Samsung Ballie has rolled back into view. This orb-like personal assistant on wheels is now infused with Gemini AI. I wrote about it for Stuff, where the cute little robot, in my mind, was transformed into a human-hating psychopath. But, hey, when you hear it speak in the video, you’ll know where I was coming from.

Photoshop for iPhone would once have excited me. But despite it rocking up for iPhone recently, I’m not sure anyone needs it. I mull this over in a column for TapSmart.

Speaking of, Adobe got hounded off of Bluesky. I’m not a fan of social network pile-ons, but Adobe wading in with its size twelves and going HEY KIDS was never going to end well. I sympathise with the social media person who was swamped with snark, but perhaps Adobe should have had a plan in place for this eventuality beyond “delete everything”.

ArcadeMania got approved. Sort of. I’ve written about the absurd story of iPhone arcade emulator MAME4iOS vs Apple before. The developer has now complied with every Apple demand, including a really stupid one that the app should only run ROMs owned by the dev. So right now, ArcadeMania is a husk. The dev aims to update it to make the functionality more standard. It wouldn’t surprise me if Apple blocks that, in full-on troll mode. 

I should note, yet again, that there are plenty of (often dreadful) emulators – including arcade emulators – already on the App Store. And so I really don’t know why Apple has a bug up its arse about this one in particular.