Next week on AppStories, Federico and John begin a new mini-series focused on music. For the first installment, Federico and John focus on hardware and services. This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John recap the week of news and reviews at MacStories, including reviews of Darkroom 5.2 and the Twelve South HoverBar...
Previously, On MacStories
Apple Arcade Expands More Originals and iOS Classics The Case for Shortcuts on the Mac Siri Adds Two New English Speaking Voices and Lets Users Choose Among Them HoverBar Duo: The MacStories Review Spotify Launches New ‘Spotify Mixes’ with Personalized Playlists Based on Artists, Genres, and Decades Apple and Others Invest $50 million into Music...
In This Issue
Highlights,Federico ends his read later search with new hardware, an interview with iOS Dev Weekly’s Dave Verwer,plus theWeekly Q&A, a Mac Control Center Tip, Links, arecap of MacStories articles, and previews of upcoming podcast episodes....
Interview: Dave Verwer
Twitter: @daveverwer. Independent iOS developer, technical writer, author of iOS Dev Weekly, which celebrated Issue 500 last week, and creator of Swift Packages. How did iOS Dev Weekly get started? I sat down and wrote Issue 1, pushed send and only then realised I had used ‘Weekly’ in the newsletter’s name and would need to...
Interesting Links
Clubhouse imitators are coming out of the woodwork, but Discord’s new Stage Channels feature, in particular, looks like a natural extension of the community-building service’s existing Voice Channels. (Link) Xbox Cloud Gaming is beta testing streaming of 16 classic games, allowing Android users to enjoy games like Banjo-Kazooie, Fable II, Gears of War 3, and...
In This Issue
This month, Federico provides a check-in on how his Spotify experiments are going and John lays out his vision for the sort of changes he’d like to see in macOS this year....
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Previously, On MacStories
Recently-Created Shortcuts Links Are Currently Broken 20 Years Ago, Mac OS X Set the Stage for Today’s Apple Spotify Updating Home Hub with Recently Played Section, Deeper Podcast Integration The Pleasures of Conversing via Voice Text Reflector 4 Updated with Modern UI and M1 Mac Support...
Interesting Links
LG unveiled its latest OLED TVs at CES in January, but this week, the new models, which should be available by the end of the month, got prices. (Link) Panic showed off a short video of its upcoming portable game console, the Playdate, mirrored to a Mac, which will allow gameplay to be streamed. The...