This week, the huge CES conference took place in Las Vegas. Many electronics companies showed off technology that may be coming out later this year. Although Apple was not an exhibitor, one of the big themes was the number of TV manufacturers who will release new TVs with greatly improved compatibility with iOS, such as adding support for AirPlay and HomeKit. Samsung TVs will even have an iTunes app, and attorney Nilay Patel of The Verge discusses some of the questions that this raises. MacStories provided a good overview of many of the CES announcements, with an initial article by attorney John Voorhees and a second article by Ryan Christoffel. Also, Kentucky attorney Stephen Embry offers some thoughts on how some of the new technology announced at CES may affect lawyers by providing more evidence. And now, the news of note from the past week:
- Joseph Cox of Motherboard wrote a series of articles explaining how cellphone companies are selling the location of mobile phones to unsavory third parties. The carriers have responded by saying that they are ending this practice. Hopefully that is true.
- Drew Coffman of The Sweet Setup believes that the best two apps for taking notes on an iPad are Notability and GoodNotes. Coffman prefers Notability, which is an excellent app, but I enjoy using GoodNotes.
- Chance Miller of 9to5Mac reviews HomePass, an app that lets you keep all of your HomeKit setup codes in one place.
- If you use the Shortcuts app on your iPhone and you use Apple Music, you might be interested in this sophisticated and impressive shortcut by Federico Viticci of MacStories which allows you to see the songs added to your library each year which you listened to the most.
- Jon Fingas of Engadget reviews the upcoming Mophie Juice Pack access, an iPhone case with a battery for your iPhone which also lets you access the Lightning port.
- Nick Guy of Wirecutter recommends the best iPad Pro cases.
- Joe Rossignol of MacRumors interviews Reddit user Cedric M. who used sandpaper, dyes, and paint to make his Apple Pencil look like a real pencil. Fascinating, but don't try this at home.
- And finally, this fun video shows off some truly amazing and impressive iPad magic performed by Shinya Uchida: