The Guardian reports that Alex Dale, a senior executive at mobile game maker King, told a Commons select committee in the UK that he doesn’t believe Candy Crush is addictive, explaining away statistics like 9 million people playing for more than three hours a day and rationalizing one player’s expenditure of $2,600 on in-game currency...
Previously, On MacStories
CNBC Reports New Details About Apple’s App Review Team Catalyst Can Rescue the Mac and Grow the iPad Apple Launches First Public Betas for iOS 13, iPadOS 13, macOS Catalina, and tvOS 13 I Won’t Sit Down: Songwriting with Frank Turner (Part 2) Hey Siri, Open the Garage Apple News Debuts Candidate Guide for 2020...
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Next week on AppStories, Federico and John take a close look at the changes coming to Apple’s Reminders app in iOS 13, consider whether they could switch to it as their full-time task manager, and list additional changes they’d like to see Apple make to the app. Next week on Dialog, Federico and...
MacStories Unplugged
Episode 7: Everything Is Research This month, Federico and John discuss the idea of ‘everything is research’ – a state of constant curiosity, testing, and planning that’s part of how we come up with ideas for the stories we write and the podcasts we record, but left unchecked, can slip from healthy learning and...
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AutoSleep,John’s favorite HomeKit accessories, a checklist item reordering tip for Notes, an all-new episode of MacStories Unplugged, plus the usual Weekly Q&A, Links, App Debuts, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of next week’s episodes of AppStories and Dialog....
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Catalyst: Change Is Coming to the Mac and iPad
LookUp, one of my favorite iPad dictionary apps defines catalyst as: a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change. That definition works as the name of Apple’s project for migrating iPad apps to the Mac for a couple of reasons. First, as I’ll cover in detail...
Previously, On MacStories
Adobe Previews New iPad Drawing and Painting App, Fresco I Won’t Sit Down: Songwriting with Frank Turner (Part 1) Nintendo Announces Dr. Mario World Coming to iOS July 10 Apple Stores Showing Signs of Change Under Deirdre O’Brien’s Leadership Apple to Revise Mojave’s Catalyst Apps in macOS Catalina Harry Potter: Wizards Unite AR Game Launches...
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, Federico and John cover Catalyst and how it fits into Apple’s Mac and iPad strategy in an episode that’s a companion to John’s Catalyst story coming on Monday and previewed above in Teaser. Next week on Dialog, Federico and John wrap up their conversation with musician and songwriter Frank...