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@daringfireball He's clearly been hanging out with the president too much

> Apple CEO Tim Cook believes that his company will have opportunities to deliver "innovations that have never been seen before" this year.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/30/apple-never-before-seen-innovations/

Apple Teases 'Innovations That Have Never Been Seen Before' This Year

Apple CEO Tim Cook believes that his company will have opportunities to deliver "innovations that have never been seen before" this year. "As I said at the beginning of my remarks, this was, in so many ways, a remarkable quarter for Apple, and we're excited for all the opportunities we'll have in the year ahead to deliver innovations that have never been seen before and enrich the lives of users every step of the way," said Cook, on an earnings call on Thursday.

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Jake Zien Dec 19

@gruber Can’t wait for your coverage of the latest typographic crime at the White House, most egregious yet. Column too wide, weird rag, bizarre margins, and why the fuck couldn’t the most powerful office on Earth get a plaque sized correctly to fit all the text? So deeply crappy and tacky. To say nothing of the despicable content of course
https://reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ppatqq/new_plaques_added_to_the_presidential_hall_of/

@clarko 😪

@gruber @clarko This means there’s no way to listen to this episode in Overcast, then, right?

Jake Zien Oct 13, 2025

@airbuddy Is this github page you? The "download airbuddy" button links to a verrrryyy sketchy page that instructs users to enter a base64-encoded terminal command, which asks for the admin password, downloads a dodgy-looking binary, and executes it. Seems bad https://github.com/AirBuddy-Mac

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Jake Zien Sep 19, 2025

@daringfireball Having noticed the silence, I was thinking of posting today to ask if you're ok. Sending hugs 💛

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Jake Zien Aug 26, 2025

@daringfireball All this, but especially redrawing other devs’ / orgs’ logos, plays to the worst public conception of Apple — overbearing, monolithic, roundrect maximizer, design-means-sleek, we-know-better. The phrase “style fascism” has been rolling around in my head since the betas started this summer. Histrionic for sure, but maybe kind of apt

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Jake Zien Aug 26, 2025

@daringfireball When they introduced dark mode icons in 18 it made me vaguely uncomfortable, like “Your brand might be dark-on-light or vice versa, but our platform consistency is more important than your brand. Conform & give both options or we will just redraw your logo to fit our new scheme.”

In 26, the automatic “Your logo is glass now” treatment feels a bridge too far — a hamfisted attempt to achieve Big Consistency by sacrificing many practical details. Same issue with the Liquid Glass UI

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Jake Zien Aug 26, 2025

@daringfireball The whole Liquid Glass implementation feels like a begrudging “*Fine,* we’ll return to *some* materiality in the UI, but only one material! Everything must be made of the same material, and the material has to be a magical invented material that plays by the arbitrary qualities we specify.”

It feels like an attempt to bring back some much-needed joy, colliding hard with the iron fist of “Consistency means a single treatment with zero exceptions”

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Jake Zien Aug 26, 2025

@daringfireball Hard agree. It’s almost as if the decision that every icon, including those from other companies, needs to be “made of” overlapping pieces of cut glass was shortsighted and bound to result in inconsistent, undercooked execution.

Even within the OS though… a glass wrench? Or take the App Store icon — three vague gradient rods. Far cry from the brush, pencil, and ruler; but is this really an improvement over the nice 2D/3D graphic play of the prior “popsicle sticks” icon?