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Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake by restoring the Jobsian "design is how it works" ethos in Apple's UI design (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

Bad Dye Job
It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.

omg this could be so great. The guy responsible for “Liquid Glass” is gone from Apple. Maybe in the coming years we’ll see a retreat from this very bad design style from MacOS & iOS and a refocusing on good UI principles. https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/115659146746706644

omg this could be so great. The guy responsible for “Liquid Glass” is gone from Apple. Maybe in the coming years we’ll see a retreat from this very bad design style from MacOS & iOS and a refocusing on good UI principles. https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/115659146746706644

How Bad Bunny was chosen as the Super Bowl 60 halftime show performer  https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7008085/2026/02/01/super-bowl-halftime-bad-bunny-jay-z-apple-music/

I'm not into audiophile stuff btw, just decent quality things really.
For example, I have a pair Bose 901 speakers that are ~50 years old and they sound fantastic.
But it's not even that, if properly engineered even stuff which hasn't the primary purpose of sound reproduction can sound good.
My 15-year old Apple Thunderbolt Display, the 8-year old iPad Pro and the 5-year old Mac Book Pro all sound great.
But—
The speakers in my 2025 LG TV? They shouldn't have bothered installing them but instead put them right into a landfill.
Speakers in my Asus gaming monitor? Like someone dragging a nail on a chalkboard.
And, weirdly, the Apple HomePod mini is pretty bad at reproducing music. A 10-year old Bose SoundLink mini beats the pants of it. 🤷

Why is Apple Notes so bad with the iPad hardware keyboard? Today in ‘you have to be shitting me’:
1. Have text you wanna find, ⌘ F, t e x t
2. Find it halfway down the note
3. Go to select it with the mouse
4. Scrolls to the top
Thanks.

#macrumors forums is just as bad as #nostr
Filled with people who have APPL shares / Bitcoin wallets and let their opinions be ruled by their profits above all else.

One thing that influenced my decision to use the iPhone with the Apple Watch as my main device instead of the Pixel with GrapheneOS for health reasons is this: I feel absolutely, ABSOLUTELY bad about it!
On the one hand, of course, because of the data protection issue, but since Trump, I also have the problem that most Europeans have: that you are becoming dependent on a big tech company from the US. A country that is clearly drifting toward fascism, where fundamental rights are being …

Today, I am going to be removing a favorite user feature: picking your own font for the Xogot text editor and La Terminal as now you need Apple's approval to use third party fonts installed in the system.
But at least my users will be safe from picking a font in bad taste.

~Everything on Apple TV( ) is underrated, but I really need to go to bat for PALM ROYALE because I want there to be a 3rd season so bad.
Think love child of White Lotus & Only Murders in the Building: Amazing actors with great chemistry having fun in delightful sets while solving mysteries. 11/10

Just noticed Firefox was guzzling around ~750MB when opening Apple Music page. This led me down a rabbit hole of building a custom music client and its so bad.
1. You need Apple developer account (99USD/year) for API access.
2. Linux is not a native target meaning having to use MusicKit JS library with Electron, GtkWebKit or QtWebEngine.
3. Legal issues.
Spotify is such a saint in terms of third-party client support. Also, I have Amazon Prime which gets me Amazon Music…

wonder how these people who vague-reply “why would you use Apple products” when you post about good or bad things with Apple products fare at parties

NOTHING is forever...
Here are tips for how to stop the latest MacOS upgrade now, and if you want, until the end of support comes years later.
Apple is good at supporting old stuff, but they're bound to get worse at it. Everything's changing faster and faster, and nefarious bad guys make security harder and harder.
#Security

Cult of Mac (@cultofmac@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Secret trick will stop your iPhone from updating to iOS 26 — forever! https://www.cultofmac.com/how-to/stop-ios-update?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I’ve decided to drain my ‘posts I’ll never post’ Apple Note. It’s a set of random idle tech-related thoughts I’ve had over the last 4 or so years that I wrote down to get them outta my head.
Buckle up for bad tech takes and stream of consciousness dumb thoughts.
https://www.codevoid.…