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Interview: Quentin Zervaas
Twitter: @qzervaas. Founder of Crunchy Bagel, creator of Apple Design Award winner Streaks, Streaks Workout, Health Face, and other apps. With a big update to Streaks around the corner, we wanted to ask Quentin Zervaas about what we can look forward to from the update, what he’s looking forward to in iOS 11, and more....
Reader Setup: Brian King
Twitter: @bkbkbk. Video producer and editor. As a video editor and the owner of a production company, I need a Mac setup that works well when I’m editing on location. It also needs to be comfortable when I’m at the office and deep in a long editing session. Previously, I was running with a 27”...
Interesting Links
Marc Zeedar, writing for TidBITS, argues that abandoned apps pose a threat to the viability of the App Store as a professional computing platform. (Link) Dipayan Ghosh takes the position in a New York Times opinion piece that Apple’s recently-announced Guizhou, China data center will undermine Chinese citizens’ access to the Internet. (Link) Emoji are...
Home Screen: Kyle Seth Gray
Twitter: @kylesethgray. Digital Marketer, Cyclist, Web Developer, Music Lover. I’ve felt for the longest time that Find My Friends was one of the most underrated apps on iOS. While Google and Facebook have introduced similar features, Find My Friends is great because it doesn’t store any location info and doesn’t murder your battery. I love...
Interview: Gedeon Maheux
Twitter: @gedeon. Co-founder and designer at The Iconfactory. 1. At MacStories we’re big fans of the iPad, and by extension The Iconfactory’s sketching app Linea. What’s your view of the market for pro iPad apps? Do you foresee WWDC’s iPad-related announcements making any real impact on this market going forward? We’ve already seen a bump...
Interesting Links
IFTTT recently completed a survey of its users to track voice assistant trends, and the survey’s results contain several interesting data points. (Link) Twitter has added several advanced filter settings to help prevent abuse; you can now turn off notifications from accounts that are new, that you don’t follow, that don’t have a confirmed phone...
Home Screen: Tashen Govender
Twitter: @iTashenG. Computer Science student. When it comes to my iPhone, I’m very particular. My Home screen is no exception. For a very long time, it was always changing, always under construction…until one day I decided to sit down for a few minutes to think up a good layout to stick to — I was...
Reader Setup: Myke Hurley
Twitter: @imyke. Co-founder of Relay FM. The main workstation in Mega Office is my IKEA sit/stand desk. Upon it sits all of the equipment I need to produce the podcasts I release every week. I have a 27” Retina 5K iMac that serves the purpose of being my production machine. Attached to that are a...