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The FT, Telegraph and Conde Nast all Apple News launch partners
Is Apple News actually making an impact?
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Can Apple Music save a middle-aged man from the music of his youth?
Apple Music [http://www.apple.com/uk/music/] arrived last night, and with it Beats 1 [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/30/apple-musics-beats-1-zane-lowe] – a new, global music channel. And I’m not just quite hopeful that it’ll be god; I’ve been actively listening to it and
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Apple's News app: no publishing from iPad
Oh, the irony. You can’t (currently) sign up for Apple’s new News Publisher [https://developer.apple.com/news-publisher/] (for the new News app [http://www.apple.com/ios/ios9-preview/#apps]) on the iPad it’ll be publishing to. More thoughts on News to come – once I’m done
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Apple Watch: unboxing and the first 24 hours
I’ve had my Apple Watch for about 24 hours now. Here are my initial thoughts as I’ve started to explore it: 1. I’m surprised how much I’ve missed being able to look at my wrist and see the time, rather than having to get my phone
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Watch out - here it comes
I’m both excited – and a little nervous. Is this (rather expensive) thing going to be any good?
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Apple Watch meet wrist: trying on the new tech thing
The Apple Watch is a pretty big chunk of cash for an unknown quantity. To erase the mental pressure myself, and generate some reassurance that I wasn’t blowing the cash, I took myself over to Brighton for a Watch try-on session last week . I was met by a nice
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(Apple) Watch and learn
So, yes, I ordered an Apple Watch. This is pretty much par for the course with me and new Apple products these days. It took me a few months to get around to buying an iPod, but I was there the first day for the iPhone and the iPad, and
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The baffling stall of tablet magazine evolution
Interesting piece from a couple of months ago, on the faltering pace of change in tablet magazines [http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/09/why-your-tablet-magazine-isnt-getting-any-better/] . It makes a good case for what’s gone wrong – and an even more compelling one for some missed opportunities: > A successful tablet magazine
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Into Yosemite
Oh, and I’m now working full-time in the new Mac OS version: Yosemite [https://www.apple.com/uk/osx/preview/]. It probably won’t be released to the public until after Thursday’s Apple event, but the public beta is now essential at Gold Master, and the version I’
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Shameful Confession
I admit it – I rather like [the new U2 album]( https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/songs-of-innocence/id915794155?uo=4&at=11lLfX” [https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/songs-of-innocence/id915794155?uo=4&at=11lLfX%E2%80%9D] target=”itunes_store”), which came free to every one with an
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Apple's "press" events
This is the homepage of apple.com right now [http://www.apple.com/live/]: I think we can safely say that Apple has now given up any pretence that these are press events. They’re full-blown product launches, performed as much for the potential customer as the attending hacks.
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Inspired by the horrible
Negative creative inspiration [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/design/44377/marc-newson-design-diversified.html] at work: > Picking holes in things is part of Newson’s creative process. “One of my biggest sources of inspiration as a designer is basically looking at things and hating them,” he says, good-naturedly. “I have