Tag: Apple

How Apple Should Have Framed the $3,500 ‘Vision Pro’ Price Point

There was quite a bit of chatter leading up to the unveil that perhaps the rumored $3k price (which Gurman himself was the first to report, I believe) was Apple “sandbagging” just as it seemingly had done with the original iPad years ago. That Apple would reveal a $1,499 price point or s...

9 Epic Updates Coming to Apple Products in 2024 and Beyond

The tech landscape is ever-evolving, and Apple, as one of the industry’s trailblazers, never ceases to amaze us. As we edge closer to 2024, Apple is gearing up to unveil a slew of innovative features that promise to redefine our interaction with technology. In this post, I will unravel w...

How Apple Should Have Framed the $3,500 ‘Vision Pro’ Price Point

10 Stellar Apps for Your Apple Devices — June 2023

The WWDC 2023 was exciting for me. Developers have more ways to express their art in apps and services on the App Store. It’s a beautiful time. I will try to cover the products from such unique developers, but until we receive the updates, I’ll help you find some great apps from my mo...

Apple iPhone 15: What to Expect

September is just around the corner, which usually means Apple is readying new iPhones and possibly more. Here’s the latest on what we think we know about the iPhone 15 line. By Iyaz Akhtar For the past five years, Apple has consistently unveiled its iPhone lineup in the fall, with four ...

Through the Ages Apple Animation APIs

I recently stumbled upon John Siracusa’s legendary Mac OS X reviews for the first time. If you’re not in the loop, these were astonishingly detailed technical reviews of Apple’s major Mac OS X releases between 1999 and 2014. According to Ars Technica, where these were publi...

Through the Ages: Apple Animation APIs

4 Apple Products That Are Unbelievably Pointless and Petty

Back in 2012, I went to live with my Dad for a year, while I studied at a nearby college. One memory that always comes back to me is how much we fought over Apple versus Windows. It’s not that I thought Apple made bad products. It just annoyed me how my Dad was deeply entrenched in the Appl...

Why I Am Switching to Apple Maps From Google Maps in 2023

When smartphones were still a novelty, Google Maps became my digital North Star. And back then, I had an Android phone, and it was the only option. Every hidden cafe, every shortcut through the city’s maze, Google Maps knew it all. It felt like the seasoned guide every explorer wished for. ...

How Apple Should Have Framed the $3,500 ‘Vision Pro’ Price Point

Mark Gurman’s newsletter a couple weeks ago directly took on the Vision Pro’s $3,500 price tag: At $3,500, Apple Vision Pro isn’t priced to sell. No matter how powerful its technology and compelling its functionality, the product won’t be able to reach its potential...

7 Unique Apple Watch Use Cases That You Don’t Know But Need to Know

If you are a fan of the Apple Watch, you probably use it every single day and for a lot of purposes like checking your heart rate, tracking your workouts, checking messages, taking calls, etc. However, even if you have been a loyal Apple Watch user, I can bet that you still don’t know some ...

Boost Personal Productivity with Kanban and Apple Reminders

Intro — a simple new feature delivers real benefits What is Kanban, and why would I care? Why Kanban is useful for individuals Creating one-off Kanbans, Kanban templates, and Schedules Deep-linking and the Kanban workflow Every year, Apple enhances its stock apps, and in 2023, ...

You Are Using Apple Notes Completely Wrong

When Apple first introduced the Notes app, many of us saw it as a digital post-it — a place to jot down quick thoughts or cooking recipes. But over the years, Apple Notes has evolved, becoming more than just a basic note-taking app; and it is now a multifaceted tool capable of handling sket...

Why I Am Switching to Apple Maps From Google Maps in 2023

Apple Is Silently Investing Billions In Something Dubbed Apple GPT

Apple is up to something. The next one more thing. Billions are silently being funneled into generative AI. Why should you care? Because what is about to come is probably the tech equivalent of discovering a new planet. Let’s dig in. The billion-Dollar bet on generative AI $2...

Unveiling the Future: What to Expect from the Apple Watch X

The history of Apple’s smartwatches began in the spring of 2015. For a few years, Apple released more or less standard models with partial improvements and recently added to these basic models the super-durable Apple Watch Ultra, designed for extreme conditions. The Apple Watch product line...

