My friend Bradley Chambers has a new project out. $4.99 gets you an hour of screencasts as .mp4 files or wrapped up as an iPad-ready iBook. They’re all well done, and Bradley is a great teacher. If you’ve been Evernote-curious or want to get more out of the app, be sure to check it out.
Matthew Panzarino: Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google announced that it had hit 48B downloads of apps on the Google Play Store. During the same keynote, the counter on Apple’s site ticked over to 50B App Store downloads. But there has been some question about how exactly the two companies tabulate their numbers. Turns [...]
Impressive, and quite funny that it landed on the day of Google’s keynote.
This weekend, I picked apart a report claiming that big, sweeping changes could be coming to Apple’s service business. One of the big rumored changes is a shift toward Apple repairing more iPhones, as opposed to simply swapping out defective devices. @swgs over on App.net chimed in: The repairs are completed within 30 mins. iPhone [...]
Mikey Campbell over at AppleInsider has an article about AppleCare that’s been making the rounds this weekend. Reportedly leaked from a Town Hall meeting at Apple’s headquarters, a lot of the rumored changes in the article seem insane. Here’s Campbell writing: “The biggest announcement, was the way repairs for iPhones will be handled soon,” the [...]
image via Apple PR It seems that more and more, people are clamoring for a MacBook Air with Retina display. And for good reason. Retina displays are jaw-droppingly gorgeous, but at 3.57 pounds, the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display is a full 0.61 pounds heavier than the MacBook Air of the same size. At [...]
The update promises “stability fixes for Thunderbolt and Target Disk Mode.” Exciting times.
Jim Dalrymple, in an interview at MacStories about his newly-released The Loop Magazine: Apple’s Newsstand is the first time since 1994 that I’ve felt another shift in the publishing industry was upon us, so I jumped at it. Apple takes care of distribution, payments and the business side of things, leaving the publisher focus on [...]
The Verge has a great interview with Peter Belanger, the photographer behind many of Apple’s product photos.
Jim Dalrymple at The Loop: “We have decided to cancel CocoaConf Alt 2013. It turns out that it’s not just the hotel that had concerns, but that Apple has a policy of stopping ‘competing’ events in the area,” wrote CocoaConf Alt, Dave Klein. “You know and we know that CocoaConf Alt was not in competition [...]
I had a running list of things to turn in to an article. Instead, I’m linking to this, because Viticci’s knocked it out of the park.
Thomas Brand: Fusion Drive, no one needs your fragile combination of storage technologies anymore. If Apple had really believed in you, they would have made you the default storage system on a Mac, any Mac. Instead you were neglected to a build-to-order-option. Even the top-of-the-line 27 inch iMac never shipped with a Fusion Drive standard. [...]
Mine is here, and it’s adorable:
Jacqui Cheng: OS X 10.9 will reportedly focus on the so-called “power user,” according to sources speaking to 9to5Mac. The release, code-named “Cabernet,” isn’t expected to significantly overhaul how the operating system functions, but will reportedly bring over more iOS features that could benefit OS X. What might those features be? According to 9to5Mac’s sources, [...]
