Apple’s restrictions will still hold it back, but there’s a lot of possibility. | Continue reading
This story by Caleb Sasser is just wild. | Continue reading
Apple unveiled some new accessibility features this week, including Eye Tracking. The iPads announced at last week's event are now avalable. The reviews have also dropped, so Dave and I take a look at what people are saying. GPT 4o was demoed and it's absolutely incredible—unless … | Continue reading
According to Apple analystMing-Chi Kuo, there’s a possibility we could get a longer battery life on the upcoming iPhone 16 Pro Max, which will be expected to launch later this year. Read more... | Continue reading
"Taken together, our findings imply that return to office mandates can imply significant human capital costs in terms of output, productivity, innovation, and competitiveness for the companies that implement them." There's no doubt that there's a lot of value in being in the same … | Continue reading
Yet another incredible story on Cabel Sasser’s blog, this one about a supposedly vintage Apple Employee badge: Wow. Someone was selling Apple Employee #10’s employee badge?! … | Continue reading
In a video on Threads, Quinn Nelson shows how the Apple Pencil casts a tool-specific faux shadow on the surface of the page. I love this sort of thing — a detail like this that, once you notice it, brings a little joy to whatever you are doing, whether that is creating art or jus … | Continue reading
Can apple juice perform miracles? READ MORE... | Continue reading
Every now and then a corporation is at least a bit funny when going about their late-stage capitalism. For instance, Samsung has released an absolutely perfect diss-ad response to Apple’s recent crushing PR disaster. Read more... | Continue reading
Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, author and Atlas Obscura columnist Colin Dickey tells us the story of a Kentucky family who, in 1955, claimed to be in a wild gunfight with unident … | Continue reading
Huge news for retrogaming fans today who can now pretty much carry their collections around in their own pockets. Long-standing… Continue reading Times they are a changing as RetroArch and PSP emulators arrive on Apple App Store The post Times they are a changing as RetroArch and … | Continue reading
It’s Eurovision season! Do you like taking photos? Andrew might! There will be some light banter about tech markets. Another fantastic Hemispheric Views adjacent website is born! How about some sweet pencils? And finally, do you need a bud…? Using Apple Podcasts? All notes can al … | Continue reading
I’ve been critical of Apple’s ability to make the Mac a viable gaming platform, but credit where it’s due, getting the new Assassin’s Creed game releasing on the same day on PC, consoles, and Mac is a big win, and basically unheard | Continue reading
Source: Ubisoft. Today, Ubisoft announced that the next major release in the Assasin’s Creed franchise, Shadows, will be released on November 15th on its Ubisoft+ service, PlayStation 5, Xbox X|S, Amazon Luna, and Apple silicon Macs via the Mac App Store. According to Ubisoft: As … | Continue reading
Our Apple Watch interaction frequency, thoughts on Spotify’s “Daylists” and our ideal playlist name, interest in Google’s AI features at Google I/O, and essential travel tech for “One Bag Travel.”… | Continue reading
Avian influenza has come for New York City’s birds. In a new study Wednesday, scientists report traces of highly pathogenic H5N1 in a small number of NYC’s wild bird population. Though this discovery may not be directly related to the ongoing outbreaks of H5N1 in U.S. dairy cattl … | Continue reading
Scharon Harding wriring for ArsTechnica: Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft Return-to-Office Mandates Drove Senior Talent Away A study analyzing Apple, Microsoft, and SpaceX suggests that return to office (RTO) mandates can lead to a higher rate of employees, especially senior-level ones, … | Continue reading
Apple two weeks ago: What’s New for Apps Distributed in the European Union First, no CTF is required if a developer has no revenue whatsoever. This includes creating a free app without monetization that is not related to revenue of any kind (physical, digital, advertising, or oth … | Continue reading
Today, Apple announced a host of new accessibility features, such as eye tracking and vocal shortcuts, that should arrive on iPhones, iPads, and Apple Vision Pros later this year. Read more... | Continue reading
Vision Pro’s live captions convert spoken words to text onscreen. This year’s accessibility feature preview from Apple, timed to get a one-day jump on the annual celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, continues last year’s expansion beyond the traditional sight, sound … | Continue reading
Source: Apple. Thursday is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and to mark the occasion, Apple has previewed several new accessibility features coming to its OSes later this year. Although this accessibility preview has become an annual affair, this year’s preview is more packed … | Continue reading
Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit sculptor Jason de Caires Taylor's Underwater Sculpture Garden. Located in the waters off of Saint George's, Grenada, Taylor takes intentio … | Continue reading
Last week, Apple got into trouble because of an ad. There was a lot to be learned beyond good and evil of advertisement and Public Relations. The ad showed various objects being collectively crushed by a hydraulic press: a chronometer, a record player, a trumpet, a piano, a guita … | Continue reading
A few observations and thoughts on the dynamics of the Apple enthusiast community in the narrative of the past 8 years evolution of the iPad and Mac as Apple platforms. A bit of attention paid to the role of podcasters/publishers in how the narrative was created and how it evolve … | Continue reading
