If you are at all a fan of Tom Hanks and/or sci-fi, take a minute to watch this trailer. Tom Hanks plays Finch, in. a post-apocalyptic world, with his dog and a robot pal that he builds himself. A bit reminiscent of A Boy and His Dog, a 1975 movie and a Harlan Ellison novella and a bit of The Iron Giant as well.
Really looking forward to seeing this when it goes live on November 5th.
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Apple held its California streaming event on Tuesday, releasing four iPhone 13 models, an iPad, iPad mini, and a new Apple Watch. Dave and I talk about each product and what we thought was the blockbuster release of the event.
William Gallagher, AppleInisder:
Apple has told AppleInsider how it denies FlickType developer Kosta Eleftheriou’s claims in a lawsuit, over the App Store handling of his accessibility keyboard app for Apple Watch.
And:
Apple has now told AppleInsider that a letter Eleftheriou posted on Twitter after the “California Streaming” event, dates from 2019. At that point, FlickType had been removed for contravening the App Store’s then-rule about Apple Watch keyboards.
However, after Eleftheriou resubmitted the app to the App Store review team with an explanation of its accessibility functions, Apple says that the update was allowed.
This response concerned the story we posted yesterday, titled Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard… then announced a clone of it.
Read the rest of the AppleInsider piece. There’s more. But, key to all this:
Now, says Apple, there are multiple Apple Watch keyboard apps available on the App Store. And FlickType itself was highlighted in a Top Apps of 2020 promotion on the store.
The whole interview is fun, worth watching. But my favorite bit is right at 2:47 in, where Tim holds up the iPad mini. It’s the purple one, the model I just ordered and hope to have in my hands sometime next week.
Here’s a still frame of Tim and the mini. I think this gives an excellent sense of the size of this iPad. Clearly well bigger than the biggest iPhone, but small and light enough to manage in one hand. Yet with the same power as the brand new iPhone 13 Pro. A beast!