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iPad Pro? Sacrificing devices to the beta gods I have lots of thoughts on the WWDC announcements this week, but it’ll take a few days to get them in order. One thing I can say - When it came time 🗓️ June 6, 2023 🏷️ WWDC🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPad

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Final Cut and Logic for iPad Finally. From the Apple Newsroom: Final Cut Pro for iPad introduces a powerful set of tools for video creators to record, edit, finish, and share, all from 🗓️ May 9, 2023 🔗 Apple 🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPad🏷️ Linked List

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Breaking News: Tim Cook Does His Job Decisions are hard. People are acting like Design ran Apple and Tim Cook is changing that. But that was never the case. 🗓️ March 14, 2023 🔗 Financial Times 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Headset🏷️ Linked List

My 2023 Home Screen My setup to kick off 2023 It’s kind of a thing in our circles to share our home screens periodically, and I haven’t done it in a long while. I’m going to try to make a habit 🗓️ January 11, 2023 🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPhone

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Happy Announcaversary, iPhone 16 Years of iPhone Not much to say about this, but 16 years ago the iPhone was introduced at MacWorld Expo 2007. I was a recent Mac convert at the time after using 🗓️ January 9, 2023 🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPhone

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Changes Are A'Comin' (Probably) Epic v. Apple lawsuit is over, and both sides claim victory It's a Friday, so of course some piece of tech news drops. Time for everyone to go crazy on Twitter and speculate in blog posts until the involved parties actually put out some sort of guidance on what happened/what will happen. 🗓️ September 10, 2021 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Legal🏷️ Epic

Apple's Home Strategy Apple's home strategy is basically ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Let's talk about Apple's strategy for the connected home. Spoiler alert: there isn't one right now. 🗓️ March 17, 2021 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Home🏷️ Automation

AirPods Max Are Here But why? Apple announced the newest member of the AirPods family this morning: the over-the-ear AirPods Max. Or, AirPods Maxes? ¯\(ツ)/¯ Pluralization is 🗓️ December 8, 2020 🏷️ Apple🏷️ AirPods

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117 New Emoji Coming This Year And in iOS14, you can finllay search for them. Lots more options for gender, non-gender, skin tones and more this year. Also, Ninjas. 🗓️ July 20, 2020 🔗 Via Emojipedia 📷 Emojipedia 🏷️ Emoji🏷️ Apple🏷️ Linked List

Going Green It's actually pretty easy bein'... Oh, never mind. Today, Apple did what they do in September. They announced new iPhones and some other stuff. Here are some of my quick thoughts after watching the event, mostly on mute with closed captioning, while at work. I'll breeze through this, mostly in order. 🗓️ September 10, 2019 🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPhone

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The Problem With Keyboard Shortcuts on iOS Spoiler Alert: Inconsistencies Why are keyboard shortcuts so inconsistent, even across different apps of the same type? I look at four iOS email clients with wildly different keyboard shortcut implementations, and they are super confusing. 🗓️ June 12, 2019 🏷️ Apple🏷️ iOS13

WWDC 2019 Wish List What will iOS13 Bring? It’s that time of year again! We’re a few days out from WWDC 2019, and everyone is talking about what they want to see in the next update to Apple’s 🗓️ June 1, 2019 🏷️ Apple🏷️ WWDC

AirPower Is Dead Raise your hand if you’re surprised Apparently, jamming a bunch of heat-creating charging coils into a leather envelope causes heat issues. Who knew? 🗓️ March 29, 2019 🔗 Via TechCrunch 📷 Apple 🏷️ Apple🏷️ AirPower🏷️ Linked List

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2019 AirPods First Impressions First impressions of the 2019 version of the AirPods wireless earbuds. 🗓️ March 28, 2019 🏷️ AirPods🏷️ Apple

Apple Games Engagement is a bad word. I disagree with Gruber on how game makers should be paid. 🗓️ March 25, 2019 🔗 Via Daring Fireball 📷 Apple 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Games🏷️ Linked List

