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<title>Daring Fireball</title>
<subtitle>By John Gruber</subtitle>
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<updated>2025-10-02T21:28:09Z</updated><rights>Copyright © 2025, John Gruber</rights><entry>
<title>Folder Quick Look</title>
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<published>2025-10-02T16:30:28Z</published>
<updated>2025-10-02T17:19:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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New Mac app from Martin Lexow, the developer behind App Ahead (which offers <a href="https://appahead.studio/">a slew of good and intriguing Mac apps</a>):
<blockquote>
Preview folder and archive contents (ZIP, RAR, and more) instantly
in macOS Quick Look. Just select a folder and press the Space bar.
</blockquote>
It’s just that simple. Install it from the Mac App Store — free of charge — and you can Quick Look inside archives and folders. Looks, feels, and works like a feature that ought to be built into the Finder itself. Cool.
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<title>Adobe Premiere Ships for iPhone and iPad</title>
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<published>2025-10-02T16:11:34Z</published>
<updated>2025-10-02T16:11:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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Adobe:
<blockquote>
Today, Adobe announced that the company is bringing its industry
leading Adobe Premiere video editor to mobile in a powerful <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adobe-premiere-video-editor">new
iPhone app</a> that empowers creators to make pro-quality video
on the go. The <a href="https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/app.html">Adobe Premiere mobile app</a> makes it fast,
free and intuitive for creators to edit their videos with
precision editing on a lightning-fast multi-track timeline,
produce studio-quality audio with crystal clear voiceovers and
perfectly timed AI sound effects, generate unique content and
access millions of free multimedia assets, and send work directly
to <a href="https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere.html">Premiere desktop</a> for fine tuning further on a larger
screen. The new mobile app offers all the video editing essentials
for free, with upgrades available for additional generative
credits and storage.
</blockquote>
It’s a little thing, but from Adobe’s press release, you’d think this new mobile version of Premiere is only available for iOS, but, as you’d hope, it’s in fact a universal app that properly supports iPadOS too. The word “iPad” doesn’t appear in Adobe’s press release.
(<a href="https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/10/01/adobe-premiere-for-ios-and-ipados/">Via Michael Tsai</a>.)
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<title>U.K. Makes New Attempt to Access Apple Cloud Data — This Time, iCloud Backups of U.K. Citizens</title>
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2025:/linked//6.42236</id>
<published>2025-10-02T16:05:51Z</published>
<updated>2025-10-02T21:28:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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Anna Gross and Tim Bradshaw, reporting for the Financial Times (updated link to a syndicated version at Ars Technica, outside the FT’s parsimonious paywall):
<blockquote>
The UK government has ordered Apple to allow access to encrypted
cloud backups of British users, after a previous attempt to issue
a broader demand that included US customers drew a furious
backlash from the Trump administration.
The UK Home Office demanded in early September that Apple create a
backdoor into users’ cloud storage service, but stipulated that
the order applied only to British citizens’ data, according to
people briefed on the matter. [...]
In February, Apple withdrew its most secure cloud storage service,
iCloud Advanced Data Protection, from the UK.
“Apple is still unable to offer Advanced Data Protection in the
United Kingdom to new users,” Apple said on Wednesday. “We are
gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP are not
available to our customers in the UK given the continuing rise of
data breaches and other threats to customer privacy.” It added:
“As we have said many times before, we have never built a back
door or master key to any of our products or services and we
never will.”
</blockquote>
This is, as I understand it, a demand from the UK government to allow warrantless access to all UK citizens’ iCloud backups. And your iCloud backups, once decrypted, contain just about everything on your device. With Apple unable to offer Advanced Data Protection in the UK, if Apple complies, there’s no way around it. And, to make it even worse, the perversity of the UK Investigatory Powers Act is such that it’s a crime for Apple to even say they’ve been issued such a demand, to warn their UK users about it. Just brutal. The UK government could not be more wrong about this stance.
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</entry><entry>
<title>OpenAI Launches Sora, a Social Feed App for AI-Generated Short Videos</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/788786/openais-new-ai-sora-ios-social-video-app-will-let-you-deepfake-your-friends" />
<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/wl7" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2025:/linked//6.42235</id>
<published>2025-10-02T14:09:00Z</published>
<updated>2025-10-02T16:12:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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Hayden Field, The Verge:
<blockquote>
OpenAI has a new version of the Sora AI video generator that it
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/9/24317092/openai-sora-text-to-video-ai-launch">launched at the end of last year</a>, and it’s arriving today
alongside <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sora-by-openai/id6744034028">a new social video app, also called Sora, for
iPhones</a>. The currently invite-only app resembles TikTok with
a feed of videos you can shuffle through. But instead of
encouraging people to stitch together duets, it asks you to record
short videos that anyone can spin into new AI-generated deepfakes — with your consent.
In a briefing with reporters on Monday, employees called it the
potential “ChatGPT moment for video generation.” The Sora app is
currently only available to US and Canada users, with other
countries set to follow, and when someone receives access, they
also get four additional invites to share with friends. There’s no
word on when an Android version might be released.
</blockquote>
Sora, though invitation-only at the moment, is currently #3 in the U.S. App Store. Meta’s Meta AI app, which contains, in a tab, their Vibes AI-generated video feed, is #97.
Also, I’m sure Sora will eventually come to Android. But, to play with it now, you need an iPhone. So tell me again how Apple is behind on AI? If you have an Android phone, you’re behind on everything except what Google itself offers (which, admittedly, is some great stuff). If you have an iPhone, you’re ahead on everything except what’s baked into iOS. Including the fact that the #1 app on the App Store today is ... Google Gemini.
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</entry><entry>
<title>America’s Pants: A Special Investigation Into the Dallas Cowboys’ Pants</title>
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2025:/linked//6.42234</id>
<published>2025-10-01T16:39:15Z</published>
<updated>2025-10-02T16:14:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
This exemplary deep dive from Don Patterson at Uni Watch is a nice capper to the Cowboys’ 40-40 victory over the Green Bay Packers Sunday night.
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</entry><entry>
<title>The Talk Show: ‘Iconic Pig Lipstick’</title>
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2025:/linked//6.42233</id>
<published>2025-10-01T03:00:06Z</published>
<updated>2025-10-01T03:00:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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John Moltz returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 17 lineup: the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, iPhone 17, and the no-number iPhone Air. Not one word about baseball, but some Star Wars talk may or may not have snuck in.
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</entry><entry>
<title>Apple Started Using iPhone 17 Pros as Cameras for Friday Night Baseball Broadcasts</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/apple-adds-iphones-to-friday-night-baseball-coverage/" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2025:/linked//6.42232</id>
<published>2025-09-30T12:20:04Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-30T12:20:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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Jason Snell:
<blockquote>
According to Apple, four iPhone 17 Pros will be positioned at
Fenway Park — in the Green Monster, the home dugout, and roaming
the stands. In contrast to the secrecy of last week, the
Tigers-Red Sox game will feature a bug in the corner of the screen
that shows off the shots that are coming from an iPhone.
Is it a self-promotional gimmick? Sure, but Apple is paying a lot
of money for MLB rights. Also, it’s not as if the company hasn’t
pushed its MLB telecasts in a bunch of different ways. The Friday
Night Baseball broadcasts look great, and have featured loads of
helmet and body cams, a cinematic depth-of-field camera, and even
in-stadium drone shots. Apple has probably earned at least one
night of iPhone Pro product integration.
</blockquote>
I skipped through the archive of the game and the footage from the iPhones was indistinguishable from the regular cameras. If not for the (subtle!) “Shot on iPhone” bug in the top right corner, I’d never have even suspected they were shot on anything other than the regular cameras Apple has been using for these broadcasts.
<div>
<a title="Permanent link to ‘Apple Started Using iPhone 17 Pros as Cameras for Friday Night Baseball Broadcasts’" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/09/30/iphone-17-pro-friday-night-baseball"> ★ </a>
</div>
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</entry><entry>
<title>The 25th Anniversary of The Onion Classic: ‘William Safire Orders Two Whoppers Junior’</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://theonion.com/william-safire-orders-two-whoppers-junior-1819565735/" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2025:/linked//6.42231</id>
<published>2025-09-29T22:54:28Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-29T22:54:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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This one will never get old.
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<a title="Permanent link to ‘The 25th Anniversary of The Onion Classic: ‘William Safire Orders Two Whoppers Junior’’" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/09/29/safire-whoppers-junior-25"> ★ </a>
</div>
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</entry><entry>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com/en/solutions/metadata-marketplace-(d4ef915d-a8f4-4bf5-b8da-5cbce63db415)?utm_source=display&utm_medium=daringfireball&utm_campaign=11921-AD-2509-GL-CT-DR-All-DCD-EDODaringFireball" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2025:/feeds/sponsors//11.42230</id>
<author><name>Daring Fireball Department of Commerce</name></author>
<published>2025-09-29T20:14:44Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-29T21:13:37Z</updated>
<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
The future of information delivery is AI — and AI thrives on clean, trustworthy metadata. That’s why S&P Global is embracing open web standards to make data more accessible and machine-readable. Explore our open data at <a href="https://dunl.org">dunl.org</a> and discover rich metadata at <a href="https://www.marketplace.spglobal.com/en/solutions/metadata-marketplace-(d4ef915d-a8f4-4bf5-b8da-5cbce63db415)?utm_source=display&utm_medium=daringfireball&utm_campaign=11921-AD-2509-GL-CT-DR-All-DCD-EDODaringFireball">marketplace.spglobal.com</a>.
