steveau

macgui said:

steveau said:

The review misses one very important fact: Apple Card is only available in the US, with neither Goldman Sachs nor Apple has yet disclosed when or if it will be available in other countries.

That's not important at all. Maybe Apple and G-S will offer it outside the US, maybe not. It's not as though Apple said it will be available outside the US.

Its important to me, and - I assume - to all of the other Australian, Canadian, NZ, UK, european, african and asian subscribers to this website.

I know it was mentioned in a earlier post that it will come to other countries sometime, it would be nice to know whether that position has or has not changed.

Japhey said:

tzeshan said:

i am curious. What are his contributions after leaving Apple decades ago? Giving advices to Apple? 

Also, why does he continually refer to Apple as “we”?  Is he currently connected to the company in any way, official or not?
And also, why does his beard look pink?

According to this report: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/steve-wozniak-still-on-apple-payroll-jokes-he-still-reports-to-jobs.html, the Woz is still on the payroll. Without him the Woz there would be no Apple. Without Steve Jobs there would be no Apple. It needed both of them. Also, his total net worth is reportedly around $100 million, so I'd rather listen to him than trollers with a net worth of much, much less than that.

JWSC said:

SpamSandwich said:

Shouldn’t all students have the Mark of the Beast on their forehead and embedded in their right hand by now? What happened to the Armageddon we were promised as kids? 

/s

It’s coming in 12 years.  Similar to fusion, the apocalypse will always be 12 years away.

Every properly conducted study since the 1970's gives our end date as a civilisation as 'around 2050'. Recent reports confirm that prediction, and current events don't give us much hope of a reprieve.

FileMakerFeller said:

I am really intrigued by what could happen with Claris going forward, especially after reading all the comments here. 

Agree. Lots of great ideas in all of the posts above. Personally, I find Pages and Numbers much less intuitive than Word and Excel (I am really sad to have to say that, but it's true). Menus and stuff everywhere, why can't we just have drop down menus and keyboard shortcuts, so we can find stuff quickly? Keynote is not so bad. But, what I really miss is the database - it was simple and easy to use and could easily handle up to around a thousand records, which is more than enough for most jobs around the home or office.

For those who want more Claris history see http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/clarisworks.php

In the early 90's as a director of a town planning department in a southern Sydney council, I "computerised" the department. To the great annoyance of the IT manager, I progressively installed a IIci for the senior draftswoman, a couple of LC 475's for the planners and a Powerbook 145 for me. Then added AppleTalk to network them up - ridiculously cheap and easy compared to the IBM XT world I was meant to be 'amazed by' - not! . I really p'd off the IT manager when I added an SNAps 5250 card to connect the IIci (or was it a Quadra by then?) to his beloved IBM AS/400 and a second monitor for the Quadra (people from other departments used to come and watch just to see the cursor arrow glide seamlessly between monitors). This increased our productivity through the roof. Awards and accolades for the team from everywhere. Of course ClarisWorks was our mainstay app, and I used it at home too. BTW, the training cost - zero. I taught them (with my hands very firmly clasped behind my back, so that I didn't touch the mouse) how to move the mouse, hover, click and double click. This took all of five minutes, then the training software on the LC did the rest. Within a day they were writing reports, creating databases, modifying images with Pagemaker (very handy for planners) and soon they graduated to ClarisCAD. Of course, as soon as I left, for a bigger role elsewhere, the IT manager swooped and sent them back to the IBM stone age.