Today's podcast covers:1. [Daring Fireball: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino](https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino)2. [Apple Joins the Navy](https://spyglass.org/apple-is-the-navy/?ref=the-inner-ring-newsletter)Welcome to Pocket to Podcast. Today we have 2 articles covering Apple's challenges and critiques. In "Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino," published on Daring Fireball, John Gruber expresses deep regret for not having recognized sooner the signs that Apple was straying from its path of reliability and credibility, particularly with the delayed rollout of "more personalized Siri" features in Apple Intelligence. Gruber critiques himself for being lulled into complacency by Apple’s historical consistency in shipping products and features. He admits to being distracted by the branding of "Apple Intelligence" and missed identifying the ambitious yet undelivered features promised by Apple. Gruber outlines a hierarchy of feature "realness" based on how a company showcases its upcoming products, pointing out that many of Apple's promised features remained unproven and unseen, thus labeling them as vaporware. He argues that Apple's failure to demonstrate or deliver these features n...Generated by Pocket to Podcast