Weekly Thing

Ugh. That's what I’ve been afraid of.

Commotion Of Links

Commotion of Apple Links for the week ending April 14, 2026

Weekly Thing

Apple 50, Artemis, and Alpacas: Your Weekly Thing

Commotion Of Links

Your Commotion of Apple Links for the week ending Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Apple History

Unsung Moments in Apple History: The Lisa 1 appears on “The New Odd Couple”

I haven’t written anything about Apple’s 50th Anniversary yet. I kind of had my hands full with getting this site finished. Besides, there’s still plenty of time for all of that. Apple’s going to be 50 years old for a whole year, after all. If I

Friday Thing

Your FIRST Weekly Thing! For the week ending April 4, 2026

Commotion Of Links

Your Commotion of Apple Links for the week ending March 31, 2026

Ihnatko Dot Com

Membership signups is now live! Sign up if y'like!

Yahoo! I finished all of the heavy lifting behind Memberships late on Friday night. I set aside a lot of time over the weekend to test everything out and make sure that the integrations between the custom stuff on my site, Ghost's built-in membership mojo, and Stripe&

Artificial Intelligence

The Enabler Of Casual, Carefree Malfeasance

Scenario: You’re at your public library. You glance over at a chair that somebody vacated about twenty minutes ago, and you spot a wallet. What do you do with it? What a question! You pick it up and you immediately hand it in to a librarian. Your ethical duty

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Beta List Thing

Your Ihnatko Dot Com Beta List Thing for Friday, March 27

Commotion Of Links

Your Commotion of Apple Links for the week ending March 24, 2026

Tim Cook

Tim Cook visited Good Morning America and said things

Well. That was annoying. Good Morning America aired a short interview with Tim Cook on Tuesday. It’s a network morning show, and it was only five and a half minutes long. So I didn't expect questions such as “As you look back upon fifty years of Apple

Friday Thing

Your Friday Thing for March 13, 2026

Commotion Of Links

Your Commotion of Apple Links for the week ending March 10, 2026

You guessed it: this week is heavy with the fallout from Ringmaster Tim's Cavalcade Of Hardware. Actually, it was Ringmaster Heir-Apparent John…a detail that didn't go unnoticed. There's also a Robert DeNiro clip. This inclusion is 100% justified. Even if it weren&

MacBook Neo

MacBook Neo: the Five Days Later post

Five days before Apple announced the MacBook Neo, air temps here in New England were hovering at slightly above freezing. We were barely able to leave the house due to the 30-plus inches of snow that a recent blizzard had just deposited. And it was pitch-dark outside by

Friday Thing

Your (beta list) Friday Thing for March 6, 2026

Artificial Intelligence

AI is now an App Store*

* Under limited, specific circumstances. But still! Exciting times, eh? This afternoon, I was using my Linux notebook (a ThinkPad 11e running Pop!_OS) and I came across a useful bash script. I wanted to stash it someplace where it would stay handy. I needed a modern successor to the old

MacBook Featured

MacBook Neo: Apple Makes A Bacon, Egg And Cheese Sandwich

After today’s big announcement, we’re all feeling nervous – maybe even just a little bit betrayed – about something. So let’s address it right here at the top: the first Matrix film was actually a fantastic movie. The sequels drove the franchise wildly, horrifyingly, off the rails. That’s

IPhone Featured

iPhone 17e: The "e" stands for "enough."

*** ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT *** THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN EXTREME PR BLIZZARD ALERT EVENT ADVISORY AFFECTING ALL COMMUNITIES OF APPLE OBSERVERS FROM 9 AM EST MONDAY MARCH 2 TO 1 PM EST WEDNESDAY MARCH 4 HISTORIC ACCUMULATIONS OF DOGS AND PONIES EXPECTED THROUGHOUT ALL REGIONS COMMUNITIES ARE

MacOS

I’ve never had the experience of parenting a 6-year-old child. But I’ve dealt with MacOS system updates.

…And I refuse to hear from parents about some nonsense that the two experiences are materially different. If you have parented a six-year-old child, and you are a Mac owner, you wouldn’t have even batted an eye at that headline. “If anything,” you thought, “I am grateful

Friday Thing

Your (beta group) Friday Thing for February 27, 2026

Commotion Of Links

Your Commotion of Apple Links for the week ending February 24, 2026

Was it a light week for Apple news? Maybe everybody's saving their energy for next week, when Apple's three-day Announcement Fest-A-Palooza happens. But there was at least one biggie, in the form of Apple's big push to get a certain kind

Friday Thing

Your Friday Thing for February 20, 2026

Commotion Of Links

Commotion of Apple Links for week ending February 17, 2026

Apple is through with hosting Events. Now it wants to host…happenings? Plus, a new iOS release that doesn't amount to much, a new iOS beta that looks to be something special, and many stories that reflect upon the perceived decline in fit-and-function of Apple software.