The platform has been pumping out workout content ever since (over 6,000 videos at this point just over four years in). But as the larger fitness landscape has evolved, Apple’s fitness platform (and most online fitness platforms, actually) have struggled with a blind spot: Standalone workout sessions simply aren’t the best way to build muscle. As the fitness conversation has refocused itself around strength training and muscle-building for longevity, consumers have increasingly chased long-term workout programs that let them capitalize on progressive overload (more on that later).
Now, Apple wants in. To start the New Year, Fitness+ is introducing a suite of new features aimed at helping you reach your muscle-building goals—and the headliner is right up my alley, the brand’s first progressive strength training program. I visited Fitness+ HQ to learn more about the announcements from Apple vice president of Fitness Technologies Jay Blahnik. I got a behind the scenes look at the process of filming a workout and talked to the team behind the platform about its mission to bring more muscle to the Apple ecosystem.
Apple Fitness Plus is getting a fresh makeover in the Strava app. The two companies just announced they’re collaborating to revamp how Fitness Plus integrates with the popular fitness community, which includes more detailed workout summaries, Strava athletes appearing in Fitness Plus content, and a free three-month trial to the service for Strava subscribers.
A news summary from Apple has falsely claimed darts player Luke Littler won the PDC World Championship - before he has even played in the final.
On Friday morning, an iPhone notification based on a news story of Littler winning the tournament semi-final falsely made it appear that the BBC was reporting he had won the whole event.
Apple's Year of the Snake AirPods 4 are available for purchase in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore at the current time.
Enter Peek, an indie app that adds support for over 600 filetypes to Quick Look while also grafting on new features. It adds color highlighting for code, complete with customizable theming and rendering for Markdown. It also adds features that otherwise aren't offered in Quick Look, including a functional search and the ability to copy text.
I wanted my Mac to feel as intuitive as my iPhone, where gestures make navigation second nature. Swiping, pinching, and tapping on iOS just works. I wanted that same ease of use when managing windows, virtual desktops, and workflows on my Mac. Plus, it only makes sense that there should be some overlap between the two in touch functionality, right? That’s where BetterTouchTool comes in.
The version he showed was quite different to what actually ended up shipping, with square boxes around the icons, and an actual “Dock” folder in your user’s home folder that contained aliases to the items stored.
I should know – I had spent the previous 18 months or so as the main engineer working away on it. At that very moment, I was watching from a cubicle in Apple Cork, in Ireland. For the second time in my short Apple career, I said a quiet prayer to the gods of demos, hoping that things didn’t break. For context, I was in my twenties at this point and scared witless.
Apple, the dominant foreign smartphone maker in China, faces a slowing economy and competition from domestic rivals, such as Huawei.
It makes sense, at least to me, to put the macOS Dock on the left or right of the screen. After all, screens nowadays are wider horizontally than tall vertically, and I need all the vertical space I can get so that I can get to see all the statements of my functions in one single page.
Then, our dear Microsoft came along and dictated that the task bar can only be at the bottom starting from Windows 11. And I really hate to search for all my icons on different sides of the screen on the different computers that I use.
So, now I have 'standardized' my Docks and Taskbars to be on the bottom of the screen. No, I don't hate it. It is fine. But I still blame Microsoft.
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