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                     LittleBITS: Experimenting with AppBITS

   Adam Engst

   Putting together this week's issue of TidBITS was a bit of a bummer
   since I had to write about AnandTech shutting down (see '[1]AnandTech
   Ceases Publication, Maintains Archives and Forums,' 31 August 2024) and
   MakeMusic stopping development on Finale (see '[2]Finale's Finale,' 31
   August 2024), both after decades of being fixtures in their respective
   niches. Simultaneously, with Agen Schmitz on vacation for a few weeks,
   I've been trawling MacUpdate for updates to the apps we track in the
   [3]Watchlist, and I was intrigued by a few of the other apps I saw. Not
   because I personally had any use for them but because I thought, 'Well,
   that's a neat idea!'

   Therefore, as an antidote to the negative news that feels necessary to
   cover, I've decided to start writing capsule descriptions of Mac and
   iOS apps that catch my fancy. These won't be apps I can recommend from
   extensive personal experience'such apps would merit more in-depth
   coverage'but might interest you. I also remember liking the sidebar
   collections of apps that would often appear in the Mac magazines of
   yesteryear, partly because the short left me wanting to learn more in
   ways that a full-fledged review wouldn't.

   Speaking of the Watchlist, we probably won't continue to track updates
   to most of these apps unless they work their way into our everyday use
   or otherwise turn out to be important aspects of the Mac experience.

   So take a look at '[4]AppBITS: Stapler Opens Multiple Apps, Documents,
   and Folders' (2 September 2024), and let me know what you think of the
   idea in the comments here.

References

   1. https://tidbits.com/2024/08/31/anandtech-ceases-publication-maintains-archives-and-forums/
   2. https://tidbits.com/2024/08/31/finales-finale/
   3. https://tidbits.com/watchlist/
   4. https://tidbits.com/2024/09/02/appbits-stapler-opens-multiple-apps-documents-and-folders/

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