An amazing story of how Siri has helped an autistic boy connect with the world — both digital and not — in new ways. This will make your weekend.
Category: Apple
Retina iMac vs Mac Pro⇢
Marco:
The 5K Retina iMac is out, and it looks incredible so far on paper — so incredible that I’m seriously considering selling my new Mac Pro to get the Retina iMac instead.
The new iMac really does seem like an incredible machine. If I needed a high-end desktop, I’d be all over it.
Yosemite installer may explode if /usr/local is populated⇢
If you’re running Homebrew or something like it, you may want to check out Jim Lindley’s blog post then cry in a corner for a bit.
Review: With OS X Yosemite, Aqua’s All Grown Up
Every summer, Apple takes the wraps off a new version of OS X. This past June, Craig Federighi introduced Yosemite. 1 His performance was electrifying, and throughout the week, he was seen taking selfies with developers, telling jokes and being the overall cool guy from Apple.
Beyond the flashiness of the keynote, however, there was real substance. OS X Yosemite is a big leap forward for OS X’s user interface and the way it interacts with iOS.
Apple to temporarily pull blood glucose measurement from Health app⇢
Apple:
The Health app lets you manually enter and view blood glucose values in mg/dL (milligrams per deciliter). This unit of measurement is used by a number of countries, while some other countries use mmol/L (millimoles per liter).
HealthKit supports both units of measurement. However, if you measure your blood glucose using a device that displays mmol/L, those values can’t be manually entered or displayed in the Health app with that unit of measurement.
Today’s dose of Eddy Cue
via The Verge
Bono apologizes for invading everyone’s iTunes libraries⇢
Casey Newton:
In the video, which features band members asking questions from fans submitted through Facebook, Bono is asked: “Can you please never release an album on iTunes that automatically downloads to people’s playlists ever again? It’s really rude.” Bono appears uncharacteristically sad while he tries to explain the band’s thinking. “Oops … I’m sorry about that,” he says. “I had this beautiful idea. Might have gotten carried away with ourselves. Artists are prone to that thing. A drop of megalomania, a touch of generosity, a dash of self-promotion, and deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into over the last few years might not be heard. There’s a lot of noise out there. I guess, we got a little noisy ourselves to get through it.”
Saying goodbye to Macworld Expo
Early Tuesday, IDG World Expo released a statement noting that the venerable Apple-oriented trade show, Macworld/iWorld would go on hiatus and not be held in 2015 as planned. The contents of that statement are:
“We are announcing today that Macworld/iWorld is going on hiatus, and will not be taking place as planned in 2015. Our MacIT event, the world’s premiere event for deploying Apple in the enterprise, will continue next year with details to be announced in the coming weeks.
The app holding iOS back⇢
Bradley Chambers:
When the iPhone was released in 2007 with a “desktop class” web browser, it was widely praised. You could view entire websites on a mobile device. Coming from the days of WAP optimized sites on my Motorola Q, this was incredible. If we fast forward to 2014, Mobile Safari has become the app that is holding the iPad back from becoming a fully featured laptop replacement for a lot of people. While Mobile Safari is fast and loads website reasonably well, it cannot upload and download files. It can upload pictures, but that is it. Mobile Safari needs a way to upload and download any type of file into iCloud Drive (a mirrored from the Mac downloads folder).
Astrologer weighs in on iPhone 6 issues⇢
I wonder why so many people have written off Time as a publication worth paying attention to with full headlines like this:
Why the Most Famous Astrologer in the Universe Says You Shouldn’t Buy an iPhone Right Now
‘We’re here to tell stories’⇢
This video of Steve Jobs and John Lasseter being interviewed by Charlie Rose in 1996 has floated around a bit in the last few weeks, but I finally got the chance to watch it this evening.
Knowing what we know now about how Pixar would turn out, it’s amazing to see how these guys viewed the future of their industry.
The Move
Earlier tonight, Jony Ive was interviewed in Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit in San Francisco. The transcript is a fascinating read, but the answer Apple’s Senior Vice President of Design gave to the last question asked really stopped me in my track. Here’s it is, with Ive’s reply in bold:
Do you see yourself moving beyond consumer electronics?
I do see the watch as a move away from consumer electronics.
That’s a huge statement.