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An Apple Watch Series 5 Retrospective
I've been using the Apple Watch Series 5 for almost a full year now, and wanted to look back on how that watch did in its first year.
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PaymentKit: How Apple Lets Some Air Out of this Pressure Cooker
The theoretical Payments API could make it so that developers stop losing their minds with rage while keeping users safe and driving new innovation in mobile payments.
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Flying Around the World, Recreating macOS Wallpapers
Above is my recreation of the macOS Catalina wallpaper taken in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.
And here's a
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Updating Your Apple Pundit Vernacular for 2020
We no longer say, “Macs are trucks and iPads are cars,” instead we say, “Macs a general purpose computers and iPads are consoles, did you actually think there were similar?”
We no longer say, “the iPad can replace your Mac,” instead we say, “the iPad is a totally different product with totally different distribution, and
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The Window of Conversation has Shifted
I saw this tweet yesterday and it really struck a chord with me.
I genuinely do not understand why can't Apple create its own phone, its own OS, and restrict what runs on the OS. That's Apple's choice, and consumers willingly accepts it, not like they have no other
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Bean Counters
When Tim Cook took over for Apple way back in 2011, there was lots of concern around Apple turning the company over to the "bean counters". The concern was that Cook would turn the company into something that was unrecognizable from the Apple we knew and loved and turn it into a company
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Is the iPhone a PlayStation?
The above chart shows the debate at the top of everyone's mind right now in the Apple pundit
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I Never Have to Accidentally Quit Safari Again (using Keyboard Maestro)
I know Mac die-hards hate the relatively new Chrome (and Edge) behavior where you have to hold down the
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If Not 30%, What? 4 Ideas on How to Improve App Store Pricing
So I’ve spent a while explaining why I think the 30% cut Apple takes on every sale made on the App Store is not the way it should work in 2020. To summarize:
1. I looked at how taking your own payments is way cheaper than 30%
2. I talked about the benefits of
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On the App Store Turning a Profit
My days-long exploration of App Store pricing has not resulted in actual fisticuffs, but it’s certainly helped me understand why some people feel that “this is fine” and devs should deal with it. The biggest thing people keep coming back to is “the App Store needs to break even”.
My retort: no, it
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Why 30%?
I keep thinking about this 30% cut Apple gets on App Store purchases. The conversation usually has three general sides:
1. 30% is the right number
2. 30% is too high and it should be lowered to something like 10%
3. 30% is okay, but merchants should be able to do payments themselves if they
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Apple Silicon Mac Will Have Touch Screens
Quinn Nelson put out a video yesterday about "Big Sur's Big Secret"
I should have shared this thought earlier, but from the moment this year's WWDC keynote ended, I was convinced every Mac made with Apple Silicon is going to have a touch screen. The UI changes in this
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Why Apple's New Sleep Tracking Doesn't Score Your Sleep
How the Apple Watch tracks sleep -- and why - CNET
Unlike other wearables such as the Fitbit or Oura, which measure how much time you spend in the various sleep phases and even give calculated sleep quality scores, Apple's sleep tech is more simplified. It just tracks duration of sleep, movement disturbances and heart
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The Costs and Benefits of Taking Payments Outside the App Store
I don’t talk about this too much on the site (separation of work and hobby), but I happen to work in the payments industry and the has proven to be both helpful and a cause of madness this past week.
It’s been helpful because I not only know a lot about payments, subscription
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You Can’t Set Up a Bodega in Walmart
I've seen some defenses of Apple's now-modified-enforcement of App Store guidelines that go a little something like this:
If you think apps should be able to freeload on Apple's App Store distribution, but then not give Apple a cut of their revenue, then you must also think
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My Number 1 Complaint with Working on the iPad
Bar none, the biggest issue I run into on the iPad is dealing with local storage. Like, by a mile.
I'll give you an example that happened to me tonight. I recorded some video of the new Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Remake this evening and wanted to cut together a video
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Apple’s Exceptional Product Messaging
I tweeted out a link to Joshua Vergara’s well-made review of the new Samsung Galaxy Book Flex, because one bit stood out to me. He says:
There’s wireless power share in the touch pad. Talk about being nimble, if you’re watching something on the screen[...] and you’re not really doing
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Buying Into a Philosophy
What if Apple built Windows?
Out there question, I know, but stick with me on this one. If Apple made Windows, would you like it more than you like it day? The features would be the same, and maybe it would work more smoothly with Apple’s iCloud services, but in every other way it