Casey Liss
Independent iOS developer and podcaster; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue), and makes the apps Callsheet, MaskerAid and Peek-a-View.
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Their wordsRJ is wrong: customers do not want a seamless digital experience within the apps on their car. Customers want a seamless digital experience with their smartphones. Everywhere. CarPlay is the way you get it.
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Their wordsMy money says my conclusion will remain the same, even if I don't believe it as devoutly: Don't bet against the smartphone.
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsApple's multitasking changes for iPadOS 26 are incredible. They work well with a finger, but work great with a pointing device.
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The new multitasking mechanism in iPadOS 26 will remove many of the shackles of using an iPad Pro.
Their wordsThe new multitasking mechanism will remove many of the shackles I feel when using my iPad Pro. I no longer feel like I'm trying to wade through wet cement when using it. I don't feel like I'm bending to its needs - rather, it's bending to mine.
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Their wordsAs mentioned above, I think tasteful and tactical deployment of AI in a couple of cases may be useful. I can imagine it being useful to offer some suggestions for what to rename a list of pins, for example, based on the films contained within the list.
- 8 weeks earlier
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Companies that prioritize recurring revenue over user experience are engaging in enshittification.
Their wordsHowever, a few years back, Eero fell victim to every corporation's favorite thing: recurring revenue. Eero started quietly pushing Eero Plus, a subscription service that I was largely uninterested in. Over the years, this has gotten more and more aggressive, and, annoyingly, more and more has been gated behind Eero Plus.
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Their wordsSynology will be restricting features for those who do not use Synology-branded drives. Drives that are bog-standard enterprise hard drives, possibly with some custom firmware in them. Why? For more revenue.
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Their wordsI think it boils down to two simple facts: IMDB does not respect its users, which it demonstrates in new and fantastic ways every time you use it Callsheet does.
- 3 months earlier
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Most of the time an iPhone user spends on their phone is concentrated on a handful of apps.
Their wordsThe more I thought about it, the more I felt like most of the time I used my iPhone really was concentrated on a handful of apps.
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Their wordsNot only has this sped up opening the app I want, it's also cut down on the number of badges I see.
- 3 years earlier
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Their wordsApple's feedback system is fundamentally broken - at least, for everyone who does not work at Apple.
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Their wordsUnfortunately, Feedback Assistant and Radar are tools for Apple, and they serve Apple's needs and only Apple's. They are a complete waste of time for outside developers.
- 13 months earlier
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Their wordsApple doesn't seem to prioritize documentation in the way I think they should.
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Their wordsMy money is on Combine being neutered - if not straight-up scuttled - by an over-zealous SwiftUI champion, politicking within Apple.
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Their wordsThe iPad hardware is ridiculously powerful. Please, please, can we have some software improvements to match?
- 6 months earlier
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Their wordsApple's documentation has, for years, been pretty bad. Over the last couple years, it has gone from bad → awful → despicable → embarrassing.
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Their wordsAs my friend Adam Swinden pointed out to me on Twitter, as old APIs get deprecated, often times Apple can't be bothered to include documentation for the new ones.
- 17 months earlier
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Combine is a first-party, blessed, approved framework for reactive programming on Apple platforms.
Their wordsSo much of Combine is exactly what I've been hoping for: a first-party, blessed, approved, framework for reactive programming on Apple platforms.
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Combine's inclusion of typed errors and backpressure results in more robust code than RxSwift.
Their wordsCombine, by comparison, bakes both typed errors and backpressure in from the start. More bookkeeping, but more robust code.
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Their wordsI'd absolutely do all new development in SwiftUI and Combine going forward. It is clearly the future; embrace it.