adieu 29 Mar 2017

Sometimes It Really Is the Cover-Up 28 Mar 2017

About That Purported 10.5-Inch iPad 20 Mar 2017

February 2017

On Today's Curious Wall Street Journal Report Claiming the Next iPhone Will Replace Lightning Port With USB-C 28 Feb 2017

The World's Worst Cocktail: The Alexa Martini 20 Feb 2017

Apple Moves WWDC Back to San Jose 16 Feb 2017

Investment Bankers Urge Apple to Spend Money Hiring Investment Bankers, News at 11 15 Feb 2017

On Apple's Capital Return Program 9 Feb 2017

Comparing the First Seven Years of the iPad and Mac 7 Feb 2017

January 2017

Additional Details on the New App Store Review Features 24 Jan 2017

On the Likelihood of Losing Your AirPods 24 Jan 2017

Apple's Continuing Need for Worthy Rivals 20 Jan 2017

The Right Way to Pop Your AirPods Out of the Case 11 Jan 2017

On Chuq Von Rospach's 'Apple's 2016 in Review', and the AirPort and Mac Pro Lineups in Particular 3 Jan 2017

Craig Hockenberry's 'Making Sense of Color Management' 2 Jan 2017

December 2016

Regarding Uber's New 'Always' Location Tracking 19 Dec 2016

November 2016

On Jony Ive's Role at Apple 22 Nov 2016

The New Touch-Bar-Equipped MacBook Pros and the State of the Mac 14 Nov 2016

October 2016

On Hiding vs. Encapsulating Complexity, in the Context of Twitter's Experimental Reply Interface 28 Oct 2016

On iMessage's Stickiness 24 Oct 2016

Why Do Websites Publish AMP Pages? 21 Oct 2016

Don't Hold Your Breath for an iPhone Edition 20 Oct 2016

Walt Mossberg: 'Why Does Siri Seem So Dumb?' 12 Oct 2016

Apple Responds to Dash Controversy 10 Oct 2016

September 2016

Design as Branding 20 Sep 2016

Why A-Series Benchmark Scores Matter 15 Sep 2016

All Work and No Headphone Jack Makes Nilay a Dull Boy 15 Sep 2016

Apple Watch Series 2 and WatchOS 3 14 Sep 2016

The iPhones 7 13 Sep 2016

Melanie Ehrenkranz and Apple's Response to Her Criticism Over the Paucity of Women Onstage at Last Week's Event 12 Sep 2016

Thoughts and Observations on This Week's iPhone 7 / Apple Watch Series 2 Special Event 10 Sep 2016

'Courage' 9 Sep 2016

iPhone 7: Jet Black vs. Black 9 Sep 2016

August 2016

Vesper, Adieu 23 Aug 2016

Bloomberg's Report on Apple Watch 2 21 Aug 2016

Is Donald Trump Actually Trying to Win? 18 Aug 2016

Uber to Begin Testing Self-Driving Cars in Pittsburgh 18 Aug 2016

Apple and the Pistol Emoji 4 Aug 2016

July 2016

Jack Off 29 Jul 2016

June 2016

Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives 21 Jun 2016

Brief Thoughts and Observations Regarding Today's WWDC 2016 Keynote 13 Jun 2016

App Store Subscription Uncertainty 8 Jun 2016

The New App Store: Subscription Pricing, Faster Approvals, and Search Ads 8 Jun 2016

Headlines Matter 6 Jun 2016

May 2016

Peter Thiel, Gawker, and Freedom of Speech 25 May 2016

Translation From Corporate Jargon Doublespeak to English of MCX CEO Brian Mooney's Statement on the Future of CurrentC 16 May 2016

Gboard 12 May 2016

Instagram's New Look 11 May 2016

Apple Music and Coherent Product Design and Marketing 4 May 2016

April 2016

Apple and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Drop in iPhone Sales 27 Apr 2016

The App Store and Retail Co-op 21 Apr 2016

March 2016

The iPhone SE 31 Mar 2016

Brief Thoughts and Observations Regarding Today's 'Loop You In' Apple Event 21 Mar 2016

February 2016

On the San Bernardino Suspect's Apple ID Password Reset 21 Feb 2016

Apple's App Problem 3 Feb 2016

January 2016

Why Apple Assembles in China 20 Jan 2016

December 2015

The Curious Case of the Curious Case 11 Dec 2015

November 2015

What Goes Up 13 Nov 2015

The iPad Pro 11 Nov 2015

September 2015

The iPhones 6S 22 Sep 2015

How to Turn iOS 9's Keyboard Back to All Caps 18 Sep 2015

De Facto Veto Power 18 Sep 2015

Brief Thoughts and Observations Regarding Today's 'Hey Siri' Apple Event 9 Sep 2015

Prelude to Tomorrow's 'Hey Siri' Apple Event in San Francisco 8 Sep 2015

August 2015

'It May Seem Silly' 22 Aug 2015

'Which Is the Most Important Device You Use to Connect to the Internet?' 6 Aug 2015

July 2015

Safari Content Blocker, Before and After 8 Jul 2015

May 2015

On Jony Ive's Promotion to Chief Design Officer 27 May 2015

On the Apple Watch Interaction Model and the Digital Crown 21 May 2015

Facebook Introduces Instant Articles 13 May 2015

On the Long-Term Viability of Apple's Customer-First Strategy 8 May 2015

April 2015

Watch, Apple Watch 30 Apr 2015

Android Wear's Low-Power Ambient Mode 22 Apr 2015

Custom Watch Faces 20 Apr 2015

The Apple Watch 8 Apr 2015

Reach for the Sky, Pando 6 Apr 2015

March 2015

The H-Word 25 Mar 2015

Apple Watch Prelude 7 Mar 2015

February 2015

On the Pricing of Apple Watch 20 Feb 2015

The Artful Dodge 18 Feb 2015

Thinking About the Split in Apple Watch Sales by Model 17 Feb 2015

60 Frames Per Second and the Web 15 Feb 2015

Dazzling Results 4 Feb 2015

January 2015

On Jeff Williams and Apple's Executive Team 29 Jan 2015

Siri Improvements 13 Jan 2015

Apple and Eras of Flux 9 Jan 2015

On Charging the Purported USB-Only MacBook 8 Jan 2015

December 2014

Yahoo's Decline 17 Dec 2014

Tortured Logic 16 Dec 2014

Mozilla, Way Late to the Game, Finally Decides to Bring Firefox to iOS 4 Dec 2014

November 2014

iPhone 6 vs. 6 Plus Split Among Daring Fireball Readers 18 Nov 2014

Native Apps Are Part of the Web 17 Nov 2014

Google's App Aesthetic 3 Nov 2014

October 2014

Retailers Are Disabling NFC to Block Apple Pay 25 Oct 2014

The iPad Air 2 (And a Few Cursory Words Regarding the iPad Mini 3) 21 Oct 2014

Note to Self: It's the Storage Space, Stupid 8 Oct 2014

September 2014

Now Batting for the Yankees, Number 2 26 Sep 2014

On Switching and Lock-In 18 Sep 2014

The iPhones 6 17 Sep 2014

Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations 16 Sep 2014

Prelude to Tomorrow's Big-Ass iPhone Apple Event 8 Sep 2014

Security Trade-Offs 3 Sep 2014

August 2014

Conjecture Regarding Larger iPhone Displays 22 Aug 2014

July 2014

Two Memos 18 Jul 2014

June 2014

Only Apple 13 Jun 2014

WWDC 2014 Prelude 1 Jun 2014

May 2014

Some Tweaks to the @daringfireball Twitter Account 16 May 2014

Titles 8 May 2014

Katie Cotton 7 May 2014

April 2014

The Nocera Chronicles 15 Apr 2014

No One Said Following Is Easy 14 Apr 2014

Rethinking What We Mean by 'Mobile Web' 8 Apr 2014

March 2014

Wouldn't Have Happened If Tim Cook Had Been in Charge 27 Mar 2014

The Truthiness of Apple's Decline 18 Mar 2014

The Ecosystem Chess Game 14 Mar 2014

February 2014

From the Department of Fitting Facts to the Narrative 28 Feb 2014

Working Backwards to the Technology 25 Feb 2014

Just Do Something 24 Feb 2014

On the Timing of iOS's SSL Vulnerability and Apple's 'Addition' to the NSA's PRISM Program 22 Feb 2014

Microsoft, Past and Future 4 Feb 2014

January 2014

That's No Lemonade. That's a Space Station. 30 Jan 2014

Special 29 Jan 2014

On Google's Acquisition of Nest 13 Jan 2014

December 2013

Thoughts on Google Glass 30 Dec 2013

2013: The Year in Apple and Technology at Large 27 Dec 2013

Lightning, the Epitome of Apple 4 Dec 2013

November 2013

The Retina iPad Mini 15 Nov 2013

Rockstar, Patent-Holding Firm Partially Owned by Apple and Microsoft, Sues Google and Android Handset Makers 1 Nov 2013

October 2013

The iPad Air 29 Oct 2013

Thoughts and Observations Regarding This Week's Apple Event Introducing the iPad Air and Retina iPad Mini 26 Oct 2013

iMessage End-to-End Encryption: We Have to Take Apple's Word for It 19 Oct 2013

Apple and China 15 Oct 2013

Design Quality and Customer Delight as Sustainable Advantages 9 Oct 2013

Apple's Stock Price After Product Announcements 4 Oct 2013

September 2013

Vesper: What's New and What's Next 27 Sep 2013

The iPhone 5S and 5C 17 Sep 2013

Thoughts and Observations on Today's iPhone 5C and 5S Introduction 10 Sep 2013

More on Nintendo and Handheld Gaming 6 Sep 2013

Nintendo in Motion 1 Sep 2013

August 2013

The Case for a New Lower-Cost iPhone 13 Aug 2013

July 2013

Fitting the Facts to the Narrative 31 Jul 2013

'Everybody Loves Bob' 29 Jul 2013

June 2013

It's Been a While Since I've Done the Thing Where I Quote the Entirety (or Nearly So) of an Article and Then Dissect/Comment Upon It Line-by-Line, but I Do Still Have a Taste for It, Even Though in This Particular Case It's a Month Late 20 Jun 2013

'This Is Our Signature': iOS 7 10 Jun 2013

WWDC 2013 Expectations 9 Jun 2013

May 2013

All the Mashed Potatoes 16 May 2013

Google Versus 15 May 2013

Facebook Home and Dogfooding 14 May 2013

April 2013

Web Apps vs. Native Apps Is Still a Thing 30 Apr 2013

If Not for Android, Where Would the iPhone Be? 29 Apr 2013

Pricing and Profit Consistency and the Halo Effect 17 Apr 2013

March 2013

Everything Else 19 Mar 2013

Ceding the Crown 15 Mar 2013

Open and Shut 1 Mar 2013

February 2013

When All You Have Is an 'Apple Is Doomed Without Steve Jobs' Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail 27 Feb 2013

The Rise of Bounding Asterisks in Lieu of Italicization for Styling Text 6 Feb 2013

The C Word 5 Feb 2013

January 2013

It's Earnings Day, So Everyone Needs to Squeeze the Last Bit of Jackassery From Last Quarter's Tube of AAPL Paste 23 Jan 2013

The Trend Against Skeuomorphic Textures and Effects in User Interface Design 18 Jan 2013

How to Create Retina-Caliber Favicons 4 Jan 2013

December 2012

A Big Misunderstanding 20 Dec 2012

Google Maps for iPhone 13 Dec 2012

Why 'The Daily' Failed 3 Dec 2012

November 2012

Miscellaneous Thoughts and Observations on iTunes 11 29 Nov 2012

Best Dell Ad Ever 13 Nov 2012

Seriously, Apple Is Doomed 9 Nov 2012

October 2012

The iPad Mini 30 Oct 2012

Forstall Out; Ive Up 29 Oct 2012

Thoughts on the Display, Price, and Name of the Impending Smaller iPad 18 Oct 2012

Kindle Paperwhite 10 Oct 2012

Snappli and Claims of iOS Maps App Usage Plummeting 1 Oct 2012

September 2012

On the Timing of Apple's Map Switch 26 Sep 2012

Get the Fainting Chair 26 Sep 2012

The iPhone 5 18 Sep 2012

Thoughts and Observations Regarding Yesterday's iPhone 5 and Music Event 13 Sep 2012

Amazon's Play 11 Sep 2012

Homage vs. Rip-Off 5 Sep 2012

August 2012

Sharing the Stage 23 Aug 2012

Thinking This iPad Mini Thing Even Througher 14 Aug 2012

Pixel Perfect 13 Aug 2012

July 2012

Inspired by Sony 31 Jul 2012

Mountain Lion 25 Jul 2012

Let's Try to Think This iPad Mini Thing All the Way Through 9 Jul 2012

The iPhone and Disruption: Five Years In 2 Jul 2012

June 2012

Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place 20 Jun 2012

Three Takeaways From Today's WWDC Keynote 11 Jun 2012

May 2012

Let's Have Some Fun Reading Way Too Much Into the Preliminary Schedule for WWDC 2012 30 May 2012

A Few Words About The Talk Show 29 May 2012

More on Apple's Removal of Airfoil Speakers Touch From the App Store 24 May 2012

How Apple Could Play the Bigger-Display iPhone Thing at WWDC, Which I Swear, I'm Still Not Convinced Is for Real But We're Getting to the Point Where There's an Awful Lot of Smoke for There Not to Be a Fire So Let's Run With It 23 May 2012

iOS Low-Hanging Fruit 11 May 2012

Connect the Dots 7 May 2012

April 2012

Putting iPad Sales in Context 25 Apr 2012

Flashback and the E-Word 9 Apr 2012

Apple's Highest Priority Is Obviousness 5 Apr 2012

March 2012

Separating the Baby From the Bath Water 20 Mar 2012

iPad (3) 14 Mar 2012

Only Apple 8 Mar 2012

February 2012

Cookies and Privacy 24 Feb 2012

Mountain Lion 16 Feb 2012

Walter Isaacson's 'Steve Jobs' 14 Feb 2012

The 'Apple Should Be Worried If Anyone Else Has Any Success Whatsoever' School of Thought 10 Feb 2012

January 2012

I'ma Set It Straight, This Watergate 24 Jan 2012

On the Proprietary Nature of the iBooks Author File Format 20 Jan 2012

Regarding the Scope of Apple's Education Initiative 18 Jan 2012

Why Are Android Smartphones Bigger Than the iPhone? 17 Jan 2012

On the Behavior of the iPhone Mute Switch 13 Jan 2012

The Church of Market Share 9 Jan 2012

Spaghetti Against the Wall 6 Jan 2012

You Do Not Need to Manually Manage iOS Multitasking 4 Jan 2012

December 2011

Seeing It 31 Dec 2011

Merry 25 Dec 2011

The New Twitter (R.I.P. Tweetie) 8 Dec 2011

Rootkit, Eh? 1 Dec 2011

Translation From Corporate Jargon Doublespeak to English of Carrier IQ's 'Media Alert' 1 Dec 2011

November 2011

Fun With Numbers 23 Nov 2011

Getting Steve Jobs Wrong 18 Nov 2011

The Type of Companies That Publish Future Concept Videos 1 Nov 2011

October 2011

Apps Are the New Channels 28 Oct 2011

The Just-Buy-Our-Devices Model 25 Oct 2011

Font Hipsters 19 Oct 2011

The iPhone 4S 12 Oct 2011

Thoughts and Observations Regarding This Week's iPhone 4S Event, Written Almost Entirely Before Wednesday's Sad News, But Which the Time Has Come to Publish Because Life Goes On 7 Oct 2011

Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot 6 Oct 2011

September 2011

Teardrop Skepticism 30 Sep 2011

Not So Fast on That 'Samsung Official' 30 Sep 2011

Amazon's New Kindles 28 Sep 2011

The Fall Event 21 Sep 2011

The Case for Going Metro-Only on ARM 20 Sep 2011

Metro 14 Sep 2011

All His Life Has He Looked Away, to the Future, to the Horizon. Never His Mind on Where He Was. What He Was Doing. 13 Sep 2011

Winning 12 Sep 2011

The New Apple Advantage 9 Sep 2011

Compromise 1 Sep 2011

August 2011

Resigned 24 Aug 2011

A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm and Is Getting Out of the PC Business 21 Aug 2011

Claim Chowder: Anders Bylund 18 Aug 2011

Balls 15 Aug 2011

More on Google and Patents 5 Aug 2011

Google: Patently Absurd 3 Aug 2011

July 2011

On Succeeding Steve Jobs 22 Jul 2011

The iPad's Dominance of the Tablet Market 21 Jul 2011

Doesn't Sound 'Sober' to Me 13 Jul 2011

On Attribution and Credit 1 Jul 2011

June 2011

On the N9 and MeeGo 23 Jun 2011

The Final Cut Pro X Backlash 22 Jun 2011

It's All Software 14 Jun 2011

Demoted 6 Jun 2011

WWDC 2011 Prelude 5 Jun 2011

The Future of NetNewsWire: An Interview With Brent Simmons and Black Pixel's Daniel Pasco 3 Jun 2011

Ice Water Enthusiast 3 Jun 2011

Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad 1 Jun 2011

May 2011

Measure Twice, Cut Once 23 May 2011

Twitter's Shit Sandwich 18 May 2011

Wolf! 5 May 2011

April 2011

Magic 25 Apr 2011

Cutting That Cord 15 Apr 2011

Tweetbot 1.0 14 Apr 2011

March 2011

A Rule of Thumb: Pricing Should Be Simple 21 Mar 2011

The Evolution of SXSW Interactive 18 Mar 2011

Why the Nitro JavaScript Engine Isn't Available to Apps Outside Mobile Safari in iOS 4.3 17 Mar 2011

Bending Over Backwards 10 Mar 2011

The iPad 2 9 Mar 2011

The Chair 3 Mar 2011

Dirty Percent 1 Mar 2011

February 2011

The Eleventh Hour 24 Feb 2011

The Next Six Months 9 Feb 2011

The Daily Wait 4 Feb 2011

The Verizon iPhone 4 2 Feb 2011

Push Pop Press 1 Feb 2011

Oceania: We Have Always Required Books From the Eurasian E-Bookstore to Be Sold Through Our In-App Purchasing System 1 Feb 2011

January 2011

Cold Water on the iPad 2 Retina Display Hype 18 Jan 2011

The Leave 17 Jan 2011

Too Late 13 Jan 2011

The Practical vs. Idealistic Scenarios for the Near-Term Future of Online Video 13 Jan 2011

Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome's Dropping of H.264 11 Jan 2011

Bull's-Eyes and Crosshairs 9 Jan 2011

Why Next Week's Event Is Hosted by Verizon, Not Apple 7 Jan 2011

Uniformity vs. Individuality in Mac UI Design 7 Jan 2011

December 2010

Emotional Rescue 27 Dec 2010

Title Junk 20 Dec 2010

The Best Laid Plans 14 Dec 2010

The iOS and Android App Economies 9 Dec 2010

The Future of the Mac in an iOS World 3 Dec 2010

Viber 2 Dec 2010

November 2010

Video Support for AirPlay Is Limited in iOS 4.2 22 Nov 2010

News Corp's Upcoming iPad App 'The Daily' to Pioneer New Recurring Subscription Billing 22 Nov 2010

Where Are the Android Killer Apps? 19 Nov 2010

Masquerading as Mobile Safari to Get Websites to Serve HTML5 Video to Safari on Mac OS X 12 Nov 2010

Apple's Pricing Advantage 9 Nov 2010

Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It 4 Nov 2010

Regarding the Idea of iPad Apps Running on Mac OS X 2 Nov 2010

October 2010

An Anthropomorphized White iPhone 4 Is Confronted Regarding Its Inability to Be Shipped 27 Oct 2010

The Air's Spot in the Lineup 25 Oct 2010

Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X 22 Oct 2010

September 2010

Star-Struck 24 Sep 2010

Regarding Ashok Kumar's Track Record on Apple 20 Sep 2010

A Facebook Phone? 20 Sep 2010

Then Welcome to Android 16 Sep 2010

What's Next for Nokia? 15 Sep 2010

A Taste of What's New in the Updated App Store License Agreement and New Review Guidelines 9 Sep 2010

Miscellaneous Observations Regarding the Gadgets That Were (and Were Not) Announced at Last Week's Apple Event 8 Sep 2010

How Ping Might Grow 7 Sep 2010

August 2010

Getting There From Here, Where by 'There' I Mean a Web Where Flash Is Not a De Facto Standard Technology 31 Aug 2010

How to Judge the Battle Between Apple and Adobe Regarding Flash 30 Aug 2010

Creep Executive Officer 20 Aug 2010

January Jones 12 Aug 2010

N92 11 Aug 2010

Papermaster and That Damn Antenna 8 Aug 2010

Service: Open URLs in Safari Tabs 3 Aug 2010

July 2010

An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs 27 Jul 2010

Sorry, No, I'm Not Going to Write a Piece Arguing That Dan Lyons Is a Jackass 22 Jul 2010

Antennagate Addendum 21 Jul 2010

Antennagate Bottom Line 20 Jul 2010

Translation From Apple's Unique Dialect of PR-Speak to English of the 'Letter From Apple Regarding iPhone 4' 2 Jul 2010

iPhone 4 3G Data Performance 1 Jul 2010

June 2010

4 29 Jun 2010

FaceTime and the iPod Touch 23 Jun 2010

Marble Mystery Solved 22 Jun 2010

Apple's System Apps 21 Jun 2010

WWDC 2010 Wrap-Up 18 Jun 2010

'First to Do It' vs. 'First to Do It Right' 17 Jun 2010

I'll Tell You What's Fair 16 Jun 2010

iPhone 4 Impressions and Observations 7 Jun 2010

One Year 7 Jun 2010

Countering the Perception That the iPhone OS Is Too Closed 3 Jun 2010

The Good and the Bad Regarding AT&T's New Data Plans 2 Jun 2010

May 2010

Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks 28 May 2010

Post-I/O Thoughts 22 May 2010

iPad and Android Web Traffic Share 19 May 2010

John Paczkowski's Interview With Adobe Co-Founder Chuck Geschke 17 May 2010

Adobe Flash: Almost as Open as Microsoft Office 14 May 2010

Where in the World Is Jesus Diaz? 14 May 2010

Regarding John Nack on Apple's Control Over Native iPhone OS Software 13 May 2010

This Is How Apple Rolls 13 May 2010

Apple-Verizon Political Calculus, 2010 Edition 12 May 2010

April 2010

Middleware and Section 3.3.1 30 Apr 2010

Gizmodo and the Prototype iPhone 22 Apr 2010

Why 960 x 640 19 Apr 2010

Engadget Posts Pictures of Purported Next-Gen iPhone 18 Apr 2010

It's Not the Control, It's the Secrecy 16 Apr 2010

Mobile Multitasking 14 Apr 2010

A Brief Review of Opera Mini for iPhone 13 Apr 2010

Reading Between the iPhone OS 4.0 Lines 9 Apr 2010

Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1 8 Apr 2010

New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone Compiler 8 Apr 2010

The iPad 7 Apr 2010

The Kids Are All Right 2 Apr 2010

March 2010

Generals' War 26 Mar 2010

On Submarine Patents vis-a-vis H.264 and Ogg Theora 24 Mar 2010

GIF, H.264, and Patents 22 Mar 2010

Hope You Enjoy the Smell of Napalm in the Morning 19 Mar 2010

Mozilla, Video, and Mobile Computing 18 Mar 2010

An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox 15 Mar 2010

iPhone Apps on the iPad 8 Mar 2010

Attention Is the Real Resource 5 Mar 2010

A Thought Regarding the Old Apple-v.-Microsoft 'Look and Feel' Lawsuit 4 Mar 2010

This Apple-HTC Patent Thing 3 Mar 2010

Assorted Brief Observations and Thoughts Regarding Windows Phone 7 1 Mar 2010

February 2010

Yet More on the Unfolding Future-of-Flash-and-the-Web Saga 26 Feb 2010

Tits and Apps 25 Feb 2010

The Whole Thing About Adobe's Flash Player Not Having Access to H.264 Hardware Acceleration on Mac OS X 20 Feb 2010

Macworld Expo Prelude 9 Feb 2010

What if Flash Were an Open Standard? 1 Feb 2010

January 2010

Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? 30 Jan 2010

Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Just-Announced iPad 28 Jan 2010

The iPad Big Picture 27 Jan 2010

'A String of Masterpieces' 26 Jan 2010

Apple, Adobe, and Flash 25 Jan 2010

Apple, Google, Bing, and Search 21 Jan 2010

The Original Tablet 14 Jan 2010

Tablet Musings 7 Jan 2010

December 2009

The Tablet 31 Dec 2009

Why the HTML5 'Video' Element Is Effectively Unusable, Even in Browsers Which Support It 21 Dec 2009

More on PastryKit 17 Dec 2009

PastryKit 15 Dec 2009

Who Do You Believe, Randall Stross or Your Own Lying Eyes? 13 Dec 2009

November 2009

A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs 27 Nov 2009

iPhone Web Apps as an Alternative to the App Store 23 Nov 2009

Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle 20 Nov 2009

The OS Opportunity 18 Nov 2009

Oh Joe You Didn't 15 Nov 2009

The Airfoil Speakers Touch Situation 13 Nov 2009

The Yankees 9 Nov 2009

Pinching and the Droid 2 Nov 2009

October 2009

Regarding Apple TV 30 Oct 2009

Regarding Joe Wilcox's 'iPhone Cannot Win the Smartphone Wars' Piece 28 Oct 2009

Pound the Quality 27 Oct 2009

Herd Mentality 23 Oct 2009

Apple Netbook Claim Chowder 21 Oct 2009

Microsoft's Competition for Windows 7 15 Oct 2009

C:\ONGRTLNS.OSX 7 Oct 2009

September 2009

Snow Leopard Adoption Rate 21 Sep 2009

How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed? 17 Sep 2009

Snow Leopard Compatibility Tweaks for That Thing I Wrote in January About Writing AppleScripts That Dynamically Target Either Safari or WebKit 14 Sep 2009

iTunes and Cocoa 11 Sep 2009

It's Only Rock and Roll Event Prelude 8 Sep 2009

Regarding WordPress and Security 6 Sep 2009

More on the Snow Leopard/Old Version of Flash Brouhaha 5 Sep 2009

Regarding the Brouhaha Over the Version of Flash in Snow Leopard 4 Sep 2009

August 2009

So Dan Lyons Called 30 Aug 2009

How I Got the Google Voice/App Store Story Wrong 23 Aug 2009

Choice Nuggets From Apple's Response to the FCC's Inquiry Regarding the Rejection and Removal of Google Voice Apps From the App Store 21 Aug 2009

Regarding the Lack of Consistency in the Age Ratings for Wikipedia-Based iPhone Apps 21 Aug 2009

Android Opportunity Addenda 19 Aug 2009

The Android Opportunity 17 Aug 2009

Zune Apps 14 Aug 2009

Phil Schiller Responds Regarding Ninjawords and the App Store 6 Aug 2009

Ninjawords: iPhone Dictionary, Censored by Apple 4 Aug 2009

July 2009

Microsoft's Long, Slow Decline 30 Jul 2009

Apple Rejects Google Voice Apps From App Store 28 Jul 2009

Pay Walls 24 Jul 2009

Charging for Access to News Sites 20 Jul 2009

Simplenote 16 Jul 2009

Putting What Little We Actually Know About Chrome OS Into Context 10 Jul 2009

Mobile Phone Keyboards 7 Jul 2009

Creating Ogg Theora Files on Mac OS X With ffmpeg2theora 2 Jul 2009

June 2009

Copy and Paste 26 Jun 2009

Apple's Secrecy 23 Jun 2009

Regarding the WSJ's Report That Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant 21 Jun 2009

WWDC 2009 Wrap-Up 17 Jun 2009

WWDC 2009 Predictions 7 Jun 2009

Palm Saturday 5 Jun 2009

More on Palm's WebOS 'Media Sync' 2 Jun 2009

Why Palm's WebOS 'Media Sync' iTunes Integration Can't Be Legit 1 Jun 2009

May 2009

Excerpts From the Diary of an App Store Reviewer 29 May 2009

The Next iPhone 21 May 2009

Regarding the Verizon and 'iPhone Lite' Rumors 1 May 2009

April 2009

Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground 24 Apr 2009

How to Block the DiggBar 9 Apr 2009

New Daring Fireball T-Shirts 6 Apr 2009

Complex 1 Apr 2009

March 2009

Obsession Times Voice 27 Mar 2009

Observations, Complaints, Quibbles, and Suggestions Regarding the Safari 4 Public Beta Released One Week Ago, Roughly in Order of Importance 4 Mar 2009

February 2009

Lost in the Shuffle 28 Feb 2009

Best Picture 23 Feb 2009

Untitled Document Syndrome 20 Feb 2009

Apple on the Mind at MWC 18 Feb 2009

Copying the Wrong Thing 17 Feb 2009

Anti-Bootlegging Measures and the iPhone App Store 11 Feb 2009

Apple, Google, and Palm 10 Feb 2009

'Do Shell Script' and Premature Optimization 5 Feb 2009

January 2009

Writing AppleScripts That Dynamically Target Either Safari or WebKit 30 Jan 2009

The Truth 23 Jan 2009

NetNewsWire and iPhone-Sized Data 21 Jan 2009

Godspeed 14 Jan 2009

Macworld Expo 2009 Predictions 5 Jan 2009

December 2008

E.T. 27 Dec 2008

Private 22 Dec 2008

That He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying 18 Dec 2008

Apple 'Netbooks', Eh? 16 Dec 2008

Bang 11 Dec 2008

Deep Green 9 Dec 2008

Regarding the John Does in Apple's Amended Complaint Against Ersatz Mac Cloner Psystar 6 Dec 2008

DF Paraphernalia 3 Dec 2008

November 2008

The Richard Solo 1800 iPhone/iPod Backup Battery 25 Nov 2008

Treating URL Protocol Schemes as Cruft 24 Nov 2008

Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs 19 Nov 2008

iPhone-Optimized Google Search Results 17 Nov 2008

Flagging Messages From iPhone Mail 14 Nov 2008

Executive Scuttlebutt 12 Nov 2008

More Notes on Notes 7 Nov 2008

Tangled Up in White 6 Nov 2008

A Fantastic Monument 5 Nov 2008

iPhone-Likeness 3 Nov 2008

Regarding Opera Mini and the App Store 1 Nov 2008

October 2008

The Richard Solo iPhone/iPod Backup Battery 28 Oct 2008

Good RAM Prices From Apple on New MacBooks 24 Oct 2008

The Phone Company 22 Oct 2008

Translation From Weasel-Speak to English of the Entirety of Duncan Riley's Second Post-MacBook-Introduction-Event Update to His Widely-Cited Week-Ago Report That Apple Was Going to Announce an '$800 Laptop' 16 Oct 2008

Listen to Tim Cook 15 Oct 2008

Today's Claim Chowder 14 Oct 2008

Contains Spoilers 14 Oct 2008

The iPhone 3G 8 Oct 2008

In the Background 6 Oct 2008

The Fear 2 Oct 2008

September 2008

Adobe Speaks of Flash Player for iPhone 30 Sep 2008

Regarding Apple's Direct Sales of Unlocked, Contract-Free iPhones in Hong Kong 30 Sep 2008

Are App Store Rejections Really Covered by the NDA? 24 Sep 2008

Digging Deeper 20 Sep 2008

There's Nothing There 18 Sep 2008

W/r/t DFW 16 Sep 2008

Things That Podcaster's Rejection From the App Store Is Not About 15 Sep 2008

The App Store's Exclusionary Policies 12 Sep 2008

Greatly Exaggerated 11 Sep 2008

Notes and Observations Regarding Yesterday's 'Let's Rock' Apple Special Event 10 Sep 2008

August 2008

Raining on the OpenClip Parade 21 Aug 2008

Title Case Update 13 Aug 2008

Memoranda 11 Aug 2008

It's a Core Location Blacklist 8 Aug 2008

Is the iPhone NDA About Patents? 7 Aug 2008

iPhone, iCal, and CalDAV 5 Aug 2008

iPhone Calendar Syncing 1 Aug 2008

July 2008

Not Yet Squirrelly 24 Jul 2008

WebKit Performance on iPhone OS 2.0 20 Jul 2008

Distant and Remote 18 Jul 2008

Copy and Paste 15 Jul 2008

iPhone Display Color Temperature, and the Difference Between Builds 5A345 and 5A347 of the iPhone OS 14 Jul 2008

The App Store, Day One 10 Jul 2008

June 2008

Android Expectations 24 Jun 2008

Trade-Offs 24 Jun 2008

New Linked List Permalinks 21 Jun 2008

WWDC 2008 Miscellany 20 Jun 2008

Up Flash Creek Without a Paddle 17 Jun 2008

The iPhone 3G Upgrade Question 16 Jun 2008

Twice as Fast, Half the Price 9 Jun 2008

The Ins and Outs of Snow Leopard 8 Jun 2008

'Snow Leopard' at WWDC 4 Jun 2008

me.com 1 Jun 2008

May 2008

Spaces in 10.5.3 30 May 2008

Mobile Me? 30 May 2008

Sixty-Six 27 May 2008

Title Case 20 May 2008

Why Apple Won't Buy Adobe 14 May 2008

BlackBerry vs. iPhone 9 May 2008

Is This Microsoft-NBC 'Copyright Cop' Thing Bullshit or What? 8 May 2008

Regarding the iPhone Keyboard 5 May 2008

Subsidize This 2 May 2008

April 2008

Big Fan 28 Apr 2008

Stopped Clock 25 Apr 2008

The Unsatisfying State of Twitter Web Clients for the iPhone 17 Apr 2008

The Invisible Bit 15 Apr 2008

How Much Money Does Apple Get From Google? 11 Apr 2008

Mac OS X's 'Search in Google' Safari Tie-In 10 Apr 2008

Safari's Tab Dragging Modes 9 Apr 2008

Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3 Addenda 8 Apr 2008

Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3 5 Apr 2008

The $64,000 Question 3 Apr 2008

March 2008

Get Your Helmet On 31 Mar 2008

T-Shirts and Memberships, 2008 26 Mar 2008

Quoting Attribution Bug in Apple Mail After Upgrading to Safari 3.1 26 Mar 2008

Update 23 Mar 2008

Regarding That Fucking Headline 20 Mar 2008

How Leander Kahney Got Everything Wrong by Being an Irredeemable Jackass 20 Mar 2008

Apple Mail and the Control Key 18 Mar 2008

So Who's In Already? 17 Mar 2008

Foot, Meet Bullet 15 Mar 2008

The Flip Side of the Multitasking Argument 14 Mar 2008

Confusion Regarding iPhone Developer Beta Program 14 Mar 2008

One App at a Time 14 Mar 2008

More Questions 7 Mar 2008

iPhone Enterprise and SDK: First Impressions and Questions 6 Mar 2008

ExpanDrive 4 Mar 2008

iPhone SDK Rumors and Speculation 3 Mar 2008

February 2008

Just the Internet 22 Feb 2008

Flim-Flash 21 Feb 2008

Leopard Details: Anchored Row Selection in NSTableView 20 Feb 2008

The Appeal of the MacBook Air 15 Feb 2008

Flash on iPhone Political Calculus 13 Feb 2008

News Flash: No Flash 12 Feb 2008

Using FastScripts as a Lightweight Alternative to Growl 8 Feb 2008

Devil's Advocate 7 Feb 2008

Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid 6 Feb 2008

Some of the Tweets All of the Time vs. All of the Tweets Some of the Time 5 Feb 2008

Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo 1 Feb 2008

January 2008

My Favorite CARS Moment 31 Jan 2008

Apple First Quarter 2008 Results 23 Jan 2008

Why the Mac Doesn't Seem Viable for For-Profit Malware 21 Jan 2008

Keynote Roundup 16 Jan 2008

The Talk Show, or at Least Half of It, Live at Macworld 16 Jan 2008

The MacBook Air 15 Jan 2008

iTunes Terms of Service Update for Movie Rentals 15 Jan 2008

Macworld Expo Predictions 14 Jan 2008

Macworld Expo Prelude 13 Jan 2008

Advertising on Daring Fireball 12 Jan 2008

Where Keyboard Shortcuts Win 3 Jan 2008

The Way the Camera Follows Us in Slo-Mo 2 Jan 2008

December 2007

Gina Keating, Ace Reporter 30 Dec 2007

Yet Another in the Ongoing Series Wherein I Examine a Piece of Supposedly Serious Apple Analysis From a Major Media Outlet and Dissect Its Inaccuracies, Fabrications, and Exaggerations Point-by-Point, Despite the Fact That No Matter How Egregious the Inaccuracies / Fabrications / Exaggerations, Such Pieces Inevitably Lead to Accusations That I'm Some Sort of Knee-Jerk Shill Who Rails Against Anything 'Anti-Apple' Simply for the Sake of Defending Apple, and if I Love Apple So Much Why Don't I Just Marry Them? 19 Dec 2007

'message:' URLs in Leopard Mail 4 Dec 2007

Anti-Aliasing on the iPhone 1 Dec 2007

November 2007

DUM 19 Nov 2007

Bento 14 Nov 2007

Apple Needs a Nikon 2 Nov 2007

October 2007

Happy Halloween, Savvy? 31 Oct 2007

Shipping Means Prioritizing 30 Oct 2007

Blue in the Face 29 Oct 2007

Leopard 26 Oct 2007

I Believe in Murphy's Law 26 Oct 2007

Feedery 25 Oct 2007

Family 24 Oct 2007

Everything's Coming Up Milhouse 23 Oct 2007

The iPhone and Web Apps 19 Oct 2007

Let the Tea Leaf Reading Begin 19 Oct 2007

Pre-Order Leopard Via DF Amazon Affiliate Links 16 Oct 2007

Total Music, Uh-Huh 12 Oct 2007

The 'Un' in 'Unsupported' 10 Oct 2007

Cancel Computer 5 Oct 2007

A Solomonic Solution to Leopard's Dock Problem 3 Oct 2007

Forever Is a Long Time 3 Oct 2007

The New Zunes 2 Oct 2007

September 2007

New iPhone 1.1.1 Features, Which May or May Not Be Old News to iPod Touch Owners 28 Sep 2007

More on the Amazon MP3 Store 26 Sep 2007

The Amazon MP3 Store and Amazon MP3 Downloader 25 Sep 2007

Hacking the iPhone Notes App for the Admittedly Nit-Picky Purpose of Changing the Text Font to Helvetica 25 Sep 2007

Actually, Not Much Better at All This Late Than Never 21 Sep 2007

An Important Public Service Announcement Regarding Marker Felt on the iPhone 19 Sep 2007

Notes and Observations Regarding Apple's Announcements From 'The Beat Goes On' Special Event, Which, Inexplicably, I Didn't Bother to Publish Two Weeks Ago When They Were Relevant 19 Sep 2007

Interesting Tidbits Gleaned From the iPod Touch Features Guide 14 Sep 2007

The Ringtones Racket 13 Sep 2007

Ways in Which iTunes's Just-Released Official Ringtone Support Is Weird, Rude, and/or Just Plain Buggy 12 Sep 2007

Scratch That Its 9 Sep 2007

I'll Show You 'Subpar' 8 Sep 2007

That Product Transition 7 Sep 2007

The Price Cut Heard Round the World 7 Sep 2007

It Is Estimated That NBC Could Not Have Screwed This iTunes Thing Up Any Worse 1 Sep 2007

August 2007

Rethinking Email 27 Aug 2007

Itso 25 Aug 2007

Feedback 16 Aug 2007

C4[1] Photoset on Flickr 15 Aug 2007

C4[1] in a Nut 15 Aug 2007

Clipboard and Text Selection : iPhone :: Arrow Keys : Original Macintosh 9 Aug 2007

Fake Steve, Unmasked 6 Aug 2007

Taking Stock 2 Aug 2007

Dateline NBC's Report on Stolen iPods 2 Aug 2007

July 2007

Scott Moritz and TheStreet.com's Million iPhone La-La Land 31 Jul 2007

Regarding the Daring Fireball RSS Feed 30 Jul 2007

BusinessWeek: 'Taking the iPhone Apart' 27 Jul 2007

iSuppli 26 Jul 2007

iPhone Fonts 20 Jul 2007

Simple Inbox Archiving Script for Apple Mail 16 Jul 2007

'OS X iPod' Nonsense 15 Jul 2007

Regarding OS X-Based iPods 13 Jul 2007

Selected Wi-Fi Network Names My iPhone Discovered While I Walked to the Grocery Store Yesterday 13 Jul 2007

On Top 11 Jul 2007

Non-Top-Posting Reply Scripts for Apple Mail 10 Jul 2007

Jackass of the Week: MSNBC's Bob Sullivan 9 Jul 2007

Josh Quittner Returns His iPhone 6 Jul 2007

The New Leopard Dock and the HIG 5 Jul 2007

June 2007

iPhone First Impressions 30 Jun 2007

Acting Up 27 Jun 2007

iPhone Doubter of the Year 26 Jun 2007

Regarding the 80 GB iPhone Capacity in the Activation and Sync Video 26 Jun 2007

Straws, Grasping Thereat 25 Jun 2007

New High-Water Mark in iPhone Jackassery 23 Jun 2007

Apple Cynic Watch: Slate's Jack Shafer 22 Jun 2007

Exchange Exchange 19 Jun 2007

WWDC 2007 Keynote News 11 Jun 2007

An Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface Theme Shows Up for the WWDC Preview Build of Mac OS X Leopard 9 Jun 2007

The High-Resolution 17-Inch MacBook Pro 7 Jun 2007

Regarding iTunes Plus Metadata 6 Jun 2007

iPhone: Using Cell Towers for Positioning? 6 Jun 2007

Taps 4 Jun 2007

iPhone SDK, iPhone SDK! Wherefore Art Thou iPhone SDK? 1 Jun 2007

May 2007

Yojimbo Import Scripts for Mailsmith and NetNewsWire 29 May 2007

Enjackass 22 May 2007

Microsoft and Yahoo, Sitting in a Tree 5 May 2007

New Shirt Schedule 4 May 2007

Regarding Harry McCracken's Departure From PC World 4 May 2007

The iPhone's Funny Price 1 May 2007

April 2007

Google Lucky Search Scripts for ThisService 27 Apr 2007

Interview: Dino Dai Zovi 26 Apr 2007

Coda 24 Apr 2007

In My World 23 Apr 2007

Regarding the Membership Drive 22 Apr 2007

Another Look at These Swell T-Shirts 16 Apr 2007

Membership Drive and Contest Reminder 16 Apr 2007

Bottleneck 13 Apr 2007

The Limited Edition Swap Meat DF T-Shirt 12 Apr 2007

A Wee Bit More on AAC, Ogg, and MP3 10 Apr 2007

Some Facts About AAC 10 Apr 2007

Apple Computer 6 Apr 2007

A Quick, Possibly Incomplete Guide to What Gets Installed by the Google Desktop Installer 4 Apr 2007

EMI to Offer DRM-Free Online Music 2 Apr 2007

March 2007

Rip This Joint 30 Mar 2007

T-Shirt Upgrade for Recent Membership Sign-Ups 30 Mar 2007

The New Daring Fireball T-Shirts 29 Mar 2007

Regarding the Members-Only Feeds 28 Mar 2007

Creating New Text Files From the Finder's Contextual Menu 27 Mar 2007

The 2007 Daring Fireball Membership Drive 26 Mar 2007

A Few 'Deal With It' Follow-Up Points 25 Mar 2007

Deal With It 23 Mar 2007

LogoMaid Rips Off Dan Cederholm's SimpleBits Logo, and Then Things Get Weird 22 Mar 2007

