{"id":7255,"date":"2017-12-05T17:58:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T17:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7255"},"modified":"2017-12-05T17:58:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T17:58:27","slug":"linked-the-mac-still-feels-like-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/12\/05\/linked-the-mac-still-feels-like-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;The Mac Still Feels Like Home&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2370,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.macdrifter.com\\\/2017\\\/11\\\/the-mac-still-feels-like-home.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251012053400\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.macdrifter.com\\\/2017\\\/11\\\/the-mac-still-feels-like-home.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-23 20:51:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-05 11:22:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-21 08:42:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-04 19:16:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-07 22:46:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-18 15:58:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-23 06:10:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 02:44:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 21:16:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 20:02:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 20:02:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdrifter.com\/2017\/11\/the-mac-still-feels-like-home.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Macdrifter<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s an example. If I want to edit an image on the Mac, I simply browse to it with the Finder and open it with my preferred editor (usually Acorn). I can use search to locate the file or just hunt and peck. The applications don&#8217;t need to know anything about the location as long as it&#8217;s on my Mac. Applications don&#8217;t own files on the Mac, the OS does.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t think iOS and mobile technology is a shift in how we get things done. I truly don\u2019t believe that. The Mac is for getting things done. iOS is for looking at SnapChat. I feel strongly that users on mobile devices as their exclusive computing platform are 2nd class citizens not in economic levels or diversity but in the content they create and consume. I think camera phone photos look awful on my Macintosh and they can\u2019t see the finer details of my full-frame photos on their 3\u201d screens enough to appreciate them. To them, a DSLR photo &amp; an iPhone photo look the same. They don\u2019t experience the web and work and GTD like I do. They work at a slower space with finite performance power and finite content creation ability and they\u2019re constrained. They sacrifice functionality for portability and that\u2019s fine but I\u2019m tired of defending the use of an iMac and how the iMac is easily twice as good as editing 4K videos as my MacBook Pro just as the MacBook Pro is 10x better at that task than my iPad. Not just in CPU cycles but in the interaction with my video via key commands, my trackpad, the I\/O, ports, screen real estate and file-system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I see the collective computing of billions of smartphones to be greater than the 100 million PCs that were in existence a decade ago but if you replaced those billions of smartphones with computers, people would be creating even more amazing things. As you\u2019ve seen on this blog over the last few years, I\u2019m digging my heels in more and more on three very closely related narratives:<\/p>\n<p>1. Mobile computing is crippling our creativity<\/p>\n<p>2. The Internet is a privilege not a right just like driving a car<\/p>\n<p>3. The Internet as we know it is already lost to corporations and the people behind closed doors and there\u2019s nothing we can do about it and because of #2, we as a collective are too dumb to play outside of 3 silos (aka websites) owned by corporations that have zero regulatory oversight that they play nicely and do the right things when it comes to leveraging our data to sell advertisements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PS: The other day, I was on Reddit. A GIF had 20K upvotes and millions of views. I clicked it and it was a 100&#215;100 pixel image that looked like a spec on my 5K iMac. I commented that I couldn\u2019t even see what was going on in the GIF and received dozens of downvotes complaining about its size. I opened AlienBlue on my iPhone and clicked it and it looked better\u2026good enough but not great and that\u2019s the crux of it. Everyone on reddit is using a smartphone. To them, these crappy media files look decent enough and you can\u2019t convince them of this because why would they look at Reddit on a 27\u201d screen? If everyone had a real computer that could afford one, it would push our species forward because the demand for better written works, photos and media would go up. People would downvote a 100&#215;100 GIF because it looked bad or complain that the GIF was 100 megabytes for no reason and demand the OP used an MPEG4 or HVEC instead and that the GIF had no audio track added and why would you post a motion video w\/o audio? Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Macdrifter Here&#8217;s an example. If I want to edit an image on the Mac, I simply browse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-12-05T17:58:32Z","apple_news_api_id":"73f92dd3-b432-4a5f-af81-fa025f6cd26d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-12-05T17:58:35Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ac_kt07QySl-vgfoCX2zSbQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1T1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4108,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/07\/01\/linked-apple-stops-development-of-aperture\/","url_meta":{"origin":7255,"position":0},"title":"Linked: Apple stops development of Aperture","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"via THE Loop: \u201cWith the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, enabling you to safely store all of your photos in iCloud and access them from anywhere, there will be no new development of Aperture,\u201d said Apple in a statement provided to The Loop. \u201cWhen Photos\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6410,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/linked-sorry-macos-messages-best-new-features-are-ios-only\/","url_meta":{"origin":7255,"position":1},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Sorry, macOS: Messages\u2019 best new features are iOS only&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Macworld.com: Apple has been in the messaging game even longer on the Mac: It first introduced iChat way back in 2002, which supported AOL Instant Messenger, then later expanded to Jabber, Yahoo, ICQ, and more. 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