Apple Has Issues; Should Pros Look Beyond the Mac? Nate Swanner, July 20, 2018 5 min read Apple recently released new MacBook Pros that offer a fair performance gain versus last year’s models, but have...
MacBook Pro Lineup Updated; Better Specs Top Out at $6,699 Nate Swanner, July 13, 2018 7 min read Among PC users, Apple's MacBook Pros are highly contentious pieces of hardware. Positioned for professionals such as...
Microsoft’s Surface Go Aims to Challenge iPad, Chromebooks Nick Kolakowski, July 12, 2018 2 min read Microsoft is taking a hard run at the iPad’s market dominance. Its latest tablet, the Surface Go, measures 10 inches...
Steve Jobs Imagined This Critical App Store Feature… in 1983 Nate Swanner, July 6, 2018 2 min read The first time the world saw the Mac App Store was 2011. That was nearly three years after the iOS App Store launched....
Apple’s Forced Move to Metal 2: Great for Game Developers? Nate Swanner, June 26, 2018 6 min read Metal 2, Apple’s framework for accessing a device’s GPU via an API, is pretty special. It’s also the...
Swift Playgrounds NES Emulator Stress-Tests Undefined Boundaries Nate Swanner, June 25, 2018 4 min read Creating a side-scrolling iOS game isn’t uniquely difficult. However, many game studios and companies haven't ported...
This Xcode for iPad App May Make You Appreciate the Mac Nate Swanner, June 19, 2018 3 min read For some reason, a segment of the iOS developer community would love to have Xcode (the IDE for macOS, iOS, and other...
New Mac App Store Improves Distribution, Security, and Monetization Nate Swanner, June 15, 2018 6 min read Inside macOS Mojave, the upcoming update to Apple's desktop and laptop operating system, lives a fresh take on the Mac...
WWDC 2018 Epilogue: We’re In the Desert Nate Swanner, June 11, 2018 12 min read An undeniable truth of WWDC 2018: it’s a “down year.” Apple didn't roll out a big, splashy new service, or new...
Apple Wants Us to Spend Less Time With Apps – But Why? Nate Swanner, June 11, 2018 4 min read From the time the first iPhone launched, until very recently, when Apple began discouraging the practice, people lined...
