Week 25, 2016 - WWDC; Microsoft buys LinkedIn
Apple's WWDC introduced new options for Siri and I'll take a look at how that compares to the rest of the voice assistant world. Also, a brief look at Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn.
Apple's WWDC introduced new options for Siri and I'll take a look at how that compares to the rest of the voice assistant world. Also, a brief look at Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn.
App Store subscriptions are an interesting thing and I have some ideas about where this could (but probably won't) go, and I decided to give my opinion about Apple Pay as well now that I've got it.
A new tool for online development, AWS outage, and AWS' interpretation of DevOps.
Some additional thoughts on Bitbucket's Pipelines, a new interface for Jenkins, and the happy result of the Oracle v Google lawsuit.
Google held it's I/O conference last week, and there was quite a lot of interesting things in there. That means this note is going to be mainly focused on that with some related links thrown in for fun.
Amazon introduced their IoT button, Wercker released a new way of working using workflows, and the EFF announced Certbot.
A little earlier than usual due to my holiday, this week's update brings you my initial impressions of Jenkins' first major update and a couple of other small things I wish to note.
Now that it's been released, I'll give my thoughts on why CareKit is potentially so important and talk a bit about the new automation features for OmniFocus.
It's a very AWS heavy period, and I'll dive into a couple of the more personally interesting announcements of last week. Then there are Intel's recent changes, and I have some thoughts on subscription services in the wake of TextExpander's changes.
A lot of short points this week as there was a lot of interest. Where last week brought big rockets, now there are plans for nanocrafts, Facebook held its F8 conference, Microsoft sues the US government, Swift supports Android, and a new Kindle.
Connected devices don't do a lot when their servers are shut down, Tesla's new car, encryption, and rocket landings.
At their Build conference last week, Microsoft had several interesting announcements that I'd like to discuss. Similarly, Apple changed the way they develop their Safari web browser.
Docker's birthday made me think about containers, and then there are some more thoughts about online payments and the iPhone SE.
AWS celebrated its 10th birthday last week, and it has grown incredibly in that time. Lately there have been a couple of pretty big shifts in the cloud as well, and today some things happened for Apple.
Microsoft releases another Linux product and AIs take over the world (or the Go board at least.