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Joy of Tech put together a list of what our day will look like tomorrow. Seems legit.
Neven Mrgan:
As you see, with every Apple event of this sort the focus of the rumor coverage is always heavily on the hardware products, so I like to spend a few minutes idly theorizing on the possible software Apple might also show.
Rene Ritchie wraps up much of the what and why of the expected-to-be-announced-tomorrow iPad mini. Ironically, I find myself in the first stage of my own Pre-Event Sentiment Progression, in that I just don’t see what in the world I would use a smaller iPad for. It’s hard (and unfair) to speculate about the use case of a product that doesn’t even exist, but I’m going to do it anyway. I don’t see the iPad mini replacing my current iPad (3) for work use, nor do I see it replacing my Kindle Paperwhite for long-form reading. And maybe that’s the point. Maybe the iPad mini isn’t intended to be an additional device for someone like me.
Speaking of great software for the Mac, Tweetbot for Mac shipped a few days ago. Aside from the fact that it’s an amazing app, and that it’s the best desktop Twitter client you can buy, and that it has a million awesome features, it’s the syncing between the iPhone and iPad versions that I love most. It’s $20 in the Mac App Store and it’s worth it.
BusyCal is such a great calendar app. It’s like iCal Pro, and the just-announced version 2.0 is a significant upgrade. The UI has been polished, there’s more customization, and they’ve added a Fantastical-esque Menu Bar extra that lets you view your schedule and crate events quickly with natural language. If you live in your calendar, I bet you’ll love BusyCal.
And they’re selling it exclusively on the Mac App Store. Everyone gets upgrade pricing for a limited time.
This week on The B&B Podcast, Ben and I talk about six different apps which have recently come out and why they’re awesome, interesting, different, or all of the above.
Campaign Monitor’s servers sent over 7 billion emails between June 2011 and August 2012. In that time they saw mobile email clients take the lead over Desktop and Web clients. And iOS dominates the mobile clients with 90% market share.
Collin Donnell shares some of the behind-the-scenes info on the design and development of his hot new Pinboard app, Pinbook.
Astute observations from Stephen Hackett.
Speaking of podcasts (get it?), I was a guest on this week’s episode of Home Work. I have learned a lot from Dave and Aaron’s show, and it’s one of my favorites. It was a lot of fun to be on the show. We talked about working from home with young kids in the house, and managing the moving targets of work and parenthood.
Michael Mulvey:
The dichotomy between how Apple and Microsoft create gadget lust is interesting. Apple makes you fall in love with their products when you get your hands on them. Microsoft, on the other hand, has been creating desire for Surface by keeping a distance between people and the physical products.
If I didn’t know better, I’d say Microsoft’s Next Big Thing was a keyboard.