Eric Schwarz had a piece yesterday reacting to Microsoft’s plans for a “remember everything” feature upcoming in Windows. This fact that this feature is basically on by default and requires numerous steps to disable is going to create a lot of problems for people, especially those who click through every privacy/permission screen and fundamentally don’t know how their computer actually operates—I... [Read More]

Oh dear. Turns out one of my best-used apps on my Mac, Bartender, has changed owners. This apparently happened a couple months ago! The previous developer, Ben Surtees, appears to have sold the app to new buyers. Software sales happen from time to time. We have a recent example, actually: Castro, the well-regarded podcast app for iOS, was sold to a new developer. The handoff was done with clear... [Read More]