On last week’s episode of Connected:
Stephen shares a prepared statement. Myke suggests some games and Federico envisions a March iPad Pro event. Also: more Qi chargers have come on the market and a discussion about the HomePod’s future.
You can listen below (and find the show notes here).
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This week, Federico and John explore how Apple is increasingly blending services with its apps, where the mix has worked, where it hasn’t, and where they expect the trend will lead next.
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On this week’s episode of Adapt:
Federico walks through the tasks that he still has to turn to a Mac to accomplish, then Ryan details how iPad apps do handling large text or PDF files.
You can listen below (and find the show notes here), and don’t forget to send us questions using #AskAdapt and by tagging our Twitter account.
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This week, Federico and John explore how they approach testing unfamiliar apps and workflows.
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Question: Like many people, I have been on a journey to find an RSS reader app that works best for how I consume media. Most recently, I was using Apple’s Reading List in combination with a feed reader. Now I have jumped all in on Inoreader as my sync service and Reeder as my RSS...
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been researching plain text apps for iPhone and iPad. Here’s where it all started: I often find myself wanting to store random bits of plain text in a document, which I don’t want to save in Apple Notes or iA Writer where my more important notes and documents live....
In last week’s issue of MacStories Weekly, I noted that Textastic’s default themes didn’t support proper syntax highlighting for JSON content, where I would have liked to see different colors used for keys and values. Earlier this week, Textastic developer Alexander Blach released a minor update to Textastic 9 that has brought full compatibility...
On this week’s episode of Connected:
Stephen and Myke launch new careers as iPhone designers and Federico keeps refreshing Apple Music. Also: Swift Playgrounds on the Mac, Apple News+ and a few things we are currently enjoying.
You can listen below (and find the show notes here).
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This week, Federico and John discuss the updates to Apple’s OSes and developer tools, the changes to the app economy they signal, and the impact they’ll have on users and developers.
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