At the Core

At the Core from Serenity Caldwell gets to the heart of what makes iPhones, iPads, Macs, and the Apple community tick. Weekly videos, op-eds, comics, and the occasional song or two — you have to tune in to find out.

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Apple Watch + roller derby = love

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The Watch has done for me what no other health gadget has: tracked my full-contact sport and kept me accountable.

Selling you Apple Books

iBooks Author 2.3 adds support for ePub 3, opens up ebook creation to anyone

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On the Apple Watch and Morse code

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We communicated across wires in dits and dahs, once. Why can't we use it to communicate across Apple Watches?

Teaching changes lives: A salute to Apple's One to One program

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On the iPad Pro, Google has made itself a second-class citizen

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Google Docs and Sheets are must-have tools for many people—but their app-implementations leave much to be desired.

The Surface Studio makes a compelling argument for a Pencil-compatible Mac

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Who needs a multitouch Mac when a display could support Apple Pencil (and creative professionals, in the process)?

Accidental Apple Pay triggers: When iPhone and NFC don't get along

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I love Apple Pay, but I wish it wouldn't automatically trigger for every NFC chip everywhere.

Here's why Apple might make a stylus for the iPad

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The true magic of the Apple Watch is in what it can't do

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The Apple Watch isn't designed to do everything, and that's okay — that's why you have an iPhone, too.

The new MacBook Pro trades convenience for reparability — and for most, that's okay

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In an age where Macs look more and more like iPhones and iPads, how do you future-proof $2000 laptops?

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