Why AirTags make great stocking stuffers

December 22, 2022

Happy holidays everybody!

Thanks for sticking with Cult of Mac this year.

Next year promises to be a very exciting year in the Apple universe.

There's lots of new hardware coming, and we might even get a brand-new computing platform that sits on your face!

This newsletter might a little sporadic in the coming days, but we'll be back in action early next week (hangover willing).

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

If you’re looking for a last-minute gift for an Apple fan in your life, there’s one surprisingly simple answer: Get them an AirTag. Or a bunch of them. For a variety of reasons, AirTags — Apple’s Mentos-shaped tracking tags that help users quickly locate lost items — make the ultimate stocking stuffer for anybody in the Apple ecosystem.

It’s almost Christmas, and Hanukkah is already in full swing. And the Apple store is helping last-minute shoppers with free two-hour delivery of some items. You can literally order something on Christmas Eve and have it under the tree before Santa arrives, at no charge.

Apple’s year-long effort to broadcast pro football games on Sunday nights have come to an end. The Mac-maker was reportedly in negotiations for the rights to NFL Sunday Ticket, but was outbid by Google’s YouTube TV.

There are plenty of reasons to want to fake your GPS location on your iPhone or iPad (like playing Pokémon Go without having to do any walking). And MockGo, an easy-to-use GPS location spoofer from our friends at Foneazy, can make it happen — without jailbreaking your device. Cult of Mac readers can get a special 20% discount on MockGo. See how it works (and get the discount).

With iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2 and macOS Ventura 13.1, Apple introduced a new architecture for the Home app. Following random problems reported by early adopters, the company pulled the upgrade option.

Blackmagic Design just introduced the promised iPad version of it’s DaVinci Resolve professional video editing application. Beyond editing, it also handles color correction. The software is available for download now from the App Store.

The Christmas season is in full swing and there’s good news for fans of the Peanuts holiday specials. Apple has made the holiday classic A Charlie Brown Christmas available for everyone to stream for free, whether they’re an Apple TV+ subscriber or not. That gives everyone the opportunity to watch Linus teach his friends what Christmas is all about.

Even if you’re not worrying about giving gifts that must arrive by a certain deadline, mid-to-late December is a great time to take advantage of holidays sales. And right now you can get a great deal on a handy SwitchEasy 4-in-1 MagPower Charging Stand that’ll keep your gadgets going.

On December 22, 2013, Apple announced a deal with China Mobile to bring the iPhone to the world's largest telecom company.

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"In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service." -- Steve Jobs, 2000.

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