{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "🍎 Apple on John PHI⑊PIN", "icon": "https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/50/4165.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://john.philpin.com/", "feed_url": "https://john.philpin.com/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/27/finished-imperfect-women-last-night.html", "content_html": "

🍎📺 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. 🚧

\n", "date_published": "2026-05-27T09:44:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/27/finished-imperfect-women-last-night.html", "tags": ["? Shows","? WIP","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/21/xkcd-and-existential-comics-are.html", "content_html": "

🔗😂 XKCD and 🔗😂 Existential Comics are both crackers today.

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Seems that 🍎 are pushing more Peanuts programming into 📺.

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🍎📰 is missing a ‘comics’ section for Peanuts and other great comics, including XKCD and Existential. (With their permission - and payment - of course.)

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👍🏼💡❓

\n", "date_published": "2026-05-21T09:20:06+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/21/xkcd-and-existential-comics-are.html", "tags": ["? WWW",":'D Humour","? Shows","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/16/the-linkedin-post-remains-meh.html", "content_html": "

📸🍎 The 🔗 LinkedIN post remains' meh' - BUT - I did like the associated image

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2026-05-16T18:12:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/16/the-linkedin-post-remains-meh.html", "tags": ["? Photographs","? WWW","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/16/crucial-track-may.html", "title": "Crucial Track 🎵 May 16, 2026", "content_html": "

\"Oh Well (Live)\" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

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Listen on Apple Music

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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.

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Bonus Round ...

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🔗🍎🎵 PartONE that Tom covered.

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🔗🍎🎵 PartTWO that Tom did not cover - totally different and Peter Green's favourite part.

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both performed by Fleetwood Mac.

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\"Entry

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View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile

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Listen to my Apple Music playlist

\n", "date_published": "2026-05-16T09:58:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/16/crucial-track-may.html", "tags": ["? Music","? HUB","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/20/from-history-no-one-is.html", "content_html": "

🖥️🍎 From history …

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🔗 No one is listening to Steve Jobs’s advice about the EU Digital ID Wallet

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-20T08:48:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/20/from-history-no-one-is.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Tech","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/20/i-have-no-idea-if.html", "content_html": "

🍎 I have no idea if this is anywhere near true / possible. BUT.

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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 …

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Q.ai specialized in one thing: analyzing facial micro-movements and patterns to determine what you’re saying, without any audible speech required.

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shall we say piqued my interest and just might solve my issue.

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🔗 Apple’s upcoming AirPods Pro 3 variant could debut a groundbreaking new feature

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[my thanks to @devilgate for pointing out my typo … ‘piqued’ … not ‘peaked’]

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-20T08:14:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/20/i-have-no-idea-if.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/19/not-wrong-of-course-i.html", "content_html": "

🍎 Not wrong. Of course I know nothing - but he’s still not wrong.

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🔗 Apple’s Mac Mini Went Viral.

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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.

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💬 John Gruber

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-19T10:04:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/19/not-wrong-of-course-i.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Quotes","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/03/still-the-at-articles-subsume.html", "content_html": "

Still the ‘🍎 at 50’ articles subsume my feeds .. not even Artemis can compete.

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-03T07:54:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/03/still-the-at-articles-subsume.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/01/i-guess-every-pundit-in.html", "content_html": "

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.

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-01T06:27:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/01/i-guess-every-pundit-in.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/13/horace-again-does-apples-ai.html", "content_html": "

Horace again …

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🔗 Does Apple’s AI Opportunity Outweigh Component Cost Inflation?

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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.

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🍎 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.

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-13T08:26:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/13/horace-again-does-apples-ai.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/13/horace-iphone-only-smartphone-to.html", "content_html": "

Horace … 🔗 iPhone only Smartphone to Grow in China this January

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Clearly 🍎 has lost the plot.

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-13T08:22:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/13/horace-iphone-only-smartphone-to.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/house-votes-to-rescind-trumps.html", "content_html": "

House votes to rescind Trump’s Canada tariffs (🍎📰)

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Dear Mark\nDon’t blink. Don’t trust them. Hold your course.

