Notices by Marco Arment (marcoarment@mastodon.social)

@chockenberry @ismh86 I use 3 spaces

@ismh86 I am SO happy I'm not in [gestures broadly] all of that

Widespread YoLink issues today, with devices being reported as offline: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1tzbick/yo_link_water_detection_sensors_went_offline/

Could be a cloud issue, a firmware issue, or something else. Nobody knows yet. But it's not just you!

The $3500 face-covering, world-isolating, anti-social, uncomfortably heavy 3D computer headset with clunky external battery, limited optical quality, awful text input, awful voice input, primitive pointer input, a locked-down OS, almost no software, almost no content, and no good way to share it with anyone else in the household was held back by… poor retail training!

Yeah, that's it.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/07/vision-pro-troubled-launch-in-apple-stores/

A letter to John Ternus: https://marco.org/2026/04/01/letter-to-john-ternus

Let's all come together as a community and help @siracusa through this difficult time.

https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/

Part of the challenge with managing energy and motivation in programming is that sometimes, you can be on a roll getting things done, and suddenly your tools or environment just break spectacularly and derail you.

Like if you’re a carpenter, in the middle of building a table, and all of a sudden the hammer disappears from your hand and someone’s like “There’s no table, what are you talking about” and it’s still RIGHT THERE and what the heck happened to the hammer?!

That was my last 2 hours. 🤣

That's programming.

And the solution was that you didn’t close the box of nails over there on the shelf from yesterday. And you’re like BUT WHY DID THAT MAKE THE HAMMER DISAPPEAR AND THE TABLE’S ENTIRE EXISTENCE GET DENIED AND WHY DID IT WORK FOR HALF OF THIS MORNING and there’s just no satisfying answer that you will ever get

I fail using this UI at least once a week.

It's the AirPods Control Center volume pane, where I go to put my AirPods Pro into Adaptive mode (which I have configured a hundred times to be part of the long-press selection, but that always gets inexplicably forgotten).

What you're SUPPOSED to do is tap the circle to bring up the modes.

But right below it is the OBVIOUS LOOK OF A DROPDOWN CONTROL, complete with the double-arrow and tint color, but it is NOT ACTUALLY A TAPPABLE CONTROL AARRGGHHH 😡

"Updating", huh? What a word choice. I wonder in which direction it's updating!

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@drdrang/116046637220292669

"It’s probably impossible to tell the upper echelon of Apple that it’s breaking revenue records in spite of its software design, not because of it.”

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@kevinrenskers/115995694056021778

"I would never buy a Tesla, because I don’t want to drive a car built by a fascist. Many people think like me. Apple is dangerously close to suffering the same fate.”

RE: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/115985224639778868

Holy shit. Bravo.

This — ALL of it — is worth your time.

RE: https://toad.social/@KimPerales/115956833482668960

“Apple’s Tim Cook is among a group of CEOs being eviscerated for traveling to the White House on the same day Border Patrol agents killed a Veterans Affairs nurse in Minneapolis.

"Cook, who gifted President Donald Trump a 24-karat gold desk ornament on his last White House visit, returned on Saturday to attend a dinner and screening of the first lady’s new documentary, ‘Melania.’”

When we look back on his leadership in the future, let this be Tim Cook's legacy.

These images from the Creator Studio announcement perfectly illustrate the failure of Liquid Glass.

It doesn't get out of the way of your content — it INVADES your content.

This is an image editor! Yet HUGE regions of the image are invaded, blurred, and obscured by translucent UI, making both the image and the UI worse.

Low-contrast UI on blurry content doesn't clarify anything or get out of your way — it distorts the content AND the UI into an ugly, unusable slurry.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/introducing-apple-creator-studio-an-inspiring-collection-of-creative-apps/

This is a masterpiece.
https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115842181787810835

This is a masterpiece. https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

This is INCREDIBLE.

Take the 12 minutes to watch it. It gently pokes fun at how formulaic Apple’s videos have become, while delighting us in little details, as we marvel at just how much work this must’ve been.

Easily the best use yet of the Apple Park Visitor Center.
https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/115592922144629970

Stumped by this one. Setting up an iPad with iCloud restore, and none of the apps are downloading automatically. Tapping one brings this up.

I'm on my Wi-Fi network, other connectivity works… and while this iPad does have cellular, no plan has ever been activated on it yet.

Reboots and Reset Network Settings haven't fixed it. iPadOS 26.1. Tapping "Download" immediately downloads the item over Wi-Fi.

Anyone ever see this? Any ideas?