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Hey Siri, What do People Like Least About the iPhone?
Ben Bajarin and crew published this study of iPhone X users and how satisfied they are with their latest’s phone. This graph they created is eye opening.
You should read the whole thing to see all the results, but this chart really sums it up pretty well. Fortunately, it also lines up pretty well
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Factory Resets are a Terrible Fix
You should never have to reset any software, so why do we need to reset our phones? - Android Central
Phone running badly? Factory reset it to fix things.
Pardon my interrobang moment, but that's ridiculous. Not that it's bad advice because it can often fix things, but it's a
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#OpenWeb
#OpenWeb is a new website from Michael Rockwell, and I think it’s a really great resource. The site essentially amounts to a collection of indie, solo bloggers who focus on Apple. You can either go to the site and check out links there, you can download the OPML file which will subscribe you to
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Voice Interfaces like Alexa and Siri are a Revolution for the Visually Impaired
Alexa Is a Revelation for the Blind - The Atlantic
Maybe he doesn’t know how to interact with a machine pretending to be human—especially after he missed the evolution of personal computing because of his disability. Watching him try to use the Echo made me realize just how much technology forms the basis of
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Apple's New AI Guru
Apple Hires Google’s A.I. Chief - The New York Times
Apple has hired Google’s chief of search and artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea, a major coup in its bid to catch up to the artificial intelligence technology of its rivals.
Giannandrea will be in charge of “machine learning and A.I. strategy” at Apple
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It's Time to Look at RSS Again
RSS Readers Are Due for a Comeback: Feedly, The Old Reader, Inoreader | WIRED
Anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online at least has a respite, one that's been there all along but has often gone ignored. Tired of Twitter? Facebook fatigued? It's time to head back to
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There are Almost 400 Games Available on Nintendo Switch
Wow, that’s a lot of games! By my math, the PS4 had 181 games on it in the first 13 months on the market, which makes the Switch number look even more impressive.
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HomePod as an Accessibility Device
First Impressions of HomePod — Steven's Blog
Accessibility. Like everything else Apple makes, HomePod is an accessible product. Apple officially lists two: VoiceOver and Touch Accommodations. If use VoiceOver on your iOS device, it is automatically turned on when you set up HomePod.
I love that Apple has included accessibility features in the HomePod.
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Picking the Better of Two Bad Things
Joe Cieplinski on why he doesn’t care if Siri is behind Alexa:
We reached the “good” threshold for speakers decades ago. The subcategory of affordable bookshelf speakers got there sometime in the past few years.
But we’re nowhere near “good” yet when it comes to digital assistants.
While I disagree, his argument is
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Grime in Your AirPod Case
https://twitter.com/mattbirchler/status/966301987259277312
Yesterday I asked Twitter to give me something I never thought I'd ask for: pictures of their earwax.
Well, not quite. I asked for anyone who had wireless headphones if they would send me a picture of their headphones, the case they live in, where they carry
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Being Forced into the iPad Only Lifestyle
Life on an iPad | The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
That was, as I say, a couple of weeks ago. Since then I’ve been doing everything I’ve done on this iPad – a 12in iPad Pro, with Smart Keyboard. That means email, writing articles for papers, editing chapters
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Swype Keyboard is Dead
Swype keyboards for Android & iOS discontinued as company focuses on business market | 9to5Google
Nuance will no longer be updating the Swype+Dragon keyboard for Android. We’re sorry to leave the direct-to-consumer keyboard business, but this change is necessary to allow us to concentrate on developing our AI solutions for sale directly
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Why Multiple Voice Recognition is Important to HomePod's Core Music Functionality
How to Prevent Other HomePod Users From Affecting Your Apple Music Recommendations - Mac Rumors
If you're concerned that other people in your household will skew your Apple Music recommendations by using HomePod to play songs that don't align with your tastes, then there's a setting you'll want
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Struggling to Agree on HomePod's Place in the Market
“Smart” speaker – what makes a speaker smart?
Maybe if Apple had called the HomePod a “super speaker” or something else and more directly avoided the comparison to “smart” devices like the Echo and the Home, they wouldn’t be having so many tech reviewers reviewing a Ferrari as if it were a Corolla.
I love
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Hulu Rolling Out 60fps Playback for Live TV
It’s here: Hulu with Live TV, now testing in 60FPS. - Hulu
You’ve asked, you’ve patiently waited… and today is the day we begin rolling out 60fps (frames per second) support on Live TV. This was one of the most-requested features by our viewers.
The feature is rolling out now for iOS,
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The Verge Clearly Hates Apple
Or maybe they don't. According to Vlad Savov at The Verge, the iPhone X is Apple’s underrated masterpiece.
The iPhone X is the biggest risk Apple has yet taken with its most important product — the most influential single product in consumer electronics history — and what’s striking to me is how casually
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Target and Best Buy are Shifting Away from CDs
Best Buy to Pull CDs, Target Threatens to Pay Labels for CDs Only When Customers Buy Them | Billboard
[S]ources say that Target has demanded to music suppliers that it wants to be sold on what amounts to a consignment basis. Currently, Target takes the inventory risk by agreeing to pay for any goods it
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The iPad Excels at Long Form Writing
Using iPad for Long-Form Writing - Joe Cieplinski
So why, then, am I typing this with a mechanical keyboard on my iPad? Well, because I discovered that for prolonged periods of typing, where I want to do nothing else but type thousands of words for a blog post, a combination of Apple’s Magic Keyboard