MacStories Team

3292 posts on MacStories since July 2011

Articles by the MacStories team. Founded by Federico Viticci in April 2009, MacStories attracts millions of readers every month thanks to in-depth, personal, and informed coverage that offers a balanced mix of Apple news, app reviews, and opinion.

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The Norman Foster Foundation recently hosted a 20-minute interview with Jony Ive, where Apple’s design chief shared his thoughts in a more relaxed, unscripted setting than we usually see him in. (Link) Beats 1 just celebrated its second anniversary, and to commemorate the occasion its three star DJs – Zane Lowe, Julie Adenuga, and Ebro...


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Leander Kahney of Cult of Mac has a rundown of early iPhone prototypes, most of which were revealed during litigation between Apple and Samsung. (Link) It didn’t debut until 2008, but Ars Technica reprints its original review of the iPhone SDK as part of a series of articles marking the 10th anniversary of the iPhone....



Interview: Jeremy Burge

Twitter: @jeremyburge. Chief Emoji Officer, Emojipedia, and a member of Unicode Consortium Emoji Subcommittee. 1. How did Emojipedia get started? Emojipedia was more of an idea than a product at first. I’d been toying around with the idea for a while and then the name Emojipedia hit me coming home after a dinner on my...


In This Issue

Today is the 10th anniversary of the iPhone’s release in the US. To marktheoccasion, we look back at the impact the iPhone has had on each of us....


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Home Screen: Graham Spencer

Twitter: @greyham. Technology, TV, and design. Former MacStories editor. My Home screen is something that does not change very often. I think I could go back 2 years, maybe even 5 years, and my Home screen would still be very recognisable to the one you see here today. 90% of the apps I use on...


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Interesting Links

The Unicode 10 Standard was finalized this week, which gives vendors the green light to work on interpretations of the standard for their platforms. (Link) MacPaw’s annual Mac Market survey is out with charts and graphs comparing the responses of over 700 developers to the results of last year’s poll. (Link) Matthew Panzarino of TechCrunch...