Category: Apple

Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan at Gizmodo:

Apple, Trapper Keeper, and Reebok: Three of the most well-known brands of the 1980s, and three companies that used the same futuristic-looking typeface to do it. So why isn’t the typeface a classic like other period pieces cough Helvetica cough? Fate is a funny thing.

Today Fonts In Use and BrandNew point out the odd case of Motter Tektura, a typeface created in 1975 by the Austrian designer Othmar Motter, who died in 2010. If you were alive in the late 1970s or 80s, you’ll recognize it as the former font used in Apple’s early logos, as well as those of Trapper Keeper and Reebok—which kept it in use well into contemporary times.

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Brian X. Chen and Steve Lohr at The New York Times, on the companies’ new partnership:

Under the partnership, IBM will serve as a sales force in corporate accounts for Apple products and provide on-site service, which have been gaps in Apple’s capabilities.

IBM once gripped the technology industry with an iron fist, and now it’s in bed with the little hippie company from Cupertino.

Also, that headline really hurt me to write.

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It is always weird to see a flagship product crumble away.

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This week marks the sixth anniversary of the App Store, as Jim Dalrymple reminds us:

On July 10, 2008, Apple launched the App Store, forever changing the way we use smartphones, tablets and many other devices. Think about how you used devices before apps, and how you use them today—there is no comparison. The iPhone and apps have changed the world.

(This means the iPhone 3G and MobileMe are also six years old. This batch of releases is one reason I left the Apple Store.)

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I wonder if this is good news or bad news for the Mac mini.

Or if anyone at Apple remembers the Mac mini is still for sale.

Sigh.

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Dr. Drang, in response to last week’s episode of The Prompt:

As I said a few years ago, the likelihood that an app will be Sherlocked depends less on the quality of the app than on the effort Apple puts into its purported replacement.

The example Papa Drang uses is Apple’s own Podcasts app. As he writes, Apple took the nascent podcast market and Sherlocked guys like iPodderX and Odeo with iTunes in 2005.

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This week’s tip on The Sweet Setup is a good one.

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Allen Pike reflects on Tim Cook’s Apple.

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It’s been a busy day for the software update teams in Cupertino. iOS 7.1.2 was released this morning with the following updates:

• Improves iBeacon connectivity and stability
• Fixes a bug with data transfer for some 3rd party accessories, including bar code scanners
• Corrects an issue with data protection class of Mail attachments

The update can be downloaded via iTunes or over the air directly on the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

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Educators can now create and manage content from the iPad.

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Apple’s newest iPhone ad shows parents using the device to help teach and care for their families in a variety of ways.

My wife and I don’t let our kids (ages 3 and 5) use their shared iPad mini unsupervised. They don’t have access to the Apple TV. We don’t hand them our iPhones in crowded restaurants to keep them quiet.

We do, however, use technology to teach them letters and colors. Their iPad mini is full of interactive books, and our Netflix account is overrun with educational programs.

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Peter Cohen:

Apple’s shown over and over again that it’s willing to cause some short-term discomfort to users of existing products for long-term benefit. iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Pages, Keynote and Numbers — there are lots of examples where Apple has essentially scrapped the product and started over because a different path was chosen. And they’re doing it again with Aperture and iPhoto.

The difference this time, as Peter points out, is that Apple isn’t replacing its pro offering. My guess is that a lot of Mac-using professionals are going to be migrating to Lightroom.

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