February 2016 iPhone Rumors Judged
This is the second in a multi-part series of posts looking back on the iPhone rumors from last year. I am doing this review to put this year's rumors into perspective. With the wisdom of hindsight, maybe we can look back on how last year's rumors shook out and see
January 2016 iPhone Rumors Judged
This is the first in a multi-part series of posts looking back on the iPhone rumors from last year. I am doing this review to put this year's rumors into perspective. With the wisdom of hindsight, maybe we can look back on how last year's rumors shook out and see
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The iPhone is the camera I’ve used to capture my life.
Austin Mann wrote his own unique blog post about 10 years with the iPhone, and he summed up the importance of this line of phones very nicely as "the camera I've used to capture my life."
I think that's a very powerful statement, and is not something most people
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Off the Tracks (a Final Cut Pro X movie)
https://youtu.be/H7Wzxiefbig
I learned to edit in iMovie and then upgraded to Final Cut Pro, Avid, and Premier. I love editing video, and my brain was trained for a good decade or so to use the now classic non-linear timeline. Final Cut Pro X broke my brain, and the brains of many
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The apps are too damn big
John Gruber wrote a quick post titled Bad App Citizens where he says:
It’s getting to the point where most apps can’t be updated over cellular because they’re all over 100 MB. This is madness.
I decided to test out exactly how much data is transferred on some of these larger apps.
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Warning, do not install watchOS 4 beta 2
This is just a quick PSA, but I need to get the word out: watchOS 4 beta 2 is a complete mess on the Apple Watch.
All the features are still there, the Toy Story watch faces have been added, and some minor bugs have been squashed, but battery life is completely shot. I installed
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The Lofree Keyboard Review
The Lofree keyboard wastes no time making a first impression. From the first moment I laid eyes on it, it&
Tough impressions of the Amazon Echo from regular people
I really like my Amazon Echo, and I think that voice assistants are a big part of the next wave of computing, but that does not seem to be as universal a feeling as one might gather just by reading tech blogs. I like my Echo because it can answer some simple questions and give
Which cloud storage option gives you the most bang for your buck?
Online storage is a tricky thing, and there are many reasons to choose one over another. If you’re all in on Microsoft platforms, OneDrive could be your best bet, while someone deep in on Apple stuff may find benefits in iCloud Drive. Meanwhile, if you need something that’s everywhere snd built into everything,
Back when betas were private
I have been furiously tweeting screenshots, videos, and my impressions of the iOS 11 and watchOS 4 betas over the past couple weeks, and at one point I paused and thought "wait, should I be doing this?" to myself. Obviously I'm fine and my Apple developer account remains in good standing,
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The BirchTree Podcast Ep. 22: WWDC Take 2
I wanted to take another look at WWDC now that I have played with some of the betas more and watched some of the developer sessions.
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Reasons not to install the iOS 11 beta just yet
Updated June 23, 2017
You shouldn't install the iOS 11 beta for many reasons, most notably the fact that tons of things are just plain broken. Here's a selection of things that are broken or annoying in the current beta state.
* Battery life is terrible.
* Everything is slow.
* The camera sometimes
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Your local OS, not just online services, still matter in 2017
Apple gets a lot of heat for being bad at services, bad at AI, and bad at collecting user data. The common example that comes up as a company doing this right is Google who as we all know is collecting mad amounts of data about every one of us. Google Photos is better than
Quickly grading my WWDC17 predictions or: 2.5/10 is good, right?
I’m going to keep this brief because this year was kind of a shitshow for me. While I am ultimately happy with what Apple shoed, it was not what I was expecting form them. Overall, my count is 2.5/10, which is not great!
iPad is the star of the show
Yup! iPad
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The BirchTree Podcast #21: WWDC reactions with Matt Bonney
I had a lot of fun talking with Matt Bonney about the WWDC keynote on Monday. It's the first episode I've done in a while, and it was great to get back at it. I hope you like the much longer than normal episode.
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The greatest watchOS 4 feature that Apple didn’t mention on stage
One of my biggest complaints with watchOS since basically day one has been that media controls are never as readily accessible as they should be. This was actually one of be few things that got worse with watchOS 3 last year, but Apple has made a brilliant move in their next version of watchOS to
Grading Apple's WWDC 2017 keynote
Apple's WWDC keynote has come and gone, and it was quite a show. Apple felt like they were going at about 1 million miles per hour, and their 2 hour 20 minute show felt like it could have gone 4 hours and they would not have lacked content. Let's take a
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Should you install the iOS 11 beta on your iPhone or iPad?
No
You might be tempted to install the iOS 11 beta on your iPhone or iPad, but trust me when I tell you it’s not worth the risks or headaches yet. We’re not even to the public beta yet, this is a developer beta for developers to use on their development devices for
