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mcguiggan.org — About

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I’m Neil. I’m passionate about creating great products that have a positive impact on people’s daily lives. A couple of quotes stand out to me:. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Apple’s 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we found it. From Apple’s Press Releases. If you want to get in touch, find me on Twitter @neilmcguiggan. Or send me an email: neil at this domain.

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mcguiggan.org — Albums I'm Listening To

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Albums I'm Listening To. Wednesday, 24 June 2015. I love music. I’m constantly wearing headphones, and if someone took away my Spotify subscription I’m not sure what I’d do. So I thought I’d share what I’m listening to at the moment. Anyway, here are the six albums that I’ve listened to most recently on Spotify. Old Souls , by Deaf Havana. Like they bottled my 2005. I especially like Everybody’s Dancing And I Want To Die and Night Drives . From Under the Cork Tree , by Fall Out Boy. The Devil and God Are...

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mcguiggan.org — Arran Photo Journal

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Thursday, 25 June 2015. Last Saturday I went to the Isle of Arran. Off the coast of Ayrshire in Scotland. I took a load of photos and when I came back, I picked out some of the better ones and used VSCOcam’s photo journal feature to tell the story of my trip. This is the result. Made in Ayrshire and London.

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mcguiggan.org — The Importance of Product Marketing

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The Importance of Product Marketing. Tuesday, 21 July 2015. I should be clear about this up front. This post is a hypothesis. I’m writing about how to create a business out of making software, but as of this moment I’ve never been actively involved in that business. While I’ve written software professionally for a few years, I’ve never had to rely on directly selling apps to the general public in exchange for money. A huge number of successful. Amounts of money, and brought in a lot of it for the people ...

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mcguiggan.org — The Value of An Idea

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The Value of An Idea. Monday, 13 July 2015. I’m currently reading Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli. As you’d probably guess from the title, it’s a biography of Steve Jobs, although as such it also covers parts of the history of the computing industry in general. I found one part that talks about Microsoft’s 1990s and 2000s dominance particularly interesting. Microsoft is far from gone, but Apple and Google power those billions of devices that Bill Gates foresaw. While they were...

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mcguiggan.org — iPad Multitasking in iOS 9

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IPad Multitasking in iOS 9. Saturday, 13 June 2015. I’m much more optimistic about the future of the iPad now. Apple is treating it as more than just a blown up iPhone and is adding more advanced, iPad-only features with which we can complete more complex tasks. Split View multitasking in iOS 9 - image from sixcolors.com. The new Slide Over multitasking in iOS 9. Image from macstories.net. Or, if I’m planning my day with Todoist, reading an article in Instapaper or playing a game such as Monument Valley.

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mcguiggan.org — Teleportation

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Friday, 24 April 2015. The world is getting smaller. It’s becoming increasingly common to use tools like iMessage. To communicate with friends and colleagues in the same building, and on the other side of the planet. Using Amazon and online supermarkets. Amazon is testing out delivery drones. And is aiming at deliveries in 30 minutes or less. We even have telepresence robots. Which are rudimental right now, but could be developed into very sophisticated machines. Made in Ayrshire and London.

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mcguiggan.org — Who Are You?

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Monday, 27 July 2015. We are defined as people not by what we are obliged to do, but by what we choose to do. Everything from dropping your spare change in a charity collection to donating a kidney to a complete stranger is a choice that defines who you are. Choosing to give up your time to volunteer with the Samaritans, or to help pack food parcels, is a choice that defines who you are. Choosing to freeze public sector pay. While accepting your own substantial pay rise. Made in Ayrshire and London.