With WWDC announced for June 6th, I thought it would make a fun thought exercise and try to speculate what models Apple will plan to drop with macOS 13.
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A Tour of Apple’s External (LCD) Displays
With the 2022 Apple Studio Display, the company has returned to the display business in a big way. To celebrate, I thought we could walk through the history of Apple’s standalone flat displays.
1984: Apple IIc Flat Panel Display
In April 1984, Apple introduced a 1-bit, 7-inch LCD for use with the somewhat-portable Apple IIc:
With a resolution of 560 x 192, it provided an 80-column text mode and hi-res graphic support, but things were a bit … squished, as you can see in these photos. At $595, it didn’t sell very well, with estimates putting the number made at just about 10,000 units.
Snell, on Apple’s Baseball Offering⇢
Jason Snell likes baseball. I don’t, and sometimes he teases me about it. That said, his impressions of Apple’s new “Friday Night Baseball” was a really interesting read. I particularly like how he thinks the whole thing could become much more interactive:
Every single viewer is watching on a smart device of some kind. How about letting us customize what stats we see on screen? What about alternate camera views or a natural-sound-only audio stream featuring crowd noise and mic’ed up players? What about alternate broadcasts entirely, with audio from statheads or scouts or umpires or former players talking about a different game aspect? What about something I’m not even thinking of here?
Kbase Article of the Week: iTunes Store: Can‘t Publish a Podcast⇢
Sometimes the iTunes Store can’t publish certain podcasts. If you’ve submitted a podcast using the “Publish a Podcast” page but haven’t seen it published yet, sit tight. The iTunes team reviews each podcast submission. Depending on demand, it may take a week or two before the podcast gets published.
Additionally, here are some other reasons why a podcast might not get published:
- The podcast’s RSS feed was not available.
- The podcast’s RSS feed timed out.
- The podcast’s RSS feed could not be validated.
Apple Podcasts Connect Adds ‘Followers’ Metrics⇢
All creators can now view metrics for Followers in Apple Podcasts Connect.
From the Analytics tab, you can view followers per show and measure followers across shows.
After selecting a show, you can quickly view the number of New Followers netted over the last week, month, 60 days, and all time. You can also see Time Listened as a precent of those following and not following the show.
By navigating to the Trends menu, you can view a graph of followers over time and the number of followers gained or lost on a specific day or during a specified range.
Musk Isn’t Joining Twitter Board’s After All⇢
I mean what happens to Twitter’s share price if Musk dumps all his stock and tweets something like “I tried to help Twitter but the company is run by a bunch of bozos. I’m out.” That’s just 76 characters and I bet it would tank Twitter’s stock.
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Mac Power Users #635: Workflows with Allison Sheridan⇢
Allison Sheridan has been a Mac user since the very beginning and has been talking about Apple and its products since late 2005. She joins us on this week’s episode of MPU to talk about her experience with the platform, her use of diagramming in blog posts and much, much more.
On More Power Users, the longer and ad-free version of the show, I talked David through my initial impressions of my new Mac Studio.
The Windows 95 Launch Video⇢
My pal Florence Ion, writing at Gizmodo:
I want to thank whatever stars aligned that surfaced this video of the Windows 95 launch event in my algorithm. While clips from the presentation have floated around online for decades, the full 90-minute keynote has been harder to track down. Uploaded this week by the angels over at the Blue OS Museum YouTube account, the complete presentation is an absolute time capsule of technology culture as it existed on Aug. 24, 1995. It also features some incredibly cringe moments, most of which stem from Jay Leno’s cheesy and problematic joke-telling.
Audio Hijack 4⇢
My thanks to Audio Hijack 4 for sponsoring 512 Pixels this week. If you record audio with macOS, it needs to be in your Dock. Version 4 brings lots of new goodies, including some powerful new automation tools. Check it out.
SF Menu Bar⇢
Geoff Hackworth has a new Mac app that puts an SF Symbols picker right in your menu bar. Features include search, easy copying and more. If you work with SF Symbols, it looks well worth the $2.99.
Mac Pro Exit Review
Five years ago this week, we got news that the Mac Pro wasn’t dead, and more importantly, that Apple knew that it had lost the plot when it came to the Mac.
In the years since Apple has shipped both the iMac Pro and a new Mac Pro, but also a Retina MacBook Air and (eventually) notebooks with non-busted keyboards. The Mac mini was overhauled to be much more powerful. macOS got a new, fresh design and some amazing new features.