Well, there’s this:
We’re delighted to announce that we never let you upload anything to our wonderful, hyper-connected service for curating your precious moments. We could not be happier that you could never use this. Today, we’re curating our pivot to provide for peak sunset value. The Prompt has ended, and we’d hate to have to provide a way for you to download things from this service. Just thinking about all that work seems tiring. Remember us fondly, with all the other cursed services.
While NASA doesn’t use the old “worm” logo anymore, this style guide is a fascinating study in detail and production oriented design.
Here are some Overcast-related headlines that I’ve been workshopping:
Joking aside, Overcast is great. It’s been on the home screen of my iPhone from the very first beta, and even though it isn’t as full-featured as some of the competition, it’s a real winner. The app’s Smart Speed feature which dynamically shortens silences, which has saved me over five hours of time over the last few months. Overcast actually makes you younger.
Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan at Gizmodo:
Apple, Trapper Keeper, and Reebok: Three of the most well-known brands of the 1980s, and three companies that used the same futuristic-looking typeface to do it. So why isn’t the typeface a classic like other period pieces cough Helvetica cough? Fate is a funny thing.
Today Fonts In Use and BrandNew point out the odd case of Motter Tektura, a typeface created in 1975 by the Austrian designer Othmar Motter, who died in 2010. If you were alive in the late 1970s or 80s, you’ll recognize it as the former font used in Apple’s early logos, as well as those of Trapper Keeper and Reebok—which kept it in use well into contemporary times.
Brian X. Chen and Steve Lohr at The New York Times, on the companies’ new partnership:
Under the partnership, IBM will serve as a sales force in corporate accounts for Apple products and provide on-site service, which have been gaps in Apple’s capabilities.
IBM once gripped the technology industry with an iron fist, and now it’s in bed with the little hippie company from Cupertino.
Also, that headline really hurt me to write.
It is always weird to see a flagship product crumble away.
Justin Lee:
Six months ago, I was reading Kinfolk, a culture and lifestyle magazine with lots of beautiful photos. Flipping through it was a really delightful experience. Then it came to me, what if I could flip through my own photos as if they were a beautiful photo magazine, say on my iPad? And even better, what if I didn’t have to organize and layout the photos?
And that was the beginning of Photo Book Flip. After five months of design and development, the app has finally come to life.
This week marks the sixth anniversary of the App Store, as Jim Dalrymple reminds us:
On July 10, 2008, Apple launched the App Store, forever changing the way we use smartphones, tablets and many other devices. Think about how you used devices before apps, and how you use them today—there is no comparison. The iPhone and apps have changed the world.
(This means the iPhone 3G and MobileMe are also six years old. This batch of releases is one reason I left the Apple Store.)
Speaking of The Prompt, yesterday’s episode was a lot of fun:
Myke, Federico and Stephen follow-up on Sherlocking and discuss photo management in the light of the upcoming Photos app from Apple. Then Myke shares his experience with Android Wear and the Weekly Picks sound effect gets played for the first time in ages.
Oh, and I yell about my actual age and Federico sings some Justin Bieber.
Myke Hurley:
Today I am announcing that I will be departing 5by5 on July 16th 2014.
The last 18 months have been a tremendous experience, but it is time for me to move on to new things. I have new goals that I want to tackle, and to be able to do this I need to be independent again.
Next week will mark the last episodes of Myke’s shows on 5by5, including The Prompt. To settle any doubts: Federico and I are 100% behind Myke, and we aren’t done doing things together.
Ben Brooks:
This week I am joined by Stephen Hackett of 512pixels.net, and The Prompt. We discuss wearables and how fashion is going to make this a tough market to crack, and diving into the unknown waters of what Apple may offer.
I enjoyed my chat with Ben. We broke down what’s on the market now and pretended we were smart enough to guess what’s going on behind locked doors in Cupertino.
I wonder if this is good news or bad news for the Mac mini.
Or if anyone at Apple remembers the Mac mini is still for sale.
Sigh.