Our next step as Canadians is to reconsider our stance on honoring energy export agreements with the United States. I’m supporting Mr. Carney so far, and I would be willing to support him if he asked Canadian provinces to consider it. We need to stand up; it’s about our sovereignty, not only about economics.
Update #1: Or, another idea is to kill the F-35 contract negotiations.
Someone reacted to my argument about the iPhone Duo potential naming:
@numericcitizen @daringfireball I had a Duo 230 and loved it. The thing that made it Due was not that it was two complementary pieces of hardware. It was that it served two functions, laptop and desktop computer. This iPhone looks like it is going to serve two functions, phone and tablet. We'll know more when we see it introduced, but I think those two functions align with the Duo name.
I think he’s right, and my argument was flawed.
While it is true that Eddy Cue and John Ternus intend to increase revenue from services and the App Store, a new potential source of income lies in the capabilities of Apple Intelligence, especially those of Siri AI. We’re not there yet because they are just emerging from a long slump and don’t necessarily enjoy good press. But let’s let Apple regain momentum with Apple Intelligence: developers will adopt advanced features, and then, when the time comes, Apple will surely find a way to add a charge somewhere between the developer, the users, and Apple. Apple Intelligence+ will naturally emerge on its own.
I bet the foldable iPhone won’t be called the “iPhone Duo”. Why? As I shared with Gruber, the Duo reminds me of the Macintosh PowerBook Duo system from the early nineties, where you could ‘insert’ the PowerBook into a docking station to form a ‘desktop’ setup. The Duo and the docking station were two separate subsystems that could work together to form something bigger, more useful and convenient. The iPhone Duo doesn’t convey this at all.
I bet it will be called the “iPhone Ultra” because it will be premium hardware; the ultimate tech Apple can bring to the foldable phone space.
I’m running out of space on my Synology NAS. I’m wondering whether deleting the individual recorded segments that make up a full YouTube video is a good idea. I could also delete ScreenFlow projects and keep only the final videos. I’m not sure it’s a good idea. Thoughts?
Today I deleted my Flipboard account, one of the first iPad apps I used daily. I was using it to cross-post content to a Flipboard magazine, hoping it would attract more readers, but it didn’t gain much popularity. As a user, I also didn’t rely on this service for content consumption, preferring an RSS sync service with my preferred client. I like the concept of flipping cards; it was novel back then, but not anymore.
Just finished watching: Widow’s Bay Season 1 📺 What a weird, unsettling ending. The table is set for season 2, I guess. Very unheaven storytelling.
This is not only cool but also useful. Now, I can query content from both Ghost (numericcitizen.me) and Micro.blog (blog.numericcitizen.me). See meta.numericcitizen.me for implementation details.
Manton Reece amplifying a report from Gurman.
Worrisome indeed. I cannot believe Apple’s management team isn’t aware of developers’ discontent with the App Store. More than ever, it’s easy to write a bunch of simple apps, running as web apps, no store needed. Apple should pay attention.
