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This time on Flashback, Quinn and I look at another Motorola phone. This one was introduced by Steve Jobs:

A year and a half before the iPhone was introduced, Apple took the stage to announce a very, very different product: the iTunes phone, built in partnership with Motorola.

…it wasn’t good.

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Underscore has a new version of his excellent Watchsmith app out today, with a bunch of new features including a bunch of new complications, updated workout metrics a Golden Hour calculator and more. If you wear an Apple Watch, you should take some time to check this out.

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I’m back on Connected after a few days off last week:

Stephen cleans out the Connected inbox, Federico questions the meaning of an idea and Myke checks out a new task manager. Then, a discussion about the ramifications of technology reminding us of painful past events or encounters.

On Connected Pro, The Passionate Ones were born. That’s … a long story.

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Lauren Goode has published an amazing piece at Wired about calling off her wedding, yet being reminded about it over and over from algorithm-powered services from Facebook, Pinterest and even Apple:

I still have a photograph of the breakfast I made the morning I ended an eight-year relationship and canceled a wedding. It was an unremarkable breakfast—a fried egg—but it is now digitally fossilized in a floral dish we moved with us when we left New York and headed west. I don’t know why I took the photo, except, well, I do: I had fallen into the reflexive habit of taking photos of everything.

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Apple Support:

Use formulas and functions in tables in the iWork apps—Numbers, Keynote, and Pages. You have access to more than two hundred fifty functions that you can use in your formulas to perform calculations, retrieve information, or manipulate data.

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From the Clubhouse blog:

Today, we’re thrilled to begin rolling out Payments—our first monetization feature for creators on Clubhouse. All users will be able to send payments today, and we’ll be rolling out the ability to receive payments in waves, starting with a small test group today. Our hope is to collect feedback, fine-tune the feature, and roll it out to everyone soon.

A user can select a creator and the amount they want to send. They give Clubhouse a debit or credit card for payment, then the money is sent:

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With Loopback, it’s trivial to pass audio from one application to another on your Mac. Need to play a recording into Zoom? Add sound effects into a podcast? Include music in a streamed event? Loopback gives you the power to do just that with just a few clicks. It’s like a high-end mixing board, right inside your Mac.

Loopback creates virtual audio devices, which merge audio from multiple applications and input devices into a single source. These virtual devices appear on your Mac just like a real, physical device, and can be selected for use in any audio app on your Mac. It’s incredibly powerful.

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In scrolling through Jean-Louis Gassée’s Intel coverage I just linked to, I came across this from Matt Richman, written back in 2011:

When Apple makes the switch to ARM, they will have total control of their own destiny – just the way they like it.

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Jean-Louis Gassée has gathered a decade of writing about Intel, and it was a lot of fun to back through his old columns. I think Intel’s next chapter could be one of the most interesting stories in the technology industry, and this is good background to have when thinking about the company.

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This week on Mac Power Users, our friend and colleague Shelly Brisbin returns to the show to explain how she applies power user workflows to working across multiple mediums throughout a normal work week.

For More Power Users, David issued me a challenge concerning the Apple Watch.

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This morning, Apple announced 30 new titles for Apple Arcade, bringing the total to 180 games as part of the $5/month service. Some of these games are new, and some are … not.

John Voorhees at MacStories has details:

Second, Arcade includes two new game categories: Timeless Classics and App Store Greats, which are a big collection of all-time favorite iOS games that are now available at no extra cost as part of an Arcade subscription on the iPhone and iPad and differentiated from other titles with the addition of a ‘+’ in their titles. Games included in the category include Zach Gage’s Good Soduku, Mini Metro, Fruit Ninja Classic, Badland, Blek, Flipflop Solitaire, Reigns, Monument Valley, and more. It’s an impressive list of classics that that is great to see spotlighted by Apple and preserved.

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