v3 - Core Technology Fee

Welp, Apple forced my hand and generated even more news in the run up to the launch of Apple Vision Pro and it demands a response! (Right?) As is so obvious and well-established that I forgot to mention it, you can e-mail me the show at [email protected] and maybe I'll find a way to work it in. Comments, questions, and complaints are all welcome! Without further ado, let's a-do it: What's new: It's finally shorts season! 🩳 DNSimple is run by some lovely people and you should host your domains there My brother is Iron Man, here's proof Follow-up: Messaging with Siri paves the way to its becoming a multi-lingual voice assistant Steam Link and what it might mean if Valve (is allowed to) publish it on visionOS Another pun for the pun gods from Aaron News: The 40th anniversary of the Mac (and my first one) The absolutely monumental changes in iOS 17.4, including: Automatic, lyrics-like transcripts in the Podcasts app Evidence of on-board LLM support for Siri in iOS 18 Cloud streaming apps are now allowed The Apple-Masimo blood oxygen patent kerfuffle impacting Apple Watch Why third-party browser rendering engine support isn't what some people were hoping The 27% / 12% external link "entitlement" Apple's cunning 50¢ core technology fee Recommendations: Cyberpunk 2077 sucks less now Upload season 3 Mailbag links: Tonal is my preferred way to "get swole" Even though I failed to mention it, remember to e-mail me! The address is still [email protected] That's it. You've got places to be.