This week on Connected, Federico and I talk about Apple’s new push into content, iOS 9.3 woes and the purpose of beta testing.
My thanks to our sponsors this week:
In Apple’s first 40 years it shipped 1,591,092,250 computers.
This shipment total is higher than any other computer company in its first 40 years. Actually there are no PC makers that are 40 years old. One computer maker (IBM) is older but they only sold PCs for 24 years and what they still sell they don’t sell in high numbers.
The tiny iPod shuffle was introduced as a “One More Thing” back in 2005 at the same Macworld where the Mac mini showed up. It was designed to push further into the low-end market than the iPod mini had done, but that’s a story for another time.
This fortnight on Liftoff, Jason and I take a tour of the space stations that have graced Low-Earth orbit over the decades.
My thanks to our sponsor, Luminos, which is a fantastic astronomy app, 10 years in the making! Now with an Apple Watch app for skygazing!
Interact empowers you and your contacts to get more done in less time, with features like group management, one-tap contact creation, and easy communication.
Interact works directly with your iOS Contacts accounts, adding features not available in the built-in iPhone and iPad Contacts app, like:
And best of all, since Interact works directly with iOS Contacts, any done in Interact is immediately reflected throughout iOS wherever contacts are used.
HyperCard is one of the lost wonders of the MacOS age. The latest episode of Simple Beep covers in depth.
As previously reported, Memphis’ Apple Store was set to move across the street from its original location into a brand-new space that is among the first of its kind here in the United States.
This morning, the store re-opened. I decided to hang out with some local Apple fans at the opening event, and check out the new store.
As shown in the renderings, the front of the 4,000-square ft. space is more or less just giant sheets of glass, allowing sunlight to pour into the store:
After a rocky day, I rebooted my MacBook Pro last night, and when I went to open Messages, I was greeted with this error message:
Messages is updating…
The Messages database is bring upgraded, please wait while it finishes or Quit Messages and relaunch it later.
Comma splice aside, I let it this sit overnight, with no change this morning. Clearly something had happened to my Messages.app database, but it didn’t seem like it was going to fix itself. Here’s what I did to get the app going again:
David Sparks, on considering which size of iPad Pro is better:
The new 9.7 inch iPad Pro has some additional features in terms of a better camera and a screen that adjusts ambient light but none of that is really a reason to choose one over the other for most people. To me, the big question is whether you want it really big or just kind of big. I can understand why some people hate the big iPad because of the unwieldy screen size but I’m just so damn productive with it.
On March 24, 2001, Apple launched Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah, the first non-beta release of the company’s new operating system.
To celebrate its 15th birthday, I’ve rounded up some links worth checking out:
Jason Snell, writing about the new USB 3 Camera Adapter:
So once the applause from Phil Schiller mentioning iPads and podcasting on stage dies down, where does this leave us? If you’re someone who wants to record a podcast in person using an iOS device and a USB mixer or microphone, you’re set. But most of the podcasts I do are conversations that are conducted over the Internet, usually using Skype. And for the iPad to be a viable device for those kinds of podcasts, Apple needs to update its software.
In the aftermath of Apple’s iPhone SE and iPad Pro event, the boys assemble to talk the news, Stephen’s growing army of iMac G3s and Apple’s naming struggles.
Come for the image in the show notes, stay for the roundup and commentary on this week’s Apple event.
My thanks to our sponsors this week: