2026-02-19 00:00:00
Moltz ruins Prime Day, Lex makes a Mac app and Dan automates all the things.
2026-02-18 23:00:35
Earlier this month, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that Apple had scaled back its plans to launch a new Health+ service and was revisiting its entire health and fitness strategy.
While this could be seen as being another sign of trouble at Apple, as the company is currently mired in an ongoing narrative about its inability to ship AI features it promised nearly two years ago, I choose to see this as the opposite: A promising early sign that Apple’s executives are recognizing that its headlong charge into chasing services revenue might be coming at too high a cost.
The unlikely hero in all this? Apple’s services chief himself, Eddy Cue.
2026-02-17 07:09:39
We discuss Apple’s struggles to ship an upgraded Apple Intelligence, prepare for a March 4 product announcement, and explain Apple TV going all in on “Severance.” Also, Jason answers your (many!) curling questions!
2026-02-17 04:34:18
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2026-02-17 02:43:01
In the Apple Podcasts app, users will be able to switch seamlessly between watching and listening to shows, making the experience of discovering and viewing video podcasts as simple and enjoyable as listening to audio podcasts has always been. Users can watch video from within the app and move to horizontal full display, as well as download videos to watch offline. And automatic quality adjustment powered by HLS technology ensures smooth playback across network conditions, delivering the best possible experience whether listeners are on Wi-Fi or a cellular connection.
YouTube has become the most popular platform for podcasts period, so it’s hard not to see this as an attempt to make Apple’s platform more attractive for shows that broadcast in video. At the same time, the audio experience on the go for YouTube often leaves something to be desired, so this feels like Apple trying to thread that needle.
As with audio podcasts, Apple won’t charge creators for distributing video podcasts; however, the company is also enabling dynamically inserted video ads, and ad networks that participate in that will be charged a fee.
Interesting, you know what Apple doesn’t have? A podcast creation app in its brand new creative suite. Hmmm.
2026-02-17 01:30:07
I’ve written before about the concept of presence. This is the notion that in your digital life, you have many devices—sometimes several near you1—and when you get an alert, a phone call, or other call to action, you do not want every single piece of hardware to chime, shake, or grab you by the scruff of your neck.2
And yet. And yet. When you desperately want the digital jingle bell to sound off on a particular device, my goodness, what a fuss that might be.
Quick: Without picking up your iPhone, tell me how you configure an alarm in the Clock app to trigger on your Apple Watch when you’re wearing it? I can’t remember, and I just looked it up.
While Settings: Notifications controls many ways in which your iPhone lets you know something is up that you wanted to be reminded about—or a company wanted to tell you about—you will scroll through your app list in vain: there’s no Clock app listed or alarm settings.
Instead, naturally (?), go to Settings: Apps: Clock: Notifications. After my recent brain failure related to the Video menu in the macOS Phone app, I looked through the entire Settings: Notifications list. Nope, no Clock. Yet, Settings: Apps: Clock: Notifications.
And even when you arrive there, there’s no Apple Watch! So let’s visit the Watch app. One assumes there’s an easy way to figure out how to turn iPhone-set alarms on or off on your Apple Watch. In fact, there is, but the language is rather obscure. At Notifications: Clock, use the Push Alerts from iPhone control to turn this feature on or off:
When this is on, Apple Watch will alert you of Timers and Alarms you’ve set on your iPhone, so you can snooze or dismiss them remotely.
“Push Alerts” isn’t my first thought for syncing alarms and timers, but at least it’s there.
Just remember to keep your Apple Watch charged and unlocked on your body.
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