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Withings is now Nokia

Withings is now Nokia Nokia is now an IOT health and fitness brand with some really cool weighing scales and watches. This is one of the finest transition from a has-been to a “fun-and upcoming devices’” brand. That analysis aside, I feel Withings will benefit a lot from Nokia’s

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About the new SF Pro font

Vidit BhargavaWith iOS 11, Apple’s making updates to its system fonts. Previously called SF UI, the system font is available in two different options, SF Display and SF Text. Here’s a look at the difference between Display and Text fonts, and the changes made in the new SF

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Thoughts on Planet of the Apps

Vidit BhargavaI watched the first episode of planet of the apps this week and wanted to write down some initial thoughts about the show: 1. This is very much a “Startup” reality show: Planet of the Apps is not about “making” an app. It’s about making a business around

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Daring Fireball: The Mac Pro Lives

Daring Fireball: The Mac Pro Lives I’m really excited about the new Mac Pro from the perspective of Industrial design. When Apple updated the MacPro in 2013, it was literally the future of Industrial Design. The shiny aluminium, the cylindrical unit with a unique way of accessing the internals

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What happens when you dump the App Store?

What happens when you dump the App Store? I’d love to see the same graphs for a young app by an indie-developer. (For example: Sketch in its early days). The problem with this sort of analysis is that it usually picks up a developer that’s fairly big. (Rogue

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Thoughts on the App Store Review System Changes

Responding to Reviews Responding to reviews is a double edged sword. On one hand, it’s going to be great to respond to feature requests or angst about bugs with a simple “Thanks for the feedback, I’m working on an update to fix this, please stay tuned.” But at

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Pixel Quiz : January 2017

Vidit Bhargava Q1.Which game based on the GoldSrc Engine was developed by Minh “Gooseman” Le and Jess Cliffe? An excerpt from the gameplay section of the Wikipedia page of the game reads : “Spectators are generally able to watch the rest of the round from multiple selectable views, although some

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It's time to admit Apple Watch is a success

It’s time to admit Apple Watch is a success This piece is worth the read for anyone whose been cynical about the Watch’s success as a product. It’s probably always going to be just a fraction of iPhone sales (because it’s an accessory) but its

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The State of Indian Streaming Services & the bad UX of "Originals"

Vidit Bhargava A few years back streaming video in India meant that you’d either have to goto YouTube and search for a movie promoted in the “YouTube Box Office” or you’d have to look for one of the services from “Spuul” or “BoxTV”, none of them

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Don Bradman Cricket 17: First Impressions

Vidit Bhargava This is a very quick first impression post. Will right a complete review sometime later this week. Don Bradman Cricket 17 focuses on Customizability and Analytics. Two aspects which were present in Don Bradman Cricket 14 but not to the extent that DBC 17 provides. There’s

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Iovine Comments Suggest Apple Music's Video Strategy Has Broadened

Iovine Comments Suggest Apple Music’s Video Strategy Has Broadened I like the idea of one subscription offering all of the three: Music, Movies and TV Shows ; I just wish it isn’t all built into one app. For example, Video is best experienced in the videos app.

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Wireframing on Numbers

Vidit Bhargava One of the things I’ve learnt in UI Design is, that the faster you get through the Steps to actually ‘generate’ prototypes, the better you can focus on more pressing matters like testing them in the real world. And one of the most important aspects of any

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Phil Schiller on iPhone’s Launch, How It Changed Apple, and Why It Will Keep Going for 50 Years

Phil Schiller on iPhone’s Launch, How It Changed Apple, and Why It Will Keep Going for 50 Years “That’s really important,” Schiller says, “and I’m so glad the team years ago set out to create Siri — I think we do more with that conversational interface that anyone

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This is Apple’s click wheel iPhone prototype

This is Apple’s click wheel iPhone prototype The famed early iPhone prototype comes to light in what appears to be a simulator of sorts. Quick Take : In 2007 this wouldn’t have been seen as odd. Even though, this prototype has little possibility or interface hooks to have the

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Don't Cage your Virtual Assistant in a Speaker Tower

Vidit Bhargava CES 2017 hasn’t even begun yet and one could still safely say that it’s going to be the year of Alexa, as far as mobile electronics are concerned. Amazon’s Alexa is coming everywhere. (It’s even going to be in your refrigerator.) But Alexa’s

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Pixel Quiz : December 2016

Vidit Bhargava Q1. The idea of X came to Y when he took a vacation with his children in the summer of 1999. Y would then be reminded of his own childhood and how travelling used to be an event in itself, and how the creation of interstate highways led

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How Apple Helped Democratize Typography In The '90s

How Apple Helped Democratize Typography In The ’90s This is an insightful story on the genesis of TrueType, something that changed the type industry forever. Also, This is more of Rickner’s story than that of Apple. Rickner is also working on variable type, which is another exciting

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Paytm is paying a price for its sudden stardom

Paytm is paying a price for its sudden stardom An interesting summary (ironically, the piece itself lacks one!) of the troubles of an Indian Startup that saw a massive Uptick in it’s user base last month. I doubt it’d have been any different for any other online service,

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Why are people leaving bad reviews for Super Mario Run

Vidit Bhargava It’s been a week since Nintendo’s first iOS Game came out. And the App Store ratings are already looking bad. It’s 1.5 stars of the 275 ratings it’s received on the Indian App Store. and 2.5 stars of

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Not just pretty pictures

The Designed by Apple in California book, widely known to be a series of images of apple’s greatest products, Isn’t just about pretty images. It’s a pretty handy book that gives some interesting insight into the manufacturing processes involved in the making of these

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Senator Al Franken asks Uber for more clarity on new location data sharing | TechCrunch

Senator Al Franken asks Uber for more clarity on new location data sharing | TechCrunch Glad someone brought this up. Uber’s new app chooses to use your location data “always”. Uber’s description for the usage is that it wants to improve “pickups , drop offs, customer support and

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Uber just added Snapchat filters and friend locators to its app - The Verge

Uber just added Snapchat filters and friend locators to its app – The Verge The moment you see the swipe up interface in the uber app, it feels like a place where applets and advertisements would go. Applets seem to be an imminent arrival to Uber with this announcement. I

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”macOS is becoming legacy software“? Nope.

”macOS is becoming legacy software“? Nope. This is the kind of Tech journalism that drives me away from Tech news. There’s no reason as to why anyone would come to this conclusion except for the fact that it generated a lot of clicks. For a legacy software, an

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The Cost of Being Nintendo

Vidit Bhargava Super Mario Run released yesterday. After Pokemon Go, this is another nostalgia trip for anyone who loved playing these games back when they were kids (I did. I always enjoyed playing the game, even though it felt exceedingly tough), and ofcourse there’s a big promotion around the

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Apple: earning the wrath of Steve « Observatory

Apple: earning the wrath of Steve « Observatory One of the most accurate summary of why Apple is facing the flak this year. The timing is off. Had these products been out even 4 months earlier, at WWDC , the scene would have been different.