New things tend to bring out extreme opinions and AI is no different. Some liken it to the second coming, while others damn it as the antichrist. It’s early days yet, but to me AI feels more like Web 2.0 than Web 3.0. Both were maximally hyped by press and marketing departments, but Web 3.0 […]
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On the most recent The Talk Show with Jason Snell, the conversation naturally (and rightly) turned to keyboards. Tech nerds with mechanical keyboards have become a bit of a joke these days and while some aspects of the market certainly merit ribbing, I think that stereotype is mostly unfair because keyboards are tools. Here is […]
We are coming up on the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. Windows 95 still didn’t make PCs as user friendly as Macintoshes of the day, but it was the first version of Windows that was good enough. Previous versions of the OS were terrible, and not just terrible in hindsight. Windows 1.0 all the way […]
Tom Warren wrote his Microsoft Surface Pro 12-inch review for The Verge (emphasis added): This Surface Pro redesign also presents some of the best bits of rival tablets into a piece of hardware that feels a lot more tablet-like than Microsoft has ever created. I’ve been using this Surface Pro in tablet mode more often […]
Spoiler warning: The following contains spoilers for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. If I had to pick one criticism of the New York Times, a paper that I pay for only as a means to help fund journalism, it would be how many of their headlines normalize, flatter and even empower Trump. […]
Most people love their smartphones more than they do their personal computers. The biggest reason by far is that smartphones bring the internet to them everywhere, but another less obvious reason is that using smartphones is like driving an automatic1. They are way less demanding than Macs or PCs running Windows, and I don’t just […]
Justin Long is back again, this time for Qualcomm. Tom Warren, reporting for The Verge: Apple’s former “I’m a Mac” actor Justin Long defected to Intel a few years ago, and now he’s looking to switch to a Qualcomm-powered Windows PC. Which is worse? Being the butt of a joke that is only effective because […]
In my last post, I likened hypothetical macOS virtualization in iPadOS to Mac OS X’s classic mode. The more I’ve thought about it however, the more I think classic mode isn’t the right analogy. Classic mode was for anyone migrating to Mac OS X, which was practically every Mac user at the time. I don’t […]
With the most recent round of “holy shit these new iPad Pros are really powerful” naturally came “I just really wish iPadOS weren’t so limited”. One idea that is currently making the rounds to make iPadOS less limited is to have some sort of virtualized Mac mode a la Mac OS X’s Classic Environment wherein […]
If you told people that Meta would start licensing their headset platform less than three months after Apple released the Vision Pro, most would assume that Apple’s headset must of sold like gangbusters. Not only has that not happened, it couldn’t happen based on supply chain constraints. So why license now? I have two thoughts: […]