While there has been a lot of bad press lately about Apple and the App Store, it’s still inspiring to see small apps being clever and unique. First, I had ever heard of the Bears Gratitude app; however, it’s great to see Apple highlighting a fun app created by a small husband-and-wife team. Reminds me of the heyday of the App Store during 2008-2010.
I played a fair amount of my Asus ROG Ally today, and it makes me wish more developers, and more importantly, Apple, would have put additional effort behind using the Game Porting Toolkit announced back in 2023. Sure, the chances of Apple making a device like the Ally are slim to none due to…physical buttons, but the idea of a M series portable game console sounds like a dream.
Of all the features Swift brought to developing on Apple platforms, the .filter and .map functions on arrays are by far my favorite and most used of any Swift feature.
Watching Star Trek: The Next Generation on the Vision Pro in the Moon environment feels like the future. I may not use the Vision Pro every day, but these small experiences make me wish more people could experience the Vision Pro.
Apple Intelligence Writing Tools
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
While everyone appears to be pretty lukewarm about Apple Intelligence, besides Apple’s marketing department, I wish there was a more streamlined and cohesive way to use the one feature I do like: writing tools.
Whenever I use the Proofread feature within an app like Ulysses, I just get this big proofread text with no annotations for changed content.
It is amazing that a year in to the Vision Pro and Personas are still in “beta”
This must be one of the longest “public betas” Apple has ever had.