We’ve all heard the term the Walled Garden when talking about the Apple ecosystem. Apple’s biggest competitive advantage is the fact that they control everything from both a hardware and software perspective, allowing its customers to experience these little features I like to call Magic Moments. These are smaller utilities or features that are only possible because you have multiple Apple products that work off of each other giving us these wow moments. So here are some of my favorite Magic moments of the Apple Walled Garden.
Apple’s latest campaign filmed in Brazil not only promotes Action Mode, but also shows how important the feature has become for those living with hand tremors from Parkinson’s disease.
For those unfamiliar, Action Mode is a camera option available for iPhone 14 and later that significantly corrects shakes and vibrations when capturing video, making them super stable. While for some people Action Mode is just one of many camera features on the iPhone, for others it has become an important accessibility feature.
Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter are just a few of the artists who made a strong impact on Apple Music listeners in 2024 as the streaming service has revealed its year-end charts.
Apple now has a dedicated iCloud Passwords add-on designed for the Firefox browser, which means Firefox users can access passwords and logins stored in the Passwords app or iCloud Keychain when using Firefox on a Mac.
Peloton announced the launch of Strength Plus, a new standalone, audio-based strength training app. [...] The Strength Plus app allows users to generate custom workouts by choosing workout length, equipment, experience level, and which muscle groups they want to focus on. It also includes multi-week programs curated by Peloton’s strength coaches, though workouts can be done at a user’s own pace.
SmartRent today announced the launch of the Alloy Deadbolt+, a smart lock designed for the rental housing industry that integrates with Apple Wallet to enable access for residents using their iPhone or Apple Watch.
That’s it—that’s the app. It hangs holiday lights off your menu bar and on your Dock. (You can choose to have lights in both places or just one.) It’s a well executed app that’s got the flavor of the fun early Mac era.
China remains the manufacturing hub for Apple’s GSC, with 156 component suppliers in 2023. Foxconn’s facilities are concentrated in the northern Vietnam provinces of Bac Ninh, Bac Giang, Vinh Phuc and Quang Ninh, near the Chinese border. Other Apple suppliers in Vietnam also operate in these regions, creating an industrial ecosystem supporting Apple’s global supply chain.
In contrast, Indonesia has minimal integration into Apple’s supply chain. Of the 188 companies across 451 locations in 25 countries on Apple’s 2023 supplier list, only one, Yageo Corporation, operates in Indonesia.
Yes, every time I copy and paste between my Mac and my iPhone, I feel like I am living in a magical wonderland.
Sometimes though, the destination device throws up an alert telling me to wait while the devices are trying hard to push my data through whatever bandwidth they can find, the magic sort-of stopped.
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