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<title>[Sponsor] S&P Global</title></entry><entry>
<title>Let’s Check in With HP Employee Imran Chaudhri</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/785363/lets-check-in-with-hp-employee-imran-chaudhri" />
<link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/wl1" />
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<published>2025-09-29T20:11:59Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-29T20:12:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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Allison Johnson, The Verge:
<blockquote>
Remember <a href="https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review">the Humane AI pin</a>? And that
serious-as-a-heart-attack <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/9/23716996/humane-wearable-ai-tech-demo-ted-video">TED talk about the future of
computing</a>? Well, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/fpHCkdIg9gU?t=3885">Qualcomm featured Chaudhri</a> in its
Snapdragon Summit keynote today, where he’s talking less about
lasers you wear on your shirt and more about the amazing battery
life on the OmniBook 5 series. How it started, how it’s going,
etc. etc.
</blockquote>
Johnson’s link above goes directly to Chaudhri’s bit in Qualcomm’s keynote. Looks like a hostage video.
<div>
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</div>
]]></content>
</entry><entry>
<title>Drata</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://drata.com/daring" />
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<link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/09/28/drata" />
<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2025:/linked//6.42228</id>
<published>2025-09-28T22:12:42Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-28T22:12:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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My thanks to Drata for sponsoring this last week at DF. Their message is short and sweet: Automate compliance. Streamline security. Manage risk. Drata delivers the world’s most advanced Trust Management platform.
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</entry><entry>
<title>James Barnard on the Alignment Mistakes in HBO’s Logo</title>
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<published>2025-09-27T20:22:11Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-27T20:22:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
A few weeks ago designer James Barnard <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@barnardco/video/7543872443081919766">made this TikTok video</a> about what seemed to be a few mistakes in HBO’s logo. He got a bunch of crap from commenters arguing that they weren’t mistakes at all. Then he heard from the designer of the original version of the logo, from the 1970s.
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<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/2025/09/apple_on_the_digital_markets_act" />
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<id>tag:daringfireball.net,2025://1.42226</id>
<published>2025-09-26T15:47:03Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-26T23:10:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
<summary type="text">How in the world would that increase competition? iOS’s unique and exclusive features — which, yes, in many cases, are exclusive to the Apple device ecosystem — *are competition*.</summary>
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Apple, “<a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/the-digital-markets-acts-impacts-on-eu-users/">The Digital Markets Act’s Impacts on EU Users</a>”:
<blockquote>
The DMA requires Apple to make certain features work on non-Apple
products and apps before we can share them with our users.
Unfortunately, that requires a lot of engineering work, and it’s
caused us to delay some new features in the EU:
<ul>
<li>Live Translation with AirPods uses Apple Intelligence to let
Apple users communicate across languages. Bringing a
sophisticated feature like this to other devices creates
challenges that take time to solve. For example, we designed
Live Translation so that our users’ conversations stay private — they’re processed on device and are never accessible to Apple — and our teams are doing additional engineering work to make
sure they won’t be exposed to other companies or developers
either.</li>
<li>iPhone Mirroring lets our users see and interact with their
iPhone from their Mac, so they can seamlessly check their
notifications, or drag and drop photos between devices. Our
teams still have not found a secure way to bring this feature to
non-Apple devices without putting all the data on a user’s
iPhone at risk. And as a result, we have not been able to bring
the feature to the EU. [...]</li>
</ul>
We’ve suggested changes to these features that would protect our
users’ data, but so far, the European Commission has rejected our
proposals. And according to the European Commission, under the
DMA, it’s illegal for us to share these features with Apple users
until we bring them to other companies’ products. If we shared
them any sooner, we’d be fined and potentially forced to stop
shipping our products in the EU.
</blockquote>
Live Translation with AirPods and iPhone Mirroring are both amazing features. And EU users are missing out on them. I think Apple structured this piece exactly right, by emphasizing first that the most direct effect of the DMA is that EU users are getting great features late — or never. And that list of features is only going to grow over time.
Under the section “Is the DMA Achieving Its Goals?”:
<blockquote>
Regulators claimed the DMA would promote competition and give
European consumers more choices. But the law is not living up to
those promises. In fact, it’s having some of the opposite effects:
<ul>
<li>Fewer choices: When features are delayed or unavailable, EU
users don’t get the same options as users in the rest of the
world. They lose the choice to use Apple’s latest technologies,
and their devices fall further behind.</li>
<li>Less differentiation: By forcing Apple to build features and
technologies for non-Apple products, the DMA is making the
options available to European consumers more similar. For
instance, the changes to app marketplaces are making iOS look
more like Android — and that reduces choice.</li>
<li>Unfair competition: The DMA’s rules only apply to Apple, even
though Samsung is the smartphone market leader in Europe, and
Chinese companies are growing fast. Apple has led the way in
building a unique, innovative ecosystem that others have copied — to the benefit of users everywhere. But instead of rewarding
that innovation, the DMA singles Apple out while leaving our
competitors free to continue as they always have.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
This is all true. But I have a better way to put this. If Apple were to just switch the iPhone’s OS from iOS to Android, these DMA conflicts would all go away. Apple’s not going to do that, of course, but to me it’s a crystallizing way of looking at it. The DMA is supposedly intended to increase “competition”, which in turn should increase consumer choice. But the easiest way for Apple to comply with the DMA would be to switch EU iPhones to Android — which, by a significant margin, already has majority mobile OS market share in the EU. <a href="https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe/">Here’s a link to StatCounter’s mobile OS stats for Europe</a> (<a href="https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/eu_share_of_apples_revenue">which is not the same as the EU</a>, but as good a proxy as I could find). It’s two-thirds Android, one-third iOS — a 2-1 ratio.
If Apple just shipped all EU iPhones with Android instead of iOS, all of their DMA problems would be off the table. EU iPhone users would lose all iOS exclusive features and Apple device <a href="https://www.apple.com/macos/continuity/">Continuity</a> integrations. EU consumers would effectively have no choice at all in mobile OSes. They’d just get to choose which brand of Android phone to buy.
How in the world would that increase competition? iOS’s unique and exclusive features — which, yes, in many cases, are exclusive to the Apple device ecosystem — are competition.
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<title>Trump Clears Way for Cronies to Buy TikTok for $14 Billion</title>
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<published>2025-09-26T02:58:34Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-26T03:01:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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The New York Times:
<blockquote>
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that would
help clear the way for a coalition of investors to run an American
version of TikTok, one that is separate from its Chinese owner,
ByteDance, so that it can keep operating in the United States.
The administration has been working for months to find non-Chinese
investors for a U.S. TikTok company, which Vice President JD Vance
said would be valued at $14 billion. [...]
The White House hasn’t said exactly who would own the U.S. version
of TikTok, but the list of potential investors includes several
powerful allies of Mr. Trump. The software giant Oracle, whose
co-founder is the billionaire Larry Ellison, will take a stake in
U.S. TikTok. Mr. Trump has also said that the media mogul Rupert
Murdoch is involved. A person familiar with the talks said the
Murdoch investments would come through Fox Corporation.
</blockquote>
$14 billion is a ridiculous valuation. The whole thing is ridiculous, of course, but a fair valuation on the open market would surely be at least 10× that value. They’re not even pretending this is on the up-and-up. And it doesn’t answer the core problem at the heart of <a href="https://daringfireball.net/search/tiktok">the PAFACA Act</a>:
<blockquote>
Michael Sobolik, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute who is
focused on U.S.-China relations, said the White House’s executive
order would stoke those questions only because it says “the
divestiture includes intense monitoring of software updates,
algorithms and data flows.”
“If you control it, why would you need intense monitoring to know
what’s happening with it?” Mr. Sobolik said. “Monitoring the
algorithm is not the same controlling it. That’s the head fake the
administration appears to be trying to pull here.”
</blockquote>
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<title>Bloomberg: ‘Intel Is Seeking an Investment From Apple as Part of Its Comeback Bid’</title>
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<published>2025-09-25T04:12:16Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-25T04:13:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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Ryan Gould and Liana Baker, reporting for Bloomberg:
<blockquote>
Intel Corp. has approached Apple Inc. about securing an investment
in the ailing chipmaker, according to people familiar with the
matter, part of efforts to bolster a business that’s now partially
owned by the US government.
Apple and Intel also have discussed how to work more closely
together, said the people, who asked not to be identified because
the deliberations are private. The talks have been early-stage and
may not lead to an agreement, the people said.
</blockquote>
Juicy notion, for sure, but I really don’t see what Intel could offer Apple. There’s zero chance Apple is going to go back to x86 CPUs. Apple <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/07/apple-to-acquire-the-majority-of-intels-smartphone-modem-business/">already bought Intel’s cellular modem business six years ago</a> (and has used that purchase to produce the excellent C1 and C1X modems now used in the iPhone 16e and iPhone Air, respectively). Intel can’t come close to TSMC for fabricating Apple’s own chip designs.
So what’s left? <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2007/08/07/stickers">Palm-rest stickers for laptops</a>?
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<title>Jimmy Kimmel Returns, Ratings Soar</title>
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<published>2025-09-25T03:36:32Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-25T04:20:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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John Koblin, reporting for The New York Times (gift link):
<blockquote>
Jimmy Kimmel’s broadcast return scored big in the ratings.
Tuesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” averaged 6.2 million
viewers, according to preliminary figures from Nielsen. That is
nearly four times bigger than his usual audience, even though more
than 20 percent of ABC affiliates boycotted the show.
The preliminary Nielsen figures are expected to grow in the coming
days as more data comes in. It does not include streaming
viewership.
</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tjh_ZO_tY">Kimmel’s monologue last night</a> was a masterpiece. Watch it, I implore you.
Donald Trump, jackass, <a href="https://people.com/trump-says-jimmy-kimmel-fired-for-lack-of-talent-11812506">a week ago</a>:
<blockquote>
“Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else [...]”
