Apple announced on-device natural language search across your data at WWDC 2024. Nearly two years later, it still hasn’t shipped. Missed Spring 2025. Missed Spring 2026. Third time lucky?
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I’ve started using Apple’s Downtime feature to put some friction between work-related apps and me. If I don’t, I’m in Slack all weekend. I’m not a surgeon and don’t need to be that available. The implementation is coarse, but it’s sort of working.
The G5
Thursday, April 16, 2026
After a disappointing experience with a PowerMac G5’s design flaw, the author now carefully selects durable technology to ensure it lasts for five years.
On Amazon devices moving from Android to Vega OS. Google is in a battle to the death with Apple. Android/iOS now running on beefy hardware. Vega is about running on the smaller things. When you build on Linux, like Vega has, every component maker you go to has a Linux driver you can use. Fast dev.
Apple’s new container support in macOS 26 is nowhere near as feature-rich as Docker. It doesn’t support memory ballooning or loopback networking to the host. But it’s much lighter on Apple Silicon resources and launches containers like greased lightning.
Apple are doing okay with AI. AI will be like databases. Big models in the cloud and tiny ones in everything else. Whenever I see people give Apple advice, I remember that if they had followed mine from 20 years ago, the company would be 1/20000th its current size but make the best desktops ever.
Apple’s WWDC 2025 is next week. And when it comes to major releases, to paraphrase Sean Connery:
Captain Ramius: Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary - macOS hardware obsolescence.