Through the Ages: Apple Animation APIs

You Are Using Apple Notes Completely Wrong

Boost Personal Productivity with Kanban and Apple Reminders

Every year, Apple enhances its stock apps, and in 2023, it is the turn of Reminders. The veteran task manager gains the ability to break task lists into sections. Hold on, keep reading. Sections are surprisingly useful. It turns out that this innocuous change gives Reminders the ability to imp...

How Apple & Nintendo are Grounded in Being Human

I’ve had the connection on my mind for a while but feared I might be overthinking it. Then I listened to a deep dive into Nintendo’s history, and the more I learned, the more I was reminded of the famous fruit-named company. I was struck by how an obsession with honouring human...

Apple Vision Pro: I Like This Strategy

Ever since Apple’s WWDC 2023 keynote, friends have been asking me what I think of Apple Vision Pro, the company’s newly announced AR/VR goggles that will be available in early 2024. While the product itself seems impressive, with an impressively high $3,500 price to match, what...

Thoughts on Apple Vision Pro

The Apple Vision Pro AR/VR Headset: The Apple Vision Pro represents a significant leap forward in the realm of augmented and virtual reality. It boasts a sleek design, combining comfort and aesthetics, making it a wearable device that can be used for extended periods. Equipped with high-resolution ...

Docker on Apple Silicon Mac: How to Run x86 Containers with Rosetta 2

Finally, the popular containerization platform Docker has implemented a new feature that allows running images built for the x86 architecture on Macs utilizing the Apple Rosetta 2 emulator/translator. This means that users can now run their pre-existing&nbs...

Beyond Docker: Emulation, Orchestration, and Virtualization in Apple Silicon

Over the last five years, I’ve delved deep into the world of microservices within big Kubernetes clusters. My typical workflow involves crafting solutions locally on my laptop, rigorously testing them, and subsequently committing my alterations to the master branch. Docker had long been my ...

The First Truly Exciting Android Phone That Even Apple Fans Should Consider

Forget foldables and flip phones. Sure, they’re cool if you like bending plastic screens or seeing creases in the middle. If you’re in South Korea, they seem to be virtually the only kind of phone people own these days — according to Netflix, anyway. As “innovative” the...

Apple…so fast — but not so scary

When Apple announced this event last week speculation was high about what or rather how they would deliver whatever it was we were about to be getting. First I guess I need to put my hands up and wipe the egg from my face! Yesterday I was pretty cock-sure that we’d be getting more...

Apple iOS 17.1 landed today & BIG changes are coming for AirPods

Today finally saw the full release of the latest update to Apple’s mobile operating system. I installed it earlier today and although it is only a fairly minor change I thought it might be worth noting the new headline features. And after I’ve gone through those, then I will...

Through the Ages: Apple CPU Architecture

The King of CPU Architecture Migrations I’m no evangelist, but it doesn’t take a fanboy to acknowledge that Apple is an impressive company. They invented the most successful product in the history of capitalism, and subsequently became the first business to hit a $1T market ca...

All eyes on Apple — 1 BIG lesson learned!

We all knew what was coming and there didn’t seem to be that much to get excited about, but I wanted to be excited. I’ve been an Apple fan for years and years and years. I’ve owned more Macs & iPhones than I’d care to remember. I’ve invested in the Apple e...

There Is No “Batterygate”, Just Poorly Educated Apple Users

Oh, how the pundits like to call everything a #SomethingGate to make an extra buck, or get an extra like. Look, I get it. Apple does make mistakes and when it does, it’s really embarrassing. #BendGate was definitely one to remember. I feel, though, that since the iPhone 6 started turning from ...

Through the Ages: Apple Animation APIs

Why does Apple push for structs?

From the very creation of the Swift language, Apple has pushed for developers to use structs frequently. Apple has an article where they state: “The additional capabilities that classes support come at the cost of increased complexity. As a general guideline, prefer structures b...

Beyond Docker: Emulation, Orchestration, and Virtualization in Apple Silicon

A minimalist guide to migrate Homebrew from Intel Macs to Apple Silicon Macs in simple 5-steps

Open the CLI (Terminal/iTerm2) of your choice and install Xcode command line tools. The installation typically takes about ~15 minutes. xcode-select --install 2. (Re)Install homebrew (this time to a new path because of the Silicon CPU architecture) /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL h...

