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"Apple commits $500M to US-based rare-earth recycling firm MP Materials"
#Apple #Technology #Recycling

Apple commits $500M to U.S.-based rare earth recycling firm MP Materials | TechCrunch
The factory will develop a series of neodymium magnet manufacturing lines specifically designed for Apple products.

#Apple will #Perplexity AI kaufen oder als Partner gewinnen – weil die eigenen KI-Innovationen bislang eher „Siri-ös“ als seriös sind. Analysten sehen in Perplexity das fehlende Puzzlestück für Apples KI-Aufholjagd. Doch während Cupertino diskutiert, droht der Google-Deal zu kippen und Samsung klop…

With #LiquidGlass, #Apple is working very hard to get me to switch to Linux for my main system. https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmi…

#Apple has totlally screwed #Photos... just like they did with #iTunes
STOP improving anything that works!

»Apple is ruining the open web«
Their reputation among their fans has never been true and, in my opinion, is already partly a dull belief.
🍎 #apple

Apple is ruining the open web · Victor Wynne
Apple is defying the EU’s Digital Markets Act by blocking rival browser engines on iOS, protecting Safari’s immense profits. The result is the company ruining the open web.

The EU shouldn't allow Apple to take-over Mistral..
https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/apple-will-seriously-consider-buying-mistral-report/

Apple Will Seriously Consider Buying Mistral: Report | AIM
Are acquisitions the way forward for the company to resolve its AI issues?

Apparently, looking for The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets’ cover of “Walking on the Moon” on #Apple #Music is a cry for help. Judgy much, Apple? 🤔

If you still think that #Apple cares for the #privacy of its paying customers:
Apple Gave #Governments Data on Thousands of Push

Apple released a “Container” tool to run Linux containers natively in macOS on Apple Silicon. Supports macOS 15 but really meant for macOS 26 beta.
#apple #linux #containers
https://github.com/apple/container

Dignan analysiert: Apples KI-Rückstand ist so gravierend wie Microsofts „Mobile-Fail“. Perplexity als Allheilmittel? Kaum. Aber Tim Cook braucht dringend eine Story für den Kapitalmarkt—zur Not für 20 Mrd. Dollar. #TechDebatte #Apple

Why Apple should buy Perplexity and possibly keep going
Apple needs to jump start its AI strategy and the only way it's going to get there is through acquisitions. Here's why a purchase of Perplexity makes sense and why Apple may want to keep shopping. Bloomberg reported last month that Apple was discussing a purchase of the AI search startup. Let's look at why an Apple purchase of Perplexity, reportedly valued at about $14 billion or so, would make sense. Apple needs an AI strategy and story. Let's state the obvious: Apple is an AI laggard. Apple's…

Hey Apple users... do you use the native Apple Reading List in Safari?
#Apple #ReadingList
Yes
No
I use something else…

Why #Apple??
#iMessage

If you are a vendor or developer for #macOS who has not yet moved to Universal 2 or ship a product only for the x86_64 architecture, there is extremely straight forward guidance for you here to update your product ASAP
#Apple #WWDC25
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/about-the-rosetta-translation-environment

So much for the right to #repair, #Apple.
"a new charge port for an iPad Pro 11, a part that goes bad all the time, costs $250 from Apple. Aftermarket charge ports, meanwhile, can be found for less than $20."

Tim Cooks rechte Hand verlässt Apple: Was wir über seinen Nachfolger wissen #apple #coo #ceo

Tim Cooks rechte Hand verlässt Apple: Was wir über seinen Nachfolger wissen | t3n
Jeff Williams, Chief Operating Officer (COO) bei Apple, galt als möglicher Nachfolger von Tim Cook. Doch jetzt hat er seinen Rückzug angekündigt. Wer seinen Posten jetzt übernimmt und welche Herausforderungen da auf ihn warten. Der am Dienstagabend angekündigte Wechsel in Apples Chefetage markiert nach der Teilpensionierung von Finanzchef Luca Maestri im vergangenen Jahr den zweiten […]

My friend as moved his main domain from .nl to .eu , Interesting move.
#Apple #iPhone

I'm sure #AppleCareOne is beneficial to *someone*, but as a long time purchaser of the 2 year, single payment up front, Apple Care plans. Boy does a $20/month subscription sound like a cash grab.

Based on the book #Apple in #China
Apple’s China Crisis - $1 Trillion Payment To Xi Jinping Exposed
TLDR : There is no Exit door for Apple in China and the hardcore dependency has now become a geopolitical risk for both the US and Apple.
Maybe Apple can only exist, in China.

