This week on Simple Beep, the guys talk about several Apple museums around the world. Really great stuff if you’re into old Apple gear like I am.
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A Trip to Barcelona with iOS 11
Federico has published his iOS 11 wishes and concept video and article. It’s a deep-dive into what Apple could do this summer to really push the iPad to the next level:
We haven’t seen something truly new, bold, and transformational happen on the iPad platform in nearly two years. It’s time for Apple to step up their game and continue pursuing the vision for the future of computing set forth in 2015. There’s so much more work to be done with iOS, multitasking, and the redefinition of computing for the multitouch era. The iPad Pro can be a computer for everything, but it needs another leap forward to become the computer for everyone. And that can’t happen without a serious reconsideration of its software.
The Outline’s Review of Apple’s ‘New’ Pizza Box⇢
This week, Wired dropped a glossy cover story on Apple’s massive new campus, which will be known as Apple Park.
The approximately 6,000-word story mentions a specially-designed pizza box that enables Apple employees to take a pizza from the company’s posh food court, Caffè Macs, back to their desk area, or pod, without the pie getting soggy.
The box isn’t new, and was actually patented seven years ago:
The box is just coming into the public consciousness now, however, so The Outline obtained one — sent by a source directly from one of Apple’s California campuses — in order to conduct a hands-on review. Here are our first impressions.
The ‘Holy Grail’ in Diabetes⇢
According to Christina Farr at CNBC, Tim Cook has been test-driving a glucose monitor somehow tied to an Apple Watch:
A source said that Cook was wearing a prototype glucose-tracker on the Apple Watch, which points to future applications that would make the device a “must have” for millions of people with diabetes – or at risk for the disease.
Farr goes on:
At the University of Glasgow, he reiterated Apple’s commitment to the health space and spoke about the struggles faced by people with diabetes.
Download #4: Twenty Oars in the Water⇢
This week on Download, Google held its annual developer conference. It brought a bunch of news about Assistant, Home and Photos, and plenty of AI! Meanwhile, the WannaCry attack exploits old software to bring PCs around the world to a grinding halt.
Guest Starring: Devindra Hardiwar and Russell Ivanovic
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1970s Textbooks⇢
I love how typography trends have changed over the years and really enjoyed Dr. Drang’s post about this has affected textbook design over the years.
On Apple Park, Steve Jobs’ Last Product⇢
Jason Snell, writing at Macworld, bouncing off of Steven Levy’s recent feature about Apple’s new campus:
As detailed by Levy, Apple Park is an Apple product through and through. The company took great care to make design decisions, and create custom hardware, at many key points—from the massive glass sheets that required the building of a gigantic furnace, to the toilets, to the handles on the doors, to the pizza boxes in the cafeteria. It’s a one-off product designed by Apple for itself, yes, but it seems to have received the same attention to detail as any other major product launch.
The MacMuzeum Collection⇢
MacMuzeum is an incredible collection of Apple hardware that may be up for sale soon. I really hope it goes to a good home.
Kbase Article of the Week: Sherlock, Sherlock 2: Finding Invisible Files or Folders⇢
This week, we look back at how to look for files:
As the name implies, invisible files and folders are those that cannot be seen in the Finder, whether they reside on the desktop or in a window. Invisible files and folders have an internal flag set that tells the Finder not to display them.
A file or folder is typically invisible for a reason. Deleting or modifying one of them may cause unpredictable results. Unless you know the outcome of your modification, you should not make changes to an invisible file or folder.
Relay FM Meetup at the WWDC App Camp for Girls Fundraiser⇢
Myke Hurley, on our company blog:
As you may know, Relay FM is hosting a meetup at WWDC this year, but our tickets sold out really quickly. But for those of you that may have missed out, we have some great news!
We are working with women@wwdc and James Dempsey and the Breakpoints to host a mini Relay FM meetup at their App Camp for Girls benefit on Wednesday, June 7.
Review: 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
The 13-inch MacBook Pro without a Touch Bar is a weird computer.
In many ways, it’s the new MacBook Air. If Apple could have sold it for $999, perhaps it would be the new MacBook Air. If the 12-inch, single-port MacBook had earned the Air name, maybe this computer would have been the MacBook.
Naming stuff aside — including the need for ATP to dub this computer the “MacBook Escape” — it’s a pretty enjoyable notebook. It strikes a great balance, as I wrote in my review:
The NYT’s Take on the Original iMac⇢
This article got sent to me by several people, and I can’t pass up linking to it. In it, Peter Lewis responds to the then-new Bondi Blue iMac G3:
Apple was certainly “thinking different” when it created the iMac. The new personal computer, which goes on sale on Aug. 15, has already won popular acclaim for its creative design and its refreshing departure from the computer industry standard of boring beige boxes.