One of my favorite features of the Apple Watch is that it is so easy to swap out watchbands. I typically wear the Milanese Loop when I'm at work or otherwise wearing nicer clothes, and I typically wear the black XL Sports Band at night, when working out, and when wearing more casual clothes on the weekend. I wouldn't want to wear the Sports Band at the office or the Milanese Loop when I am working out, so it is great to have just the right band for the right occasion. Mitchel Broussard at MacRumors has an interesting post this week about the large number of bands that are currently listed as "sold out." In early May, my wife ordered a Classic Buckle for her 38mm Apple Watch in the Marine Blue color — a really nice looking band that looks great on her — and it took over a month to arrive after we ordered it. And now I see on the Apple website that it is listed as Sold Out. The MacRumors article points out that Apple plans to follow a seasonal cycle, so certain styles will sell out and then be gone forever. I suppose the moral is that if you see an Apple Watch band that you really like, consider buying it before it is gone forever. And now, the news of note from the past week:
- I've never been an Evernote user, but I know many lawyers who love the service. The company increased its prices this week, which as you can imagine was unpopular with many users. Both Florida attorney Katie Floyd and California attorney David Sparks discuss the new prices.
- Law Technology Today interviews a panel of lawyers to discuss finding a work life balance through technology.
- Brett Burney reviews LawStack, an app that contains rules and statutes.
- San Francisco lawyer Casey Sullivan discusses a survey of New York judges regarding the use of technology in an article for the Technologist blog.
- Long after the rest of the world moved on to iPhones and Android, many in government in D.C. continued to use Blackberry devices. Jim Swift of Bomble.com reports that Senate staffers received notice this week that they will no longer be issued Blackberry smartphones.
- Oscar Raymundo of Macworld describes a few of the smaller, but useful, features of iOS 10 (coming this Fall).
- Serenity Caldwell of iMore describes some of the most underrated features in watchOS 3 (coming this Fall).
- John Brownlee wrote an interesting article on how Apple brought Apple Watch fitness features to wheelchair users in an article for Fast Company.
- I've seen some very favorable reviews of the new Bose QC35 noise-cancelling wireless headphones. For example, Serenity Caldwell of iMore says in her review that it is on the short list of her favorite tech purchases of 2016.
- Dan Moren of Six Colors discusses Philips Hue bulbs, and also HomeKit accessories in general.
- J.R. Bookwalter of Macworld reviews Streets, an app that integrates Google Street View with Apple Maps — and even brings Street View to the Apple Watch.
- Zac Hall of 9to5Mac reports that the Walgreens app now has better integration of coupons. This reminds me that I should use the app more. There is a Walgreens close to my house, and I love that it is so easy at that store to use Apple Pay and to even enter my Walgreens reward card using my iPhone and Apple Watch.
- As reported by Jared Nelson of TouchArcade, the iPad game Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released this week. My son and daughter give it two big thumbs up, and after watching them play the game a little, I may have install it on my iPad too to give it a spin.
- And finally, I enjoyed this short story by Ben Lovejoy of 9to5Mac about a French TV talk show that suddenly had a power outage, which caused the TV cameras to stop functioning. But the show must go on, so the folks on stage took out their iPhones and filmed the rest of the show that way. Here is a video that shows what happened. Even if you don't speak French, you can see how the folks involved are being pretty creative to switch to iPhones. Lovejoy says that this is the first time that a broadcast TV show in France has ever been shot on an iPhone. Here is the video: