All art is disguising work

Notion Face Man > Lil Finder Guy

The Verge is currently trying to rank the top 50 Apple products from the past 50 years.

I’d say these are objectively the top 3, I won’t agree to disagree:

1. iPhone (specific: iPhone 4)
2. Mac (specific: 2008 white MacBook)
3. Apple Silicon (specific: M1)

Tailscale is one of the few products that does the warm gray palette well

A product being popular is an indication of a lot of people using it. Doesn’t necessarily mean that the product is good. Doesn’t necessarily mean it’s successful.

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“Sincerely ours” is such a smart email sign-off for a co-op

Whoops, joy of messing around

There is no rush. Take our time. Learn something new.

Even if nothing comes out of this, the journey was worth it. It was time well spent.

I wonder if it’s partly:

For work, we’re so oriented towards progress and a timeline. Meandering, exploring — while we know they are essential — we’re still conditioned to see them as distractions.

For play, the journey is almost everything. The joy of messing out, going down endless rabbit holes…

2nd pic has massive Kim Jong Un pointing at maps vibes

Fun copywriting exercise:

The current CTA is bad. What would you use instead?

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

I cried reading this

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BDD army

The MacBook Neo, running an old iPhone chip, can run laps around an iPad running an actual computer chip when in comes to actually being productive

Like this tablet Apple has been trying to position as a computer for a decade can't even play a podcast and music at the same time

Just let me compute

macOS already ships age verification

If Apple releases a foldable, 10 full years after everyone else, and it’s literally the same thing we’ve seen in the decade, but just that there’s no crease, I think that’s a fail.

It should address way more issues than just the crease.

The problem with foldable phones isn’t the crease, and yet everyone is rushing to “solve” it.

The problem is the screens are soft and delicate and even your fingernail will leave a permanent mark.

We don’t talk about big tech and social good anymore but can all the algorithms just hide food content after 10pm

Honestly insane considering you used to be a pro fushigi athlete

Jony Ive made a “not precious” $5000 sailing lamp

I wanna read a real world review from someone who bought one and took it sailing

The display looks really good here. But when I see photos of it showing an ebook, it looks really bad.

Is it a display resolution issue or a text rendering issue?

Honestly shameful that Apple is whipping out every dark pattern in the book to mislead users into upgrading to 26

I guess it will disappear soon 🙃

Instagram became briefly usable this year, when they “experimented” with a following only feed. I could actually keep up with the people I care about it.

Then, they killed the experiment and it’s no longer usable.

What’s your tech wishlist for next year?

Mine are:
- Customizable panels in Figma
- Android-style silent notifications on iOS (an in-between setting between mute and regular notifications)
- Apple Music (desktop) actually becomes usable
- More indie and small tech in general

Summer in December?

Elon Musk Says ‘Misunderstanding’ With Apple Is Resolved (Published 2022)

See also, plus all the stuff about Apple in China

www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/t...

Tim Cook met with US lawmakers in a closed-door meeting to lobby against provisions in pending legislation that would require app stores to verify users' ages From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

This is Tim Cook’s superpower.

And none of his rumored successors have demonstrated prowess at this.

www.techmeme.com/251210/p47#a...

The way to write like a human these days is to avoid em dashes