This Week in Apple: Silent consonants and partners

Good people release good apps, OpenAI has complaints and Apple comes to the aid of some frenemies.

G as in Indigo

Remember when tech coverage was mostly just talking about cool new hardware and software and not about politics, AI, and the decline of civilization? Well, this week brought back a bit of that as two cool new apps were released.

Friend of the column Lex Friedman released Gnome, a delightful tool that makes it quicker and easier to find just the right GIF for any occasion. (Disclaimer: I am deep in the pocket of Big Lex.)

Meanwhile, Aaron Vegh and Ben McCarthy released Indigo, an app that unifies your Mastodon and Bluesky timelines, thus reducing the amount of madness in your life.

Check ‘em out.

Sometimes running to the press does nothing at all

A blockbuster report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman who talked to a kid whose uncle works at OpenAI and he says Apple is in biiig trouble.…