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Chris Welch

Chris Welch

Former Senior Reviewer

Former Senior Reviewer

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    Chris Welch
    Chris Welch
    Apple’s iOS 18.3 update is almost ready.

    Apple is rolling out the release candidate beta build of iOS 18.3, meaning a wider release for everyone is likely days away. Among other tweaks, this update aims to make it more obvious when Apple Intelligence is summarizing your notifications — and that those summaries can contain errors.

    Chris Welch
    Chris Welch
    Tony Fadell pushed for Apple to buy Sonos many, many years ago.

    It’s a fun exercise to think about how much would be different today if Fadell had successfully convinced Steve Jobs to acquire Sonos back when the audio company was in its earliest days. But Jobs took an adversarial view towards Sonos.

    Credit to John Gruber for nailing down the “former senior Apple executive” mentioned in this piece by The Information.

    Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch

    As chief executive, Spence oversaw many successful products. But there was no coming back from last year’s app debacle: it has finally led to his ouster.

    Chris Welch