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The iPad is for Everyone
Numeric Citizen: Where Should The iPad Go From Here?
The iPad form factor dictates the rest of the story: the iPad cannot meet everybody’s needs with the same ease as a traditional portable because of its form factor AND the design decisions Apple made about its interaction models; iPadOS isn’t macOS.
I agree
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The Opposite of Small Business Saturday
On a pretty regular basis I’ll see someone write a thread or blog post about why they’re switching to all stock iPhone apps. The dream seems to be throwing all third party apps to the side and going all in on Apple stuff.
Everyone is of course allowed to do whatever they want,
I’ve Had It With This Guy
Alexander Burns: ‘I’ve Had It With This Guy’: G.O.P. Leaders Privately Blasted Trump After Jan. 6
In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building, the two top Republicans in Congress, Representative Kevin McCarthy and Senator Mitch McConnell, told associates they believed President Trump was responsible for inciting the
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iPad Needs to Go Better When Bigger
Mark Gurman:
And, most importantly, a new “pro” mode that kicks in when the iPad is connected to a keyboard and trackpad, such as Apple’s own Magic Keyboard, or an external display.
This is an alternate to the studioOS idea I had a few weeks ago, and I don't personally like this
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1Password, KeePass, and Humanity
Josh Centers: Moving from 1Password to KeePass
If all this sounds like I left a smooth and perfectly functional app for a hodgepodge of cobbled-together solutions, it’s because I did. But now that I’ve hashed out the kinks, it works pretty well. I’ve created and changed several passwords on both my
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Why Pebble Failed
Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble, on why Pebble failed:
The underlying problem was that we shifted from making something we knew people wanted, to making an ill-defined product that we hoped people wanted.
The whole read is worth your time, but Pebble gets tons of credit from me for validating that the smart
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The Land Grab
Peter Kafka: This is as good as movies are going to get
This glut of great streaming stuff is literally a glut, and no one in the business thinks that it’s going to last forever. The giant tech and media companies funding the production boom have no intention of doing it in perpetuity. Right
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Apple's Hide My Email Kinda Rocks
Mike Lapidakis: An Ode to Apple's Hide My Email
Last summer, Apple announced that as part of their iCloud+ service expansion, a new feature named Hide My Email was launching. The feature received little fanfare and was mainly swept up in the plethora of other news from WWDC. After using it for nearly
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The Surprising Legacy of the HomePod
The original HomePod in 2018 was not a successful product, but over the last couple years I've noticed
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Apple's Merchant Processing Aspirations
Back in January I suggested that Apple's Tap-to-pay solution would be something third party payment providers could integrate into because merchants aren't going to be interested in having their main payments happening in one place and their contactless stuff happening in a siloed Apple system.
This week, Mark Gurman
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Deliveries Gets Kneecapped
The Future of Deliveries on the Deliveries blog:
It’s likely that over time, more services in Deliveries will no
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🏃🏻♂️ Another Zippy One (Newsletter #110)
Another short one since I simply don't have time right now, but I had to get a few goodies in your inbox anyway!
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* The cutest orange packaging you ever did see.
* Layfort is a great-looking new font that's <$100 for thos whole set.
* Why moderation and free
🏃🏻♂️ Micro-Newsletter #109
Hello and happy Friday! I'm moving this week, so this issue is quite abbreviated (and late!), but I still wanted to get some goodies into your inbox for the weekend. Cheers!
A Single Link
I talked to Greg Morris on his And You Are? podcast about all sorts of things from how social
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Some of Apple's Own Mac Apps are Using HTML for UI
Jim Nielsen: Inspecting Web Views in macOS
I’m intrigued by the ability to use system colors in CSS and these web views in macOS show how engineers at Apple are leveraging non-standard CSS keywords in Webkit to mimic UIs in macOS which are otherwise built with native system APIs. It’s kind of
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They Hate You and They'll Believe Anything
Associated Press: Republican retracts false claim schools placing litter boxes for ‘furry’ students
“They meow and they bark and they interact with their teachers in this fashion,” Bostelman said during legislative debate. “And now schools are wanting to put litter boxes in the schools for these children to use. How is this sanitary?”
This is
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Overcast Should Steal Castro's Best Feature
Michael J. Tsai: Overcast 2022.2
The biggest issue that I have with Overcast right now is that its design doesn’t really match my situation of having some podcasts where I’m a completionist and others where I want to pick and choose certain episodes to listen to. The problem with the second group
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I Divested in the Thing I Love and All I Got Was This Stupid T-Shirt
Elizabeth Lopatto: Bored Ape Yacht Club’s newest merch drop can only be bought with ApeCoin
Members who pay in ApeCoin are essentially giving their ApeCoin DAO vote back to Yuga Labs, further consolidating Yuga Labs’ control over the DAO.
So you can buy ApeCoin, which earns you investment in the future of the coin,
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Everybody's Golf Servers Shutting Down, but That's Okay
Chris Carter: Servers closing this fall
“Online servers for Everybody’s Golf will shut down on September 30, 2022,” wrote the developer on the official website. “All online features (including online multiplayer modes) will cease on that date. You will still be able to play and enjoy the game in single-player offline modes.”
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