On a repellent platform as well

To be fair, it does fit his new brand.

> Please stop using windows. Please stop using proprietary document formats.

The latter two potentially yes, as they can sell a product. Chrome - not so much: sell the browser, embed ads… nothing palatable.

A $1 a year payment (like in WhatsUp) from all the current Chrome users can easily cover all the reasonable browser development.

Bonus: they might not be able to fund the anti-user behavior like sunsetting MV2, all of the "anonymous audience tracking" that prevents any other advertiser from identifying you (but Google's scale still can), aggressively pushing 'sign in with Google', retracting their stance on blocking third party cookies, continually removing settings that drive user control, and more.

> But nowhere close to the emotional impact

It may be trite but “Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can, too.” gets me every single time

Photos Wallpaper - recreates the functionality from older Mac OS versions to rotate photos from your library as wallpaper, changing on a schedule.

Written by Codex with me driving product direction, reviewing, testing, occasionally scolding, and handling the release process.

Accepted onto the Mac App Store last week.

> The HN entry is still there, but I can't read the original post now.

The post on IA - https://web.archive.org/web/20160304013342/https://eng.uber....

Thank you for that link. I recommend reading to the very last line.

How nice is that!

much as I love and revere woz that is a terrible idea

Is that not 18.7.5 as released yesterday or am I missing something?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/126347

Apple used to make minor and patch releases available, but they've stopped doing that so as to increase Liquid Glass adoption. For that reason, iOS 18.7.5 is only available for the iPhone XS / XR series released.

Very consumer-hostile behavior from Apple :(

Massively hostile. They have effectively forced me to choose between a less secure phone or one with a terrible UX.

FWIW I’m sticking with the less secure one that doesn’t look like Windows Vista.

> Available for: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad 7th generation

They are explicitly choosing to only release security updates for 18.x to devices which are not eligible for liquid glass.

iPhone 14 was deemed capable of running liquid glass, even though it has worse battery life and performs sluggishly.

In the past, Apple has usually let you hold back on an older version and shipped security updates for all devices, not just ones that are incapable of running the new OS, but not this time.

> In the past, Apple has usually let you hold back on an older version and shipped security updates for all devices, not just ones that are incapable of running the new OS, but not this time.

No they haven't been, for the past several years: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/19/ios-18-forced-ios-26-up...

Looks like this is for older devices only. “Available for: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad 7th generation” so doesn’t include iPhone 16… nor is available on my device.