Articles tagged with 'apple':
App Bundles and Complete My Bundle both seem like reasonable additions to the app store, ways to encourage repeat customers and to reward loyal customers. Maybe not as good as upgrade pricing, but that's a whole other kettle of fish.
Unfortunately...
read more ⇒When Apple released Swift, a new programming language, it also released a book on iBooks, the Swift Programming Language, which you can use to learn Swift.
With each release of Xcode 6, there have been changes to Swift, and accordingly, changes to...
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My
last MacBook Pro MacBookPro5,1 had an eject button on the keyboard
and a power button off the keyboard, to the right and closer to the screen. My
current Retina MacBook Pro MacBookPro10,1 has no eject button
(because it doesn't have an optical drive) and has a power button in its place,
on the keyboard.
When I first got this computer, the power button would simply bring up a dialog asking me if I wanted to shut down the computer. This was almost never what I wanted, it was likely an attempt to press the delete key that missed its mark. I found it mildly annoying.
After installing Mavericks, this behaviour changed: the power button would now sleep the computer. I was torn.
read more ⇒Mysterious sources within the Apple supply chain indicate that an unnanounced Apple product is significantly ahead of schedule and will be released to the public significantly earlier than they were originally planning.
This aggressive move is likely...
read more ⇒Apple's Your Verse ad is all over the internet today; it's a new ad, and a good one, but what struck me immediately about the ad is how much Apple is emphasizing the iPad as a camera. I was a little surprised to see very little commentary on it at...
read more ⇒Well, despite the fact that Touch ID has been working very well for me, I can see that your mileage may vary:
Touch ID is great.
It's easy to set up, works well, adds surprisingly little friction to day-to-day usage of the phone.
Like many people, I didn't use a passcode lock on my phone, because I make lots of quick uses of my phone every hour, and having to unlock it regularly added just enough friction that I found it irritating. Basically, I valued regular convenience over security in that case.
Touch ID solves that problem.
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I agree with the sentiment expressed by Nik Fletcher and Shawn Blanc about iCloud backups for iOS devices. Apple should step and own these as an invisible part of the ecosystem that 'just works'. These shouldn't even appear in your iCloud quotas at all.
I found James Davenport's "The (De-)evolution of My Laptop Battery" to be an interesting read, and I followed from the post to his GitHub repository, which was also an interesting read.
James Davenport's script to monitor his battery life is very simplistic, but it does the job of recording the data and allowing him to process it later. It immediately made me think of ways to improve the process (and clearly I'm not the only one).
read more ⇒My cracked the screen on her iPhone 4 a few months ago, and had it replaced by a store whose name escapes me up in North York.
A while later, she started having problems with her proximity sensor, which she tried to get fixed using iRepair at their...
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