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-12T12:29:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/house-votes-to-rescind-trumps.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/08/the-world-heard-jd-vance.html", "content_html": "

🔗 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)

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So glad that the US supports free speech.

\n", "date_published": "2026-02-08T18:02:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/08/the-world-heard-jd-vance.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/30/we-were-pleased-to-see.html", "content_html": "
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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.

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💬 \"Tim 🍎\"

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🤯

\n", "date_published": "2026-01-30T14:19:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/30/we-were-pleased-to-see.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/30/dear-no-just-no.html", "content_html": "

Dear 🍎

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No.

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Just No.

\n\"CleanShot\n", "date_published": "2026-01-30T11:27:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/30/dear-no-just-no.html", "tags": ["? Asides","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/27/heres-a-clever-thing-that.html", "content_html": "

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.

\n", "date_published": "2026-01-27T13:03:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/27/heres-a-clever-thing-that.html", "tags": ["? Shows","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/right-then-which-end-of.html", "content_html": "

Right then - which end of the sentence is true❓

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Image grabbed from 🍎News

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2026-01-26T21:24:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/26/right-then-which-end-of.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/24/trump-warns-us-armada-heading.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Trump warns U.S. “armada” heading to Iran; death toll in protest crackdown tops 5,000 - NBC News 🍎 News

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Sharing - because I am trying to work out how many armadas can despatch in one go. Any ideas❓

\n", "date_published": "2026-01-24T10:13:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/24/trump-warns-us-armada-heading.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/01/dear-thank-you-for-highlighting.html", "content_html": "

Dear 🍎

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Thank you for highlighting that this post was generated by AI. It’s a step. A small step - but nonetheless - a step.

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Now - for the next act - how about …

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(click through to see the comments for your starter pack)

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2026-01-01T09:51:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/01/dear-thank-you-for-highlighting.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/27/russell-brand-charged-with-new.html", "content_html": "

🔗 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.

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🖇️🔎 Me in a series of posts in 2023

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But most importantly 🔗 the BBC earlier this year

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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”.

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But Robin Ince? Fire🔗 the fucker.

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All this comes to mind as I watch the emerging BBC/Trump case.

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-27T10:33:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/27/russell-brand-charged-with-new.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? HUB","? Apple","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/22/take-apple-news-vs-ibooks.html", "content_html": "
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Take Apple News vs iBooks - they’re both reading apps, so why is it necessary to have two separate apps? Because they’re extremely different reading and writing experiences and it doesn’t make sense to lump them into a one-size-fits-all approach.

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💬 Michael Tsai

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Nailed it and why I don’t';

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BUT anything I highlight, save, make a note on/in ANY of the things I am reading, watching or listening to all ends up in the same place.

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🔗 MORE

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(Another discovery in ‘Drafts’ March 2023)

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-22T14:59:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/22/take-apple-news-vs-ibooks.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Quotes","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/09/holy-crap-i-have-been.html", "content_html": "

Holy Crap

\n

I have been so fed up with the slug that my M4 Mac had become around saving files - removing ‘moonlock’ and ‘clean my mac’, stopping electron files from running - firing up terminal commands as if my life depended on it. NADA.

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So with a quick hail mary I jumped on to the 26.2 public beta (with the same joy and spirit as I did when I did something similar with 26.1 - and got no change …)

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and yet …

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… yet …

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Here I am - a man no longer tortured - and what seems to be a massive upgrade in performance that 🍎 never - ever - fessed up to.

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Let’s see if it holds.

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-09T11:17:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/09/holy-crap-i-have-been.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/20/trouble-shooting-two-totally-different.html", "content_html": "

Trouble shooting two totally different problems on two totally different macs with two totally different user accounts and after constant narrowing down of the issues in those worlds - BOTH come down to the user - login as a different user .. the issue is not there …

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FTW 🍎❓

\n", "date_published": "2025-10-20T09:27:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/20/trouble-shooting-two-totally-different.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/11/the-logo-in-my-email.html", "content_html": "

The logo in my email signature in 🍎📧 just stopped rendering earlier this week. Took until today to work out what was wrong - noting that I hadn’t changed anything.

