With Aperture development ending, Adobe says ‘rich roadmap’ of Lightroom, Creative Cloud products ahead | 9to5Mac

With Aperture development ending, Adobe says ‘rich roadmap’ of Lightroom, Creative Cloud products ahead | 9to5Mac: "Today, Apple announced they will no longer be developing Aperture in light of their new photography app for OS X. If you are an Aperture or iPhoto customer looking for change, check out our new Creative Cloud Photography plan announced last week, or our standalone Lightroom app for your desktop as alternatives."

I suppose they will switch to Lightroom. But then if they switch to Lightroom, why would they buy a $2K MBP when they can buy a $500 Asus?

Bloomberg: Two iPhone 6 models will go into mass production in July, will go on sale at the same time | 9to5Mac

Bloomberg: Two iPhone 6 models will go into mass production in July, will go on sale at the same time | 9to5Mac: "Last night we noted a report from a Taiwanese news outlet which claimed in part that Apple would be putting the next-generation iPhone into production next month. Now, Bloomberg has confirmed that the company will indeed be starting production on two different models of the upcoming smartphone in July."

It's a Phablet from Cupertino.

Apple's iWatch will reportedly sport multiple designs and over 10 sensors | VentureBeat | Gadgets | by Devindra Hardawar

Apple's iWatch will reportedly sport multiple designs and over 10 sensors | VentureBeat | Gadgets | by Devindra Hardawar: "Additionally, the WSJ notes that the iWatch will include more than 10 different sensors, including some for health and fitness tracking. Apple basically showed its hand at its developer conference a few weeks ago, where it announced a new Health app for iOS 8 but didn’t announce any hardware that could send health data to that app."

Arguably, it was primarily the sensors (including GPS), that make the iPhone a revolutionary device. Because it synergized that functionality and made it accessible to 3rd party developers. Endless innovation.

Yeah, I'm an expert in UX

My favorite peeve about HTML "programmers" is how they turn email addresses into non-editable HTML fields, eliminating irrelevant use cases such as editing for proper capitalization, correcting misspellings, and platform specific selection/copy/paste.

Let me be clear: you're not better at UI than Apple or even Microsoft. But go ahead and keep believing that.

Amazon officially unveils much rumored 3D Fire Phone, coming to AT&T July 25 for $199/$299 w/ contract | 9to5Mac

Amazon officially unveils much rumored 3D Fire Phone, coming to AT&T July 25 for $199/$299 w/ contract | 9to5Mac: "After several months of speculation, Amazon has just unveiled its own smartphone, dubbed the Fire Phone on stage at an event in Seattle, Washington. As expected, the device features the much rumored a 3D display."

Suddenly, everyone's got your number.

Here’s a quick look and how to enable an early version of OS X Yosemite’s new dark mode | 9to5Mac

Here’s a quick look and how to enable an early version of OS X Yosemite’s new dark mode | 9to5Mac: "Although the dark mode for OS X Yosemite that Apple previewed onstage at WWDC two weeks ago hasn’t officially made it into any build of Yosemite as of today, developer Hamza Sood has figured out a Terminal command which will let you get a taste of OS X’s dark mode"

Dark mode. Sounds like an episode of Dr. Who.

Photos: Purported physical mockups of black and gold 5.5-inch iPhone 6s compared to 4.7-inch model | 9to5Mac

Photos: Purported physical mockups of black and gold 5.5-inch iPhone 6s compared to 4.7-inch model | 9to5Mac
This fall, Apple is expected to unwrap two next-generation iPhones with larger displays: a 4.7-inch model and a 5.5-inch higher-end “phablet” variant. While the 4.7-inch model has had physical mockups floating around the web for the past few months, parts or shells for a 5.5-inch model have not been seen until now.

Bigger and better.

Dockercon Day 1: Keynote Highlights | Docker Blog

Dockercon Day 1: Keynote Highlights | Docker Blog: "The first day of Dockercon started early, with sleepy attendees and manic marketing people milling about a big breakfast spread of fruit, pastry, an oatmeal bar and, because this is San Francisco after all, breakfast burritos."

A very interesting new technology.

Skype for iPhone gets ground-up redesign; top designer talks future iPad & iOS 8 updates | 9to5Mac

Skype for iPhone gets ground-up redesign; top designer talks future iPad & iOS 8 updates | 9to5Mac
A few years ago, Skype was the rockstar of the messaging world, but now with smartphones and mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and iMessage, Skype’s iPhone feature-set and application have begun to stagnate.

Skype still rules for international calling. There really is no other option.

Dylan's Desk: Watch this multi-billion-dollar industry evaporate overnight | VentureBeat | Media | by Dylan Tweney

Dylan's Desk: Watch this multi-billion-dollar industry evaporate overnight | VentureBeat | Media | by Dylan Tweney
In one study, a tiny 6 percent of scientific findings in cancer research were reproducible. In my opinion, if their research isn’t reproducible, then the other 94 percent is essentially worthless.

Whodathunkit? Aaron Schwartz you are in my thoughts tonight...