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AppStories
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This week, Federico and I explore the trends that shaped the App Store in 2024.
NPC: Next Portable Console
As the year comes to a close, handheld makers haven’t slowed down. We have new devices in hand and on the horizon, plus Legion Go S and Switch 2 rumors, Brendon’s first impressions of the TrimUI Brick, Federico’s latest NDI streaming experiments, new AR glasses and more.
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AppStories, Episode 416, ‘The AppStories Year in Review’ Show Notes
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AppStories+ Pre-Show
- Federico’s Note Taking Experiments Experiments
- Apps Federico Tried:
- Notion
- Google Keep plus Gemini
- Craft
- Apple Notes with Forever Notes
- Task Manager
- Twos
- Fabric AI
- MyMind
- He landed on Obsidian and Daily Notes.
- Apps Federico Tried:
The 2024 Trends that Shaped the App Store
- Government Regulation and Antitrust Enforcement
- Apple Details How It Plans to Comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act
- Understanding Apple’s Response to the DMA
- AppStories, Episode 369 – Digging into the DMA
- AltStore Is Now Available in the EU
- The EU Pulls iPadOS Into the DMA Fray
- Apple Changes How the Core Technology Fee Works and Confirms that Its Alternative Business Terms Will Apply to iPad Apps This Fall
- European Commission Preliminarily Finds That Apple Has Violated the Digital Markets Act
- Apple Announces New Changes to the Browser Choice Screen and Default Apps on iOS and iPadOS in the EU
- The European Commission Opens Two iOS Interoperability Proceedings Against Apple
- Understanding the DOJ’s Antitrust Complaint Against Apple
- AppStories, Episode 377 – Why the DOJ Claims Apple Is a Monopoly
- The Vision Pro
- Apple Releases Immersive Short Film Submerged and Announces Upcoming Immersive Content
- visionOS 2: The MacStories Review
- Apple Announces New Immersive Video Content for the Vision Pro
- visionOS 2: The MacStories Overview
- A Comprehensive Guide to Gaming on the Apple Vision Pro
- The Apple Vision Pro Developer Strap
- Artificial Intelligence
- Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.2: A Deep Dive into Working with Siri and ChatGPT, Together
- Apple’s Commitment to AI Is Clear, But Its Execution Is Uneven
- iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Review
- AI Companies Need to Be Regulated: An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress and European Parliament
- Wired Confirms Perplexity Is Bypassing Efforts by Websites to Block Its Web Crawler
- Indie Developers: The Foundation of the Vision Pro and the Future of App Intents
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On AppStories+, Federico returns to Obsidian for note-taking and explores ChatGPT as a way of assisting him with the creation of custom plugins.
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NPC, Episode 15, ‘Worst Cable, Favorite Handheld’ Show Notes
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The MacStories DS Skins for Delta
- Celebrate the MacStories Selects App of the Year with the MacStories DS Skins for Delta
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Follow-Up
- Jason Snell gets a Miyoo Mini+
- Upgrade+ segment
- Based on Brendon’s recommendation
- Anbernic RG35XXSP hardware updates
- Pokémon Emerald Legacy
The Latest Portable Gaming News
- Android XR
- Anbernic Hour: Anbernic RG34XX
- Miyoo Flip Watch
- Lenovo Legion Go S leak shows renders of the cheaper handheld gaming PC
- Blurry shots of purportedly leaked Switch 2 Joy-Con
Topics
- TrimUI Brick: Brendon’s First Impressions
- No Tweaks Necessary
- My Simple TrimUI Brick Setup (MinUI Guide)
- Available from AliExpress and Amazon
- Federico Levels Up His NDI Setup
- Old device: Kiloview N40
- New device: Kiloview N60
- Vxio
- A Comprehensive Guide to Gaming on the Apple Vision Pro
- The XREAL One AR glasses
Credits
Show Art: Brendon Bigley
Music: Will LaPorte
MacStories launched its first podcast in 2017 with AppStories. Since then, the lineup has expanded to include a family of weekly shows that also includes MacStories Unwind, Magic Rays of Light, Ruminate, Comfort Zone, and NPC: Next Portable Console that collectively, cover a broad range of the modern media world from Apple’s streaming service and videogame hardware to apps for a growing audience that appreciates our thoughtful, in-depth approach to media.
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