Oh, Canada: The Apple Pin

Bless you, you breathtakingly beautiful, civilized land.

In the January 23 2026 episode of my beloved WAN Show, Linus Sebastian and Luke Lafreniere (two of the people who gave me the most courage to plunge into building my own PC workstations) talk about the wearable A.I. pin Apple is rumored to be working on. Listening to them try to figure out what the value in such a thing could possibly be, who would want one and for what reason, and speculate whether or not Apple is simply flailing at this point with no successful new product lines in several years, is nothing short of adorable.

The innocence of these two wonderful, delightful friends from up North is so charming - so utterly disarming - it almost brings a tear to my eye. Never, ever change, cherished Canucks. As a native Seattleite, I can say that you are, and always have been, so much of what's good about the world I live in.

I've been an anything-but-Apple guy since the company chose to brick my first iPhone, and I could give a flying rat’s about their A.I. chatbot, but:

A small, unobtrusive, easily-charged, constantly-connected brooch to pin to my coat with not one, but two cameras; and not 2, but 3 microphones? Essentially a personal dashcam which, because it's an Apple product, has a pretty good chance of becoming downright ubiquitous on liberal lapels? In the age of American fascism and I.C.E.?

Yes, I'll take 3 for each member of my family, thank you. One for your hat, one for the front of your jacket, and the last for the back of your jacket or backpack. If they’re inexpensive enough to buy a set of 4, you have an extra to potentially keister in case you’re kidnapped and interned.

The fact that they're made of metal just means they'll match our whistles.