This week, longtime tech journalist Harry McCracken showed on Twitter the remarkable difference between a picture taken by a Palm Treo in 2005 and a picture taken by an Apple iPhone 14 in 2023. John Gruber links to that post and correctly remarks: "One of tech’s truisms that has no exceptions: We overestimate how much progress we can make in a year, and underestimate how much we can make in a decade." Ten years ago, the topics being discussed here included Siri Eyes Free, which was technology that made it easier to get information from your iPhone while you are driving (in the days before CarPlay), speculation on how popular a version of Microsoft Office for the iPad might be if Microsoft ever released it, and my first time using an app called 1Password, now one of the most essential apps on my iPhone. And now, the news of note from the past week:
- When iOS 16.4 is released, we will get new Emoji on the iPhone. Keith Broni of Emojipedia previews some of the new Emoji including Shaking Face, Donkey, Moose, Wing, Folding Hand Fan, Flute, and Khanda (the symbol of Sikhi, an Indian religion and philosophy).
- The Uber app got a major update this week. As Filipe Espósito of 9to5Mac explains, the home screen of the app has a new, clean look, and Live Activities support is expanded.
- Tim Hardwick of MacRumors reports on the legal battles between Apple and medical device company AliveCor about patents that allegedly relate to the ECG feature of most Apple watches. Because of a December ruling from the U.S. International Trade Commission, there is a risk of a ban on Apple Watch imports. Although I'm a lawyer, this is way outside of my area of expertise, so I don't know enough to predict what might happen here, but it certainly could be interesting.
- D. Griffin Jones of Cult of Mac has a good overview of the track medications feature of the iPhone's Health app.
- Brent Dirks of App Advice recommends Apple TV apps that can help you to redesign a room in your home.
- Nick deCourville of The Mac Observer identifies numerous ways to mirror an iPhone to a TV if you don't have an Apple TV.
- If someone you know is a fan of the new show Wednesday—a spin-off of The Addams Family—then they might be interested in this Apple Watch stand featured by David Snow of Cult of Mac. Better yet, you can make yourself using a 3D printer.
- Speaking of cute chargers for Apple products, Ed Hardy of Cult of Mac shows off a tiny version of the original Mac that charges three USB-C ports.
- An original iPhone from 2007, never opened from its box, was just sold at an auction for $63,356.40, as reported by Michael Simon of Macworld. I presume the main reason that the owner auctioned it off is that the original iPhone used AT&T's Edge network, which AT&T shut down on January 1, 2017.
- And finally, Apple TV+ released a trailer for a new show called Extrapolations, which comes out next month. Apple says that the series has "Eight interwoven stories about love, work, faith and family from across the globe" that take place in the near future when climate changed has caused huge problems. What jumped out at me is the cast: Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, Daveed Diggs, Edward Norton, Diane Lane, Tahar Rahim, Yara Shahidi, Matthew Rhys, Gemma Chan, David Schwimmer, Adarsh Gourav, Keri Russell, Marion Cotillard, Forest Whitaker, Eiza González, Murray Bartlett, Indira Varma, Tobey Maguire, MaameYaa Boafo, Hari Nef, Heather Graham, Michael Gandolfini, Cherry Jones, Gaz Choudhry, Ben Harper, Judd Hirsch, and Neska Rose. That is an incredibly impressive cast. Wow. Here is the trailer:
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