Airpods Pro Repair: How hard is it to ship an empty box?
What followed was an hour long customer support session that continues to erode my enjoyment of Apple products.
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Apple's Gatekeeper Developer ID Program Needs a Transparency Report
Adding a formal, descriptive transparency report would restore a lot of faith in the Gatekeeper system after this week's events.
Apple's EU Antitrust Investigation is Long Overdue
European Commission: The European Commission has opened formal antitrust investigations to assess whether Apple’s rules for app developers on the distribution of apps via the App Store violate EU competition rules. …
Full Time Spaceship Employees Only
Recent episodes of Accidental Tech Podcast have brought up Apple’s lack of quality developer documentation. The most recent discussion spawning after the release of a new website, No Overview Available, which …
If Flying, Print Out MacBook Battery Status
In recent weeks the FAA has put a flight ban on the MacBook Pro laptops with recalled batteries. NPR writes: The Federal Aviation Administration has banned certain MacBook Pro laptops on flights following an announcement …
A Month with the 2019 23.7-inch LG UltraFine 4K Display
Previously on, The Great Monitor Search Continues. After identifying a need to get a new external display for my MacBook Pro, I first paused to see what WWDC might bring. After Apple released a monitor that I could not …
The Great Monitor Search Continues
TLDR: The LG 49 inch UltraWide monitor is pretty cool, but not very Mac compatible (specifics defects below). Next up for me is the Apple Store approved, 23.7-inch LG UltraFine 4K Display, which will trade screen real …
MacPro Reactions
This year’s WWDC as expected is overflowing with things to talk about. For now, let’s scope this to just the MacPro (and its monitor). From a purely technical perspective, there isn’t much missing. We …
Thoughts on Mac Pros at WWDC
Today I reread the transcript of that closed door Mac roundtable event of 2017 where we were promised new Mac Pros. As I read it one of the things that frustrated me most is how Apple acknowledged and was almost proud of …
A Pivotal Year for the Mac Platform
This is going to be a pivotal year for the Mac platform and my relationship to it. First up is the Mac Pro. While I’ve owned Apple laptops since I switched to Mac OS X full time, I almost always had a tower …
Apple’s Use of Donations as Marketing
The other day Tim Cook (@tim_cook) tweeted: Our hearts go out to the people of Sulawesi and all of Indonesia after this weekend’s devastating earthquake and tsunami. Apple is donating $1 million to aid relief efforts …
Right to Repair
Via phoneArena: It has been reported that iOS 11.3 has disabled some iPhone 8 touch displays. The devices affected are those who have had third party displays installed. These displays are typically installed by local …
Rethinking My Music Storage
I’m not a huge music collector, at least not compared to some other people I know. I do have about 150 GBs of music in my iTunes collection — lots of it being video game soundtracks I enjoy listening to while I program. …
Pre-“Hello Again” Mac Event Thoughts
Having been a long time Mac user and developer it’s been very disappointing to see Apple ignore the hardware release cycle of the Mac platform over the last few years. I’m really anxious to see what’s going to come of …
Should I Sell My Apple Watch?
I did not partake in the first release of Apple Watch. I was curious but not curious enough. I bought a Playstation 4 instead. Last month Apple had its announcements. I wasn’t all that jazzed about the iPhone 7 (even …
24 Hours with My iPad Pro
I’ve always been a big fan of the iPad. I’ve owned an: iPad 1, iPad 2 (which I sold to upgrade to an iPad 3), an iPad mini (retina), and now an iPad Pro. I’ve been pretty antsy for an iPad Pro since I saw the original …
WWDC 2015 Wish List
While I won’t be at WWDC proper I will be in San Francisco the week of WWDC. I have a ticket to AltConf and otherwise expect to be mingling about. What do I want to see announced? Here is some of my wish list. Swift …
A Walled Garden of Shit
From the App Store Review Guidelines: We have over a million Apps in the App Store. If your App doesn’t do something useful, unique or provide some form of lasting entertainment, it may not be accepted. I sure wish they …
A Mac Pro Guy Getting By in an iMac World: Storage
Recently I decommissioned my much beloved Mac Pro which served as a lowly file server since I moved to my loaded 27-inch iMac last year. The iMac is working out great though I would have still preferred a new Mac Pro for …