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Go to the address in Apple Maps and use Look Around to see the before pictures. Quite interesting. Just down the street Urban Outfitters took over another old theater, the Rialto.

I’m not critical of Apple for this. Generally, when Apple adds a feature it is to a core feature set. The clipboard has been around forever and so have ideas about improving it. If anything, I’m surprised it took Apple this long to add even this minimal functionality. 

Also, I suspect this doesn’t affect pro users as much as average users. I know about clipboard managers but I’m not an intensive enough user to look into getting one. However, now that it is part of the OS I might use it once a month or so.

Did Google "Sherlock" Apple when they developed Android as a copy of iOS?

I’m old so I started with small computers that probably had less power than is in my mouse or Apple Pencil. I just got an M4 Max Mac Studio and it is beyond awesome. Kudos to everyone at Apple, especially to Mr. Srouji’s group.

I really wonder what happed to Intel. It is amazing to see a company own the market and then fritter it away through bad decisions. I think part of it was that they were wedded to high clock speeds, all else be damned, so they lost big time on power consumption. 

I also heard some rumors that a highly placed exec pushed hard for some specific process recipe that never panned out and that cost them several years of lead time. Incredible. 

This really brings to mind Clayton Christensen’s ideas about the attacker’s advantage.

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lowededwookie said:

But 28% means the Apple Watch is still accurate 73% of the time.

Despite the wording in the article, I don't think this is what it means. I think it means something closer to it's off by an average of 28%, meaning it may never be entirely accurate, but could, for a crude example, vary from being off by 20%-36%. In any case, as a rough estimate, it's probably fine and as someone else pointed out above, in the end, the scale will tell you what you need to know.

I suspect that if they tracked one person it would be consistently off the same amount (either too high or too low). As a physicist I deal with measurements all the time. Noisy measurements are better than no measurements. 

I have my calorie target set to a certain value. I don’t much care what the number is. I just like to know that I’m reaching roughly the same level when I work out. I set it high enough that I have to strain a bit to achieve it.

I upgraded my 2019 iMac i9 to almost the same configuration as Gallagher did. My work flow is easier but occasionally I have some heavy lifting to do. I am amazed at how powerful this is. The Affinity apps are great but took a while to load and were a little balky on the Intel i9. Now they load really fast and work like butter. After decades of struggling with slow computers and limited storage this is really a dream machine. 

I added a USB-A dock for a number of small accessories I use off and on. I got a Mac Studio display which has fairly nice speakers.

This setup may seem expensive but that is only because every other computer has become so much less expensive. In the year 2000 I got a Power Mac and LCD display for about $6,000. According to inflation calculator that would be ~$11,000 today. 

Apple is in a tough spot with AI. For some new entrant they can show off some whiz bang demo and if it gets it right the pundits cheer. If there are some misses they get ignored.

Apple is not a new entrant. Apple has well over a billion users who trust Apple, a lot. Parents hand their kids iPads with all sorts of kids games trusting that this is OK. If an iPad with AI just once started showing children something inappropriate that would be all over the news.

On the other hand, Apple is famous and has a number of successes to point to so people expect a lot of them.

The next version of macOS does contain a chatbot, sort of. Gary at MacMost posted a video showing how to use Shortcuts to make a chatbot that queried either the completely on-device AI, Apple’s own AppleAI on Apple servers, or ChatGPT. Apparently, macOS ships with ~4GB of data needed for the on-device AI to call on.

The point is not if an iPad can replace all old PCs, but can it replace many. To that I say yes, cautiously. If you simply try to replicate the same applications, forms and practices as before it will be hard. If you rebuild your business based on the strengths of the iPad then it should be easy. Most business people don't run PS or Autocad or Xcode. If you have access to information via a database program such as FileMaker, a CRM such as SalesForce, email, a browser a simple Office suite such as iWork you have covered well over half of what people do with older PCs. Lots of people in field sales, field service, training and applications, order entry, phone support, etc. don't use high end software. The biggest problem I see is legacy software that only runs on Windows, sometimes only XP. Lots of business software is available through apps or Safari (SAP, Concur, SalesForce, etc.) but what to do about some of the little utilities that are anchored in Windows? Maybe fast networks and VNC will come to the rescue?