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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Extra Searchable Meeting Notes
The pandemic changed how I took meeting notes at work. With video calls being the new norm, I found myself grabbing screenshots of the meeting window to capture shared slides, documents we were collaborating on, and the latest screens the design team was showing off. So now, in addition to my detailed text notes, I found myself compiling a visual archive of my team’s communication as designs changed and evolved – as Gantt charts shifted over time. But where the hell do I store all this stuff? And how do I keep it correlated to the notes I was taking?
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