That Damn Notch A dead-simple way I'm dealing with the iPhone X "I switched the sidebar of the site to a dark color last week. It's a small change, but I think it sets off the content better than the previous sea of white. Here's how easy it is..." 🗓️ February 14, 2019 🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPhone🏷️ Jekyll

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230 New Emojis Coming This Year Now, if we could just search for them, Apple... It's great to see all these new inclusive groups represented in Emoji. Same-sex couples, various disabilities, prosthetic appendages, more skin tone options, and gender options for jobs. 🗓️ February 6, 2019 🔗 Via Emojipedia 📷 Emojipedia 🏷️ Emoji🏷️ Apple🏷️ Linked List

Full Circle Nifty! It always amazes me the things smart engineers and designers can come up with. No matter your phone or camera preference, this is some pretty cool shit. 🗓️ January 28, 2019 🔗 YouTube 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Photography

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Apple App Store Anti Trust Lawsuit Going Forward If you can't beat 'em, sue 'em Should Apple be forced to allow side-loading apps like Microsoft and Google do? The Supreme Court is going to hear the case. 🗓️ November 25, 2018 🔗 SCOTUS Blog 📷 Daniel M. Wall for petitioner (Art Lien) 🏷️ Apple🏷️ SCOTUS🏷️ Anti-Trust

The 2018 iPad Pro A few first impressions There are a ton of iPad Pro reviews out there, so I’m not going to waste your time and mine by going through all that. But I do have a few quick 🗓️ November 7, 2018 🏷️ iPad🏷️ Apple

Looking at you, Jira Apple sold 2x more iPads than Macs last year. I don’t think keeping people on the platform is the problem. 🗓️ November 3, 2018 🔗 Twitter 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Android🏷️ SAAS🏷️ Micro

Ringo https://twitter.com/jimmylittle/status/1058496504631967744 🗓️ November 2, 2018 🔗 Twitter 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Beatles🏷️ Micro

The iPhone 5S My favorite phone, still. I know, I know. The iPhone 5🅂 is OLD. It first came out in 2013. I remember convincing my girlfriend (now wife), to wait in line with me at the 🗓️ November 1, 2018 🏷️ [Apple🏷️ iPhone]

Ajit Pai Is an Idiot Fire Him. Now. This guy is in charge of all of the airwaves. Let that sink in. 🗓️ September 29, 2017 🔗 The FCC 📷 Screengrab from The Daily Caller’s Stupid Video 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Internet🏷️ Politics

FaceID Might Be a Thing In the latest public beta of iOS, the TouchID interface changed from a solid white panel that slid up from the bottom to a full screen blurred 🗓️ July 28, 2017 🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPhone

Between the Bezels It's the software, stupid. Boy Genius reviewed the new Samsung Galaxy S8, and it’s terrible. Not the phone, the review. Let’s start with the title: Samsung Galaxy S8 review: 🗓️ April 18, 2017 🔗 Boy Genius Report 📷 BGR 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Samsung🏷️ Design

The UnTouch Bar A case for an external TouchBar I’ve been playing with Touché from Red Sweater Software, and I can really see a case for the TouchBar on an external Keyboard doohickey. A lot of 🗓️ January 23, 2017 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Mac🏷️ TouchBar

Step It Up, Siri Isn't this one obvious? Siri is great at a lot of things, but Apple really needs to get the obvious things into her (it?). I hear it’s great at telling me when the next 🗓️ November 7, 2016 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Siri

DongleGate When a dongle, isn't. A lot has been said over Apple’s recent move away from “legacy” ports. Laptops are USB-C, the headphone jack is gone from the iPhone, and everyone’s 🗓️ November 5, 2016 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Mac🏷️ iPad🏷️ iPhone

Hurricane Matthew Donate. It's easy. just swept Haiti, the Caribbean, & the East Coast of America and the Red Cross is doing what it does. Apple has been working with 🗓️ October 10, 2016 🔗 App Store 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Charity

