The USB Promoter Group has formally announced the pending release of the spec for the next version of the USB standard, called USB4, which will be based on Thunderbolt and deliver speeds up to 40 Gbps. (Link) Serial Box, an iOS app that delivers serialized stories, has cut a deal with Marvel to create stories based...
Interview: Rene Ritchie
Twitter: @reneritchie. Analysis, podcasts, and YouTube videos at iMore.com/Vector. You’ve been making videos under the Vector banner for a little over a year now. How has the experience differed from your writing and podcasting? It’s all very similar in that each medium allows you to take what’s in your head and get it out into...
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Is Apple Doing Enough in the Smart Home Market? How Apple Music Could Own the Classical Music Audience Third-Party Vendors Fill the Void Caused by Overwhelmed Apple Geniuses Big Grocery Update Adds Recipe and Meal Planning Support Along with Other Refinements Using a Twitter Saved Search to Read Replies, Mentions, and Quoted Tweets in a...
Interview: Conrad Stoll
Twitter: @conradstoll. Developer of Grocery for iOS, mobile engineering at Under Armour, and photographer for UltiPhotos. There are lots of apps that manage one sort of list or another on iOS. What sets Grocery apart from them? List apps are a huge category on the App Store and lots of people have used general list...
In This Issue
A note from Federico, Holedown, a Launch Center Pro NFC Sticker giveaway, EverSafari: A Shortcut to Save Safari Webpage Links in Evernote, Ryan re-evaluates the HomePod after using it for a year, an interview with developerJohn Sundell, plus the usual Weekly Q&A, Links, App Debuts, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of next...
Interesting Links
According to Axios, Apple bought a voice technology startup called PullString that powered interactive voice apps used in toys, perhaps to aid in Siri development. (Link) An auto-tuned cat video led Dani Deahl of The Verge down a deep online rabbit hole of people making auto-tune videos using an app called Voloco. (Link) On Tedium,...
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Interview: John Sundell
Twitter: @johnsundell. Creator of Swift by Sundell, co-host of Stacktrace, and Swift developer. In January, you started a new podcast with Garric Nahapetian and Chris Lattner called The Swift Community Podcast. When you look back at the pastnearly five years, what’s been the most surprising thing about Swift’s evolution? I can’t believe it’s been nearly...
Perks
Launch Center Pro NFC Stickers and IAP Exclusively for Club MacStories members, we are giving away 5 complete sets of Launch Center Pro NFC stickers and the app’s NFC In-App Purchase. Entries will remain open until 10:00 pm Eastern US time on Friday, March 1, 2019. Winners will be selected at random and notified by email...