It looks like I’m not the only person who moved to Apple Books recently. Bradley Changers at 9to5Mac did, too. Now I kind of want an iPad Mini just for reading, though.
Sort of by accident, and mostly because it is the default choice, I have switched my ebook reading to Apple Books on my iPad (mostly) and iPhone (sometimes). To my surprise, it looks really good and works very well. I just wish I could choose a custom font.
In a way, I’m happy that Apple is acquiring Dark Sky, because it is a great weather service, and Apple probably wants to own its own weather information service at this point. It sucks that they will be closing their API to third party apps at the end of next year, though. Open, relatively inexpensive weather data APIs let a ton of interesting and beautiful mobile and web apps blossom over the past ten years or so, and that time is slowly coming to an end.
🎧 Listening to ATP’s WWDC live show at the top of my work day.
AirPods batteries drain much faster on phone calls
I thought my AirPods batteries were already aging out of their useful life span, due to quick draining on numerous hour long phone calls today and last week. It turns out, talk time is only “up to 2 hours”, while listening time (my main use case) is 2 1/2 times that.
AirPods (single charge): Up to 5 hours listening time,(2) Up to 2 hours talk time(5)
So…phew! I’m more worried about having to replace them after less than two years due to a battery issue than about shorter battery life on calls.
People on Reddit are bitching tonight about Apple’s “bug fixes and improvements” iOS and watchOS updates. I must be uncool or something because those kinds of updates are my favorite kind.
Is it awful that I kind of want a HomePod? When I first watched the product announcement, my impression was “too expensive: hard pass” but now I kind of want something that sounds really good and just works with my iPhone.
Dear Apple Music: Just because I listened to Sixpence Non The Richer’s cover of “There She Goes” (originally by the La’s, and arguably about heroin, for goodness sake), doesn’t mean I want to listen to Christian music in all my personalized mixes. 🙄
