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On-device AI-powered news reading app for the Apple ecosystem. This 2:20 mid-roll ad ran on Designed in California, aired Sep 23, 2026.

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  • Ad length: 2:20
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  • Audience type: Tech
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  • Episode name: 9: Apple's Mac OS Crisis: Who's NeXT? (Part 5)
  • Aired: Sep 23, 2026

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This episode of Designed in California is brought to you by Bulletin. Bulletin is made by Dominic Williams, who runs a one-person development studio called PixelFolio from Nova Scotia in Canada. His first Mac wasn't actually a Mac. Couldn't afford one. So, back in 2012, he ran Mac OS on a Hackintosh Dell laptop because it was the way he could learn to build iPhone apps cuz that's what he wanted to do. And Dominic shipped his first app back in 2018. And these days, he does something unusual and I think admirable. I really love this. Instead of starting every app from scratch, Dominic takes and finds well-made indie apps that were otherwise going to wind down and gives them a second life. Bulletin is one of those apps. Bulletin is a newsreader where you choose every source. It's RSS but with a really clean, simple interface that pays close attention to Apple's design guidelines. Bulletin organizes your feeds into categories you choose like technology, sports, or just about any you create yourself. It has a feature called Smart Summary that gives you a short summary of any article or an overview of an entire feed or category. Summaries cite the publication behind every point. So one tap just takes you into the story itself.

And when you read the full piece, it's a beautiful distraction-free experience with no clutter. I really like that it has an ability to rewrite an article's headline. If you want to get a quick view of something without any clickbait, you can just rewrite it. It's really cool. There's a read later list which syncs over iCloud so your news is ready for you on all your devices, iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Bulletin is on all of them. You can even read your stories in other languages with translation for full articles and summaries that run right on your device powered by Apple's translation framework, as well as Bulletin. Dominic makes Vinyls, an unapologetically retro Apple music player that spins your library on animated vinyl, and Globe Trotter, an app that turns your photo library into your complete travel record, showing you the countries you visited, the landmarks you've collected with no manual entry. Bulletin is free to download and available on the iPhone, the iPad, and Mac. So, you can get it on all your devices. Pay once for lifetime access at just $39.99. Or if you prefer a subscription, open the app and use the code DICA50 and you'll get half off your first year. That's DICA50. Our thanks to Bulletin by PixelFolio for their support of this show and relay.

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