Wow, Apple. You had me with the “the mother of all releases,” Extensibility and 4,000 new APIs. I loaded up the iOS 8 beta on my iPhone 4s and began counting the days until the likely September release of the…
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WWDC 2014 Quick Hits
These are my quick and dirty thoughts after Apple’s keynote from WWDC 2014. I’ll give my full thoughts after I’ve had time to sift through all the details. Tim Cook alluded to this being the mother of all releases, and…
The Epic Smartphone Decision of 2014: WWDC preview
My smartphone contract runs out in December. I’ve been an iPhone owner for four years, my only smartphones the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4s. I’ve experienced the incremental pleasures of semi-multitasking, home screen folders, Siri, Notification Center, Control Center, a…
The perfect smartphone: The Google iPhone
I have a boss who amusingly called his smartphone an Android iPhone for months before realizing that “iPhone” was not a synonym for “smartphone.” That kind of mashup of a device will probably never happen, but I think I’ve created…
Don’t give up on Siri just yet
Apple dropped the beta tag from Siri, its voice-activated virtual assistant for iOS devices, in September 2013 with the release of iOS 7. But for all intents and purposes, Siri is still a beta feature, not fully reliable and missing…
Hangouts for iOS gets some new features.
As an Android user, I have to admit to being a bit jealous and offended by this recent bit of news. iOS has received some updates to the Google Hangouts app. I mean come on, iOS users are probably using…
iOS gets some Chromecast love
iOS devices are getting some Chromecast love following the release of the Chromecast SDK by Google. A new app called Photo Cast has appeared in the Apple App Store that allows you to cast photos to your Chromecast. Sounds simple,…