</blockquote>
Donald Trump, today, <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115256938634035559">on his blog</a>:
<blockquote>
I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The
White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled! Something
happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and
his “talent” was never there. Why would they want someone back who
does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who puts the Network in
jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE. He is yet
another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my knowledge, that
would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution. I think we’re
going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I
went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds
even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot
in his bad Ratings.
</blockquote>
Doesn’t sound like a mob boss at all. And remember, the Republicans were the party that spent all of last year’s election cycle proclaiming to be the party of “free speech”, and opposed to “cancel culture”. Just sheer projection.
The way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them. Give them your lunch money once, they’ll keep coming back for more.
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<title>Joe Betz, Owner of House of Prime Rib, Dies at 86</title>
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<published>2025-09-25T03:06:46Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-25T03:48:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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George Kelly, The Standard:
<blockquote>
Joe Betz, the owner of San Francisco’s House of Prime Rib, who
transformed the Van Ness Avenue restaurant into an institution
beloved by locals and visitors, has died. He was 86. […]
Joe Betz purchased House of Prime Rib in 1985 from Lou Balaski,
who founded it in 1949, and over four decades preserved its
old-world charm while building it into one of the city’s most
enduring dining destinations.
</blockquote>
My favorite restaurant in San Francisco, and one of my favorite restaurants anywhere in the world. Incredibly consistent excellent food, impeccable service, and a one-of-a-kind atmosphere.
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<title>‘Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Is a Wake-Up Call’</title>
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<published>2025-09-23T16:14:22Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-23T16:16:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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Taegan Goddard, a few days ago at Political Wire:
<blockquote>
The sudden <a href="https://politicalwire.com/2025/09/17/abc-pulls-jimmy-kimmel/">suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show</a> after threats
from FCC chair Brendan Carr was a jolt. It looked like the next
step in Donald Trump’s campaign to silence dissent.
But there’s another way to see it: an opportunity.
It’s been clear since the last election that conservatives
dominate the independent media space. Trump rode the reach of
right-wing podcasts to victory while Kamala Harris stuck to
traditional television.
But those old outlets are collapsing — and they’re never
coming back.
That means the stars of late-night TV — Kimmel, Colbert and
others — could thrive outside corporate networks. They can build
their own platforms, reach bigger audiences, and escape the grip
of billionaires and timid executives.
</blockquote>
While Goddard didn’t say it in this piece, the subtext should be that building the alternative on Substack or social media is not the answer, either. The Internet is decentralized and built exactly to counter these forces our country is facing under Trump 2.0.
The big problem is YouTube. With YouTube, Google has a centralized chokehold on video. We need a way that’s as easy and scalable to host video content, independently, as it is for written content. I don’t know what the answer to that is, technically, but we ought to start working on it with urgency.
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<title>The Kimmel Joke That Got Him Suspended Was Not About Charlie Kirk, It Was About Trump Being a Ghoul</title>
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<published>2025-09-23T14:09:24Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-23T14:13:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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ABC is putting Kimmel’s show back on tonight, which is great. But I think it’s essential to watch the joke that triggered his suspension. I’m linking here to a CNN post with the full clip. CNN headlined their post “What Kimmel Said About Charlie Kirk That Yanked His Show Off Air”, and that’s basically how most news outlets have phrased it.
But the joke wasn’t about Charlie Kirk. It wasn’t about Charlie Kirk’s assassin. It was about Donald Trump being a sociopathic ghoul. Trump was asked how he’s holding up after the death of “his friend Charlie Kirk”. You really have to watch it — a transcript of Trump’s answer does no justice to how sociopathic it was. And Kimmel called him out on it with mockery.
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<published>2025-09-23T13:58:43Z</published>
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<title>David Letterman Slams Jimmy Kimmel Suspension</title>
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<published>2025-09-22T02:28:16Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-22T02:36:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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Variety:
<blockquote>
“This is misery,” Letterman said when asked about Kimmel’s
suspension, speaking at <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/theatlanticfestival/">The Atlantic Festival
2025</a> Thursday
in New York. “I feel bad about this,” he continued. “We see where
this is all going, correct? It’s managed media. And it’s no good.
It’s silly. It’s ridiculous. And you can’t go around firing
somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an
authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office. That’s
just not how this works.”
“In the world of somebody who is an authoritarian, maybe a
dictatorship, sooner or later, everyone is going to be touched,”
said Letterman.
Letterman also said, “The institution of the president of the
United States ought to be bigger than a guy doing a talk show.”
Kimmel’s removal from late-night TV, he said, “was predicted by
our president right after Stephen Colbert got walked off, so
you’re telling me this isn’t premeditated at some level?” [...]
On Wednesday, ABC suspended Kimmel’s late-night show
“indefinitely.” That came after FCC chairman Brendan Carr just
hours earlier threatened ABC and its affiliates if they didn’t
“take action” on Kimmel over what he perceived as objectionable
comments about Charlie Kirk’s killer. “We can do this the easy way
or the hard way,” Carr said on a conservative podcast. [...]
Regarding Carr’s comment that “we can do this the easy way or the
hard way,” Letterman said, “Who is hiring these goons — Mario
Puzo?”, referring to the author of The Godfather. Letterman said
when he was on TV, he never got pressure from a presidential
administration, the FCC or any other government agency about his
on-air commentary.
</blockquote>
“Goons” is exactly the right word. Letterman’s commentary on this is, by far, the best I’ve seen, because it’s been the most clear-eyed. I quoted a lot above, but there’s more, so please read the whole piece. But this one extra snippet from the piece puts it on the right scale:
<blockquote>
Goldberg posited that today, despite Trump’s attacks on the
press, “we still have a free media,” to which Letterman
responded, “Do we?”
</blockquote>
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<title>Dan Moren’s iOS 26 Review</title>
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<published>2025-09-22T02:06:49Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-22T02:06:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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Dan Moren, Six Colors:
<blockquote>
The redesign is more than skin deep, however. Apple has rethought
the way some of its most fundamental interactions work. For
example, the increasingly long horizontal popover menus that hid
options behind an interminable scroll have morphed into a
dual-stage design. Tapping and holding on the screen brings up a
popover with a few common options, but it now doesn’t make you
scroll; instead, there’s an arrow indicating more options. Tap
that, and you’ll get a big pop-up panel of all the available
commands in a much easier-to-read and use format. As someone who
frequently finds himself swiping through a very long list to find
the one command I want (and somehow, it’s always the last one),
this is a tangible improvement.
</blockquote>
The big improvement here is that in the old popover (from iOS 3 — when copy and paste were finally added to iOS, and the popover typically only contained three or four items — until last year’s iOS 18), the scrolling you had to do was horizontal. And a lot of items were added to that menu over the years. And it wasn’t really scrolling, it was panning. And panning sideways through a long list of options is just a bad interaction experience. For me, a lot of the times I used this popover, I wanted the “Share...” command, and that was the last one, all the way on the right.
In iOS 26’s new tap-and-hold popover, it’s a vertical menu, just like a Mac contextual menu. And you don’t really have to scroll at all most of the time, because all the contextual menu options fit on screen. And even if you do have to scroll (which happens when the keyboard is open, reducing vertical screen real estate), you don’t have to scroll much to get to the bottom.
It’s one of the very best, most thoughtful, most useful changes in iOS 26. But also one of the most overdue: we know how contextual menus should be oriented. Vertically. We naturally make lists vertically, not horizontally. I sort of suspect Apple resisted making iOS contextual popovers vertical for so long because they didn’t want to make iOS more like a desktop computer OS.
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<title>Dekáf Coffee Roasters</title>
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<published>2025-09-22T02:00:00Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-22T02:33:08Z</updated>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
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</author>
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My thanks to Dekáf Coffee Roasters for sponsoring last week at DF. Dekáf believes that people who drink coffee for its flavor are the true connoisseurs. While other roasters treat decaf as a side project, they’ve made it their entire mission. They’re dedicated to creating exceptional decaffeinated coffee that stands toe-to-toe with the world’s finest caffeinated beans.
I drink coffee every single day. I literally can’t remember the last day I didn’t have coffee in the morning. A few years ago, though, age started catching up to me and I stopped drinking coffee after lunch or so, lest it screw with my sleep. I really missed my afternoon coffee though. Why I didn’t think to try decaf I don’t know, but Dekáf sent me a few samples when they first sponsored DF back in April, and it’s been a revelation. In addition to fully decaffeinated roasts, they also have some half-decaffeinated roasts, and they’re absolutely delicious — my style of roast, for sure — and they don’t leave me jolted into the evening. Maybe you like tea, but I don’t. I like coffee, and I love being able to have a cup or two late in the afternoon again. It’s so good.
Also, I’m a big believer that you can judge a book by its cover. Just look at the Dekáf brand. It’s perfect. Color, typography, artwork — so cool, so spot-on for what they do.
Dekáf offers 9 single origins, 6 signature blends, and 4 Mizudashi cold brews (perfect for summer). All shipped to you within 24 hours of roasting. No shortcuts. You won’t believe it’s decaf. That’s the point. Even better, get 20% off with code: DF.
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<published>2025-09-19T16:44:44Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-19T16:46:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
<summary type="text">Hello dear readers. Daring Fireball has been silent for the last week. I realize how unusual it is for the site to go un-updated any week of the year, let alone this particular week of the year. I’m so sorry...</summary>
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Hello dear readers. Daring Fireball has been silent for the last week. I realize how unusual it is for the site to go un-updated any week of the year, let alone this particular week of the year. I’m so sorry about that, and also sorry about not being able to write this note to you sooner.
I have been dealing with — and working through — a very personal situation for the past week. It’s OK. I’m going to be OK. But it has kept me offline for some time. Given the one-man nature of this site, that has meant that nothing has been published.
