Apple announced earnings this last Monday, and is currently trading around or above its all-time high share price. As it write this, it's at $105.22, the equivalent of $736.54 before its 1:7 split. There were three big announcements this past week that I wanted to highlight for you.
First, Apple's 'new' TestFlight service is now available, and will let you invite up to 1,000 beta users to test out your apps without having to fight with provisioning profiles or UDIDs. This is, for me, one of the biggest new features in iOS 8. I've spent six years of my life fighting with Ad Hoc builds, and I cannot wait for that to be over.
Second, Twitter's inaugural Flight conference happened in San Francisco last Wednesday. Announced at Flight was Twitter Fabric, a collection of APIs that cover everything from crash reporting to advertising to single sign-on with their phone number, which I think is—by far—the biggest announcement of the bunch. This service, Digits, will be extended to web login soon, too, which will make a good thing that much better.
Last, Christian Bale is hanging up his cowl to play Steve Jobs. I, for one, am kind of shocked at how much of a dead-ringer he is for Jobs.
Best,
Aaron
What We're Reading
- This is Tim: Apple’s CEO answers the analysts
- Apple on Hamburger Menus
- Mysterious Other
- TestFlight
- Fabric: Why Developers Can Trust Twitter Won’t Screw Them This Time
- 'The Social Network' writer confirms Christian Bale will play Steve Jobs in new film
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