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The Dalrymple Report with Merlin Mann: Power Nipple

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Jim an Merlin discuss finding new music, using an iPad for ‘real work’, and rock star cameos.

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The Dalrymple Report with Merlin Mann: Super Eastern Time

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Jim and Merlin talk New Years and what they hope to see in the year ahead. Also, Motorhead and preparing for presentations.

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The Dalrymple Report with Merlin Mann: That’s Not Very Canadian of You

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This week, Merlin and Jim talk haircuts, computer peripherals, and weird bands. Also, Merlin shares his obsession with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs song “Maps”.

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The Dalrymple Report with Merlin Mann: Wednesday is Murder Day

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Jim and Merlin talk about who the iPad Pro is for, their favorite cover songs, and the best apps for making music. Also, Jim gives an out-of-character recommendation.

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The Dalrymple Report with Merlin Mann: Old Man Uncle Grandpa Merlin

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A sleepy Jim talks to Merlin talk all about the iPad Pro: Jim’s review and Merlin’s impulse purchase of it.

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The Dalrymple Report with Merlin Mann: Just Like My Men

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Jim and Merlin talk Apple Watch workouts, playing guitar at parties, and break the fourth wall.

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The Dalrymple Report with Merlin Mann: Hey Dingus!

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Jim and Merlin talk about appreciating ‘good enough’ and how to start playing guitar, and Merlin gets really excited about his new Amazon Echo.

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The Dalrymple Report

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The Dalrymple Report: Apple Event, Calc app for iPad, and Apple ID password resets Apple announced an event for May 7, 2024, which is widely expected to showcase new iPads ahead of the companies Worldwide Developers Conference in June. At … Continued

The Dalrymple Report with Merlin Mann: Have You Thought About Not Being Sad?

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Jim and Merlin talk about procrastination, software privacy, and swap live-performance horror-stories.

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The Dalrymple Report with Merlin Mann: Don’t Provoke the Crow

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Jim and Merlin talk about beta software, bass players, and how to minimize stress when traveling.

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The Dalrymple Report with Merlin Mann: A Crow, a Weedwhacker, and a Little Dog

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Jim and Merlin talk about beta software, bass players, and how to minimize stress while traveling.

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The Dalrymple Report: Mistaken for Duck Dynasty

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The Dalrymple Report with Merlin Mann: The Least Friendly Canadian

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Merlin and Jim have some fun with reader questions, talk about Apple’s MacBook lineup, look at the benefits of sleep tracking, and give some advice on guitar software for beginners.

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How to teach Siri to pronounce names correctly in iOS 15

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Siri has long had the ability to fine tune name pronunciations. Here’s a video showing the way this used to work.

With the release of iOS 15, looks like that old way is gone, making way for a new, dedicated phonetic-pronunciation field in the Contacts app.

Follow the headline link for the walkthrough but, in a nutshell:

  • Open a contact, tap “Edit”
  • Scroll down towards the bottom, tap “add field”
  • Tap a new field to add, type in a pronunciation

There are fields for “Phonetic first name” and “Pronunciation first name”. Not clear to me what the difference is, but I can tell you that when Jim Dalrymple texts me, Siri tells me it’s Beardy McBeardyFace, so I know it works. Very satisfying.

Gruber: A moment of clarity regarding the raison d’etre for the App Store

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Two good reads for the weekend. First, be sure to dig into Jim Dalrymple’s iOS 14 favorite features piece.

Then follow the headline link and read John Gruber’s powerful App Store essay. I’ll quote a few bits, but worth heading over to read the whole thing:

Feel free to file Google’s release this week of an update to their iPad Gmail app with support for split-screen multitasking under “better late than never”, but this is so late it borders on the absurd.

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Five years to add support for a foundational element of the iPad user experience. And an email client is near the top of the list of the type of apps where someone would want to use split-screen. Five years.

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I worry that it’s not tenable in the long run to expect Apple to continue striving to create well-crafted — let alone insanely great — software when so many of its users not only settle for, but perhaps even prefer, software that is, to put it kindly, garbage.

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I’d like to see all the vim, vigor, and vigilance Apple applies to making sure no app on the App Store is making a dime without Apple getting three cents applied instead to making sure there aren’t any scams or ripoffs, and that popular apps support good-citizen-of-the-platform features within a reasonable amount of time after those features are introduced in the OS. I don’t know exactly how long “reasonable” is, but five fucking years for split-screen support ain’t it.

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Imagine a world where the biggest fear developers had when submitting an app for review wasn’t whether they were offering Apple a sufficient cut of their revenue, but whether they were offering users a good enough native-to-the-platform experience.

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Rather than watch Apple face antitrust regulators in the U.S. and Europe with a sense of dread, I’d watch with a sense of glee. “This company is abusing its market dominance to take an unfair share of our money” is an age-old complaint to government regulators. “This company is abusing its market dominance to force us to make our apps better for users” would be delightful new territory. Only Apple could do that.

Go read the whole post. There’s a lot more. It’s clearly born of epiphany.

At the core of the issue is a basic problem with being a public traded company. Once you put your company up for sale to the public, take public money to use as you will, you are beholden to those shareholders. You can’t help but treat the bottom line as a fiduciary responsibility. And there’s the rub.

Apple, and shareholders, made a ton of money on the iPhone and its wondrous ecosystem. But it’s a hard treadmill to escape. So as the smartphone market matured, Apple shifted to services. And the App Store is one of the more important pieces of that strategy.

No argument with Gruber’s idealism. And I do think it’s possible Apple’s hand will be forced by Antitrust investigation/regulation. But the financial forces, the pressure from shareholders for year-over-year growth, will not change. Some balancing force needs to come to bear here, pressure to make Apple value a world where, as John says, their most used apps are best-in-class.

Great food for thought from Gruber. Go read the whole thing.

Tim Cook defends decision to remove Hong Kong Maps app in memo

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I’ve never said this about a Tim Cook missive but what a load of crap. Apple is between a rock and a hard place on this and, as I said to Jim Dalrymple on last night’s Your Mac Life podcast, it’s a position they’ve put themselves in and I have no sympathy for the company on this issue. They deserve all the flack they are getting – from both sides.

911 day time lapse, traveling around the world, no shaving

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[VIDEO] Tell me, by the end of this video (embedded in the main Loop post), you don’t see Jim Dalrymple-like results.

And do stick around to the end (even if you jump there), to see the map showing their travels.

The Loop Bash: Free tickets now available

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Join Jim Dalrymple, MacStadium, Pixelmator, and MacPaw for an incredible night of music from The Houserockers on the first night of WWDC.

The party is being held at The Ritz, San Jose’s top nightclub, which is just one block from WWDC, on Monday, June 4, 2018, from 8:00 pm to 12:00 am.

You must bring your RSVP to the venue in order to get entry into the party. You also must be 21 because we will be serving free beer and wine throughout the night. Other alcoholic beverages will be available to purchase at the venue.

Please arrive early. Having an RSVP does not guarantee entry into the event.

Many thanks to our sponsors, MacStadium, Pixelmator, and MacPaw for making this party a reality!

Go get your tickets!