For a brief moment during development, the first app from Quartz â the four-year-old business news publication owned by Atlantic Media â was going to be completely blank when you opened it up. "The whole thing was just notifications," Zach Seward, Quartz's executive editor and VP of product, tells The Verge. "The thought was that this would tell you, like, this is an app meant to be consumed entirely outside the square icon."...
In May of last year, I posed a question on Twitter: Do you ever get the feeling that everyone at Medium is drunk? My question had been inspired by the latest release notes for the publishing platformâs iOS app, which had taken the form of a poem:...
I missed the era of cinematic newsreels by several decades, so I've mostly seen the concept deployed in fiction, where it signals an earlier era when stentorian male voices delivered thinly veiled propaganda to awed, passive audiences. The New York Times' latest experiment with virtual reality â a nine-minute video called The Contender that follows four of our current presidential candidates through their campaign rallies â is not propaganda, nor is it narrated by a man of any voice type. But "VR...
Microsoft just quietly launched yet another experimental iOS app.
Microsoft today unveiled yet another application aimed at iOS users, with the launch of a news application that greatly resembles Apple’s own News application that comes built into iOS 9. Called “News Pro,” Microsoft’s app aims to offer readers a personalized experience by connecting them to articles that match their current interests, while also uncovering…
News stepped to a fast pace at the beginning of 2016, with numerous rumors about the iPhone 7, and worries about Apple's stock price and the prospects for iPhone 6s sales.
Whether visiting family, off on vacation or spending some quiet time at home for Christmas, chances are you'll have an iPhone or iPad at your side. AppleInsider offers together a list of critically acclaimed and family-friendly iOS games to make the season bright.
