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Varun Mishra, at Counterpoint Research:

The iPhone 12 series’ cumulative global sales crossed the 100 million units mark in April 2021, according to Counterpoint Research’s mobile handset Market Pulse Service. The series was able to achieve this feat in the seventh month after its launch, which is two months earlier than the iPhone 11 series and almost the same as the iPhone 6 series that helped Apple achieve its first volume super-cycle at the cusp of 4G transition. With the iPhone 12 series, Apple has achieved another volume super-cycle after six generations of iPhones and at the cusp of 5G transition.

In the case of the iPhone 6 series, the strong pent-up demand for larger-screen iPhones drove the sales, while for the iPhone 12 series, the addition of 5G capability and a full OLED screen attracted customers.

While I am sure some people were excited about the new networking possibilities¹ with the iPhone 12 lineup, it’s hard to discount the power of a new industrial design.

Apple Support:

When you open iCal Help, the links do not work if Italian or German is selected as the preferred language in System Preferences.

Resize the Help Center window. This workaround resolves the issue. You do not need to repeat this step in the future (unless for some reason you delete the Help Viewer preferences file).

And people say Apple software is buggy today…

Mario Guzman has made something delightful:

A mini player remote for Apple Music.

A take on the classic iTunes widget.

This time on Mac Power Users, David and I dive into listener questions, our experiences with Apple’s current crop of betas and the future of Day One.

TextSniper is a Mac OCR app that can extract text anywhere on your Mac’s screen and automatically save it to your clipboard so that you can paste it into a live document or anywhere you need it.

TextSniper is a bit like Live Text, but with less limitations. You can run it on Intel and M1 Macs starting from macOS Catalina today. It is application and file format agnostic; whatever you see on your screen in no time can be turned into editable text.

TextSniper can even read the text to you. The whole thing works a lot like the built-in screen capture on the Mac, just way more powerful.

TextSniper doesn’t collect your data. The text recognition is processed on your Mac and does not require an internet connection. With TextSniper, you can:

• Quickly get an editable text from PDFs, Zoom calls, Presentations, and Videos.
• Copy text from anywhere, even images and websites that don’t let you select text.
• Quickly grab data like email addresses, phone numbers, links, etc.
• Read QR codes and barcodes.
• Get text out of just about any image format, including JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and BMP.

Tired of re-typing text from images? Get TextSniper now and speed up your workflow!

From the ability to run Android apps, to the new design and window snapping features and its ability to properly manage windows when an external display is added or taken away, there’s a lot that to like with Windows 11. Over on The Test Drivers, Myke and Austin spoke with Microsoft’s Panos Panay about the new release. It’s a fun interview, and it is really cool to see it on Relay FM.

My thanks to MarsEdit for sponsoring 512 Pixels this week. It’s the Mac app I use to blog here on the site. If you publish on the web from macOS, skip the browser and get your work done in style, with loads of Mac-native features. Check it out.

Apple Support:

AppleTalk packets start with 7B90.

I’ve used ScreenFlow on a couple of recent videos and have been really impressed. The new version looks even better and I’m sure I’ll be putting it to good use soon.

Dr. Drang has written about how he sees Shortcuts slotting into the Mac’s preexisting automation tools. The more time I spend with this topic, the more relieved I feel about how Apple has gone about this.

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This week on Mac Power Users, we are joined by Paul Kafasis to talk about Mac software development in the modern era, some of Rogue Amoeba’s history and the tools Paul uses to get his work done.