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  • 'Star Wars' director Rian Johnson says Apple won't let bad guys in movies use iPhones

    jpellinojpellino
    IIRC this was also the case in the TV series "24", the good guys had Macs, the bad guys had WinTel.    
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  • 'AirPods Pro Lite' allegedly very close to production

    jpellinojpellino
    Please just make one model that works and fits very well.  Fewer SKUs saves cost, you can price them right.  

    iPad Air needs to go, too.  


    caladanian

  • Larry Tesler, who showed Steve Jobs around Xerox PARC, dies aged 74

    jpellinojpellino
    He will be missed, and he has quite an under-the-radar legacy.  I ran an external research site for ATG while Larry was there.  Very, very creative bunch, willing to find out what works and what doesn't rather than cram features into an app.  His team also developed Cocoa ("java for kids" that needed a name change after the Cocoa API) that would become StageCast, a programming environment that presaged the coding model for Scratch, Blockly, Tynker, Mindstorms, etc.  
    MacQcBeatsMacProdmitryrogovviclauyycmariowinco

  • Macintosh launched on Jan 24, 1984 and changed the world -- eventually

    jpellinojpellino
    The Mac was/is the made-available version of ideas and devices that go back to Doug Englebart, PARC, and the extensive experience Apple already had in their computing market that was significantly involved in the home and education sectors.  That gives you a lot of info about what "plain old people" will use.  

    The logical extension of the Mac concept is approachable, user-focused computing,  the logical extension of a text-based computer would not be embraced to the same extent.  Jef Raskin was a very skilled person, he was interested in using some of the novel interface ideas from some of the interface innovations, but ultimately they relied on learning a lot of memorized things.  With the Mac-led GUI, your choices were made more clear, visually accessible, and there was less memorization needed.  Some of that is being lost in the ornate nature of many apps, while I can forgive Blender for needing a lot of moving parts (sorry!) I believe at one time MS Word, even in GUI, had 1,100 or so functions.  
    jony0FileMakerFeller

  • Apple Mac mini vs Intel NUC -- the lightweights spar

    jpellinojpellino
    NUC running Ubuntu would be a very solid solution.  When I had drive issues on a previous MacBook (pre-iPad days), I had Ubuntu running off a thumb drive on the Mac while I sorted out the drive replacement.  Heck, there are days when I live off the Raspberry Pi that I periodically forget is screwed to the back of my TV...

    I'm still Mac every day because of network / mdm duties and the iOS macOS integrated ecosystem.  
    watto_cobra