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WWDC 2023: Apple Publishes Keynote Video

Craig's form is even better this year.

Craig’s form is even better this year.

In a packed WWDC keynote, Apple raced through many impressive additions to their hardware and software lineup, including a new 15” MacBook Air, an upgraded Mac Studio, and an all-new Apple Silicon Mac Pro. Significant changes are coming to watchOS 10, and Widgets are getting super-powered across all major platforms. But the star of show came in a rare One More Thing-style announcement: the Apple Vision Pro.

We’ll be posting coverage on all this and more in the coming hours and days, but in the meantime you can see it all for yourself in the keynote video on Apple’s Events site or on YouTube.

Apple is also hosting the keynote presentation in higher quality on Apple Podcasts, where you can choose between video or audio versions.

You can follow all of our WWDC coverage through our WWDC 2023 hub or subscribe to the dedicated WWDC 2023 RSS feed.

AppStories, Episode 332 - WWDC 2023: Final Thoughts and Predictions→

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Last Week, on Club MacStories: Our WWDC Travel Home and Lock Screens and Ben McCarthy’s Development Desk Setup

Because Club MacStories now encompasses more than just newsletters, we’ve created a guide to the past week’s happenings:

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Ben McCarthy's Desk Setup.

Ben McCarthy’s Desk Setup.

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AppStories, Ep. 332 - 54 minutes

WWDC 2023: Final Thoughts and Predictions

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Our Final Pre-WWDC Thoughts and Predictions

  • MacStories at WWDC
  • The Format of WWDC
  • New Macs
  • Pack Your Sunscreen, It’s Going to Be a Long Keynote
  • What We’re Excited About
  • watchOS
  • High-End Headset Display Rumors
  • Thoughts on iOS
  • Gaming

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MacStories Weekly: Issue 371

This week, in addition to the usual links, app debuts, and recap of MacStories' articles and podcasts:

  • Next Week's Schedule, by MacStories Team
  • Our WWDC iPhone Setups: Federico and John, by Federico
  • WWDC 2023, Betas, iPad Covers, and APIs, by John
  • Reader Setup: Ben McCarthy, by MacStories Team
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MacStories Unwind: Travel Stories and Games

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Reddit Quotes Extraordinarily High API Pricing to Apollo Developer→

I’ve never used Reddit without a third-party app. For a while, that was Narwhal, and most recently, Apollo. Sure, I read Reddit in Safari once in a while when a Google search leads me there, but I’ve never used Reddit’s first-party app because it’s never been as good as third-party alternatives.

In April, Reddit announced that it would start charging users for API access. Sound familiar? Yes, it’s a lot like what played out with Twitter’s API and third-party apps. And just like Twitter, Reddit is charging a price for its API that’s so steep, it’s hard to imagine any third-party apps will be able to pay it.

Christian Selig, the creator of the immensely popular Reddit client Apollo, on the pricing he was quoted:

I’ll cut to the chase: 50 million requests costs $12,000, a figure far more than I ever could have imagined.

Apollo made 7 billion requests last month, which would put it at about 1.7 million dollars per month, or 20 million US dollars per year. Even if I only kept subscription users, the average Apollo user uses 344 requests per day, which would cost $2.50 per month, which is over double what the subscription currently costs, so I’d be in the red every month.

I hope Reddit reconsiders its pricing, but I’m afraid we may be seeing the end of the era when platforms used free or cheap APIs to accelerate their growth. Reddit may be within its rights to charge so much, but that doesn’t make it any less a slap in the face to app developers like Selig, whose app has helped grow Reddit’s business. Between this and Twitter, it’s hard to imagine new services attracting third-party support as a way to grow their businesses ever again.

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