Monthly Archives: April 2021

Unifying Without Merging

Here’s what Greg Joswiak had to say on the idea of merging the Mac and the iPad: “Or people say that we’re merging them into one: that there’s really this grand conspiracy we have, to eliminate the two categories and make them one. And the reality is neither is true. We’re quite proud of the […]

Windows to Support Linux GUI Apps

From Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: Microsoft automatically starts a companion system distro when you attempt to run a Linux GUI app, and it contains a Wayland, X server, pulse audio server, and everything else needed to make this work inside Windows. Once you terminate an app and WSL, then this special distro ends, […]

What if iPads Were Macs

iPad Pros with M1s, more RAM, Thunderbolt, and 6K display support make me want to double-down on a crazy idea that I was already thinking about: macOS on iPad, but not in the way you are probably imagining. Imagine working on an iPad. It works much like an iPad today. It’s running iPadOS, is optimized […]

What the FLoC

From EFF: EFF has already written that FLoC is a terrible idea. Google’s launch of this trial—without notice to the individuals who will be part of the test, much less their consent—is a concrete breach of user trust in service of a technology that should not exist. And here I thought automatically downloading U2’s latest […]