Author: Sam

So I don’t really have a set plan for this post, I’ve usually at least got some notes that I like to go off when writing these articles, but this one is going to be off the cuff. For this post I want to talk about this concept of a “digital home” that I’ve been thinking about for a while.

Apple originally released their Sports app back in February of 2024 after it had been rumored a bit, but there was no real enthusiasm behind it. Safe to say this app came out to a rather…confused audience. Nobody was really sure why the app was created; it kinda took some stuff out of the News and TV apps, but also not really.

So I’ve never been very interested in Android as a platform (this may not surprise many of you). Honestly I find this rather odd, because I really like to have a hand in as many platforms as possible (I have a Mac, an iPad, a Windows PC, and a Linux machine (Pop!_OS, of course)). I also have an Xbox (no Playstation, though). The point being: I like to try out a ton of different tech, but I haven’t been as interested in Android as a platform personally.

Apple’s earnings for the past quarter came out and they posted revenue of over $85 Billion, up 5% from this time last year. Wanna know why? A 25% growth in iPad sales.

A lot of the tech community knows quite a bit about tech, but not everyone out here is a developer. Not everyone knows what’s actually going on behind the scenes (even some that think they do). I’ve been going through a lot of training to develop on Apple’s platforms (just recently I became a certified Swift Developer), so I figured I would go through and talk about all of the resources I’ve utilized from Apple to be able to do all of this.

So the crux of this thesis is simply: stop looking at new technology like it has to replace something else for it to be successful. You don’t need to replace the smartphone, you don’t need to replace the laptop, and you don’t need to replace the desktop to be considered a successful product. Instead you should look at each product category as another tool that people have to leverage to get their work done.

Okay so here are my thoughts after a few months with the NuPhy Air 96 v2. I’m not much of a mechanical keyboard user and I talk about that and how it affects my perception of the keyboard as well. If you want, there’s also a list of as many specs as I could think of at the bottom of this article if you would like to just read that as well. But this isn’t a spec sheet, it’s a review, so here are my thoughts:

So this isn’t the end all be all of the iPad finally finding its footing. I’m not going to try and pretend that it is, but at the conclusion of Apple’s Let Loose iPad event today, I’ve come away feeling like iPad is finally starting to hit a stride.

It’s no secret that Apple seriously needs to rethink the way the iPad lineup looks. There are currently 5 different screen sizes (8.3″, 9.7″, 10.9″, 11″, and 12.9″) and 4 different lines (iPad, iPad mini, iPad Air, iPad Pro). This is just a lot of different things going on and it could really stand to be streamlined quite a bit.

So we all know what happened back in 2020: Epic Games knowingly broke the terms and conditions of both the Google Play Store and the iOS App Store by linking out to an external payment processor, skirting the 30% fee that both Apple and Google take from all transactions on their stores.