I look forward to getting back to writing very soon. I can feel it: I will be back soon. I’m itching to go. I mean, jiminy, it’s new iPhones week. But it’ll be a few more days before I get those reviews out. In the meantime, I so profoundly appreciate your patience and understanding.
Your faithful correspondent, 
John Gruber
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<title>★ Personal Note</title></entry><entry>
<title>iPhones 17 and the Sugar Water Trap</title>
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<published>2025-09-10T17:48:00Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-10T17:49:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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Ben Thompson has a wonderful take on yesterday’s event and what it says about Apple overall:
<blockquote>
Apple, to be fair, isn’t selling the same sugar water year-after-year in a zero sum war with other sugar water companies. Their sugar water is getting better, and I think this year’s seasonal concoction is particularly tasty. What is inescapable, however, is that while the company does still make new products — I definitely plan on getting new AirPod Pro 3s! — the company has, in the pursuit of easy profits, constrained the space in which it innovates.
</blockquote>
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<title>Apple’s Slate of Announcements Yesterday</title>
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<published>2025-09-10T17:09:52Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-10T17:09:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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Apple Newsroom posts:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/apple-unveils-iphone-17-pro-and-iphone-17-pro-max/">Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/introducing-iphone-air-a-powerful-new-iphone-with-a-breakthrough-design/">Introducing iPhone Air, a powerful new iPhone with a breakthrough design</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/apple-debuts-iphone-17/">Apple debuts iPhone 17</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/apple-debuts-apple-watch-series-11-featuring-groundbreaking-health-insights/">Apple debuts Apple Watch Series 11, featuring groundbreaking health insights</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/introducing-apple-watch-ultra-3/">Introducing Apple Watch Ultra 3</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/apple-introduces-apple-watch-se-3/">Apple introduces Apple Watch SE 3</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/introducing-airpods-pro-3-the-ultimate-audio-experience/">Introducing AirPods Pro 3, the ultimate audio experience</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/apple-announces-final-cut-camera-2-0/">Apple announces Final Cut Camera 2.0</a></li>
</ul>
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<title>Trump Hosts Dinner Humiliating Tech CEOs</title>
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<published>2025-09-10T17:04:36Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-10T17:04:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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The Wall Street Journal (gift link):
<blockquote>
President Trump on Thursday led leaders of the world’s biggest
technology companies in a version of his cabinet meetings, in
which each participant takes a turn thanking and praising him,
this time for his efforts to promote investments in chip
manufacturing and artificial intelligence.
Tech titans including Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook and OpenAI
CEO Sam Altman said “thank you” to the president, with some laying
out how much their companies plan to invest in the U.S.
“Thank you for being such a pro-business, pro-innovation
president. It’s a very refreshing change,” Altman said. “I think
it’s going to set us up for a long period of leading the world,
and that wouldn’t be happening without your leadership.”
Cook said Apple is expected to invest $600 billion in the U.S. “I
want to thank you for setting the tone such that we can make a
major investment in the United States and have some key
manufacturing here. I think it says a lot about your leadership
and focus on innovation,” Cook said.
</blockquote>
This whole thing was so weird. I know this sounds crazy, but I genuinely think these CEOs were unaware that this dinner was going to be open to the press and filmed. They’re all unprepared and awkward. Mark Zuckerberg didn’t know what number to declare for Meta’s upcoming US infrastructure spend. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRKLRtoQWyU">Tim Cook said this</a>:
<blockquote>
I want to thank you for including me this evening. It’s incredible
to be among everyone here, particularly you and the first lady.
I’ve always enjoyed having dinner and interacting.
</blockquote>
Those are not prepared remarks. I mean, what? He enjoys “having dinner and interacting”?
I’m not going to argue that any of these CEOs, Cook included, are playing this situation right. But it really shows the profound power imbalance. The president of the United States is so astonishingly powerful. And Trump is wielding that power in unprecedented ways. This entire fiasco is embarrassing, but the criticism really ought to be directed at Trump.
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<title>Apple Announces ‘Memory Integrity Enforcement’</title>
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<published>2025-09-10T16:49:37Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-10T16:49:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR):
<blockquote>
Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an
unprecedented design and engineering effort, spanning half a
decade, that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon
hardware with our advanced operating system security to provide
industry-first, always-on memory safety protection across our
devices — without compromising our best-in-class device
performance. We believe Memory Integrity Enforcement represents
the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of
consumer operating systems.
</blockquote>
That is, to say the least, an incredibly bold statement. But I think it’s true. This is a fascinating post, cogently written.
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<title>Base Storage is 256 GB Across Entire iPhone 17 Lineup</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/09/iphone-17-lineup-starts-256gb-storage/" />
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<published>2025-09-10T16:31:21Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-10T16:31:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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Tim Hardwick, MacRumors:
<blockquote>
For the first time, every model in Apple’s latest flagship iPhone
17 lineup features a base 256GB storage capacity, up from the
lowest 128GB option in the iPhone 16 series. The regular iPhone 17
now comes in 256GB and 512GB storage options, while the all-new
ultra-thin iPhone Air and the iPhone 17 Pro come in 256GB, 512GB,
and 1TB capacities.
Meanwhile, the iPhone 17 Pro Max is offered in the same three
capacities as the iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro, but with the
addition of a maximum 2TB option.
</blockquote>
I know it’s been 18 years, but it’s kind of wild to compare today’s storage tiers to the original iPhone’s 4, 8, and 16 GB options.
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<title>A Few Details Apple Didn’t Mention During Its “Awe-Dropping” Event</title>
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<published>2025-09-10T02:34:34Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-10T02:46:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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Dan Moren:
<blockquote>
There were no doubt some shouts of joy when Apple mentioned it had a new version of its MagSafe Battery, but if you want one of those to boost your phone’s longevity, be aware: it’s an iPhone Air exclusive. The key’s in the name <a href="https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MGPG4AM/A/iphone-air-magsafe-battery?">“iPhone Air MagSafe Battery”</a>—Apple says it “was created exclusively for iPhone Air” and only the iPhone Air is listed in the Compatibility section. Sorry iPhone 17/17 Pro users, you’re out of luck. (Alas, the same is true of the <a href="https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MH024ZM/A/iphone-air-bumper-light-blue">new iPhone bumper case too</a>.)
</blockquote>
This is a bit of a bummer. I really love Apple’s old MagSafe Battery Pack. (I’m using one right now, after a long day with lots of phone usage.) I love that they’re making a new one, but it literally only fits on the iPhone Air. It’s so tall that it doesn’t fit under the camera plateau on any other iPhone, new or old.
Another tidbit I didn’t notice during the keynote: it’s not the “iPhone 17 Air”. It’s just “iPhone Air”, no number. I’m not sure what to make of that. If they release a new one next year, will that be the iPhone Air 2?
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<title>Another Dyson Presentation</title>
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<published>2025-09-08T16:47:00Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-08T16:52:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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I loved watching this. My takeaway: don’t just say what it does, explain how it does what it does.
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<title>TextJam</title>
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<published>2025-09-07T23:05:55Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-08T18:18:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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My thanks to TextJam for sponsoring this past week at DF. TextJam just launched last week, it’s a remarkable “1.0” release — a multi-player text editor / word processor with a novel twist on how humans interact with AI. TextJam introduces the metaphors of “pen” mode for writing in ink, when you know exactly what words you want to write, with “pencil” mode for text you want to use a prompt or just a simple dashed-off starting point for AI assistance. It sounds like it makes intuitive sense, and when you actually try it, it feels even more natural. I really love this metaphor of ink vs. pencil. It leaves you, the writer, in control, but also gives all the assistance you want.
TextJam also has other very clever ideas, like using “pinch” multitouch gestures for resizing text — pinch in to get AI suggestions for making the selected text shorter, pinch out to expand it. TextJam has integrations with all of the most popular LLM systems: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Llama, and more.
And that’s just talking about the cutting-edge AI-type features. TextJam is also a great collaborative editor, where you and your teammates can work together on the same document with really clever interface elements who made — or is currently in the processing of making — which changes.
You can say, “Well, why don’t I just use Google Docs for this?” Right? My answer is just look at the two of them. Google Docs is like 98 percent stuff no one uses and therefore everyone ignores. TextJam is focused on the features people actually use and understand. It just looks and feels so much more more comfortable and stylish.
<a href="https://textjam.com/show/demo?df">Try it today for free</a>.
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<title>A Cynical Read on Anthropic’s Book Settlement</title>
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<published>2025-09-06T18:34:55Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-06T18:38:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass:
<blockquote>
And so you can’t help but wonder if part of the equation in this settlement wasn’t decidedly more cynical. Fresh off <a href="https://spyglass.org/signal-the-google-antitrust-nuance/#:~:text=%F0%9F%A7%A0%20Anthropic%27s%20%2413B,%5BBloomberg%20%F0%9F%94%92%5D">a new massive fundraise</a> — one in which they raised <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-02/anthropic-completes-new-funding-round-at-183-billion-valuation?embedded-checkout=true&ref=spyglass.org">far more</a> than they were initially targeting, I might add — Anthropic has a lot of money. More than perhaps <a href="https://spyglass.org/openai-ipo-ish/">all but one of their competitors</a> on the startup side. By settling for $1.5B, is Anthropic sort of pulling up a drawbridge, making it so that other startups can’t possibly come into their castle? I mean, am I crazy?
I’m not so sure I am. At $1.5B, there are only a handful of companies that could afford to pay such fines. Certainly OpenAI is one. Maybe xAI. And of course all the tech giants like Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, <a href="https://spyglass.org/meta-operation-kick-puppies/">and Meta</a>. But could any other startup that has done any level of model training with such data? Probably not.
</blockquote>
Kind of dastardly when you think about it this way.
