Time Machine
We opened the door and stepped out of our time machine — my children another year older.
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Let’s Reimplement an Amazing First-Party Feature in the Dumbest Way Possible
Some ideas are just too silly to not try and follow through with.
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“No thanks to the App Store”
Moments after publishing my previous post, I was doing a final editing pass and found Riccardo Mori published his own, excellent take on the App Store and developers. It's spot on. Go read the whole thing.
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The Entire Amount of Commerce
Since Apple will stand on a virtual stage tomorrow and tell us how much they love, value, and appreciate third-party developers, I want to be crystal clear about the value these apps (and many others) provide. I could switch to Windows and Android. I wouldn't like it, but I could make the switch. Except for all those third-party apps. I couldn't give those up without significant effort – if it would even be possible to find replacements for each. Third-party apps are what keep me locked into Apple's lucrative don't-call-it-a-walled-garden. In any healthy software ecosystem, third-party developers and the platform vendor are a symbiotic relationship. To pretend otherwise is fanciful gaslighting.
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TextBuddy is a Mac|Life Editor’s Choice
If you don’t mind, I’d like to interrupt my not-so-regularly-scheduled posts about silly macOS workflows and tech complaining for a not-so-humble-brag. TextBuddy received a lovely review in the June issue of Mac|Life – including an Editor’s Choice seal of approval. "The bottom line. A marvel. If you work with text, you need this app." As a nerdy kid who grew up in the 90s browsing the magazine section of Waldenbooks for the latest issues of Macworld, boot, and Next Generation, seeing one of my apps in a print magazine is a huge thrill.
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