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As of this morning … fixed - though no idea why it stopped working to begin with.

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🔗📼😂 I know exactly how Kevin feels.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2025-10-11T12:00:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/11/the-logo-in-my-email.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Videos",":'D Humour","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/18/the-gods-giveth-and-taketh.html", "content_html": "

The gods giveth and taketh away.

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Overall a fan of the liquid world - BUT (because there always has to be one) - why take away the big, bold volume and brightness indicators? Nothing like fumbling in the dark mid-Netflix to remind you that 🍎 is far from perfect.

\n", "date_published": "2025-09-18T08:06:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/18/the-gods-giveth-and-taketh.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/24/this-mornings-song-on-rotate.html", "content_html": "

This morning’s song on rotate … 🎵🍎🔗 Thankyou Jarvis

\n", "date_published": "2025-05-24T11:56:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/24/this-mornings-song-on-rotate.html", "tags": ["? Music","? WWW","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/19/i-have-settings-throughout-iphone.html", "content_html": "

I have settings throughout iPhone pointing at UK - not US .. but still I get US spelling recommendations. Just looked at Keyboard - noting it was US — and thought that would fix it - but apparently 🍎 thinks there is only one English language.

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Or I am doing something wrong?

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-19T09:29:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/19/i-have-settings-throughout-iphone.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/02/i-like-the-idea-of.html", "content_html": "

I like the idea of categorisation in 🍎 email and the 4 categories make sense to 🗂️ BUT sure would like the ability to add a couple more of my own. #EdgeCaseAgain

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-02T08:36:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/02/i-like-the-idea-of.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/04/daring-fireball-another-tim-cook.html", "content_html": "

Daring Fireball: Another Tim Cook Product Announcement Teaser on X: ‘There’s Something in the Air’

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@gruber … Is it just me that thinks 🍎 missed a trick by not using 🔗🎵📼Thunderclap’s song

\n", "date_published": "2025-03-05T04:24:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/04/daring-fireball-another-tim-cook.html", "tags": ["? Music","? WWW","? Videos","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/30/an-exegesis-of.html", "content_html": "

🔗 An Exegesis of Markdown, the Most Ubiquitous Piece of Code on the Web ( 🍎📰 )

\n", "date_published": "2024-10-30T16:02:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/30/an-exegesis-of.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/12/music-to-massage.html", "content_html": "

🎵🔗 Music To Massage Your Ears (🍎Essentials)

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Listen to the start of track 1 - not your vibe - click to next track - not your vibe - repeat

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Its ONE ‘band’ from the UK that I had never heard of until a week? ago.

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They have produced a LOT of albums.

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They are extraordinary.

\n", "date_published": "2024-10-12T18:22:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/12/music-to-massage.html", "tags": ["? Music","? WWW","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/15/buggerbeen-carefullly-avoiding.html", "content_html": "

Bugger.\nBeen carefullly avoiding 🍎📺 for the past three weeks and accidentally clicked in last night and boom .. three episodes of Slow Horses later … and now I have to wait!

\n", "date_published": "2024-09-15T08:54:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/15/buggerbeen-carefullly-avoiding.html", "tags": ["? Shows","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/11/take-a-transcript.html", "content_html": "

Take a transcript of last years presentation, search and replace old numbers with new numbers, use AI to insert audio of new words into the recording. Edit presenter backdrops with footage from SF. Hit play. Great demo 🍎.

\n", "date_published": "2024-09-11T09:58:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/11/take-a-transcript.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/29/i-have-been.html", "content_html": "

I have been with 🍎🗺️ since the start and definitely felt the pain. But. BUT - thanks to Google I stuck with it.

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🔗 Delighted to see this.

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Apple Maps is one of the best examples of the power of persistence I can think of. It started as a laughing stock, but now, for people in many countries, it’s arguably the best maps service.

