Thoughts on Technology

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I agree with Casey here. I cancelled my reservation and bought something else, despite being very interested in the R2, and the stubborn insistence to not offer CarPlay was a primary reason.

Forcing Mac app icons into a “squircle” shape is one of the weird, bad changes introduced in Tahoe, and it continues into the first developer beta of macOS 27 Golden Gate. Let’s hope the powers-that-be can be convinced to free the icons.

Yeah, it’s crazy that the long-in-the-tooth Apple TVs got hit so hard here. They were already priced at the premium level for their market, and now they’re out-of-this-world expensive. And with new models rumored, it’s a terrible time to buy one.

Boy, if this report is true, I feel like I picked the absolute best time to upgrade to an M5 Max, pre-price hike and potentially the last Max-level chip for more than a year.

I normally recommend that people who find themselves considering a new iPhone in the second half of Apple’s yearly upgrade cycle wait for the inevitable new model. This time, I think that many people would be better served by getting it now, at the current prices instead. Read more at my blog.

RAMmageddon continues to rock the industry: The price increases that Tim Cook warned were coming landed today, across almost all Apple products. They’re not small increases either. The MacBook Pro with 64GB RAM I bought earlier this year for $4300 is now $5100.

This week’s Decoder is probably my favorite episode so far. It is a really thoughtful conversation with Patreon CEO Jack Conte, discussing what’s changed for that company in the past five years. Click through to my blog for more thoughts on the episode.

A series of changes to how a newly public company qualifies to be part of a stock index might see you invested in AI companies in a way previously not possible. Here are some links and thoughts on how SpaceX’s upcoming IPO might affect you.

Caligra’s C100 Developer Terminal is now shipping. I’m not sure why—it’s easy to assume it’s due to RAMmageddon—but it ships with 64 GB RAM instead of the 96 that was listed at the time. It also now costs $2,700 instead of the $2,000 it was listed at then. Oof.