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3 minute read Little Tablet, Big Price Tag Apple kicked off its big launch week on October 26 with a brand new iPad mini. OLED screen and a fancy new chip. Very nice. Also very $699. That’s the starting price for the base 128GB Wi-Fi model. The little tablet that used to be the “affordable” … Read more
3 minute read Owning your machine used to be a whole vibe I started on AmigaOS, back when using a computer meant actually understanding it, not just picking a wallpaper. You cracked the thing open and rearranged its guts. Most operating systems now just let you configure stuff inside a box someone else built. Omarchy … Read more
2 minute read The Handoff Everybody Was Begging For This week, on September 14, Apple pushed iOS 27 out to the masses, and buried inside it is the thing Apple has been promising since 2024 and delaying about six separate times: a Siri that’s actually smart. It’s called Siri AI, it’s still technically a beta, … Read more
3 minute read The King really did step down today Today’s the day. After nearly 15 years running Apple, Tim Cook officially handed the CEO title to John Ternus this morning, September 1. Cook isn’t disappearing, he’s sliding into the executive chairman chair, corporate speak for “still in the building, nicer parking spot.” It’s the … Read more
2 minute read The King Took His Final Bow, and the Market Booed Tim Cook just wrapped his 90th and last earnings call as Apple CEO before John Ternus takes the throne on September 1. You’d think after 15 years of turning Apple into a trillion dollar machine four separate times, the man would get … Read more
3 minute read The real pitch isn’t burning the app store down Before we go all doom and gloom on the future of app stores let’s show some data. The “appless future” doesn’t mean Apple and Google cease to exist. In 2025 the App Store ecosystem moved over $1.4 trillion in developer billings and sales, … Read more
2 minute read So Thursday Apple quietly took its store offline for a bit, and when it came back up, everything cost more. Not a little more. A lot more. Macs, iPads, Apple TV, HomePod, Vision Pro. The only things they didn’t touch were iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods. For now. RAMageddon Comes to Cupertino … Read more
2 minute read So, the most powerful buyer in tech says it can’t win, you should probably worry Apple is the company that bends suppliers to its will. It orders parts by the boatload, locks in prices years out, and usually shrugs off the kind of cost swings that flatten everybody else. Fast forward to … Read more
3 minute read A goodbye nobody framed as the bigger story On June 8, Tim Cook walked onto the stage at Apple Park for WWDC and a lot of people missed the part that actually matters. This was his final keynote as CEO. He hands the company to John Ternus on September 1 and slides … Read more
3 minute read The Little Bridge That Could Finally Grew Up So Homebridge has been quietly babysitting our weird non-HomeKit gadgets since 2015, running on whatever sad Raspberry Pi we shoved in a closet. After spending more than three years stuck in beta purgatory, version 2.0 finally went official in early May 2026. If you … Read more