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<title>Anthropic to Pay $1.5 Billion to Authors in Landmark AI Settlement</title>
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<published>2025-09-05T21:22:46Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-06T00:14:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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Hayden Field, reporting for The Verge:
<blockquote>
In what’s potentially the first major payout to creatives whose work was used to train AI systems, Anthropic has reached an agreement to pay “at least” a staggering $1.5 billion, plus interest, to authors to settle its class-action lawsuit. The amount breaks down to smaller payouts expected to be approximately $3,000 per book or work. Lawyers for the plaintiffs said it’s “believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US copyright litigation.”
</blockquote>
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<title>Atlassian Acquires The Browser Company for $610 Million</title>
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<published>2025-09-04T21:35:42Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-04T22:15:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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David Pierce, writing for The Verge:
<blockquote>
Mike Cannon-Brookes, the CEO of enterprise software giant
<a href="https://www.atlassian.com/">Atlassian</a>, was one of the first users of <a href="https://www.theverge.com/23462235/arc-web-browser-review">the Arc
browser</a>. Over the last several years, he has been a prolific
bug reporter and feature requester. Now he’ll own the thing:
Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company, the New York-based
startup that makes both Arc and the <a href="https://www.theverge.com/web/685232/dia-browser-ai-arc">new AI-focused Dia
browser</a>. Atlassian is paying $610 million in cash for The
Browser Company, and plans to run it as an independent entity.
The conversations that led to the deal started about a year ago,
says Josh Miller, The Browser Company’s CEO. Lots of Atlassian
employees were using Arc, and “they reached out wondering, how
could we get more enterprise-ready?” Miller says. Big companies
require data privacy, security, and management features in the
software they use, and The Browser Company didn’t offer enough
of them.
</blockquote>
I get it. Later in the same article, there’s this:
<blockquote>
As for what this all means for The Browser Company’s browsers,
it’s still too early to say for sure. Miller promises no
favored-nation features for Atlassian products, nor any Microsoft
Edge-style popups begging you to sign up for Jira. Miller says the
team is even more committed to being a truly cross-platform
product, and that Windows in particular is about to get a lot more
attention.
</blockquote>
But “How could we get more enterprise-ready?” has never been a north-star principle for great user-focused software. I personally have never seen the appeal of Arc or Dia, but Safari truly speaks to me and my taste. Alternative browsers, by definition, are meant for people who are dissatisfied with existing browsers. So while I don’t use Arc or Dia, I’ve always been rooting for The Browser Company. I even dig the company name.
But this seems like bad news. I just don’t see how Atlassian/Jira DNA can possibly be a good thing to inject into an innovative user-focused web browser.
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<title>Investors Score the US-v.-Google Remedies Ruling a Win for Google and Apple</title>
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<published>2025-09-04T21:00:46Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-04T21:02:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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Dave Michaels and Katherine Blunt, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link):
<blockquote>
“There are strong reasons not to jolt the system and to allow
market forces to do the work,” Mehta wrote.
Wall Street analysts scored the ruling a huge win for Google and
Apple since it allowed an existing arrangement to continue in
which Google pays Apple more than $20 billion a year to be the
default search provider on the Safari browser.
</blockquote>
I’m picking nits here, but I think part of the ruling is that Google can no longer pay to be the default search engine. And, in my opinion, they never needed to, and never should have put that into their contracts for these deals. They’re just paying Apple (and Mozilla, and Samsung, and others) for the actual search traffic that goes to Google from those companies’ browsers. It’s up to Apple whether Google is the default Safari search engine (which it is, and will continue to be). It just won’t be in the terms of the deal that Google search has to be the default.
<blockquote>
The ruling paves the way for the two companies to partner further
on AI-related services on Apple devices, analysts said. Apple
currently has a deal with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into various
iPhone services. Apple and Google have had talks about striking a
similar deal for Google’s AI system called Gemini.
</blockquote>
I wonder if this antitrust ruling was the holdup on Apple announcing Gemini as an Apple Intelligence partner? Apple, famously, almost never talks about future plans, but at last year’s WWDC, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/10/apple-confirms-plans-to-work-with-googles-gemini-in-the-future/">Craig Federighi made conspicuous mention</a> of Google Gemini as a potential Apple Intelligence partner — and now here we are 14 months later and it hasn’t yet happened.
Also, re: this decision being largely a win for Google — <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2025/04/is_chrome_even_a_sellable_asset">it just never made sense to me that Chrome even is a sellable asset</a>.
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<title>Instagram Finally Launches an iPad App</title>
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<published>2025-09-04T20:22:25Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-04T20:22:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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There are finallys, and there are finallys. Apple shipped the original iPad in April 2010. Instagram shipped in October 2010 — <a href="https://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/04/19/phil-schiller-quits-instagram/">and was iPhone-exclusive until 2012</a>. That Instagram didn’t ship a native iPad version of its app until now is really one of the strangest things in tech. But here it is.
One significant difference from Instagram on phones is that on iPad, it defaults to the Reels view, and you have to tap below Reels in the sidebar to get to your following timeline. Adam Mosseri explains their thinking behind this <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOJWGJyETYq/?igsh=MWFwMXNsdWFwNHp1ZQ==">in this Reel</a> (natch).
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<title>Google Avoids Harshest Penalties in Search Monopoly Ruling</title>
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<published>2025-09-04T19:48:38Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-04T19:48:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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</author>
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David McCabe, reporting for The New York Times:
<blockquote>
Google must hand over its search results and some data to rival
companies but does not need to break itself up by selling its
Chrome web browser, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. The
decision, by Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for
the District of Columbia, falls short of the sweeping changes
proposed by the government to rein in the power of Silicon Valley.
Judge Mehta said in the 223-page ruling that Google must share
some of its search data with “qualified competitors” to resolve
its monopoly. The Justice Department had asked the judge to force
the company to share even more of its data, arguing it was key to
Google’s dominance.
Judge Mehta also put restrictions on payments that Google uses to
ensure its search engine gets prime placement in web browsers and
on smartphones. But he stopped short of banning those payments
entirely and did not grant the government’s request that Google be
forced to sell Chrome, which the government said was necessary to
remedy the company’s power as a search monopoly.
“Notwithstanding this power, courts must approach the task of
crafting remedies with a healthy dose of humility,” Judge Mehta
said in Tuesday’s decision. “This court has done so.”
</blockquote>
No forced divestiture of Chrome or Android, and Google is allowed to continue making traffic acquisition cost payments to companies like Apple (for search in Safari) and Mozilla (for search in Firefox). The decision seems very reasonable to me. And while <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205.1436.0_4.pdf">the entire ruling</a> is 223 pages, Judge Mehta included a good summary at the front. You can get a feel for it just by reading the first few pages.
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<title>Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign</title>
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<published>2025-09-01T22:16:02Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-01T22:16:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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Bernie Sanders, in a NYT op-ed:
<blockquote>
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services,
is endangering the health of the American people now and into the
future. He must resign.
Mr. Kennedy and the rest of the Trump administration tell us, over
and over, that they want to Make America Healthy Again. That’s a
great slogan. I agree with it. The problem is that since coming
into office President Trump and Mr. Kennedy have done exactly the
opposite.
</blockquote>
Powerful and to the point. Sanders, unlike the nine former CDC directors whose joint op-ed ran the next day, doesn’t pull punches. But there’s no point demanding Kennedy resign, because he won’t. Sanders, and the rest of us, should call on Trump to fire him. The buck stops with Trump. Trump fires his appointees all the time. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_short-tenure_Donald_Trump_political_appointments">Almost no one lasted long</a> in the Trump 1.0 administration, and it’s unlikely anyone will last long in the Trump 2.0 administration. (Including, perhaps, Trump himself, <a href="https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-to-have-a-serious-conversation-about-trump-s-health">who is clearly unwell</a>.) Kennedy ought to be the first to go.
Trump smells it too, hence <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115128985245605660">this “both sides” post on his blog this morning</a>. Public opinion is strongly against this abject vaccine quackery.
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<title>Nine Former Directors of the CDC: ‘RFK Jr. Is Endangering Every American’s Health’</title>
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<published>2025-09-01T22:05:14Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-01T22:05:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle P. Walensky, and Mandy K. Cohen — all of them former directors of the CDC, under every president from Jimmy Carter to Trump — in a co-bylined op-ed for the NYT:
<blockquote>
What the health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy
Jr., has done to the C.D.C. and to our nation’s public health
system over the past several months — culminating in his decision
to fire Dr. Susan Monarez as C.D.C. director days ago — is unlike
anything we had ever seen at the agency and unlike anything our
country had ever experienced.
Mr. Kennedy has fired thousands of federal health workers and
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/health/cdc-layoffs-kennedy.html">severely weakened</a> programs designed to protect Americans
from cancer, heart attacks, strokes, lead poisoning, injury,
violence and more. Amid the largest measles outbreak in the United
States in a generation, he’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/health/measles-treatments-vaccines-kennedy.html">focused on</a> unproven
treatments while downplaying vaccines. He <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/health/rfk-jr-vaccine-funding.html">canceled</a>
investments in promising medical research that will leave us ill
prepared for future health emergencies. He <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/well/vaccines-cdc-rfk-jr.html">replaced</a>
experts on federal health advisory committees with unqualified
individuals who share his dangerous and unscientific views. He
announced the end of U.S. support for global vaccination programs
that protect millions of children and keep Americans safe,
<a href="https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/02/rfk-jr-vaccines-former-cdc-director-tom-frieden-says-kennedy-mangled-science-in-gavi-decision/">citing</a> flawed research and making inaccurate statements.
And he <a href="https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1940089073391018352">championed</a> federal legislation that will cause
millions of people with health insurance through Medicaid to
<a href="https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-06/Wyden-Pallone-Neal_Letter_6-4-25.pdf">lose</a> their coverage. Firing Dr. Monarez — which led to
the resignations of top C.D.C. officials — adds considerable fuel
to this raging fire. [...]
