“I think we should talk to Federico about joining the show.”
With that, my podcasting career – and life – got a lot better.
This was the spring of 2013. Myke Hurley and I were packing our bags at Myke’s original podcast network, heading over to 5by5. He and I had been publishing a weekly Apple show named “The 512 Podcast,” but we wanted to do something bigger and better, and Myke had the idea to wrangle Federico into things.
A Partial Return to Evernote [[stephen]] After Federico’s recent return to Evernote, I realized that it could be the perfect solution to a very specific problem in my workflow. I write a lot on the web about Apple history, from here on MacStories to 512 Pixels and beyond. I have covered many devices and many keynotes, and over the years,...
The recent iMac updates brought additional power and flexibility to Apple’s all-in-one desktop, but didn’t redesign or modernize the iMac as we’ve known it for many years.
As the 21.5- and 27-inch machines are here to stay for at least a while longer, I thought it would be a good time to look back at the first of their kind, introduced at a press event in October 2012. You probably can’t tell if the press image above is from 2012 or 2019.
iOS Apps That Could Shine on the Mac [[stephen]] With reports swirling of Apple giving developers tools to bring their iPad apps to the Mac as soon as this year at WWDC, I’ve begun to think about what iPad apps I would like to see make their way to the Mac. There are some obvious winners here: media apps like Netflix and Hulu...
In January 2009, Apple took to the stage at Macworld Expo one final time. The company announced the change a few weeks before the show. Phil Schiller would deliver the keynote. News of Steve Jobs’ medical leave would break just weeks later, one day before the keynote.
All of this cast a weird vibe over the event, and while it was far from Apple’s most exciting keynote, it’s worth revisiting Phil Schiller’s three announcements now, ten years later.1
Thoughts on CarPlay [[stephen]] Several months ago, I installed an aftermarket CarPlay receiver in my pickup truck. After many hours of wiring, I have everything good to go, and have been enjoying Apple’s take on the car media experience ever since. This has been my first experience with CarPlay, and for the most part, I am fairly happy...
In his keynote introducing the switch to Intel,1 Steve Jobs introduced the weirdest Mac of all time: the Apple Developer Transition Kit.
After announcing the change, Jobs revealed a secret. The Mac he had been using to demo software all morning actually had a 3.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor inside.
Needless to say, the crowd went wild.
Apple, Make the App Store a Better Web Citizen [[stephen]] This summer marked the tenth anniversary of the iOS App Store. The application –and the service behind it –have changed a lot in the last decade, and all for the better. A powerful aspect of the current App Store is Apple’s on-going editorial work. From lists of related apps to explainers and interviews, the...
As a young kid, I thought magnets were about the coolest things ever. Here in my 30s, I kind of feel the same way.
Magnets made nerdy headlines recently, with the new iPad Pro, which is chock-full of them to keep its Smart Keyboard Folio in place. Marques Brownlee had a tweet showing off just how many are in the tablet’s thin chassis:
Apple’s use of magnets in its products goes back further than the most recent iPad Pro, with its keyboard and Apple Pencil, or even the fun and functional AirPod case. Magnets allow Apple to do things without the need of mechanical components, keeping the design of its products clean and streamlined. Here are a few of my favorites over the years.
