Daring Fireball 21 hr ago

Broadcasters Urge EU to Use the DMA to Go After Smart TV Platforms, None of Which Are From European Companies

Foo Yun Chee, reporting for Reuters back on March 23: Google, Amazon, Apple and Samsung’s smart TVs and virtual assistants should fall under the EU’s toughes...

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Daring Fireball 1d ago

Tahoe’s UI Issues Have Nothing to Do With Display Technology, and Maybe, Just Maybe, We Should Stop Assuming Gurman Knows Anything About Apple’s Vision Hardware Roadmap

Mark Gurman, in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg over the weekend: Though the Mac software introduced the same Liquid Glass interface seen in iOS 26, th...

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Daring Fireball May 5

The Pentagon Pegs the Cost of the Iran War, So Far, at $25 Billion

Taegan Goddard, quoting the Financial Times last week: The Pentagon said President Trump’s Iran war has cost the United States at least $25 billion, driven p...

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Daring Fireball May 4

Photoshop’s ‘Modern User Interface’ Sucks (and Doesn’t Feel Modern)

Marcin Wichary at Unsung: I’m angry. (Clearly.) We should all be angry in face of stuff like this. This is how people get fed up with software — because it f...

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Daring Fireball May 2

More on Apple’s Logically Elegant Tariff Refund Puzzle Solution

Regarding my earlier post about the cleverness of Tim Cook’s solution to Apple’s dilemma regarding how to apply for, and accept, a potential tariff refund ch...

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