Eric_WVGG

Apple should have gotten sued like mad over the Think Different campaign.

It would be illegal for a company to make commercials featuring Tom Cruise without first reaching an agreement with him. It's illegal to use the likenesses of Elvis Presley or Marilyn Monroe without reaching an agreement with their estates. Someone tried to cop on the Beastie Boys recently and the surviving members went nuts. 

Doesn't matter if they're "paying tribute" — featuring John Lennon and Martin Luther King in an advertisement is weird and creepy. The campaign confirmed many anti-Apple biases of the company being conceited and hollow. Twenty years later, they're still combatting that image.

That said… the only truly great ad they've made in years was the Spike Jones HomePod bit.

I dunno why this still needs to be pointed out, but you can remap the mostly-useless Caps Lock to ESC, it’s built right into the OS.

Worth noting that the first iPod used FireWire. This had the unintended consequence of making it the most affordable, high speed portable hard drive on the market; Steve Jackson’s crew used them to ferry Lord of the Rings footage from New Zealand to Hollywood. 

Not surprising. Even the Airport routers ran some sort of variant of Darwin. One could make a fuzzy case for that being a “stripped down iOS.”

If the thing needs to be smart enough to reorient three magnetic fields, it requires programming and software tools, where would one expect that to come from?

If Automator could do Swift, this cited sample…

tell application "System Events"
  tell appearance preferences  
    set dark mode to not dark mode  
  end tell
end tell

would read something like…

let systemPreferences = Application("System Preferences")
systemPreferences.set(\.darkMode, !systemPreferences.darkMode)

some pedant can ding me for systemPreferences being an optional… point is, there would be a correct, unambiguous way to say this.