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The Apple Maps screw up at WWDC 2021
When the initial release of Apple Maps was so botched it led to widespread mockery (and a hilarious video from The Onion) Apple opted to play the long game, slowly improving the Maps app with better data and numerous new features. Today at Apple’s virtual 2021 Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) they announced among many other…
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Silicon Valley takes on Steve Jobs acid trip
This exchange in Silicon Valley’s 3rd episode may sound familiar: Erlich: Richard, take Aviato. That’s not a name that I found, it’s a name that found me — on a vision quest. Something that you should do.Richard: No, no, I’m not going to eat a bunch of drugs and sit out in the desert and…
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What I learned from my HyperCard middle school digital portfolio
In middle school we were all required to build a “digital portfolio” of our work. They taught us HyperCard so we could link each essay we wrote and our photos into a personal HyperCard stack. It was a portfolio that “we’d add to until we graduated” because computers were the future, or whatever. But what…
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New iPhone 5 “Lightning” connector predicted in 1999
If you follow tech news at all, you know that Apple is replacing their large iPod connector with a new smaller connector for the iPhone 5 called “Lightning.” Most folks who follow Apple would assume that the name Lightning is a reference to Apple’s new Mac connector port called “Thunderbolt.” But is it? The above…
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Think Ironic.
Notice anything funny about the cover of the manual for Apple’s “Color”? Yes, only Apple would “think different” enough to make a manual for a product called Color with a black-and-white cover.
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The Apple iBrik
Copy and paste? Multitasking? Folders? These are old concepts; even on phones. But don’t tell Apple fans that the “new” features on their precious JesusPhone were on your Treo half a decade ago. Likewise, Turkish coffee is over one thousand years old. But slap an Apple log on it and it’s exciting and new! Behold…
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