My wife bought a 12” MacBook in 2016. It was her first Mac. She loved how thin it was and that it looked great, but it ran terribly and only got slower with time.In early 2020 she upgraded to a Dell XPS 13 with a 10th gen Core i7, 32 GB RAM, and 512GB storage. She felt burned by the slowness of the Mac and none of the MacBooks of early 2020 could match...

Lou Plummer: The Phones of Normal PeopleThey hate updates because they interrupt stuff they'd rather be doing. They don't care about the new features being announced at WWDC because they do not want to learn how to do new things with their already too complicated tech. They are the baseline. We are the outliers.Solid post about remembering that there...

Ryan Christoffel quoting Apple’s Greg Joswiak on 9to5Mac:The fact is that the majority of Mac customers have an iPad, and they use them bothWhich lead Ryan to argue:there’s one big reason this will likely never happen. If iPad owners get access to macOS thrown in for free, then Mac sales will undoubtedly take a major hit.As you can imagine, I have thoughts.The...

I’ve been critical of Apple’s ability to make the Mac a viable gaming platform, but credit where it’s due, getting the new Assassin’s Creed game releasing on the same day on PC, consoles, and Mac is a big win, and basically unheard of for the past couple decades. Some times we would get a cool game 1-3 years later, but on the same day as everyone else???...

Scharon Harding wriring for ArsTechnica: Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft Return-to-Office Mandates Drove Senior Talent AwayA study analyzing Apple, Microsoft, and SpaceX suggests that return to office (RTO) mandates can lead to a higher rate of employees, especially senior-level ones, leaving the company, often to work at competitors.I think there are some...

Apple two weeks ago: What’s New for Apps Distributed in the European UnionFirst, no CTF is required if a developer has no revenue whatsoever. This includes creating a free app without monetization that is not related to revenue of any kind (physical, digital, advertising, or otherwise). This condition is intended to give students, hobbyists, and other...