Are we all getting this alert over and over and over again every time we use AirPods?
Airpods constant mute and unmute message
Mac shortcut to auto quit Apple Music
Created a Shortcut on my Mac just to quit Apple Music every time it opens and open Spotify instead.
It’s not that I hate Apple Music that much, it’s just I constantly click the play/pause on my Airpods after a work call meaning to restart podcast/music on my iPhone. Be nice if Apple would let us configure that behavior. (I know, I know.)
NNG and AI articles
Pretty much half of the recent NNG articles recently have been about generative AI/chatbots: nngroup.com/articles/ Some of them are interesting, some of them are pretty empty. Guessing in general putting out five truly riveting articles per week on usability is tough.
Interesting to see them so heavy into AI including most of the recent articles from Jakob Nielsen himself.
Halloween Grinch
Being able to go back to almost completely ignoring Halloween might be the only thing I’m looking forward to when the kids move out of the house in another decade or so.
Elon Musk predicts X will replace banks
lol no
Slack logo still sucks
Four years later, old Slack logo is still way better than new/current Slack logo.
What’s the point of folding phones?
Until they get the thickness down a good bit more the tradeoffs don’t feel worth it, but having something that is usually phone sized that can expand to iPad size would be very useful imo.
Epic Games cuts around 830 jobs, selling Bandcamp
Epic is laying off over 800 people and selling Bandcamp.
This is direct and predictable result of all the consolidation in games industry and in general. It’s not like Epic isn’t colossally profitable.
Why on earth does Epic needs over 8,000 employees and why do they own Bandcamp in the first place?
This is why the Microsoft/Activision merger deserved all the antitrust attention it got from regulators, if not more.
Apple announces new iCloud storage tiers
Since it’s not my upgrade year, 6 and 12 terabyte iCloud plans my most impactful Apple announcement of the day. Been at like 1.95 TB for months and had to clean a bunch of stuff off kids’ iPads to get there.
The one white guy in K-dramas
You think I can get a role as the one white guy in a K-Drama? I have no acting ability, but based on being in the room while my wife has watched 900 different series that does not appear to be a requirement for the job.