Apple announced yesterday that it will have a “Special Event” in Brooklyn, New York on Tuesday, October 30 at 10am EDT. Presumably, this is when Apple will announce new versions of the iPad Pro, as well as other products. The event will take place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2,100-seat Howard Gilman Opera House. Apple must have a special reason for wanting to hold the event there instead of its new Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, which seats 1,000, but I’m not sure what that reason is. And now, the news of note from the past week:
- Chicago Attorney John Voorhees of MacStories notes that Tweetbot version 5 was released yesterday, which numerous interface improvements. I use this app every day to read Twitter, and I like the new interface.
- In another post, Voorhees shows off some possible cool Apple Watch faces that we could have if Apple were to allow third parties to create watch faces. My hope is that Apple will support this in the future, and perhaps Apple just wanted to get the larger Series 4 watch faces on the market before opening the door to developers. We’ll see.
- Andrew O’Hara of AppleInsider shows off some of Apple’s new bands for the Apple Watch.
- Starting today, you can pre-order the iPhone XR. Ryan Christoffel of MacStories collected some YouTube videos prepared by folks who got a sneak peak at the new iPhone.
- Jason Snell of Six Colors reviews the iPhone XS.
- Jim Dalrymple of The Loop reviews the iPhone XS.
- In an article at AppleWorld.Today, Bob LeVitus provides tips for using Shortcuts in iOS 12.
- Apple will soon release iOS 12.1, with support for new Emoji. A beta is already available, and many folks criticized Apple’s version of the bagel Emoji. Averting this disaster, Jason Snell of Six Colors reports that Apple will include an improved version of the bagel Emoji in iOS 12.
- Josh Ginter reviews the Apple Watch Series 4 in an article for The Sweet Setup, with a focus on style.
- Louisiana artist Matt Dawson tweets a version of a Halloween pumpkin that will be super scary for any iPhone owner.
- And finally, Apple did something different in announcing its next event. Instead of designing a single graphic to go along with the invitations sent to members of the press, Apple created multiple images. Each of them is a play on the Apple logo, but each is unique. You can see some of them on the page on the Apple website associated with the event (reload the page to see different versions) and one person on Twitter, @alixrezax, said that he found 370 different versions of the art. I look forward to reading at some point the story behind the creation of all of this art. Here are just a few of my favorites. How about them Apples!
