But the Macalope is one who hopes iPadOS retains its identity as its own thing, not becoming an interface layer, something people just drive through in order to get someplace else, like Delaware. Because where have we seen that before? Oh, right. Windows 8.
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Maybe the Macalope is a dreamer. Maybe he’s just a glutton for punishment. But he wants to see Apple keep trying to crack this nut.
While Apple has delayed some of the most ambitious Apple Intelligence features, the company isn’t shying away from promoting the ones that have shipped to iPhone users. In a new ad that debuted today, Apple promotes the “Clean Up” feature in the Photos app.
PowerPhotos 3 adds a new search indexing engine that enables you to perform complex searches on a wide range of criteria, including several not supported by Photos, such as file size, pixel dimensions, video duration, and more. The new version also upgrades the photo browser to add support for moving photos between albums, deleting photos, and more.
Anyone who keeps a travel diary or has always planned to do so might want to take a look at Geory because with this iPhone app, you can leave your notebook at home.
The app specializes in doing many things automatically - for example meticulously recording the entire itinerary of a trip, including locations, dates and times of arrival and departure.
The Leica LUX app doesn’t try to turn your phone into a Leica—it simply gives you a cleaner, more controlled shooting experience. It slows you down in the right way. You start thinking like a photographer again, not a content creator.
Over the past few months, I have collected and adopted a series of small, whimsical additions to my Mac’s user interface. Most of them are nothing short of pointless – except for the fact that they have made using my Mac an absolute joy, even if only in subtle ways.
From custom icons to unnecessary sound effects, here is a roundup of my favorite additions.
If your solution to having a better iPad is to just slap macONS on it, you have just given up.
iPadOS and macOS gave us two different kinds of computers, and they each make separate kinds of tasks and workflows easier and better.
Mac OS sure didn't get better back in the 1990s when it was emulating what Windows was doing, and that should be a lesson to Apple on how to evolve macOS today.
The success of iPadOS should not, and does not, hinges on making macOS obsolete. They can both exists at the same time, serving different customers. (Or the same customers, working in different contexts.)
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