Andy Rubin unveiled his new phone (and company) this week at the Code Conference. Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court rules on our rights to the products we buy and Uber’s latest bad news makes us wonder about the freedom to change jobs.
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Tim Cook, by way of Buzzfeed:
Climate change is real and we all share a responsibility to fight it. I want to reassure you that today’s developments will have no impact on Apple’s efforts to protect the environment. We power nearly all of our operations with renewable energy, which we believe is an example of something that’s good for our planet and makes good business sense as well.
Apple’s Craig Federighi has joked about poor choices for macOS names in the past, citing “OS X Oxnard” and “OS X Weed,” but there are many other less-than-ideal choices for christening macOS 10.13:
We are nearly at the end of the school year here in Scotland and I wanted to take some time to reflect on the experience of teaching the Computer Science curriculum this year using Swift Playgrounds and Apple’s Learn to Code curriculum.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Alex Webb:
The iPhone-maker has started manufacturing a long-in-the-works Siri-controlled smart speaker, according to people familiar with the matter. Apple could debut the speaker as soon as its annual developer conference in June, but the device will not be ready to ship until later in the year, the people said.
As I said on Connected this week, I expected Apple to push SiriKit at WWDC, and this thing come out besides the new iPhones in the fall. May have gotten that one wrong.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is now outdated. Visit my gear page for a more current setup.
While it’s a little out of date now, I wrote about my podcasting gear back in 2015. I use this set up every time I sit down at my desk to record a show.
However, Relay FM does an increasing number of shows on the road, at conferences and other events. To record these podcasts, I’ve put together an arsenal of equipment.
With WWDC just around the corner, the Connected trio share their hopes and dreams for Apple’s keynote.
We are bad at the Round Robin format.
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This is one of just a few articles that mentions WWDC:
On Monday April 15, the QuickTime team announced enhancements to QuickTime for video professionals at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas. Although announced on 15 April 1996, these updates are still under development and will not be available for distribution until mid May 1996 (WWDC timeframe). QuickTime 2.5 replaces QuickTime 2.1 for Macintosh and provides several performance enhancements as well as bug fixes that primarily impact developers and content authors…
In the next round of hardware being marked vintage and obsolete, Apple is putting to rest the 17-inch MacBook Pro, according to 9to5Mac. If you haven’t seen my video on 17-inch Mac notebooks, now’s a good chance:
At Apple, we share the same vision of leadership through service, courage, innovation, and inclusion that guided John F. Kennedy’s presidency. Together with the JFK Library, we’ve curated a collection of learning materials and activities to help commemorate his centennial year and inspire the next generation of leaders.
The page is full of free content about JFK, including a collection of media in iTunes, speeches and more. Nicely done.
Balance is a powerful menubar app for your money built by a team from Apple, Stripe and Ethereum. It was featured in the U.S. Mac App Store when it launched in February.
Balance uses Plaid.com, the best API for securely accessing your financial data. It gives the app a read-only token to access your account history.
With one click or keyboard shortcut you can pop open Balance and check all of your accounts. Lock the app with a password or TouchID.
Joe Rosensteel is perhaps the person most in tune with what Apple should do with tvOS. With WWDC right around the corner, he has posted a list of things he thinks Apple should introduce to the Apple TV. I agree with all of it.