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💬 John Gruber

\n", "date_published": "2024-07-29T11:43:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/29/i-have-been.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Quotes","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/18/a-new-bank.html", "content_html": "

A new bank card for me involves a ceremony that includes cutting the old card into bits and distributing the bits into various places .. today I got my new 🍎💳, the ceremony needs a tweak .. replace scissors with hacksaw?

\n", "date_published": "2024-07-18T12:46:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/18/a-new-bank.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/15/i-kid-you.html", "content_html": "

🎈167/366

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I kid you not, so frustrated earlier today that I have had to calm down. All my iOS stuff not currently in use is kept in a single place. Yesterday the pile was - shall we say - ‘organised’. All stuff in same place - just a neater pile than usual.

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Today, I went to pick up iPad and 🍎Pencil - and the pencil was missing. Nowhere. Seperated all devices out - and checked off one by one. Still nothing. I went to the places I usually use it - nada. Lifted couch cushions. Nothing. Stopped search. Started search. Frustration doesn’t even get to it. Two hours and then some. Negotiating with myself - that clearly it was a message from above that my old pencil had run its course - and I could now justify a super duper new one.

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Here’s what I think happened.

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The bank manager got hold of that rationale and somehow planted in my brain that I should take one more look. I did.

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Did I mention the tray that sits beside the ‘iOS stuff’? I mean it’s there. It’s clearly not hiding - and I had looked under and all around it. The lip of the tray curves down so you can’t see anything behind the lip if you look ‘underneath from the side’. But I knew that and had already looked. I mean - how could anything really be there? It would just fall down again.

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TODAY I LEARNED …

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.. that the tray has sufficient Nickel plating that it can attract a magnet in say something like an Apple Pencil and snap that puppy nice and tight into and under that lip.

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😬

\n", "date_published": "2024-06-15T17:17:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/15/i-kid-you.html", "tags": ["366","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/06/all-those-years.html", "content_html": "

All those years ago the 🍎 Long and Hodgman ads were really very good and clever, definitely creative, truly fun. Interesting how the subsequent careers of the two actors developed to be nearly the exact opposite of the companies they represented.

\n", "date_published": "2024-06-06T07:48:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/06/all-those-years.html", "tags": ["? Asides","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/27/the-widget-has.html", "content_html": "

The 🍎🗞️ widget has suddenly appeared on my desktop - did I accidentally press something - or is this the U2 debacle reframed for 2024?

\n", "date_published": "2024-05-27T15:06:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/27/the-widget-has.html", "tags": ["? Asides","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/27/george-conway-predicts.html", "content_html": "

🔗 George Conway predicts Trump won’t be unanimously acquitted in hush money trial (🍎🗞️)

\n

.. been thinking that myself - and when it happens how THAT will get spun into puke and bile.

\n", "date_published": "2024-05-27T11:56:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/27/george-conway-predicts.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/19/sugar-stunning-great.html", "content_html": "

📺 Sugar

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Stunning .. great job from Colin F .. but the homage to ‘noir’ yet modern, the direction, the cinematography, the colors, the lights, the nuance … everything. Just so good.

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I have read that people loved the mid season ‘twist’ …if we are talking last scene in episode 6 .. yeah no .. I had that scene in my head for a couple of episodes prior, so no twist for me. In fact, it happened to coincide with when I thought the show had finished .. and I 🖇️ even posted that I was very disappointed with the ending (EEJIT I am).

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Anyway .. all this to say … loved it. If you have 🍎 📺, whatever else you are watching stop - and go take a look.

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Sugar on 🔗 Reelgood

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’All’ My TV Show Reviews

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\"Sugar\"

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🔗 When the city told him to hide his boat, he complied — sort of - The Times of London - sorry 🍎 📰 - just couldn’t resist. A fine example of creativity besting bureaucracy.

\n", "date_published": "2024-05-15T15:06:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/15/when-the-city.html", "tags": ["? WWW","People First","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/15/translating-a-transcript.html", "title": "🎈136/366 Translating A Transcript", "content_html": "

German Language Podcast.
\nIn 🍎 Podcasts - you can see the German language transcription.
\nBUT - you can’t copy the whole thing.
\nLooks like you can.
\nBut you can’t.

