Twitter: @bhansmeyer. Developer of Snapthread. How has Snapthread evolved since it was first introduced? After my son was born in 2016 I started taking loads of 10-second videos with Snapchat – hundreds of them, probably. I wanted a way to merge them together and send them to my parents, but couldn’t find an app that...
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Interview: Peter Steinberger
Twitter: @steipete. Founder/CEO of @PSPDFKit and maker of PDF Viewer. What changes would you like Apple to make to improve the implementation of the document browser in iOS? Faster startup: The document browser is fairly slow, which reflects poorly on our app. Stricter third-party test toolkit: Dropbox, Box, Microsoft – they all offer integration, but...
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The Verge has two stories about the rocky launch of Luminary, which saw podcast creators big and small request that the company remove their content from the paid subscription service this week. (Link/Link) Variety reports on a study that streaming customers will outnumber cable subscribers this year in the US and attempts to convert them...
Interview: Mohammed Taher
Twitter: @robokick. Director @BraveWaveMusic; Worked on Street Fighter II, Ninja Gaiden, Shovel Knight, Sonic Adventure & SNK vinyl OSTs; QA Lead on Octahedron; Photographer. How did Brave Wave get started and what role has technology played in its success? I was directing and producing albums before the actual formation of the label. What got me...
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Alfred and LaunchBar have very similar, but subtly different features, and Dr. Drang does an excellent job of explaining why he switched back to LaunchBar after trying Alfred for five months. (Link) Although it’s debatable whether the quirks and bugs of Apple News+ rise to the level of ‘total mess’ as suggested by this Gizmodo...