Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors:
On Thursday, Apple announced its results for the second quarter of its 2022 fiscal year. It was a March quarter record of $97.3 billion in revenue, with all-time quarterly records for iPhone, Mac, and Wearables sales.
I’m starting to think Apple is going to be okay.
It’s been a couple of years since there’s been a 512 Pixels t-shirt, so I wanted to do something special this time. In looking through some materials, the Lisa jumped to mind, so here we are:
According to sources there at the time, Steve Jobs insisted that the computer’s name was not in honor of his daughter, so “Local Integrated Software Architecture” was the official line. Others joked that it meant “Let’s Invent Some Acronym.”
The guys revisit Apple Watch charging and trading in devices before jumping into Apple’s new Self Service Repair program and Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
This morning, Apple announced the opening of its Self Service Repair Store:
The new online store offers more than 200 individual parts and tools, enabling customers who are experienced with the complexities of repairing electronic devices to complete repairs on the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 lineups and iPhone SE (3rd generation), such as the display, battery, and camera. Later this year the program will also include manuals, parts, and tools to perform repairs on Mac computers with Apple silicon.
This week, an article about some weird Mac minis:
If your Mac mini with OS X Server has two built-in drives, you can follow these steps to create a software RAID volume (stripe or mirror). You can also install OS X Server on this RAID.
On a day of record-temperature hot takes, Casey Newton has the best coverage of the Musk/Twitter deal I’ve seen so far.
This week on Mac Power Users, David and I talk about how we track out time, discussing the approaches and tools we use to see how we spend our days.
On More Power Users, David explains his use of an iPad Pro as a secondary display.
My thanks to TextExpander for sponsoring the site this week.
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Mr. Macintosh on Twitter highlighted this cool set of dynamic wallpapers based on graphics from Apple’s developer website.
As of April 21, 2022, Apple has discontinued macOS Server. Existing macOS Server customers can continue to download and use the app with macOS Monterey.
The most popular server features—Caching Server, File Sharing Server, and Time Machine Server are bundled with every installation of macOS High Sierra and later, so that even more customers have access to these essential services at no extra cost.
As Rich Trouton has pointed out, there were two services still in macOS Sever without an equivalent in the client version: Profile Manager and Open Directory.
This week on the show, Myke is having a bad time on Twitter, Stephen wants to meet a robot and Federico has an exciting new trail to blaze.
On Connected Pro, MacStories’ 13th anniversary is celebrated and a lost display is remembered.