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Daring Fireball: The AnandTech A15 SoC Performance Review
A thorough review, as usual. Interesting to contrast with Dylan Patel’s much-publicized “Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt and the Future Looks Dim” hot take last month, just after the Apple event.
To summarize the situation:
1. Apple announces the A15 chip and compares
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I Want to Root for the Surface Go
Microsoft Surface Go 3 review: Third time isn't quite the charm - Engadget
But the full truth of the Surface Go 3 is a little more complicated. You need to shell out at least another $100 for a keyboard. And, seeing as Windows still doesn’t offer a great tablet experience you need the
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Paddle Tries to Revamp In-App Purchases
Paddle In-App Purchase for iOS
When selling with Paddle, your apps stay on the App Store, but we make the sale – just like Apple. This means we’re liable for all the painful purchase admin, from global sales taxes to customer support. There’s nothing new for you to worry about.
Paddle might be
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What Does it Mean to be Endemic?
Everyone keeps talking about covid becoming endemic, but as I listen to the conversation, it’s becoming more & more clear to me that very few of you know what “endemic” means.
So here’s a thread on how pandemics end. pic.twitter.com/uuYinUcynb
— Dr Ellie Murray, ScD (@EpiEllie) October 1, 2021
This is
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Time to Expand the Apple Watch Lineup?
David Smith (Underscore) wrote about using a Coros Apex Pro,
The Apple Watch simply does too much. It is essentially a small iPhone, incredibly capable of a mind-bendingly wide range of tasks. This flexibility is part of its charm, its appeal. But it is also necessarily a profound stumbling block for more specialized roles.
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Your Next Task Manager Might not be a Task Manager
Your Next Productivity Tool is…. How Planner Apps Will Rise & To-Do Apps… | by Francesco D'Alessio
I believe your next to-do list application, won’t be a to-do list app. The next major productivity application will be a planner application.
Francesco makes a concise argument why traditional task managers are
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Another Reason Grindstone is Awesome
How 'Grindstone,' a Game About Matching Colors, Solved Its Colorblind Issue:
"How do we even address an
The Illusion of Choice
Chris Coyer on CSS-Tricks:
The Safari and Chrome team both want to make the web safer and work hard to improve the web. But they do have different views on what the web should be.
And:
I’ll say how I feel: that sucks. I have this expensive computer in my pocket and it
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The War for Engagement
The war for engagement - Axios
Engagement, not pay or perks, is the leading indicator — and chief reason — for the record turnover many companies are experiencing today.
I think the pandemic has made almost everyone think in a different way about what they’re doing with their lives. Whether you lost your job or not, this
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Apple’s Biggest Camera Update Yet?
iPhone 13 Pro Review: Another Step Forward – Greg Morris
I am not sure that it is, as Apple say, the biggest camera update yet, but it is a big one. With all this said most people won’t be able to tell the difference in the images from any iPhone in the last 3 years
Yo, Where's Birch Bark?
From February 20, 2020 through September 10, 2021, I sent a Birch Bark email every Friday morning. That's 83 issues in a row, with a few bonus issues in there once in a while. Then I ran out of time to get one out on September 17, and I ended the streak.
Then
I Think Glass Should Add Likes
Last month I started using Glass, a photo sharing app for the iPhone that was aimed squarely at those of us who miss the glory days of Instagram (you know, when they were less successful 😛). I made a whole video about it that you could watch to see how I felt then.
I still feel
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From Best to Worst
Daring Fireball: The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’
Apple has thrown away Safari’s tab design — a tab design that was not just best-of-platform, but arguably best-in-the-whole-damn-world — and replaced it with a design that is both inferior in the abstract, and utterly inconsistent with the
Exactly How Compromised Were Android's High-Refresh Rate Screens?
This exchange happened on this week's episode of The Talk Show between John Gruber and Rene Ritchie:
John: Do you know if Android phones which high refresh rates, do they dynamically adjust, or if you're in high frame rate you're always in 120Hz?
Rene: So this is like this
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Simple iPhone 13 Wallpapers
I made a few quick wallpapers based on some of the artwork in the iPhone 13 press images. Nothing super
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watchOS 8: The Review 👀
That's right, things are a bit different this year! Instead of writing up a long list of changes
payments
Addressing 4 Misconceptions About Payments I Typically Hear from Apple Enthusiasts
I’ve posted a lot both here and on Twitter about payments over the past year for two main reasons:
1. The App Store rules around payments have been in question, so now payments are just another Apple-related subject.
2. Lots of people commenting on this stuff have incomplete understandings on how this stuff
