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  • Mac Pro's lessons learned will trickle down to all 'Pro' products, says project lead

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    jumpcutter said:
    No one asked for a 6K monitor anyway. 
    I did, and more! In 2015 I wrote Phil Schiller asking for an 10K display: sufficient for 8k images plus palettes, toolbars, and windowing. (I also asked for “it to work with a VESA mount or a standard base”, and Apple delivered beautifully!) 

    In March of 2000 I purchased the original Cinema Display, an outlay of $4,000, and reaped vastly increased productivity. Users of the Apple’s 6K Pro Display XDR will reap a similar harvest. $4,000 in 2000 works out to $5,900+ in 2019; come this fall it should be almost exactly equal to a $4,999 display and a $1,000 stand! :-)

    In time, with Thunderbolt 4, larger “Retina” displays and higher frame rates on 6K will likely become available, and if so, then I’ll be cheering!

    (I work with maps and 10,000x10,000 pixel film scans (56mmx56mm), and with any luck Hasselblad will release a 100+ megapixel square format camera).
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  • Apple's Tim Cook talks education, says he wouldn't want his nephew using social media

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    Latko said:
    I don't see a single reason why Cook - a father without kids - could have the necessary experience, idea or insight about how I should raise my kids.…
    Mr. Cook accrues insight through paying attention to those he quietly admires, just like I do, and you, I presume, too:
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    Even Silicon Valley parents who work for social media companies tell me that they send their children to technology-free schools in the hope that this will give their children greater emotional and intellectual range. Many were surprised to learn that Steve Jobs did not encourage his own children’s use of iPads or iPhones. His biographer reports that in Jobs’s family, the focus was on conversation: “Every evening Steve made a point of having dinner at the big long table in their kitchen, discussing books and history and a variety of things. No one ever pulled out an iPad or computer.” Our technological mandarins don’t always live the life they build for others. They go to vacation spots deemed “device-free” (that don’t allow phones, tablets, or laptops). This means that America has curious new digital divides. In our use of media, there are the haves and have-nots. And then there are those who have-so-much-that-they-know-when-to-put-it-away. 

    Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age (New York: Penguin, 2015), 55.
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