This is unacceptable, and it should alarm every American,
regardless of political leanings.
</blockquote>
It’s good that they’re speaking up, but it’s too mealy-mouthed. What’s going on at HHS under Kennedy isn’t merely “unacceptable” and “alarming”. It’s outrageous and shocking.
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<title>The Talk Show: ‘Ersatz PopSocket’</title>
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<published>2025-09-01T19:30:03Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-01T19:30:03Z</updated>
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<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
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For your holiday listening enjoyment: Special guest Andru Edwards joins the show. Topics include Google’s Pixel 10 event and the Pixel 10 family of devices, AI’s effect on computational photography, foldable phones, and some speculation on Apple’s September 9 “Awe Dropping” event.
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<title>Walk the World</title>
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<published>2025-08-31T15:59:00Z</published>
<updated>2025-09-01T19:27:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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My thanks to Impending for sponsoring last week at DF to promote their new app, Walk the World. You surely know some of Impending’s other apps, like the innovative checklist/task app <a href="https://www.useclear.com/">Clear</a>. Walk the World turns your steps — your real-world activity — into a new kind of virtual globe-trotting adventure. 
Wouldn’t it be cool to know you’ve walked the length of the Boston Marathon this past week? You can conquer iconic hikes and trails from around the world presented as gorgeous map milestones to complete with your hard earned steps. It’s a genuinely novel idea for gamifying activity, executed with an exquisite attention to detail and exuberant sense of joy. Walk the World isn’t quite a game, but it delivers game-like fun.
If you enjoy or aspire to go on walks more regularly, and beautiful indie apps with fun new twists, this is your new healthy addiction. <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/walk-the-world-virtual-trails/id6743502929">Try Walk the World free today for your iPhone</a>.
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<title>Vintage Macintosh Programming Book Library</title>
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<published>2025-08-31T15:11:58Z</published>
<updated>2025-08-31T15:44:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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</author>
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One more for my <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/30/notable-improvements-to-coding-intelligence-in-xcode-26-beta-7">weekend</a> <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/31/sosumi-ai">spate</a> of developer posts, but from the opposite of the LLM-assisted cutting edge: this wonderful collection of classic-era Mac programming books, carefully scanned as PDFs. These evoke nostalgia both for the classic Mac era and for the entire notion of “programming books”. (Via <a href="https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/08/29/vintage-macintosh-programming-book-library/">Michael Tsai</a> and <a href="https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2025/07/24/2130">Rui Carmo</a>.)
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<title>sosumi.ai: Apple Developer Docs for LLMs</title>
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<published>2025-08-31T13:54:38Z</published>
<updated>2025-08-31T15:02:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
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Sosumi.ai:
<blockquote>
Ever notice Claude struggling to write Swift code? It might not be
their fault!
Apple Developer docs are locked behind JavaScript, making them
invisible to most LLMs. If they try to fetch it, all they see is
“This page requires JavaScript. Please turn on JavaScript in your
browser and refresh the page to view its content.”
This service translates Apple Developer documentation pages into
AI-friendly Markdown.
</blockquote>
Perfect little audio easter egg on the page. Beautiful Markdown output too. Look at <a href="https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">my boy</a>, all grown up, teaching robots how to program.
I do regret, though, that I didn’t define or influence the <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/working-with-advanced-formatting/creating-and-highlighting-code-blocks">fenced style for code blocks</a>. If I had, instead of this:
<pre><code>```swift
// An array of 'Int' elements
let oddNumbers = [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15]
```
</code></pre>
You could do this, which looks so much better:
<pre><code>``` Swift:
// An array of 'Int' elements
let oddNumbers = [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15]
```
</code></pre>
Those all-lowercase language identifiers, with no preceding space, just look a little lazy. I realize why GitHub’s <code>```</code>-fenced code blocks took off (they’re the only code block style most Markdown users know, I suspect), but they <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/31/sosumi-ai.text">don’t look nearly as nice</a>, to human readers, as <a href="https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#precode">my original tab-indented style</a>.
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<published>2025-08-26T00:02:43Z</published>
<updated>2025-08-27T20:29:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
<summary type="text">These are the not the work of carpenters who care about the backs of the cabinets they’re building. These icons are so bad, they look like the work of untrained “How hard can it be?” dilettante carpenters who only last a few days on the job before sawing off one of their own fingers.</summary>
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MacOS has shipped with a collection of “utility” apps since the prehistoric era of classic Mac OS. A good rule of thumb for what makes an app a “utility” is that it’s a tool for doing something to or about your computer. Ever since Mac OS X 10.0, most of these apps have been neatly filed away in /Applications/Utilities/. Others — some because they’re obscure (e.g. Ticket Viewer), some because they’re effectively deprecated (e.g. DVD Player, whose copyright date in MacOS 15 Sequoia is 2019), and some because they present themselves, when launched, not as apps but as system-level features (e.g. About This Mac) — are tucked away in /System/Library/CoreServices/ or /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/.
<a href="https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115089810537348465">Basic Apple Guy posted a screenshot to Mastodon</a> comparing the current MacOS 15 icons for four of these utilities (Disk Utility, Expansion Slot Utility, Wireless Diagnostics, and AppleScript Utility) to their new icons in MacOS 26 Tahoe, beta 7 (click to enlarge for detail):
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I don’t think the old icons for these apps from MacOS 15 were particularly good — Apple has mostly lost its “<a href="https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115050148901528749">icons</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115072885331562510">look</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/114948306713250918">cool</a>” game. But the new ones in MacOS 26 Tahoe are objectively terrible. The only one of this bunch that’s maybe sort of OK is Wireless Diagnostics. They all look like placeholder icons made by a developer who would be the first to admit that they’re not an artist. Disk Utility, which is an important app, doesn’t even look like it involves a disk.
These new icons all use the same “wrench” motif, which is a lazy, limiting concept to start with. Tahoe, at the system level, enforces a squircle shape on all application icons. Apps that haven’t been updated with Tahoe-compliant everything-fits-in-a-squircle icons are put in “<a href="https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/08/macos-tahoe-fix-gray-box-icons/">squircle jail</a>” — their non-Tahoe-compliant icons are shrunk and placed atop a drab gray Tahoe squircle background, to force them into squircle compliance. But these Apple utility apps have an entire sub-motif — inside their base squircle shape is a large wrench fitted against a bolt. Only inside the bolt — which is inside the wrench’s jaws, which wrench is inside the squircle — goes the part of the icon that identifies the app itself. So maybe like 10 percent of the area of the icon is the area where the app can show something that identifies its purpose.
So the entire concept for these icons sucks. But the conceptual execution sucks too. The wrench is incredibly stupid-looking. Whoever drew it has obviously never used an open-end wrench because the jaws on the wrench head are way too thin. They’d break off under any significant torque. Just look at a real-life wrench, or just <a href="https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115092733884236020">look at the wrench heads in the older MacOS icons</a> (or Apple’s 🔧 emoji, for that matter).
Individually the icons mostly suck too:
<ul>
<li>Disk Utility — a very important app — has an icon that’s just an Apple logo (inside the bolt that’s inside the wrench that’s inside the squircle). Not a hard disk, not an external drive, not an SD card. Just an Apple logo. If I just showed you this icon without telling you which app it represented, how in the world could you guess what it is? Even if you know the “Apple utility app icon” motif of the big dumb wrench and bolt, the best you could guess is “a utility app for something Apple-related” which, for an Apple computer, could be anything.</li>
<li>Expansion Slot Utility — This app only runs on Mac Pros because Mac Pros are the only Macs with expansion slots. So the old icon naturally shows a Mac Pro. The new icon shows ... three rectangular empty sockets?</li>
<li>AppleScript Utility — A fine concept for this icon (within the confines of the terrible wrench-and-bolt utility icon concept). Everyone who knows AppleScript knows the scroll that represents AppleScript scripts. So just put the iconic AppleScript scroll in the bolt in the wrench in the squircle. But here, the placement of the scroll is botched — it’s rotated a few degrees counterclockwise. It makes the scroll look like it’s falling over. Here’s how the scroll is canonically oriented, via the glyphs in SF Symbols:
<img
src = "https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/08/applescript-icons-sf-symbols.png"
alt = "The “applescript” and “applescript.fill” icon glyphs from the SF Symbols font."
/>
and via the default icon for a script application (with a line added showing the center):
<img
src = "https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/08/macos-15-script-application-icon.png"
alt = "The default application for an AppleScript “script application”, with a vertical orange line showing the center."
width = 440
/>
But here’s a close-up of the Tahoe AppleScript Utility icon, with a center line added:
<img
src = "https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/08/tahoe-applescript-utility-icon-drunk.png"
alt = "Close-up of the MacOS 26 Tahoe icon for AppleScript Utility, with a center line added to show that the script “scroll” is tilted incorrectly."
/>
It’s wrong.</li>
</ul>
These are the not the work of carpenters <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/445621-when-you-re-a-carpenter-making-a-beautiful-chest-of-drawers">who care about the backs of the cabinets</a> they’re building. These icons are so bad, they look like the work of untrained “How hard can it be?” dilettante carpenters who only last a few days on the job before sawing off one of their own fingers. The whole collection looks like the work from someone with no artistic ability nor an eye for detail. From Apple, of all companies.
Is it a big deal in the grand scheme of things that the icons for these seldom-used utility apps have gone to shit? No. But consider the proverbial canary in a coal mine. The problem isn’t that one little bird has died. The problem is that the bird might be dead because the whole mine is filling with deadly carbon monoxide or highly flammable methane gas. The icons in /Applications/Utilities/ in MacOS 26 Tahoe represent a folder full of dead canaries. 
