Oliver Haslam

If only Apple could come up with some sort of virtual way for developers to test their apps without having to have hands on a physical device. I always wonder if these kinds of posts are legit or just engagement farming.

Apple already working on an iPhone Duo with Face ID might be the most obvious thing in the world right now. It's when it'll ship that matters.

I'd appreciate this more if I didn't know that it comes oh so close to realizing that the industry is doing it all over again with AI but stops short of calling it out.

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This but literally everything that I do. It's a miracle it took until my 40s to realise I have inattentive ADHD!

But on a more positive note, my wife is back from her trip to Canadia, and she brought me a Canadian Starbucks mug. 🇨🇦

These are the people Gruber says are welcoming to him. I hope they're never welcoming to me.

X has made a comeback with some communities, namely AI and tech, but it is not Twitter of old. On X, users have been spreading the name of a woman they think is Cornell's Jane Doe. One particular post doxed a woman's address and phone numbers and was viewed 1.4 million times.

I spent 14 hours yesterday trying to work out why the youngest's laptop wasn't loading certain websites reliably — websites he needed for school 🙄. Multiple resets, DNS changes, and general fiddling later and I gave in and factory reset the router. Fixed (🤷🏻‍♂️) and nice and fast to boot!

I honestly don't know how any American sends their kid to school over there. Mine would be homeschooled quicker than you could reload an AR-15. It's just not a serious country.

Yep, things are going just great and super welcoming over on X. I can see what Gruber was talking about now.

@chrislawley.me Hey Chris, quick question: What's this trying to tell me? It just appeared across all instances of the app and it isn't clear why or what it means. Thanks!

Can't wait to watch Odyssey as Nolan intended.

Windows: Yep, all updated, nothing to see here. Also Windows: Oi, moron. Gonna install this update or what?

Here's a question for people who think the HomeView needs an App Store: Is that because there are one or two apps you wish were there? Or because you want to install 100 like your iPhone? Bonus question: how many third-party apps do you actually use on your Apple Watch?

Is…. is that a bubble I just heard pop?

The 4th gen Apple TV 4K at $299 is obscene. It's the best streaming box around, but let's be honest, at that price people should just use the shitty apps built into their TV instead.

Apple's marketing peeps make good ads.

Not enough people give HomeKit Secure Video the credit that it deserves.

I've been playing DomeKeeper Yes, Your Grace: Snowfall on the iPhone 18 Pro Max and they've both been great. But all it's done is remind me how much better they'd be on a bigger display. If only there was an iPhone with a bigger display that was also small enough to still fit in a pocket.

Daryl showing what can be done if you actually write stuff for your newsletter. 😂

I saw someone say that anyone getting an iPhone Duo should remember that it doesn't have an Action Button. And that reminded me that the iPhone I was reading it on had an Action Button. Only time I ever press it is when I'm trying to turn the volume up 😳

A lot is made of the iPhone 18 Pro Max rear cameras. But the selfie camera shouldn't be forgotten - the days of front cameras sucking are very much behind us.

It's funny-not-funny that the situation EA and the Saudis are in right now is also the same way people have to buy consoles and PCs to play their games.

I prefer to pretend I'm not English these days. My "patriotic" peers make it embarrassing to admit I am.

Being a writer is great, your job is just words and every time you see the slightest edit in a google doc you get to think that everyone hates you actually

Does anyone have a favorite electric toothbrush? Nothing silly expensive, doesn't need to connect to my phone or anything. Eyeing this up:

The Apple Watch Series 12 is easy to recommend, especially if you're wearing an older model. My review and thoughts.

After a huge launch push, it seems Unforgetful is basically broken at the moment. Which is a shame, because it was really useful while it worked. People are having notifications not fire, changes to tasks not being reflected until the app is force quit and restarted, etc. 😞

"Founder" is not how you spell "grifter." Anyone goes anywhere near that machine, they need their head checking. Bet he's got a digital picture of a monkey to sell, too.

It's as if there's some sort of correlation between that lot, and the AI grifters. It was where everyone had to be to talk about crypto and NFTs, too.

If Apple wasn't normally so happy to Sherlock apps, my conspiratorial side would suggest something is afoot. Unfortunately, I think it's just that Apple never seems to stick the landing anymore.

Apparently knobs are making a return to some carmakers. Whereas I gather the knobs never left BMW*. *With apologies to BMW drivers. Well, some of you.

Ahh, Threads. Like Twitter, but for the more discerning arsehole.

I'm not saying Amazon's website is having a Prime Day meltdown, but its TV category turns into comics and records half way down and then goes back to TVs at the end. Gives you nothing but confidence for AWS, doesn't it?

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Just given the youngest boy his first pork scratching and he says it tastes like a dog treat. And now I only have one child. Will make Christmas cheaper, at least.

Here's a question for the Americans that comes up every so often and just reared its head in a podcast — why do you say tires/tyres instead of wheels? As in "the car was on its roof instead of on its tires" etc? One of those differences between UK/US English that always intrigues me.

I can't remember who said it or where, but I remember reading that someone being endlessly cynical and pessimistic is not them being insightful or analytical about their subject. Whoever it was is right. They just make their entire identity that of a misery determined to suck all joy out of life.

Where I spend 1,000-ish words trying to articulate why I'm itching to swap a perfectly fine $1,500 iPhone 18 Pro Max for a hopefully more fine $2,000 iPhone Duo. I'm still not sure I managed it.

iOS/iPad app developers, can you clear something up that might seem obvious for me? Universal apps were supposed to make it easier for iPhone apps to be turned into iPad and then Mac apps. Will this work for iPhone Duo? How easy is it to make your apps Duo-ready?

I'm late to the party so I'm sure I'm not the first to say it, but this is fascinating. I wonder what it says about Sony's feelings about PS5 Pro and the PS6 launch.

I was just saying this to my wife. Thought I'd opened the wrong URL. Madness.