MacRumors, on Threads, just four days ago: Apple’s thinnest device ever.#ipadpro #bendgate Tim Hardwick, writing on MacRumors today: Despite videos indicating that the 2018 iPad Pro models bent more easily than other models, Apple said the bend did not worsen over time or negativ … | Continue reading
Comcast plans to launch a streaming bundle later this month that will include Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+, according to a new report from Variety. Reportedly called StreamSaver, the bundle will be discounted but only available to subscribers of Comcast TV or internet service. … | Continue reading
On Monday, Apple and Google jointly announced a new privacy feature that warns Android and iOS users when an unknown Bluetooth tracking device travels with them. [...] | Continue reading
"It’s easier to manage a team that’s happy.” | Continue reading
All I want for Christmas is the ability to take notes on my Apple Watch. On my iPhone I can invoke Siri and say “Create a new note” and then dictate the note. But I can’t do that on my watch. The reason I’ve heard in the past is that in order for notes to […] | Continue reading
Apple and other streaming companies are interested in shaking up the entertainment industry’s compensation model. According to Bloomberg, under the newly proposed system (which is really only an idea, at this point), talent—like actors and other production staff—would be paid bas … | Continue reading
Source: Apple. Late yesterday, iPad Air and Pro reviews were published, and I spent the evening reading and watching many of them, so I thought I’d share some highlights. At Six Colors, Jason Snell, who has used and reviewed iPads for years, brings an excellent perspective to App … | Continue reading
Publishers in the UK have urged Apple to rethink the so-called ‘web eraser’ tool that can block advertisements, as they… Continue reading Breaking the news: publishers beg Apple not to block ads in Safari The post Breaking the news: publishers beg Apple not to block ads in Safari … | Continue reading
This last big Apple release was such a doozy that you’d be forgiven for only paying attention to the siren call of a new OLED iPad. I’ve had the chance to get intimate with these new tablet products and accessories, and believe it or not, it’s not the ultra-luxury, uber-expensive … | Continue reading
Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. From a rubber duck contest to hypnotizing chickens, in this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast listeners share stories about annual customs, events, and practices that set their hometowns apa … | Continue reading
Today, Apple rolled out a new update for the iPad and iPhone, with the advent of iOS 17.5. One of the exciting additions is the Offline mode in Apple News+, which grants you access to the Today feed and News+ tab even when you’re offline. This means you can now download Top Stori … | Continue reading
Samuel Axon, Ars Technica: The new iPad Pro is a technical marvel, with one of the best screens I’ve ever seen, performance that few other machines can touch, and a new, thinner design that no one expected. It’s a prime example of Apple flexing its engineering and design muscles … | Continue reading
Latest updates launch in the shadow of WWDC keynote on June 10. | Continue reading
The latest M4 iPad Pro is easily the most exciting thing Apple has released this year so far. Yes, it’s even more exciting than the Vision Pro. But why, you ask? What, just because it’s smaller and lighter than the Pro from two years ago? The big reason why is the new, pretty OLE … | Continue reading
I often use the iPhone’s Voice Memos at product briefings for interviews. As you can imagine, transcribing a 20-minute recording could be tedious. Thankfully, AppleInsider has learned of an AI-powered update coming to the Voice Memos and Notes apps on iPhone that will soon be abl … | Continue reading
Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.5, and security updates to Ventura […] | Continue reading
Google and Apple have worked together to create an industry specification – Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers – for Bluetooth tracking devices that makes it possible to alert users across both Android and iOS if such a device is unknowingly being used to track them. This will … | Continue reading
If you're interested in what I consider a perfect album I wrote about it last week and if you want to see other people's perfect albums, check out the perfect albums project. This post was originally going to be the same idea as fLaMEd's post with their top 50 artists. Then Apple … | Continue reading
Apple Music kicked off a 10-day event today celebrating its newly-compiled list of the 100 Best Albums of all time. Apple’s press release explains that the list was created by: Apple Music’s team of experts alongside a select group of artists, including Maren Morris, Pharrell Wil … | Continue reading
Apple is spending the next two weeks trickling out what its “team of experts alongside a select group of artists” think are the one hundred best albums of all time. Sure, add another to the pile, I do not care. However, unlike Pitchfork and Rolling Stone, Apple has a whole music … | Continue reading
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! British newspaper groups warn Apple over ad-blocking plans, FT reports "British newspaper groups have warned Apple that any move to impose a so-called "web eraser" … | Continue reading
Calling all crossword fans! Black Ink, the beloved Mac app for solving crosswords from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and more, is now available for iOS. Download it from the App Store and enjoy nearly-endless crossword-solving fun on your iPhone, iPad, … | Continue reading
Tech giant Apple is poised to see its first-ever strike on its retail operations after staff at a store in Maryland voted to authorize a strike against the company. Read more... | Continue reading
Apple's iPad ad might not have been good for Apple, but it was a profound encapsulation of what has happened on the Internet; the question is what it leads to next. | Continue reading