Almost every company doesn’t want my password. They want to text me a code and then ask for my password and then text me another code. This happens dozens of times a day. Most pretend I don’t even have a password and just assume my phone is nearby.
I think I can safely measure the amount of time I spend logging into websites in hours a week now. The deprecation of passwords (because users are stupid and cybersecurity is a huge problem) has made website logins a pain. I don’t use most mobile apps so I’m a browser user and it sucks.
Dirt bike ride today. 38 degrees. Going up into the mountains to find some fall foliage.
iPhone day is like a whole day now. It’s over now. Watch, phone and AirPods are setup. Everything is very evolutionary but it’s all better. The blue iPhone matches the otterbox cactus leather in saddle brown really well. The blue looks purple to me and my wife is thrilled about that.
My wife is replacing an iPhone 15 Pro Max and Apple Watch Series 9 45MM in midnight finish. I’m replacing Lightning AirPods Pro 2. Everything has AppleCare expiring from BestBuy so this resets the 2 year clock.
New iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods day. Two of those are for my wife, the AirPods are for me.
2 hours later, I think we got the skunk scent out of the dog.
I’m glad that Apple is still posting a PDF with all new iOS features - www.apple.com/os/pdf/Al…
Here’s the announcement, “Support for dynamically inserting brand segments that can be swapped in and out, allowing creators to resell slots to another brand in future instead of having a permanent product ad in long-form videos. " Sounds like skippable product features for paying …
A pet peeve of mine for a while is paying for YouTube Premium but having to skip ads that YouTubers put in the video (product placement). YouTube is announcing “brand segments” by creating spots that can be swapped out later if needed. Does this mean I can finally auto skip these?
Apple News+ is a 1st party curated Macintosh (fake) app that should be smart and adaptive as well as put the reader first and eliminate crappy ads and give me AI summaries. It’s just a bad experience.
Screenshots of what I see in Apple News+ which is just articles that are simply garbage headlines. imgur.com/a/c5Ixaeh Also, I’ve blocked certain channels but the app still shows me those stories. Why isn’t that fixed? Blocked = I don’t want to see it.
Opened Apple News for the first time in a while. It’s disappointing that it’s still littered with the lowest quality advertisements and nearly every story still uses click bait titles. Apple Editorial should re-write titles or add an AI summary so I know what I’m about to click on.
As usual, a collection of photos is on Flickr - www.flickr.com/photos/ad…
Great weekend. Finished the dirt bike and went for a ride, went camping in VT (low of 42 on friday night) and went to a beer festival yesterday. No complaints.
WILD WEEKEND
With the realization that HyperTension is coming to Series 9 and inevitably black Friday discounts coming, we cancelled Heather’s S9 pre-order. She has AppleCare through December so we’ll see what discounts arrive later. So she’s getting a new iPhone and I’m getting AirPods. …
Pretty easy purchase for Heather.
As I’ve said before, I subscribe to the white house RSS feed and aside from blatant propaganda and lack of fact checking, it’s the typos that are the most egregious.
Introducing a new series of posts (written/video) as we embark on phase 2 of our house remodeling - adamchandler.me/blog/2025…
Since I’m buying AirPods for me, Watch and iPhone for heather through Best Buy, I’ll be saving about $360 in AppleCare monthly payments for the next 2 years then I can switch to monthly or she goes to AppleCare One if she wants to keep those covered. I’ll do iPhone 18 PM + Ultra 4 …
Apple Purchased this week: AirPods Pro 3 ($194 from Bestbuy after $35 trade in + $20 off and includes AppleCare) Apple Watch Series 11, Black/GPS for Heather ($308 from BestBuy after $121 trade in of Heather’s S9 45mm) iPhone 17 Pro Max Blue w/ 512GB for Heather ($299 after Verizon trade-in …
What I will say about our 2026 Apple software releases, it’s really refreshing to see how much has changed with Macintosh. Not everything will feel like a step forward but I love seeing Apple take risks and pushing forward in their most mature 42-year old platform.
First time I noticed it since the iPhone 14(?) The Apple Watch Ultra 3 satellite connectivity says “free for first 2 years” so I assume Apple is finally planning on charging something for this service they’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on.
“Spatial video recording at 1080p at 30 fps” Really bummed that 17 Pro can’t do 4K. That’s one thing that would have put me up for an upgrade. Without that, I’m hoping the 18 can do 4K.