For the second year in a row, Apple held a developers conference that should frighten its competitors. Relying on a nearly maniacal obsession with the user experience, Apple is removing oxygen from ev

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Although I didn’t realize it at the time, my email workflow was ripe for disruption. A quick smattering of my email behaviors includes, but is not limited to: Marking emails I’ve read as unread to act

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The New York Times has decided to opt out of Apple News. On its own, that may seem like just one more move in the chess game between major news companies and the platforms. But it could also be an ind

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Every year when WWDC rolls around I wonder what new features Apple has cooked up for iOS. What more could Apple add to make iOS — an operating system that’s 13-years-old this year — feel fresh again?

This week Apple introduced sleep tracking for the Apple Watch with watchOS 7. This was a day I’ve long expected since I introduced Sleep++ way back in September of 2015 alongside watchOS 2. I wanted t

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Special guests Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak join me to discuss the news from WWDC 2020: the Mac’s transition to Apple silicon, MacOS 11 Big Sur, iOS and iPadOS 14, and more. Brought to you by thes

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June 24, 2020 Google blew a ten-year lead. Back when there were rumors of Google building an operating system, I thought “ Lol.” Then I watched then-PM Sundar Pichai announce Chrome OS . My heart race

As always, Apple’s WWDC keynote was jam-packed with more jam than a packing plant full of jam. We all saw the big top line items: Macs switching to ARM, iOS apps running on the Mac, cats and dogs livi

Jun 22, 2020 — 15:31 EDT Every time Apple holds a keynote event, the company shares a variety of numbers related to things like user counts for certain products, software performance improvements, and

It’s safe to say that 2020 has been a year of unpredictability and adaptation. The two go hand in hand, of course. The unpredictability of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses and individuals t

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I’ve tweeted quite a bit about Apple’s rejection of a Hey update from their iOS App Store. It was no surprise to me that this story got the attention it did. If there’s one thing a long time Apple Dev

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Intro First things first, I am a strong believe in the idea of “offloading your brain” into a task management system. This means everything I need to do in the future, and I do mean everything, gets logged as a task in my task manager. I find this frees up space in my brain to not think about what I…

The internet enables us to talk to each other about anythings we want at all times. You have the unusual pleasure of having access to the world’s information at all times, giving you opportunities to learn, to grow, and to share that growth with others. You have the freedom to try and make people’s…