I’m excited to purchase one on Friday.
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Transatlanticism
Death Cab for Cutie’s Transatlanticism came out during my senior year of high school.
As many youth, my transition to college wasn’t necessarily a smooth one, and many of the tracks on this album spoke to me. As a result, I wore out the original CD I purchased and just about burned in the title to the screen of my iPod.
I’m not alone; many friends my age view Transatlanticism as a sort of coming-of-age work. As Death Cab fans and haters alike know, Ben Gibbard’s subject matters don’t stray far from love and/or pain. Just take the bridge from Expo ‘86:
Apple Files Fourth Quarter Results⇢
The Apple PR Machine:
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2013. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $37.5 billion and quarterly net profit of $7.5 billion, or $8.26 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $36 billion and net profit of $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 37 percent compared to 40 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 60 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
What Should Reporters Learn in Journalism School?⇢
Olga Khazan goes over the skills that journalism schools should be teaching in our modern world.
On Puma⇢
While the Mac world is worked up about OS X Mavericks, Thomas Brand looks back at Mac OS X 10.1.
Ozymandias Air⇢
In honor of Bryan Cranston voicing the new iPad Air commercial, I made a little something for you guys.
The Prompt 19: OS X Viterbos⇢
This week, Myke, Federico and I talk about OS X Mavericks, break down the news from Apple’s fall event and complain about GarageBand.
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Working with Mavericks After A Year of iPad⇢
Federico Viticci:
Coming from iOS 7, I feel a disconnect between my iPad and my MacBook that was less evident with Mountain Lion. Perhaps Apple just needs more time to get to a new kind of design and feature parity. Perhaps they have changed their mind about this (I don’t think so). I like some of the new things in Mavericks, and I profoundly dislike others. I look at my iPad with iOS 7, and I see a new OS with background downloads for all apps, 10 hours of battery life, and a cold aluminum back; my MacBook Air is better because of Mavericks, but it doesn’t make an impact on me. Like I said, I’m conflicted.
$450 Million⇢
Wondering what the cost of making OS X, iLife and iWork free is for Apple? Horace Dediu thinks he knows.
By 2019, Humans Will Be Outnumbered⇢
I — for one — welcome our new minifig overlords.
OS X Mavericks: The Review
WWDC 2013 was crazy: iOS 7, OS X Mavericks and a new, magical insane Mac Pro were all unveiled on stage, after one of the weirdest keynote moments I can remember seeing in a long time.
I was fortunate enough to be in San Francisco this year for the event. As one might imagine, iOS 7 dominated every conversation I had — and overheard — the rest of the week.
iOS 7 was the star of the show for good reason. The release is an insanely significant jump forward for Apple’s mobile operating system. From the re-vamped design to the new backgrounding APIs, it is clear that Apple had been hard at work on the release for some time. While the fact that iOS 7 has been re-built for the 64-bit A7 didn’t break until months later, the amount of work Apple showed off in June was impressive.
Today however, Apple’s other, much less popular operating system is the star: the one that powers things called “desktop computers” and “notebooks.”
I’m being a little sarcastic, but there’s no getting around it: Mac OS X is getting old. The first public beta landed on September 13, 2000, with Mac OS X 10.0 going on sale on March 24, 2001. While Mavericks is very different than Cheetah, there’s no doubt that the two are related.
The bones haven’t changed all that much over the last 13 years, but every time Apple updates OS X, it continues to improve and refine features and the underlying technologies that make them possible.
I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. I firmly believe that OS X is the best consumer desktop operating system on the planet. It has undergone some major changes over the years, but it’s the same OS under the hood. OS X is still as stable, powerful and resilient to viruses and other malware as it has always been.
As with other OS X releases I’ve reviewed over the last few years, Mavericks packs features I’ve become attached to after using the first time.
However, features aren’t always enough to keep a nerd like me happy. In fact, I closed my Mountain Lion review with this:
Mountain Lion smoothes over most of the issues I’ve had with 10.7, but that isn’t enough to make me want to throw Mountain Lion a parade. The truth of the matter is this: Mountain Lion is a feature release. No matter how great or useful those features may be to the masses of iCloud users, it feels a little lazy. The new operating system is nice, but it’s not ground-breaking.
So how does Mavericks fit in with recent releases of OS X? Does it drive OS X further down the road Apple started on in 2011 with Lion? Or, like Mountain Lion, is it more about refinement? How many more rhetorical questions can I ask about things? Let’s dive in to Mavericks and see what all of the waves are about.
Sorry. I won’t make that joke again.
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