Advice for Delivering Great Product Demos
A few quick tips for delivering great product demos.
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Overcast 2 Gets Into the Weeds
Introducing Voice Boost 2: Remaster your podcasts – Marco.org
This is about to get nerdier, but bear with me. (Yes,
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Podcast #223: Uppercuts and Body Blows
I recently gave a big presentation and the best advice I got going into that talk was a boxing metaphor,
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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 antivirus
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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 subscription
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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
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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, 75%
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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 friends.
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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