Tag: apple

  • iPhone X’s new margins

    Brian Voong on his excellent YouTube channel Let’s Build That App: With the introduction of iPhone 10, we as developers are now faced with another option for our apps to be displayed in. Fortunately, Apple has provided us with the necessary APIs to get around the unsafe regions of this phone. We do this by…

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  • Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”

    Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to…

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  • Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”

    Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to…

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  • Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”

    Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to…

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  • Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”

    Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to…

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  • Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”

    Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to…

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  • Serenity Caldwell on Apple Watch Series 3 \”LTE issues\”

    Serenity Caldwell: In any case, no, this isn’t a problem with the watch’s Cellular service. It’s an existing issue that’s just suddenly become extremely relevant. Glad to see that it is very likely going to be solved in short order. My bet is that there are a few people at Apple that are going to…

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  • Please turn on Do Not Disturb When Driving!

    Jason Snell for Six Colors: iPhone users, well, there’s still great stuff there—Do Not Disturb When Driving is going to make the world safer—but it’s a bit less of a world-shaker. Not a world shaker? This isn’t a ho-hum, hum-drum update for iPhone. This is going to save a ton of lives, injury, heartache, and…

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  • Repost: The Next Web re: iPhone X benchmarks

    👉 TNW: iPhone X leaked benchmarks match MacBook [Pro] speeds and destroy Android phones That is impressive and remarkable.

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  • Repost: Maciej Cegłowski re: iPhone X

    👉 Maciej Cegłowski: iPhone X summary: wireless charging (with wire), all-screen display (with black bar) and sleek, flat shape (with camera bump)

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  • _DavidSmith on the Apple Watch Series 3

    _DavidSmith: While I’ll have to live with it for a few weeks to see if it really pans out, imagining a future where my iPhone is no longer a ‘must carry’ device is remarkable. This is why I’m ordering one. As I said I would.

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  • Repost: Mike Rundle on Twitter re: the iPhone X notch

    👉 Mike Rundle: In landscape the notch literally chops out part of the video. Can’t believe they didn’t indent it a little bit.

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  • Repost: Daring Fireball on the iPhone X notch

    👉 John Gruber: Long story short: embrace the notch.

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  • Wishes for Apple’s Fall Media Event

    On Tuesday Apple is holding its Fall Media Event. Thanks to a rogue Apple employee, who I can only imagine is packing their personal affects as I type this, the rumor mill has been working overtime and it appears as though we “know” just about every detail one could imagine prior to this event short…

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  • Repost: Mike Rundle on Twitter

    👉 Mike Rundle: The new top-end iPhone will have a notch. New top-end Android phones (V30, S8) do not. Hard for Apple to spin that.

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  • Microsoft holding Surface Keynote in October

    Tom Warren for The Verge: Microsoft’s Surface chief will hold a keynote speech in London at the end of October. The software giant is holding its annual Future Decoded event in London from October 31st to November 1st, and Microsoft revealed to The Verge today that Panos Panay will be speaking. Microsoft typically launches new…

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  • E19: Launching Summit’s public beta

    Recorded on August 23 2017. A quickly captured audio bit while walking to get a coffee the day after launching Summit’s public beta. Download MP3.

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  • Pedometer++ 3.0

    _DavidSmith: I’ve been steadily working on Pedometer++ now for nearly four years. Over that time the core conceit of the app has remained the same, to motivate you to be more active. It has done this with colors, confetti, complications and streaks. Now I’ve added another tool to hopefully motivate, achievements! Pedometer++ continues to be…

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  • I want a dual-camera, edge-to-edge screen, waterproof iPhone SE

    I miss my iPhone SE. Everything I ever wrote about it here on my blog was awash with my overwhelming love of the device. I still believe it is the best phone Apple has made to date. The only reason I use an iPhone 7 Plus is the camera. I said I wouldn’t switch from…

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  • Colin Walker on the Summit beta

    Colin Walker: I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the time I’ve spent beta testing Summit and look forward to the new builds. Colin has provided excellent feedback on Summit. So have so many of the beta testers. I too am looking forward to publishing new builds. If you’re on the beta list (which you can get on by…

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  • Deep Learning and Siri’s voice

    Apple: The training speech data contains a minimum of 15 hours of high-quality speech recordings sampled at 48 kHz. We segmented the speech into half-phones using forced alignment, i.e., automatic speech recognition to align the input phone sequence with acoustic features extracted from the speech signal. This segmentation process results in around 1–2 million half-phone…