JavaScript Bookmarklet Builder 19 Mar 2007

Like a Sponge 17 Mar 2007

Let's Have a Panel on What We Didn't Like About SXSW 2007 16 Mar 2007

Show Me 5 Mar 2007

Blank Slate 4 Mar 2007

February 2007

Regarding Dori Smith's Comparison of Gender Diversity Among Speakers at Web Conferences to the Authors of Bestselling JavaScript Books 25 Feb 2007

Regarding Kottke's Piece on Gender Diversity at Web Conferences 23 Feb 2007

Would Apple Mix DRM and Non-DRM Music at the iTunes Store? 22 Feb 2007

Fair Enough 21 Feb 2007

Using Dynamic Scripting Languages for Mac OS X Application Development 20 Feb 2007

Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso's Response to Steve Jobs's 'Thoughts on Music' 16 Feb 2007

SXSW 2007: The Design Aesthetic of the Indie Developer 13 Feb 2007

Command, Option, Control 12 Feb 2007

Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs's 'Thoughts on Music' 7 Feb 2007

More Crap From Rob Enderle on the iPhone 5 Feb 2007

Lies, Damned Lies, and Bill Gates 2 Feb 2007

Interarchy Interview: Peter N Lewis and Matthew Drayton 1 Feb 2007

January 2007

Sometimes I Wonder Whether Rob Enderle Is Just Pulling Our Legs 25 Jan 2007

'Word Count' Script for ThisService 24 Jan 2007

OS X 16 Jan 2007

Daring Fireball Live at Macworld Expo 15 Jan 2007

At ARM's Length 10 Jan 2007

Macworld Expo 2007 Predictions 9 Jan 2007

Daring Fireball, Live Tuesday at Macworld Expo 8 Jan 2007

Speaking of Clowns 3 Jan 2007

December 2006

I Sold My App Through MacHeist and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt 18 Dec 2006

Getting the Size of Your Display With AppleScript, the Lazy Way 16 Dec 2006

The Iniquities of the Selfish 12 Dec 2006

Microsoft Rips Off Apple's Workgroup Manager Icon 11 Dec 2006

Conjectural Transcript of the Upcoming Negotiations Between Apple and Universal Music 5 Dec 2006

OmniVapor 1 Dec 2006

November 2006

Did Microsoft Copy the Wrong iPod? 29 Nov 2006

Palm CEO Ed Colligan's Head Seems to be Stuck Somewhere 28 Nov 2006

DMG Kernel Panic Security Issue 21 Nov 2006

Pinprick 20 Nov 2006

Jackass of the Week: Larry Seltzer 19 Nov 2006

'Beta' Is Not an Excuse 13 Nov 2006

I'd Buy That for a Dollar 10 Nov 2006

Stikkit 9 Nov 2006

Why Is Adobe Soundbooth Intel-Only? 2 Nov 2006

October 2006

Can I Get an 'Hallelujah' for Auto-Completion With the Esc and F5 Keys? 27 Oct 2006

Yet More Jackasses: Neal Mueller and the Business Editors of The Washington Post 26 Oct 2006

Jackass of the Week: Rush Limbaugh 25 Oct 2006

My Jackass Stamp Is Running Out of Ink 20 Oct 2006

Jackasses of the Week: Gartner Analysts Mark Stahlman and Charles Smulders 19 Oct 2006

Feed Me 18 Oct 2006

Membership Renewal 17 Oct 2006

Using Keyboard Maestro to Intercept Keyboard Shortcuts Usurped by the System 16 Oct 2006

Processing Processes 13 Oct 2006

How to Determine if a Certain App Is Running Using AppleScript and Perl 10 Oct 2006

BBColors 1.0 8 Oct 2006

Some Assembly Required 5 Oct 2006

Brand New 2 Oct 2006

September 2006

New in 10.4.8: Zoom Using Scroll Wheel 29 Sep 2006

Generalissimo Francisco Franco: Still Dead; Kieren McCarthy: Still a Jackass 28 Sep 2006

Jackass of the Week: Kieren McCarthy 26 Sep 2006

The AirPort Security Update and the Supposed MacBook Wi-Fi Hack 21 Sep 2006

Regarding the Features and Capabilities of the Various Fifth Generation iPods 20 Sep 2006

Regarding Analyst Speculation on iPod Pricing 18 Sep 2006

Showtime: The New iPods 15 Sep 2006

High on Vapor Fumes 15 Sep 2006

Showtime: The Big Picture 13 Sep 2006

Buy New iPods From Amazon and Support Daring Fireball 12 Sep 2006

Lies, Damned Lies, and MacBook Wi-Fi Hacks 11 Sep 2006

Update on the MacBook Wi-Fi Exploit Challenge 5 Sep 2006

An Open Challenge to David Maynor and Jon Ellch 1 Sep 2006

August 2006

Vacation, All I Ever Wanted 30 Aug 2006

A Bit More Regarding the MacBook Wireless Security Saga 23 Aug 2006

The Curious Case of the Supposed MacBook Wi-Fi Hack 21 Aug 2006

Jackass of the Week: Paul Thurrott 18 Aug 2006

Site Preferences and T-Shirts 17 Aug 2006

Regarding the Hardware Announcements at WWDC 2006 16 Aug 2006

WWDC Prelude 6 Aug 2006

Highly Selective 4 Aug 2006

Regarding Brian Krebs's Reporting on the Supposed MacBook Wi-Fi Exploit 3 Aug 2006

July 2006

Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding Microsoft's 'Zune' 25 Jul 2006

Standing in Line With Mr. Jimmy 15 Jul 2006

The Mac OS X Tipping Point 8 Jul 2006

June 2006

Hot Off the Press 26 Jun 2006

Interoperability and DRM Are Mutually Exclusive 20 Jun 2006

Why Apple Won't Open Source Its Apps 19 Jun 2006

And Oranges 15 Jun 2006

May 2006

Confidence Game 26 May 2006

'Web Kit' vs. 'WebKit' 15 May 2006

The Last Pixel 12 May 2006

Tim Bray on iCal 12 May 2006

Jackass of the Week: Rob Glaser 11 May 2006

Goal 9 May 2006

Using .htaccess Redirection to Standardize Web Server Addresses 5 May 2006

More Aperture Dirt 4 May 2006

Good Journalism 2 May 2006

April 2006

Feed Me 30 Apr 2006

Aperture Dirt 28 Apr 2006

More on NSTextView's 'Smart' Cut/Copy/Paste 27 Apr 2006

When 'Smart' Cut/Copy/Paste Attacks 26 Apr 2006

Cringely's Machinations 22 Apr 2006

Initiative 20 Apr 2006

New T-Shirts 19 Apr 2006

O'Grady v. Superior Court 13 Apr 2006

Seriously, 'Repair Permissions' Is Voodoo 12 Apr 2006

Several Asinine and/or Risky Ideas Regarding Apple's Strategy That Boot Camp Does Not Portend 10 Apr 2006

Windows: The New Classic 6 Apr 2006

'Repair Permissions' Is Not a Recommended Step When Applying System Updates 3 Apr 2006

March 2006

Adios Avie 31 Mar 2006

Stubborn Chronicle Staff Writer Is an Ignoramus 27 Mar 2006

The iPod Juggernaut 24 Mar 2006

The Annals of Journalism 10 Mar 2006

Speaking at SXSW 10 Mar 2006

Switching Is Afoot 8 Mar 2006

Familiarity Breeds a User Base 5 Mar 2006

February 2006

The Safari Shell Script Execution Exploit 22 Feb 2006

Joyeur 20 Feb 2006

Smart Crash Reports Addenda 13 Feb 2006

Bedecked 2 Feb 2006

January 2006

Smart Crash Reports 30 Jan 2006

Macworld Expo 2006 in Review 20 Jan 2006

iTunes MiniStore Is Now Opt-In 18 Jan 2006

iLife '06 From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface 13 Jan 2006

MWSF '06 Predictions 10 Jan 2006

December 2005

Merry 26 Dec 2005

A Public Service Announcement Regarding 'callto:' URIs and Safari 16 Dec 2005

November 2005

'Restart Apache' AppleScript 30 Nov 2005

Full Metal Jacket Addenda 16 Nov 2005

Full Metal Jacket 11 Nov 2005

October 2005

Membership Numbers 27 Oct 2005

BBEdit and TextWrangler CSS Syntax Checker 1.0.1 26 Oct 2005

Prizes for 2005 Membership Drive 24 Oct 2005

Notes on Membership Information 24 Oct 2005

If It's Wednesday, It Must Be Time for New Apple Product Announcements 19 Oct 2005

The Life 14 Oct 2005

Brief Observations Regarding the New Stuff Announced at Today's Special Event 12 Oct 2005

Introducing Joyent 5 Oct 2005

Membership Renewal 2005 3 Oct 2005

September 2005

The English-Likeness Monster 27 Sep 2005

Rhymes With Ditty 21 Sep 2005

Wrong Folder Returned by 'path to' Command in System Events Tell Blocks 13 Sep 2005

