It seems there’s no consistency in how developers define their bundle IDs. Even Apple application IDs¹ are not consistent. This makes sense considering that once you define the ID, you can’t change it. So think carefully.

I would hope I can come up with a guideline. I think there are 4 possible scenarios.

1. Display name “Podcasts”. Bundle ID com.apple.podcasts
2. Display name “TextEdit”. Bundle ID com.apple.TextEdit
3. Display name “Voice Memos”. Bundle ID com.apple.VoiceMemos
4. Display name “iMovie”. Bundle ID com.apple.iMovie

We can come up with a single rule. Use lowercase, unless, your app has at least one capital letter in its name and it’s not the first letter.

We have shipped LinkEdit 1.2 and Caffeine++ 2.5.4. LinkEdit took an especially long time, but this work needed to be done for a better foundation to build upon. We still didn’t do everything we wanted, but the hardest piece of work is done. Had to deal with lots of refactoring and regressions, but the code is so much smaller and safer now.

In computer typography, EM DASH is often replaced with FIGURE DASH, and it is always sad to look upon. Current Music app has many flaws — at least the typography is not lazy.

Today the VR market is a little niche in the big gaming market. Most people look at VR as a toy.

I watched 16 minutes Apple Lisa ad from 1983 on YouTube, and it didn’t feel like an ad, it’s more of a technical demo. What I found interesting is that the ad is made for businesses to start using the Lisa at a workplace. The Lisa was sold as a productivity machine. It changed everything. Adi Robertson from the Verge wrote a nice article about it. At that time most PC users looked at GUI as something only applicable for gaming, and something slower and inferior to command-line interfaces.¹ A toy-like.

The question is, can Apple do it again, can Apple Vision Pro change how we work?

Useful applications for Apple Vision Pro is something I’ve been spontaneously daydreaming¹ about since it introduction. I find myself thinking about the headset when at my desk, in the forest and other places. This idea of the next frontier in computing is powerful. Running my own small productivity side business I wrote the slogan.

Building Applications for the Mac and Beyond.

By “Beyond” I was referring to iOS and its children. But also leaving space for something different, knowing Apple working on a new platform. I can see the puck. Now I want to get moving.