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The Creativity-and-Collaboration Edition Friday, November 10, 2023

JigSpace Is In The Driver’s Seat, by Apple

The F1 car is just one component of JigSpace’s grand plans for visionOS. The company is leaning on the new platform to create avenues of creativity and collaboration never before possible.

PTC Is Uniting The Makers, by Apple

Prideaux-Ghee says Apple Vision Pro offers PTC an opportunity to bring together components of the engineering and manufacturing process like never before. “Our customers either make stuff, or they make the machines that help somebody else make stuff,” says Prideaux-Ghee. And that stuff can be anything from chairs to boats to spaceships. “I can almost guarantee that the chair you’re sitting on is made by one of our customers,” he says.

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The iPhone 15 Pro Is Getting Spatial Video Capture In iOS 17.2, by Umar Shakir, The Verge

Apple is rolling out its latest beta version of iOS 17, and it includes the ability to record spatial videos on the iPhone 15 Pro for viewing in the upcoming Vision Pro mixed reality headset. Those who have access to and install iOS 17.2 beta 2 on their devices can start filming videos with a 3D effect using the iPhone 15 Pro’s top two cameras when held sideways.

iOS 17.2 Expands 'Sensitive Content Warning' For Detecting Unwanted Nudes, by Chance Miller, 9to5Mac

First, Sensitive Content Warnings are now applied to stickers in the Messages app. This aligns with iOS 17.2, allowing you to react to messages using any sticker or emoji. With this change, iOS 17.2 can detect stickers that might contain nudity and blur them before you see them.

Also in iOS 17.2, Sensitive Content Warnings now work for Contact Posters in the Contacts app. Contact Posters were introduced in iOS 17 to let users customize how they appear when they call or message someone.

Apple and Governments

Apple And Irish Government Suffer Major Setback In €13bn EU Tax Case, by Joe Brennan, Irish Times

A key adviser to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has recommended that the EU’s highest court set aside a 2020 ruling by a lower court that the commission had failed to prove that the tax was owed at all.

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“It seems that this case is going to rumble on for a few years more. It is quite possible that whichever side loses the second hearing at the general court will appeal the case back to the ECJ, so it could be several years before we have a final decision,” aid Peter Vale, a tax partner at Grant Thornton Ireland.

Apple Agrees To $25 Million Settlement With US Over Hiring Of Immigrants, by Daniel Wiessner, Reuters

The Justice Department in a statement said Apple did not recruit U.S. citizens or permanent residents for jobs that were eligible for a federal program allowing employers to sponsor immigrant workers for green cards, in violation of a federal law that bars discrimination based on citizenship.

Stuff

So, Apple Fitness+ Is Seriously The Best, Cheapest Workout Programme I've Ever Tried, by Taylor Andrews, Cosmopolitan

The app features really fun fitness classes—and makes my life so much easier. All I have to do is pick the class and wait for the instructor to tell me exactly what to do and how much to do it. And I don't know about ya'll, but that's exactly what I need out of a workout.

I've been using Fitness+ for the past two-ish weeks because #workperks, and I just have to say, it's totally legit. I seriously can't get enough of it. Allow me to explain why it's literally the best.

Apple Rolling Out New Firmware Update For AirPods Pro 2, by Chance Miller, 9to5Mac

Apple doesn’t generally give us very detailed release notes for AirPods updates. Today’s update likely focuses on bug fixes and other improvements.

Apple Increases Trade-In Values For Select iPads And Apple Watches, by Joe Rossignol, MacRumors

Apple increased trade-in values for the iPad Pro, iPad Air, entry-level iPad, Apple Watch Ultra, and Apple Watch Series 7, which could incentivize customers to upgrade these devices heading into the holiday shopping season.

Apple's Home Key To Form Basis Of A New Smart Lock Standard, Aliro, by Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac

What Aliro will do is bring the same benefits to smart locks as Matter brings to other devices. With both tech companies and lock makers signed up, it should mean that we can use our Apple devices to open almost any smart lock with nothing more than a tap.

We Tried The Most Popular Travel Itinerary Apps, And Here Is Our Favorite, by Shelly Abramovich, Explore

In our quest to find the best travel companion, we dove into the digital sea of travel tools. Drumroll, please, for TripIt, TripCase, Pebblar, and Wanderlog. We tested these four apps for their flashy features, real-world practicality, user-friendliness, overall design, and value. From itinerary creation to real-time updates, we explored the capabilities of these apps to determine which tool can transform chaotic planning into a streamlined experience. Note that these apps are not for booking, reviews, or travel content — you've got Expedia, Tripadvisor, and the rest for that. In this article, we are focusing solely on travel organizational tools.

Develop

The “Sweet, Creative” World Of Kimono Cats, by Apple

Games simply don’t get much cuter than Kimono Cats, a casual cartoon adventure about two cats on a date (awww) that creator Greg Johnson made as a present for his wife. “I wanted to make a game she and I could play together,” says the Maui-based indie developer, “and I wanted it to be sweet, creative, and romantic.”

Kimono Cats is all three, and it’s also spectacularly easy to play and navigate. This Apple Design Award finalist for Interaction in games is set in a Japanese festival full of charming mini-games — darts, fishing, and the like — that are designed for maximum simplicity and casual fun.

Apple Music Adds New Real-time Listening Analytics For Artists, by Chance Miller, 9to5Mac

Apple Music for Artists has been overhauled with a new “Listening Now” feature that offers real-time data for listening analytics. The feature rolled out today via Apple Music for Artists on iPhone and the service’s website.

Notes

How Arm Is Gaining Chip Dominance With Its Architecture In Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Amazon, Qualcomm And More, by Katie Tarasov, CNBC

"Nobody really believed, until Apple went all in and basically cut ties with x86 instruction sets and said, 'We are going to bet the future of the Mac on Arm.' And that was a huge inflection for the company. It was a change of the guard. And this isn't to say that Intel's future is in big trouble, but it certainly started to raise some question marks as to, well, if Apple can do it, can others?" Newman said.

Optus Went Down And The Smart Lights Came On. And Then Marayke Was Stranded In Bed, by Tory Shepherd, The Guardian

Marayke Jonkers first realised something was wrong when all her bedroom lights turned on early in the morning. All the devices in the Paralympian’s home are smart – they need the internet to work. When the internet went down, the lights went on and she couldn’t turn them off.

Wednesday’s Optus outage left her trapped in bed, unable to contact a support worker, with no access to food or water, and no idea what was going on. Jonkers – a paratriathlete, a Paralympic swimmer and the co-vice-president of People with Disability Australia (PWDA) – couldn’t get support until Thursday morning.

Bottom of the Page

Will Apple ever dig out those PowerPC vs Pentium ads, dust them up a little, change PowerPC to Apple Silicon, and run them again?

Now that Apple (argumentatively) is on top, will it ever put out any of those comparative advertisements like "PowerPC vs Pentium", or "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC"?

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