Are you keeping up with the shift away from overly-posed and produced Instagram Stories and YouTube vlogs? If not, check out Taylor Lorenz’s story in The Atlantic about Emma Chamberlain, the YouTuber credited with popularizing ‘slacker YouTube.’ (Link) Wikipedia is struggling to deal with harassment on its platform as explained in this in-depth report from...
Interesting Links
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...
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
[[appstories_artwork]] 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. [[dialog_artwork]] Next week on Dialog, Federico and...
In This Issue
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....
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...
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
[[appstories_artwork]] 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. [[dialog_artwork]] Next week on Dialog, Federico and John wrap up their conversation with musician and songwriter Frank...
Interesting Links
The Internet has been abuzz all week about Libra, the cryptocurrency designed by Facebook in partnership with 27 other companies and The New York Times has an excellent overview of how it works and some of its implications for consumers. (Link) Influencer story number one comes from The New York Times and tells the tale...
Interesting Links
Apple-owned Shazam added a feature this week to its Android app that isn’t available on iOS: the ability to identify songs playing through headphones. (Link) TechCrunch has the details on a new BYOD-to-work system Apple has developed that won’t require your work IT department to have access to all of the data on your iPhone,...
Previously, On MacStories
Surveying Apple’s Latest Accessibility Work Apple Is Listening WWDC Podcasts: A Roundup of Episodes with Apple Special Guests Dialog Season 1, Episode 3: A Conversation with John Gruber (Part 2) Initial Thoughts on iPadOS: A New Path Forward All the Little Details of How ‘Sign In with Apple’ Works Twitterrific 6 Brings Media Enhancements, New...