Industry.
Notes about the wider industry — platform shifts, remote work, tooling changes, what's happening across the studios, agencies, and product teams Remiam talks with. Written as field reports from a working studio rather than think-pieces.
- 4 Sept 2025→
3D TVs: the trend that died very, very quietly.
Every TV had it in 2012. Every TV stopped having it by 2017. A short fond elegy for a feature that solved nothing, that briefly cost everyone an extra £200, and that nobody quite remembers being asked about.
- 12 Aug 2025→
Twenty-five years of browsers: where we are now.
From Netscape's collapse to Chrome's dominance. Edge's two lives. Firefox's slow decline. Brave, Arc, and the niche browsers that matter more than their market share. The state of the web's most important software in 2025.
- 25 Feb 2024→
Apple Vision Pro: should your clients care?
Apple shipped its $3,500 headset this month. The reviews are mixed. The hype is real. Most clients shouldn't build for it yet — here's the framework for deciding.
- 12 Dec 2023→
Adobe XD is gone. Figma was right.
Adobe quietly removed XD from Creative Cloud last month. Four years after we wrote a head-to-head, the answer turned out to be all of one of them. Some reflections.
- 6 Jun 2023→
The Apple Silicon transition is complete.
Apple just launched the Mac Pro with M2 Ultra. Three years to the month after the WWDC 2020 announcement, every Mac in the lineup is now on Apple's silicon. The Intel era is officially over.
- 20 Jun 2022→
Internet Explorer is dead. Now what?
After twenty-seven years, Microsoft has officially retired IE. Every web developer's worst client requirement is gone. Here's what we get to delete, and what to use the headroom on.
- 24 Jun 2020→
WWDC 2020: Apple's silicon bet.
Apple just announced it is moving the Mac off Intel and onto its own chips. The keynote was confident. The two-year transition window is ambitious. Here is what it means for studios, for the laptop market, and for the next decade of computing — plus the transition history that explains why we think it works.
- 4 Apr 2018→
Where VR actually is, in 2018.
Two years after the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive launched, the 'year of VR' keeps being next year. Here is the state of consumer VR for studios actually shipping projects.
- 13 Sept 2017→
The notch, Face ID, and the end of the home button.
Apple just shipped an iPhone with no home button, a screen interrupted by a black cutout, and a camera that unlocks the phone by looking at your face. Every product team needs to think about this week — and every web project we ship needs an audit.
- 21 Mar 2017→
The Switch is a category, not a console.
Nintendo just shipped a hybrid handheld-TV-tablet thing and outsold every prediction. The interesting part isn't the hardware — it's what 'category creation' looks like up close, and what builders of any product should learn from the last three weeks.