davidmalcolm

Forget Pixelmator. If you've got a Mac and you're looking at graphic design software other than Photoshop you should be looking at Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. Photo is comparable to Photoshop and Designer is comparable to Illustrator (And they're working on Publisher which will be comparable to InDesign). The apps are cheap for what they do, don't come with a subscription, and having used both Pixelmator and Affinity Photo, Affinity is hands down a better app. Don't get me wrong, I like the guys behind Pixelmator and I wish them luck. But I'd much sooner push somebody towards Affinity's products.

Just to be clear, even if you have a personality as lousy as Andy Rubin's, you should be able to find someone to date who's career you can't negatively influence. If you can't do that then you're inherently abusive. His defence is that if she doesn't report to him it's fine. The problem is that Andy Rubin for whatever reason was highly influential in some circles and could nuke someone's career easily. And given what I've seen of him in interviews, he'd probably think he was doing the right thing if he screwed somebody over, because it would make him feel happy. I mean this is the same guy that ripped off the iPhone UI and pretended he didn't. This guy is an entitled prick who's head looks like a penis. I've known he was a grade A douche for years, and am not the least bit surprised he pressured some poor woman who was much lower on the food chain than him into dating and probably sex. I imagine a thief like Ruben probably isn't big on consent either.

The warrant doesn't have to make sense. The point of this is that law enforcement want to harass Apple. They think that by wasting their time and bad mouthing them in the media that they can put pressure on Apple to put all of us at risk. So that they can find out what motivated a crazy person to shoot up a church. (Fun fact, he was motivated to murder a bunch of people in part because your country is the only major developed country in the world that hasn't properly roped in the gun lobby. Your politicians are hopelessly irresponsible unless the rest of the developed world.)

I honestly don't understand how anyone can say that a $1000 smartphone is a UI nightmare just for having you swipe up instead of press a button. Now if this was an entry level device, sure the new UI paradigm could be problematic. But anybody who's willing to spend a grand on a new phone is probably going to care enough about it to already know that they're going to have to swipe up. And by the time Apple brings this down to their entry level offerings, the gesture will have been out there long enough that anyone who's halfway tech savvy will have seen it and can educate their friends who are clueless.

I hadn't though of introducing macOS on A-series chips by using the Mac mini before, I always thought the first one was going to be the MacBook. But now that I think about it, I can see them introducing both at once. A high end Mac Pro that's modular and a bit boxy, expandable and expensive. And then release the Mac mini along with the MacBook as A series powered devices that can run apps from the Mac App store or others that are compiled for them insanely easily. (I really hope they don't use the A series processors as an excuse to lock down apps to app store purchased ones. It's already a PITA to install a lot of apps these days.)