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This Is Why HomeKit Is Secure "IoT BotNets are a thing." Bruce Schneier, on Motherboard: Much has been written about how the IoT is wildly insecure. In fact, the software used to attack Krebs was simple 🗓️ October 7, 2016 🔗 Motherboard 🏷️ Apple🏷️ HomeKit🏷️ Home Automation🏷️ IoT🏷️ Security🏷️ Linked List

iOS and tvOS Playing Nice When you control the stack... Just noticed a nifty thing watching Netflix’s Luke Cage tonight on my AppleTV. If you enter a search box, you get a push notification on your phone 🗓️ October 3, 2016 🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPad🏷️ iPhone🏷️ AppleTV

On the iPhone 7 Plus A few off-the-cuff impressions, unedited After a few days with the new phone, I have some thoughts… iTunes backup from old phone and restore to new phone was painless for the first time 🗓️ October 1, 2016 📷 Apple.com 🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPhone

Materials Are Hard GOLD! Nick Heer on the Apple Watch Editions use of gold, and now ceramic: Both of these materials are new to Apple, and because the Edition sells in such 🗓️ September 23, 2016 🔗 Pixel Envy 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Design🏷️ Linked List

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About That 'Courage' Comment This never would have happened if Steve Jobs was around Phil Schiller said Apple displayed “courage” in removing the headphone jack. He got a lot of flack for using that term, and maybe rightfully so. It 🗓️ September 12, 2016 🔗 YouTube 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Video

AirPod Paranoia Take care of your shit, y'all People are really irresponsible and paranoid, judging by their reactions to Apples AirPod announcement. Kirk McElhearn must live in some dystopian 🗓️ September 8, 2016 🏷️ Apple🏷️ AirPods

Apple's September Event It's pronounced bo-kay Tomorrow is Apple’s big fall event, and we’re all expecting new iPhones. I sat out last year’s upgrade for the first time ever, so I’m certainly 🗓️ September 6, 2016 📷 Apple.com 🏷️ Apple Watch🏷️ iPad🏷️ iPhone🏷️ Apple

The Well Kept App Store Spring cleaning in the Fall Apple has announced to developers that they are cleaning up their app store. This is good news. The two big steps Apple is taking are cleaning up 🗓️ September 2, 2016 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Apps

Vindicated When the gatekeepers can't keep the gate. I’m not a big fan of Business Insider, but there are some good quotes and links in this story. Most in the technology community rallied around 🗓️ August 22, 2016 🔗 Business Insider 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Politics🏷️ Privacy🏷️ Security🏷️ Linked List

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Simple Does Not Equal Mushy Do you remember the three-dimensional, shelf-like Dock that lived at the bottom of every Mac screen from Mac OS X Leopard in 2007 all the way 🗓️ July 26, 2016 🔗 Nicholas Windsor Howard 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Design🏷️ Linked List

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Updating my iMac's drive to an SSD Updating my iMac’s drive to an SSD. Gonna be a long night, but @owcdigital’s kit should help. Let the surgery commence 🗓️ July 7, 2016 🔗 Instagram 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Micro

Put Dvorak in a Home Get off of my lawn! In a rambling Dvorak-esque anti-logic diatribe on pcmag.com, resident crazy-pants get-off-my-lawn commentator John C. Dvorak thinks that Apple 🗓️ June 23, 2016 🔗 PCMag 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Linked List

WWDC Post Roundup My thoughts and rants on WWDC 2016 I wrote a lot more than I usually do this week in the lead-up to WWDC. Here are all the posts all on one page. I didn’t even have time to write 🗓️ June 13, 2016 🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPad🏷️ iPhone

WWDC Week of Wants, Vol 6 Today's Ramblings: Siri Apple was the first compnay to put voice control in a phone with the iPhone 3GS. Siri took over for Voice Control with the iPhone 4S, and was a vast 🗓️ June 12, 2016 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Siri🏷️ WWDC

WWDC Week of Wants, Vol 5 The not-iPhones New software for the last few WWDCs have focused heavily on the iPhone. This makes sense, because the iPhone is such a huge part of Apple’s 🗓️ June 11, 2016 📷 Seriously, Apple? You can do better. 🏷️ Apple Watch🏷️ iPad🏷️ iPhone🏷️ WWDC🏷️ Apple

