Notices by Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo: (paul@tapbots.social)

Neat new Apple AirTag! Maybe it'll help them find Apple's corporate soul.

If you read carefully between the lines you might come away with an impression that John doesn't really care for Dye's work.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

2025: We're not hiring because AI is going to make most jobs irrelevant.
2026: We're not hiring because AI made our stock price irrelevant.

Every single one of my devices has these stupid Add AppleCare+ Coverage sections with absolutely no way to dismiss and masquerading in menus as “1 update”. I guess maybe it'll go away in 43 freaking days.

At the rate things are going, I expect an "Apple provides government with list of users who downloaded ICEBlock app" headline in a few more weeks. I’m feeling embarrassed for them.

As a fan I’ll be really disappointed if South Park gets cancelled next week. Also as a fan I'll be really disappointed if South Park doesn't get cancelled next week.

When the movies about the downfall of Apple are written, screenwriters will disagree about when it started. Jobs death, Cook takeover, Ive taking control, Ive leaving, Dye doing whatever the hell he's doing, Swift/UI engineers taking over, etc.. etc.. etc…

To me it'll always be this.

AppleCare One pricing is super weird to me, $6/month/device is more expensive than the standalone plans on every device I cover under AppleCare. I guess it makes sense if you cover a family's worth of iPhones? Just weird that you have to sit there and do math to give Apple money.

Prime Day, the "day" you wait for to buy stuff you would've bought a week before but didn't because the price was raised so that it could be lowered back to normal on Prime Day.

I wish this bubble would pop already.

Foundation Models seems like magic, on top of magic, on top of more magic. No idea if its any good or not, I just hope I never have to debug it.

Dude’s got a ton of let them eat cake energy. https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/114428946535261829

M3 20/8 (yellowish) vs M4 12/4 (blue) on a clean build. The actual code compile times are pretty identical but that freaking single threaded Asset Catalog task kills the Ultra.

@octothorpe personally seeing plenty of places where I'd expect the M3 Ultra to win where it just doesn’t. Most the code compilation stuff I’m testing is a toss up. Really want to see the M3 Ultra win big somewhere, but it ain't happening.

Brutal
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/11490477?baseline=11490482

I just had to give it a try…

Now we have the Pump portion of Trump’s Dump and Pump. Wonder how much he made…

TIL Seagate drives have a “power on hours/year” rating. Some of their consumer models are only rated for about 7 hours a day. What a world!

After asking the question close to a dozen times throughout the years, I can’t believe I never asked: Is Apple AI Apple’s Vista?

This is fine. 🔥