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Short but good description of the possibilities of App Clips.

At first blush, Back Tap seems wonderfully geeky but useless. Thinking on it some more, I can see some advantages but also some disadvantages as well. For example, would it be invoked easily, say while bumping around in a jacket or purse?

It will take some time to tell whether this is an olive branch or lip service to developers. On the face of it, it sounds like Apple is making some accommodations in the wake of the Hey email app kerfuffle.

I wonder if this is just the first shoe (of possibly many) to drop? According to the story, “JIP specializes in restructuring loss-making businesses to make them profitable before reselling them.” So this is likely the end of Olympus as we know it which would be a huge shame. I’ve used their M1 and TG brand cameras and like and recommend them.

Is it just me or does anyone else think this could have been done so much better?

If nothing else, Apple is making users more aware of the security issues surrounding web browsing. What the user does with that information is up to them.

Check out some of the goodies Apple has in store for iOS 14.

How many of these are not necessarily innovative (that can be subjective) but features you want to use?

It was a massive day for Apple and its developers, and an excellent start for WWDC ‘20. New operating systems for all of its platforms and a transition from Intel chips to Apple silicon for the Mac. […]

Because this presentation was pre-recorded, the replay is already available.

There it is. The biggest day in Apple history in the past 10 years. It’s going to be fascinating.

Lots of design features I’ll turn off immediately.

Makes me want a new iPad even more.

Some interesting new features in iOS 14. No name change though.

Apple’s WWDC 2020 Keynote is happening right now.

Before its release, the movie was dogged by controversy outside of its subject matter. Starring Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie, it tells the true story of two African American businessmen in the 1960s. Their actions led to the Fair Housing Act established in 1968.

Betteridge’s Law applies to the headline but it’s still a good overview of the situation.

No surprise. Apple doesn’t want anything to do with being a vector for this disease.

Along with Smarter Every Day, The Slow Mo Guys is another fave YouTube channel.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the show if only because I had no idea of the characters’ back stories but it was still well done and worth watching.

Dave and I look at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, which starts next week, albeit in a very different way than previous years. We also discuss the Hey app controversy that’s happening right now.

Note: After this podcast was recorded Apple’s Phil Schiller commented on this issue.

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Matthew Panzarino did an interview with Apple’s Phil Schiller today about the Hey app controversy, which I’m sure you’ve heard all about by now. Here’s a couple of things that Schiller said:

“You download the app and it doesn’t work, that’s not what we want on the store,” says Schiller. This, he says, is why Apple requires in-app purchases to offer the same purchasing functionality as they would have elsewhere.

That makes sense to me.

One way that Hey could have gone, Schiller says, is to offer a free or paid version of the app with basic email reading features on the App Store then separately offered an upgraded email service that worked with the Hey app on iOS on its own website. Schiller gives one more example: an RSS app that reads any feed, but also reads an upgraded feed that could be charged for on a separate site. In both cases, the apps would have functionality when downloaded on the store.

I’m not sure if the developer could do that, but if they could, the point makes sense.

Schiller also noted the exceptions that Apple allows, which are most “reader” apps “that only display external content of certain types like music, books and movies.”

It seems like Hey can fix this by making the app usable on the App Store. It doesn’t sound like that’s what they want to do, so Apple is exercising its right to not allow it on the store at all.

That’s a lot of money spent on explosive lawn darts.

I’m a big fan of this simple little feature.

Yet another example of a company having two options – the “right” thing and the “wrong” thing – knowing what the “right” thing to do is, and still choosing the “wrong” thing only to be forced by public pressure to backtrack and do the “right” thing after all.

I absolutely love Smarter Every Day’s videos.

Adobe is slowly but surely making Lightroom and Photoshop for iPad much better and much more full-featured as well as increasing the integration between the two.

Apple has to be cautious here. The EU is not nearly as “forgiving” of these kinds of actions as the US is.

The Italian Rossi was the GOAT. The Spaniard Lorenzo was the young upstart. They didn’t much like each other. Rossi wanted to show his teammate and bitter rival he still had what it took to beat him. The fact that it was in Spain made it even sweeter.

As usual, the deals aren’t at “OMG MUST BUY!” levels but, even if your kid isn’t physically going back to school in the fall (they haven’t made that decision yet in many places), you still might be getting them new gear. And a free set of AirPods or a few bucks off AirPods Pro is nothing to shake a stick at.