Keynotes (Product Announcements)
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The News App, Open Source Swift, Additional Notes from the WWDC Keynote
This update touches on why Apple Music may be a much bigger deal than I suggested, and the moves on to all the other important announcements from Apple WWDC keynote. This includes the News app, open-source Swift, and more.
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Apple Music and Apple’s Focus
Apple Music was a muddled mess, which raised the question of why it exists in the first place. Is it important anymore? More importantly, is Apple having trouble remembering how to focus?
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Google I/O: Android and Serving the World; Photos, Google Now, and the World’s Information; Google’s Turning Point
Google’s IO keynote had three parts: the Android part, the machine learning part, and a glimpse into the future. The connections between the three, though, matter far more than any one single announcement.
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Twitter Follow-up, Microsoft’s Build Keynote
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Daily Update: Notes From the Apple "Spring Forward" Event
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Daily Update: Microsoft’s Windows 10 Event (and Project HoloLens)
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Daily Update: Notes From the Xiaomi Event, Refining Xiaomi’s Ambition, Additional Notes
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Daily Update: Apple’s October Event – Why It Impressed, Notes and Observations
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Daily Update: The New iPhones, Apple Pay, Good-bye iPod Classic
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Two Minutes, Fifty-six Seconds
After endless dithering, that’s how long it took me to know the iPhone 5C would cost $549. It was at two minutes, fifty-six seconds1 that Tim Cook said there would be a video – a video! – about the iTunes Festival. And it was awesome. In case you didn’t watch the whole video (and you really…