Among the highlights on the Club MacStories+ Discord: Members had thoughts on the winding down – or not – of Vision Pro development. (Link) Members discussed the personal value of AI and the challenge of cutting through the hype/negativity to find it, with lots of examples. (Link) Want to join the Club MacStories+ Discord? Upgrade to Club...

The camera has arguably become the defining feature of the iPhone. With that has come dozens (hundreds?) of third-party camera apps, all hoping to offer something different from Apple’s stock Camera app. Many, like Halide and Obscura, are the only apps some people use to take photos. Others, like !Camera and Spectre, have become secondary...

Among the highlights on the Club MacStories+ Discord: Patrick has a new app in TestFlight called Readtivity. If you have a small, personal app you’d like other members to test, make sure to drop a link in the #self-promotion channel. (Link) Want to join the Club MacStories+ Discord? Upgrade to Club MacStories+ or Club Premier, then visit...

There’s a psychological heuristic called the “peak-end rule” that I often think of when watching movies. The rule, as it goes, is that your memory of an experience is heavily influenced by how you felt at its peak and its end, largely obscuring the other parts of the experience from your overall impression. A prime...