This tweet was mildly infuriating – https://twitter.com/somospostpc/status/1041018921279741952?s=21 Comparing a phone to a notebook computer, a locked down walled garden compared to an open desktop computing environment, a 6.5” display versus a 13”, a fake keyboard versus a real one, I/O versus no I/O and on and on. There is no comparison to be made between a …
Archives
Technology: The Pure iOS Project
How many people are only running iOS in its purest form without any local applications created by companies that aren’t Apple? I’m down to 5 non-Apple applications. I think I’m going to take the plunge to eliminate all 3rd party applications from my iPhone. Why? Big-data exists because of us. We’re contributing to this massive …
Linked: The only two 2018 iPhone Articles worth reading
Go to Apple.com and check out what’s new then read these two articles: Lasts Longer + https://stratechery.com/2018/the-iphone-franchise/ —— These were published a day after the event. There’s value in content like this, not in breaking news.
Technology: Hey, at least RSS is back in the news :)
Thanks to RSS/XML, Apple has leaked many of the devices and configurations for today’s Gather Around event. Certainly a bummer but at least it shows that RSS is still a thing we should be paying attention to.
Technology: An expensive 2018 for Apple and I
On July 12th, I spent $3600 on a new MacBook Pro 15” Core i9 which is very expensive, a full $1000 more than I’ve spent on any previous Mac Portable and the machine is fantastic. I stick with Apple because of the operating system, Unix / FreeBSD and security & privacy they build in to …