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Cook’s lost Gruber.
Maybe already had — but now Cook’s lost Gruber •hard•. https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/115974993541049354

@gruber I purposefully have automatic downloads and updates turned off because OS 26 seems half-baked and I wanted to wait. Last weekend, after pestering me for a week even though I kept pressing “cancel update” my iPhone and iPad ignored all that and installed OS 26 overnight. I know I’m in the minority, but how do we evaluate the adoption rate with this in mind?

The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
A change to how Safari reports the OS it is running on led many in the media to lose their minds.

Wikimedia data puts iOS 26 adoption at ~50% in January vs. iOS 18's 72% in 2025 as Apple slows auto-updates; Statcounter showed 15% after missing Safari changes (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/ios_26_adoption_rate_is_not_bizar…

The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
A change to how Safari reports the OS it is running on led many in the media to lose their minds.

„Komfort“ nennt Bastian Gruber das Apple-Ökosystem – und zerlegt es als strukturelle Abhängigkeit: alles hängt an der Apple-ID. Sein Gegenentwurf: Self-Hosting. Technisch machbar, aber komplex. Mein Fazit: Ohne einfache Migrationspfade bleibt das ein Nischenthema für Nerds und man kann nur Einzelteile raus lösen
#SelfHosting

“Tahoe is the worst regression in the entire history of MacOS. There are many reasons to prefer MacOS to any of its competition, but the one that has been the most consistent since System 1 in 1984 is the superiority of its user interface. There is nothing about Tahoe’s new UI that is better than its predecessor…. Fundamental principles of computer-human interaction — principles that Apple itself forged over decades — have been completely ignored.”
—John Gruber

I've been working on this one for a while. The multi-trillion-dollar AI industry? Their *most advanced platforms* are controlled by a plain text format that John Gruber made up for his blog, and then bounced off of a 17-year-old Aaron Swartz, before sharing it with the world for free. *That* is the internet. Here's the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world.

How Markdown took over the world
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Gaetano Donizetti, Francesco Araiza, Edita Gruberovš, Agnes Baltsa, Iris Vermillion, Francesco Ellero d’Artegna, Simone Alaimo, Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir, Munich Radio Orchestra & Giuseppe Patanè:
🎵 Maria Stuarda, Act 2: Finale
https://open.spotify.com/track/0RV9n9UiXMsB0TA9k8ZSpi

A look at the history and rise of Markdown, which has been adopted across the tech industry in the decades since its quiet launch in 2004 by John Gruber (Anil Dash)
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/

How Markdown took over the world
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.