WWDC Week of Wants, Vol 4 Today's Ramblings: Home Whatever happened to HomeKit? When HomeKit was announced in 2014, it showed a lot of promise. Having one way to interface with all the fiddly bits 🗓️ June 10, 2016 🏷️ Apple🏷️ HomeKit🏷️ Automation🏷️ Siri🏷️ Echo🏷️ WWDC

WWDC Week of Wants, Vol 3 Today's Ramblings: Keyboards Ever since third-party keyboards arrived with iOS8, things have pretty much been a mess. Here are some quick thoughts and wants, from my 🗓️ June 9, 2016 🏷️ WWDC🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPad🏷️ iPhone

WWDC Week of Wants, Vol 2 Today's Ramblings: Messages Messages (the concept) are very important. Messages (the app) needs to live up to that. I use a lot of messaging services for different things. 🗓️ June 8, 2016 🏷️ WWDC🏷️ Apple🏷️ Messages

WWDC Week of Wants, Vol 1 Today's Ramblings: Photos I use Apple’s Photos and iCloud for my main photo library, but I have Dropbox’s auto-upload turned on as a poor-man’s backup, and I’m a big fan of 🗓️ June 7, 2016 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Google🏷️ Photos🏷️ WWDC

Brandless Fascinating that, much like the iPhone or iPad, there is no logo on the front, only a slightly-glossier-than-the-wall logo on the side. New Apple 🗓️ May 26, 2016 🔗 Twitter 🏷️ Twitter🏷️ Apple🏷️ Linked List

New Apple Music Video Tap-Tap-Taylor Two things about this commercial: Seeing Taylor Swift “fall” on the treadmill is unexpected and damn funny. Also unexpected is Apple shows what a 🗓️ April 27, 2016 🔗 YouTube 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Music🏷️ Video

Siri Spills It According to the guys over at 9to5Mac, and confirmed by yours truly (and a bajillion other internet geeks), Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 🗓️ April 18, 2016 🔗 9to5Mac 🏷️ Apple🏷️ WWDC🏷️ Siri🏷️ Linked List

Procedural Failure Over at MacStories, Graham Spencer wraps up a piece saying: It is too soon to say, but Apple’s actions today may well be the latest example of 🗓️ April 12, 2016 🔗 MacStories 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Linked List

Apple Turns 40 Steve Jobs: It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy. The Susan Kare-designed Apple pirate flag is flying high today, on Apple’s 40th 🗓️ April 1, 2016 🔗 YouTube 🏷️ Apple

Fight Another Day The DOJ has vacated their order for Apple to unlock the San Bernardino iPhone. They were always on shaky legal ground, and were flat out lying about 🗓️ March 28, 2016 🔗 TechCrunch 🏷️ Apple🏷️ DOJ🏷️ Linked List

Both Sides of Their Mouth Do they think we don't notice this stuff? So let me get this straight… The FBI is in court right now telling the Department of Justice how it may sometimes need access to information, and 🗓️ March 18, 2016 🔗 Reuters 🏷️ FBI🏷️ Privacy🏷️ Apple🏷️ Encryption

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Richard Clarke Talks Encryption 'Not as interested in solving the problem' Richard Clarke, former National Security Council leader and security advisor to Clinton, Bush and Obama, in an interview with NPR If I were in the 🗓️ March 15, 2016 🔗 NPR 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Encryption🏷️ FBI🏷️ Privacy🏷️ iPhone

Amicus, Briefly Apple's FBI fight gets some backup As listed on a Press Info page on Apple’s site, Amicus Briefs supporting Apple’s stance on this issue. In no particular order, these companies and 🗓️ March 3, 2016 🔗 Via Apple 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Law🏷️ Privacy

Law Is Hard Orin Kerr, writing for The Washington Post, has a great breakdown of the challenges both sides face in the Apple vs. FBI phone-unlocking saga This 🗓️ February 25, 2016 🔗 The Washington Post 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Opinion🏷️ Privacy

