My Relay FM co-founder Myke Hurley bought a 6 Plus back in the fall, and ever since, has praised the device for its superior screen, camera and battery life. It replaced his iPad mini and iPhone 5S both in one fell swoop. He’s been badgering me and many others for months about the superiority of the iPhone 6 Plus. I was excited to see if he was off his rocker or not.
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Apple’s RSS feeds⇢
Did you know Apple offers a bunch of information from iTunes and its Support section via RSS?
It’s a handy way to keeep up-to-date on stuff if it’s part of your job or keeps a nerd itch satisfied, even if they do get weird from time to time:
Hi there, kbase. https://t.co/SQhSda0Smb
— Stephen Hackett (@ismh) April 6, 2015
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35 years of IBM, Microsoft and Apple⇢
That’s one hell of a chart.
Apple announces Watch pre-orders⇢
I guess we’ll all be hanging out online at 3AM EDT next Friday.
iFixit tears down Apple Watch⇢
Honestly, it’s a lot simplier inside than I thought it would be.
Connected 33: The Robocop of Apple Watches⇢
This week, with Myke on the road, Federico and I were joined by David Smith to talk about Tim Cook and WatchKit apps.
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Amazon Dash Button⇢
I can’t decide if this is genius, if society as we know it is over or if Amazon is getting started on April 1 early.
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If you want to support 512 Pixels and share your product, app or service with a bunch of good-looking people, I’ve got some openings over the next 8 weeks.
On Don Draper’s Carousel pitch⇢
With Mad Men’s final run starting a week from today, The New York Times has published an interview with John Hamm, focusing on some key moments in his character’s time on screen. The first story is about one of the best moments in the show:
Here’s what Hamm says about it:
It’s an important moment in the development of the character, where people go, ‘Oh, this guy’s not just a sweet-talking guy in a fancy suit. He’s a soulful person.’ It was beautifully shot. We didn’t really want to use a working slide projector, they’re crazy noisy, so we had some digital thing. But the slides looked wrong somehow. We had to fix that and make them smudgy. At some point we ended up just running the slide projector in the room. I don’t know [how people were reacting to the speech]. I wasn’t exactly running back to the monitors, seeing how every line was landing. I was pretty focused on myself.
Tim Cook to give away his wealth⇢
Adam Lashinsky’s piece on Tim Cook is worth reading, even if there’s not a ton of new information about Apple’s CEO shared in it. 1
There, is however, a good bit about how Cook is handling his wealth that, as far as I know, is new:
He plans to give away all his wealth, after providing for the college education of his 10-year-old nephew. There should be plenty left over to fund philanthropic projects. Cook’s net worth, based on his holdings of Apple stock, is currently about $120 million. He also holds restricted stock worth $665 million if it were to be fully vested. Cook says that he has already begun donating money quietly, but that he plans to take time to develop a systematic approach to philanthropy rather than simply writing checks.
Gary Allen, on the end of ifo Apple Store⇢
In a post titled “My Work Here is Done:”
So, I’m doing to focus on my family and friends, drop the demands of writing and get back to what it was before—just fun. I won’t be writing new stories, but will attempt to keep up with some of the list-type material on this Web site for reference.
I’ll miss Gary’s insight into Apple, as well as his obsessive love of detail. Over the years, we have traded emails several times, and he’s always been very kind and very helpful. Best of luck, friend.