JohnThis week, Federico and John continue their series of episodes on the new and updated apps coming from Apple in the fall with Reminders.
Adapt, Episode 4: Making an eBook and Multitasking’s Evolution→
Federico gets creative making an eBook with Apple’s Pages app, then the guys go deep into the strengths and challenges of the new multitasking system in iPadOS 13.
In this week’s episode of Adapt, I had a lot of fun playing around with Pages for Ryan’s challenge; we also dig deeper into the multitasking changes of iPadOS. 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.
The End of the Ive Era→
Great piece by John Gruber on Jony Ive leaving Apple and the end of the Ive era at Apple:
I think Tim Cook is a great CEO and Jeff Williams is a great COO. But who’s in charge of product design now? There is no new chief design officer, which, really, is what Steve Jobs always was. From a product standpoint, the post-Jobs era at Apple has been the Jony Ive era, not the Tim Cook era. That’s not a knock on Tim Cook. To his credit, Tim Cook has never pretended to be a product guy, which is exactly the hubris that John Sculley succumbed to back in the early ’90s, leading to the Newton being launched far before it was ready and the Macintosh platform languishing.
My gut sense for years has been that Ive without Jobs has been like McCartney without Lennon. Or Lennon without McCartney — take whichever analogical pairing you prefer. My point here is only that the fruit of their collaborations were, seemingly magically, far greater than the sums of the duos’ talents and tastes.
Assuming Ive’s exit has been planned for a while, it makes little sense to me that Apple’s new design leaders (Hankey and Dye) are reporting to Jeff Williams, the company’s chief operating officer – unless Apple has bigger plans for him in the near future. Then again, Gruber’s point still holds: who’s Apple’s Chief Design Officer now?
Connected, Episode 249: Federighi Snapped His Fingers→
Myke resumes his role as the tvOS guy and Federico’s Memoji have all been killed. Apple’s Public Betas have arrived, as have new rumors of a future small iPhone. Stephen preaches the good news of Carbon.
On this week’s episode of Connected, we discuss Apple’s latest public betas and the future of Catalyst apps. You can listen below (and find the show notes here).
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Catalyst to the Rescue
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This week, Federico and John dig into the role of Catalyst in Apple’s Mac and iPad strategy expanding on Catalyst Can Rescue the Mac and Grow the iPad, a story John wrote on MacStories.
Choosing Thumbnail Size in Reminders for iOS 13
As I mention in The Extension this week, one of the features of the new Reminders app in iOS 13 is the ability to embed a variety of attachments in your tasks. These include images, rich links, and documents that you can scan using a device’s camera. Just like in the Notes app, you...
Q&A
Question: Have you tested creating this newsletter in Mailchimp on an iPad running the iPadOS 13 beta? That has been one of the biggest hangups keeping me from making the iPad my primary device. (Jacob)
The new desktop-class Safari in iPadOS does allow you to edit content blocks in the Mailchimp newsletter editor. However,...
Initial Experiments with Reminders for iOS and iPadOS 13
Every year as soon as WWDC wraps up, I need to install the beta of the new version of iOS on at least one of my primary devices to start taking notes for my annual review. As I’ve explained in the past, this initial testing phase is key to get a sense of what...
Connected, Episode 248: There Will Be Consequences→
Federico and Stephen are joined by David Sparks to talk about the state of Apple’s current betas, the updated Files and Shortcuts apps and the ever-growing system of rules that form Connected’s drafts.
On this week’s episode of Connected, we had a great conversation with David Sparks about some of the key improvements coming to iOS and iPadOS later this year. You can listen below (and find the show notes here).