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.”
This corporate video from 1990 highlights Apple’s manufacturing and assembly plant the company once had in Fremont, California.
The site was the birthplace of the original Macintosh, among other products.
Steven Troughton-Smith is a wizard.
I spent some time this week going through the various subscriptions I pay for and seeing if there any adjustments I need to make heading into 2017.
As these things often do, that quickly turned into a full-scale evaluation of the primary services I use every day to store and access data.
Here’s where I currently have information stored: 
iCloud:
Google:
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).
You lose some preferences when updating to Mac OS X 10.1 with CD-ROM part number 1Z691-3184-A.
The following preferences are lost after updating to Mac OS X 10.1:
- Date & Time control panel settings
- ColorSync
- Monitor Color Calibration
- Classic
- Desktop Picture
- Keyboard Menu
- ScreenSaver
(If you haven’t checked out their current Kickstarter to fund three live shows in 2017, you should.)
When we first looked at launching an app for Windows we thought it was just that, the launch of an app for Windows to go with our apps for Mac, iPad and iPhone. But, the more we spoke with our customers and saw how they were using TextExpander, the more we thought about it, the more we came to realize it’s bigger than that.
Today, we launch TextExpander for Windows 1.0, and today, we open up TextExpander to the computing world.
I’m not a big game player, but I’ve been enjoying Stagehand a lot over the last few days.
Made by the unstoppable duo of Matt Comi and Neven Mrgan, who also created The Incident and Space Age, Stagehand takes the standard scrolling platformer game mechanic and turns it on its head, as Federico Viticci writes:
You don’t maneuver a character with meticulously timed jumps across retro-styled stages filled with floating platforms and spikes; rather, you sloppily modify the stage itself with touch, dragging platforms to accommodate the hero’s run and making sure he doesn’t run headfirst into cliffs, fall into pits, or get eaten by the inexorable advance of the left side of the stage.
Bradley Chambers recently had his iPhone repaired and got locked out of his Apple ID after realizing he didn’t have his recovery key:
I gave Apple a call, and I assumed this would be a quick fix. They’d unlock it, and I could then sign in. They quickly realized I was in a weird state of lockout. According to this support article, I should be able to get in. I remembered the password, and I had the device. The problem was I was still locked out. Apple can’t unlock it without the recovery key.
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.