Dear Tim Cook Clause, This year I’d like…

iOS updates

• Fix whatever the hell happened to editing in text fields with mobile safari
• A ‘Worktime" feature to compliment “Downtime”
• Adding start dates to reminders
• iMessages on windows (I have to use windows at work…so this would be like a glass of water in hell)
• a bit more refining of how to search through photos (It can be really tricky to get to the right photo and you never want to accidentally go to the start of your photostream)
• Siri improvements (I too can use Google…it’s not that impressive Siri)

iPadOS updates:

• Improvements to “desktop class safari”
• some new homescreen improvements (widget stuff?)
• Keyboard short cuts for multitasking windows
• Keyboard shortcuts to trigger shortcuts
• FinalCut for the iPad
• A magical fix for the dead pixel in my iPad screen

WatchOS updates

• More faces
• 3rd party faces (that don’t majorly drain the battery)
• Sleep tracking built in
• more rings (Like a mindfulness one and a sleep one)

Mac Updates

• stablity. Sorry, Bug fixes and performance enhancements.
• ARM Macs

Hardware

• ARM Macbook air type thing
• Homepod Mini
• Homepod with screen
• Apple watch 6 with new sensor

Thank you Tim Cook Clause Here are some cookies

p.s. The thing with Hey sucks. Don’t be that guy.

I honestly can’t believe Apple’s attitude to Hey. I really hope this is one or two people in Apple who’ve misunderstood certain policies but that’s happened before. While there are many areas where Apple appears to set the standard that other tech companies follow, this is not one and is horrifically anti-competitive. It seems utterly crazy that this should all emerge when Apple is rumored to allow the ability to set non-Apple apps as the default. I wonder how this will all shake out…in the meantime, maybe I ought to look at companies like fairphone again.

I really want a new camera…I really don’t need a new camera but I want one. Features I -need- want that I don’t have

• weather sealing
• 4k video
• more pixels (because why not)
• the new fuji film simulations espeically acros

Camears I want:

• Ricoh GR iii (has non of the features I listed but has IBIS and I do love my ricoh gr)
• Fuji X100v (the obvious choice. I REALLY love my x100t…but price)
• Fuji X pro 2 (lacks some of the features of the V and is bigger…)
• Sony A7 of some sort (I don’t know why I want this one…but I do)

I really should think about x100V… but all the others are so tempting.

I didn’t feel like sharing this earlier in the week with everything going on but I made a little ebook and course of 30 creative prompts. These are fun little challenges to get you thinking differently and exercising your creative muscle so you can be creative on demand. It was a little creative challenge from my wife and was suppose to take me a month to do…well, life happened and it took a few extra months to actually put it together and get it up, but draft one is here. In the future, I hope to add more prompts and perhaps show some examples. It’s normally $10 but for Micro.Blogranauts, I have a special discount where you can get it for $1 (plus tax). Just use the code MICROBLOG.
Enjoy!