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  • Repost: Phil Schiller on Twitter

    ☞ Phil Schiller: Celebrating #HyperCard (I created some insane stacks in the day…) http://blog.archive.org/2017/08/11/hypercard-on-the-archive-celebrating-30-years-of-hypercard/

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  • Favicons on tabs in browsers

    John Gruber: With many tabs open, there’s really nothing subjective about it: Chrome’s tabs are more usable because they show favicons. Like John, I’m currently a Safari user. I switched to Chrome for a bit due to the Developer tools being a bit better at the time but, as you may know, I’m trying to…

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  • Tim Cook on ARKit

    Tim Cook, in a recent quarterly earnings call for Apple, on ARKit: One of the most exciting and most promising announcements from WWDC was ARKit, a new set of tools for developers to create augmented reality apps. It’s still early in the beta period, but it’s clear that ARKit has captured the imagination of our…

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  • Less apps is more

    Tim Nahumck: I always try to reduce the number of apps that I use at any given time and cutting the reliance on multiple services when and where possible. This sounds a lot like my repeated attempts to consolidate around Apple’s default applications. I like Tim’s use of Slack as a personal center of information.…

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  • I can work on anything I want

    One of the most enjoyable aspects of working on your own project is that there is so much to do. That may seem strange, why would I want to have so much to do? But if you look at it a different way it becomes a much more enjoyable experience. Whenever I sit down to…

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  • Observations on using the iOS 11 Public Beta

    The iOS 11 Public Beta is the first beta OS I’ve installed from Apple. I did so in part because I want to help improve the OS by providing feedback and analytic data, but also because I wanted to test my aforementioned app that I’m building, and lastly I’ve wanted driving mode since very early…

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  • Apple Machine Learning Journal

    Apple: Welcome to the Apple Machine Learning Journal. Here, you can read posts written by Apple engineers about their work using machine learning technologies to help build innovative products for millions of people around the world. The first post Improving the Realism of Synthetic Images is already live.

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  • Observations on building my first iOS app in Swift

    In early June I decided I wanted to learn iOS app development using Swift. I’ve made a lot of progress over the last month, building two apps that I can use on my own phone, and one app that I’m now in beta testing via TestFlight with a few friends. Over the last month I’ve…

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  • Their own technology

    Garrett Sloane for AdAge: Apple News will let top media partners use their own technology to fill the ad space in their content, becoming more of an extension of the publishers’ own websites than the walled-off island it is now, the people said. At first I thought those that were linking to this have this…

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  • WWDC 2017 recap

    I wanted to take a few moments to jot down a comparison between my wish list for this year’s WWDC and what was announced. Also, towards the end, some quick thoughts on the surprises that were announced. Here are my wishes, in order from the previous post, and whether or not we got them. Shared…

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  • Back to Apple, again

    Each year WWDC week gives us new and updated Apple software that is easier to use and more tightly integrated. As a result, each year I find myself wishing that I used Apple software exclusively instead of using third-party applications. Forgive me, but I’m about to quote an entire post that I wrote in June 2014 as to…

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  • WWDC 2017 wish list

    It has been an exciting year for developers so far. Facebook is making the camera a platform, Microsoft is making cloud computation happen with two clicks of a mouse, and Google is doing everything that everyone else is doing plus a billion more things. WWDC is next week. So what are my wishes? Since I…

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  • iOS 11 and iPad wishes from Mac Stories

    Federico Viticci: We haven’t seen something truly new, bold, and transformational happen on the iPad platform in nearly two years. It’s time for Apple to step up their game and continue pursuing the vision for the future of computing set forth in 2015. There’s so much more work to be done with iOS, multitasking, and…

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  • Google Assistant for iOS is a clunky mess

    Karissa Bell for Mashable: For starters, Assistant’s iOS app is a confusing, disjointed, mess. You’d think the Assistant would be able to easily link up with all your other Google services, but that wasn’t the case in my initial testing. It isn’t often that I agree with an article on Mashable. However, in this case…

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  • The new MacBook Pro with Touchbar

