Brian Bufalo

2021-06-07

WWDC 2021 Keynote

Today’s WWDC keynote included a slew of new features with a focus on iPhone, iPad, and Mac with a heavy focus on refining existing technologies further. There has been a lot of changes in each platform in recent years (most notably on macOS Big Sur last year), so to have Apple announce features that simply expand existing integrations between iPadOS and iOS is a nice change of pace. Possibly the biggest announcement to developers was that you can now create apps on the iPad using Swift Playgrounds and the Xcode Cloud features. For most users though, expanding FaceTime to work...

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2015-04-16

WWDC 2015 – Announcement Speculation Extraordinaire Apple posted…

WWDC 2015 – Announcement Speculation Extraordinaire Apple posted it’s announcement for this years WWDC today and, as Gruber pointed out, it really looks like there is a AppleTV shaped device centered in the invite. While it’s always fun to speculate on the meaning of these teases (and in hindsight they do end up being obvious nods to what’s being announced) it’s important to be careful how much is read into them. Even so, it is fun to pull the announcement apart! While I think Gruber is right to see an AppleTV highlighted there, I pointed out 1 there was a...

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2015-02-06

Adventures in Online TV

At the end of November after several long discussions, my wife and I decided to cut off our cable subscription with AT&T’s Uverse service. This is not new in today’s world of cord cutters but I do not know too many who have been successful in doing it personally (IRL) so this felt like a big jump. While it has been a bit of a challenge finding programing occasionally, we have both found that the AppleTV covers our whole house’s entertainment needs. I wanted to cover what we did to cover the “gaps” and our lessons-learned up to this point...

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