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Tim Cook: iPhone manufacturing shortfall main reason for earnings miss
There are literally many articles citing that Apple has having delays with iPhones due to COVID policies.
That's expected.
But if people gonna poke fun of Apple and exclaimed, "Apple is doomed!" they're idiots.
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Inside Apple Third Street Promenade: a luxe temple in SoCal
I used to work at the Promenade back in middle of 1990's. I do definitely remember the Borders bookstore as I used to go there. So sad to see many bookstores closed due to the abundance of ebooks.
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Satechi's new Pro Hub Slim adds seven ports to MacBooks
This is why I think MacBooks shouldn't have any ports but USB-Cs. USB-Cs are capable of outputting all kinds of devices with a simple dongle.
Apple ignored the fundamental point of minimalism and caved in to unwarranted criticisms about missing ports (HDMI, MagSafe, etc)
Now, the new MBs look horrible with unsightly ports.
I can see it leaving the SD slot alone as it does have a clean slit opening but the design of HDMI port is very jarring and deserves to be banished. The MagSafe port is unsightly too. Why???? There are USB devices that can act as MagSafe and if they really need that, they can add it but for most people, they don't need it.
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Macintosh launched on Jan 24, 1984 and changed the world -- eventually
One button mouse made sense when the GUI was much rudimentary.nht said:Raskin’s original vision of the Mac sucked. It would have been text based with no mouse and no GUI.
The Canon CAT was his vision and lacked GUI and mouse. He may have been to Xerox PARC first but completely rejected everything they learned.
The one button mouse was obviously the wrong choice given that everyone can keep track of what two buttons do...IF it was his contribution, and some folks dispute that, it was another poor one.
Raskin also had a tendency to “embellish” his accomplishments. He, as Andy once commented, was NOT the father of the mac but it’s strange uncle...one with a nearsighted vision of where computing would go.
He’s another example of an engineer under Jobs that did well at Apple and never did anything really relevant again after...and IMHO his primary contribution to the Max was hiring Atkinson and promoting Hertzfeld from service to development.
But over time as GUI became complex, there's a strong need for a secondary button especially for context menus.
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Right-to-repair advocate urges Apple to let resellers bypass security protocols
"carcinogenic dust" is hilarious. Seriously? All electronic devices have carcinogenic chemicals but they aren't necessary dangerous if they're not exposed and when you shred, you have to do it in a controlled environment and wear masks/googles.
