Fuck yeah: AI should kill cross-platform platforms:

React and Electron made sense in a world where code was expensive and duplicating the same work on multiple platforms was tons of effort. React and Electron allowed you to save time, which was valuable to companies, and frankly, to those on smaller platforms (don’t get me started on how much software form the past decade runs on the Mac only because Electron made it easy to do so).

AI coding makes code cheap, so now there’s less benefit to having reusable code. In this world, if writing native apps gives a better experience and AI coding agents make it easy to implement what you want across all platforms, then you may as well write native. After all, you’re asking your agent to create the actual code, anyway. How hard is it to add “make it for the iOS and Android projects” at the end of the promot?

Matt is on something here: there is no reason to build apps on multi-platform technologies like Electron. I hope to see those technologies disappear in the short term.

What 20$ AI monthly subscriptions can buy?

I keep seeing signs that using AI is becoming more and more expensive: reduced tokens budget for the same pricing might be a trend now.

As someone who’s pondering whether I can and should buy a Mac to develop native apps on it with Claude Code, this trend makes me pause a little bit. Hardware is now very expensive and if you add more pricing pressure on AI subscription this adds up.

One question that comes to my mind is: what capabilities a 20$ a month subscription of Claude buys me when developing native iPhone apps?

Daydreaming is easy now

Daydreaming about my first native app for Apple devices, the super app for Micro.blog: why limit myself to support Micro.blog, why not also support, in the same app, Scribbles.page? Having a merged timeline and single post writing experience would be so cool. I wonder if @manton and @vincent are noticing…. .

A majority of Americans seems to have woken up. Might be too early but from what I’m seeing, it is encouraging. Yet, the next two years will still be about Trump’s erratic behaviours and damage. Healing from this era will take decades unfortunately. 😒

Can the web browser war return, please?

Looking for an ARC Browser replacement in the next few weeks will be a hassle. In OS 27.3 betas, Safari is getting vertical tabs. Fine. Bookmarks management on Safari is weird. And is Safari’s rendering engine any good in 2026? What do I lose if I go the Google Chrome route? I don’t expect Google to add Siri AI features to Chrome unless the partnership with Apple ask for it. I still don’t see a viable alternative to the ARC Browser that is not buggy or laggy. What a pity in 2026.

I wish Apple trade-ins value would increase to better reflect the current industry trends and scarcity. An M4 Pro Mac mini with 24 GB RAM and 1 TB of storage should get more than 875 CAN$ in my opinion.

Visiting Singapore’s landmark Apple Store was a must on my list. It’s a great place to get a sense of Apple’s design tastes and some fresh air when outside is hot and muggy. The view or the surroundings is also interesting. Surprisinly, there wasn’t that many visitors today. Oh, and my wife is warming up to the iPhone Duo form factor.

Hello from Singapour

I went far to get a chance to play with the iPhone Duo! Hello from Singapour’s airport where I stumbled on the Apple Store. The Duo is certainly a great piece of tech but boy this little buddy Has a learning curve to manipulate. I think the future of the iPhone franchise is bright and I can see many more models of this things. My wife wold love to get a bigger one, matching the iPad mini when unfolded. It will come.