Platforms.
All Remiam work tagged Platforms — across client systems, own products, and the studio's field notes.
- 27 Sept 2026→
Opening hours are an API now.
On 24 September Square connected its dashboard to Apple Business, so a seller's hours, address and phone number sync straight to Apple Maps, Siri and Wallet. It is a small integration with a big implication: the listing is no longer a form someone fills in, it is data your operational system publishes.
- 16 Sept 2026→
April is a build deadline.
From April 2027, every app uploaded to App Store Connect for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Vision Pro or Apple Watch has to be built with the 27 generation SDK. Nothing live gets pulled. But the next fix to any app nobody has opened in two years now starts with a toolchain upgrade, and that is a much cheaper job in October than on the day something breaks.
- 13 Sept 2026→
Chrome halved the gap.
From Chrome 153 on 8 September, a new stable Chrome ships every two weeks instead of every four, on desktop, Android and iOS. For most sites that is nothing. For a screen bolted to a wall in a venue, it doubles the number of browsers your build has to survive in a year.
- 19 Aug 2026→
Stripe bought the router.
Bloomberg reported on 16 August that Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter for more than seven billion dollars. A payments company paid a payments price for the layer that sits between an application and four hundred models. That tells you where the durable part of an AI system actually is.
- 15 Jul 2026→
The handheld got faster by dropping Windows.
The Legion Go 2 shipped a SteamOS version in June, and independent testing has the same handheld running up to 75 percent faster on SteamOS than on Windows 11. The hardware did not change. The operating system did.