Android is 10 years old, and Dieter Bohn at The Verge takes a look at what has become the world’s largest computing platform. (Link) There have been many attempts to dislodge traditional banks with technology, but the highly-regulated industry has proven to be a tough nut to crack, until recently, thanks to the rise of...
Previously, On MacStories
A Roundup of Apps Updated for iOS 12 and watchOS 5 How Apple Made Its New Apple Watch Faces iOS 12 on the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPad mini 2 macOS Mojave: The MacStories Review OmniFocus 3 for Mac: Multiple Tags, Enhanced Forecast, Powerful Perspectives Apple Completes Acquisition of Shazam Waze Adds CarPlay...
Interview: Vidit Bhargava
Twitter: @viditb. UI and graphic design for LookUp. LookUp recently added a rich set of Siri shortcuts in iOS 12. When it came time to choose which shortcuts to add, then work to implement them in your app, what was that overall process like? For me Siri has always been about quickly accessing information that...
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Bear embraces portability, flexibility, and privacy. Your notes are written in Markdown and saved in standard formats, then organized with the power of tags and nested tags. Sketch with styluses like Apple Pencil, and grab links with app extensions. When it’s time to ship your notes elsewhere, export them to a variety of formats.
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Interesting Links
As Hurricane Florence barreled towards the US last week, Twitter was abuzz about the Weather Channel’s storm surge animation. Wired takes a look at how the TV channel used the Unreal Engine that drives many games to create the effect. (Link) Matt Birchler’s watchOS 5 review is available on BirchTree and is packed with lots...
In This Issue
‘sodes,Federico’s epic Making Of: The iOS 12 Review, Weekly Q&A, Links, App Debuts, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of next week’s episode of AppStories....
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Next week on AppStories, Federico and John take a look at a second round of apps that take advantage of iOS 12 and watchOS 5....