ThemeKit Thoughts
iPhone 8: Are you Team 🤘 or Team ✊️?
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What I'd love to see is a ThemeKit framework where developers could provide assets for both light and dark modes, so interfaces would look great either way.
Industry Analysis
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iPhone 8 screen resolution vs. screen technology
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Confession: I hadn't even been considering the screen resolution of iPhone 8 (D22). I'm no stranger to such considerations. Here's what I've been thinking about instead.
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On iOS 11 design
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By embracing rather than running from the affordances of the past, iOS 11 makes iPhone and iPad not just more legible but more comfortable.
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Former Google VP: If you care about photography, get an iPhone
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'Bottom line: If you truly care about great photography, you own an iPhone. If you don't mind being a few years behind, buy an Android.'
Listen up
The iPod nano is still relevant, even if it's outdated
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Apple has removed the iPod nano and Shuffle from its music player lineup, but many people still use them.
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Adobe is finally killing Flash. Finally.
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Adobe is sun-setting Flash, its once popular, empowering content platform that long ago became an anchor around the neck of the web.
Not ready for player 20,000
Pokémon Go Fest Chicago: The fun, the failure, and the legendary
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Pokémon Go Fest Chicago brought almost 20,000 players together for the game's first real-world event. And it failed. Hard. But from that failure a real Pokémon Festival in Chicago emerged.
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To force quit or not to force quit apps? That is the question...
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Is it nobler in the spirit to suffer the battery drain and lag of outrageous backgrounding or, by flicking them away, end them?
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iPhones of Future Past: Understanding iPhone 8
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In addition to selling more iPhones, Apple can also sell more of an iPhone — by bring tomorrow's iPhone to customers today, for a price.
The more you know
Don't believe the 1Password FUD — here's what's really happening
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1Password, the well-known password manager app for macOS, iOS, Windows, and Android, garnered some negative attention over the last week. Here's what's really going on.