Bits & Bytes — Apple Silicon versus Intel: Application Memory Usage Shootout

Since the launch of Apple Silicon, it has been claimed that Apple’s System on a Chip (SOC), in combination with macOS, handles RAM more efficiently than Intel’s CPUs. According to several reports in the press, Apple’s MacBook is said to be capable of operating much more efficiently...

Maybe Apple Hasn’t Killed off the iMac After All

Come on, guys, what more do you want? We’ve just had a brand new Apple Pencil with USB-C charging. Stop being so greedy. However, it seems as though Apple isn’t finished with 2023 just yet — by quite a stretch. While idly flicking through my X feed last night, I spotted a t...

How to enable aptX on Mac OSX (Big Sur) and Apple M1!!!

One hidden feature I really think Apple should allow users to enable is the aptX support for the Bluetooth audio. Apparently, they support such on the Intel and Apple M1 Macbook but somehow were always hidden or ‘disabled’. I mean why… and why? aptX Wireless Bluetooth Audio Pro...

Without Apple Daily, Hong Kong Would Not Have Been the Same

In 2000, I returned to Hong Kong after finishing a postgraduate diploma in journalism at the University of Sheffield. When I was in the UK, I had interned at the Financial Times, learning from other colleagues of FT.com on how to write the euro-dollar trend. My colleagues at that time aske...

Apple Battersea’s 1st event shows them in a great new light

Apple Battersea has been open for around 6 months and has quickly become an integral part of the London scene. This store was launched as part of a larger retail program that saw Apple freshen up many of the existing European and U.S. locations whilst seeking to push further into the developing C...

The Big Apple Triumph: Unveiling New York City’s Unparalleled Greatness

New York City stands as a pulsating nucleus of culture, diversity, innovation, and sheer magnetic energy, encapsulating the essence of urban grandeur. Renowned worldwide as “The Big Apple,” this metropolis of dreams holds an indomitable spirit that encapsulates the American ethos like no...

The First Truly Exciting Android Phone That Even Apple Fans Should Consider

Why Google Pays Apple $18 Billion Every Year

Google and Apple hold one of the biggest rivalries in the tech industry, competing on various products and services, such as operating systems, web browsers, maps, digital assistants, and mobile phones. To the public, these two tech giants appear to be enemies. Behind the scenes, however, they ar...

How Amazon and Apple Do It

“Congress could act tomorrow to shut down tax haven abuse by revoking laws that enable and encourage the practice of shifting money into offshore tax havens.” Richard Phillips, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy This is the seventh in a series on offshore tax dodging. The fi...

Apple Car: 2028 Launch Date, Limited Self-Driving

Apple has been working on its own electric car, code-named Project Titan, since 2015. However, the project has been plagued by delays, leadership changes, and the company's ambitious goal of creating a fully autonomous vehicle without a steering wheel. According to a new report from Bloo...

Apple Car is NOT what you think

I want to preface this article by asking you to forget anything you may have read about the Apple Car, and to leave behind any design concepts you’ve seen before (Ironically, including the one I included above). In order to attempt and imagine what Apple’s Car will be, we very well may n...

Lessons in Chemistry (Apple TV)

If you’re looking for something meaningful, heart-rendering and insightful, especially for this holiday season, watch Lessons in Chemistry. Set in the 1950s, it details what women experienced trying to break into the workforce especially when they have (clearly) a superior brain and the qua...

Why doesn’t the new iPad (2022) support Apple Pencil 2?

Early last week, we saw the unveiling of a new trio of products. Through press releases, the giant revealed the new iPad Pro with an M2 chip, the redesigned 10th-generation iPad, and Apple TV 4K. Although the iPad Pro was the most anticipated product, most of the attention in the final round went to...

Why Not Buy The Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max?

We’ve already bitten the bullet on display size. Even though the iPhone 15 Pro has the A17 Pro chip, which is supposed to be powerful and power-efficient, with a bunch of gaming features and improved machine learning, we didn’t see the battery life go anywhere, which is a definite disapp...

Is This What Apple News Has Come To?

Every week, I leave one slot in my blog plan for a news article. I won’t lie — it’s becoming harder to fill that slot. Nothing is happening. Particularly in the world of Apple. Even the rumour mill appears to have given up. Talk of VR headsets is interesting, but it&r...

Making an apple pie: Towards understanding the Universe

Quoted by Carl Sagan, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe”. That’s probably true. No matter whether we believe in the big bang theory or whatsoever, the universe works as a whole system, and what we sense, think, and act on, is actuall...