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watchOS 7: A BirchTree Concept
My ambitious, but largely practical concept for what I’d like to see from the next generation of watchOS.
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Negativity as a Default
Apple Malaise | Becky Hansmeyer
Maybe it’s just me, but the Apple news/developer community seems to have settled into
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When Anti-Virus Software is the Virus Itself
Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data - VICE
The documents, from a subsidiary of the
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Something I Love About Books (there isn’t a Tomometer)
The recent debut of Apple TV+ gave me a chance to publicly roll my eyes at Rotten Tomatoes for the
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Is Subscription Pricing Sustainable?
Subscription apps – are they a sustainable business model? - 9to5Mac
What’s your view? Do you share my feeling that
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Affordances are Not Clutter
Daring Fireball: It’s Not About Intuitiveness
Far more of iPadOS should be exposed by visual buttons and on-screen elements
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My Shortcut for Writing Quick Link Posts in Ulysses
Download the Shortcut here.
Writing link posts isn’t that hard, but it does involve a lot of manual copy
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3 out of 4 Apple Watch Buyers are Getting Their First Apple Watch
75% of Apple Watch customers are first time buyers, likely driven by Series 3 promos - 9to5Mac
According to Apple,
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Homework Assignment
Assignment: If you work somewhere with people on computers much of the day, tomorrow take note of how many people
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Who is Building Billion Dollar Companies These Days?
Gruber, commenting on Ben Thompson:
There are developers making good money with professional caliber iPad apps. But nothing like the
Mistaking Familiarity for Intuitiveness
People: “love the iPad, but it’s too bad apple software and third party software is holding iPad back, we
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My 10 Year Review of the iPad
10 years ago the iPad was "about to replace the personal computer."
Today the iPad is "about
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Back on Apple’s Incentives (and on blogging as conversation)
Apple’s Incentives - Initial Charge
It’s hard to quantify the value of influencers within families and groups of
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Servant Review
I watched the first two episodes of Apple TV+’s new show, Servant on a plane on Tuesday morning. By
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The Galaxy Fold Not a Viable Product
Samsung Galaxy Fold review: The future is an ugly disappointment | Ars Technica
Should you buy a Galaxy Fold? NO! God
Apple's Incentives
Michael Rockwell on App Store editorials:
It would be nice if these Apple published editorials weren’t tucked away inside
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"33 Million" Apple TV+ Subscribers
The Wall Street Journal reports (via 9to5Mac, if you don't subscribe to WSJ) that there are about 33
Android's Nearby Sharing, Apple's AirDrop, and Samsung's Wild Card
AirDrop is one of the best, most useful features in the Apple ecosystem, and it's something I'