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The Data Drop: Every iPhone

Just lovely data visualization work from Sheets.works — a consulting firm that specializes in, I swear, Google Sheets.

Phantom App Updates, Part 3

digidude23: Is Apple creating updates for 3rd party apps now? This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included. iSan4eZ: Apple inserted this text into my app and issued an update with the same version. I’m sure about it as I update the app on my phone as […]

Notes From Setting Up New Apple Devices

This weekend, I helped my non-techie father migrate to a new iPhone 17e and MacBook Air: Device Transfer initially couldn’t find the old iPhone SE. It turns out that years ago he’d read some article that said Bluetooth was unsafe and so he’d turned it off. The setup assistant repeated the new age verification question […]

Apple Creating All the Apps

John Gruber: Pogue interviewed Scott Forstall and got this story, about just how far Steve Jobs thought Apple could go to expand the iPhone’s software library while not opening it to third-party developers: “I want you to make a list of every app any customer would ever want to use,” he told Forstall. “And then […]

[Sponsor] Zed, a Font Superfamily

Zed is a type system that was developed with one question in mind: what do readers actually need? Not what looks good in a type specimen, but what works for the widest possible range of readers. We tested Zed with visually impaired patients at a French ophthalmology hospital and found that Zed Text outperformed Helvetica in terms of reading speed across all patient groups. Designed from scratch to perform different functions, it comes in two optical versions — Text and Display — with four variable axes and support for 547 languages, including endangered ones. It is available directly from the designers.