People don’t appreciate how much AI-adjacent practice #Apple has, going back decades. You can be sure that they are using what they have learned from doing speech-to-text, text summary, etc. since the 90s https://

Es gibt übrigens hunderte Menschen, mindestens in den #USA, die unter #Apple leiden könnten, obwohl sie gar nichts mit Apple zu tun haben.
Die virtuelle #Sprachassistentin

#Apple has taken a lot of heat for the controversial changes to #macOS design. I think it's possible to strike a balance* between appealing to Gen Z users, and honoring the old style. Therefore it is my belief that Apple should adopt Sigma Finder as soon as possible.
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Wir schauen nachher mit @… das #Apple Event zusammen. Kommt gern vorbei, lasst und zuschauen und ggf. anschließend darüber sprechen!
Offen für alle!

Apple WWDC 2025 (World Wide Developers Conference) gemeinsam schauen
Wie immer schauen wir gemeinsam. Bei der WWDC geht es vor allem um Software, neue OS-Versionen und SDKs. Kommt gern vorbei. Im Anschluss diskutieren wir noch ein wenig über die Vorstellungen.

This is an app #Apple promotes in the App Store.
When I look at the IAP list I feel deep inside that #Apple protects me from scams in their App Store.

#Apple will Versionsnummern geräteübergreifend vereinheitlichen und schreibt das Kalenderjahr bei der Version dazu
https://www.

Another set of services has been disconnected from Gmail, including Apple.
#degoogle #degoogleAdventures #apple #ipad

So, one of the playlists that I listen to a lot is Loops on Apple Music. Def worth a listen if this is your bag.
#AppleMusic #Apple #Music

Don't trust **anyone** who uses their phone like this! Maybe they are actually ghosts. 👻
Thank you, Tim Cook, for gifting us this easy-to-use ghost detector!
#apple #wwdc #liquidglass

Wrote a blog post on installing Linux native on a MacBook. So I could remember what I did 🙂
#Apple

peace to bill atkinson, who came up with the idea for hypercard while he was on acid. #Tech #apple #psychedelic

The Psychedelic Inspiration For Hypercard – Mondo 2000
by Bill Atkinson, as told to Leo Laporte In 1985 I swallowed a tiny fleck of gelatin containing a medium dose of LSD, and I spent most of the night sitting on a

I installed the new iOS/iPadOS/WatchOS 26 beta on: an iPhone 1 Pro Max. An M1 iPad Pro and an Apple Watch Series 7. All up and running just fine, with no serious issues found yet. In fact, no issues at all so far. #Apple

Have been watching Your Friends and Neighbors on #AppleTVPlus . No masterpiece, and somehow fairly annoying, but still somehow I want to watch all of it. I often find myself fast-forwarding through boring bits, though.

Sooooo....the iPad is now a Mac, basically.
#apple

Und da ist es also. Das große neue Designupdate bei Apple, das viele schon vermutet hatten. Sieht auf den ersten Blick ja recht schlicht aus und mit viel Transparenz. 🧐
Und die Version 26 übergreifend für alle Systeme ist auch da. Auch dies wurde ja bereits stark vermutet.
#apple #wwdc25

#MacOS
where did #apple get the idea to get rid of the network utility app???
what is wrong with you guys!
#cook

Anyone here use a Macbook Air as their daily driver? I'm low-key considering one so I can work from coffee shops etc and escape my desk for a while during the week.
As it would be light work only, it doesn't need to be a MBP (although that line appears to have blurred since the M-series Macs).
#MacBookAir #Apple

Wait wait wait.... What on earth is IOS 26
#apple #ios #ios26

I've been mostly happy with Apple Music's Autoplay feature when it comes on, but a few days ago it completely f*cked up because the best it could do for "similar music" was play tunes by someone with the same name as a person I'd been listening to. Well, marimba classical music is NOT the same as country easy listening. Same name, not same music. Can't Apple tell the difference? #AppleMusic

YOLO
#Apple #iOS26 #iPadOS

Did Google Maps and Apple Maps search get worse in the past year?
I keep having a ridiculous amount of trouble locating places to eat or stores in #NYC lately unless I know the precise name of a place - even very similar keywords like “burger” for a place that’s called “Blue Collar Burger” - and it doesn’t come up.
Let alone searching for nearby open restaurants or something by category… most places just don’t come up and instead I see completely irrelevant businesses.
I feel like it’s deteriorated a lot since 2024 but I also might be misremembering how easy it used to be.
#tech #Apple #Google #askfedi

According To #BloombergNews Sources Say: Zuggerfugger's #Meta has poached Frank Chu, an #Apple exec who led #ArtificialIntelligence

The Liquid glass look somehow (to me) feels inferior to me. Also, didn’t older iOS have such a glassy matte finish as its interface? I don’t know why it’s new - iOS always had it or was it macOS?
This year WWDC overall was a letdown. It is a clear example of “updates for the sake of stock price”.
They are boasting about Apple Intelligence all the while its “main” features got pushed to next year.