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<title>★ MacOS 26 Tahoe’s Dead-Canary Utility App Icons</title></entry><entry>
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<published>2025-08-21T01:20:10Z</published>
<updated>2025-08-27T22:16:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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<summary type="text">The oddest part about the whole situation is that CNBC is being spun out into Versant, too, but while they’re losing the NBC peacock logo, they’re just keeping their name, unchanged.</summary>
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<a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/08/18/msnbc-rebrand-ms-now-versant">Sara Fischer, Axios</a>:
<blockquote>
MSNBC, the progressive cable network owned by NBCUniversal, is
rebranding to MS NOW, an acronym that stands for My Source for
News, Opinion and the World.
The rebrand is part of a wider effort by NBCU to create a
distinction between the cable networks it plans to spin out and
the remaining NBCU parent company. As part of the rebrand, select
cable networks that will be spun out into <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/06/10/all-eyes-on-versant-media-trends">Versant</a>, including
CNBC, Golf Channel, GolfNow, MSNBC and SportsEngine, will all
drop the iconic peacock logo that has for decades served as
NBCU’s logo.
</blockquote>
There’s a lot to unpack here. First, “Versant” itself is a pretty bad name (feels so vague — seems like the name of a fake company in a movie or TV show) so it’s no surprise that the same nitwits are botching Versant’s rebranded properties. But given that NBCUniversal is apparently forcing MSNBC to take the “NBC” out of its name, “MSNOW” isn’t a bad new name. But it’s not a good new name either. And they’re apparently using a space: “MS NOW”, yet <a href="https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/msnbc-new-name-ms-now-1236491621/">also seem confused</a> (or haven’t even decided yet) whether it’s supposed to be pronounced letter-by-letter (em ess en oh dubya) or as two letters and a word (em ess now). Saying the “NOW” as the word now makes sense for a 24/7 channel, but if it’s a word, the whole name should be styled “MS Now”. (Fox News styles their name as “FOX News” in some places, but never pretends the f-o-x is an acronym.)
The “My Source News Opinion World” backronym is so dumb it boggles the mind. I genuinely wonder if someone had ChatGPT do that. You can have a series of letters as a name — especially as a TV channel — without those letters really standing for anything. CNN is technically an acronym for “Cable News Network” but they’ve effectively just been “CNN” for decades now. The name “MSNBC” came from the fact that, at launch in the 1990s, <a href="https://www.threads.com/@mossbergwalt/post/DNipvTJt4HW">it debuted as a collaboration</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_MSNBC:_1996–2007">between Microsoft’s MSN and NBC News</a>. But Microsoft hasn’t been involved with the cable channel <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-dec-24-fi-msnbc24-story.html">for 20 years</a> — the “MS” in “MSNBC” hasn’t stood for anything since 2005. (In fact, MSN itself is another good example. It originally stood for “Microsoft Network”, even though Microsoft has never styled their name with a camel-cased S.<a href="#fn1-2025-08-20">1</a> But it’s really just “MSN” now.)<a href="#fn2-2025-08-20">2</a>
<a href="https://www.threads.com/@tomgara/post/DNgNQeQOlIB">Tom Gara, writing on Threads</a>:
<blockquote>
The only real fuck up with the MSNBC rebrand is that they made up
a dumb sounding fake acronym. It’s completely unnecessary! Just
say “we’re changing our name to MS NOW to reflect the urgency of
the moment.” Nobody has ever thought about what the old acronym
stood for and nobody needed a new fake one.
</blockquote>
There is another fuck up, though: the <a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/08/msnow.png">logo</a> is atrocious. What is that flag? It looks like the Austrian flag (🇦🇹), not America’s. But are we sure it even is a flag? Maybe it’s a paper receipt and the red stripes are those marks <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DollarGeneral/comments/p7sl4t/why_does_the_printer_do_the_pink_streak_near_the/">when it’s time to replace the roll</a>? <a href="https://www.threads.com/@jonathanhoefler/post/DNk64Vxgah-">Jonathan Hoefler, on Threads</a>:
<blockquote>
My personal benchmark for a logo is that it shouldn’t look like a
pension fund.
</blockquote>
The oddest part about the whole situation is that CNBC is being spun out into Versant, too, but while they’re losing the NBC peacock logo, they’re just keeping their name, unchanged. <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/18/comcast-versant-rename-msnbc-peacock-logos.html">From CNBC’s own coverage of MSNBC’s rebranding</a>:
<blockquote>
While MSNBC and NBC News will have duplications in coverage,
CNBC’s news organization is already separate enough from NBC News
that executives decided it didn’t need a name change. Also,
technically, the “NBC” in “CNBC” never stemmed from National
Broadcasting Co. Rather, CNBC stands for “Consumer News and
Business Channel.”
</blockquote>
Lastly, shoutout to M.G. Siegler for <a href="https://spyglass.org/ms-now-msnbc/">coining the term peacockblocked</a> to describe MSNBC’s branding plight.
<div class="footnotes">
<hr />
<ol>
<li id="fn1-2025-08-20">
Historical pedantry: from 1975–1979, <a href="https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Microsoft">Microsoft spelled its name “Micro-Soft”</a>, with, yes, an uppercase S. But that’s not camel-case, and that hyphenated spelling is as much a footnote to Microsoft’s brand history as the <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/03/29/how-apples-logo-started-out-as-the-most-expensive-and-became-the-most-iconic">woodcut Isaac-Newton-under-a-tree logo</a> is to Apple. <a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/08/Microsoft_(1975).svg">Microsoft’s logo from that era</a> was very disco-’70s and kind of cool — but while “Micro” and “Soft” were broken across two lines, there’s no hyphen in the logotype. <a href="#fnr1-2025-08-20" class="footnoteBackLink" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.">↩︎︎</a>
</li>
<li id="fn2-2025-08-20">
If I’d been in the room, my spitball idea for a new name would have been MNC. Take out every other letter to break both the NBC and Microsoft connotations, but leave behind an acronym that looks and sounds like a tighter, more efficient version of MSNBC. If they really insisted that the acronym stand for something, it could be Modern (or Major?) News Channel. <a href="#fnr2-2025-08-20" class="footnoteBackLink" title="Jump back to footnote 2 in the text.">↩︎</a>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
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<title>★ MSNBC, Spinning Out of NBCUniversal, Rebrands as ‘MS NOW’ With a Godawful Backronym and Even Worse Logo</title></entry><entry>
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<published>2025-08-20T01:17:47Z</published>
<updated>2025-08-20T01:17:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
<uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
</author>
<summary type="text">Long story short: there’s an “iPhone” menu under “Widgets” in System Settings → Desktop & Dock.</summary>
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I’ve been using two iPhones throughout the summer — one running iOS 18, the other running iOS 26 betas. I found myself wanting to switch between them with iPhone Mirroring on my Mac, but couldn’t figure out how. The answer, from Apple Support, “<a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/120421">iPhone Mirroring: Use your iPhone from your Mac</a>”:
<blockquote>
If you have more than one iPhone that is both signed in to your
Apple Account and nearby, you can choose the one that your Mac
uses for mirroring and iPhone notifications:
<ol>
<li>Choose Apple menu  > System Settings, then click Desktop &
Dock in the sidebar.</li>
<li>Choose your iPhone from the iPhone pop-up menu on the right.
This menu appears just below the “Use iPhone widgets” setting.
It appears only when your Mac detects more than one nearby
iPhone that can be used for mirroring.</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
That pop-up menu is about halfway down the screen in Desktop & Dock, in the “Widgets” section.<a href="#fn1-2025-08-19">1</a> I suspected this was possible, but I had to search the web (<a href="https://daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_switching_to_kagi">via Kagi</a>, the best search engine in the world, of course) to find the answer. I never would have thought to look in System Settings → Desktop & Dock, let alone, even if I happened to look in that panel, all the way down under “Widgets”.
Places where I did look:
<ul>
<li>On the Mac, in the iPhone Mirroring app’s own Settings window. Nope.</li>
<li>On the iPhone, in Settings → General → Airplay & Continuity. This is where you can control which Mac or Macs your iPhone is available from with iPhone Mirroring (e.g. you can go here to revoke access from a certain Mac), but it doesn’t help you change which iPhone, among multiple, that any particular Mac connects to.</li>
</ul>
To Apple’s credit, searching for “mirroring” in MacOS System Settings <a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/08/macos-18.6-settings-desktop-dock.png">does lead you to the correct setting</a>, but because it’s under “Widget settings”, I suspect some people who search for “mirroring” here will see that in the results list and not even bother clicking it, because “Widget settings” at first doesn’t sound like where you should go to choose between multiple phones for iPhone Mirroring. (It kind of makes sense, when you realize that the same iPhone that provides widgets to your Mac is the one available for iPhone Mirroring to connect to.)
To Apple’s discredit, Siri is no help, despite Apple Intelligence’s supposed <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/26/this-is-every-apple-intelligence-feature-thats-available-now/">ability to harness “product knowledge”</a> from LLM training on Apple’s own support documents. After asking Siri, “How do I use multiple iPhones with iPhone mirroring?” on either a Mac or iPhone, I get a brief answer that says “You can set up more than one iPhone to use iPhone Mirroring with your Mac, but you can only connect to one iPhone at a time”, with a link to the iPhone User Guide that opens in the Tips app. That page in the iPhone User Guide, however — also available on the web as “<a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/control-your-iphone-from-your-mac-mchl444d53a6/mac">Control Your iPhone From Your Mac</a>” — doesn’t contain any mention of using more than one iPhone with iPhone Mirroring. So <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/120421">this Apple Support document</a> on iPhone Mirroring does explain it (that’s the one I linked to at the top of this post), but <a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/control-your-iphone-from-your-mac-mchl444d53a6/mac">this one does not</a>. No wonder Apple Intelligence’s “product knowledge”, trained on these documents, is somewhat confused.
