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  • Apple Just Released Firmware for Headphones That Don’t Exist Yet

    Apple has a slightly unusual problem.

    It has just released a firmware update for a pair of headphones that, technically speaking, aren’t even a product yet.

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  • The Golden Age of iPhone Icon Design

    I sometimes think we underestimate just how good the original iPhone icons were.

    Not because they were technically complicated. Quite the opposite. They were small, instantly recognisable pieces of design that somehow managed to give an entire operating system a personality.

    This was the golden age of skeuomorphism — when digital things were deliberately made to resemble things from the physical world.

    And Apple was exceptionally good at it.

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  • Pikachu Pays A Surprise Visit to Apple Park

    Pikachu has made an unexpected appearance at Apple Park, meeting Apple CEO John Ternus, former CEO Tim Cook and The Pokémon Company CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara, in one of Apple’s more unusual campus visits.

    Tim Cook shared a short video of the visit on August 27, just days before John Ternus officially became Apple’s CEO.

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  • Why I Still Miss the Old App Store

    There was a time when opening the App Store felt like opening a box of possibilities.

    That probably sounds ridiculous now. We have access to millions of apps, most of which can be downloaded in seconds, updated automatically and, increasingly, do far more than the little pieces of software we were playing with back in 2008 ever could.

    And yet, I still miss the old App Store.

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  • AppChase Is Coming Back

    There was a time when discovering a great iPhone app felt like discovering a secret.

    The App Store was still finding its feet. Developers were experimenting with what an app could actually be, Apple was figuring out how to curate this strange new ecosystem, and the rest of us were spending far too much time tapping through pages of tiny icons looking for something worth downloading.

    And somewhere in the middle of all that was AppChase.net.

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  • The Tweetie Era

    There was a particular moment in the history of the iPhone when everything just seemed to click.

    The App Store was still young. Developers were discovering what the iPhone could actually do. Twitter was becoming a daily habit for an ever-growing number of people. And somewhere in the middle of all of that came Tweetie.

    Looking back, it is easy to think of Tweetie as simply another Twitter client.

    It wasn’t.

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  • RazorianFly: The Story of a Little Apple Blog That Became Something Much Bigger

    There was a time when the internet felt very different.

    Before every company had a social media team. Before breaking news travelled instantly through TikTok, Instagram and push notifications. Before every rumour appeared on a dozen websites within seconds.

    There was a period when a teenager with an interest in technology, an iPhone and a willingness to spend an unreasonable amount of time online could actually build something.

    For me, that something was RazorianFly.com.

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