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Federico Viticci has long been expanding on the merits of Editorial, a text editor for iOS. This app plays a big role in his everyday work and enables him to run his business from his iPad. That’s a pretty stunning statement, and one that many people will tell you
There was a bit of chatter online yesterday over Marco Arment’s decision to make Overcast free and only make money on it though a patronage program. Essentially, he’s doing the Radiohead model of “pay what you want” for the app. Marco said he did this as a way
Am I an Apple fanboy? God, I hope not! In the interest of figuring this out, I started to do a mental inventory of the tech and services from the big three tech companies (Apple, Google, and Microsoft) that I use to manage my life. What I found was that
Eugene Kim over at Business Insider (I know, I know) has piece on Evernote’s fall from grace in the tech world. Depending on where you stand, Evernote is either a sinking ship or a maturing company going through a normal transition cycle. But most people we spoke to seem
We seem to be at a fork in the road when it comes to smart watch design. There is a serious debate out there about whether smart watches should be round or square. The two major players in the smart watch era have already broken down different paths with Google’
I want to look at one product and one person. The app is Drafts for iOS and the person is David Smith. While there is a sentiment out there that it’s impossible to make a living on the App Store, these stand out as shining examples of how to
I'm in my late 20s, and while I'm getting to that age that advertisers no longer care about, I still pride myself on being open to new things. I still voraciously consume new music from artists I've never heard of and I have a
Nilay Patel writing for The Verge: You might think the conversation about ad blocking is about the user experience of news, but what we're really talking about is money and power in Silicon Valley. Nilay is correct that this is all a big chess match that’s about
NOTE: This piece originally ran on June XX, 2015 but was taken down at the request of CurrentC. One of the perks of working for a big company is that you sometimes get to try new and interesting things before they’re made available to the public. It doesn’t
What happens when an Apple guy explores Material Design? I love this bit exploration of Material Design by designer Matthieu Aussaguel. I for one would be okay with a little more Material Design in my iOS and Mac apps.
Microsoft just launched a new email app called Push. The app only works with Office 365 email accounts, which makes it useless for most people, but I do find it to be an interesting new app. Anything that makes email quicker and easier is okay with me. This line caught
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: “Apple just releases updates to make your phone obsolete so you have to buy a new one.” I get this statement more often than I feel is reasonable. There are a surprising number of people out there who seem to think
Apple Waits as App Developers Study Who’s Buying Its Watch - The New York Times Facebook was not persuaded [by the Apple Watch as a platform]. Three months after the watch’s release, there is no Facebook app tailored for it. Adam Mosseri, who oversees Facebook’s news feed,
Apple Watch Satisfaction - Techpinions Given the current customer satisfaction of the iPhone is at 99%, the first version of the Apple Watch ranks closer to the current generation iPhone than the first generation iPhone or iPad in terms of satisfaction. These are very impressive "customer sat" (channeling
What if we nerds used Twitter the way it's meant to be used and not like we used it 5 years ago? This is the question I aimed to answer when I switched Tweetbot off on my Mac, iPad, and most critically of all, my iPhone. I love