But it gets worse. I gave Siri a second chance on my Mac, asking the same question, something along the lines of “How do I use multiple iPhones with iPhone mirroring?” (I can’t be sure exactly which words I used because Siri doesn’t show a chat transcript<a href="#fn2-2025-08-19">2</a>), and the second time, <a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/08/siri-mirroring-nonsense.png">it responded thus</a>:
<blockquote>
To use multiple iPhones with iPhone Mirroring:
<ol>
<li>Open the iPhone Mirroring app on your Mac.</li>
<li>Click the “Connect” button.</li>
<li>Enter your iPhone passcode and choose how to authenticate.</li>
<li>Select the iPhone you want to use from the list of available
iPhones.</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
This answer certainly describes one possible way that using multiple iPhones with iPhone Mirroring should work, but as an answer for how it actually does work, it’s abject nonsense. There is no “list of available iPhones” in the iPhone Mirroring app. If there were such a list to choose from, I’d never have had a question about this whole fucking thing in the first place.
<div class="footnotes">
<hr />
<ol>
<li id="fn1-2025-08-19">
The first time I looked in the Desktop & Dock panel in System Settings, there was no “iPhone” pop-up menu visible, despite the fact that both of my active iPhones were on my desk, right next to my MacBook Pro. But I remembered that in the last few days, I’d been having problems with <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/102430">Continuity’s Universal Clipboard</a> feature too. In the past, when Universal Clipboard has gone on the fritz, I’ve solved the problem by toggling Bluetooth off and back on. I toggled Bluetooth on my Mac and boom, the “iPhone” menu appeared in the Desktop & Dock panel in System Settings, with the pop-up menu correctly listing both of my active iPhones. Universal Clipboard started working correctly again too. I bet the next version of Bluetooth is actually going to be reliable. <a href="#fnr1-2025-08-19" class="footnoteBackLink" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.">↩︎︎</a>
</li>
<li id="fn2-2025-08-19">
From Wayne Ma’s blockbuster report back in April at The Information, “<a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/10/wayne-ma-the-information-apple-siri-fumble">How Apple Fumbled Siri’s AI Makeover</a>”:
<blockquote>
Giannandrea often has described to employees his belief that
machine learning can lead to incremental improvements in products,
eventually adding up to major gains, a concept he refers to as
hill climbing. He also has expressed a dim view of chatbots in the
past, telling Apple employees before and immediately after the
release of ChatGPT that he didn’t believe they added much value
for users.
</blockquote>
<a href="https://x.com/nickaturley/status/1952385556664520875">ChatGPT reported 700 million weekly active users this month</a>, up from 500 million in March, and up 4× from last year. <a href="#fnr2-2025-08-19" class="footnoteBackLink" title="Jump back to footnote 2 in the text.">↩︎</a>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
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<title>★ How to Use iPhone Mirroring With More Than One iPhone</title></entry><entry>
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<published>2025-08-18T20:50:43Z</published>
<updated>2025-08-18T21:02:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Gruber</name>
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</author>
<summary type="text">A perfect logo, from a designer with a long and storied career.</summary>
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<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/joe-caroff-dead-designer-james-bond-007-logo-1236346509/">Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter</a>:
<blockquote>
For his first movie job — he would work on more than 300
campaigns during his career — United Artists executive David
Chasman hired him to design the poster for West Side Story
(1961), then asked him to come up with the letterhead for a
publicity release tied to the first Bond film, Dr. No. (Chasman
had designed the poster for the 1962 movie.)
“He said, ‘I need a little decorative thing on top,’” Caroff
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A76NPoZRY8c">recalled</a> in 2021. “I knew [Bond’s] designation was 007,
and when I wrote the stem of the seven, I thought, ‘That looks
like the handle of a gun to me.’ It was very spontaneous, no
effort, it was an instant piece of creativity.”
Inspired by Ian Fleming’s favorite gun, a Walther PPK, Caroff
attached a barrel and trigger to the 007 and for his work received
$300, the going rate for such an assignment, he said. Even though
the logo, though altered in subtle ways, has been featured on
every Bond film and on millions of pieces of merchandise, he
received no credit, no residuals, no royalties.
The logo did, however, bring him “a lot of business,” he said. “It
was like a little publicity piece for me.”
</blockquote>
It’s rare for a logomark to have such staying power. Just <a href="https://www.designweek.co.uk/tributes-paid-to-the-james-bond-007-logo-designer-joe-caroff/">a perfect logo</a>. Kind of wild that it was created, initially, only as letterhead for stationery. Perusing vintage movie posters, it seems like EON didn’t really lean into using the logo consistently until <a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/08/007-on-her-majestys-secret-service.jpeg">On Her Majesty’s Secret Service</a> (1969) — the sixth film, and the first without Sean Connery. EON had used the mark prior to that (including at least <a href="https://posteritati.com/poster/8500/dr-no-1962-us-one-sheet-poster">one excellent poster for Dr. No</a>), but it didn’t appear on most of the posters for Connery’s initial run in the role: <a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/08/007-from-russia-with-love.jpeg">From Russia With Love</a>, <a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/08/007-goldfinger.jpeg">Goldfinger</a>, <a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/08/007-thunderball.jpeg">Thunderball</a>, and You Only Live Twice (variations <a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/08/007-you-only-live-twice-A.jpeg">A</a> and <a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/08/007-you-only-live-twice-B.jpeg">B</a>). Amongst those, the logo only appears on the Goldfinger poster. They used to make multiple posters for every movie back then, so there might exist examples for all of them with the logo. But I think until On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, EON leaned on Connery’s face as the symbol of the franchise. From that point forward, though, Caroff’s 007-cum-gun logo was the symbol of the franchise.<a href="#fn1-2025-08-18">1</a> I can’t seem to find an official movie poster after OHMSS that doesn’t feature it.
I will quibble with one detail from The Hollywood Reporter description above: the gun in Caroff’s original 007 mark clearly looked like a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luger_pistol">Luger</a>, a rather distinctive German pistol with a long skinny barrel, not the more compact Walther PPK that Bond actually carried. Variations of the Luger-esque logo appear on the posters for all seven of the movies starring Roger Moore. EON updated the logomark to resemble a Walther PPK <a href="https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/08/007-the-living-daylights.jpeg">for The Living Daylights</a> in 1987, the first (and better) of two Bond movies starring Timothy Dalton. As a kid it always bothered me — ever so slightly — that the logo resembled a gun that James Bond never actually used, but until today, researching this post, I never noticed that they addressed that in 1987. That said, I think the Luger-esque mark was a bit cooler. As a kid, that was my assumption: that “they” made it look like a Luger, not the sort of pistol Bond actually carried, because it looked cooler that way. I accepted that.
<hr />
Caroff had a remarkably accomplished career. <a href="https://posteritati.com/unfolding/by-design-the-joe-caroff-story">He created iconic posters for dozens of terrific films</a> across a slew of genres. The fact that he created the 007 logo but only earned $300 from it is more like a curious footnote than anything.
From <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/obituaries/joe-caroff-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE8.pObu.ZW1jiWahs32T&smid=url-share">Jeré Longman’s excellent obituary for The New York Times</a> (gift link), after observing that Caroff died just one day short of his 104th birthday:
<blockquote>
Mr. Caroff’s designs were familiar, but his name was not. He did
not sign much of his work and largely avoided self-promotion. He
was not included among the more than 60 celebrated designers,
among them like <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/27/movies/saul-bass-75-designer-dies-made-art-out-of-movie-titles.html">Saul Bass</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/17/nyregion/leo-lionni-89-dies-versatile-creator-of-children-s-books.html">Leo Lionni</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/28/arts/paul-rand-82-creator-of-sleek-graphic-designs-dies.html">Paul
Rand</a>, in the 2017 book <a href="https://themodernsbook.com/">The Moderns: Midcentury American
Graphic Design</a>, written by Steven Heller and Greg
D’Onofrio.
“That he was unknown is shocking,” Mr. Heller, co-chairman
emeritus of the Master of Fine Arts Design program at the School
of Visual Arts in Manhattan, said in a recent interview.
Still, Mr. Caroff’s abundant output became widely recognizable for
an interpretive style that could be bold, elegant, theatrical,
whimsical, sensual and deceptively simple in promoting a book or
movie and conveying its essence with a single image.
</blockquote>
No better example of that reduced-to-its-essence genius than his 007 logo:
<blockquote>
“I knew that 007 meant license to kill; that, I think, at an
unconscious level, was the reason I knew the gun had to be in the
logo,” Mr. Caroff said in a 2022 documentary, <a href="https://www.hbomax.com/movies/by-design-the-joe-caroff-story/63f45e42-315c-469d-a0d4-501989f339eb">By Design: The Joe
Caroff Story</a>.
Mark Cerulli, who directed the documentary, said in an interview
that the logo was a “marvel of simplicity that telegraphs
everything you would want to know about 007.”
</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.hbomax.com/movies/by-design-the-joe-caroff-story/63f45e42-315c-469d-a0d4-501989f339eb">By Design</a> is streaming on HBO Max. I’ve added it to the top of my to-watch list.
<div class="footnotes">
<hr />
<ol>
<li id="fn1-2025-08-18">
You will not catch me making any jokes about the fact that “007 cum gun” could serve as a three-word plot synopsis for many of the films in the Connery/Moore era. <a href="#fnr1-2025-08-18" class="footnoteBackLink" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.">↩︎</a>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
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<title>★ Joe Caroff, Designer of the James Bond 007 Logo, Dies at 103</title></entry></feed>

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