July 22, 2018

Essential Apple Podcast 97: An interview with Serif Affinity

1 hour 12 minutes

Recorded 19th July 2018

Mark is back to join me to interview Ashley Hewson, CEO of Serif Affinity and we talk about Serif, Designer for iPad, the Affinty apps, winning awards, the Publisher Beta, developing for iPad, Metal acceleration and a whole lot more.

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On this week’s show:

An interview with Serif Affinity

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