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1 week ago | 
spyglass.org | M.G. Siegler |MG Siegler
Apple to Rebrand Its Device Operating Systems to Mark Major Overhaul Apple is planning to change its operating system names to be identified by year, rather than version number, to bring consistency to its branding and reduce confusion. You either die a hero, or live long enough to become Windows 95.
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1 week ago | 
spyglass.org | M.G. Siegler |MG Siegler
Letter to Arc members 2025On Arc, its future, and the arrival of AI browsers — a moment to answer the largest questions you’ve asked us this past year. It's a good, well-articulated post from Josh Miller, the CEO of The Browser Company – notably, the makers of Arc, the newfangled Chromium-based web browser that has built a loyal user base over the past several years. Though not one large enough to achieve their ultimate goals.
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2 weeks ago | 
spyglass.org | M.G. Siegler |MG Siegler
It’s both sad and not at all surprising. After letting it languish for years, Mozilla has now put Pocket out to pasture. And it will be formally slaughtered in October. Along with all your saved items. All those glorious saved items that you never got to but were totally just about to. I tease because I love. I was an early user of Pocket back when it was still called ‘Read It Later’. That name said literally all you needed to know about what the service did.
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2 weeks ago | 
spyglass.org | M.G. Siegler |MG Siegler
Yesterday, upon reading all the coverage about OpenAI buying io – which I'm going to continue to style as 'IO' for my own typing sanity – and especially watching the um, unique, video that Jony Ive and Sam Altman released to both formally announce IO and to talk a bit about what they're working on, it became pretty clear, pretty quickly that despite all the rumors to the contrary, the device wouldn't be a wearable.
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2 weeks ago | 
spyglass.org | M.G. Siegler |MG Siegler
Not many deals get their own sizzle reel. Let alone when it's one startup buying another. But when the most well capitalized startup in history buys another startup co-founded by Jony Ive, you get one, apparently. Honestly, it's not even fair to call it a sizzle reel. I'm not sure what it is.
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2 weeks ago | 
spyglass.org | M.G. Siegler |MG Siegler
Google is not fucking around. That's my main takeaway coming out of the Google I/O keynote yesterday. It's honestly impressive. Google went from being the bear with big claws and not knowing what to do with them – well, to be fair, it was less about not knowing what to do with them and more a timidity around using them. That era now seems to be in the rear-view. The stakes are just too high with regard to AI. Google looks in that rear-view mirror and sees disruption coming upon them quick.
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2 weeks ago | 
spyglass.org | M.G. Siegler |MG Siegler
Meet Fidji Simo, the Instacart CEO Tasked With Getting OpenAI to Turn a Profit Simo is taking a newly created role at Sam Altman’s startup as it prepares for a potential public offering Berber Jin and Keach Hagey A few interesting tidbits here, mostly up top. First:Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s newest senior hire, and CEO Sam Altman bonded over a mutual fixation: They hate standing meetings and love to kill them in the name of efficiency.
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2 weeks ago | 
spyglass.org | M.G. Siegler |MG Siegler
Apple finally read the room. The courtroom, at least. Here's Chance Miller with 9to5Mac:After a nearly five-year hiatus, Fortnite is back on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users in the United States. Epic Games announced the return of the battle royale gaming app this afternoon, and you can head to the App Store now to download it. Fortnite is also back in the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the European Union.
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2 weeks ago | 
spyglass.org | M.G. Siegler |MG Siegler
Gemini (Live) coming to Google Chrome for Mac and WindowsGoogle is bringing Gemini and Gemini Live to Chrome for Mac and Windows. The initial version lets you ask questions about a page…I have a number of thoughts about Google I/O (update: here!), but for now, I would just highlight the above as something likely getting lost in the absolute data dump of information that Google just dropped, but seems far more important:Google is bringing Gemini and Gemini Live to Chrome for Mac and Windows.
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2 weeks ago | 
spyglass.org | M.G. Siegler |MG Siegler
Tim Sweeney has spent a lot of time the past few weeks talking to basically anyone who would listen, to both take a (some might say well deserved, but certainly hard-fought) victory lap with the US federal court's smackdown of Apple for failing to comply with the one ruling Epic won in their case against Cupertino a few years back, but also to note that with the new ruling, Fortnite would be coming back to the App Store. In the US. Any day now... That, of course, didn't happen.
