No, he shared on Dithering that there was a back-and-forth email exchange about the execs appearing on the Talk Show as usual, but they couldn't come to an agreement on details of the event.
Cook makes shareholders happy but he's not much of a leader. Jobs was a leader.
The butterfly keyboard catastrophe whereby Apple sold broken laptops for 4 years just because they didn't want to waste money retooling, would never have happened under Jobs. Jobs had the courage to say fuck the shareholders when necessary, Cook does not and it's a recurring theme of his leadership.
Being a 70's child, thus having lived through most Apple consumer history, I would say it slowly feels like the Apple of old, when Steve Jobs was busy with NeXT and Pixar, the main difference is that now they have enough money to burn and make dumb decisions.
I recently got a newer iPhone and moved to iOS 18 with the hardware change. I had to watch some youtube tutorials explaining navigation and swipe locations. Over and over I've had the thought "this never would have flown under Steve."
Yes, for movies and TV, and as a virtual monitor occasionally. I've travelled with it quite a bit as well, and it's great on long international flights.
I'm currently visiting Poland and Estonia, and have been using Apple Maps to walk from place-to-place. It's been working well for me—I have yet to get lost using it, and it seems to be giving me good directions.
….As part of a bank of batteries producing a higher voltage. I haven’t seen any 6v equipment manufactured for any engine based equipment larger than a couple of KW for a very, very long time (mid 1960s). Lower voltage means higher amperage means more weight, more cost, more heat, more failures. Objectively, the world would be a significantly better place if we had fully transitioned to 24v or higher (up to 48v anyway) much sooner than later.
Interestingly, micro-miniaturization has reversed the trend of higher voltage = higher efficiency, at least for computing.
yes, because the underlying cell voltage is much lower than that. Many 6 volt batteries still exist because they are used in series to make the desired voltage. They are easier to move around and transport when they aren't build as all the cells in one unit.
Also a happy NNW user. I'd been using Feedbin, which is also good, but since I'm a Mac and iOS user, I switched to using NNW with iCloud syncing, which has been working great. It's so nice to have fully-native apps!
