Allister Heath at The Telegraph:
The rise of fake news was being driven by unscrupulous firms determined to attract online readers at any cost, [Cook] said.
“We are going through this period of time right here where unfortunately some of the people that are winning are the people that spend their time trying to get the most clicks, not tell the most truth,” he said. “It’s killing people’s minds in a way.”
Tim Cook, addressing students at the University of Glasgow in Scotland:
Steve’s DNA will always be the core of Apple. Steve is deeply embedded in the company. We celebrate him and we celebrate his philosophy. His philosophy … will be at Apple 100 years from now … the philosophy is sort of passed down with every generation … so yes, he’s very much at Apple.
Jobs’ greatest creation wasn’t the Mac, iPod, iPhone or iPad. It was Apple.
As spotted by Pike’s Universum, Apple has dropped the “Late” from the current MacBook Pro’s full “AppleCare” name.
This may seem like a silly topic for a blog post, but it is a break with tradition, and I do love traditions.
In the PowerPC days, model names would be set by the processor speed or a new feature found in the product. For example, my college roommate had a PowerBook G4 (15-inch FW800) while I had a slightly-newer — and slightly-faster — PowerBook G4 (15-inch 1.5/1.33 GHz).
A month or so before introducing the original iPod, Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller stood on stage at Seybold and announced that Mac OS X 10.1 was shipping shortly:
“Now is the time to upgrade,” said Jobs, “this is the mainstream release.”
Jobs continued with the clock metaphor, saying that Mac OS X’s original release was noon, and that we are now at six o’clock. He ended his part by saying that he has been impressed with the speed of Apple’s OS division’s development of Mac OS X 10.1. “Most programmers go on vacation after a major release,” said Jobs, “but Avie Tevanian and his team have kept working to improve Mac OS X.” Jobs said that Mac OS X already has one major update before Windows XP even ships.
[Steve Jobs’] last work – Apple Inc’s sprawling new headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. - will be a fitting tribute: a futuristic campus built with astonishing attention to detail. From the arrangement of electrical wiring to the finish of a hidden pipe, no aspect of the 2.8 million-square-foot main building has been too small to attract scrutiny.
But constructing a building as flawless as a hand-held device is no easy feat, according to interviews with nearly two dozen current and former workers on the project, most of whom would not be named because they signed non-disclosure agreements.
The new bundle includes Final Cut Pro X, Logic Pro X, Motion 5, Compressor 4 and MainStage 3. It is avaible for teachers, students and K-12 institutions. It runs $199, which is a steal.
It’s never too early to teach your kids how to respond to Logic destroying their podcast files, I suppose.
Jason Snell, on the whole ARM+Intel thing:
If you were to list Mac functions that might be offloaded to an ARM processor, Power Nap would be a good place to start, especially if macOS were tuned to be more aggressive about putting the system to sleep.
What would an ARM-Intel hybrid Mac look like? Would whole segments of the operating system run on the ARM processor, allowing the more power-hungry Intel chip to be put to sleep except when it was absolutely needed? There are a bunch of big questions here, most notably the identity of the code that would run on the ARM processor and where it came from. Would Mac apps include extensions or plug-ins that would be designated to run on ARM? Would Mac apps provide two separate sets of program binaries so that the system could switch them between processor architectures at will?
Apple Inc. is designing a new chip for future Mac laptops that would take on more of the functionality currently handled by Intel Corp. processors, according to people familiar with the matter.
The chip, which went into development last year, is similar to one already used in the latest MacBook Pro to power the keyboard’s Touch Bar feature, the people said. The updated part, internally codenamed T310, would handle some of the computer’s low-power mode functionality, they said. The people asked not to be identified talking about private product development. It’s built using ARM Holdings Plc. technology and will work alongside an Intel processor.
“We’re thrilled to report that our holiday quarter results generated Apple’s highest quarterly revenue ever, and broke multiple records along the way. We sold more iPhones than ever before and set all-time revenue records for iPhone, Services, Mac and Apple Watch,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.
“Revenue from Services grew strongly over last year, led by record customer activity on the App Store, and we are very excited about the products in our pipeline.”
The problem is UltraFine 5K Display becomes unusable when positioned within 6.6-feet of a router. I discovered this issue after purchasing my own UltraFine 5K Display last week and thinking something was defective with my hardware.
Right out of the box, UltraFine 5K Display was hardly usable as it would consistently disconnect and even freeze my MacBook Pro which made it unusable for work on Thursday and Friday. Connecting it to my MacBook Pro consistently resulted in needing to reboot my machine to continue working.
When I hung up my Genius name tag for the last time and was clapped out at my local Apple store, I helped start an Apple Authorized Service Provider that focused on serving the needs of private, K-12 schools. We had a small walk-in repair business, but even then, in 2008, it was a hard way to make a living.
That company had a more tragic ending than most, but there’s no doubt in my mind that unless an AASP really specializes in something, it’s going to be harder and harder to keep the lights on. That’s a real shame.
This is going to be great. I’ve had a lot of issues with Flux on my iMac:
Night Shift preference for automatically shifting the colors of your display to the warmer end of the spectrum after dark.