🍎 Apple
🍎📺 Finished Imperfect Women last night. Really rather good. Seem to be more and more of these ‘secrets wrapped up in Russian Dolls’ stories. They aren’t always great. 🚧
🔗😂 XKCD and 🔗😂 Existential Comics are both crackers today.
Seems that 🍎 are pushing more Peanuts programming into 📺.
🍎📰 is missing a ‘comics’ section for Peanuts and other great comics, including XKCD and Existential.
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📸🍎 The 🔗 LinkedIN post remains' meh' - BUT - I did like the associated image
Crucial Track 🎵 May 16, 2026
"Oh Well (Live)" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Talking of superb covers … as I wrote 🖇️ here not even a month ago - a glorious cover of track by Fleetwood Mac. Before John and Stevie. Even before Christine.
Bonus Round ...
🔗🍎🎵 PartONE that Tom covered.
🔗🍎🎵 PartTWO that Tom did not cover - totally different and Peter Green's favourite part.
both performed by Fleetwood Mac.
🖥️🍎 From history …
🔗 No one is listening to Steve Jobs’s advice about the EU Digital ID Wallet
🍎 I have no idea if this is anywhere near true / possible. BUT.
A $2billion acquisition is (I think) the second largest Cupertino has ever done? So clearly there’s something going on - and I hate talking to my computer for so many reasons. So this …
Q.ai specialized in one thing: analyzing facial micro-movements and patterns to determine what you’re saying, without any audible speech required.
shall we say piqued my interest and just might solve my issue.
🔗 Apple’s upcoming AirPods Pro 3 variant could debut a groundbreaking new feature
[my thanks to @devilgate for pointing out my typo … ‘piqued’ … not ‘peaked’]
🍎 Not wrong. Of course I know nothing - but he’s still not wrong.
🔗 Apple’s Mac Mini Went Viral.
Some of these systems will surely arrive on other platforms eventually, but at the moment, they’re only on the Mac. They’re not on Windows, not on Linux, not on Android, and not on iOS. Just the Mac. That’s because the Mac is, and always has been, the best computer platform in the world. It just is. These systems can’t run on iPhones or iPads because those are baby computers. They just are. So if you to jump in as an early adopter on desktop AI, it needs to be on a Mac. And if you want a headless always-on Mac to do it, the only options are a Mac Mini or Mac Studio.
💬 John Gruber
I guess every 🍎 pundit in the world had their 50 years of 🍎 lined up and ready to go this morning. And go they did. Holy crap, that’s a lot of memories.
Horace again …
🔗 Does Apple’s AI Opportunity Outweigh Component Cost Inflation?
Unlike many of its peers, Apple isn’t in the race to win AI benchmarks or translate those gains into tangible financial gains. It just needs those features to change behavior and pave the way for healthier services revenue.
🍎 is not playing ‘our’ game - except for ‘announcements’ that for whatever reason they have decided to join. They clearly do not know how to play it and are losing. Badly.
Horace … 🔗 iPhone only Smartphone to Grow in China this January
Clearly 🍎 has lost the plot.
House votes to rescind Trump’s Canada tariffs (🍎📰)
Dear Mark Don’t blink. Don’t trust them. Hold your course.
🔗 The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US (🍎📰 - but it’s The Grauniad - so not hard to find)
So glad that the US supports free speech.
We were pleased to see the Mac install base reach another all-time high, with nearly half of customers who purchased a Mac being new to the product.
💬 "Tim 🍎"
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Here’s a clever thing that I noticed last night about 🍎📺 .. you watch and something critical was said - and you missed it. You wind back 10 - 20 seconds - it plays again .. with temporary subtitles - that then fade away - brilliant.
🔗 Trump warns U.S. “armada” heading to Iran; death toll in protest crackdown tops 5,000 - NBC News 🍎 News
Sharing - because I am trying to work out how many armadas can despatch in one go. Any ideas❓
Dear 🍎
Thank you for highlighting that this post was generated by AI. It’s a step. A small step - but nonetheless - a step.
Now - for the next act - how about …
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🔗 Russell Brand charged with new rape and sexual-assault crimes. - this link is 🍎 News - just sharing because Brand is - and always has been a total douche.
🖇️🔎 Me in a series of posts in 2023
But most importantly 🔗 the BBC earlier this year
The BBC has apologised to staff who felt they could not speak up with concerns about Russell Brand’s behaviour because he was seen as “too influential” and they felt he “would always get his way and therefore they stayed silent”.
But Robin Ince? Fire🔗 the fucker.
All this comes to mind as I watch the emerging BBC/Trump case.