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iPhone 18 Pro Reportedly Won’t Come in Black — MacRumors
Apple offers the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max in just three colors – Silver, Cosmic Orange, and Deep Blue – but notably there’s no black option. Last year was the first time Apple’s high-end iPhones have not been available with a black or dark gray color option in any way, but those hoping for the return of black this year for the iPhone 18 Pro should look away now.
My go-to choice is black, the only exception was for the iPhone 13 Pro which was in light blue (or whatever color they used to call it). If no black option for the 18 Pro Max, then my second choice goes to the deep red.
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Apple was seen as a laggard in AI development, and in fairness, they clearly saw themselves that way and invested billions in trying to catch up to the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic, but they failed miserably. And yet, they seem like they’re going to be doing just fine. You need a computer to do all this vibe coding on. You need a phone to talk to an AI agent. Who makes the best computers and phones? Apple does.
MP3 vs iPod playbook all over again? Or is it different this time? Not having to pay for all the necessary infrastructure to run AI might be beneficial for Apple’s future.
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It’s been a long time since I watched a rocket launch live from NASA. It was a great one 🚀. I didn’t know that two of the main engines are coming from previous space shuttles!! 😳
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So, Claude Code source code has leaked, for real? 😳 Or is this a bad April Fool thing? Seems serious if true… how can they cope with this? Why did it leaked and how? It sounds like a disaster for the company.
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Happy 50th Anniversary, Apple!
For today’s Apple’s 50th anniversary, I didn’t write a special blog post. Maybe I should have. I kind of forgot about it, even though I wrote about it a few days ago. Anyway, a few years ago, I wrote about the root of my passion for Apple. I’m not sure this article aged well, though. Nonetheless, Apple and Steve Jobs played a major role in defining who I am today, that’s for sure.
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Personally, I couldn’t care less what you write on your /ai page. The same way I couldn’t care less if you use em-dashed. Words are cheap, easy to write, and they mean less and less. But your history, all the baggage you carry with you, all you have written and said, that is harder to fake, building it is time-consuming, but destroying it takes a second. If you start posting AI slop, my trust in you is gone in an instant, and no matter how you’ll try to justify it, that trust will not come back.
I can understand Manuel’s disdain of anything related to AI, but I feel his stance is a little too much “binary”; all or nothing. There must be a middle ground, isn’t it?
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Business Insider Profiles Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s ‘CEO of Applications’:
People stay on Facebook and Instagram even as the experiences worsen because everyone they know is also still on those apps. There’s no network effect like that for ChatGPT. Claude is already rising to near-equal status in popularity, and Gemini isn’t far behind, and Simo hasn’t even started enshittifying ChatGPT yet. People will just switch.
I don’t use my Facebook account, Messenger, yes, because of others who refuse to let go and don’t understand alternatives. I already switched to Claude. I couldn’t be happier. I didn’t have to wait for the obvious to come.
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iOS 27 might give iPhone’s keyboard a new autocorrect feature — 9to5Mac
Apple has explored an updated system keyboard that expands autocorrect by offering alternative words, using an approach that’s similar to tools like Grammarly.
If they can fix Autocorrect once and for all, I’m all in.
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Apple Maps Is Getting Ads. It’s Apple’s Riskiest Bet Yet — I might like Apple ads, after all. #not
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Everything New in iOS 26.5 Beta 1:
iOS 26.5 is now available for developers, and while it doesn’t include any new Siri capabilities, there are some major changes for the European Union, and smaller tweaks for features available worldwide.
A meagre release, except for the EU. I find it stupid that Apple doesn’t enable the same feature set in the Americas market. Apple being… Apple.
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Apple is sure to release iOS 26.5 beta, when is still an unknown, but also unknown is what Apple Intelligence/ Siri new features Apple will want users to test that cannot wait iOS 27. 👀 We shall see very soon.
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9to5Mac’s article “Vibe coding could mark the end of the App Store review process as we know it”:
Summary
The rise of AI-powered “agentic coding” has overwhelmed Apple’s App Store review process, with developers reporting review times of 3+ days to a week instead of the traditional under-24-hour turnaround. The influx of fully AI-generated apps from new developers has created a bottleneck for human reviewers, making it unfair for established developers whose update submissions are delayed. To address this, the author suggests Apple could implement separate review queues for established developers or automate updates while maintaining human review only for new submissions, though it may ultimately become necessary to reduce or eliminate full human review.
I don’t see the current review process at Apple as sustainable. I can imagine parts of the current workflow being automated (like finding instances of private API usage in application binaries). But, just for vibe coding, reviewing app submissions should be human-gated. An AI agent could even run the app in a simulator for testing.
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Daring Fireball commenting ‘How Apple Became Apple: The Definitive Oral History of the Company’s Earliest Days’
Apple is at its best when it’s infused with a bit of the spirit of the two Steves whose first joint venture were blue boxes that let you make long distance phone calls for free. The first public phone call Steve Jobs ever made on an iPhone was a prank call to the Starbucks next to Moscone West. I feel like that renegade spirit has been repressed in the Tim Cook era.
Indeed. Ternus could change that; that’s my expectation.
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I wouldn’t be surprised to see Apple come up with Siri+ or to take a cut on third party AI offerings that support iOS 27 new AI-related features. I would probably plug my Claude AI subscription into this provided Anthropic support is enacted.
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I officially lost my Apple Pencil Pro. This 200 CAN$ doesn’t support Find My??? WTF. This is the second time I’m losing an Apple Pencil. The first time was the original one.
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Successful products — Manuel Moreale
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.
Exhibit A: all Microsoft 365 products, which contain so many paper cuts.
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Vibe coding SwiftUI apps is a lot of fun — Simon Willison
A full SwiftUI app can fit in a single text file, which means Claude can be used to build complete macOS applications through conversational prompts alone.
How much of that tech Apple will ever adopt inside the company, or let developers take advantage of in Xcode, is yet to be known.
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Developers targeting Apple platforms, particularly the Mac, are expressing frustration over TestFlight approvals that take over a week. They attribute the delays to Apple being overwhelmed by the influx of vibe-coded app submissions. Is this explanation accurate?
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Added new “OPML Sync…” button on Account for Inkwell users. This lets you set an external OPML file (for example from FeedLand or another feed platform) that Inkwell will automatically import feeds from.
Oh, cool! I updated my RSS reader to generate such a consumable file, making it the single source of truth.
