Mastodawn

@gruber @benthompson How can one reconcile Apple's relatively paltry capex spending vs. peer companies with Tim Cook's failure to increase capex to facilitate a more aggressive effort to onshore world-class microprocessor fabrication? History won't be kind to Cook. At this point, Cook simply can't feign ignorance:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/technology/taiwan-china-chips-silicon-valley-tsmc.html

The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored

If China invades Taiwan and cuts off its chip exports to American companies, the tech industry and the U.S. economy would be crippled.

The New York Times

jdotc Feb 15

@tapbots Is PasteBots still in active development? Seems like the most recent update is from October 2024?

jdotc Jan 5

Niki Tonsky Jan 5

New blog post! A close look at Tahoe menu icons. With 109 illustrations! https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

tonsky.me

jdotc Oct 18

Tip for all Apple reporters - Apple's Image Playground.app automatically redacts "No Kings Day" from AI-generated images, despite repeated redirections and clarifications. Per my tests, none of the other AI-driven image generation platforms censor the name of this nationwide protest. I encourage others to try and see for themselves. @gruber @atpfm @jsnell @marcoarment @siracusa @markgurman

jdotc Aug 29, 2025

John Siracusa Aug 9, 2025

I have always had an account on this Mac Studio, signed into my Apple ID. I use it nearly every day. No new accounts have been added to this Mac since it was first set up years ago. Apple is really making it difficult to keep Macs as part of AppleCare One.

jdotc Aug 27, 2025

@atpfm really enjoyed the ATP Insider: Vacations podcast. Might be my very favorite episode of the insider series yet.

jdotc Aug 21, 2025

John Siracusa Aug 20, 2025

Screw you, AppleCare One! I am logged into this Mac with my Apple Account RIGHT NOW! As I always am! Screw youuuuuuu! 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

jdotc Aug 21, 2025

John Siracusa Aug 20, 2025

PSA: In case you haven't heard me yell about this on @atpfm, I do NOT recommend AppleCare One because it simply DOES NOT WORK AS ADVERTISED!

If you sign up, be prepared for a 24-hour timer to start at any time on any day for the rest of the life of the AppleCare One plan that will cause one of your devices to be REMOVED from the plan, leaving it with no warranty, if you don't do some stupid thing that makes no sense. Is this how you want to live your life? No? then DO NOT GET APPLECARE ONE!

jdotc Aug 21, 2025

John Siracusa Aug 20, 2025

Time for my daily AppleCare One threat.

jdotc Aug 19, 2024

@gruber is the Talk Show still a thing? Been nearly a month since the last episode…