The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme 8 Sep 2005

BBEdit CSS Syntax Checker 1.0 6 Sep 2005

August 2005

Google Is an Advertising Company 29 Aug 2005

The GUIdebook Interview 18 Aug 2005

Star Star 11 Aug 2005

Trusted 6 Aug 2005

Notes on Notes 1 Aug 2005

July 2005

Location Validation in the Dashboard Weather Widget 22 Jul 2005

About the Footnotes 20 Jul 2005

Is That a Podcast in Your Pocket? 13 Jul 2005

Plugged Leaks 1 Jul 2005

June 2005

Shuffling 30 Jun 2005

Hacking Apple's Weather Widget to Show the Time of the Last Update 27 Jun 2005

Making Book 23 Jun 2005

Together We Can Rule the Galaxy 10 Jun 2005

Bombs Away 8 Jun 2005

Classic Not Supported on Intel-Based Macs 6 Jun 2005

Intel-Apple Odds and Ends 5 Jun 2005

I'll See You Intel 5 Jun 2005

Tiger Adoption Rate 4 Jun 2005

May 2005

Intel-mania 27 May 2005

I Suppose It Has to Be OK 20 May 2005

Dictionary Look-Ups From BBEdit, Mailsmith, and TextWrangler 7 May 2005

April 2005

The Tiger Details List 29 Apr 2005

The Fish Rots From the Head 27 Apr 2005

The Other Amazons 21 Apr 2005

Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe's 'FAQ' Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia 21 Apr 2005

Fun for the Whole Family 12 Apr 2005

It Depends on What the Meaning of the Word 'Replace' Is 7 Apr 2005

Point, Counterpoint: Mac OS X Is Great for Fortysomething Unix Hackers 4 Apr 2005

March 2005

Opening Files Together in a New BBEdit Text Window, Redux 30 Mar 2005

Pre-Order Tiger From Amazon 28 Mar 2005

Caching Out 26 Mar 2005

Font Caches Gone Wild 25 Mar 2005

Login Delays and Damaged Font Caches on Mac OS X 10.3 21 Mar 2005

On the Discovery Ruling in 'Apple v. Does' 15 Mar 2005

On the Credibility of The New York Times 11 Mar 2005

If The New York Times Jumped Off a Bridge 8 Mar 2005

Nerve Touching 4 Mar 2005

Kill 'nav-commenters.gif' 1 Mar 2005

February 2005

FireWire Hysteria 24 Feb 2005

How to Create an 'App of the Year' 18 Feb 2005

Apps of the Year, 2004 16 Feb 2005

Marking Subscriptions as 'Private' in Bloglines 14 Feb 2005

Members-Only RSS Feeds Now Using HTTP Authentication 11 Feb 2005

Subscription Small Print 8 Feb 2005

Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding the 'Napster To Go' Subscription Service 6 Feb 2005

January 2005

Promotional Consideration 28 Jan 2005

Miscellaneous Updates/Corrections, Several of Which Aren't Substantial Enough to Constitute a Full Article by Themselves, but Which Were Assembled Together Mainly as an Excuse to Use This Preposterously Long Title 26 Jan 2005

Small, Cheap, and Without a Display 16 Jan 2005

The Rumor Game 6 Jan 2005

Plugging Leaks 5 Jan 2005

Apple to Announce 'iWork' Office Suite? 3 Jan 2005

December 2004

Software Update Tips and Voodoo 28 Dec 2004

Markdown Licensing 17 Dec 2004

Markdown 1.0.1 17 Dec 2004

Paging Jennifer Beals 11 Dec 2004

Amazon Debauchery 5 Dec 2004

Flash Gordon 2 Dec 2004

November 2004

On the Placement of Linked List Content 24 Nov 2004

MDJ Reports Tim Bucher No Longer at Apple 20 Nov 2004

The True Story of Audion 12 Nov 2004

Additional Poofery 11 Nov 2004

Examining the Consistency of Your Poofs 2 Nov 2004

October 2004

iPod Mania 29 Oct 2004

iPod Daring Fireball Special Edition 26 Oct 2004

Does This Brushed Metal Stuff Really Even Matter? 22 Oct 2004

Today's Theme: Themes 19 Oct 2004

Brushed Metal and the HIG 16 Oct 2004

PayPal Outage 12 Oct 2004

Gruber for Hire 8 Oct 2004

Still Not Much of a Joke 7 Oct 2004

Some Joke 6 Oct 2004

T-shirts Redux 5 Oct 2004

BBEdit Soft Wrap Toggling 4 Oct 2004

'Rename Active Document' Script for BBEdit 2 Oct 2004

September 2004

Windows Versus the World 30 Sep 2004

For Whatever Reasons 27 Sep 2004

Traffic and Readership 24 Sep 2004

Sponsor This 22 Sep 2004

Opening Files Together in a New BBEdit Text Window 17 Sep 2004

BBEdit 8 14 Sep 2004

MSN Music 'iPod' Help Page Updated Again 8 Sep 2004

MT Configuration Language Module for BBEdit 8 7 Sep 2004

You Can Choose Any Color You Want, as Long as It's Black 3 Sep 2004

We've Never Even Heard of This 'iTunes Music Store' of Which You Speak 2 Sep 2004

August 2004

Apache Configuration Language Module for BBEdit 8 30 Aug 2004

Markdown 1.0 28 Aug 2004

OmniWeb 5.0 21 Aug 2004

Why 2004 Won't Be Like 1984 16 Aug 2004

Things Unmentioned in the 'Art of the Parlay' Article, but of Which You Must Take My Word Were Left Out Because They Were Beside the Point, and Not Because I Was Unaware of Them 11 Aug 2004

The Art of the Parlay, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Platform Licensing and Market Share 7 Aug 2004

The Perl Email Project 2 Aug 2004

July 2004

Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding RealNetworks' Harmony 30 Jul 2004

Properly Attired 25 Jul 2004

Awarded 23 Jul 2004

Membership Keys 14 Jul 2004

Spotlight on Spotlight 12 Jul 2004

Status 9 Jul 2004

Konfab Confab 6 Jul 2004

The Last-Minute Push 2 Jul 2004

Multiple Shirt Orders 2 Jul 2004

June 2004

Dashboard vs. Konfabulator 30 Jun 2004

Introducing the Linked List 28 Jun 2004

More Membership Prizes 25 Jun 2004

The Location Field Is the New Command Line 22 Jun 2004

Membership Giveaways 22 Jun 2004

Questions Regarding the Shirts and Membership 18 Jun 2004

Something Daring 16 Jun 2004

So Witty 11 Jun 2004

Misregistered 8 Jun 2004

Security Update 7 Jun 2004

Broken Windows 4 Jun 2004

May 2004

Security Cannot Be Spun 30 May 2004

An Ounce of Prevention 24 May 2004

About the Help Viewer Security Update, and, Also, Why I Don't Think You Need Paranoid Android 23 May 2004

Using the 'telnet' URI Protocol to Delete Files 21 May 2004

Disabling Unsafe URI Handlers With RCDefaultApp 20 May 2004

Like a Lead Zeppelin 15 May 2004

Movable Type 3.0 Plug-In Compatibility 15 May 2004

Writing for Google 11 May 2004

What to Do When Your Energy Saver Prefs Panel Won't Load 6 May 2004

Fixing Corrupt Preferences for Default Internet Helpers 5 May 2004

Just a Bunch of Links, but They're Good Links, I Swear 1 May 2004

April 2004

If It Ain't Broke 23 Apr 2004

Crying Wolf 16 Apr 2004

Preferences 12 Apr 2004

Sundry 'Spray-On' Clarifications and Corrections 6 Apr 2004

Ronco Spray-On Usability 1 Apr 2004

March 2004

Marcia, Marcia, Markdown 25 Mar 2004

Dive Into Markdown 19 Mar 2004

Introducing Markdown 15 Mar 2004

I Would Like You to Dance 9 Mar 2004

For Real 4 Mar 2004

February 2004

Mailsmith 'Send Now' Menu Key Defense 26 Feb 2004

48 Hours 20 Feb 2004

Setting Empty File and Creator Types 13 Feb 2004

Scripting File and Creator Types 12 Feb 2004

OmniWeb 5 Public Beta 2 Feb 2004

January 2004

Nudge 30 Jan 2004

Folklore 25 Jan 2004

Joney Jojo Junior Shabadoo 22 Jan 2004

The H-Bomb 14 Jan 2004

Command and Control 9 Jan 2004

You're Not One of Those Agitators, Are You? 7 Jan 2004

A Big Garage 6 Jan 2004

Die Hard 5 Jan 2004

Intervals 3 Jan 2004

December 2003

Rob Enderle: Putting the 'Anal' in 'Analyst' 28 Dec 2003

Inflammable Means Flammable? 16 Dec 2003

Losers, Weepers 14 Dec 2003

Old Habits 11 Dec 2003

PHP Syntax Checking in BBEdit 6 Dec 2003

Graphic Communication 4 Dec 2003

More Accurate (but, Admittedly, Less Sensational) Alternative Stencil Slogans for the 'Neistat Brothers' 2 Dec 2003

