Birchtree

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Folding iPhone rumors verses my iPadOS predictions

I'm trying to let the iPad be its best self

+ My musical obsession

The different lessons learned using a Mac

"This is an Xbox" gets in the bin

Encrypted RCS is coming in iOS 26.4

I waited on this rumor so long we already know it's wrong

I'd like the less capable, more expensive computer, please

Of course it can use pro apps. It’s a computer

New wallpaper generator just dropped

Micro app 12: Benchmark Studio

Terraink makes rad maps on demand

Tom Scott on AI in February 2023

+ iPadOS is getting squeezed

Apple releases the MacBook Mini

How to make Midnight City

My super quick process for adding chapters to podcasts

When the words on the page don’t match what you’re trying to say (follow up on the Ben Thompson post)

Apple's new MacBooks: The pinnacle of the generation

Apple's new Studio Displays

"What are you going to do, stop me? I've got the guns," is a wild government argument for tech pundits to support

Continuity Camera is so freaking cool, I wish it fit better into my work

The M4 iPad Air: an update so small, the Bluetooth version gets a shout out

The iPhone 17e

Announcing Weave, a native iOS app for Typefully

Why killing iPadOS isn't what you think it is

Micro app 11: JXR to JPG converter

+ Tim Cook's "refrigerator-toaster combo" quote is irrelevant today, stop using it

Daft Punk & Stevie Wonder & Pharrell & Nile Rogers get lucky

Anthropic does the bare minimum, but these days that's impressive

Blender for the iPad is on hold (it was also keyboard+mouse first, not touch first)

Soon, everything will be an iPad

Block is making more profit than ever, so they're firing 40% of their employees

Drive to Survive is coming to Apple TV tonight

The whole draw of the Mac is that it can do whatever you want it to do

In blind test, gamers think DLSS looks better than native rendering

Seeing growth on YouTube

Shocker: Apple will update macOS UI to make touch a good experience 😉

A Better Computer, the Podcast

Quick Notes now records in the background

Why many of us have no patience for liquid glass

Financially secure Sony shuts down a great game studio they acquired, seemingly just to ruin

Hosting my own analytics

Apple will kill iPadOS

Another new model coming to Quick Subtitles

That thing "nobody" was asking for

Why I don't offload my writing to AI

ChapterPod and Quick Subtitles now support WebVTT (.vtt)

+ An app for Typefully users

+ I don't think everyone is just going to code their own apps

Micro app 10: MastoThreads

2026 is going to be a very painful year in tech

Freedom is the government asking for the physical location of those critical of that government on social media

Tahoe brings 80% charging caps to the Mac

A passionate defense of the M Pro series of chips

The data has changed

Optimizing for 3 users

+ How does Birchtree Productions make money?

Two small tips for Apple devs starting agentic coding

The Vision Pro turns 2

I’m going to say something nice about a Musk product…

Nice things

Thank god we shot down that party balloon

+ Is "something big happening"?

ChapterPod 1.3 is out now

Quick Subtitles 2.0 transcribes a one-hour podcast in 30 seconds on an iPhone. This is magic (and it's out now)

I don't want to answer whether the President partied with young girls

The Future is an Empty Room

Better Siri is, yet again, a little farther off

Don't hold your breath for that 4 day work week

Some are happier writing code by hand

Memorizing the dictionary doesn’t make you a great writer

Just say it, you love when musicians get political

Celebrating record revenue with layoffs

iPhones need MagSafe

Dragon Quest and vibe coding (stick with me here)

+ Full demo of that new app

Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show still slaps

A year in the life of MKBHD

Renewables continue to thrive

AirDrop is coming to more Android phones in 2026

Nvidia delayed gaming chips, may not deliver next gen ones until 2028

Begun, the tech pricing apocalypse, has

Complexly becomes a nonprofit

Gemini is catching ChatGPT

OpenAI swears their ads won't do what every single other ads platform has done

Micro app 9: Railway Monitor

Xcode gets agentic coding

+ Apple's financial success masks a potential generational folly

The massive success of the Nintendo Switch

+ This one isn't a micro app…

Micro app 8: Capacities to Obsidian sorter

Yearly Run Goals

Quick Notes 2.0 is out now

UbiSoft is serious that this game is totally coming out

+ Don’t call me a vibe coder

Trump invited his friends over and you’ll never guess who happily showed up (with movie snacks, I can only assume)

The White House is creating their own reality

Micro app 7: Quick Tier List

Micro app 6: SRT Tester

What's making us stupid now?

Thing that everyone with a functioning brain said about tariffs is indeed happening

Everyone experiments a little in college (or, should I say, experiments with Linux, and by college I mean in 2026)

I'm learning so much non-AI stuff by using AI

ROG Xbox Ally X review: amazing performance, but the worst software I've ever used

ChapterPod is out now!

Micro app - MP3 Dreams

Fast track another one of those gold trophies!

Micro app 4: App Store Images

Moving beyond consoles

Worldwide enemies of sovereignty now includes the United States

Trump raises taxes on Americans again

Let the ChatGPT enshitification begin!

Meet Apple's new AI model, Gemini

This post was almost angry, now it's just confused

It's just like Reddit 10 years ago!

Rapid iteration in the modern coding world

+ Filter bubbles

Micro app 3 - Podcast Dashboard

Back when the iPad didn't do files

Apple (finally?) reveals their pro suite of apps

Elon Musk monetizes CSAM on X and Grok

It's already happened

Quick Subtitles, now with live activities

Quick Reviews, now with a 5-score system

Birchtree Productions joins the 21st century, builds a website!

Micro app 2 - Download folder sorter

I can't do this

Micro app #1: Yearly Run Tracker

2026: the year of micro apps

Apple could do the right thing. I’m not holding my breath.

LLMs have made simple software trivial

Ranking Apple's products (a definitive list, no one will disagree)

+ The ROG Xbox Ally X made me appreciate the Steam Deck even more

Here we go again

NVIDIA's astounding rise sadly isn't powered by gaming

My app defaults in 2025 (a few days late)

Introducing ChapterPod, now in beta

If anyone can do it in 45 minutes, it’s not special

Don't fall in love with the product, fall in love with the problem

That’s just how media discussions go

Third Republican US President in a row invades a sovereign nation without good reason (it's oil)

Quick Subtitles 1.6 (benchmark history, more stats, and more)

Apple’s 2025 report card - Wearables

The wild year of code

Clean energy had a baller 2025

Let stories end

Apple’s 2025 report card - Vision Pro

471 movies in 4 years (and my fav 2025 films)

Apple’s 2025 report card - Mac

+ The impossible LLM standard

Apple’s 2025 report card - iPad

Apple’s 2025 report card - iPhone

How to enable 120Hz mode in Safari (Mac, iPhone, and iPad)

What if we ended the "podcast"?

+ The sequel trilogy…

LLMs can be poisoned

When your Apple ID gets banned…

Ghostty goes non-profit

Streaming music is the lie we tell each other

Oops, I made a benchmark

The Information has some information on Apple's 2026 lineup

Quick Reviews receives an unexpected award

Times New Roman, Calibri, and who accessibility is for (hint: all of us)

Stealing your AI chats

"Trump derangement syndrome"

Bye, bye, Face ID

Why hasn't the desktop UI evolved in years?

My crazy 2026 prediction (it involves Linux)

My pet peeve with traditional publishing

+ What is easy is boring