Coming up next week on AppStories, Federico and John take a hard look at iTunes and consider ways to break it up into multiple apps that would integrate better with iOS and be more consistent with how media is consumed today....
Previously, On MacStories
Tim Cook on Apple’s Social Responsibility Apple and Accenture Announce Enterprise Partnership The Sweet Setup Launches ‘Learn Ulysses’ Video Course Amazon Announces Multi-Room Music for Echo Devices Elgato Introduces Five New Eve HomeKit Devices Pedometer++ Updated With Achievements and a Redesigned Widget YouTube Revamps Logo, Adds Dark Mode for Web, Playback Speed Adjustment for Mobile,...
In This Issue
Square Cash,iOS Apps with Great Dark Themes (Vol. 4), an interview with Dan Moren, Josh Dick’s Home screen, plus the usualWeekly Q&A, Tip, Links, App Debuts, stickers, and recap of MacStories articles....
Interesting Links
Cloud storage service Upthere announced this week that it had been acquired by Western Digital. The announcement post is brief, but it states that the Upthere service will continue uninterrupted using the same name. (Link) Developer Clément Delangue noticed that Instagram’s iOS app received over two million app reviews in the last week alone using...
Perks
Wallpaper Wizard 2 Wallpaper Wizard 2, a handsome wallpaper discovery and management app for macOS, was recently acquired by MacPaw and is available on the Mac App Store and as part of the Setapp subscription service. We’ve got 20 promo codes to give away exclusively to Club MacStories members. Simply enter your Club MacStories email...
Interview: Dan Moren
Twitter: @dmoren. Author of The Caledonian Gambit,writer at Six ColorsandMacworld, and podcaster at The Incomparable and Relay FM. 1. How did you get your start as a writer? In terms of just writing things, I’ve been one for as long as I can remember being able to physically put pencil to paper. I was writing...
Home Screen: Josh Dick
Twitter: @_joshdick; Club MacStories member. My iPhone Home screen layout has very slowly but methodically evolved over time, starting way back with the iPhone 3GS in 2009. My most frequently-used apps appear towards the bottom of the screen for easy thumb access; the higher up an app appears, the less often it’s used. Although the...
In This Issue
This month, Ryan shares his experience with the watchOS 4 beta, Stephen looks at macOS system utilities that have been around a long time and are still going strong, John dumps cable TV for streaming services, and Jake explores living in a hybrid Apple-Google world....
Interview: Matt Ronge
Twitter: @mronge. Co-founder and CEO of Astro HQ. 1. Astropad comes in Standard and Studio editions. Standard is a fixed up-front price while Studio is an annual subscription. Could you explain for whom each product is designed and how the pricing model reflects that? We split Astropad into two versions because we realized we have...