Adam Engst
Publisher at Tidbits
Publisher of TidBITS and the TidBITS Content Network. Find me at Mastodon at https://t.co/iYjwd53hJZ
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1 week ago |
tidbits.com | Adam Engst
It's no secret that Apple's operating system version numbering has evolved organically. The company currently maintains seven operating systems with version numbers that begin with four different integers (macOS 15, iOS 18, watchOS 11, and visionOS 2), although they share so much underlying code that they tend to move together with decimal updates.
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1 week ago |
tidbits.com | Adam Engst
One of the longest-standing aspects of the Mac user experience is the necessity of ejecting disks before turning them off or unplugging them. Initially, this meant literally ejecting floppy disks from their drives, but Apple retained the term even after adding non-removable media. All About EjectThe need for the Eject command arises from two reasons. First, if there are open files on a disk, macOS refuses to let you eject it because doing so might result in data loss.
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1 week ago |
tidbits.com | Adam Engst
Prompted by the latest revelations about common VPNs being owned by Chinese companies that may share data with their government, our latest Do You Use It? poll explored how TidBITS readers use VPNs. As someone who has never used a VPN, I was surprised by their popularity-84% of respondents use one at least some of the time. As always, the results of this poll reflect the audience and shouldn't be interpreted to imply anything more broadly. When Do You Use a VPN?
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2 weeks ago |
tidbits.com | Adam Engst
When I covered the recent update to macOS 15.5 Sequoia (see " Apple Releases iOS 18.5, macOS 15.5, and Other x.5 OS Updates," 12 May 2025), I referenced a detail from Apple's enterprise release notes without providing any context:Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) client is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of macOS. While Apple hasn't specified a timeline for AFP's removal, macOS 16 seems likely.
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2 weeks ago |
tidbits.com | Adam Engst
In a video dripping with so much mutual admiration that I found myself muttering "Get a room," former Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have announced a collaboration to "create a family of devices that would let people use AI to create all sorts of wonderful things." Ive's hardware design company, io Products, will be acquired by OpenAI for $6.5 billion in stock, despite having only 55 employees and never having shipped anything.
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I just spent a week backing up my claim that @browsercompany's Arc is "the most transformative app I've used in decades" by writing a 7100-word article illustrated with 35 screenshots. https://t.co/sKQ8Jx6lJq
Cool, Severance cameo... Now I'll have to check that out. :-)
What the heck was that last scene in the Apple announcement? https://t.co/CntkerhSBj
