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  • How to increase your editing options in Photos for macOS by using app extensions

    cincyteecincytee
    Mike Wuerthele said:
    cincytee said:
    So no favorite, most surprising or most installed extension apps? Two minutes of my life I'll never get back....
    We opted for education, minus sensational headlining.

    And, as a reminder, because you know something, doesn't mean that there isn't somebody right now trying to figure out how to do that thing. AI is for everybody.
    I don't mind the basic information you presented at all. In fact, I completely agree with you about the value of helping to get newer macOS users up to speed — or teaching old dogcows new tricks. An example or a recommendation or two, though, would have rounded this piece out nicely ... and would help exactly the same people you're teaching about the basic function.
    watto_cobra

  • Photos: Apple's secretive race for new Silicon Valley office space

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    DanielEran said:
    Companies operate where talent is. People making the most noise about "leaving California" are often retired investors going to live in a big house somewhere cheap. They don't contribute toward the workforce. 

    If it were more efficient and productive to have teams of people working at their homes in cheap places to live, successful companies would be doing that.

    Instead, Apple (and lots of other companies) set up offices in places where there is already activity going on, and work to recruit competing talent away to join their company. That's why Apple has offices in Canada next to Blackberry, etc.
    Lots of truth to this, Daniel, but 1) the labor market is more flexible than that, i.e., people will follow quality jobs to a non-traditional locale, and 2) though it is clearly not yet as concentrated a supply, there are a lot of talented folks in the rest of the country, and many of them would be happy to home in on an Apple campus in their half of the country — especially one that didn't come with the liabilities of California (at least Silicon Valley) life.
    jasenj1

  • Photos: Apple's secretive race for new Silicon Valley office space

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    jasenj1 said:
    As a shareholder, that almost borders on poor use of Apple's money. High real estate cost + high housing costs = higher salaries = less profit. Put a campus somewhere nice, but cheaper to live like NC or Atlanta.
    ... or Pittsburgh or Cincinnati or Detroit or St. Louis or Minneapolis or Nashville. There are plenty of big cities with solid engineering schools to supply some talent that would welcome Apple's investment instead of wringing hands about more congestion. Footnote to tech world: You can buy a nice four-bedroom suburban house in real America for $200K. 
    jasenj1

  • NYT reporter uses megaphone to decry 'slow death' of 5-year-old iPad mini running iOS 9, a...

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    Mike Wuerthele said:
    randyl said:
    I wiped my older iPad and now I can't even download the last version of the apps that worked with 9.x.
    The App Store does allow you to install the last version that works on the installed operating system. I mentioned this in the article.
    I, too, have come across apps that insist they must have iOS 10 to install. In addition, I've encountered news apps whose developers brick their old versions to encourage updating. That's fine ... for those who can update. I've worked in the content management systems, and nothing has changed on the back end; they just want to force users to update. Instead, they make my device less useful, cost me content and them users. When enough places do that, they force devices into obsolescence that has no technical (hardware or system software) foundation.
    mac_128airnerd

  • Apple-owned FileMaker launches ad campaign featuring actors from TV show 'The Office'

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    I've never understood Apple's rationale for keeping only FileMaker as a standalone software subsidiary. One would think Apple's business productivity tools (and their customer acceptance) would be better served by operating (and developing products) together, whether as a subsidiary or as a unified internal division. I think the red-headed stepchild approach to FileMaker has hurt it in the market, spiffy v16 or no.
    cornchip