I couldn’t help but notice this article from the Wall Street Journal with the headline “The Apple-Microsoft Tech War Reignites for a New Era” wherein Tim Higgins and Aaron Tiley write: On Thursday, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella launched Windows 11 with what was widely seen as a swipe at Apple and the controls […]
Author Archives: Jack Wellborn
From Apple Support: With HDMI ARC or eARC turned on, your Apple TV 4K (2nd generation) can receive high-quality audio from a supported TV and then play that audio through your HomePod speakers. ARC support is what made me decide to buy a new Apple TV 4K despite buying one just last year. I am […]
While demonstrating my external display to a relative looking to buy one for their home office, I was reminded of how bad the display market has gotten for professionals. “Professional” is somewhat of an overloaded word. What I mean by “professional” here is someone who spends most of their day working on a computer and […]
I have been using computers of various sorts for a long time, and one thing that has always been unique to the Mac is an enthusiasm for consistency. You rarely hear Windows users complain about programs not being “Windows-like”, and there isn’t really any fervent calls for “iOS-like” or “Android-like” apps either, but “Mac-like” (or […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
This screenshot perfectly illustrates just how incompatible a macOS-style app switcher is on iPadOS, where the primary user interface element is screens. In this screenshot, the current screen contains both Shortcuts and Marvis Pro, but only Shortcuts is the frontmost app so only it can be leftmost in the App Switcher. You might think Marvis […]
I am not the first person to point out that iPadOS multitasking is broken. I mean, it’s kind of obvious to anyone that’s ever attempted to multitask on an iPad. This particular post was just going to be about the iPad’s poor command-tab implementation, but comparing iPadOS’s app switching to that of other user interfaces […]