The Rebound

A big week for Lex, Dan gets a citation and Moltz quits Ice.

Lex introduces Gnome, a great way to organize and use your animated gifs.

John Gruber talks watches. Not Apple ones.

Indigo is a new app for unifying your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds.

The rejected pitch for Indigo is pretty great.

Bartender makes use of the MacBook’s notch.

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After a slow start, we get to some quality rants on advertising, AI and Marc Andreessen.

Chrome is dumping 4 GB of AI on ya.

The Epic case is still going on.

John Gruber has some thoughts on ads.

Marc Andreessen has no thoughts at all.

Lex and Lauren were on Judge John Hodgman.

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Dan plays a little catchup, Moltz admires Apple's PR game and Lex loves Claude.

Dan liked this column by the Macalope.

Horace Dediu imagines John Ternus's retirement in 15 years.

Apple introduced a new revenue-smoothing scheme.

Is Anthropic installing spyware?

Moltz liked this book on management.

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Guy English joins Lex and Moltz to discuss Tim Cook movin' on up and his legacy as CEO (Tim's not Guy's) before we start telling John Ternus how to do the job he doesn't even have yet.

John Gruber has thoughts on Tim Cook handing the reigns over to John Ternus.

And so does Jason Snell.

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Dan’s got mail, Lex is taking big deductions and Moltz has a controversial opinion about dogs.

Jon Prosser is not out of the woods. In fact, he may be the woods.

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This week we find out which of us might buy the foldable iPhone and how the MacBook Neo's success can be a problem before going looney over the Artemis Moon shot.

The name of the iPhone Fold may be the iPhone Ultra.

Some rumors said it might not arrive until 2027 but Mark Gurman says it’ll just be a little late.

The MacBook Neo is selling well. Maybe too well.

Non-billionaire scummy app maker sues Apple.

Dan details his wife's experience with the MacBook Neo.

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We talk about Apple's anniversary and our old Macs before trying to remember what we used to do on them all day without the internet.

Apple is celebrating its 50th anniversary so many are taking a look back.

This video of Steve Jobs addressing Apple employees is a real slice of time.

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Moltz goes on and on about games, Dan makes a vicarious purchase and Lex has a new app!

Apple announced some business thing.

Epic is laying off 1,000 workers.

Apple released some updates but still really wants you on 26.

Lex’s new app is Tile and Error.

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Dan has complaints about Spotlight, Lex has complaints about Tim Cook and Moltz has complaints about those damn kids.

Apple announced the AirPods Max 2.

Tim Cook was interviewed and did exceedingly meh.

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This week we discuss the weather, what happened last week and Lex's door.

Reviews are out of the new M5-based MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros.

But the big news is the MacBook Neo.

Ars Technica has some thoughts on it vis-a-vis the competition.

Lex got a YHV lock.

Apple is set to launch new “Ultra” machines this year.

Grammarly is really being a bunch of jerks. (Update: they seem to be standing down now.)

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