Tag Archives: Apple

Gruber On Apple Advertising

Posted on 2026-07-13 by jcs

John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has an excellent article about the slippery slope Apple is on with their embracing of advertising. I’ve written about this before. For a company like Apple, advertising is deeply corrupting and inevitably ends with … Continue reading →

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Bill Atkinson, RIP

Posted on 2025-06-08 by jcs

Sadly, Bill Atkinson has died. Atkinson was an early Apple employee who, among other things, wrote MacPaint, QuickDraw, and the HyperCard system. Everyone who knew him considers him one of the best programmers of all time. Here, in his own … Continue reading →

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The Apple Decision

Posted on 2025-05-07 by jcs

By now, everyone knows about Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ decision that Apple can no longer refuse to let apps link to payment methods outside of the iOS app system. The idea was that if you ordered anything through an iOS … Continue reading →

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TestFlight

Posted on 2025-04-06 by jcs

I know you will all think I’m indulging my inner Apple Fan Boyzism but I want to say a few words in praise of an Apple app. As you likely know by now, I am involved in a beta test … Continue reading →

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The iOS Builtin Flight App

Posted on 2022-06-07 by jcs

This post is a bit specialized—to iOS—by Irreal standards but it’s so useful to those who have an iPhone that I’m going to write about it anyway. I’m not sure if this is new or has been in iOS for … Continue reading →

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Switching to Android

Posted on 2022-01-31 by jcs

You all know that I’m primarily an Apple person and that I like their hardware and the way their various devices work together more or less seamlessly. Even so, I’m not a Fan Boy and as in most things I’m … Continue reading →

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Quitting Safari

Posted on 2021-09-12 by jcs

Today’s post is specific to those Irreal readers who use the Safari browser. As I’ve written many times, almost all my tube time is spent in either Emacs or Safari. A typical workflow occurs when I’m reading my RSS feed … Continue reading →

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The Technical Problems with Apple’s CSAM Scanning

Posted on 2021-09-08 by jcs

I’ve written several posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) about Apple’s planned CSAM scanning project but those posts have always focused on how Apple was betraying their long held promise to protect our privacy and not allow random … Continue reading →

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Some Prerequisite Reading

Posted on 2021-09-05 by jcs

As I said in my last post, I’m planning to write a bit about some of the technical aspects of Apple’s CSAM scanning project. Happily, Apple listened to the avalanche of criticism and put their plans on hold. I hope … Continue reading →

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Apple and Backdoors

Posted on 2021-09-04 by jcs

In the ongoing Apple CSAM saga, Irreal has mostly been concerned with Apple’s betrayal of their promise to protect their users’ privacy but there’s also the issue the long term security consequences of Apple’s decision. We’ll take a look at … Continue reading →

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