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As I type this, it’s sometime between 1 and 2 in the morning on Saturday, August 9. My kids and wife are in bed. It’s raining. I’m on the couch, with my iPad, thinking about the last several weeks, months and years of doing whatever it is I do on the Internet.

This fall, 512 Pixels will be six years old. A few years into it, I got invited to be on The Bro Show, an interview show with two guys from England who wanted to talk to me about tech. We hit it off, and over the last four years, Myke and I have created hundreds of hours of audio content for listeners to enjoy.

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Verizon and others will have to answer for their throttling of some customers’ data. This should be fun to watch.

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In my “Future Classics” series, I try to guess what current-era Apple products may become collectable in the future.

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Back in April 2013, Jordan Merrick shared a bit about his iMac G5 here on 512:

The iMac G5 was far more mature in comparison to its predecessors. This machine was simply a neutral white rectangle, less than 2” thick, held aloft by a single piece of aluminum. Gone were the cutesy colors and childish nature of the infant iMac G3 as well as the nose and lip piercings of the teenage iMac G4 that made sure it stood out of a crowd. The iMac G5 had finally grown up, moved out and got a job. It was the deliberate lack of any ostentatious characteristics in the iMac G5 that would pave the way for Apple’s minimalistic design choices over the next decade.

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I got this as an email since I’ve published using Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform, and could hardly believe what I was reading. Regardless of which group is in the wrong here (Spolier Alert: both are), this hit me as incredibly unprofessional and unbecoming.

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With lots of chatter this week about Apple and Intel, the costs of Apple switching to ARM have been on my mind.

I firmly believe Apple has ARM-powered Macs running ARM-ready OS X in a lab somewhere. This isn’t a technical problem; its a philosophical one.

With the platform transition from PowerPC to Intel, Apple had Rosetta, a software layer that let code compiled for PowerPC Macs run at neat-native speeds on Intel machines. It was an impressive feat, and one that Apple could certainly pull off again if OS X were to transition to ARM. However, I think there are three big reasons the Mac is going to stay x86-based for the foreseeable future.

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At least that version didn’t insist on installing Silverlight.

via @monkbent

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I was honored to be on Tim Smith’s excellent podcast, For the Record. We spoke about work, side projects and why I don’t work for myself full-time.

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Robert McGinley Myers, over on The Sweet Setup:

RSS arguably had its perfect device when the iPad was introduced in 2010. Suddenly, you could read the entire Internet comfortably on the couch. You could use RSS to bring the web to you. That’s why our pick for the best RSS reader on the iPad is the $5 Unread, an app designed to help you slow down, lean back, and enjoy good writing.

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John Gruber, commenting on Jean-Louis Gassée’s essay about the possibility of ARM-powered Macs:

The delay in truly-new Mac hardware while waiting for Broadwell chips is exactly the sort of reason why Apple wants to own the whole stack. Anything they depend upon, they want under their control — and on the Mac, they depend upon Intel for CPUs. Maybe Apple will never pull it off and thus won’t ever make such a switch, but I’d be shocked if there isn’t a team inside Apple working on it already.

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When I hopped on Skype earlier today to record a podcast and was greeted with a surprise:

Turns out:

We want everyone to experience the best Skype has to offer – from enhanced quality to better reliability to improved security – and the newest version of Skype is the way to do that. So everyone can benefit from the latest improvements, from time to time we retire older versions of Skype across all platforms, including mobile devices. It’s easy to update Skype; once you do, you’ll have access to the latest features our team has worked hard to deliver.

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Yikes.

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