Quoting John Gruber

Simon Willison’s Weblog Subscribe Sponsored by: Teleport — Connect agents to your infra in seconds with Teleport Beams. Built-in identity. Zero secrets. Get early access The real goldmine isn’t that Apple gets a cut of every App Store transaction. It’s that Apple’s platforms have the best apps, and users who are drawn to the best apps are thus drawn to the iPhone, Mac, and iPad. That edge is waning. Not because software on other platforms is getting better, but because third-party software on iPhone, Mac, and iPad is regressing to the mean, to some extent, because fewer developers feel motivated — artistically, financially, or both — to create well-crafted idiomatic native apps exclusively for Apple’s platforms. — John Gruber Posted 15th April 2026 at 5:13 pm Recent articles Meta's new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools - 8th April 2026 Anthropic's Project Glasswing - restricting Claude Mythos to security researchers - sounds necessary to me - 7th April 2026 The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering - 3rd April 2026 This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 15th April 2026. apple 130 john-gruber 39 Disclosures Colophon © 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026