Chuckellania for October 24th, 2021
The iPod became 20 years old yesterday. The infamous ”No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.” comment of the time is a timeless example of not judging products by a specs sheet1, or not trusting that the criteria of the specs sheet are the ones you would have made. For example, the iPod did indeed have less space than some contemporaries, but it achieved its space while being much smaller and lighter than the competition, making it more practical as a portable media player.
Chuckellania for October 23rd, 2021
There's a big difference between leaking interesting, but ultimately not important, details about upcoming products vs. blowing the whistle on malpractice and abuse in organizations.
Chuckellania for October 22nd, 2021
Your occasional dose of Star Trek: a deleted scene from Star Trek: Nemesis that really sets the tone for Star Trek: Picard (which aired 18 years later!).
Chuckellania for October 21st, 2021
One of the things about the new MacBook Pros' "notch" is that use cases like playing a game or movie in full screen don't really matter. Those will simply fill the 16:9 or 16:10 portion of the screen, which doesn't have a cutout. The top just becomes black.
Chuckellania for October 20th, 2021
As Christina Warren reminds us, Maciej wrote some rather biting satire a few days after the release of the 2016 MacBook Pro line-up. Some of it turned out to be rather prescient.
Chuckellania for October 19th, 2021
One of the sillier aspects in Monday's Apple Event was the way they announced, proudly, that problems they themselves had created have been fixed. Bringing back HDMI, MagSafe, and an SD card slot. Bringing back a tactile row of function keys.
Chuckellania for October 18th, 2021
Both Intel and now Qualcomm seem bitter and snarky that customers are trying their own thing.
Chuckellania for October 17th, 2021
There's a bunch of open-air desks for remote working in the forest.
Chuckellania for October 16th, 2021
Thought experiment: what if ad-based business models weren't a thing?
Chuckellania for October 15th, 2021
Luna Display is adding Windows, which, yeah, of course they are. That was exactly the right move to make. Apple sherlocked their main feature — treating an iPad as an additional display for your Mac — as "Sidecar" in macOS 10.15 Catalina, and they dit the thing that makes sense for everyone: cover the 90% use case for their own user base. This leaves Astropad/Luna Display to figure out how to focus on the remaining 10%, and they have.