r/Apple: Unofficial Apple Community

Every week there are so many "articles" that I can only classify as ads or spam. They are unrelated to Apple news or rumors and are just straight up "best deals on usb-hubs for Macs on Amazon. Click these links". Or "Lowest ever price on Anker products" or "CleanMyMac, X percent off for MR readers" etc. Fair enough, many of the Amazon affiliate links posts are about Apple products with a 5-10% discount, but come on, is this a blog about Apple news and rumors or mostly a "great deals"-website?

Much of Macrumors' content the last year or two, has very little value to any reader who's interested in the world of Apple. You have to scroll past so many ads disguised as articles and there are so many lazy articles to, like the beta-release-articles.

I get it, clicks generate ad revenue, but why is MR writing a new blog post about every single new beta-release? "Apple has release a new Apple TV beta" is one article. "HomePod receives new x.x.x beta x" is another. macOS gets a new beta x.x.x. beta x" is a third "article". And every one of them has the same copy-paste content from the myriad of similar articles from prevous new-beta-posts: "we dont yet know whats new in this release but we can expect improvements and bug fixes and under the hood changes". Why not just write one post and put all the newly released beta numbers in that? Macrumors has become so trashy and lazy.

Sorry for ranting, but the Macrumors I used to love and be excited about exists no more. It's so much about pushing deals, affiliate links and generating as many clicks as possible by churning out lazy articles. I tried writing this on MR forum for a fruitful discussion and hopefully a change of course, but the moderators mercilessly suspended me. lol.

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I made a power-user stickies & productivity app: Floaters (old.reddit.com)

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I spend a lot of time jotting down notes and constantly referencing them while working. This usually resulted in clicking through growing piles of disorganized TextEdit windows. I really wanted a keyboard-first stickies app that could be used instantly from any other app. Which is why I created Floaters.

At its simplest, Floaters is a notes app that you can activate, control, and hide via keyboard while in any app. It’s well suited for temporary (scratchpad) notes, as well as permanent (saved) notes. It lets you organize & group floaters to avoid window overload.

But there ended up being many more things worth repeatedly accessing while working. So Floaters grew into more of a productivity dashboard.

It’s currently free during the beta period and already has a rich set of features:

Advanced window management & placement capabilities
Tags for searching and grouping notes
Web floaters for accessing specific webpages via keyboard shortcuts
Local file & folder links
Inline Images and “picture mode”
In-app & global keyboard shortcuts for accessing specific notes/tags/groups
Task lists and consolidated totals
Customizability for pretty much everything
Keyboard control for pretty much everything
Copy to markdown

If you have a chance to check it out, I’d love to hear any feedback. Thanks!

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Even Apple wasn’t able to make VR headsets mainstream in 2024 (www.theverge.com)

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Apple Card offering rare sign up bonuses for a limited time: up to $300 (9to5mac.com)

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Apple Stops Selling iPhone 14 and iPhone SE in More EU Countries (www.macrumors.com)

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Apple Japan website started New Year sale campaign in Japan (www.apple.com)

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In Japan Hatsuuri (New year sale)is very big thing. Apple storeJapan do New year sale every year. It’s very good deal

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Why the DRC sued Apple over 'conflict minerals' (www.dw.com)

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