Brain.fm,an iOS 12 beta tip, a Drafts 5 workflow and responses to readers’ workflow requests, Ryan considers the recently-revived, productivity-first direction of the Mac, straw poll results, plus the usual Weekly Q&A, Links, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of next week’s episode of AppStories....
Interview: Matt Braun
Twitter: @mattbraun. Developer of Waypoint EDU and SketchParty TV. Apple introduced ARKit 2.0 at WWDC this year, which is the third major update to the framework since it was announced at WWDC 2017 and a much faster pace than most frameworks get updated. Why do you think Apple is pushing ARKit forward so aggressively? Apple...
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Home Screen: CJ Chilvers
Twitter: @cjchilvers. Website: cjchilvers.com. Author of books on music and photography, and publisher of a regular newsletter. My iPhone X Home screen is based on the Mike Williams method, which has produced some of the most beautiful iPhone Home screens I’ve ever seen. Does it really matter, though? At least for me, Siri and Apple...
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Interview: Ben McCarthy
Twitter: @BenRiceM; Website: Obscura.app. Creator of Obscura 2. How did you get started with iOS development? I remember being 15 or 16 and downloading Xcode and trying to learn how to build apps, but I don’t think I made it past the stage of setting up the necessary certificates and profiles. It wasn’t until I...
Home Screen: Parker Ortolani
Twitter: @parkermortolani; Website: parkerortolani.com. Licensing Intern at BuzzFeed & a Junior at Fordham University. As a power user, I tend to rearrange my Home screen quite often, especially as I try out new apps. These layouts are the ones that I consistently return to though. I run my life off my iPhone, iPad, and Apple...
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Interesting Links
In advance of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, CNET featured the work that Apple and Google are doing to make their products more accessible, which includes an interview with US Paralympian Austin Pruitt about how he uses the Apple Watch to train for wheelchair races. (Link) Twitter has begun hiding certain replies that it identifies as...