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Apple Music’s Bozoma Saint John: It’s About Passion, Not Algorithms
/in News from Apple/by Dan WassinkIn Fast Company, Mark Sullivan interviews Apple Music marketing chief Bozoma Saint John: Human curation allows you to have the emotion and feel music, because it is a very emotional thing. It makes you feel happy, it helps you when you are feeling sad, gets you pumped up, calms you down. You want me to […]
Playing The Long Game Inside Tim Cook’s Apple
/in News from Apple/by Dan WassinkThere is not a lot of detail in this interview but it does give a good broad view over Apple and Apple’s future.
APPLE CAMPUS 2: July 2016 Construction Update 4K
/in News from Apple/by Dan WassinkImpressive.
Hey Siri? What can you do for me?
/in News from Apple/by Dan WassinkA great resource for everything you can say to Siri. You’ll want to bookmark this site. Take me to the article.
Apple’s Q3 in charts and commentary
/in News from Apple/by Dan WassinkApple released their quarterly financial results today and Jason Snell over at Six Colors has some great charts and commentary to explain them. Apple continued its grin-and-bear-it slog though a brutal year of quarterly financial results Tuesday, thanks to the incredible success of the iPhone 6 raising the bar so high that every single year-over-year […]
This blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22
/in News from Apple/by Dan WassinkA great story. For Castor, Braille is crucial to her innovative work at Apple — and she insists tech is complementary to Braille, not a replacement. “I use a Braille display every time I write a piece of code,” she says. “Braille allows me to know what the code feels like.” In coding, she uses […]
Why Apple’s Transit Maps are rolling out so slowly
/in News from Apple/by Dan WassinkTaking it slow and getting it right. Apple could rapidly expand this intercity train data across the U.S. and Europe, and draft rough outlines of metro maps in more major cities, creating the illusion of greater coverage. However, Apple’s approach of building out accurate and complete transit services for each city, and then incrementally connecting […]
How Apple Hopes to Win the Streaming War
/in News from Apple/by Dan WassinkAn interesting read on Apple Music. “Apple is sexy,” says Monte Lipman, head of Republic Records, home to the Weeknd and Ariana Grande. “They are prepared to do things no one has done before. Lately they’ve been very clever in coming to us with what we consider groundbreaking opportunities.” Jackson says that the goal is […]
The Talk Show: Live from WWDC 2016
/in News from Apple/by Dan WassinkJohn Gruber did an excellent job on interviewing Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi at his Talk Show: Live from WWDC 2016. I’m not sure how he’s going to top this at next year’s WWDC. Highly recommended! iMore has a transcript if you’d rather read than watch.
This is what Apple’s differential privacy means for iOS 10
/in News from Apple/by Dan WassinkRussell Brandon from the Verge: The details of the system are complicated (there’s a more detailed explanation here) but in essence, it means adding randomized data to mask individual entries without changing the aggregate result. That way you could have a good idea of how many people are using a particular emoji without being able to […]