Our second podcast this week, this time I'm joined by Dave Mark as we go through our thoughts on WWDC. Subscribe to this podcast Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a server running in seconds with your choic…
Lees meerMicrosoft today announced a strategic change in its retail operations, including closing Microsoft Store physical locations. The company’s retail team members will continue to serve customers from Microsoft corporate facilities and remotely provi…
Lees meerGruber does his usual Talk Show during WWDC but this year, it's being done remotely. I could have done without the ten minutes of sponsorship ads off the top though.
Lees meerSamuel Axon, Ars Technica: When Apple announced its plans to transition the Mac to its own, ARM-based silicon and away from the x86 architecture used in Intel Macs, the company listed a plethora of tools for making sure as many applications surv…
Lees meerA detailed walkthrough on the new features the iOS 14 Music app brings to the table. Public beta coming in July, with a likely release in September.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerSerenity Caldwell continues to bring it. Great work. As much as I miss the camaraderie, I am really enjoying this year's experience. My hope is that all the changes Apple is bringing, especially the new production elements, will continue next year.…
Lees meerC. Scott Brown, AndroidAuthority: At this point, saying Android has a serious problem when it comes to phones receiving reliable Android upgrades is getting old. We’ve written about it a lot — even I, specifically, have written about it a lot. Y…
Lees meer[VIDEO] I'm intrigued by this show. Sara Bareilles is a terrific musician and songwriter, and J.J. Abrams has a great body of work behind him. But this trailer (embedded in the main Loop post) provides the first look at the show itself, a glimpse of…
Lees meerThis is a nice to have feature, but especially useful here: The new charged notification is a useful feature for the Apple Watch's Sleep app, which lets users wear the Apple Watch at night for sleep tracking purposes. The Apple Watch …
Lees meerI'll quibble with the "has long required remembering keyboard shortcuts" (my wife's MBA refused to boot this AM and I had to Google the various shortcuts. No need to remember them), but it will definitely be a welcome change regardless.∞ Read this o…
Lees meerThis is another one of those "small" acquisitions Apple makes of a company most of us have never heard of but, at some point in the future, will become very important to many of us.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerI found this recap even more interesting than yesterday's if only because I watched the keynote and didn't need the recap. But now that the developers are getting hands on, more and more interesting things that didn't make the Keynote are being repo…
Lees meerLet's all shed one single solitary crocodile tear in false sympathy for an industry that did everything it possibly could to abuse users.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerJohn and I get together every year for a special podcast during WWDC to talk about the announcements. Despite the distance between us, this year was no different. John and I talk about the Mac transition, iPadOS, iOS, macOS, and even the lack of any…
Lees meerHigh praise from Sinofsky, a guy who has lots of experience with this kind of stuff.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerRiding a Segway is gloriously dorky. I've ridden them in a warehouse in Nashville, and on tours in San Antonio, Rome, and London and always had a blast. But they were doomed as soon as various big city governments banned their use on city streets.∞ …
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Lees meerShort but good description of the possibilities of App Clips.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerAt first blush, Back Tap seems wonderfully geeky but useless. Thinking on it some more, I can see some advantages but also some disadvantages as well. For example, would it be invoked easily, say while bumping around in a jacket or purse?
Lees meerIt will take some time to tell whether this is an olive branch or lip service to developers. On the face of it, it sounds like Apple is making some accommodations in the wake of the Hey email app kerfuffle.∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerI wonder if this is just the first shoe (of possibly many) to drop? According to the story, "JIP specializes in restructuring loss-making businesses to make them profitable before reselling them." So this is likely the end of Olympus as we know it w…
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