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Taylor Swift and App Development

Posted on June 21, 2015

If you had asked me yesterday which Swift would be the topic of conversation among iOS and Mac developers today, I would have put money on it being the programming language and not the music star. And I would have been wrong, because Taylor Swift set the world of Apple watchers abuzz today by airing complaints about Apple's new Apple Music service on her blog. In her post she lays out a well-reasoned argument that Apple Music's payment policy is ...

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Blurring the Lines Between iPhone and iPad

Posted on June 25, 2014

As you'll hear on this Monday's episode of Release Notes, some of the new features of iOS 8 have me wondering about the future. Based on what we saw at WWDC, it seems pretty clear that Apple intends to introduce devices this fall with screens of different dimensions. The introduction of size classes and other features all point in this direction. The rumor mill has also been hinting at larger iPhones for some time. In particular, rumors have ...

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Vesper – The First App for iOS 7

Posted on June 22, 2013

At WWDC this year, one topic of conversation that came up over and over was how to design for iOS 7. Like a lot of indies, I usually do much of the interaction design of my apps myself and use a proper designer only for the graphical design. This was feasible for me in the past not because I'm particularly gifted at interaction design, but because I always had plenty of examples to draw inspiration from. Apple's built-in apps were, of course, ...

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