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Today is the last day of my free month trial of Apple News+ service. This is the perfect time for a verdict. This is my review of Apple News+ service. I’m going to subscribe to (yet) another service but without great enthusiasm. Here is why. First, the good side Since I’m a Canadian citizen, the… Co
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Jason Snell writing in April 2019 issue of Macworld: In general, I wonder sometimes if there’s a little too much dogma inside the group that’s in charge of iPhone photography. It’s a tough line to walk between creating images that are crowd pleasing and those that are accurate depictions of what was
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At long last, here is my review of the HyperDrive USB-C Hub for the 2018 iPad Pro. After a very successful KickStarter campaign. I made a pledge, my very first one on KickStarter. I couldn’t imagine having this iPad Pro without one as I wrote back in February. Here is my short review. On the… Contin
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From DHH writing for SvN The fact is that many people simply do not contact Apple when their MacBook keyboards fail. They just live with an S key that stutters or a spacebar that intermittently gives double. Or they just start using an external keyboard. Apple never sees these cases, so it never cou
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First and foremost: I don’t really care about the AirPower not being announced. Now, that this is cleared out of the way, let’s proceed and dig in. About The Keynote Itself This keynote was close to two hours. It didn’t fell that long to me. I really liked it. The introduction video was a nice… Cont
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Here is a great read about iOS multitasking weaknesses: What’s Wrong With iOS 11/12 Multitasking — Fraser Speirs. iOS 11 was a great update for the iPad with drag & drop support coupled with “real” multitasking feature. This article, supposedly written a long time ago for iOS 11 is all about one thi
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Following the announcement by Apple with press releases of the latest iPad models, first this useful summary by MacRumors: Summary The new iPad Air starts at $150 less than the 10.5-inch iPad Pro and thus has some tradeoffs: two speakers versus four, no ProMotion display, and a lower-end 8-megapixel
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I’ve been thinking about Apple’s Marzipan project since rumors started to flow last year before the WWDC 2018 developers conference where it was officially announced. I wrote a blog post about it a few weeks ago. I keep thinking about it. Brent Simmons, a well known developer has many many questions
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Tell me if you know what this is and you were a registered user! I was.
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Here are the News.app icons in their different incarnations. From the oldest (left) to the newest (right). The latter is coming in upcoming iOS 12.2 before the end of March. I think the one in the middle is the more recognizable and approachable. The one of the right doesn’t convey any meaningful si
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Do you trust Amazon not to start collecting your data when they will take over Eero? I don’t. They have no credibility because this is part of the machinery that powers this business. The more they know, the better. I cannot change my mind about Apple missing something big.
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The news of Amazon buying Wi-fi start-up Eero yesterday was a sour reminder of Apple exiting the very same market a few years ago. Why Amazon (and Google) are still investing in this “commodity” technology? Because this is all about controling all aspects of the smart home. I find it worrisome that