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.
(more…)Every Apple CEO eventually gets asked the same question in one form or another.
What’s next?
It’s an almost impossible question to answer at Apple because “next” can mean anything from a slightly thinner iPhone to an entirely new category of computing.
So, where do we go from here?
(more…)There was a time when an Apple announcement could genuinely stop you in your tracks.
Not because you had spent six months analysing blurry leaks on Twitter. Not because somebody had posted a CAD render showing exactly what the next iPhone would look like.
Because you simply didn’t know what was coming.
You’d sit down for an Apple keynote, the lights would go down, Steve Jobs would wander onto the stage, and for the next couple of hours you were along for the ride.
(more…)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.
(more…)Apple has filed enough patents over the years to cover practically every idea imaginable.
Some become products. Some become features.
And some disappear into the enormous Apple filing cabinet, never to be seen again.
But every now and then, one catches your eye and makes you think: hang on, Apple might actually be onto something here.
(more…)Alongside being able to watch the company’s next special media event on Apple.com, which will mark the first-innings for newly appointed CEO John Ternus, Apple has confirmed in an e-mail sent out to developers tonight that it will also be offering a livestream of the keynote on both Apple TV and YouTube.
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