Sticker Accessibility

The popularity of Stickers was no surprise to us. What did surprise us was that these graphical elements are a hit with customers who have vision difficulties. In retrospect, it makes sense. You want to let friends know that poo is hitting the fan even if you can’t see well. As always, Apple has thought […]

Tipping the Scales

If you’re an app developer, you’re already aware of how difficult it is to build a sustainable business. Yesterday, we tried something new. The root of the problem is that frequent updates makes a better product and happy customers, but it also takes time and effort: The code behind all those updates doesn’t come for […]

Strapped In

A lot has happened since I purchased my Apple Watch on April 10th, 2015. One unexpected aspect to owning this device is my fascination with watch bands: My current collection of watch bands. And no, the watch isn’t upside down. From left to right, in order of date purchased: Sport Model with Blue Band ($400) […]

The New iPod

Something tells me that there were a lot of Apple Watches under the tree this year: That graph shows the last month of downloads for my free Clicker app for watchOS. Since this app does nothing on an iPhone or iPad, the only reason to get it is if you have a new watch. Many […]

iPulse 3

When I first started exploring the brave new world of Cocoa and Unix running on a Mac, I had no idea that the code I was writing would be something I relied on 14 years later. Sometimes you scratch an itch that never goes away. While I welcomed the introduction of System Integrity Protection (aka […]