What happened to the Apple MagSafe USB-C iPhone Accessories?

July 8, 2024
Last September Apple switched the iPhones from the lightning connecter to USB-C. This brought an end to some of the overpriced but well-reviewed Lightning accessories. The MagSafe Duo charger and the MagSafe battery pack where really popular iPhone accessories, depending who you ask that is. The first party support was great but they were (just like every Apple accessory) overpriced. Amazon had and still has a lot of alternatives for a fraction of Apple's pricing, but the Apple first party accessories worked well with the iPhone offering exclusive features. I still use my beloved MagSafe Duo charger everyday. It stays…

Apple has to fix AAA gaming on the iPhone

July 2, 2024
Apple has been trying to get serious about gaming the last few years, and since the introduction of the M-series chips there has been a lot effort to get game developers onboard the Apple ecosystems. Apple did and is still continuing to get some traction with multiple AAA games coming to its devices - not two years after release on other platforms but on the same day these games launch on PC + consoles. But headlines like this from Gamesradar make are making it look as if it's all gloom and doom to Apple's gaming efforts. Tools like the Game…

Apple Intelligence – The 3 not so nice things about it.

June 25, 2024
I have already wrote about how I feel about Apple Intelligence and what makes is unique amongst all the Artificial Intelligence models/tech out there. There are however a few things I know Apple could have done better: 1. The image generation capabilities. When Apple showed off the image generation capabilities on Apple Intelligence my first thought was that it looked like something from Midjourney back in 2022. It didn’t have the panache that you would expect from Apple.  Apple Intelligence can generate images in three different styles : sketch, illustration, and animation. Photorealistic images cannot be created as it could…

Apple Intelligence – Thoughts on it

June 18, 2024
There is a saying in tech amongst who follow Apple which goes “Apple is not the first to the party, but the best dressed”, It is very early to say if that is true when it comes to Apple’s take on Artificial Intelligence, but in theory Apples take seems to be the most useful for a lot of people. I’d argue that there are two unique selling points of Apple Intelligence when compared with the “Artificial Intelligence” that people know of: Your Apple devices know you best Say you have a query that AI can help you with, you go…

WWDC 2024 : A collection of thoughts 

June 11, 2024
Ever felt so overwhelmed at the amount of information thrown at you at almost breakneck speed that you felt like you need to take a break from life to process all that happened? That’s what Apple’s 2024 World Wide Developer Conference felt like, at least to me.  Apple didn’t dwell on any of the major features coming to its software platforms but saved up time for the big Artificial Intelligence Apple Intelligence section at the end of the keynote.  Before we get to talking about AI, let’s see what Apple had in store for its software platforms. VisionOS 2 As…

3 M4 iPad Pro features I’d like to see on the next MacBook Pro

May 10, 2024
The new M4 iPad is all sorts of amazing, the hardware is pretty great. It is easily said that what is holding the iPad back is the software. Putting macOS on the iPad does not really make sense as macOS is a mouse/pointer-first operating system whereas the iPad is touch-first. But there are a few things I would like to see the MacBook Pro borrow from the iPad:  The M4 Chip The latest top of the line MacBook still has the last-generation M3 chip. It felt weird typing that last sentence, just over 6 months ago the M3 chip based…

Thoughts about the Apple iPad event – May 2024

May 7, 2024
We had the first Apple keynote of 2024 today, the new iPads were long overdue with it being over 18 months since they last saw an update. This could have just been a press release, or it could have waited for WWDC next month, but Apple did the right thing by letting the new iPads have their own event, as I feel that these are some pretty impressive hardware upgrades. iPad Air The first upgrade was to the iPad air, the big news is that the Air now comes in two sizes, there is a bigger 13” variant which I…

Triple Click Productivity 

May 5, 2024
Smartphone addiction is a real thing and it is a bad thing, especially bad when you have goals that you want to achieve in life but all you do is have your phone in your hand and alternate between Youtube Shorts, Instagram reels, and TikTok videos. I have found myself so drenched into these vertical videos that I would lose track of what app i am in. they all do the same and pretty much have the same interactions to move on to the next video. I have been trying to get rid of my smartphone addiction for a while…

The iPhone 15 Pro Action Button

April 14, 2024
It’s about 6 months since Apple replaced the mute toggle switch on the iPhone. The iPhone, since its inception only has lost a couple of buttons. The iconic home button got replaced with gestures and a full screen with the iPhone X, and Apple with the latest iteration of the iPhone has replaced the mute toggle switch on the side of the phone with an action button. This change was limited to the Pro and Pro Max versions of the phone, the regular iPhone 15 series still has the traditional mute toggle switch.  The mute toggle switch on the iPhone…

The nicest feeling iPhone yet

October 7, 2023
I have written about my love for the Mini sized iPhones, sadly I do still think the world has moved on from smaller “one hand operability” size of phones. I have been using my iPhone 15 Pro Max in natural titanium since day one, and I have used it case-less for 95% of the time and I intend to use it case-less too.  Every time I pick up the phone I think to myself that this phone feels nice, and that is because of the multiple iterations that we have had over the years and Apple has had a go…