Articles by Nate Swanner
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WWDC 2018 Epilogue: We’re In the Desert
An undeniable truth of WWDC 2018: it’s a “down year.” Apple didn't roll out a big, splashy new service, or new hardware. It was all fairly subdued. Even within sessions, there were points when pr… -
Apple Wants Us to Spend Less Time With Apps – But Why?
From the time the first iPhone launched, until very recently, when Apple began discouraging the practice, people lined up for days outside Apple stores for new hardware. From the get-go, digital… -
New Mac App Store Is Huge Opportunity for Devs, Companies
With the upcoming macOS 10.14 (Mojave), Apple is introducing a totally new Mac App Store experience. This offers a lot of opportunity for developers and companies from all corners of the tech eco… -
Apple is Winning the Privacy Showdown Against Google
When this year's Google I/O rolled into town, Google failed to aggressively tackle the issue of privacy. Although new, massive data breaches seem to pop up weekly, and Facebook is under a hot spo… -
Siri Shortcuts is Apple's Clever Plan to Dethrone Alexa
At this year's WWDC, Apple decided to accelerate its place in the smart assistant skills race by getting users to make Siri better. Sort of. Instead of announcing developer-created ‘skills’ along… -
WWDC 2018: Apple's MacBook Touch Bar is Still Lurking
Apple's WWDC conference is all about software, but hardware is equally important. A big component of Apple’s hardware lineup is the MacBook. While it got very little attention at WWDC 2018, the M… -
ARKit 2 Adds Tons of Features We Want in a Headset
If you believe big companies such as Google, Apple, and Microsoft, augmented reality (AR) is the future. At WWDC 2018, Apple took a big step forward with an update of its own AR initiative, ARKit… -
Create ML is 100 Percent Swift Machine Learning
Machine learning (ML) is rapidly becoming a key framework for a new digital future. It seems like every tech firm wants to utilize this subset of artificial intelligence (A.I.), which uses a vari… -
Automation Central to Union Demands, Strike in Las Vegas
Las Vegas union workers are set to go on strike, and sitting atop their list of demands is an old favorite of tech pros: automation. Culinary Union Local 226 is a Las Vegas-based culinary and bar… -
Apple Watch Adds 'Interactive Notifications' to Woo Developers
The Apple Watch is trying to reclaim some market energy, and Apple’s new method for doing so might be its smartest yet. At WWDC 2018, Apple unveiled watchOS 5, the latest version of its wrist-wor…