Apple just bought Texture, the all-you-can-read magazine app. But what does that mean for current Texture users (including on Android) and for Apple News? In the age of fake news, extremist click-bait, bots, and bubbles, will anyone really care about trusted sources and sustainable publishing? And how much does Apple really care, given neither News nor Texture are available in more than half-a-handful of countries?

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It’s not all roses in the walled garden, especially for independent developers. But there is hope.

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The ability to create native apps for iPhone was the turning point that changed the industry — and the entire world.

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SiriOS is the platform of the future but how does Apple get there?

From today's criticism to tomorrow's Siri operating system, Apple is best positioned make AI deeply personal, deeply integrated, incredibly consistent, fully mesh networked, and — eventually — into a full-fledged platform for the future.

With excerpts from Carolina Milanesi, Lia Napolitano, Brian Roemelle, and Ben Bajarin.

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Take two of the world’s best designers  — Brad Ellis and Clarko — give them three of the world’s most popular weather apps, and this is what you get.

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Rumor has it, Apple will be holding a March Event again this year. Industry analyst Ben Bejarin returns to the show to discuss what we might see and when, from iPads, to iPhones, to Macs, and more.

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• Tech.pinions
• Apple March 2018 Event Rumors: iPads, SEs, AirPower, and more!

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Next week, Apple will begin moving Chinese iCloud accounts to Chinese servers owned by a Chinese company.

It's Chinese law. But it's also hugely controversial, especially among those who consider it a betrayal of Apple's longstanding devotion to security and privacy. So, what's going on?

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Confession: After the Life and Death of Twitter episode, the recorders kept rolling and all the big brains shared their thoughts on the rumored "Marzipan" iOS and macOS cross-development platform. Christina Warren of Microsoft joins to add context to everyone's hopes, dreams... and fears.

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• Loren Brichter - @lorenb
• John Gruber - @gruber
• Paul Haddad - @tapbot_paul
• Craig Hockenberry - @chockenberry
• Ben Sandofsky - @sandofsky
• Greg Pierce - @agiletortoise
• Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad & Mac Apps to Create One User Experience
• Rocket
• Channel 9

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Twitter for Mac is dead. Starved to death, really. John Gruber of Daring Fireball and some surprise guests chat about how it all got started, what went wrong, and where we go from here.

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• Daring Fireball

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iPhone photography took a huge leap forward when iOS gained the ability to shoot in RAW. Sebastiaan de With, the designer of the iPhone camera app, Halide, explains how to shoot in RAW and make it look great.

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• Sebastiaan De With on Twitter
• Ben Sandofsky on Twitter
• Halide
• Halide on Instagram
• The Power of RAW on iPhone, Part 1: Shooting RAW
• The Power of RAW on iPhone, Part 2: Editing RAW

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