This is definitely a bit of a mystery!

You’d think there’d be a certain kinship between decades-old websites, typeset in small-point Verdana, which stubbornly refuse to update their general layout and design.

There's some cross over there for sure.

We got an awesome look at Metroid Prime 4 in the direct but something more interesting for me was the virtual game cards.

So essentially you could be:

• At a friends house with 2 Switch's on the same WiFi
• Friend A can share a game with Friend B like it's a cartridge even if the game was bought from the Nintendo eShop
• Friend B has 14 days to play the game

This does open up a decent amount of flexibility with sharing games.

So I guess there's a Switch 1 direct tonight! A week before the Switch 2 full reveal. Crazy stuff from Nintendo.

Will there be Metroid news? Silksong? The possibilities are endless.

I would love to do this driving holiday one day.

It's a big swath of this country that I've never seen.

Why doesn't the AFL just go all in on opening round. Make it a rivalry round and have the best possible games on with the biggest possible attendance and TV audience. This would work:

Thursday
GWS vs Sydney (SCG)

Friday
Collingwood vs Carlton (MCG)

Saturday
Brisbane vs Gold Coast (GABBA)
Hawthorn vs Essendon (MCG)
Dogs vs Melbourne (Marvel)
Port vs Adelaide (Adelaide Oval)

Sunday
Richmond vs North (MCG)
St Kilda vs Geelong (Marvel)
Fremantle vs West Coast (Optus)

Note that I did kind of shaft Richmond here. They no longer get the season opener with Carlton.

There probably is a strategic reason why you don't put all these games on at the same time but I still think it would be awesome.

I do not want to harp on the Siri situation, but I do have one suggestion that I think Apple should listen to. Because I suspect it is going to take quite some time for the company to get the new Siri out the door properly, they should do what was previously unthinkable. That is, open up iOS to third-party assistants. I do not say this lightly. I am one of those folks who does not want iOS to be torn open like Android, but I am willing to sign on when it makes good common sense. Right now it does.

Clearly this would be a good thing for iOS.

Google clearly knows that they have a massive with Gemini right now and you can look no further than their decision to heavily advertise on Apple-centric podcasts. In recent weeks they’ve sponsored The Talk Show, Upgrade, Connected, and ATP. One of the best ways to go after Siri is to capture Apple fans and observers.

I know Apple would be averse to this, namely because of the potential for losing a massive amount of Siri users in the meantime while they get their act together. But it would do two things: it would mitigate some of the damage with customer relations while they wait for the new Siri and it sets a new bar for the Siri team to have to exceed. There would not be any room for failure and they need to be under that kind of pressure.

I've noticed this move on the Apple centric podcast advertising front and it's ballsy by Google.

Sure, AI-assisted developer tools can be used to generate native iOS apps, but they’re not nearly as good at this as they are at generating e.g. React, whose developer experience advantage predates the LLM wave and has only since accelerated. While Mobile Safari can run webapps quite well, and native apps can be built using React Native, those clearly aren’t strategically ideal for Apple

So iOS apps may increasingly be built using Cursor, and perhaps a larger percentage of them end up being built using React Native. And yet iPhones remain massively popular, so what’s the problem as long as they’re being built?

The wall that you’ll hit when actually trying to distribute them:

Yes to all of this. Distributing is an absolute pain in the ass.

There could be a Netlify for iOS and Android but Apple and Google won't let it happen.