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“Today, Apple is proud to report a remarkable, record-breaking quarter, with revenue of $143.8 billion, up 16 percent from a year ago and well above our expectations,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “iPhone had its best-ever quarter driven by unprecedented demand, with all-time records across every geographic segment, and Services also achieved an all-time revenue record, up 14 percent from a year ago. We are also excited to announce that our installed base now has more than 2.5 billion active devices, which is a testament to incredible customer satisfaction for the very best products and services in the world.”
How can Apple think they are doing anything wrong with these numbers? You tell me.
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The more I tweak my personal RSS reader, called “RSS Flow”, the more I like it. It wouldn’t scale to the level of Inoreader, though. But for a dozen of RSS feeds, it’s really nice.
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Trying out Aeronaut for Bluesky. Very nice. I don’t actually visit Bluesky directly that often because I post to it and follow within Micro.blog. Good to have a dedicated app for things like feeds, though.
Tried it for five minutes on my Mac. Nice, indeed. Certainly better than Bluesky’s offering which is iPhone only. The only thing is that I never quite remember what to use as my Bluesky username.
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Let’s Keep an Eye on Apple’s Own iOS Adoption Numbers — Daring Fireball
I presume, or at least hope, that they’ll update these numbers for iOS 26 any day now.
Apple will wait as long as the numbers look favorable. The longer it will take, the more we can assume that this year’s OSes adoption isn’t where it was in previous years.
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Halide cofounder Sebastiaan de With joins Apple’s design team — 9to5Mac
Halide and Lux co-founder and designer Sebastiaan de With announced today that he is joining Apple’s human interface design team.
Woah! I’m happy for him, and I think it’s a big plus for Apple in general. I always admired his work, both in Halide and on his website.
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Yesterday night I installed and configured ClawdBot on my M4 Mac mini sitting on my home office desk. Now, I’m remote-controlling it with Discord, preferring it over Telegram or iMessage because Discord support in ClawdBot felt more mature. I can ask simple things and get simple answer. It’s exciting. Yet, it was more complicated than I originally thought. ClawdBot is a nerdy thing for really nerd people. More comments about ClawdBot can be found on MacStories.
I see a lot of potential for learning and testing new things with ClawdBot. I’ll probably dedicate a lot of my spare time to it in the coming months. But for now, because I’m very close to leaving for a vacation trip to Egypt, I’ll put that aside for a few weeks.
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Open source vs. open platforms — Manton Reece
Open source gives power to developers. An open platform gives power to everyone. The web needs business models that can sustain both.
Well balanced point of view, something we see less and less often these days.
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Yesterday, I suscribed to Edovia’s Screens so that I could remote control my Mac mini upstair to configure ClawdBot where it is running. Like many other apps, Screens now comes with Liquid Glass support and it’s a mixed bag. Plus, this thing is a battery drain powerhouse! 🫣 I’ve been using Screens 3 a long time ago when we couldn’t remote control into other Macs via FaceTime. I’m happy to see it still around, especially that I know the developer behind it.
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At this rate, I wonder if I could create a custom-build, highly feature-focused Inoreader replacement using Claude Code. My experience so far with RSS Flow seems to confirm that I could, piece-by-piece.
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I’m putting the final touches on a few of my web apps before going on a two-week vacation. One nice thing is that my RSS Flow app can call my Microblog Poster app to quickly create a link post from a text selection in RSS Flow.
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I’m not sure it was a good idea to put my GitHub repos inside iCloud Drive Documents folder. Some of my projects have more than 50K files inside of them, thanks to dependancies. The fileproviderd process consumes quite a lot of CPU cycles at times.
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I visited some friends this weekend and talked about Apple’s latest software updates. The general sentiment seems to be that they don’t like the updates (iOS 26 as well as the “new weird and fuzzy look”). Apple no longer delights users. 😔
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iPhone 18 Pro: Leaker Reveals Alleged Size of Smaller Dynamic Island — MacRumors
The account “Ice Universe” today claimed the Dynamic Island cutout on the iPhone 18 Pro models will be approximately 35% narrower than it is on the iPhone 17 Pro models. Specifically, they said it will have a width of around 13.5mm, down from around 20.7mm, and they shared the mockup image above to show what it would look like.
When Apple eliminates the camera and sensor cutout from the display, maybe next year or the year after, what will happen with the dynamic island? My take is that the dynamic island continues to show content popping up from the top of the screen, just like before.
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Intel puts consumer chip production on back burner as datacenters make a run on Xeons — The Register
If you notice PC prices creeping up over the next few months, the rising cost of memory won’t be the only reason, because on Thursday Intel said it is reallocating foundry capacity from client chips to meet surging demand for Xeon processors used in AI servers.
I wonder if Apple can manage to keep iPhone prices stable this fall with the release of the iPhone 18. They are certainly facing headwinds.
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I’m learning so much non-AI stuff by using AI — BirchTree
a year into my AI-accelerated coding adventure, I am far, far, far more knowledgeable about development than I was when I started.
My experience with n8n, Claude Code, Vercel and GitHub in recent weeks not only exposed me to obscure things in web app development, but to useful use cases of generative AI.
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So far this year, AI and Claude Code have completely changed my plans to learn writing extensive Apple Shortcuts. In fact, I would even argue that Apple has to find a way to enable a Claude Code like experience to write Apple Shortcuts (and why not AppleScript while at it).
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Something Is Going On
I’m still working on this, but I’m heading in the right direction. I realize that every blog post should have a title so that my RSS flow feed looks great. 👀 Continue reading →
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Asking Claude Code to suggest new features and improvements for my photo-sharing app is a lot of fun. Reviewing the list, I see several valid suggestions. However, as a “product manager”, I must decide what gets implemented and what does not. It’s kind of a power trip. You know “A thousand no for each yes”? 😎