Panther Adoption Rate 1 Dec 2003

November 2003

Ejection 25 Nov 2003

Siracusa on Panther 19 Nov 2003

Crufty the Clown 16 Nov 2003

Eggs and Irons 14 Nov 2003

BBEdit 7.1 13 Nov 2003

Panther Text Rendering 10 Nov 2003

SmartyPants 1.4.1 8 Nov 2003

External Editors in Xcode 7 Nov 2003

Run Panther Run 3 Nov 2003

October 2003

Command-Tab 27 Oct 2003

Browser Stats 24 Oct 2003

Closed Is Open 21 Oct 2003

Pop Culture 16 Oct 2003

Various Links Related to Words That End With 'ck' 9 Oct 2003

Dudley More 9 Oct 2003

Dell's Dud 1 Oct 2003

September 2003

Miscellanea 26 Sep 2003

'Select Word' Script Addenda 25 Sep 2003

Interview: Michael Tsai 24 Sep 2003

'Select Word' Script for BBEdit 23 Sep 2003

AppleScript 'Whose' Clauses 19 Sep 2003

IBM Compatible 16 Sep 2003

The White Stripes 9 Sep 2003

Using CVS with BBEdit 8 Sep 2003

VapoRub 4 Sep 2003

VaporOffice 2 Sep 2003

August 2003

Dynomite! 28 Aug 2003

Good Times 25 Aug 2003

The Daring Fireball Power 1 List 23 Aug 2003

On Newsstands Now 19 Aug 2003

Text Editing News 13 Aug 2003

The One and Only Mac OS X Extensions Folder 10 Aug 2003

Panic Room 9 Aug 2003

Microtech's Crashtacular Zio Driver 7 Aug 2003

Crayolas 6 Aug 2003

I Would Not Feel So All Alone 5 Aug 2003

Mailsmith, an iBook, and Glider Pro Walk Into a Bar 1 Aug 2003

July 2003

Bang for Your Buck 27 Jul 2003

Look Out Below 26 Jul 2003

Market Share 24 Jul 2003

'Grab HTML' Script for BBEdit, Redux 21 Jul 2003

Finding Avie 17 Jul 2003

The Good, the Bad, and the Avie 14 Jul 2003

Independent Days 8 Jul 2003

Textiles 2 Jul 2003

Casady & Greene 1 Jul 2003

June 2003

SmartyPants 1.4 30 Jun 2003

You Put Chocolate in My Peanut Butter 29 Jun 2003

Flipping the Bird 27 Jun 2003

Drop a Dime 24 Jun 2003

Very Brief Comments Regarding Certain of Today's WWDC Announcements 23 Jun 2003

You Have New Mail 18 Jun 2003

Internet Explorer 16 Jun 2003

TrackBack Addenda 13 Jun 2003

Take Your TrackBacks and Dangle 12 Jun 2003

Noted 5 Jun 2003

Looney Tunes 2 Jun 2003

May 2003

Waferbaby Interview 22 May 2003

Steaming Pile 19 May 2003

JackAssassin 18 May 2003

Zeldman Reloaded 16 May 2003

SmartyPants 1.3 14 May 2003

Safari's Unscriptable Tabs 13 May 2003

Much Ado About Click-Through 10 May 2003

The Problems With Click-Through 7 May 2003

More iTunes Minutiae 2 May 2003

Et Tu iTunes? 1 May 2003

Interface Details: iTunes vs. Safari 1 May 2003

April 2003

Observations Regarding iTunes 4 30 Apr 2003

RTF to Plain Text Translator 29 Apr 2003

Stoned 28 Apr 2003

Accommodating 24 Apr 2003

Command Line Fun 23 Apr 2003

Sticky Business Redux: Web Browsers 15 Apr 2003

The Sticky Business of Page Layout 14 Apr 2003

Qwerty 8 Apr 2003

Translation 7 Apr 2003

Siracusa on the Finder 2 Apr 2003

Get What You Pay For 1 Apr 2003

March 2003

Interview: Brent Simmons 28 Mar 2003

The Party's Over 25 Mar 2003

Bitmap Like It's 1989 23 Mar 2003

Anti-Anti-Aliasing 19 Mar 2003

Code Monkey 13 Mar 2003

SmartyPants 1.2.1 11 Mar 2003

Anti-Aliasing 8 Mar 2003

Aliasing 7 Mar 2003

I Love It Because It's Trash 2 Mar 2003

Not Dead Yet 1 Mar 2003

February 2003

SmartyPants 1.2 27 Feb 2003

Banana Jr. 27 Feb 2003

We Don't Serve Their Kind Here 26 Feb 2003

Wrangly 25 Feb 2003

New Trick for Script Menu 24 Feb 2003

Stinkmail 23 Feb 2003

Install Like It's 1991 23 Feb 2003

Larry, Moe, Curly 23 Feb 2003

Short and Curlies 22 Feb 2003

Popularity Contest 18 Feb 2003

Inconsistencies 16 Feb 2003

Flowers Are for Chumps 14 Feb 2003

Konfabulous 12 Feb 2003

Operatic 8 Feb 2003

When in Rome 7 Feb 2003

SmartyPants 1.1 7 Feb 2003

Enkode This 4 Feb 2003

Remember IE? 3 Feb 2003

Save and Restore Safari URLs 3 Feb 2003

January 2003

Scripting Safari URLs Update 31 Jan 2003

Scripting Safari URLs 23 Jan 2003

Safari Source in BBEdit 21 Jan 2003

Ocean's X11 21 Jan 2003

Two Slices 17 Jan 2003

A La Mode 15 Jan 2003

Lies, Damn Lies 13 Jan 2003

Safari Links 11 Jan 2003

Nottke 10 Jan 2003

So Far We 10 Jan 2003

100 Percent Cotton 10 Jan 2003

Safari 8 Jan 2003

Rectangular 7 Jan 2003

Last Minute MWSF Predictions 7 Jan 2003

December 2002

That Sort of Thing 30 Dec 2002

Rascal 27 Dec 2002

Developer Goodies 23 Dec 2002

bbdiff 1.1 22 Dec 2002

Welch and Tsai on the Finder 20 Dec 2002

BBEdit 7 Review 19 Dec 2002

Bare Bones Disclaimer 19 Dec 2002

Finder Reflux 16 Dec 2002

Hackass 10 Dec 2002

Not the Eskimo 6 Dec 2002

Snow Day 5 Dec 2002

I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter 3 Dec 2002

November 2002

Thanksfindering 28 Nov 2002

That Finder Thing 26 Nov 2002

DMG 20 Nov 2002

Do You Smell Something? 19 Nov 2002

A Valid Point 15 Nov 2002

SmartyPants 1.0 13 Nov 2002

Journaling Details 12 Nov 2002

Crow 11 Nov 2002

Victors, Spoils, Dumb-Ass Voters 7 Nov 2002

Cruft 7 Nov 2002

Wine 4 Nov 2002

October 2002

Perl for Dummies (And Apple Installer Engineers) 29 Oct 2002

Stereotypical Fun 26 Oct 2002

Switched 23 Oct 2002

Valid RSS 0.91 Feeds From Movable Type 23 Oct 2002

Exposed 21 Oct 2002

Journal to the Center of the Earth 17 Oct 2002

Listen 16 Oct 2002

Stepping on eWeek's Blue Suede Shoes 16 Oct 2002

Microsoft Make-Up 15 Oct 2002

Microsoft's Answer to Ellen Feiss 14 Oct 2002

Labels X 11 Oct 2002

MacSFTP 10 Oct 2002

Only Funny Because It's True 8 Oct 2002

Fork You 8 Oct 2002

Matters Unix 7 Oct 2002

Movable Type Smart Quotes, Now With Retsin 5 Oct 2002

Linktoberfest 2 Oct 2002

September 2002

Feed Me 29 Sep 2002

Welcome, Indeed 27 Sep 2002

The Annotated Workspace 26 Sep 2002

VersionCrapper User Reviews 24 Sep 2002

On Joel on Software 21 Sep 2002

I.P. Freely 16 Sep 2002

Siracusa on Jaguar 10 Sep 2002

A Brief Word on Netscape 7.0 3 Sep 2002

August 2002

Pepper Author Maarten Hekkelman 30 Aug 2002

Unix Switchers 29 Aug 2002

'Grab HTML' Script for BBEdit 22 Aug 2002

Blame It on Quark 21 Aug 2002

Pretty Good News 19 Aug 2002

iPhony 19 Aug 2002

Why HyperCard Failed 16 Aug 2002

Movable Type Smart Quote Devilry 16 Aug 2002

Jack Valenti Does Not Smell Like Teen Spirit 14 Aug 2002

Baby Needs a New Pair of Processors 13 Aug 2002