Category: Apple

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Joe Caiati. Joe works as an IT professional in New York City. He maintains a weblog called dot info and calls Twitter his second home.

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Apple has gone through a cultural change. Yosemite and iOS 8’s tight integration was a large indicator of that. When Forstall and Browett were ousted, Apple promised an increase in collaboration throughout its teams. Many didn’t know exactly what that was going to be, but it’s become clear that Tim Cook wants less compartmentalization and more interactivity between all Apple channels – including retail.

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Awkwardness about Steve Jobs quotes aside, I think adding a first-party stylus options would help the iPad make a bigger dent in artists’ workflows, especially if it proves to be pressure-sensitive.

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As we discussed on today’s Clockwise, the current iPod touch is aging poorly. The last hardware update was in September 2012, and as a result, it has a iPhone 4-era 5 MP camera, is powered by the iPhone 4S-era A5 and packs the iPhone 5’s 4-inch screen.

While the iPod touch is the only iOS device without a contract that sits at the $199 price point, Apple’s clearly letting it fall behind.

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While these art projects float around every so often, this one really jumped out at me. Clearly, this isn’t ever going to be a real product, but it sure is pretty.

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Dave Wiskus’ newest video is a great look back at the history of the UI. Check it out.

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The Verge’s Vlad Savov:

The iPhone’s lead as the smartphone to beat has rarely been defined by just one thing. At one point, the biggest advantage was the simplicity and speed of its interface; at another, it was down to the diversity and quality of available apps; and most recently, the iPhone has distinguished itself with the quality of its 8-megapixel camera. Today, the combination of all these things — simple and fast operation, strong optics and image processing, and a wide app ecosystem — is helping people create the best possible images with the least possible hassle.

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If you see weird DNS issues on your Mac, this article may help you sort them out.

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Jason Snell:

Over the years I’ve said numerous times that when it comes to battery life on iOS devices, Apple appears to have a target battery life in mind and builds its hardware—a balance of power-saving software, hardware efficiency, and battery capacity—to hit that number.

It’s an observation born out of reading spec sheet after spec sheet over the years while writing reviews of new iPhones and iPads. Every year, people who are frustrated with their iPhones running out of juice before the end of the day hold out hope that the next iPhone will ameliorate the issue. In general, those people have not been satisfied.

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Dan Goodin:

The potential privacy glitch affects people who have configured the Mac Mail App to turn off the “load remote content in messages” setting, as security experts have long advised. Spammers, stalkers, and online marketers often use remote images as a homing beacon to surreptitiously track people opening e-mail. Because the images are hosted on sites hosted by the e-mail sender, the sender can log the IP address that viewed the message, as well as the times and how often the message was viewed, and the specific e-mail addresses that received the message. Many users prefer to keep their e-mail addresses, IP addresses, and viewing habits private, a goal that’s undermined by the viewing of remote images.

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Jason Snell:

If Gurman’s reports are accurate, this new model pulls the MacBook Air line away from the MacBook Pro. In fact, it returns the MacBook Air to its roots—as a product full of choices that we consider crazy at first, because they’re out of step with conventional computer design, but that will appeal to a target audience that doesn’t actually care about those de rigueur features.

We talked about this machine at length on yesterday’s show, but Jason’s article sums up my thoughts pretty squarely.

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Apple:

Over the years, Apple has driven incredible job growth and created entirely new industries. In fact, our products and innovations have led to over 1 million U.S. jobs — from our engineers and retail employees to suppliers, manufacturers, and app developers.

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I’ve used iTunes Match for quite a while now because my music setup is fiddly.

My iTunes library is quite large, so until a couple of weeks ago, the files reside on a RAID connected to my home Mac mini.

My main computer isn’t the Mac mini, however, but a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. Even though it sports a 512 GB SSD, I don’t want to sacrifice disk space to music I’m not going to listen to, so I use iTunes Match to keep the two libraries connected. I can download what I want to my laptop, or delete something I don’t, all without affecting the home library directly.

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