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About those "one more things"... (#appleevent #onemorething #history)
On the eve of another “one more thingā moment, please read this interesting article on Medium. The author spent time to review all previous cases of āone more thing” announcements. They were not all game changers but the following ones were turning points: MacBook Air reveal, Apple ā¦ read more
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How old are they? (#apple #macosbigsur)
Hereās a quick and unrelated question: how old, on average, are people who love the design language of macOS Big Sur? Seriously, my bet goes to a much younger crowd than those who prefer macOS Catalina. Why? People who grew up with the iPhone and iPadOS has a much different design reference frame ā¦ read more
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Updating my Apple purchase plans (#appleevent #apple #macpro #onemorething)
As it becomes clearer what Apple won’t announce next week, an update to their Mac Pro, my purchasing plans needs to be updated accordingly. It makes no sense for me to go with an Apple Silicon Mac in the near future as I need Vmware Fusion to run Windows virtual machines in my SDDCbox project. ā¦ read more
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Please, come to Canada (#apple #iphoneupgradeprogram #iphone)
I wish the iPhone Upgrade Program would come to Canada. I’m not holding my breath, though. I think carriers here wouldn’t let it happen because they know they suck at selling their shit, and this would greatly affect their bottom line. In any case, if it does come to Canada, I would ā¦ read more
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Pray. (#vote2020 #electionnight)
I rarely if ever post political stuff here. As a Canadian, my sincere hope is that the American people make the furst step in order to put an end to this endless nightmare. On a side note: Iām using ļ£æ News to follow election night. So far, I like what Apple is doing here. Results are quick to be ā¦ read more
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Facebook is bad at everything. Period. (#facebook #privacyprotection #design #privacy)
Interesting post from @Gruber about Facebook application design. The lack of support for basic things like dark mode, more than a year after its introduction is a simple example, but very telling about something: Facebook doesn’t give a shit about those things. They don’t give a shit ā¦ read more
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Widget Radar (#widgets #ios14 #weatherapps @rjonesy)
Another wonderful and really useful widget is finally available for iOS 14 and iPadOS 14: a precipitation radar. I’m a big fan of MyRadar but the app wasn’t yet updated to support widgets. Widget Radar, which is free by the way, is simple and minimalist yet effective. It is proudly ā¦ read more
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Mac Pro mini (#apple #rumours #macpro)
Surprising rumors by Bloomberg about Apple working on a new Mac Pro, about half the size of the current model: āApple engineers are currently developing a new Mac Pro that looks like the current design at about half the size. Itās unclear if that Mac will replace the current Mac Pro or if itās an ā¦ read more
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The "real" One More Thing... (#appleevent #apple #macosbigsur #macbook #onemorething)
There is a difference between what I expect and what are the things that I would really like to see. Here is a short list for this last Apple Event of 2020. I hope for an Apple Silicon Mac with a full physical redesign of the Mac it is replacing. The re-introduction of the 12" MacBook with a ā¦ read more
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One More Thing. (#appleevent #mac #applesilicon #macosbigsur)
Big surprise today, it came early, Apple sent their invites for a November 10th Apple event. Rumours were pointing to November 17th date. Happy the wait will be shorter than anticipated. I love this tag line; it was used at many occasions by Steve Jobs to show something that could be a game changer ā¦ read more
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Troubling rumours about the Mac (#apple #mac #imac #applesilicon)
According to AppleTrack.org, there is a shortage of many different Mac models. Some shipping dates are slipping into December. It the case for the 21.5ā iMac and iMac Pro. Troubling. When Apple announced they were transitioning their Macs to use the new Apple Silicon, they also said they would keep ā¦ read more
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On iStat Menus 6.5 (#macosbigsur @bjango)
One of my favorite macOS utilities, iStat Menus, just received an update to version 6.5 which adds support for macOS Big Sur. I know, yesterday I wrote that I was done with Big Sur… but it was for testing… I still have time in front of me to convince me this is the best release of ā¦ read more
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Iām done with macOS Big Sur (#apple #macos #macosbigsur)
Since the beginning of September Iāve been testing macOS Big Sur. I’m still undecided about how I like or hate this release. I’m unable to get over the way Apple messed up the notifications center with widgets. Clearly, it is a regression. There was no good reasons to merge them on the ā¦ read more
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Release Candidate (#iosdev #apple #iOS)
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the end of an era. Apple is leaving behind the term āGolden Masterā in order to adopt āRelease Candidateā to refer to a version of its operating system sent to its developers that will probably be released to the general public. An an IT guy, Iām used to the term ā¦ read more
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Edge cases (#iphone12 #iphone12pro #photography #apple)
Iām an iPhone 11 Pro owner. Photography-centered reviews are interesting to me because they tend to compare this yearās iPhone with last yearās. MacRumors published such a comparison. Judging from it, if I could summarize the iPhone 12 Pro photographic advances, it would be like this. The iPhone 12 ā¦ read more
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Measuring my success (#blogger #writer #newsletter)
As a blogger and a content-creator, how can I measure my success? Well, itās not an easy one to answer. Each blogger could have its own way at looking at this. Personally, I could pay attention to my blogs visitors statistics, but there is one thing that I keep an eye on these days. I recently ā¦ read more
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It's a deal! (#apple #appleone #applemusic #fitnessplus)
Sometimes in your life you come across some deals that you cannot refuse. Apple One is one of them. As a Canadian, by subscribing, on top of Apple News+, 2 TB iCloud storage and Apple Music, Iām getting Fitness+ and Apple Arcade andā¦ to my surprise, now I have 4 TB of iCloud storage. How good is ā¦ read more
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Optimized for Mac (#apple #applesilicon #ios #ipados)
Here is one of the most fascinating part of upcoming Apple Silicon Macs: the implicit support for iPhone and iPad apps on the Mac (as long as the developers care to update their apps, obviously). I wonder how massive this change will be. How will it change the third-party applications landscape on ā¦ read more
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Fascinating times (#apple #microsoft #google #amazon)
Here is a fascinating chart: brand value calculated by Interbrand. Apple is on top again this year. They have been there since 2012. What I find interesting is the first row is occupied by companies reflecting our new way of life as we depend on smartphones (Apple, Samsung), online shopping (Amazon) ā¦ read more
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Weāre humans ā Tim Cook (#apple #timcook)
āWork canāt solve for all the things weāre missing right now, but a shared sense of purpose goes a long way. A belief that we can do more together than we can alone, that people of good will, driven by creativity and passion and that certain itch of a big idea, can still do things that help other ā¦ read more