Articles Published in 2020

December 2020

Charger Nerdery     31 Dec 2020

Facebook’s Unknowable Megascale     29 Dec 2020

Facebook: Free as in Bullshit     18 Dec 2020

Facebook Takes Out Full-Page Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple’s Changes Strengthening iOS Privacy     16 Dec 2020

I Suppose a Roman à Clef About a Design-Obsessed California Computer Maker With a Charismatic but Mercurial Founder Whose Youthful Arrogance Leads to His Ignominious Ouster and Exile, Only to Return a Decade Later to Not Only Save the Company From Seemingly Certain Ruin but Lead Them to Theretofore Unimaginable Triumph and Renown, Is Off the Table Too     15 Dec 2020

Heavy Is the Head That Wears the AirPods Max     10 Dec 2020

M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness      2 Dec 2020

November 2020

The M1 Macs     17 Nov 2020

The HomePod Mini     13 Nov 2020

One More Thing: The M1 Macs     11 Nov 2020

The iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max      9 Nov 2020

Sketch, and the Joy of Mac-App Mac Apps      9 Nov 2020

The Daring Fireball Election Desk Is Calling It: Biden Wins      4 Nov 2020

Disclosing a Few Thoughts on Facebook’s UI Design      2 Nov 2020

October 2020

Sean Connery     31 Oct 2020

The 2020 iPad Air     22 Oct 2020

The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro     20 Oct 2020

Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s ‘Hi, Speed’ iPhone 12 Event     16 Oct 2020

Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating ‘Irrelevance’ With ‘Inconvenience’     14 Oct 2020

Translation From Adorable Bullshit to English of Microsoft’s ‘10 Principles for the Microsoft Store on Windows’     11 Oct 2020

Facebook and the Group That Planned to Kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer      9 Oct 2020

September 2020

‎Widgetsmith and The Case of the Missing App Store Bunco Squad     26 Sep 2020

More Adventures in Solo Loop Sizing     23 Sep 2020

Adventures in Solo Loop Sizing     22 Sep 2020

Apple Watch Series 6: Graphite Is the New Black     17 Sep 2020

Brief Thoughts and Observations on Today’s ‘Time Flies’ Apple Event     15 Sep 2020

Apple Leadership Bubblegum Cards     14 Sep 2020

Apple Announces Virtual ‘Time Flies’ Event Next Tuesday      8 Sep 2020

Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy      3 Sep 2020

August 2020

On TikTok as a Security Threat     18 Aug 2020

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney’s Hand-Waving Explanation for How Game Consoles Deserve 30 Percent of Fortnite Revenue but Apple and Google’s App Stores Do Not     17 Aug 2020

Thoughts on an ‘Apple One’ Subscription Bundle     14 Aug 2020

Epic Goes to War With Apple Over the App Store     13 Aug 2020

Dithering Preview     10 Aug 2020

Decoding Apple’s Statement to Business Insider Regarding Xbox Game Pass      7 Aug 2020

July 2020

Trump Floats Delaying Election     30 Jul 2020

Parsing Tim Cook’s Opening Statement From Today’s Congressional Antitrust Hearing     29 Jul 2020

Good Sudoku by Zach Gage     23 Jul 2020

Return and Enter Are Two Different Keys     20 Jul 2020

Refer This     13 Jul 2020

A Moment of Clarity Regarding the Raison d’Etre for the App Store      9 Jul 2020

A Bit of Self-Served Claim Chowder Regarding iMessage and Phone Numbers as Identifiers      7 Jul 2020

How We Shot The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020      6 Jul 2020

June 2020

Working the Refs Worked: ‘How Facebook Wrote Its Rules to Accommodate Trump’     29 Jun 2020

The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak     24 Jun 2020

Sponsorship Openings and The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020     19 Jun 2020

The Flimsiness of ‘Business vs. Consumer’ as a Justification for Apple’s Rejection of Hey From the App Store for Not Using In-App Purchases     16 Jun 2020

On Apple Announcing the ARM Mac Transition at WWDC This Month      9 Jun 2020

May 2020

Translation From VC-Backed PR Jargon to English of Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz’s Statement That He’s ‘Stepping Down’     29 May 2020

‘What Time Is It in London?’     22 May 2020

No Mask, No Dice     21 May 2020

Department of Justice Reopens Spat With Apple Over iPhone Encryption     19 May 2020

A Spectacularly Bad Washington Post Story on Apple and Google’s Exposure Notification Project     15 May 2020

More on Dithering     14 May 2020

Bloomberg Publishes Clickbait in Break From Rivals     13 May 2020

Let’s Check In on the State of iPhone and Android CPU Performance     11 May 2020

Dithering      7 May 2020

April 2020

The 2020 iPhone SE     22 Apr 2020

The iPad Magic Keyboard     20 Apr 2020

The Quadrennial iPhone SE Schedule     16 Apr 2020

COBOL, Programming, and Coding     14 Apr 2020

Amazon and Apple Strike Deal for Prime Video In-App Purchases and Subscriptions      2 Apr 2020

March 2020

Regarding Zoom     30 Mar 2020

Curse Words     28 Mar 2020

The 2020 iPad Pros     24 Mar 2020

The 2020 MacBook Air     20 Mar 2020

Super Wednesday     18 Mar 2020

February 2020

Tot     27 Feb 2020

What You See in the Finder Should Always Be Correct     25 Feb 2020

Locations of Media Files in MacOS 10.15 Catalina     24 Feb 2020

The DF Tootbot Is Once Again Fully Operational      6 Feb 2020

My 2019 Apple Report Card      5 Feb 2020

January 2020

It’s Not About Intuitiveness     30 Jan 2020

The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10     27 Jan 2020

Hacked to Bits     26 Jan 2020

Regarding Reuters’s Report That Apple Dropped Plan for Encrypting iCloud Backups     21 Jan 2020

Quit Confirmation for Safari on MacOS     10 Jan 2020

Front and Center      9 Jan 2020

The Concept Electronics Show      8 Jan 2020

David Ruddock on the State of Chrome OS      4 Jan 2020