The winners of this year's App Store Awards for apps and games have been announced, with 16 titles singled out for their excellence and cultural impact.
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"This year's App Store Award winners reimagined our experiences with apps that delivered fresh, thoughtful, and genuine perspectives," Tim Cook said in a statement. "From self-taught solo creators to international teams spanning the globe, these entrepreneurs are making a meaningful impact and represent the ways in which apps and games influence our communities and lives."
The Derby Street Shops have a layout similar to many suburban strip malls. Rows of outdoor storefronts face a massive parking lot, and vehicles park perpendicular to each store entrance. Apple Derby Street was somewhat insulated from the asphalt by a small plaza, but there were no bollards to stop a vehicle from crashing through.
I studied every Apple Store in the car-addled United States to see how common bollards actually are. 97 of the 272 stores in the country have public entrances that are directly connected to a parking lot or roadway. Of these, I identified 36 locations that are already protected by bollards or other effective safety barriers. That means 61 stores — Derby Street included — are completely vulnerable to vehicles or protected by arguably inadequate barriers. I am not publishing the list here for obvious security and safety reasons.
Texting yourself sounds weird until you try it. Then it becomes indispensable. For a while now, my highest-volume messaging conversation has been with myself (which sounds sad now that I say it, but we’ll leave that for another day), and it has become a key part of how I live my digital life.
To be clear, I’m not texting with the voices in my head. I’m using my messaging app the way millions of people use their email — to send myself quick notes, reminders, links, photos, and stuff I need to be able to get to later. It all becomes searchable, available across devices, and accessible in the same app that’s already in my dock and opened a hundred times a day to chat with friends and family.
When Apple announced Apple Watch Ultra in September, the company also showed how it can be used to track deep dives thanks to advanced new sensors. During the keynote, the company also promoted a third-party app named Oceanic+, which shows detailed dive data. Now this app is finally available for Apple Watch Ultra users.
I’d trust it as long as Huish Outdoors ensures that the stability and reliability of the app remain its No. 1 priority over all the fun bells and whistles it could be tempted to add over the next months and years. And if the app continues to stay stable, I can’t imagine it will take very long before the skeptic in me fully embraces it.
Apple has overhauled the Apple Music Replay experience for 2022. Although it still is a web browser only experience, the Replay section now features a dynamic stories-esque design of highlights based on your listening history.
“When we journal for only ourselves, without any filtering, or having it be performative, such as sharing it on social media, we remove some internal blocks which then allows us to come into contact with our psyche/soul/unconscious,” says Leong.
Slopes on Apple Watch Ultra doesn’t just use the Action button to fast track you to a ski workout. The app can also “automatically figure out what resort you’re at when starting (or if you’re in the backcountry)” in the latest update. The makers of Slopes add that today’s release also improves Siri support for starting workouts in the app.
Leeming, co-founder and CEO of Visible, said the goal is to help those with these conditions manage their illness – such as the worsening of symptoms after exertion.
“It doesn’t happen immediately after you have exerted yourself. It actually happens hours or even days later when your symptoms get worse. So because that feedback loop is so long, it’s very difficult to tell if you’re overdoing it,” he said.
American Dream is the second-largest shopping mall in the U.S. behind the Mall of America in Minnesota. Opened in 2019, the three-million-square-foot shopping destination has several indoor attractions, including the Nickelodeon Universe amusement park, DreamWorks Water Park, a year-round indoor skiing and snowboarding resort, an NHL-sized ice skating rink, a burger restaurant owned by YouTube star MrBeast, and more.
The global Apple support network, AppleTogether, is working with the UK union United Tech & Allied Workers (UTAW) to gather information on tactics used by Apple management to try to fend off unionization moves. It tweeted that a class action lawsuit is “in the works.”
Among Iger’s key points: Disney is powerful enough to compete on its own. He pooh-poohed speculation that has already cropped up about the possibility of selling Disney to a tech giant like Apple. Such a move would end Disney’s history as a standalone entertainment company. But Iger long had close ties with Apple and its late co-founder Steve Jobs, who launched Pixar before Disney acquired it.
“What you’ve read about in that regard is just pure speculation,” Iger said.
If you write down what you need to tell your future self -- todos, reminders, whatnots -- then your brain is free to forget all these things and can focus on remembering the more beautiful things.
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