\n

I use software to record meetings.

\n

Ooh I thought.

\n

Play the podcast - and record - at end of podcast one german transcription. Run that through a translator and voila … or so I thought.

\n

I did an experiment - thankfully.

\n

What the software actually seems to have done is taken the german audio and decided as best it could as to what the german audio was saying - as if it was English.

\n

This was the transcription ..

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\n

00:00 Here That’s an idea.\n02:05 Like the fruits for real the presidential Here for learn have much of the jobs about completed here in the middle is also provided, you know.\n02:50 Silicon Valley can manage to our design I am gonna Valley There are not only isn’t as operating system for startups on invert one in a ropa want to talk about he knows it happens startups of middle stunt or of course team.\n03:15 What are all in this one entertain?\n03:18 I was eating product on his product and from about yeah.\n03:23 I know what linear ball over with design what is supply?\n03:28 Put on my mobile phones and Seed talk follow-up disabled and antonym of familial torch and lived in solution in California and Silicon Valley and San Francisco on her off my shoulder and startup boat about under startups of cardboard and get a normal about Cosmopolis this year noises Venture on Cosmopolis is some Lisa has been a community have another Community developers and against Trump his own and hell for some spring on this fits here on this is another Simple so that’s called.

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Back to the drawing board.

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🔗 Nervous drivers pay to be whisked across America’s scariest bridge

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(Sorry - 🍎📰 )

\n

.. I am of the opinion that if you’re too scared to drive this road - you shouldn’t be licensed for any road. What say you?

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🔗Avoid these 3 common phrases—they make you look weak and insecure, experts say (🍎 News) ..

\n

I don’t know .. I am sorry to ask, I just wonder if anyone else thinks this is a croc?

\n

It just tends to be how we talk in England.

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🎈083/366

\n

Reading all the various commentaries around DoJ v 🍎, I am finding ‘heads on Threads’ making good arguments.

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Walt Mossberg for one.

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Ben Thompson for another.

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\"straight

\n\n\n\n\nAt the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.\n\n
\n

📡 Follow with RSS

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🗄️ All the posts

\n", "date_published": "2024-03-24T09:36:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/24/reading-all-the.html", "tags": ["366","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/22/i-can-find.html", "content_html": "

I can find a song in 🍎 🎵 Music.
\nI can play that song in 🍎 Music.
\nI can add that song to my library in 🍎 Music.
\nI can add that song to a playlist in 🍎 Music.
\nAND THEN …
\nIn the playlist in 🍎 Music it is greyed out and I can’t play it.

\n

What is up with that?

\n", "date_published": "2024-03-22T17:56:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/22/i-can-find.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/05/just-noticed-that.html", "content_html": "

Just noticed that in the 🍎 store ‘Threads’ is listed as an ‘Instagram’ app .. not a ‘Meta’ app.

\n", "date_published": "2024-03-05T06:48:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/05/just-noticed-that.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/20/til-that-is.html", "content_html": "

🎈051/366

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TIL that 🍎 is not quite as open and sharing with the Windows world as we might believe.\nYES - you can install an app called iCloud for Windoze on your PC\nBUT - for it to work - you need to authorize it from any device you have that is part of the 🍎 eco system.

\n

Channeling Henry F - you can use any OS you want to use iCloud - but to authorize it you have to have an iOS device.

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Filed In The Fucked Up Bucket … unless I read the tin wrongly?

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\"straight

\n\n\n\n\nAt the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.\n\n
\n

📡 Follow with RSS

\n

🗄️ All the posts

\n", "date_published": "2024-02-20T10:27:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/20/til-that-is.html", "tags": ["366","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/28/for-months-i.html", "content_html": "

For months I have had 4 ghost messages in 🍎 Mail. That’s 4 ‘unread messages’ according to the count - but no messages there.

\n

It’s a known problem that has been there through many versions of OSX. In the past, I have always been able to flush it out with various tools like delete the plist, rebuild etc etc.

\n

This time round - nada. I learned to live with it.

