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Apple’s new Focus feature is an unfocused mess

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 2:48 pmWednesday, February 23, 202215 Comments

Apple’s new “Focus” productivity tool for iPhones and iPads is intended to limit distractions by letting you specify when you want…

Use focus modes to decorate your iPhone status bar with a heart, smiley face, fire, and more

Thursday, December 16, 2021 5:37 pm7 Comments

iPhone and iPad owners are using Apple’s new focus modes to put an icon of their choice in their status bar. Focus allows the ability…

Autodesk is totally committed to AutoCAD and The Mac

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 11:28 amTuesday, December 13, 201619 Comments

This week Autodesk released its 2017 versions of AutoCAD for the Mac…

Blame early software for iPad Pro’s weak work ethic, display size for its awkwardness at play

Thursday, November 19, 2015 12:15 pm14 Comments

After a week of daily use, I’m convinced that the iPad Pro won’t replace anything, and am still trying to decide whether to keep or return it…

​Apple’s dirty little secret: Sucky software – why Apple’s entire UX/UI team needs to be fired

Thursday, November 19, 2015 11:29 am83 Comments

Oh Apple, what happened to the days when you were the interface of choice because you were easier to understand than any other tech product?

What Steve Jobs gave Apple that Tim Cook cannot

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 12:00 pmWednesday, November 18, 201565 Comments

By now, it should be obvious that Steve Jobs gave something Tim Cook cannot…

Analyst: Apple’s new iPad Pro to sell as many as 2.6 million units this quarter, despite production issues

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 9:28 amWednesday, November 18, 20155 Comments

Apple Pencil was in strictly limited supply at launch, with current ship-by times pegged at 4-5 weeks…

Jony Ive: Apple Pencil is for making marks, the finger is the interface for iOS

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 8:57 amWednesday, November 18, 201515 Comments

It was fundamentally important originally not to develop a user interface that required another instrument…

New Apple Pencil stock begins arriving at some U.S. Apple Retail Stores

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 6:01 pmTuesday, November 17, 201512 Comments

New Apple Pencil shipments are going out to some Apple retail stores today…

Apple’s new iPad Pro debuts with forced reboots, missing Apple Pencils

Monday, November 16, 2015 4:25 pmMonday, November 16, 201540 Comments

It’s been a bumpy start out of the gate for the iPad Pro, Apple’s latest member in its tablet family…

Apple’s perplexingly incomplete launch of the iPad Pro

Monday, November 16, 2015 12:30 pm28 Comments

I don’t think I’ve ever been less excited to walk out of a store with a brand new $800 gadget…

Apple’s major problem is Tim Cook

Monday, November 16, 2015 11:28 amTuesday, November 17, 201598 Comments

Yes, I have heard all the good guys (long only crowd) make excuses for Apple’s terrible performance…

Autodesk talks AutoCAD, Mac and Apple’s powerful new iPad Pro

Friday, September 25, 2015 4:55 pmFriday, September 25, 201533 Comments

The iPad Pro is huge, it’s fast, it’s so clear – the 60 frames per second rendering is just tremendous…

Why Apple should partner with Microsoft

Monday, September 21, 2015 2:36 pm40 Comments

During a presentation at Dreamforce last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demonstrated…

Apple’s groundbreaking iPad Pro has nothing to do with Microsoft’s moribund Surface tablet

Friday, September 11, 2015 1:58 pmFriday, September 11, 201522 Comments

Microsoft and Apple have two very different strategy when it comes to mobile devices…

Here’s how much RAM is inside Apple’s iPhone 6s/Plus, iPad Pro and new Apple TV

Thursday, September 10, 2015 1:30 pm14 Comments

There are two things that Apple will never tell you when it comes to its iOS devices…

Apple iPads had physical keyboards three and a half years before Microsoft’s Surface tablet debut

Thursday, September 10, 2015 12:26 pmThursday, September 10, 201534 Comments

Apple’s iPad Pro is to Microsoft Surface as an iPad Pro is to a toaster-fridge….

Apple’s goal is not to make money, it’s to make the best possible personal computers in all shapes and sizes

Thursday, December 4, 2014 9:54 am26 Comments

The quality of a user experience has no ceiling…

Finally! Apple’s iOS 8 exposes just about every manual camera control possible

Thursday, June 19, 2014 11:26 amThursday, June 19, 201419 Comments

ISO, shutter speed, focus, white balance, and exposure bias can be manually set…

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