Lindsay Zoladz at The Ringer, writing about the post-production life of Apple’s last music player with a spinning disk:
Who would fork over up to $1,000 (or more; a factory-sealed seventh gen is listed for $1699 on eBay right now) for an old, obsolete MP3 player except a stick-in-the-mud Luddite, resistant to our inevitable progress toward a cloud-based future? I’m not sure. But I think these people were onto something.
I’m posting this link from my iPhone, sitting in a parking lot in the pouring rain. I’d say this device has changed the world.
This month on iMore, I wrote about the Titanium PowerBook:
Since their inception, Apple’s PowerBooks had been encased in various shades of gray and black plastics. Some were smaller than others, and they looked good for the time, but by the time 2001 rolled around, it was time for a change.
The iMac and iBook G3s were colorful machines, and even the PowerMac was clad in plastic. The PowerBook G4, however, would be a totally different beast.
Apple has posted its Q3 results:
The Company posted quarterly revenue of $42.4 billion and quarterly net income of $7.8 billion, or $1.42 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $49.6 billion and net income of $10.7 billion, or $1.85 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 38 percent compared to 39.7 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 63 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
We’re happy to announce a new podcast on Relay FM:
David Sparks and Jason Snell spent their careers working for the establishment. Then one day, they’d had enough. Now they are independent workers, learning what it takes to succeed in the 21st century. They are… free agents.
Come for the sick intro, stay for the awesome show.
In a stunning break with tradition, Connected tackles the multi-iPad lifestyle and photo management in this week’s episode.
My thanks to TextExpander for sponsoring this week’s episode.
Every OS X update or upgrade has a version number and build number, which helps you to know whether OS X is up to date on your Mac.
This article is fun because it goes all the way back to Mac OS X 10.0.
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post written by my buddy Thomas Brand.
What makes a Mac a Mac? Is it a computer made by Apple? Does it need to run the Mac OS? For a Mac to be a Mac does its hardware, does its design sit heads above the rest?
iPad, iPhone, and even the Newton are all computers made by Apple. But none of them are Macs.
The Macintosh clones from PowerComputing, Motorola, Umax, and every closet Hackintosh all run Mac OS. But none of them are Macs.
Jonathan Shieber at TechCrunch:
According to reports that are starting to trickle in, Yahoo’s board has accepted the terms of the Verizon offer we reported last week.
The core assets of the company that started life in Jerry Yang and David Filo’s 1994 Stanford dorm room as “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web” — and at one point was one of the highest valued properties on the internet — will now join another former high-flyer of the internet’s earliest days, Aol (full disclosure: the owner of TechCrunch), in the Verizon stable.
I’ve been meaning to learn about how working with color is changing now that the iMac with 5k Retina display and 9.7-inch iPad Pro ship with DCI-P3 panels. Thankfully, this week’s episode of Presentable is about just that topic. I learned a lot, but never felt overwhelmed.
NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite’s EPIC camera captured its first imagery of Earth on July 6, 2015. Since then, it has delivered thousands of images of our world, including the moon’s shadow being cast on Earth during a solar eclipse.
Ezra Klein, Editor-in-Chief at Vox:
Donald Trump is not a man who should be president. This is not an ideological judgment. This is not something I would say about Mitt Romney or Marco Rubio. This is not a disagreement over Donald Trump’s tax plan or his climate policies. This is about Trump’s character, his temperament, his impulsiveness, his basic decency.