    Sarah Parmenter: By the time 2016 rolled around, I was overdue an upgrade and I thought the new MacBook Pro’s were enough of an upgrade to warrant a new purchase. After all, it had been 4 years. A lifetime in hardware you use every day. I was in the exact same boat as Sarah. I…

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  • Clips

    Apple: Introducing Clips. A new iOS app for making and sharing fun videos with text, effects, graphics, and more. I’ve been looking for an app like this for a long time. The Verge describes how I think I’ll use this app. My best guess is because the default camera app is still something that’s supposed to…

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  • iPad sales

    Marco Arment posits the idea that, maybe, the iPad isn’t the future of computing based on the fact that sales are down year-over-year again. He writes: What if, like so much in technology, it’s mostly just additive, rather than largely replacing PCs and Macs, and furthermore had a cooling-fad effect as initial enthusiasm wore off and…

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  • Photos app updated on iCloud

    Jesse Hollington at iLounge: Apple has debuted a major update to its web-based iCloud Photos app at iCloud.com, presenting a new user interface that more closely resembles the macOS Photos app. Major is a good word to describe this update. You’ll even notice the ‘url’ for the app is now #photos2 on iCloud.com. The app…

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  • People are switching from Macs to Surface

    Brian Hall at Microsoft: More people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before. Our trade-in program for MacBooks was our best ever, and the combination of excitement for the innovation of Surface coupled with the disappointment of the new MacBook Pro – especially among professionals – is leading more and more people to…

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  • Removing the pro from Apple

    John Gruber regarding Sal Soghoian being axed from Apple: If they had simply fired him, that’d be one thing, but the fact that they’ve eliminated his position is another. This is shitty news. I find this to be a profoundly worrisome turn of events for the future of the Mac. I hope I’m wrong. I…

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  • E11: Browsers, Surfaces, MacBook Pros, and Tesla roof

    Danny and I have an early Sunday morning conversation about our browsers of choice (he likes Vivaldi), Microsoft and Apple’s announcements this week and the Tesla roof. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e11.mp3 Download MP3

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  • Touch Bar

    I’ve been tweeting like crazy about the new MacBook Pros and how I’ve found the most recent updates underwhelming. But I couldn’t come up with a great way to describe how I felt about Touch Bar in a way that I wanted in my blog archives. Until I read this. Michael Tsai: I’m not crazy about…

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  • Hey, umm, Siri?

    I was happy this week to see that the topic of how far behind Siri is came up on many tech blogs. It is a topic I’ve thought, but not wrote, a lot about. In 2012 Siri was ahead on ability, but behind on speed. Earlier in 2016, prior to WWDC, I wrote a WWDC…

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  • 10MacApps over 10 years later

    Ten and a half years ago I was asked by Zach Hale to jot down my 10 favorite Mac apps and then ask a few others to do the same. Wow, ten and a half years ago. Pre iPhone. Now, with the Mac seemingly a second-class citizen both in hardware upgrades and app popularity, now…

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  • What Photos for OS X and iOS will be able to automatically detect in iOS 10

    Alternate title: My hopes are low for object detection in the new Photos but I still have hope Reddit user vista980622 dig some digital sleuthing and may have come up with the list of over 4,000 objects, memories, and facial expressions that Photos for iOS and OS X will be able to mine all on its own…

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  • WWDC murdered my wish list

    In a good way. Yesterday I scrawled a few comments during the WWDC Keynote, and did 1 second reviews of the announcements on Snapchat, but I thought I’d jot down the tally of things I had hoped for against what was actually announced. First, however, let me just say that the amount of work Apple showcased yesterday…

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  • Random subtle updates to Apple software

    Apple could not possibly cover every update to iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS in their Keynote. So as the nerds have been picking through the trash in and around San Francisco they’ve been able to dig up several subtle changes that are worth noting. Here are a few of them that I’ve found via Twitter…

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  • WWDC 2016 wish list

    Wish lists have been swirling around these last few days and many of them are quite good. But none of them are mine. So here is my wish list, not my predictions, for what will be announced today at WWDC. I hope Siri can do a lot more – I think we’re overdue on being…

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  • App Store Subscriptions

    Yesterday the news hit of Apple’s changes to App Store policies and features including allowing developers to leverage Subscriptions for their applications so that they can better make a living making great apps. This, from John Gruber’s coverage at Daring Fireball: Now, subscription-based pricing will be an option for _any_sort of app, including productivity apps and games.…

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