That’s pretty much all pundits have left to complain about. But complain about them they will! Our first pundit this week decries Apple’s wanton destruction of a vital app category. Then we’ll get caught up on this week’s ways in which Apple is doomed. Finally, we’ll learn how emperor iOS 7 has no clothes! Cry, [...]
Category Archives: Macworld
Office Mobile for iPhone: What you need to know
Posted by Gary on June 16, 2013
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A week that began with a flurry of Worldwide Developers Conference announcements from Apple is ending with its once-fiercest rival making a little news of its own. Microsoft on Friday announced a mobile version of its Office productivity suite for the iPhone. The software giant’s move answers a longstanding demand for a version of the [...]
Ten things I’m happy Apple is fixing in iOS 7
Posted by Gary on June 15, 2013
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I love my iPhone, and have loved it since I ditched my Sony Ericsson 710a way back in 2008. But no device is perfect, and every year I look forward to Worldwide Developers Conference keynotes and the new iOS features that typically come with it. iOS 7—previewed at this year’s WWDC—brings fixes for quite a [...]
First look: Hands-on with Office Mobile for iPhone
Posted by Gary on June 15, 2013
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By now, you’ve no doubt heard that Microsoft Office Mobile for iPhone is now available for iPhone. (Yup, you read that right: It’s iPhone-only.) The question is: Should you care? That depends largely on whether you’re already a subscriber to Microsoft’s Office 365 and Skydrive services, which (for personal use) cost from $100 to $120 [...]
Catching up with developers: Patrick Burleson of BitBQ
Posted by Gary on June 15, 2013
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As someone who makes a Mac app for tracking the differences between files, you’d expect developer Patrick Burleson to have some thoughts on the changes Apple has announced for its operating systems during this week’s Worldwide Developers Conference. So that’s what we talk to him about in our latest video chat with developers attending WWDC. [...]
Dealing with iTunes font sizes, file types, and missing files
Posted by Gary on June 14, 2013
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It’s time for another grab bag, selected from the many questions I get from readers. In this week’s column, I look at some questions about font size in iTunes (spoiler: your options are limited), identifying music file types in iTunes, finding which tracks iTunes has lost track of (spoiler: there’s an easy way), and moving [...]
Apple’s Eddy Cue offers short answers in e-book antitrust trial
Posted by Gary on June 14, 2013
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Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue offered only short answers in testimony Thursday in federal court when questioned by U.S. Justice Department prosecutors trying to solidify their case that Apple, along with five of the largest book publishers, worked together to illegally set the prices of electronic books for the market. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, [...]
For OS X Mavericks, the best is yet to come
Posted by Gary on June 14, 2013
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The big splash at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this week was iOS 7, the next-generation mobile OS that will ship this fall. The other new operating system announced at WWDC—OS X Mavericks—made significantly fewer waves (despite its being named after one of the biggest surfing meccas in California). But you can’t judge the size or [...]