Alexa, coming to a Smartwatch near you!

Amazon is pushing to make it easier for gadget manufactures to access Alexa and Google Services.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/05/technology/alexa-headphones-smartwatches/index.html

Keeping up with Xcode 9

Brian Moakley from raywenderlich.com provides informative two videos on what is new with Xcode 9. 

https://videos.raywenderlich.com/courses/111-what-s-new-in-xcode-9/lessons/1

Blast from the Past, Apple will release original Lisa code

I can say I was one of handful of engineers assigned to code the Lisa machine (for a never released terminal product). I hope Apple releases better documentation than I got!

https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/27/apple-lisa-code-to-be-available-in-2018/

Watch MacVoice webcast to keep up to date on the Mac!

Apple User Group expert Chuck Joiner has been interviewing the Mac world since 2001, 

http://www.macvoices.com

And the holiday winner is… Apple!

44% of new device activation for Christmas were iPhones & iPads.  Samsung only had 26%, with less brands in single digit.  That is a commanding lead.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/27/flurry-iphone-activation-data/

How the Game Industry is Gaming Addicted Players.

A short piece on how mobile games make money of small percentage of users.

http://theweek.com/articles/731592/how-video-game-industry-tricks-players-money

Swift Talk, A weekly video series

For 80+ weeks, ObjC has been doing a weekly video show on different elements of Swift.  All sorted by topic with links to transcripts & related articles & code snippets. Excellent job guys!

https://talk.objc.io