Kindle 2022

Todd Haselton: Amazon on Tuesday announced a new entry-level $99 Kindle e-reader with several improvements over the prior model. The biggest change is the display, which is a lot sharper than the earlier $89 Kindle. That means text will look clearer…

Plus, Pro, Max, and Ultra

Hartley Charlton (Reddit): In his latest post on Medium, Kuo explained that the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max have seen “neutral” and “good” pre-order results compared to the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max. Delivery wait times of more tha…

Gassé on Apple Services

Jean-Louis Gassée (tweet, Hacker News): I suggested a simpler, sharper statement: Apple makes personal computers, small, medium, and large. Everything else Apple does has but one raison d’être: They push up the volumes and margins of the company’s m…

iOS 16 Text View Breakage

Jeff Johnson: Apple automatically opted in UITextView to TextKit 2, for both Apple’s apps and third-party apps. The developer must explicitly opt out of TextKit 2 to use the old TextKit 1 behavior. […] Apple’s typical way of preserving binary compat…

‘Live, on Tape, at Apple Park’

★ Thoughts and Observations on Last Week’s ‘Far Out’ Apple Event

iPhones 14, new AirPods Pro, Apple Watches Series 8 and Ultra, and the event itself.

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★ Thoughts and Observations on Last Week’s ‘Far Out’ Apple Event

iPhones 14, new AirPods Pro, Apple Watches Series 8 and Ultra, and the event itself.

‘Live, on Tape, at Apple Park’

‘Live, on Tape, at Apple Park’

★ Thoughts and Observations on Last Week’s ‘Far Out’ Apple Event

iPhones 14, new AirPods Pro, Apple Watches Series 8 and Ultra, and the event itself.

Casio’s Pro Trek Biomass PRG300

★ Thoughts and Observations on Last Week’s ‘Far Out’ Apple Event

iPhones 14, new AirPods Pro, Apple Watches Series 8 and Ultra, and the event itself.

Launching Apps From iOS 16’s Lock Screen

Sami Fathi: The app called “Launchify” lets users configure one or more iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets that directly open any app of their choosing. Users can create a widget to quickly open Messages, Twitter, the Phone app, or Apple or Google Maps, for…

Sunsetting Dark Sky

Dark Sky (via Hacker News, MacRumors): As previously announced, the Dark Sky iOS app will no longer be available beginning on December 31st, 2022 and, as of this date, already purchased versions of the app will no longer provide weather data. The Da…

Safari 16

Jen Simmons (Hacker News): Safari for iOS 16 includes support for still images compressed using the AVIF format. Developed by the Alliance for Open Media, AVIF is an alternative to image formats like JPEG, PNG, GIF, or WebP. It offers multiple color…

watchOS 9

Apple (MacRumors): Apple today launched watchOS 9, which brings new features and enhanced experiences to the world’s leading wearable operating system. Apple Watch users now have more watch faces to choose from, with richer complications that provid…

Casio’s Pro Trek Biomass PRG300

Casio’s Pro Trek Biomass PRG300

Google Pixel Popularity