Liquid Glass (or Aqua 2.0) #apple

Apple’s newest AI study unlocks street navigation for blind users #apple #ai https://9to5ma…

Apple’s newest AI study unlocks street view for blind users - 9to5Mac
SceneScout, combines Apple Maps with a multimodal LLM to provide interactive, AI-generated descriptions of street view images.

#WAMS: Warum kann der #Staat nicht längst, was #Apple oder die #Bahn schon mit ihren

#WAMS: Warum kann der #Staat nicht längst, was #Apple oder die #Bahn schon mit ihren

Auf der #applewatch ein typisches neues #apple-Ding: Optimiertes Laden - als Standardeinstellung. Man findet erst heraus, dass seine Uhr dann um 3 Uhr morgens fertig geladen sein wird, wenn man sich über den zu niedrigen Ladestand vor dem Schlafengehen wundert. Aber dann will man sie ja zur Schlafaufzeichnun…

Who's more evil (choosing between an iPhone and a pixel) #google #apple #evil

#Steam #Apple #macOS PSA for my fellow #gaming friends
If you're attempting to patch in Game Porting Toolkit 3 beta 1 libraries into CrossOver and following the instructions in the Evaluation environment for Windows games 3.0 beta 1 README - there is a missing step which will likely cause your Steam's steamwebhelper.exe binaries to crash repeatedly.
In addition to ditto'ing over the "external" folder that the instructions mention - you also need to ditto over the "wine" folder as well to the same lib64/apple_gptk destination
Doing both of those things, I was successful in getting it running in CrossOver Preview (20250507 / 26.0.0.39135)
Have fun and enjoy

My theory is that #Apple has an unidentified tetrachromat making design choices. https://mastodon.social/@ccgus/114966821125142645

Gus Mueller (@ccgus@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image I honestly thought the checkbox button was missing in this macOS Tahoe screenshot:

@… zieht nach der #Apple #WWDC25 ein ernüchterndes Fazit: Viele kleine Verbesserungen, aber echte Innovationen sucht man vergebens. Selbst neue Features wie „Liquid G…

Stay hungry, stay foolish
Marking the 20th anniversary of Steve’s Stanford address
#Apple #Jobs

I use Android and I still can't believe it
#android

I tried #Android, sorry that it didn’t work out.
#tech
#apple

Maybe it is just residual RDF over the years, but I feel like where Tim Cook has seemed all too happy to bend the knee at the White House, Steve would have been more likely to give the middle finger, literally, and probably while on stage.
I don’t really want to debate this because if I am just being overly nostalgic then the world sucks more and I don’t need any more of that.
#trump #apple #fascism

Das gibt Ärger mit Trump. Das sagt man doch nicht: Apple says tariffs added $800M in costs last quarter, expects over $1B hit in Q4 #trump #tariffs #apple

I’m in the UK right now, and the Mac prompted me to use iPhone mirroring.
Isn’t this a glorious piece a technology
#EU #apple #iPhone

Am I the only one with iOS 26 Beta? #ios26 #apple #beta #tech

hey tooters:
Recommendation for best HDDs for Time Machine backups?
need 2TB drive
#HDD #TimeMachine #Apple

iOS 18.6 & Co ist raus #apple #ios #update

#Apple Nerds out there: If I have an iPhone with a completely broken screen (no touch, no display, no face ID) that is working well otherwise, is there any way to unlock it? I know the passcode.
If I connect an external display via USB-C I only briefly see "unlock the phone to use USB accessories", but without any touch input it can't be unlocked.
Catch 22 or any way out?

Dear #Apple Time Machine has become an unreliable POS. Jeez what the FICK are you guys doing!

I’ve written about automating away some boring part of parenthood with LLMs and AppleScript
#apple

Automate the Boring Parts of Parenthood with LLMs - Xebia
Automate the Boring Parts of Parenthood with LLMs - Xebia

I can’t tell if this is reproducible or not but definitely laughable.
1. Open #Apple #Safari #AppleIntelligence #AppleInteliggenceMyA$$

Very first seconds of first impression. I actually don’t mind the look of the icons at all. They’re quite nice. I’ll reserve judgement for any future transparent versions that were demonstrated today. But these are good.
Noticed a slight tremor in the display of the home screen upon initial welcome to the new beta. But other than that, things are working well enough for me to dictate this by Siri.
#Apple #WWDC #iPadOS #Beta

Time to thin the Apples! 🍏 🍎
Both the blushing delight and northern spy planted last year are doing fantastic.
The new northern spy planted in March has not faired well. I had to remove it from its spot to try to rehabilitate it in a pot. Prognosis is not good.
But the new plum is doing well.
#gardening #apple #fruit #portalberni

#waitforit
ALL TOGETHER NOW
#apple #macOS #laptops #lab #soundon