\n

Until yesterday.

\n

Out of the blue 13 more got added to the count. They just appeared (if that doesn’t confuse you - because of course the whole point is that they do not actually appear!

\n

So now - a total of seventeen. FFS … Apple. Hello?

\n", "date_published": "2024-01-28T12:18:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/28/for-months-i.html", "tags": ["? Help","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/30/yet-again-the.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Yet again the hoopla over an 🍎 feature is waaaaaaay over the top - and the headline of the debunk on Six Colors doesn’t help.

\n

THE COPS THINK IOS 17’S NAMEDROP IS DANGEROUS

\n", "date_published": "2023-11-30T14:50:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/30/yet-again-the.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/13/hawaii-has-a.html", "content_html": "

🔗 🌺 Hawaii has a robust emergency siren warning system. It sat silent during the deadly wildfires(🍎 News)

\n

CNN has a very different definition for ‘robust’ than I do.

\n", "date_published": "2023-08-14T02:38:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/13/hawaii-has-a.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/14/here-and-here.html", "content_html": "

🖇️ Here and 🔗 here and here … clearly🍎 are not listening to me.

\n

But Apple notes does have smart lists on iOS - why not Photos?

\n

It’s not as if Photos is missing the needed underpinnings.

\n", "date_published": "2023-06-15T07:13:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/14/here-and-here.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? HUB","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/08/anybody-asked-a.html", "content_html": "

Anybody asked a young person what they think of 🍎’s announcements?

\n

Or people who need to demonstrate complex visual ideas?

\n

Or people in the training industry?

\n

Or people working on help desks needing to ‘engage remotely’?

\n

Or people in the construction industry?

\n

Or people in healthcare - particularly those in telemedicine?

\n

Or people who frequently take long distance flights?

\n

Or people building ‘entertainment experiences’?

\n

Or people in the film industry?

\n

Or people in shared living spaces who need and want to focus, without distraction?

\n

Or people who increasingly want more and more immersive games?

\n

Or people in research?

\n

Or people who are sports fans who want ‘ringside’ seats watching their favorite teams at affordable prices?

\n", "date_published": "2023-06-09T03:33:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/08/anybody-asked-a.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/05/just-popped-into.html", "content_html": "

Just popped into the timeline … is there something 🍎y going on?

\n", "date_published": "2023-06-06T07:32:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/05/just-popped-into.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/15/smart-photo-folders.html", "content_html": "

Smart Photo Folders on iOS please. Have I said that before? I think so. But it bears repeating because I don’t ask🍎 for much!

\n", "date_published": "2023-05-16T09:14:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/15/smart-photo-folders.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/29/apparently-if-you.html", "content_html": "

Apparently if you rename a file like foodog.mov to foodog.mp4 … it just works.

\n

So why convert it?

\n

And if I don’t need to convert it why can’t we agree on the one extension?

\n

And if we can’t do that … then why not have the apps simply play both?

\n

Is this stupid 🍎 💩again?

\n", "date_published": "2023-04-30T15:59:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/29/apparently-if-you.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/03/but-no-tv.html", "content_html": "

But no 🍎📺 … gnashes teeth.

\n

\"\"

\n", "date_published": "2023-01-03T10:52:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/03/but-no-tv.html", "tags": ["? Shows","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/03/a-personal-micro.html", "content_html": "

A personal micro blog first … my number of pins exceeds my number of tokens.

\n

And yes this is definitely comparing 🍎 and 🍊

\n", "date_published": "2022-12-03T09:17:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/03/a-personal-micro.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/09/21/i-try-to.html", "content_html": "

I try to type ‘maps’ and it comes out ‘maos’ - which I don’t notice and so search.

\n

Google Maps ( which I don’t even have installed) comes up, but not ‘Maps’ … not even under the ‘Apps’ section.

\n

It’s not just Maps, it’s across the🍎 portfolio.

\n

🍎can fix this, why don’t they?