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Apple’s FAQ on the FBI Request Transparency is key in this fight. This page is riddled with corporate-speak and has a bit of hyperbole, but it does try to lay out Apple’s case in the San Bernardino phone unlocking 🗓️ February 22, 2016 🔗 Apple 🏷️ Apple🏷️ FBI🏷️ Encryption

Disingenuous, At Best FBI Director James Comey pleads his case The San Bernardino litigation isn’t about trying to set a precedent or send any kind of message. 🗓️ February 22, 2016 🔗 Lawfare Blog 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Opinion🏷️ Privacy

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'Tim Cook: A Dangerous Precedent' Apple vs. the FBI Round 2 In an open letter on the Apple Web site, Tim Cook lays out his case against helping the government unlock an iPhone: The government suggests this 🗓️ February 17, 2016 🔗 Apple 🏷️ Apple🏷️ FBI🏷️ Privacy🏷️ iPhone🏷️ Encryption

Perfectly Reasonable? Don’t get me wrong. A Lightning nubbin on the Apple Pencil makes sense and is a great way to charge on the go. It requires no extra hardware, 🗓️ December 15, 2015 🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPad Pro🏷️ Pencil

iPad Pro First Impressions Early thoughts on a new paradigm I bought an iPad Pro. It’s ridiculously huge, and ridiculously gold. I’ve had it for a few days, and here are my current thoughts. Notes in slide 🗓️ November 16, 2015 🏷️ iPad Pro🏷️ Apple

Productive Watch Faces Using different faces for different situations. Everyone knows the Apple Watch allows you to have several different watch faces, but a lot of people don’t use the faces effectively, and some 🗓️ November 13, 2015 🏷️ Apple Watch🏷️ Apple🏷️ Productivity

Hey Siri, Buy Sony It makes sense to me! What if Apple buys Sony? Like the WHOLE THING. Apple has an event next week, and rumor has it that they will announce an AppleTV that will basically 🗓️ September 2, 2015 🏷️ Apple🏷️ AppleTV🏷️ Media

Apple September Event Regarding tomorrow’s Apple event at the Flint Center in Cupertino… Well, I’ve put it off yet again. In about 12 hours, all will be revealed. 🗓️ September 9, 2014 🏷️ Apple🏷️ iPhone

The Obligatory pre-WWDC Prognostication We know (based on posted pictures) that Apple will announce iOS 8 and the next version of OSX. (That’s OS Ten, not OS “X”, people. Let’s get it 🗓️ June 1, 2014 🏷️ Apple🏷️ WWDC

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Why Do People Give Money To Trip Chowdhry? From a CNBC story on March 20, 2014: “They only have 60 days left to either come up with something or they will disappear,” said Trip Chowdhry, 🗓️ May 20, 2014 🔗 CNBC 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Linked List

'And you wonder why...' Mike Woodward, President of HTC North America, speaking about the Samsung Galaxy S4: We’re pleased to see no innovation in the design itself This 🗓️ March 16, 2013 🔗 Business Insider 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Samsung

The Fixer Eddy Cue, the new sheriff in Apple Town. Apple Inc. (AAPL) has fired the manager responsible for its troubled mapping software, seeking to win back 🗓️ November 27, 2012 🔗 Bloomberg 🏷️ Apple

Happy Birthday, Macintosh! The Macintosh or Mac, is a series of personal computers (PC) designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc The first Macintosh was introduced by 🗓️ January 24, 2012 🔗 Wikipedia 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Mac

iWoz by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith 🗓️ October 6, 2007 🔗 Amazon 🏷️ Amazon🏷️ Book🏷️ Apple🏷️ Stuff

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The Second Coming of Steve Jobs by Alan Deutschman You may love or hate the man, but his influence in the industry can’t be argued. From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist–an unprecedented, 🗓️ October 6, 2007 🔗 Amazon 🏷️ Amazon🏷️ Book🏷️ Apple🏷️ Steve Jobs🏷️ Stuff