2014 is nearly at an end, and what a year it was: New iPhones. New iPads. The 5K Retina Mac. iOS 8. Continuity. OS X Yosemite. Return of the Mac Mini. Tim Cook's Bloomberg piece. A lot's happened in twelve months, which means there's plenty for your iMore staff to reflect on. Here are our thoughts on our favorite tech happenings from 2014, our most reviled moments, the things we wanted...
It's December 29, 2014 and I'm sitting at the gate at the airport waiting to board yet another flight to San Francisco. (Yes, it's for an event. No, it's not for an Apple event. More on that in the next couple of days!) Like late night flights, early morning flights offer the opportunity for reflection and the chance to ask the impertinent questions. Such as: What's coming up for iMore...
Iterate brings together the best designers and app producers in the business to talk user interface, human interaction, icon design, and user experience from concept to implementation. On this episode — David Keegan of Acorns joins Marc, Seth, and Rene to talk about designing apps, mocking up Apple Watch apps, and more! Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe in RSS Download directly...
There's no such thing as perfection. We strive for it. We seek it. But we can never find it. Because everything has its advantages and disadvantages, its good points and bad. Everything is a compromise. Knowing that, understanding that, the trick becomes finding the best compromise. For me, for a few years, that's been a 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro at home, and a 13-inch MacBook Air for...
The potential cast of the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic written by Aaron Sorkin continues to expand. Today, a new report claims that Natalie Portman is in talks to join the film, which will now be produced by Universal after Sony put the movie in turnaround last week. While Portman's role in the film was not noted by Deadline's story, it did say it was a "major" one. In a recent...
The successes of the App Store are well documented. There are millions of apps for iPhone and almost as many for iPad. Billions of dollars have been paid out to developers. Dozens of platform-defining apps have shipped. And the problems are just as well known. There's uncertainty about which apps will be or will stay approved. Premium apps continue to be devalued. Discovery and search...
The games that shape you in your childhood tend to linger in your memory long after you finish playing them. I can't open an exploratory game like Gone Home or The Room without thinking of my first stumblings into Myst years before, insisting my dad not leave the room because I was too scared to go alone and too excited to not have someone to talk to. Playing Space Age stirs a very...
Iterate brings together the best designers and app producers in the business to talk user interface, human interaction, icon design, and user experience from concept to implementation. On this episode — Adobe MAX 2014 — new apps, new services, new experiences… New Adobe? Marc Edwards was there so Seth Clifford and Rene Ritchie flip the tables and interview him. Also: Pixelmator for iPad...
When it comes to gaming, in-app purchases are a tricky thing. Some games use Apple's mechanism to wrest more cash out of you to complete levels faster; others enrich the game experience with new costumes and player characters; others still use the in-app purchase to build off the original game. It's that last option that has come to Monument Valley, ustwo's brilliantly-constructed...
A new, but unconfirmed, report claims that actor Michael Fassbender may be in talks to take on the role of Steve Jobs in Sony Pictures' upcoming biopic of the late co-founder of Apple. This rumor comes just a day after the news hit that Christian Bale had reportedly turned down the role in the movie, to be directed by Danny Boyle and scripted by Aaron Sorkin. Best known for playing...