Wesley Hilliard

I am just fascinated with how iPhone Duo handles Lock Screen wallpapers. Realize you can set their crop and position for each orientation so they fit properly.

Having fun with iPhone Duo testing. Can't wait to publish my review.

Glad that William managed to get one. Excited for our next episode!

Having fun with iPhone Duo testing. Can't wait to publish my review.

Kind of wild how iPhone Duo is a better iPad mini in almost every respect except two. You get iPadOS and Apple Pencil Pro support on iPad mini. On iPhone Duo, among other things, you get ProMotion.

I thought the doomers were on Bluesky?

Through the magic of video games, Galactic Racer's button presses make holding a control pad feel like flying an actual Star Wars landspeeder: aftermath.site/star-wars-gala...

iPhone Duo day one impressions: - the outer display is totally usable, if anything, desirably shaped and sized - camera is great! See cat-> - non updated apps work totally fine on outer display, a non issue until updated - lots of interesting design choices that'll evolve with time - no crease!

iPhone Duo: gadgets are so back!

43 iPhone Duo apps and games: the sensible, the surprising and the gloriously bonkers www.stuff.tv/features/43-... Lots of indies in here. Please share the love!

X has all the jerks

A little preview of Breve on iPhone Duo: apps.apple.com/app/apple-st...

Looks like my initial assessment over camera specs in iPhone Duo has proven correct. I'll be verifying myself when I get mine tomorrow, but it seems like you'll get comparable shots to iPhone 17 Pro in 95% of conditions for the main camera, and you'll miss optical telephoto if you used it. Great!

Passkeys next?

Peak 5.5 is here, and it's ready for iPhone Duo!

"I can't take good concert photos on my iPhone Duo" Put your fucking phone away and stop trying to take pics at a concert which you'll literally never look at again. Yall are ridiculous lol

The choice is simple for me: I'll use apps that work great with Duo and won't use the ones that don't. As apps are updated, I'll evaluate. Good thing I don't use Google or Meta apps.🤣

Apple Vision Pro: it still exists! I love this thing, but Apple's heart is clearly in the Duo at the moment.

As long as you ignore the owner, the grifters selling snake oil AI, the legions of political extremists, the generated CSAM and NCII, the propaganda, the misinformation, and every attempt to collect your personal data, sure, you might have a couple dozen accounts you can follow worth anything.

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Ya'll out here really thinking the worst when the specs page literally told a different story. Latching onto focus pixels was always a mistake. Duo is going to be an interesting camera even if it's not the "best" by iPhone standards. I really feel like I won't be missing much beyond the telephoto.

More positive than you'd expect from a new Apple product. Especially for an iPhone.

Press "4" to pay respects.

Corporations aren't people. If you see a high-profile executive of a corporation posting on social media, it's probably not them, but a member of a team posting PR. Unless it's Tim Sweeney, that guy is a moron who can't shut up on main.

Apple could have designed a CEO in a lab and couldn't have done better than Ternus for the position.

Looking for permission for your bad behavior through the actions of others is almost always a sign your behavior is bad. Good people doing good things generally don't have to ask the room if what they're doing is good and okay. Use X if you want, but stop trying to justify it.

Apple's business model makes it unable to address what gamers actually want on its platforms, and it really sucks.

"Actually, the algorithm showing me things that only reinforce my world view and prevent me from seeing anyone upset at the status quo is very pleasant." is such a fucking wild take I can't even begin to wrap my head around it. You're tired of doomers on Bluesky? *You* control what you see. wtf

brb, going on Myspace to tell everyone it's okay to just use Facebook.

When someone says "who is this for?" The answer is simple: not you. Learn to live in a world where everything isn't custom-tailored to you. Also, realize that any time you can't think of a use case, realize you've probably forgotten about the accessibility angle. Everyone always does.

Finally a set of Apple announcements that won't cost me money.

Apple finally detailed HomeView and I'm set to buy as many as I can reasonably afford and install in the next year. Check out my newsletter and celebrate my first wedding anniversary with me!

Apple finally detailed HomeView and I'm set to buy as many as I can reasonably afford and install in the next year. Check out my newsletter and celebrate my first wedding anniversary with me!

Please Apple/Beats, collaborate with Pokemon more often. I will literally give you all the money. If you've never had a Beats Pill, the 2024 model is probably the best portable speaker out there at $150. No joke.

If you're one of the lucky people who have preordered an #iPhoneDuo this morning, @chroniclingapp.com is ready 🎉 I wrote a bit more about this on the website, along with an updated press kit: chroniclingapp.com/2026/10/ch...

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If you're an Apple Health user, the only metrics that sync from these things can be obtained by a $30 smart scale that syncs to Apple Health for free. Madness.

HomeView is for me and at least 3 other people. To be fair, this is a niche of a niche product, but that price makes it much easier to say "yeah, just buy one" versus something that is also super niche, like Apple Vision Pro.

I still find it hilarious that people continue to say "Apple is behind at AI" even as AI companies and their users seem obsessed with how good Apple equipment is for AI processing.

Trick answer: it's both. That 120 Hz will cost you nearly $1,000 for an iPad mini, while a less expensive model will still be 60Hz.

Final Fantasy VII mentioned? Hell yeah. Now do a show on Cloud's insane highway bike battles in Advent Children as Nomura says "fuck physics." What's crazy is even though Shinra is a metaphor for oil companies, Barrett's canonical fallback plan from literal recycled souls as energy is oil. 🤣

Happy to have my suspicion confirmed. This thing can easily be slapped into any socket where a light switch currently sits. Like with HomePod, I expect sales, "certified refurbished," etc to allow me to obtain several of these relatively cheap.

I've been writing this as a concept since Apple first announced Apple Intelligence in 2024. It's simply a different product meant to serve users more broadly, more simply, and mostly invisibly. It's everything modern "AI" doesn't want to be, and investors hate it.

Kind of reminded me of being able to use your PS3 to perform "Folding@home" to simulate protein folding. Except that was cool and AI sucks, so it is what it is.

Bribe? Extortion? The result is the same: corruption in the White House. Stop asking or expecting corporations to be your heroes and fight your battles for you.