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iPadOS Preview: Desktop-class Safari, Download Manager, and more!
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Apple is calling it Desktop Class Safari for iPad. The full-on web finally optimized for iPad or the iPad finally fully optimized for the web. And it’s coming with iPadOS this fall and, a fair amount of it, with iOS 13 for iPhone as well.
Get on board
iPad is the new Mac display: Sidecar Explained
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Sidecar is exactly that Continuity Display feature many of us have been wanting for a while now. But it's also a whole lot more.
Lock Down... ish
The Great Mac Balancing Act: Catalina Security Explained
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Apple's lofty goal for macOS is to make the system as secure as iOS while maintaining all the traditional flexibility of the Mac. And… that's easier said than done.
MacBook Air vs. MacBook Pro 2019: Here's the one to get!
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So you want to buy a new MacBook, maybe for school, maybe for work, maybe to create something that lets you change how and why you work. Whatever. You need it, you want it… but you’re just not sure which new MacBook to get. At least not yet. Well, let's just figure that out now.
Born Again
The End of iTunes: Apple's New Mac Media Strategy Explained
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Apple isn't really killing iTunes as much as setting it free.
Finally
iPadOS Preview: Files app, USB Storage, SMB Shares
With iPadOS — and, yes, an iPhone and even an iPod touch running iOS 13 — you can finally access external files, not just photos, not just videos, but honest-to-Unix external documents, assets, and anything else, just by plugging in a USB drive, stick, even SD or Compact Flash card.
(sent with Fireworks)
iPad apps on Mac: Project Catalyst Explained
Project Catalyst is fiendishly clever in its simplicity: Developers were already making iPad-specific versions of their iPhone apps, why not let them make Mac-specific versions of their iPad apps?
They're here!
Why Apple killed the 12-inch MacBook — with a new Air and Pro
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The 12-inch MacBook is dead. So is the quote unquote “MacBook Escape”. In place of the MacBook is now just the MacBook Air, newly updated with a True Tone display. In place of the Escape is Touch Bars, Touch ID, and T2 chips all the way down.
Designed by Apple
All the Jony Ive Drama: Explained
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A week ago, the Wall Street Journal published an article that alleged a high level of disfunction in Apple's design department. A day later, Tim Cook retorted. Hard. But the drama hasn't faded. So, what's going on?
May-Li Khoe: How design and operations really work at Apple
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An interview with someone super smart and super talented who was actually there, who worked on prototyping and design at Apple, going back to the days of Steve Jobs and the original iPhone and who understands how and why the design culture at Apple works the way it does.
Butterfly effect
Apple readying all-new all-non-butterfly keyboard for MacBook
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Kuo Ming-Chi reports that Apple has new scissor switch keyboards on the way for the MacBook Air in 2019 and MacBook Pro... in 2020?
ConnectED
What's really wrong with Apple's Lightning cable?
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Why hasn't Apple switched from Lightning to USB-C on the iPhone?
Alu-minimum
After Jony Ive: What's the future of design at Apple?
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John Gruber of Daring Fireball joins our Rene Ritchie to talk about Jony Ive leaving Apple, Tim Cook and Jeff Williams, the new design leads, and what it all means for Apple going forward.
This is Tim
Tim Cook to Apple Employees on Jony Ive's departure
Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, typically emails the entire company when something big happens. There have been few things as big, internally, as the news of Jony Ive leaving to start his own company, LoveFrom, but Apple retaining that company and Jony's services going forward.
WithLove
Why Jony Ive is leaving Apple
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Jony Ive is leaving his post as Chief Design Officer of Apple, forming his own design company, LoveFrom, and promptly getting hired by... Apple. Wait... what?
Crypto Conferencing
Apple Security's Ivan Krstić returns to Black Hat in August
Apple's head of security engineering and architecture to provide a look behind the scenes at Code integrity Enforcement, the T2 chip's secure boot process, and the new Find My service.
Dreamworks
This would be my Ultimate iPhone for 2019
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I’ve been wanting to write about my dream iPhone for a while now. You know, if I got to be or work with Jony or Phil Schiller, or Joz for a cycle and do everything I’ve always wanted to do with and for the iPhone.
macOS Catalina: The Preview
iPad apps for Mac, iTunes shattered into Music, Podcasts, and TV, better security and privacy, Sidecar to turn your iPad into a Mac tablet, a ton of new and updated apps, including an all new Reminders, and Voice Control straight out of Blade Runner. This is macOS Catalina, now in Public Beta.
Pixel Death
Why Google is killing off the Pixel Slate
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Google is killing off its Pixel line of homespun tablet hardware. Now, just to be 100% crystal clear, Google is still going to be making Pixel Phones and Pixel Laptops, Home Max and Chromecast Ultra, Nest Thermostats and Nest Cams. But the Pixel Slate. Yeah. That, it seems, has to die.
Yes, already!
iPhone 12 (2020): Rumors, release date, price, features, and more
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When will iPhone 12 be released? What will it cost? What features will it have? Let's dive into it!