App Trends Revisited and Reconsidered 
This week, Federico and John mark episode 300 of the show by revisiting the app trends they covered in episode 100 and discussing the new trends that will shape the apps we use in the next several years.
Astropad Darkboard: Hands-On Preview Last week, I wrote about how I used Concepts to lay out furniture in the house we’re moving into soon. What I didn’t explain was that some of that planning was done with a prototype iPad Pro accessory from Astropad called Darkboard. We don’t often cover Kickstarter projects, given the uncertainty surrounding many of them....
Retro Gaming with OpenFPGA and the Limits iPadOS Places on Developers Here are the highlights from the Club MacStories Discord this week: If you listen to this week’s MacStories Unwind and want to try OpenFPGA with the Analogue Pocket, be sure to check out these posts in Discord where Jack explains how he solved some issues updating his Pocket via the Mac. Scott kicked off a...
Interesting Links Apple announced ‘Ask Apple,’ a new developer program with interactive Q&A and one-on-one sessions that will begin next week. (Link) TouchArcade reviewed the Backbone One PlayStation Edition controller for iPhone this week and came away impressed but with a few caveats. (Link) TouchArcade also reviewed the Razer Kishi V2 iPhone game controller, which has...
App Debuts Instapaper This week saw the first significant update to Instapaper in several months. The biggest addition is in-article search, which is accessed from the app’s more button when reading an article. The search updates live as you type, and there are up and down arrows at the top of the keyboard to quickly skip...
Navigating Obsidian Tabs with Custom Mouse Actions As I mentioned last week on MacStories Unwind, I’ve been trying a couple of new products that Logitech sent me. One is the MX Master 3S mouse for Mac, a slightly different version than the original model that was released earlier this year. As mice go, the new MX Master 3S is excellent. I’ve used...
This week on MacStories Unwind, I pick a spooky special from Disney+, Werewolf by Night, and Federico has two weekend videogame projects: openFPGA for the Analogue Pocket and setting up the Epilogue GB Operator with the Steam Deck.
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Apple Music was released today on the Xbox Store as a free download. I’ve had a chance to test the app briefly on my Xbox Series X, and the experience is very close to that of the Music app on the Apple TV.
Upon downloading the app, new users can take advantage of a free month of Apple’s music streaming service. There are multiple ways for existing subscribers to log in, too, including by using a QR code that opens a web page and asks you to sign in with your Apple ID. Once I signed in, the app on my Xbox refreshed, and I was good to go.
If you’ve ever used the Apple Music app on the Apple TV, you’ll be right at home on the Xbox version of the app. The UI is nearly identical from the ways you can interact with the service’s catalog of music to the Now Playing screen. It is my understanding that the Music app, along with the TV app, will be coming to Windows next year too.
Your iCloud Photo Library is also available in the Windows 11 Photos app now, with support for both images and video. To connect the two, you need to install iCloud for Windows on your PC and choose to sync your iCloud photos library. I gave it a try on my AYANEO Next Pro and had no trouble linking Microsoft’s app to my iCloud Photo Library.
The number of devices on which you can access Apple’s media services has expanded significantly over the past few years, with availability expanding from Android devices to smart TVs and other platforms. With Xbox and Windows PC integration, that expansion has taken another big leap forward, making those services available to a much wider audience.
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