The Mac is back?
Listening to ATP #194 where John Siracusa is bemoaning the apparent exit of Apple from the "Display business", I had an idea that might cheer him and other Mac Pro users.
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iOS development is exciting
The pace of change, the reliable yearly cycles, they are hard to keep up with. However I just can’t deny that iOS dev is also consistently exciting. You know there’s cool new stuff coming all the time and a world of interesting possibilities that can affect a huge number of people in the world.
“Where we’re going, we don’t need… [any road signs]”
The future may well contain fewer signs and billboards. We can hope. It is odd how we worry about being bombarded with ads online but ads already bombard us everywhere in our environment, along with increasingly unnecessary signage to direct us to destinations our mobile devices can take us to with less confusion.
Google’s industrial espionage potential
We all know that Google “reads” all gmail. Let’s assume for now that all commercial Google Apps content is secure and not viewed by Google. What may not have occurred to you is that, like Slice Intelligence who have recently been in the news for extrapolating Apple Watch sales data from willing users’ email accounts — this means they can tell what you are buying, and this is incredibly valuable information.
The Microsoft years – don’t be mad John
The real shame is that Microsoft lacked and still lacks taste and design skills in many areas. That created a lost 20 year period for software progress for everybody.