sunman42

Too bad Brigitte Helm isn’t available.

hmlongco said:

Nice, but whatever happened to the tap to transmit contact information feature?

I remember transferring "business cards" between Palm Pilots over IR. Much more sanitary. ;-)

22july2013 said:

I've been 100% all-in with Apple for 20+ years, but I must admit I'm getting tempted to consider Microsoft's Game Pass. And that might mean I'll have to buy either an Xbox or a Windows OS. So if someone like me is thinking of moving away from Apple, that can't be a good sign for Apple's future.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Most Mac (don't know about iPhone or Apple Watch or Apple TV or iPad) owners don't play a lot of games.

Too bad it's Microsoft and not Apple that's buying ABK.

seanj said:

A busybody discovers that a democratic nation has an intelligence agency to protect it. I’d suggest any democracy lacking one would be incompetently complacent, and probably non-existent too. 

Only paranoid conspiracy theorists freak out over this kind of thing.

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.”

      — Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Apple's "original portable" was the Portable, which was not a particularly accurate name, given its ~ 16 lb. weight. If you were schlepping around an additional land anchor, er, battery, it was close to 20 lb. We were relieved when the first PowerBook 1xx's were released two years later: 9 lb. lighter.