Since setting up my new Mac mini beginning in March, I’ve taken the opportunity to clean up my menu bar apps. I have mixed feelings about menu bar apps. On the one hand, they are an excellent way to expose features of an app that you can access without having to launch the full...
Keep It
Keep It is where I store research and reference materials. When it comes to research, the app’s strength is that you can throw just about anything at it: PDFs, URLs, web archives, images, and other kinds of files. Keep It can also create plain text, rich text, and Markdown documents, which makes it an...
App Debuts
RyanVectorPad VectorPad debuted this past week as a new app for converting illustrations and images into vector graphics, which can then be used to create 3D extrusions, 3D printable objects, AR objects, and more. The app supports converting graphics into SVG, PDF, and DXF formats, as well as Swift code, and pairs well with...
Q&A
Question: I’m new to Shortcuts and have two questions. First, could you recommend a good, thorough Shortcuts user guide? Second, I want to build a very simple shortcut to replace manually navigating through multiple layers of the iOS Settings app to get to a specific accessibility option, but I can’t find a way to do...
Highlights from the Six Colors Transcription of Apple’s Q2 2019 Earnings Call
Where better to get a little ‘color’ on Apple’s earnings than from a full transcript of the company’s earnings call with Wall Street analysts published by Six Colors? As in the past, Jason Snell has transcribed Apple’s presentation to Wall Street analysts along with the question and answer session at the end of the call. Here are a few of the highlights:
The iPad made a strong showing in China with Cook reporting that:
For iPad, we were very happy to return to growth in Greater China, while generating strong double-digit growth in each of our other geographic segments. Our great iPad results were driven primarily by strong customer response to iPad Pro.
Apple Q2 2019 Results - $58 Billion Revenue
Apple has just published its financial results for Q2 2019, which is the company’s holiday quarter. The company posted revenue of $58 billion. Apple CEO Tim Cook said:
Our March quarter results show the continued strength of our installed base of over 1.4 billion active devices, as we set an all-time record for Services, and the strong momentum of our Wearables, Home and Accessories category, which set a new March quarter record,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We delivered our strongest iPad growth in six years, and we are as excited as ever about our pipeline of innovative hardware, software and services. We’re looking forward to sharing more with developers and customers at Apple’s 30th annual Worldwide Developers Conference in June.
Apple’s Multi-Layered Transition from Owned to Streamed Music
I have tens of thousands of songs on a Mac mini that I ripped from CDs I bought going back to the mid-80s. For a long time, I carefully managed those songs in iTunes, tweaking metadata and syncing a selection of them to iPods and iOS devices. When Apple Music came along though, everything...
AppStories, Episode 109 – Pick 2: Moment and MindNode→
On this week’s episode of AppStories, we take a deep dive into two apps we’ve been using a lot lately, Moment Pro Camera and the recently-released MindNode 6.
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AppStories Episode 109 - Pick 2: Moment and MindNode
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