\n", "date_published": "2022-09-21T16:05:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/09/21/i-try-to.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/09/15/just-scanned-an.html", "content_html": "

Just scanned an 🍎article about muscle dysmorphia … As far as I can tell a cat in hell has a better chance of living than me suffering from the disease.

\n", "date_published": "2022-09-15T07:13:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/09/15/just-scanned-an.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/08/04/has-apple-forgotten.html", "title": "Has Apple Forgotten How to Market?", "content_html": "

Questions about Apple and its TV+ marketing

\n
\n

“Marketing during the era of peak TV is hard, but as someone who lives dead center in Apple’s ecosystem, I hadn’t even heard about “Black Bird” until last week, when Tim Cook mentioned it on the analyst call and I saw an extended trailer for it on last week’s “Friday Night Baseball.”

\n
\n

💬 Jason Snell

\n

Odd. Any time I switch to 🍎📺 - Blackbird is front and center. I wonder why that is not the case for Jason?

\n

As for

\n
\n

‘It is interesting that Apple, a master of product marketing, is perceived as struggling when it comes to promoting its entertainment shows.”

\n
\n

Are they?

\n

Are they really?

\n", "date_published": "2022-08-04T14:04:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/08/04/has-apple-forgotten.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Shows","? LongForm","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/06/aocs-warning-for.html", "content_html": "

🍎🔗 AOC’s Warning for Democrats: ‘We’re in Trouble’

\n

She’s not wrong.

\n

Sadly.

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-06T08:53:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/06/aocs-warning-for.html", "tags": ["? WWW","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/09/21/up-early-and.html", "content_html": "

Up early and sitting quietly in the early hours. Suddenly the whole house is full of the sounds of The Rascals’ 🎶🎵It’s A Beautiful Morning

\n

The power of a network of 🍎 minis that your partner can also control!

\n", "date_published": "2021-09-21T09:26:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/09/21/up-early-and.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/06/12/is-it-technology.html", "content_html": "

Is it technology or the carriers that stops me from having my 🍎watch as my prime cellular connection and have my Mac/‘phone’/iPad wifi camped on the watches hot spot?

\n", "date_published": "2021-06-12T11:21:04+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/06/12/is-it-technology.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/05/27/never-seen-any.html", "content_html": "

Never seen any suggestion that they would - but imagine an Apple iBook reader … yes yes yes … iPad … but a pure white non reflective screen with long battery life PLUS 🍎 design sensibility?

\n", "date_published": "2021-05-27T09:32:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/05/27/never-seen-any.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/02/18/move-to-bin.html", "content_html": "

“Move To Bin?”

\n

Now there’s a change for no reason!

\n

I’m talking to you 🍎

\n", "date_published": "2021-02-18T17:19:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/02/18/move-to-bin.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/09/satellite-image-updates.html", "content_html": "

Satellite image updates sometimes seem to be years behind reality - so I have to think that Apple has accelerated this image into 🍎 🗺 … kudos.

\n\"\"\n", "date_published": "2020-06-09T08:40:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/09/satellite-image-updates.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/03/01/itunes-remote-to.html", "content_html": "

ITunes Remote … to control your 🍎TV and your 🍎Music apps … does anyone have the number for Apple’s Marketing Department?

\n

 

\n\"iTunes\n", "date_published": "2020-03-01T14:04:42+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/03/01/itunes-remote-to.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/17/ok-if-its.html", "content_html": "

🎵 Ok .. if it’s ear worming me .. it can ear worm you.

\n

Elton and Leon - 🍎 🎵 🔗

\n", "date_published": "2019-06-18T08:48:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/17/ok-if-its.html", "tags": ["? Music","? WWW","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/10/29/thinking-aloud-what.html", "content_html": "

Thinking aloud … what if your cellularless 🍎 watch didn’t sit ‘on the back’ of your iPhone. What if you had a cellular 🍎 watch that shared it’s internet access with your wireless only 🍎 iTouch/iPod/iPad mini/iPad … for this odd occasions those devices needed WiFi?

\n", "date_published": "2018-10-30T03:34:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/10/29/thinking-aloud-what.html", "tags": ["? Apple"] } ] }